| ABU AL-FARAJ FURḲAN IBN ASAD – See Joshua ben Judah. |
| ABU AL-FIHM LAWI IBN YA'ḲUB IBN AL-TABBEN – See Al-Tabben, Levi ben Jacob ibn. |
| ABU AL-ḤASAN IBN SAHL – See Ibn Sahl, Abu al-Ḥasan. |
| ABU IBRAHIM ISḤAḲ IBN BARUN – See Isaac ibn Barun, Abu Ibrahim. |
| ABU IBRAHIM ISḤAḲ IBN ḤALFON – See Isaac ibn Ḥalfon. |
| ABU IBRAHIM ISḤAḲ IBN JASOS IBN SARTAR – See Isaac ibn Jasos ibn Sartar. |
| ABU ISA AL-ISPAHANI – See Obadiah Abu. |
| ABU ISḤAḲ AL-ELVIRI – Mohammedan poet; lived in Spain toward the middle of the eleventh century. In one of his poems he attacked Jews in general, and in particular Joseph ibn Nagrela, whom Badis, king of the Berbers, had appointed vizier. Abu Isḥaḳ's... |
| ABU ISḤAḲ IBRAHIM IBN SAHL AL-ISRAILI OF SEVILLE – Spanish poet of the thirteenth century; died at sea in 1259 or 1260. Under the pressure of the Almohade rule he embraced the Mohammedan faith, but it was believed in Spain that he recanted before he died. There exist three... |
| ABU ISḤAḲ IBRAHIM IBN ZAHAB – See Ibrahim ibn Zahab. |
| ABU ISḤAḲ IBN AL-MUHAJIR – Spanish-Arabic vizier of the middle of the twelfth century mentioned in the "Diwan" (collection of poems) of Moses ibn Ezra, with the title "vezir." This is the only fact known about him, but the importance of the position... |
| ABU JACOB BEN NOAH – See Yusuf ben Noah, Abu Ya'aḳub. |
| ABU KARIB TUBBA – See Dhu Nuwas. |
| ABU-OMAR JOSEPH IBN ḤASDAI – See Joseph ibn Ḥassdai. |
| ABU SAHL ADONIM BEN TAMIM OF KAIRWAN – See Dunash ben Tamim. |
| ABU SAHL, ALI – See Ali ibn Sahl. |
| ABU SAHULA, ISAAC BEN SOLOMON IBN – See Isaac ben Solomon ibn Abu Sahula. |
| ABU SAID – See Levi ben Japhet. |
| ABU SARI SAHL BEN MAẒLIAḤ – See Sahl ben Maẓliaḥ. |
| ABU SULAIMAN DAUD IBN HUSAIN – See Daud ibn Husain. |
| ABU SULAIMAN IBN AL-MUHAJIR – See Abu Isḥaḳ ibn al-Muhajir. |
| ABU TALIB – Imaginary name of the Mohammedan disputant in the controversial epistles of Samuel Maroccanus (see Abbas, Samuel abu Naṣr ibn). The name is given in some editions as Abucalis or Abucalib. The manuscripts in which the name occurs... |
| ABU YA'AḲUB IBN BAHLUL – See Ibn Bahlul, Abu Ya'aḳub. |
| ABU YA'AḲUB IBN NOAH – See Isaac ben Noah. |
| ABU YUSUF – See Almohades. |