† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.
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The mute person (abkam) in fiqh
The Kuwaiti encyclopedia defines the mute person (abkam) as one who has the condition of dumbness, which is… - Concept
Abraham and the one who argued with him about his Lord
Sha'rawi reads the one who argued with Abraham about his Lord as the agent of the argument, with Abraham as… - Concept
The people of the bench (ahl al-suffa)
In his reading of the verse on the poor confined for God's cause, Sha'rawi says the people of the bench were… - Concept
Ahmad (a name of the Prophet, and a personal name)
Ahmad is one of the names of the Prophet and a personal name used by Muslims. It is an elative of hamd,… - Concept
States of the believer (ahwal al-mumin)
The four states of the believer as Sheikh Omar Abdelkafy presents them: giving thanks at a gift, patience at… - Concept
Akhi Baba (title of the guild shaykh and tanners' head)
Akhi Baba was the title of the shaykh of the tekke of Akhi Evran at Kirshehir, and was also given to his… - Concept
The Muslim home (al-bayt al-muslim)
The Muslim home as Sheikh Omar Abdelkafy presents it: its state today, affection and mercy within it, its… - Concept
Integration and identity (al-indimaj wa-l-huwiyya)
Sheikh Omar Abdelkafy's view of how a believer integrates into a society that is not wholly Muslim while… - Concept
Exemplary conduct in preaching
Sha'rawi holds that preaching is not enough by words but needs example, that religious scholars alone are… - Concept
Arham (kinship ties)
The rahm (womb) is the place where the child grows and its container; figuratively it is kinship. Kinship is… - Concept
Awlad al-balad (the Mahdist riverain tribes)
The term Sudanese used during the Mahdiyya (1881-98) for the northern riverain tribes, chiefly the Danakla… - Concept
Awlad al-Nas (sons of the people, in the Mamluk army)
The term in the Mamluk army for the sons of amirs and mamluks, born free and Muslim within the sultanate, who… - Concept
The male organ (dhakar) in the rulings
Dhakar is the known male organ, and the opposite of female. The jurists differ on whether touching it with… - Concept
Maleness (dhukura) as a condition in the rulings
Maleness is the opposite of femaleness, and the jurists treat it as a condition in several rulings: the… - Concept
Dhurriyya (descendants in the rulings, especially in endowments)
In lexicon dhurriyya means offspring, and is sometimes used for ancestors. The majority hold that dhurriyya… - Concept
Custody of a child (hadana)
Custody (hadana) is keeping safe, and raising in what suits, a person who cannot yet manage his own affairs;… - Concept
The grandson (hafid)
In the jurists' usage the hafid is a son's son. He is an agnatic heir by agreement, and stands in the place… - Concept
Pregnant woman (hamil) in fiqh
A pregnant woman (hamil) in fiqh is a woman carrying a child. The entry covers her blood, fasting, marriage,… - Concept
Hanif (the description of Abraham)
Sha'rawi holds that the root of hanif is a bend in the lower legs, and that the sense was then carried over… - Concept
The glans (hashfa) in the rulings
In the jurists' usage, the glans (hashfa) is what lies beneath the skin cut in circumcision; a series of… - Concept
Hashima (a head wound that breaks the bone: its compensation)
Hashima in the lexical sense is a wound that breaks the bone of the head; for the majority it is a wound that… - Concept
Children's rights (huquq al-abna)
Children's rights over their parents, as Sheikh Omar Abdelkafy presents them: choosing a righteous mother, a… - Concept
A Muslim's rights over a fellow Muslim (huquq al-muslim ala akhihi)
A Muslim's duties toward a fellow Muslim, as Sheikh Omar Abdelkafy presents them in one lesson of his series… - Concept
Parents' rights (huquq al-walidayn)
Parents' rights over their children, as Sheikh Omar Abdelkafy presents them: honouring and kindness while… - Concept
Spouses' rights (huquq al-zawjayn)
The rights of husband and wife as Sheikh Omar Abdelkafy sets them out in two lessons of his series on rights:… - Concept
The free person (hurr)
The free man is the opposite of the slave; in the jurists' usage he is one whose person is free of any trace… - Concept
Running away (ibaq) of a slave
The Kuwaiti encyclopedia defines running away (ibaq) as a slave's flight in rebellion from the one who holds… - Concept
Idla (connection by descent: the ranking of heirs and custodians by the line that links them)
Idla literally means lowering a bucket into a well, and was then used for any sending down. The jurists use… - Concept
Misleading others and bearing their burden
Sha'rawi holds that misguidance has several senses: going astray and being lost in a thing, failing to reach… - Concept
Inheritance of prophethood (by deeds, not by blood)
Sha'rawi holds that religious leadership and belonging to the prophets come not by blood or lineage but by… - Concept
Irba (desire: men without sexual need and the rules on their gaze at women)
In law, irba is need, especially need for women. Those men who follow a household without sexual need,… - Concept
Irth (inheritance: the science of fixed shares, its lawfulness, the gradual legislation and the estate and its debts)
In law, irth is a divisible right passing to its beneficiary after the death of the one who held it, by… - Concept
Irtithath (the wounded man carried from the battle still alive, and his rulings for washing, prayer and the rank of martyr)
In law, irtithath is a wounded man carried from the battle while still faintly alive; such a man is the… - Concept
Restraining anger (kazm al-ghayz)
For Sheikh Omar Abdelkafy, restraining anger is a deed of great standing with God. Pardon is its fruit,… - Concept
Keeping secrets and trusts
For Sheikh Omar Abdelkafy, keeping secrets is among the first of trusts. He criticises the spreading of the… - Concept
The covenant of the prophets (confirming and supporting each messenger)
Sha'rawi holds that God took a covenant from the prophets to believe in and support any messenger who comes… - Concept
Reciprocity and equality (mukafa'a)
Mukafa'a means returning like for like, and in the lexicon it is equality, as in the hadith that the blood of… - Concept
Contract of manumission by instalments (mukataba)
A mukataba is a contract between a slave and his master in which the slave is freed on paying a sum due in… - Concept
Unlawful tolls and levies (mukus)
Mukus is the plural of maks, which in the lexicon means loss and injustice. It names the dues taken from… - Concept
Prophet and messenger (the difference between conveying and exemplifying)
Sha'rawi holds that a messenger is sent both to convey and to serve as an example, carrying the law, applying… - Concept
The self-reproaching soul (nafs lawwama)
Sha'rawi holds that the human soul contains a faith-cell which wakes after heedlessness and reproaches its… - Concept
Nakth (breaking a covenant or contract)
Nakth is, in the lexicon, the undoing of what has been tied or agreed, and in the term, breaking covenants… - Concept
Namimah (tale-bearing)
Namimah is, in the lexicon, going between people to stir strife; in the term, carrying speech from its… - Concept
Nikah (marriage in fiqh)
In the lexicon, nikah can mean intercourse or the contract without intercourse. Each school gives its own… - Concept
Forbidden marriage (nikah munhi 'anhu)
A forbidden marriage is one the lawgiver has forbidden. The encyclopedia sets out the pre-Islamic forms, the… - Concept
The story of the Children of Israel in the Qur'an
Sha'rawi holds that God chose the story of the Children of Israel because it contains the most miracles and… - Concept
The rabbaniyyun (training and belonging to the Lord)
Sha'rawi holds that belonging to the Lord means that what the trainer teaches from the scripture is ascribed… - Concept
The police (shurta) under Ali
Under Ali the police were an important office. His police included Abu al-Hayyaj al-Asadi, Qays ibn Sa'd,… - Concept
Ta'addi (transgression against persons, property, honour and the state, and the transfer of a cause)
Ta'addi is injustice and overstepping of right. It has two senses: attack on another's right, and the… - Concept
Ta'addud (plurality in worship, expiation, marriage, divorce and the rest)
Ta'addud is plurality. Its applications: several muezzins are lawful and recommended; repeating the… - Concept
Ta'dhib (torment or punishment beyond the lawful: the prisoner, the thief, animals)
Ta'dhib is inflicting punishment or harm. The basis is prohibition, since it punishes without right. It is… - Concept
Ta'jiz (declaring a party unable: a slave under a writing, or a party who fails to produce proof)
Ta'jiz is ascribing inability to a person; the jurists use it only for a slave under a writing of manumission… - Concept
Ta'rid (allusion in speech: a veiled proposal in the waiting period, a charge of slander, protection of a Muslim from his pursuer, and a judge's allusion to retraction)
Ta'rid is allusion, the opposite of plain statement: speech that may carry the intended sense or another. A… - Concept
