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Glossary Abul- H asan Kharqānī: A Muslim religious scholar of Iran (AD 963- 1033). Batala : A town in Punjab, India. Bawa (Baba) Ghul a m Far i d : He was a Saraik i (a regional language of Panjab) poet of the Indian subcon- tinent (1845-1901). He knew sev- eral languages. His works include D i w a n-e-Far i d (collection of 272 poems in Saraik i ). Bāyaz i d : A Muslim Saint Abū Yazīd T aifūr b. ‘Īsā b. Surūshān al- Bas t āmī (804-874), commonly known in the Iranian world as Bāyaz i d Bas t āmī, was a Persian Sufi from north-central Iran. Būstān : Name of a Persian book lit- erally meaning ‘garden’ written by Sa‘dī. Dhun-Nūn al-Mi s rī : Dhūn-Nūn Abul-Fai d Thaubān b. Ibrāhīm al- Mi s rī (796-859) was an Egyptian Muslim mystic and ascetic. He studied the scholastic disciplines of alchemy, medicine, and Greek philosophy. Far i d-ud-D i n ‘A tta r : Ab u H am i d bin Ab u Bakr Ibrāhīm (c. 1145 – c. 1221), better known by his pen- names Farīd-ud-Dīn and ‘A tta r (perfumer), was a Persian Muslim poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer from Nishapur who had an immense and lasting in- fluence on Persian poetry and Su- fism. Mantiq-ut-tair (The Confer- ence of the Birds) and Ilāhī-Nāma (The Book of Divine) are among his most famous works. Galen: He was a physician, sur- geon, and philosopher in the Ro- man Empire (AD 129-200). He is known as the most accomplished medical researcher of antiquity. He developed various scientific disci- plines like Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Pharmacology, and Neurology.