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al-Sahmī
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, Ḥamza b. Yūsuf al-Ḳuras̲h̲ī al-D̲j̲urd̲j̲ānī. Abu ’l-Ḳāsim (b. at an unknown date towards the middle of the 4th/10th century, d. 427/1038 at Nīs̲h̲āpūr), traditionist and legal scholar. A native of Gurgān [
q.v.] in the Caspian coastlands, where he was a
k̲h̲aṭīb and preacher, his major work, and apparently the sole surviving one, is his
Taʾrīk̲h̲ D̲j̲urd̲j̲ān or
Kitāb Maʿrifat ʿulamāʾ ahl D̲j̲urd̲j̲ān , essentially a
rid̲j̲āl [
q.v.] work devoted to the scholars and
muḥaddit̲h̲ūn of his native province, to which is prefixed (ed. Ḥaydarābād 1369/…
Māzandarān
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, a province to the south of the Caspian Sea bounded on the west by Gīlān [
q. v.] and on the east by what was in Ḳad̲j̲ār times the province of Astarābād [
q.v., formerly Gurgān); Māzandarān and Gurgān now form the modern
ustān or province of Māzandarān. 1. The name. If Gurgān to the Iranians was the "land of the wolves" (
vәhrkāna , the region to its west was peopled by "Māzaynian dēws" (Bartholomae,
Altir .
Wörterbuch , col. 1169, under
māzainya daēva ). Darmesteter,
Le Zend-Avesta , ii, 373, n. 32, thought that Māzandarān was a "comparative of direction" (*
Mazana-tara ; c…