Tadbir (manumission effective after death)
Tadbir is freeing a slave to take effect after his master's death; it is a form of manumission and an act of… - Concept
Ta'dil (certifying a witness's probity; equalising shares; correcting postures in prayer; the value-based division)
Ta'dil is equalising or setting straight; in law it is certifying a witness or narrator as upright. A judge… - Concept
Takhannuth (effeminacy in a man)
Takhannuth is the swaying and softening of a man's speech, walk and dress in the manner of women. Deliberate… - Concept
Tarika (the estate of a deceased person)
The estate is what a deceased person leaves of property and rights; for the Hanafis it is property alone. It… - Concept
Tarshid (release from guardianship after proof of sound judgement)
Tarshid is lifting restraint from a minor after testing him. Sound judgement means soundness in property for… - Concept
Tarsim (restriction of a person's movement)
In the jurists' usage tarsim is narrowing a person's freedom and limiting his movement so that he cannot go… - Concept
Tasadduq (mutual attestation of a claim)
Tasadduq is two parties, or the claimant and the party claimed against, confirming each other's word; it is… - Concept
Tasamu (testimony by repute and hearsay)
Tasamu is knowledge gained by repeated report or wide repute. Testimony by repute is allowed by agreement in… - Concept
Tasarri (lawful relations with an owned slave woman, and its rules)
Tasarri is a master's lawful relations with a woman he owns, and it is allowed by the Qur'an, the Sunna and… - Concept
Tasfiya (settling a deceased person's estate and debts)
Tasfiya is the whole of the work whose aim is to list the dead person's rights and obligations and to pay the… - Concept
Tashawwuf (the lawgiver's concern for a right; adornment in waiting and courtship)
Tashawwuf is longing or looking out, and in jurisprudence it covers several things: the lawgiver's concern to… - Concept
Tashbih (comparison in legal speech: zihar, slander, abuse)
The ruling on tashbih depends on where it is used. Likening one's wife, or a common part of her, to a woman… - Concept
Tashhir (publicly exposing or disgracing someone)
Tashhir is publicising or spreading something, and its ruling depends on who does it and on the person… - Concept
Tashmit (replying to a sneezer)
Tashmit is praying for a sneezer's good and blessing once he has praised God. All agree that the sneezer… - Concept
Tasir (fixing prices in the market by authority)
Tasir is the ruler's or his deputy's fixing of a price for people, and compelling them to trade at it. The… - Concept
Tasmiya (naming: giving a name to a child, and the rules on names)
Tasmiya in the language comes from height or from a mark. The jurists use it in four senses: saying «in the… - Concept
Tasweed (making black or making a sayyid: honouring with the title sayyid, and dyeing or dressing in black)
Tasweed has two senses that the jurists treat: the first is honouring someone with the title sayyid, and the… - Concept
Taswiya (equality and levelling: rows, bowing, zakat shares, wives, judges, gifts, shuf'a, public places, graves)
Taswiya means justice and fairness in the language; its opposite is injustice. In the jurists' use it means… - Concept
Tatbib (medical treatment: the physician, his look, hire and liability)
Tatbib is medical treatment. Learning medicine is a communal duty, practising it is lawful, and it may be… - Concept
Tatfful (entering another's meal uninvited)
Tatfful is entering another person's place to eat his food without his leave or knowledge of his consent, or… - Concept
Tatfif (short measure or weight in trade)
Tatfif is the short-changing in measure and weight, a loss by which the seller betrays, and it is the… - Concept
Tazahum (crowding, and competing claims)
Tazahum is crowding, pressing against one another in a place. It is forbidden if it hurts someone or leads to… - Concept
Tazkiya (attestation of witnesses' uprightness)
Tazkiya in judging is attesting that witnesses are just. It is done secretly and openly. The schools differ… - Concept
Tazwij (contracting a marriage, and who may contract it)
Tazwij is a contract that gives a man enjoyment of a woman and makes lawful her enjoyment by him in a lawful… - Concept
Tazwir (forgery and falsification, including false testimony)
Tazwir is making a thing look other than it is, decorating it so that the hearer takes falsehood for truth.… - Concept
Disobedience to parents (uquq al-walidayn)
Disobedience to parents, the opposite of honouring them, as Sheikh Omar Abdelkafy presents it: its forms of… - Concept
Wage and rizq in Islam
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Wathani (the idolater: his status, rights and obligations)
A wathan is an idol with a body of wood, stone or other material; the wathani is the worshipper of idols and… - Concept
Women's work in Islam
Al-Maraghi holds women and men to be of one origin and one humanity, and that Islam gave women rights of… - Event
Ali appoints the sons of al-Abbas and Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr as governors
between 656 and 661 CEAli gave the provinces to several sons of his cousin al-Abbas: Abdallah in Basra, Ubaydallah in Yemen and… - Event
Ali burns people in Kufa who claimed he was God
between 656 and 661 CEAli was told that people at the mosque door called him their lord; he said he was only a servant like them,… - Event
Ali burns the village of Zarara where wine was sold
between 656 and 661 CEAli passed a quarter of Kufa called Zarara where meat was sold and wine too, and ordered it set on fire,… - Event
Ali's counsel in Umar's judgments
between 634 and 644 CE · 13 AHDuring Umar's caliphate Ali repeatedly corrected or advised the judgments: he stopped the stoning of a woman… - Event
Ali's counsel to Kumayl ibn Ziyad on knowledge and its people
between 656 and 661 CEAli took Kumayl ibn Ziyad by the hand into the open country and counselled him on knowledge: hearts are… - Event
Ali declines to keep Muawiya in office
35 AHAfter the pledge of allegiance, al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba advised keeping Muawiya in Syria for a while and Ibn… - Event
Ali's stance during the siege of Uthman
656 CE · 35 AH† - Event
Ali enters Kufa in 36 AH
c. January 657 CE · Rajab 36 AH - Event
Ali's equal distribution of the fay and the treasury
between 656 and 661 CEAli distributed incoming money equally among the people after setting aside what public needs required, and… - Event
Ali's first sermon after the pledge
c. 656 CE · c. 35 AH† - Event
Ali carries out the drinking penalty on al-Walid ibn Uqba
between 644 and 656 CE - Event
Ali flogs the poet al-Najashi al-Harithi for drinking wine in Ramadan
between 656 and 661 CEAl-Najashi al-Harithi, a poet, drank wine in Ramadan; Ali flogged him eighty lashes and jailed him, then… - Event
Ali frees two men who each confessed to one killing and pays the diya from the treasury
between 656 and 661 CETwo men each confessed to the same killing before Ali. Hasan's ruling was that the one who had killed had… - Event
Ali's judgment on the men who fell into a lion pit in Yemen
631 CE · 10 AHWhile Ali was in Yemen, four men fell one upon another into a pit dug for a lion; the lion killed them, and… - Event
Ali's rulings on the apostate and the zindiq, and the ways he killed them
between 656 and 661 CEAli is reported to have said the apostate is asked to repent three times and then killed; the book gives two… - Event
Ali's judgment on a slap over a debased dirham in Kufa
between 656 and 661 CEA man sold a sheep on the condition of no debased coin and gave one; the buyer returned it and was slapped by… - Event
Ali's judgment: Shurahah flogged and stoned after confessing zina
between 656 and 661 CEShurahah confessed to zina while pregnant; Ali flogged her a hundred lashes on Thursday and stoned her on… - Event
Ali's judgment on three men who lay with one woman in one purity
631 CE · 10 AHThree men lay with one woman in the same purity period in Yemen. Ali asked two at a time whether they claimed… - Event
Letters between Ali and Muawiya after the Camel
36 AHAfter the Camel, Ali wrote to Muawiya urging him to enter the community's allegiance, noting that the… - Event
Ali's rounds in the market of Kufa
between 656 and 661 CEAli walked the Kufan market himself, told the traders to sell without swearing oaths, forbade adulteration… - Event
Ali moves the capital to Kufa
36 AHAli moved the seat of government from Medina to Kufa, because Quraysh would not back him and its factions had… - Event
Ali's oversight of his governors: inspectors, complaints and discipline
between 656 and 661 CEAli followed his governors through inspectors who questioned people about them, secret reports, an open door… - Event
Ali's pledge of allegiance to Abu Bakr
June 632 CE · Rabi' I 11 AHSallabi holds that Ali and al-Zubayr pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr early, on the day of the Prophet's death,… - Event
Ali's inquiry into a missing traveller and his wealth
