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Athīr al-Dīn al-Mufaḍḍal b. ʿUmar b. al-Mufaḍḍal al-Abharī (d. between 660/1263 and 663/1265) was a philosopher and an astronomer, most probably from Abhar, a small town between Qazwīn and Zanjān. He is known to have been a student of Kamāl al-Dīn b. Yūnus (d. 639/1242) and Fakh…

Afḍal al-Dīn Turka is the name of three members of the Turka family of qāḍī s and religious scholars of Isfahan: Afḍal al-Dīn b. Abī Ḥāmid (fl. late eighth/fourteenth century), Abū l-Fatḥ Muḥammad Afḍal al-Dīn b. Ṣadr al-Dīn (d. 850/1446), and Afḍal al-Dīn b. Ḥabīballāh (d. 991/…