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(m n´ äd-d n häsän´ ch sh´t ) (KEY) , 1142–1236, Indian Muslim saint, b. Sistan, Persia. He founded a Sufi mystic order responsible for sprea...
(h s n´) (KEY) or Husayn (–s n´) (KEY) , c.626–680, Muslim saint of the Shiites; second son of Ali and Fatima (daughter of Muhammad). With the ...
(ou´g st f k) (KEY) , 1833–1916, German philologist. Fick compiled the first comparative etymological dictionary of the Indo-European languages (18...
(py r lw môr ´ d m p rtü ´) (KEY) , 1698–1759, French mathematician and astronomer. For his skillful support of Newton’s theory he was admit...
1881–1973, Swiss physiologist. For his work on the control of organs by certain areas of the brain he shared with Egas Moniz the 1949 Nobel Prize in...
(pä´n n ) (KEY) , fl. c.400 B.C., Indian grammarian. His Asht dhy y [eight books] (tr. 1891) is one of the earliest works of descriptive linguistic...