between 656 and 661 CEA young man complained that a company of travellers came back without his father and with his father's money.… - Event
Ali empties the treasury and prays in it
between 656 and 661 CEAli was told the treasury of the Muslims was full of gold and silver; he went, leaning on the informant, gave… - Event
Ali refuses to lead prayer while the caliph is besieged
35 AHWhen the rebels surrounded Uthman in his house, people asked Ali to lead the prayer; he refused, saying he… - Event
Ali sent to Banu Jadhima to correct Khalid's error
c. 11 January 630 CE · 20 Ramadan 8 AHAfter the conquest of Mecca in the eighth year AH the Prophet sent Khalid ibn al-Walid to the Banu Jadhima.… - Event
Ali spares Amr ibn al-As after he was exposed
37 AHAt Siffin Ali got the upper hand over Amr ibn al-As, who had fallen with his private parts exposed, and… - Event
The birth, naming and aqiqa of Hasan ibn Ali
c. March 625 CE · c. Ramadan 3 AHAl-Sallabi gives Hasan's birth as the middle of Ramadan in the third year after the Hijra, notes other… - Event
The custody of Hamza's daughter
c. March 629 CE · Dhu al-Qa'da 7 AH - Event
The death and burial of Fatima bint Muhammad
November 632 CE · 3 Ramadan 11 AHFatima died in Medina six months after the Prophet, on the night of Tuesday, 3 Ramadan 11 AH, in a narration… - Event
Death of Malik al-Ashtar on the way to Egypt
between 657 and 659 CEAli chose Malik al-Ashtar to govern Egypt after Qays ibn Sa'd was replaced. He died at the edge of the Red… - Event
Ali's duel with Amr ibn Abd Wudd at the Trench
c. February 627 CE · Shawwal 5 AHAt the Battle of the Trench, enemy horsemen forced a breach in the ditch. Ali went out with a few Muslims to… - Event
Fatima and Ali ask for a servant and are taught the tasbih
between 2 and 11 CEAli and Fatima complained of the work of grinding and asked the Prophet for a servant from the captives; he… - Event
Fatima's claim to the Prophet's inheritance and Fadak
between 632 and 634 CE · 11 AHAfter the Prophet's death Fatima and al-Abbas asked Abu Bakr for their share of the Prophet's estate, the… - Event
The forged letter attributed to Uthman
between 655 and 656 CE - Event
The hadith of the cloak and the verse of purification of the household
between 1 and 11 CEAisha's report of the cloak gathering Ali, Fatima, Hasan and Husayn is cited by al-Sallabi as the context of… - Event
Hatib ibn Abi Balta'a's letter to Quraysh
630 CE · 8 AH - Event
The Prophet refuses to return runaway slaves at Hudaybiyya
c. March 628 CE · Dhu al-Qa'da 6 AH - Event
Reported advice to Ali by Ibn Abbas and al-Mughira on keeping or removing Uthman's governors
656 CE · 35 AH†The book sets out reports that give Ibn Abbas and al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba opposing counsel to Ali after his… - Event
Abu Dharr al-Ghifari accepts Islam in Mecca through Ali
between 610 and 622 CEAbu Dharr came to Mecca looking for the Prophet and asked no one, out of caution. Ali hosted him for three… - Event
Ali ibn Abi Talib accepts Islam as a boy
between 610 and 622 CEAli grew up in the Prophet's household after a famine led the Prophet and al-Abbas to take charge of his… - Event
Ali's muster at Dhi Qar
36 AHAfter Talha, Zubayr and Aisha left for Basra in 36 AH, Ali left Medina for Kufa and then camped at Dhi Qar;… - Event
Muawiya's demand that the killers of Uthman be surrendered
between 656 and 660 CE - Event
The Prophet presents himself to the tribe of Shayban
between 610 and 622 CEBefore the Hijra, the Prophet was commanded to present himself to the Arab tribes. With Ali and Abu Bakr he… - Event
The Prophet forbids Ali to take Abu Jahl's daughter alongside Fatima
between 2 and 11 CEAli wished to take Abu Jahl's daughter besides Fatima; the Prophet addressed the people from the pulpit and… - Event
The Prophet's request for a writing in his last illness
4 June 632 CE · 8 Rabi' I 11 AHIn his last illness the Prophet asked for a writing that would keep the community from error; those present… - Event
Qays ibn Sa'd's governorship of Egypt and Ali's letter to him
between 657 and 659 CEAli sent Qays ibn Sa'd to govern Egypt after Muhammad ibn Abi Hudhayfa's death. Qays organised the province… - Event
Ali's expedition to Fals to destroy the idol of Tayy
between 630 and 631 CE · 8 AH - Event
Umar sets the penalty for wine at eighty on Ali's counsel
between 634 and 644 CE · 13 AHWhen wine-drinking spread in the newly conquered lands, Umar took Ali's counsel to flog the drinker eighty… - Event
Umar judges the dispute of al-Abbas and Ali over the Prophet's property
between 634 and 644 CE - Event
Umar's last pilgrimage and Ali left as deputy in Medina
644 CE · 23 AHThe last pilgrimage Umar led in 23 AH, taking the Prophet's wives with their guardians who did not cover from… - Event
Umar's marriage to Umm Kulthum bint Ali
between 634 and 644 CE · 13 AHUmar asked Ali for his daughter Umm Kulthum, the child of Ali and Fatima. Ali agreed, and Umar went to the… - Event
Umm Hani gives protection to two men on the day of the conquest
c. January 630 CE · Ramadan 8 AH - Event
Uthman consults the Companions on the campaign to Ifriqiya
between 644 and 656 CE - Event
Uthman's settlement with the provincial delegations at Dhu al-Marwa
between 655 and 656 CE - Event
The verse preferring jihad to watering the pilgrims and tending the Sacred Mosque
between 620 and 629 CEA man said he would do no deed after Islam but tend the Sacred Mosque; Ali answered that jihad is better than… - Event
The verse of private consultation: charity before speaking privately with the Prophet
between 620 and 629 CEAli reports that the Prophet told him to order people to give charity before they consulted him privately; he… - Group
Adil Shahi dynasty
Draft card for the Adil Shahi dynasty, the sultans of Bijapur in the Deccan; its sources are not yet checked… - Group
Afrasiab dynasty
Draft card for the Afrasiab (Ilyas) dynasty, the Arab rulers of Basra; its sources are not yet checked on the… - Group
Afshars of Urmia
Draft card for the Afshars of Urmia, the Qizilbash tribe settled in Azerbaijan; its sources are not yet… - Group
Ahl-i Hadith
Ahl-i Hadith, 'the followers of the Prophetic tradition', is the name in India and Pakistan of a Muslim… - Group
Ahl-i Haqq ('People of the Truth', also called Ali Ilahi)
Ahl-i Haqq, 'Men of God', is a secret religion prevalent mainly in western Persia, in Kurdistan, Azerbaijan… - Group
Ajarida (Kharijite sect)
A Kharijite sect that spread especially in Khurasan, named after its founder 'Abd al-Karim b. 'Ajrad of… - Group
The Akhi associations of Anatolia (akhism)
The Akhi associations were young men's guilds in Anatolia in the 13th and 14th centuries, which took the… - Group
The al-'Alami family of Jerusalem
The al-'Alami family of Jerusalem traces its descent to Ibn Mashish and was probably one of the Maghribi… - Group
The Alids
Draft card for the Alids, the descendants of Ali ibn Abi Talib from whom came the imams and princes of… - Group
The al-Alusi family of Baghdad
The al-Alusi family of Baghdad took its name from Alus, a place on the west bank of the Euphrates between Abu… - Group
Al Bu Said dynasty
Draft card for the Al Bu Said, the ruling house of Oman since Ahmad ibn Said in 1744, which also ruled… - Group
Al-Dhafir
Draft card for the al-Dhafir tribe, an 'Anaza tribe of the Jazira and Iraq; its sources are not yet checked… - Group
The Fatimid house
Draft card for the Fatimid house, the Ismaili family whose imamate claimed the Fatimid caliphate from 909 to… - Group
House of Khalifa
Draft card for the House of Khalifa, the ruling family of Bahrain since the eighteenth century to the… - Group
Al-Magar
Draft card for Al-Magar, the prehistoric people of Najd and their rock art; its sources are not yet checked… - Group
Al-Muntafiq
Draft card for the al-Muntafiq tribe, the Lakhmid clan allied to Byzantium that gave al-Hira its kings; its… - Group
Al Qasimi
Draft card for the Al Qasimi, the ruling house of Sharjah and Ras al-Khaimah since the eighteenth century;… - Group
House of Al Sabah
Draft card for the House of Al Sabah, the ruling family of Kuwait since the eighteenth century to the… - Group
The Sasanian house
Draft card for the House of Sasan, the ruling family of the Sasanian Empire from Ardashir Babakan to… - Group
House of Saud
Draft card for the House of Saud, the ruling house of the first and second Saudi states and the Kingdom of… - Group
House of Thani
Draft card for the House of Thani, the Tamimi ruling family of Qatar since the nineteenth century to the… - Group
Al-Ubaid (Arab tribe)
Draft card for Al-Ubaid (Arab tribe); its sources are not yet checked on the page. - Group
The Ottoman dynasty
Draft card for the Ottoman dynasty, the ruling house of the Ottoman state from its founder Osman I to the… - Group
Alevism
Alevism is an Anatolian religious-cultural current centred on devotion to Ali and the ahl al-bayt; scholars… - Group
Antemoro (Antemuru)
A people of some 85,000 settled farmers in the low river valleys of south-eastern Madagascar, whose ancestors… - Group
