Abū Isḥāq Tha‘labī Nayshābūrī is an outstanding Iranian exegete of the fourth and fifth centuries LH. Tha‘labī has been so skillful in various Islamic sciences such as Arabic linguistics (including morphology, syntax (grammatical inflection), vocabulary, and rhetoric), Ḥadīth, exegesis, and qur’ānic sciences that numerous students from many near and far places attended his classes. Tha‘labī’s c...

Abū ‘Imrān Mūsā b. Abı̄ ’l-H ̇ ayy Khalı̄la. See (Abū ‘Imrān) Mūsā b. Abı̄ ’l-H ̇ ayy Khalı̄la Abū Ish ̇ āq Ibrahı̄m b. ‘At ̇ ā’, 2, 48, 180, 183 Abū ’l-Fad ̇ l b. Salmān, 315–317 Abū ’l-H ̇ asan b. H ̇ ayyim, 171, 293 Abūn b. S ̇ adaqa, 87, 128, 238, 294–295 Abū Sa‘ı̄d, 83, 131 agents and agency agency law, 130, 151–159, 358 agency transactions statistically compared, 143 as _ h _ ābunā and s _ uh _ ba comp...