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Aḥmad al-Nāṣir, Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā b. al-Ḥusayn b. al-Qāsim al-Rassī, known as al-Nāṣir li Dīn Allāh (d. 322/934), was a jurist, theologian and one of the famous Zaydī imams of Yemen. His father, Yaḥyā b. al-Ḥusayn al-Hādī ilā al-Ḥaqq, was an ʿAlid from the Banū Ṭabāṭabā (descended from al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī) and one of the most distinguished figures in Zaydī jurisprudence, as well as the founder of the Zaydī imamate in Yemen. His mother, Fāṭimā bint al-Ḥasan, was a descendant of al-Qāsim al-Rassī, a prominent Zaydī scholar and imam (al-Muḥallī, 2/42, 46).Aḥmad was away in the Ḥijāz…

Bāqī bi’llāh, Abū Muʾayyid Raḍī al-Dīn Muḥammad (971–1012/1564–1603), was the son of Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Salām b. Khiljī Samarqandī Qurayshī, and one of the propagators of the Naqshbandī Sufi Order in India, with the pen-name Bīrang. He was born in Kabul, with one source (Ikrām, 192) giving the date as 5 Dhū al-Ḥijja 971/15 July 1564, on the basis of the unpublished Sīrat-i Bāqī, although the earliest biographies only give the year 971/1564.His father, who was both a Sufi and a scholar, played a significant role in his education. His mother, a descendant of the famous Sufi Shaykh Khʷājah ʿUbayd Al…

Abū Mūsā is Iran's southernmost island, with an area of 12 sq km, lying midway in the Persian Gulf between Bandar Lingah (Lingih, Lengah, Lengeh) to the north and Sharjah to the south. It is the westernmost point of a group of six islands in the Persian Gulf that includes Greater and Lesser Tunb (Nabī Tunb), Greater and Lesser Farūr (Nabī Farūr), and Sīrī (Sirri) ( FJI, 7/61; Gulwirdī, 4). Abū Mūsā is also the name of the capital, which lies 46 m above sea level. To the north, the bell-shaped island is made up of low hills, ending in rocky cliffs, the highest …