Aq Qoyunlu
Draft card for Aq Qoyunlu; its sources are not yet checked on the page. - Group
The Arabs
The Arabs — the Arabic-speaking peoples originally of the Arabian Peninsula, whose genealogies and early… - Group
Arabshahids
Draft card for the Arabshahids, the Shibanid dynasty ruling the Khanate of Khiva from 1515; their sources are… - Group
Ashrafiyya (dervish order)
A dervish order which, according to d'Ohsson, takes its name from Abd Allah Ashraf (Eshref) Rumi, who died in… - Group
Askia dynasty
Draft card for the Askia dynasty, the Songhai rulers after the Sunni line; its sources are not yet checked on… - Group
Awlad al-Shaykh (Banu Hamawiya)
A family of Iranian origin, of Sufis and Shafi'i jurists, a branch of which settled in Syria and became… - Group
Azali
The branch of the Babis who followed Mirza Yahya, Subh-i Azal, after the death of the Bab. - Group
Azariqa
A main branch of the Kharijites named after Nafi' b. al-Azraq, who split them over the killing of… - Group
Ba 'Abbad
A Hadrami family of scholars and mashayikh associated with the shrine of the prophet Hud; its members were… - Group
Ba 'Alawi
A large clan of Hadrami sayyids and Sufis living mostly in and around Tarim; its founder of the Sufi line was… - Group
Bab-i Mashikhat (office of the Shaykh al-Islam)
The name common in the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century for the office of the Shaykh al-Islam, the… - Group
Bab-i Ser'askeri (Ottoman War Department)
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Zand dynasty
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Qus to Aydhab across the desert, on Ibn Jubayr's road
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A. K. Fazlul Huq
26 October 1873 CE · 1290 AHBengali statesman (1873–1962) known as Sher-e-Bangla, the first prime minister of Bengal (1937–1943) and the… - Person
A. R. Rahman
6 January 1967 CE · 1386 AHIndian composer and singer, born in Madras (now Chennai) as A. S. Dileep Kumar into a Hindu family; he… - Person
Aaijaz Ahmad Salafi
Nasheed reciter and preacher from Kashmir, known through the Kashmiri- and Urdu-language nasheeds on his… - Person
Aamir Khan
14 March 1965 CE · 1384 AHIndian actor, director and producer, born in Bombay in 1965 and known as 'Mr. Perfectionist'. He has been… - Person
Abadi Bano Begum
1850 CE · 1266 AHIndian independence activist (1850–1924) known as Bi Amma ('the Mother'), mother of Muhammad Ali Jauhar and… - Person
Abaga ibn Hulagu
Abaga ibn Hulagu, second Ilkhan of the Hulaguid line in Iraq; succeeding his father in 663 AH he marched on… - Person
Abagha Khan
c. 1234 CE · c. 632 AHIlkhan of the Tatars, Hulagu's son — died between the two feasts near Hamadan at about fifty; his Muslim… - Person
Abai Qunanbaiuly
10 August 1845 CE · 6 Sha'ban 1261 AH†Kazakh poet, composer, philosopher and translator (10 August 1845 – 6 July 1904), the founder of written… - Person
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Aban al-Lahiqi
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Abaza Muhammad Pasha
Abaza Muhammad Pasha, beylerbey of Marash, who served in the war against Russia from 1769, commanded the… - Person
Abaza Pasha (d. 1634)
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Abba Mahamat Moussa
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Abu'l-Hasan 'Abbad al-Taliqani
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Abbad ibn Bishr
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Abbad ibn Hunayf
One of the twelve men who built Masjid al-Dirar, according to Ibn Ishaq; his ascription: brother of Sahl ibn… - Person
Abbad ibn Qays
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Abbad ibn Ziyad
Abbad ibn Ziyad; from Sijistan he crossed the mafaza and stormed Qandahar — and the tall caps of its folk… - Person
'Abbada, Ja'far's mother
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Abbas al-Musawi al-Makki
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Abbas Hilmi II
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al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib
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Abbas ibn al-Husayn al-Hibati
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Abbas ibn Firnas
Abbas ibn Firnas, the Andalusi astronomer who discovered in his workshop a way of making crystal — and who,… - Person
Abbas ibn Mirdas al-Sulami
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Abbas ibn Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khallal
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Abbas Kiarostami
22 June 1940 CE · 1359 AHIranian film director, screenwriter, poet and photographer, born in Tehran in 1940 and died in Paris in 2016.… - Person
Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad
28 June 1889 CE · 1306 AHEgyptian writer, poet and literary critic (1889-1964), born at Aswan and self-educated. He co-founded the… - Person
Abbas Shouman
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Abbasa bint al-Fadl
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Abd al-Ala al-Sadafi
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Abd al-A'la ibn Abdallah ibn Amir
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Abd al-A'la ibn Wahb
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Abd al-Ali Muhammad ibn Nizam al-Din al-Lucknawi
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Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd Allah al-Daraki
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Abd al-Aziz al-Darawardi
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Abd al-Aziz al-Ghumari
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Abd al-Aziz al-Halwani
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Abd al-Aziz b. Abbas
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Abd al-Aziz ibn Abdallah al-Hashimi
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Abd al-Aziz ibn Abdallah ibn Amir
Abd al-Aziz ibn Abdallah ibn Amir; governed Sijistan for the Zubayrid al-Quba' — al-Harith ibn Abdallah ibn… - Person
Abd al-Aziz ibn Abi Hazim
Abd al-Aziz ibn Abi Hazim Salama ibn Dinar, Abu Tammam al-Madani, a jurist and hadith scholar of Medina (d.… - Person
Abd al-Aziz ibn Abi Salama al-Umari
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Abd al-Aziz ibn al-Majishun
Abd al-Aziz b. Abdallah b. Abi Salama al-Majishun (Abu Abdallah) — nephew of the Medinan faqih al-Majishun;… - Person
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Abd al-Aziz ibn Hatim al-Bahili
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Abd al-Aziz ibn Mansur, Hammadid
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Abd al-Aziz ibn Marwan
Ibn Marwan ibn al-Hakam, brother of Abd al-Malik. His father appointed him governor of Egypt in 65 AH, and he… - Person
Abd al-Aziz ibn Mu'awiya al-Umawi
Abu Khalid the Umayyad Qurashi of Basra, of Usayd's line; he came to Baghdad and transmitted from Azhar… - Person
Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa ibn Nusayr
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Abd al-Aziz ibn Rufay'
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Abd al-Aziz ibn Yahya al-Kinani
Abd al-Aziz ibn Yahya al-Kinani al-Makki al-Mutakallim, the one who debated Bishr al-Marisi before al-Ma'mun… - Person
Abd al-Aziz (Ottoman)
c. 1830 CE · c. 1246 AH†Abdülaziz (r. 1277–1293/1861–1876) — deposed and then killed in the 1876 palace coup, 'a matter known to… - Person
Abd al-Aziz 'Uyun al-Sud
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Abu al-Fath Abd al-Baqi al-Haddad al-Hanbali al-Faradi
c. 1034 CE · 425 AHAbd al-Baqi b. Hamza al-Haddad the Hanbali faradi, born 425 — a pious master of fara'id and hisab; author of… - Person
Abd al-Baqi al-Zurqani
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Abd al-Baqi Yazdi
1401 CE · 803 AH†Draft card for Abd al-Baqi Yazdi, the Safavid historian; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
'Abd al-Barr Ibn al-Shihna
Aleppo's qadi, transferred to Cairo's Hanafi bench — one of Sultan al-Ghuri's boon-companions until a poet… - Person
Abd al-Basit al-Malati
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Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda
9 May 1917 CE · 1336 AHSyrian Hanafi scholar, hadith specialist and critical editor, born in Aleppo in 1917 and died in Riyadh in… - Person
Abd al-Ghaffar al-Akhras
c. 1805 CE · c. 1220 AH†A poet from Mosul who moved to Baghdad and grew up there. He was called al-Akhras because of a speech… - Person
Abd al-Ghaffar al-Qazwini (Najm al-Din)
Abd al-Ghaffar ibn Abd al-Karim ibn Abd al-Ghaffar, Najm al-Din al-Qazwini, a Shafi'i jurist who also knew… - Person
Abd al-Ghaffar, poet of the state of al-Hakim
Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Ghaffar, poet of the state of al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah al-Ubaydi in Egypt. Al-Hakim killed… - Person
Abd al-Ghafir al-Farisi
The hafiz and littérateur Abu al-Hasan Abd al-Ghafir ibn Ismail al-Farisi — author of the Tarikh Nishapur,… - Person
Abd al-Ghafur al-Kardari
