Encyclopaedia Islamica, Volume 2 Abū al-Ḥārith – Abyānah
Brill in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies
This volume of Encyclopaedia Islamica is the second of a projected 16-volume publication, consisting of an abridged and edited translation of the Persian Dāʾirat al-Maʿārif-i Buzurg-i Islāmī, one of the most comprehensive sources on Islam and the Muslim world. One unique feature of this work of reference lies in the attention it gives to Shiʿi Islam and its rich and diverse heritage, which makes it complementary to other encyclopaedias. In addition to providing entries on important themes, subjects and personages in Islam generally, it offers the western reader an opportunity to appreciate the various dimensions of Shiʿi Islam, the Persian contribution to Islamic civilisation, and the spiritual dimensions of the Islamic tradition.
The Encyclopaedia Islamica is available in print and at Brill Online.
Abū al-Ḥārith
Abū al-Ḥasan Afshār Urūmiyaʾī
Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ahwāzī
Abū al-Ḥasan al-ʿĀmirī
Abū al-Ḥasan al-Bisyawī
Abū al-Ḥasan Ghaffārī
Abū al-Ḥasan Gulistānah
Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥarrānī
Abū al-Ḥasan al-Jurjānī
Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Bahrāmī
Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Beglerbegī Maḥallātī
Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Īlchī Shīrāzī
Abū al-Ḥasan Miʿmār
Abū al-Ḥasan Mustawfī
Abū al-Ḥasan Nādir al-Zamān
Abū al-Ḥasan Sīmjūr
Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ṭabarī
Abū Hāshim
Abū Hāshim al-Jubbāʾī
Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī
Abū Ḥātim al-Sijistānī
Abū Ḥayyān al-Gharnāṭī
Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī
Abū Hilāl al-ʿAskarī
Abū Ḥudhayfa
Abū Hurayra
Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī
Abū ʿIkrima
Abū ʿĪsā al-Iṣfahānī
Abū ʿĪsā al-Warrāq
Abū Isḥāq al-Ilbīrī
Abū Isḥāq Kāzarūnī
Abū Isḥāq al-Kūbunānī
Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī
Abū Jaʿfar Khāzin
Abū Jaʿfar b. Shīrzād
Abū Jaʿfar Ustādh Hurmuz
Abū Jaʿfar Yazīd b. al-Qaʿqāʿ
Abū Jahl
Abū al-Jārūd
Abū al-Jaysh al-Balkhī
Abū al-Jūd
Abū Kāmil
Abū Khālid al-Kābulī
Abū Khālid al-Wāsiṭī
Abū al-Khaṣīb
Abū al-Khaṭṭāb
Abū al-Khayr al-Ishbīlī
Abū al-Khayr Khān Qazāq
Abū al-Khayr Khān Uzbek
Abū Lahab
Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī
Abū Luʾluʾ Hasan
Abū al-Maʿālī Lāhūrī
Abū al-Maʿālī
Abū Madyan
Abū al-Maḥāmid al-Ghaznawī
Abū al-Maḥāsin Jurjānī
Abū Manṣūr al-ʿIjlī
Abū Manṣūr al-Iṣfahānī
Abū Manṣūr al-Maʿmarī
Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Razzāq
Abū Manṣūr Muwaffaq Harawī
Abū Manṣūr b. Yūsuf
Abū Maʿshar al-Balkhī
Abū Maʿshar al-Sindī
Abū Miḥjan
Abū Mikhnaf
Abū al-Muʾayyad Balkhī
Abū al-Mufaḍḍal al-Shaybānī
Abū Mūsā (Island)
Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī
Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī
Abū Mūsā al-Murdār
Abū Muslim al-Iṣfahānī
Abū Muslim al-Khawlānī
Abū Muslim al-Khurāsānī
Abū Muslim-nāmah
Abū al-Muṭahhar al-Azdī
Abū al-Muṭarrif
Abū al-Muʾthir
Abū Naṣr Farāhī
Abū Naṣr al-Kāshī
Abū Naṣr Manṣūr b. ʿIrāq
Abū Naṣr Mushkān
Abū Naṣr Pārsā
Abū Naṣr Pārsā (mausoleum)
Abū Naṣr al-Sijzī
Abū Nuʿaym Ali Bahramian (Suheyl Umar)
Abū Nuʿaym al-Iṣfahānī
Abū Nukhayla
Abū Nuwās
Abū al-Qāsim al-Balkhī
Abū al-Qāsim al-Dargazīnī
Abū al-Qāsim Farhang
Abū al-Qāsim al-Ḥakīm al-Samarqandī
Abū al-Qāsim Kāshānī
Abū al-Qāsim Kathīr
Abū al-Qāsim Kurragānī
Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Aslam
Abū al-Qāsim al-Naṣrābādī
Abū al-Qāsim Sīmjūr
Abū al-Qāsim al-Taymī
Abū Qatāda
Abū Qīr
Abū Qubays
Abū Quḥāfa
Abū Qurra
Abū Rāfiʿ
