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Aaron (OT)/Hārūn (Qur’an) 321, 470–471, 476 ‘Abbāsid/Abbasids, dynasty 318, 322, 333, 421, 633, 635 ‘Abd Allāh/Abdullah, emir of Córdoba 331 ‘Abd Allāh b. ‘Amr b. al-‘Āṣ 406 ‘Abd Allāh b. Wahhāb 327 ‘Abd al-Ghanī Maḥmūd ‘Abd al-ʿĀṭī 418 ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd, Iḅn Ḥabīb’s teacher 327 ‘Abd al-Malik, Umayyad caliph 320, 410 ‘Abd al-Malik b. Ḥabīb 13, 319–333, 349 ‘Abd al-Rahman I, Umayyad emir 331 ‘Abd al-Raḥman II, Umayyad emir 321, 332 ‘Abdallāh b. (al-)‘Abbās 637–638 ‘Abdallāh b. Ḥamza 415, 417–419, 421, 424, 430–434, 438 Abdel Haleem/‘Abd al-Ḥalīm 67, 69, 81 Abel (OT) 265, 705, 710, 719–720, 750 Abjesous the Teacher 183 Abraham (OT)/Ibrāhīm (Qur’an) 66, 195, 219, 263, 271, 297–298, 304, 313–314, 324, 403, 469–470, 472–474, 481, 555, 638, 685, 703, 705, 708, 715, 751, 761 Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Idrisī al-Qurṭubī 398 Abū Bakr ‘Abd al-Razzāq b. Hammām alṢan‘ānī 405–406, 637 Abu Bakr al-Baydak, companion of Iḅn Tūmart 283 Abū Firās b. Di‘tham 417–418 Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī 67, 74–77, 79–81, 416 Abū Hurayra 406 Abū l-‘Abbās al-Ṣaffāḥ, first Abbasid caliph 633 Abū l-‘Alā’ al-Ma‘arrī 73 Abū l-Fidā’ b. Kathīr/Ibn Kathīr 72–73, 394 Abū l-Qāsim b. Ḥawqal 397–398 Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh al-Bashīr alWansharīsī 283 Abū Ṭālib b. ‘Abd al-Muṭṭalib, Muḥammad’s uncle 331 Adah, wife of Lamech (OT) 266 Adam, (OT)/Ādam (Qur’an) 53–54, 144, 199, 212–213, 215, 217, 219, 260, 262, 265–266, 269, 271, 319, 323–324, 406, 467, 469–470, 473–474, 476, 481, 566, 676, 700, 703, 705, 707, 750 Adomnán, abbot of Iona 652 Adso, monk of Montier-en-Der 28, 30, 199, 231 Aethicus Ister 28, 266 Agamben, Giorgio 16, 733, 736–749, 754–756, 772, 801–802 Agathias 85 Agus, Aharon, rabbi 765, 770 Aḥmad, mystic 74 Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal 471 Aḥmad b. Ṣāliḥ b. Abī l-Rijāl 418 Aḥmed Bīcān 409 Ajāmila, brahmin 620 Ajātaśatru, king of Magadha 592 Akbar, Moghul emperor 624–625 Akṣobhya, Buddha 149–151, 378 al-Bīrūnī 184 al-Bukhārī 475 al-Ḍāmī, teacher 428 al-Damīrī 394 al-Hādī ilā al-Ḥaqq Yaḥyā b. al-Ḥusayn, imam 423, 425 al-Ḥākim, Fatimid caliph 284 al-Ḥasan al-Raṣṣāṣ 429 al-Iskandar, al-Iskander see Alexander the Great 325, 394, 401–402, 407 al-Khūshānī 321 al-Kisā’ī 472 al-Manṣūr ‘Abdallāh b. Ḥamza, imam 415, 417– 419, 422, 424, 430–434, 438 al-Murtaḍā, imam of Yemen 425