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Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi
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Abd al-Ghani al-Maydani
1807 CE · 1222 AH†Draft card for Abd al-Ghani al-Ghunaymi al-Maydani, the Damascus Hanafi jurist and author of al-Lubab; his… - Person
Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi
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Abd al-Ghani al-Rafi'i
Abd al-Ghani ibn Ahmad ibn 'Abd al-Qadir al-Rafi'i al-Bisari al-Faruqi, a judge and Hanafi jurist. He was… - Person
Abd al-Ghani ibn Nuqta
The ascetic Abd al-Ghani b. Shuja', Abu Bakr the Baghdadi Hanbali known as Ibn Nuqta; al-Sakhawi calls him… - Person
Abd al-Ghani ibn Sa'id al-Azdi
c. 941 CE · c. 329 AH†Hadith memoriser of Egypt, from a family known for hadith transmission. - Person
Abd al-Hafid of Morocco
c. 1875 CE · 1292 AHSultan of Morocco of the Alawi dynasty (reigned 1908–1912). A son of Hassan I, he was governor of Marrakesh… - Person
Abd al-Hakim ibn al-Iraqi
Abu Muhammad Abd al-Hakim — son of al-Iraqi al-Khatib; succeeded his father as preacher of Egypt's… - Person
'Abd al-Halim al-Manzilawi
The murid-tester shaykh — he struck disciples so severely some fell near death, then 'renewed their life' as… - Person
Abd al-Halim Mahmud
12 May 1910 CE · 1328 AHEgyptian scholar (1910–1978), Grand Imam of al-Azhar from 1973 until his death. Trained at al-Azhar and at… - Person
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Abd al-Hamid I
Abd al-Hamid I (r. 1187–1203/1773–1788) — came from the palace seclusion to sign away the Black Sea: Küçük… - Person
Abd al-Hamid ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Zayd ibn al-Khattab
Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz appointed him amir of Kufa. The book describes him as a trustworthy imam and a just… - Person
Ibn al-Saigh al-Qayrawani
A Maliki jurist of Qayrawan who studied with Abu Hafs al-Attar, Ibn Mahriz, Abu Ishaq al-Tunisi and Abu… - Person
Abd al-Hamid ibn Badis
1889 CE · 1307 AHAn Algerian scholar and leader of the reform movement, born in Constantine in 1889 and died in 1940. - Person
Abd al-Hamid ibn Yahya
Marwan ibn Muhammad's scribe; in al-Baladhuri he would say of the diwan's translator Salih ibn Abd al-Rahman:… - Person
Abd al-Hamid II
Abd al-Hamid II (r. 1293–1327/1876–1909) — ruled under a constitution hostage to his person: ministers,… - Person
Abu Zayd Abd al-Hamid ibn al-Walid al-Kabd
Abu Zayd Abd al-Hamid ibn al-Walid ibn al-Mughira al-Misri, known as Kabd, one of al-Shafi'i's Egyptian… - Person
Abd al-Haqq al-Ishbili al-Azdi
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Abd al-Haqq al-Siqilli
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'Abd al-Haqq al-Sunbati
c. 1438 CE · 842 AHShaykh al-Islam, 'the cream of the learned' — memorized the books in Cairo, licensed by Ibn Hajar and… - Person
Abd al-Haqq Amanat Khan
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Abd al-Haqq I al-Marini
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Abd al-Haqq ibn Mahyu
Abd al-Haqq ibn Mahyu ibn Abi Bakr ibn Hammama al-Zanati al-Marini; eldest of Mahyu's sons, he led Banu Marin… - Person
Abd al-Haqq II al-Marinid
Abd al-Haqq II ibn Abi Sa'id, Marinid sultan of Fez; died Ramadan 869. - Person
Abd al-Hayy al-Lakhnawi
1848 CE · 1264 AHAbu l-Hasanat Muhammad Abd al-Hayy al-Lakhnawi, an Indian Hanafi scholar of the Farangi Mahall seminary at… - Person
Abd al-Hayy Yusuf
25 November 1964 CE · 1384 AHSudanese preacher and scholar born in Cairo in 1964. He graduated from the College of Sharia at the Islamic… - Person
Abd al-Hussein Mubarak
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Abd al-Jabbar al-Hamadhani
937 CE · 325 AHMu'tazili theologian, a Shafi'i in law, Abu l-Hasan. He was born about 325, was called to Rayy in 367/978 by… - Person
Abd al-Jabbar al-Jumurd
1909 CE · 1328 AHAn Iraqi historian born in Mosul in 1909, raised in a learned household. - Person
Abd al-Jabbar ibn Umar al-Ayli
Abd al-Jabbar ibn Umar, Abu Umar, also called Abu al-Sabbah, al-Ayli of the Umayyad clients. He related from… - Person
Abd al-Jabbar Isfahani
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Abd al-Jalil ibn Abi al-Mawahib al-Ba'li
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Abd al-Jawwad al-Dumi
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Abd al-Karim al-Qaysi al-Gharnati
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Abd al-Karim al-Jili
1365 CE · 767 AHAbd al-Karim al-Jili (767/1365 to about 832/1428), a Muslim mystic and a descendant of the Sufi 'Abd al-Qadir… - Person
Abd al-Karim al-Khalifati
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Abd al-Karim ibn Tawus
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Abd al-Karim Khwarazmi
1500 CE · 905 AH†Draft card for Abd al-Karim Khwarazmi, the poet and scholar of the tenth century AH; his entry is not yet… - Person
Molla 'Abd al-Karim al-Rumi
A freed slave who rose to be mufti of Constantinople under Mehmed II — studied under al-Tusi and Sinan… - Person
Al-Siyuri (Abd al-Khaliq ibn Abd al-Warith)
Abd al-Khaliq ibn Abd al-Warith al-Siyuri, Abu al-Qasim, a Maliki jurist, the last of the scholars of… - Person
Abd al-Khaliq al-Wabari
Abd al-Khaliq ibn Abd al-Hamid ibn Abd Allah, Abu al-Fadl, al-Wabari al-Khwarazmi, a blind Hanafi jurist,… - Person
Muwaffaq al-Din Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi
c. 1162 CE · 557 AHMuwaffaq al-Din Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi — the polymath physician, grammarian and philosopher, pupil of Ibn… - Person
Abd al-Majid al-Ajami al-Halabi
Ibn al-Athir's Aleppine friend — he and his house 'foremost of the Sunnis at Aleppo', a man of abundant… - Person
Abd al-Majid al-Sivasi
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Abdul Majeed Ayoub Al-Obeidi
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Abd al-Majid I
Abdülmecid I — Mahmud II's son, 'of slight build, sharp mind, realistic and merciful'; under Mustafa Rashid… - Person
Caliph Abd al-Majid II
Abdülmecid II — the last Ottoman caliph, who wore Mehmed the Conqueror's turban and Sulayman's sword to the… - Person
Abd al-Malik al-Maymuni
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Abd al-Malik al-Muzaffar ibn Abi Amir
Al-Mansur's son who conquered Fez from Ziri b. Atiyya in 386, parcelled out the Maghrib among the Zanata… - Person
Abd al-Malik al-Mu'tasim bi'llah al-Sa'di
The Sa'di sultan who had fled to the Porte; the Ottomans armed him with five thousand well-equipped fighters… - Person
Abd al-Malik ibn Abi Hurra
Narrator from his father, 'the most knowledgeable man on the Sawad'; in al-Baladhuri he lists from him Umar's… - Person
Abu Nu'aym al-Istarabadhi
Abu Nu'aym Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad ibn Adi al-Istarabadhi, a companion of al-Rabi' ibn Sulayman. He… - Person
Abd al-Malik Ibn Attash
1000 CE · 390 AH†Draft card for Abd al-Malik ibn Attash, the Ismaili da'i heading Khorasan's mission; his entry is not yet… - Person
Abd al-Malik ibn Habib
Abd al-Malik b. Habib, Cordoba's scholar who carried his learning east in a stuffed bookbag — his reported… - Person
'Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad ibn 'Atiyya
Marwan's commander who destroyed the Hijazi-Yemeni Ibadis — Balakh at Wadi al-Qura, Abu Hamza at Mecca, Talib… - Person
Abd al-Malik ibn Musa ibn Nusayr
A son of Musa b. Nusayr who, in Ibn Sa'id's account, held the government of the far Maghreb while his… - Person
Abd al-Malik ibn Qatan al-Fihri
Twice governor of al-Andalus; harsh in rule, he raided Gascony, killed his successor Uqba in a coup, and was… - Person
Abd al-Malik ibn Rifa'a al-Fahmi
Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz confirmed him as governor of Egypt. The book, citing Ibn Taghri Birdi, says that he was… - Person
Abd al-Malik ibn Salih
Abd al-Malik ibn Salih ibn Ali ibn Abdullah ibn al-Abbas, the Abbasid prince who governed the frontier… - Person
Abd al-Malik ibn Siraj Abu Marwan al-Umawi
Abd al-Malik b. Siraj, Abu Marwan al-Umawi mawla of theirs, the Cordoban — the uncontested philologist of… - Person
Abd al-Malik ibn Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz
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Abd al-Malik ibn Umayr
653 CE · 32 AH†Draft card for Abd al-Malik ibn Umayr, the Kufan tabi'i and hadith scholar; his entry is not yet checked on… - Person
Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad ibn Ward
Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad ibn Umar al-Tamimi, Abu Marwan, from Almeria, known as Ibn Ward. He transmitted… - Person
Abd al-Malik ibn Yala al-Laythi
Abd al-Malik ibn Yala al-Laythi al-Basri, qadi of Basra. Ibn Hajar in al-Taqrib calls him trustworthy (thiqa)… - Person
Abd al-Masih ibn Buqayla
Guide to Kufa's site; in al-Baladhuri he told Sa'd 'I will show you land sunk below the steppe and raised… - Person
Abd al-Mughith al-Harbi
c. 1106 CE · c. 500 AHAbd al-Mughith b. Zuhayr al-Harbi, Abu al-Aziz Ibn Harb the Hanbali, traditionist of Baghdad; b. c.500, heard… - Person