Abū Rakwa
Abū Rashīd al-Nīsābūrī
Abū Riyāsh al-Qaysī
Abū Sahl Ḥamdawī
Abū Sahl al-Masīḥī Younes
Abū Sahl al-Nawbakhtī
Abū Sahl Zawzanī
Abū Saʿīd b. Abī al-Khayr
Abū Saʿīd Bahādur Khān
Abū Saʿīd Gūrakān
Abū Saʿīd al-Jannābī
Abū Saʿīd al-Jurjānī
Abū Saʿīd al-Kadumī
Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī
Abū Saʿīd Kūchkūnjī
Abū Saʿīd al-Rustamī
Abū Saʿīd al-Yamāmī
Abu al-Sāj
Abū al-Ṣalāḥ al-Ḥalabī
Abū Salama al-Khallāl
Abū al-Ṣalt
Abū al-Sarāyā
Abū Shakūr Balkhī
Abū Shāma
Abū al-Shaykh al-Iṣfahānī
Abū Shimr al-Murjiʾ
Abū al-Shīṣ
Abū Shujāʿ al-Iṣfahānī
Abū Sufyān
Abū Sulaymān al-Dārānī
Abū Sulaymān al-Sijistānī
Abū al-Suʿūd, ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAbd Allāh
Abū al-Suʿūd, Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Muṣṭafā ʿImādī
Abū Ṭāhir (family)
Abū Ṭāhir al-Jannābī
Abū Ṭāhir Multānī
Abū Ṭāhir Samarqandī
Abū Ṭāhir Ṭarsūsī
Abū Ṭalḥa
Abū Ṭālib (ʿImrān) b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib
Abū Ṭālib Khān
Abū Ṭālib al-Makkī
Abū Ṭālib Mudarris Hamadānī
Abū al-Ṭamaḥān al-Qaynī
Abū Tammām
Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Lughawī Mehran Arzandeh (Rahim Gholami)
Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Muṣʿabī
Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Ṭabarī
Abū Thawr
Abū Ṭufayl
Abū Turāb Ghaffārī
Abū Turāb Iṣfahānī
Abū Turāb al-Nakhshabī
Abū ʿUbayd al-Bakrī
Abū ʿUbayd al-Qāsim b. Sallām al-Khuzāʿī
Abū ʿUbayd al-Thaqafī
Abū ʿUbayda
Abū ʿUbayda b. al-Jarrāḥ
Abū Umāma al-Bāhilī
Abū ʿUthmān al-Ḥīrī
Abū al-Wafāʾ Khwārazmī
Abū al-Walīd al-Bājī
Abū al-Walīd al-Ḥimyarī
Abū al-Wazīr
Abū Yaḥyā al-Biṭrīq
Abū al-Yaḥlā al-Jaʿfarī
Abū Yaḥlā al-Mawṣilī
Abū al-Yanbaghī
Abū Yaʿqūb
Abū Yaʿqūb al-Hamadānī
Abū Yaʿqūb al-Sijistānī
Abū al-Yaqẓān
Abū Yazīd al-Nukkārī
Abū Yūsuf
Abū Yūsuf al-Qazwīnī
Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb
Abū Zakariyyā al-Janāwunī
Abū Zakariyyā al-Warjalānī
Abū Zayd al-Anṣārī
Abū Zayd al-Balkhī
Abū Zayd Kāshānī
Abū Zayd al-Qurashī
Abū Zayn Kaḥḥāl
Abyānah
‘Clearly the editors of ISLA have selected articles they consider will augment the existing reference sources – and they have completed this selection task with acumen and skill. The work as a whole remains, however, a “specialist encyclopaedia” [...] - or perhaps more accurately, it is an encyclopaedia for specialists [...]. In that sense, it is a valuable addition [...] to the reference work available at present. Perhaps its greatest merit is that it brings to an international audience a key example of and an excellent advertisement for high-quality Iranian scholarship which has hitherto been available but known only to a few.’
– Robert Gleave, Journal of the American Oriental Society
‘[T]he publication of Encyclopaedia Islamica is a notable step forward in including the Shi‘a viewpoint in scholarship on Islam.’
– Mousa al-Reza Wahdati, Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies
‘Printed on coated paper, the five volumes so far published are an impressive achievement both in production as well as in scholarship related to Persian themes.’
– Yashab Tur, Islamic Sciences
Farhad Daftary is Associate Director of the Institute of Ismaili Studies. He is an authority on Mediaeval Islam and Ismaili studies, consulting Editor of Encyclopaedia Iranica, and sits on the Advisory Board of the Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd edition).
Wilferd Madelung has made significant contributions to scholarship on mediaeval Islamic movements, including Twelver Shi‘ism, Zaydism and Ismailism. He is a former Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow with The Institute of Ismaili Studies.