Abd al-Muhsin Al-Ahmad
Abd al-Muhsin ibn Muhammad Al-Ahmad is a Saudi preacher known for his exhortatory lectures and the short… - Person
Abd al-Muhsin al-Suri
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Abd al-Mu'min ibn Ali al-Qumi
Abd al-Mumin ibn Ali of Kumiyya; he met Ibn Tumart at Mellala, devoted himself to him, and became the caliph… - Person
Abd al-Mu'min ibn Ibrahim
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Abd al-Mun'im ibn al-Faras al-Andalusi (Abu Muhammad, Maliki jurist)
A Maliki jurist, traditionist, grammarian and lexicographer of al-Andalus; he was judge at Jazirat Shuqr,… - Person
Abd al-Mun'im ibn Ghulbun
Abd al-Mun'im b. Ghulbun (fl. 378–380) — the Aleppine qari' who settled in Egypt and taught Makki b. Abi… - Person
Sadr al-Din 'Abd al-Mun'im ibn al-Muflih
Sadr al-Din ibn al-Muflih — qadi 'Ala' al-Din's son, 'of the people of knowledge and religion' though without… - Person
Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim
c. 497 CEThe Prophet Muhammad's grandfather and guardian, a leading elder of Quraysh remembered in tradition for… - Person
Abd al-Nabi, lord of Zabid
Abd al-Nabi, master of Zabid, who had cut the Abbasid khutba — confident the heat would kill the invaders… - Person
Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni
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Abd al-Qadir al-Baghdadi
1621 CE · 1030 AHBorn in Baghdad, he was drawn to literature and the study of Arabic from childhood. He wrote Khizanat al-Adab. - Person
Abd al-Qadir al-Fasi
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Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni Shirazi
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Abd al-Qadir al-Iskandarani
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Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri
1807 CE · c. 1222 AHAmir Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri, the scholar-poet who led the Algerian jihad: elected by the Algerians when the… - Person
Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani
1078 CE · 470 AHOne of the major masters of Sunni Sufism, named after Gilan. He had a large influence on preaching and… - Person
Abd al-Qadir al-Maghribi
1867 CE · 1284 AH†Draft card for Abd al-Qadir al-Maghribi, the Syrian writer and reformer in Egypt; his entry is not yet… - Person
Abd al-Qadir al-Nu'aymi
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Abd al-Qadir al-Rahawi
c. 1141 CE · Jumada II 536 AHThe hafiz Abu Muhammad Abd al-Qadir al-Rahawi al-Hanbali, traditionist of al-Jazira. He had been a slave of… - Person
'Abd al-Qadir al-Sabki, the majdhub
'Abd al-Qadir al-Sabki — a majdhub who 'came to' late in life and began a daily khatma, yet kept riding his… - Person
Abd al-Qadir ibn Tawfiq al-Shalabi
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Abd al-Qadir al-Tabari
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Abd al-Qadir dan Tafa
1804 CE · 1219 AH†Draft card for Abd al-Qadir dan Tafa, the Sokoto scholar and state chronicler; his entry is not yet checked… - Person
Abdulkadir Gedikzade
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Abd al-Qadir Hisari
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Abd al-Qadir ibn Ahmad al-Fasi (d. 1219 AH, Maliki scholar)
A jurist, grammarian, lexicographer, traditionist and man of letters of Fez; he studied with Abu al-Abbas… - Person
Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhammad al-Jaziri
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'Abd al-Qadir b. Shaykh al-'Aydarus, author of al-Nur al-Safir
c. 22 August 1570 CE · 20 Rabi' I 978 AH'Abd al-Qadir b. Shaykh al-'Aydarus — author of *al-Nur al-Safir 'an Akhbar al-Qarn al-'Ashir*, Ibn… - Person
Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani
The grammarian 'Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani, Shafi'i-Ash'ari master of thirty-volume works and the terse al-Jumal… - Person
Abd al-Rahim al-Bura'i
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Abd al-Rahim al-Iraqi
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Abd al-Rahim Anbaran Qalam
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Abd al-Rahim ibn al-Ukhuwa
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Abd al-Rahim Khan-i-Khana
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Abd al-Rahim Khwarazmi Anisi
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Abd al-Rahman Abu Muhammad al-Alawi
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Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Fasi (Abu Zayd, Maliki scholar of Fez)
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Abd al-Rahman al-Adhara'i
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Abd al-Rahman al-Ajhuri
Abd al-Rahman ibn Hasan ibn Umar al-Ajhuri, a Maliki scholar who was also a man of letters, historian and… - Person
Abd al-Rahman al-Alusi
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Abd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad al-Bahkali
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Abd al-Rahman al-Bahuti
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Abd al-Rahman al-Dakhil
Abd al-Rahman ibn Muawiya ibn Hisham the Umayyad 'al-Dakhil', who entered al-Andalus in 138 and seized it,… - Person
Abd al-Rahman al-Fasi
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Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd Allah al-Ghafiqi
Governor of al-Andalus under Ubayd Allah b. al-Habhab of Ifriqiya; he entered in 113, campaigned deep into… - Person
Abd al-Rahman al-Haik al-Tatwani, Maliki jurist
Abd al-Rahman al-Haik, Abu Zayd, of Tetouan, a careful jurist. He studied with Shaykh al-Tawdi, Shaykh… - Person
Abd al-Rahman al-Hulwani
Draft card for Abd al-Rahman ibn Ali al-Hulwani, the twelfth-century Iraqi jurist, d. 1151; the biographical… - Person
Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti
1754 CE · 1167 AHThe historian of Egypt, who recorded its events and the lives of its men in the era of the French expedition… - Person
Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi
1849 CE · 1265 AH†Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi (1849–1902 CE) of Aleppo — the reformist author of Umm al-Qura and Taba'i'… - Person
Abd al-Rahman Khwarazmi
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Abd al-Rahman al-Murshidi
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Abd al-Rahman al-Qutb al-Nawawi
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Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di
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Abd al-Rahman al-Sharbini
Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Sharbini, a Cairo Shafi'i jurist, usuli and rhetorician, who also… - Person
Al-Shirtini
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Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi
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Abd al-Rahman al-Tha'alibi
1385 CE · 786 AHAn Algerian scholar linked to the Tha'aliba tribe, who lived on the Mitija plain. - Person
Abd al-Rahman Azji
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Abd al-Rahman Badawi
1917 CE · 1336 AHAn Egyptian professor of philosophy and one of the most important historians of Arab philosophy. He helped… - Person
Abd al-Rahman I, Zayyanid
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Abd al-Rahman ibn Aban ibn Uthman
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Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd al-Latif Al Shaykh
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Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr
Abu Bakr's son who fought at Badr on the pagan side before his good Islam; his numerous progeny, nomad and… - Person
Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Layla
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Abd al-Rahman ibn Abra
Abd al-Rahman ibn Abra, Khuza'a's mawla; in Abu Ubayda's account Ali's first agent over Khurasan, before… - Person
Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Abbas al-Hashimi
Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Abbas ibn Rabi'a ibn al-Harith ibn Abd al-Muttalib; out with Ibn al-Ash'ath, he fled to… - Person
Abd al-Rahman ibn Hibat Allah ibn Asakir
Shafi'i faqih of Damascus of Ibn Asakir's house — 'abundant in knowledge, learned in the madhhab, much given… - Person
Ibn Attab (Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad, Andalusi jurist)
Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Attab ibn Muhsin, Abu Muhammad, of Cordoba, a Maliki jurist who studied… - Person
'Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Attab ibn Usayd
The 'queen-bee of Quraysh' killed at the Camel — Ali's mourning over him drew al-Ashtar's rebuke and the… - Person
Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf
One of the first band of eight; he accepted Islam at Abu Bakr's invitation during the secret call in Mecca. - Person
Abd al-Rahman ibn Harmala al-Aslami
Abd al-Rahman ibn Harmala ibn Amr ibn Sanna, Abu Harmala, al-Aslami. He related from Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab,… - Person
Abd al-Rahman ibn Hormoz al-A'raj
The Successor traditionist Abd al-Rahman ibn Hormoz al-A'raj, who met several Companions and transmitted from… - Person
Abd al-Rahman ibn Jaza' al-Ta'i
Abd al-Rahman ibn Jaza' al-Ta'i; Ali's envoy to Sijistan, killed by Hasaka ibn Utab — Ali swore to kill four… - Person
Abd al-Rahman ibn Ka'b ibn Malik
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Abd al-Rahman ibn Khalid ibn al-Walid
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Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi
Abu Sa'id Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi ibn Hassan al-Anbari, the last whom al-Shirazi names among the jurists of… - Person
Abd al-Rahman ibn Muadh (Companion)
Abd al-Rahman ibn Muadh ibn Uthman ibn Amr ibn Kab, of the Quraysh (Taym); al-Bukhari and others say he was a… - Person
Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad al-Dawudi al-Busanji
Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn al-Muzaffar ibn Muhammad ibn Dawud, Abu al-Hasan al-Dawudi al-Busanji, a… - Person
Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Fahd al-Sadhan
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Abd al-Rahman ibn Muslim al-Bahili
Abd al-Rahman ibn Muslim al-Bahili, Qutayba's brother; sent against Khurrazad he killed him and slew four… - Person
Abd al-Rahman ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi
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Abd al-Rahman ibn Rabia
Commander of Derbent under Uthman: warned in writing not to plunge the army into the Caucasus, he marched on… - Person
Ibn Razin al-Hanbali (Abd al-Rahman ibn Razin)
Abd al-Rahman ibn Razin ibn Abd al-Aziz, Abu al-Faraj, Sayf al-Din, a Hanbali jurist from Hawran and later… - Person
Abd al-Rahman ibn Rustam, the Imam
Ibadi imam and founder of the Rustamid state; after ruling Kairouan he fled to Tahert and founded the city in… - Person
Abd al-Rahman ibn Samura
Abd al-Rahman ibn Samura ibn Habib ibn Abd Shams; Ibn Amir's governor of Sijistan — Zaranj's marzban truced… - Person
Abd al-Rahman ibn Ubayd al-Tamimi
A man whom al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf chose as chief of police in Iraq and the East. The book notes that he… - Person
Ibn Ubaydan al-Ba'li (Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahmud)
Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahmud ibn Ubaydan al-Ba'li, Zayn al-Din, Abu al-Faraj, a Hanbali jurist. He heard hadith,… - Person
Abd al-Rahman ibn Usayla al-Sunabihi
One of the jurists among the Successors in Egypt. Al-Shirazi mentioned him together with Abu Tamim Abd Allah… - Person
Abd al-Rahman ibn Yamur al-Dili
Abd al-Rahman ibn Ya'mur al-Dili, known as Abu al-Aswad, a Companion. He related from the Prophet the report… - Person
Abd al-Rahman ibn Zayd ibn al-Khattab
Abd al-Rahman ibn Zayd ibn al-Khattab, nephew of Umar ibn al-Khattab and of unusually full build. Abu Lubaba… - Person
Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad
Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad; a sharif whom Mu'awiya made over Khurasan after Sa'id ibn Uthman's dismissal — he… - Person
Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad ibn An'am
694 CE · 75 AHThe scholar, traditionist and judge Abu Khalid Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad ibn An'am al-Mu'afiri al-Sha'bani,… - Person
'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad, mufti of Zabid
c. July 1494 CE · Rajab 900 AHZabid's blind mufti — 'a Shafi'i in branches, a Yafi'i in Sufism, an Ash'ari in creed'; Tanbadhawi's own… - Person
Abd al-Rahman II ibn al-Hakam
Fifth Umayyad emir of Córdoba (AH 206–238): he rode out himself to welcome Ziryab from Iraq in 206; in 230… - Person
Abd al-Rahman al-Nasir li-Din Allah al-Umawi
The Andalusian amir Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad the Umayyad; as the umma weakened he grew resolute — 'I am the… - Person
Abd al-Rahman Jaziri
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Abd al-Rahman Shanjul ibn al-Mansur
Al-Mansur's son 'Sanjul' — little Sancho, for his Christian grandfather — who forced the captive caliph… - Person
Abd al-Rahman Shahbandar
6 November 1879 CE · 1296 AHSyrian physician, politician and writer (1879–1940), a leading Damascene nationalist of the French Mandate… - Person
Abd al-Rahman Shaykhizade
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Abd al-Rahman Tsatsa
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Abd al-Rahman V al-Mustazhir
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Abd al-Rashid al-Tattawi
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Abd al-Rashid Daylami
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Abd al-Rasul Firuzkuhi
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Abd al-Rauf al-Manawi
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Abd al-Rauf al-Sinkili
1620 CE · 1029 AH†Abd al-Rauf al-Sinkili (about 1620 to after 1693), a religious teacher born at Singkel, north of Fansur on… - Person
Abd al-Razzaq Al-Badr
16 April 1963 CE · 1382 AHAbd al-Razzaq ibn Abd al-Muhsin Al-Badr (born 1382 AH / 1963 CE) is a Saudi scholar, professor of creed at… - Person
Abd al-Razzaq al-Bitar
1837 CE · 1253 AH†Abd al-Razzaq al-Bitar (d. 1335 AH/1917 CE) — Damascene reformist scholar and author of Hilyat al-Bashar, the… - Person
Abd al-Razzaq al-Qashani
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Abd al-Razzaq al-San'ani
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Abd al-Razzaq Halabi
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Abd al-Razzaq ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani
c. October 1134 CE · 18 Dhu al-Qa'da 528 AHAbd al-Razzaq, son of Shaykh Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, Hanbali hafiz — b. Monday 18 Dhu al-Qa'da 528 in… - Person
Abd al-Razzaq Nawfal
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Abdurrezzak Nevres
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Abd al-Razzaq Samarqandi
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Abd al-Salam al-Asmar
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Abd al-Salam al-Laqani
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Abd al-Salam al-Shuwair
Saudi scholar of comparative fiqh, professor in the Department of Sharia and Legal Sciences at King Fahd… - Person
Abd al-Salam ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani
c. March 1154 CE · 8 Dhu al-Hijja 548 AHAl-Rukn Abd al-Salam b. Abd al-Wahhab b. Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani — b. the night of 8 Dhu al-Hijja 548,… - Person
Abd al-Salam ibn Mashish
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Abd al-Salam ibn Abdallah Ibn Taymiyya
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Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Samad ibn Ali al-Dinawari, the preacher
Abd al-Samad ibn Umar ibn Ali ibn Ishaq, Abu al-Qasim al-Dinawari, a preacher and ascetic. He recited the… - Person
Abd al-Samad al-Palimbani
Abd al-Samad al-Palimbani, a religious teacher from Palembang in Sumatra who lived mostly in Arabia, wrote in… - Person
Abd al-Samad ibn Ahmad al-Bazzaz
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Abd al-Samad ibn Ali
An Abbasid who led the pilgrimage in 150 AH and 155 AH, according to al-Mas'udi's list of pilgrimage leaders. - Person
Abd al-Sattar Abu Ghudda
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Abd al-Sattar al-Kardari
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Abd al-Wahhab ibn Abd al-Fattah
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Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha'rani
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Abd al-Wahhab al-Shirazi
c. 1104 CE · 498 AHAbu al-Ala Majd al-Din Abd al-Wahhab al-Shirazi al-Ansari, shaykh of the Hanbalis of Sham in his day; b. 498,… - Person
Abd al-Wahhab al-Thaqafi
Abd al-Wahhab ibn 'Ata' al-Khaffaf al-Thaqafi, Abu Nasr, a Basran scholar and traditionist, pupil of Abu 'Amr… - Person
Abd al-Wahhab ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani
c. July 1128 CE · 2 Rajab 522 AHAbu Muhammad Abd al-Wahhab, son of Shaykh Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, the Baghdadi Hanbali preacher; b. 2 Sha'ban… - Person
Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi
973 CE · 362 AHA Maliki jurist, legal theorist, hadith scholar and poet from Baghdad, known as Ibn Nasr. - Person
Taj al-Din 'Abd al-Wahhab ibn 'Arabshah
between 1410 and 1411 CE · 813 AHSon of the historian Ibn 'Arabshah, b. 813 — rose from a professional witness ('utter cunning in the craft of… - Person
Abd al-Wahhab ibn Bakht
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al-Mansur 'Abd al-Wahhab ibn Dawud, lord of Yemen
Al-Mansur 'Abd al-Wahhab b. Dawud — lord of Yemen; died Jumada I 894. - Person
Abd al-Wahhab ibn Husayn al-Amidi
Abd al-Wahhab ibn Husayn ibn Wali al-Din al-Amidi. The book says he was alive in 1190 AH; among his works is… - Person
Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ibrahim al-Imam
Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ibrahim al-Imam, son of the da'wa's imam Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Ali; in al-Baladhuri:… - Person
Abd al-Wahhab ibn Sulayman
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Abd al-Wahhab Khallaf
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Abd al-Wahhab ibn Abd al-Rahman, Rustamid
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Abd al-Wahid al-Makhlu (the Deposed), Almohad
Abd al-Wahid ibn Yusuf ibn Abd al-Mu'min, an uncle of the caliph al-Nasir, known as al-Makhlu (the Deposed).… - Person
Abd al-Wahid al-Marrakushi
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Abd al-Wahid ibn al-Husayn al-Saymari
Abd al-Wahid ibn al-Husayn ibn Muhammad, Abu al-Qasim al-Saymari, a Shafi'i jurist, theorist and judge, who… - Person
Abu al-Fadl Abd al-Wahid ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Tamimi al-Hanbali
Abd al-Wahid ibn Abd al-Aziz ibn al-Harith ibn Asad ibn al-Layth ibn Sulayman ibn al-Aswad ibn Sufyan, Abu… - Person
Abd al-Wahid ibn Abd Allah al-Nadri
Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik appointed him governor of Medina, Mecca and al-Ta'if together; the book mentions that… - Person
Abd al-Wahid ibn Abdallah al-Nasri
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Abd al-Wahid ibn al-Muwaffaq
Al-Muwaffaq's pleasure-loving son, harmless to the throne yet killed by the vizier al-Qasim. - Person
Abd al-Wahid ibn Ashir
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Abd al-Wahid b. Idris al-Muwahhidi
Abd al-Wahid b. Idris al-Ma'muni (r. 630–640, Marrakesh) — the Almohad who reinstated Ibn Tumart's name in… - Person
Abu al-Fath Ibn Shita, reciter of Iraq
Abu al-Fath 'Ibn Shita' Abd al-Wahid b. al-Husayn b. Ahmad — muqri' of Iraq and author of *al-Tadhkara fi… - Person
Abd al-Wahid ibn Zayd
An ascetic, exemplar and preacher, known as the leading worshipper of Basra. He transmitted from al-Hasan… - Person
Abd al-Wahid II al-Ma'mun, Almohad
Abd al-Wahid II b. Yusuf b. Abd al-Mu'min — the Almohad caliph deserted by his Berber amirs and strangled in… - Person
'Abd Allah al-Fakihi, the grammarian
c. 1493 CE · 899 AHAl-Fakihi of Mecca — son of an Abyssinian freedwoman, b. 899; he wrote his Qatr al-Nada sharh at eighteen and… - Person
'Abd Allah al-Majdhub of Egypt
The Abyssinian-born majdhub 'shaykh of the hashish-takers' — built himself a turba at the Gharqi gateway on… - Person
Abd Allah al-Qaysi
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Al-Shabibi (Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Yusuf)
Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Yusuf, Abu Muhammad al-Balawi al-Shabibi of Qayrawan, a jurist. He studied with… - Person
Abd Allah al-Turjuman (Anselm Turmeda)
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Abd Allah Dhu al-Ghina
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Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Hamud
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Ibn Abi Dawud al-Sijistani
840 CE · 225 AH†Draft card for Abd Allah ibn Abi Dawud al-Sijistani, the hadith scholar and author of Kitab al-Masahif; his… - Person
Abd Allah ibn Abi Husayn al-Makki
Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Husayn al-Qurashi al-Nawfali al-Makki. He transmitted from al-Harith ibn… - Person
Abd Allah ibn Ubayd Allah ibn Abi Mulayka
Abd Allah ibn Ubayd Allah ibn Abi Mulayka al-Tamimi al-Makki, a trustworthy follower of the Companions and a… - Person
Abd Allah ibn Abi Talha al-Ansari
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Ibn al-Baji (Abd Allah ibn Muhammad)
Abu Muhammad Abd Allah ibn Muhammad, known as Ibn al-Baji, a Maliki jurist. He studied with Ibn Lubaba, Aslam… - Person
Abd Allah ibn al-Husayn (the infant of Karbala)
Abd Allah ibn al-Husayn ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib, the infant of Karbala; Ibn Kathir lists him as the second of… - Person
Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak
Abu Abd al-Rahman Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak al-Marwazi, a client of the Banu Hanzala. He studied jurisprudence… - Person
Abd Allah ibn al-Sa'ib
Abd Allah ibn al-Sa'ib ibn Abi al-Sa'ib Sayfi ibn Abid, Abu Abd al-Rahman, of the Makhzum of Makka, reader of… - Person
Abd Allah ibn al-Samit
Abd Allah ibn al-Samit, Abu al-Nadr al-Ghifari al-Basri, a Follower and a hadith transmitter. He narrated… - Person
Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn al-Sayyid al-Batalyawsi
Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn al-Sayyid, Abu Muhammad, from Batalyawsa, who moved to Valencia and died there; a… - Person
Abd Allah ibn al-Siddiq al-Ghumari
1910 CE · 1328 AH†Draft card for Abd Allah ibn al-Siddiq al-Ghumari, Morocco's great muhaddith and author of al-Jawab; his… - Person
Abdullah ibn Alawi al-Haddad
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Abd Allah ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib
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Abd Allah ibn Attab al-Basri al-Dimashqi (traditionist)
A precise and reliable traditionist, Abu al-Abbas, of Basra and Damascus; he heard from Hisham ibn Ammar, Isa… - Person
Abd Allah ibn Ayyub al-Taymi
A hadith scholar of Basra, a client of the Taym Allah clan. - Person
'Abd Allah ibn Dinar
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Abd Allah ibn Hijazi al-Sharqawi
1737 CE · 1150 AH†Draft card for Abd Allah ibn Hijazi al-Sharqawi, the shaykh al-Azhar and Shafi'i mufti; his entry is not yet… - Person
Abdallah ibn Ja'far, known as Ibn al-Wathhab
Abdallah ibn Ja'far, known as Ibn al-Wathhab, was attached to al-Ta'i li-llah. When al-Ta'i was seized and… - Person
Abd Allah ibn Jasir
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Abd Allah ibn Jubayr ibn al-Numan al-Ansari
An Ansari Companion of the Aws who fought at Badr. The Prophet appointed him commander of the fifty-archer… - Person
Abdallah ibn Malik al-Jayshani
One of the jurists among the Successors in Egypt. Al-Shirazi mentions him together with Abd al-Rahman ibn… - Person
Abd Allah ibn Maslama al-Qanabi
A memorizing, devout and authoritative hadith scholar from Medina. - Person
Abd Allah ibn Miqdad al-Aqfahsi
1344 CE · 745 AHThe Maliki jurist Jamal al-Din Abd Allah ibn Miqdad al-Aqfahsi of Cairo, to whom the leadership of the Maliki… - Person
Abdallah ibn Muhammad al-Azdi
Abu Abd al-Rahman, shaykh of Abu Dawud and al-Nasa'i; hauled in irons to al-Wathiq he asked Ibn Abi Du'ad:… - Person
Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Isa, Abu Muhammad al-Tadili
Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Isa, Abu Muhammad al-Tadili, named after Tadla in the Berber mountains of Morocco,… - Person
Abd Allah ibn Muhammad (Umayyad amir of Cordova)
844 CE · 229 AHSeventh Umayyad amir of Cordova. He succeeded his brother al-Mundhir in 275/888 and reigned until his death… - Person
Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Dhahlan
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Abd Allah ibn Muslim al-Zuhri
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Abd Allah ibn Nawfal
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Abd Allah ibn Qurt
Abd Allah ibn Qurt al-Thumali al-Azdi, a Companion who was governor of Homs under Abu Ubayda. He narrated… - Person
Abd Allah ibn Rawaha
Companion from the Ansar and poet of early Islam; appointed third commander of the Mu'tah expedition. After… - Person
Abd Allah ibn Yusuf ibn Ridwan al-Malaqi
Abd Allah ibn Yusuf ibn Ridwan ibn Yusuf ibn Ridwan al-Najjari al-Malaqi then al-Fasi. He studied with his… - Person
Abd Allah ibn Salih al-'Ajli
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Abd Allah ibn Shihab al-Khawlani (Kufan Successor)
A Successor from Kufa, Abu al-Jazl; he transmitted from Umar ibn al-Khattab and Aisha; al-Sha'bi and… - Person
Abd Allah ibn Tawus
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Abdallah ibn Umm Maktum
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Abd Allah ibn 'Urwa
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Abd Allah ibn Yazid al-Khatmi
Abd Allah ibn Yazid ibn Zayd al-Ansari al-Khatmi, Abu Musa, a Companion who as a young man witnessed… - Person
Abd Allah ibn Yazid ibn Hisn al-Awsi (Abu Musa)
Abd Allah ibn Yazid ibn Hisn ibn Amr ibn al-Harith, Abu Musa, al-Awsi al-Ansari, a Companion who witnessed… - Person
Abd Allah ibn Yusuf
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Abd Allah ibn Zayd al-Ansari
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Abd Allah Qadri al-Ahdal
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Abd Dakhim ibn Iram
Descendant of Aram who settled al-Ta'if and vanished with his people — yet credited by one report with… - Person
Abd el-Krim
12 January 1882 CE · 1299 AHMoroccan political and military leader (1882–1963). A judge in Melilla who became leader of the Rif revolt,… - Person
Abd ibn Humayd al-Kissi
Abd ibn Humayd ibn Nasr, Abu Muhammad, al-Kissi, also said to be Abd al-Hamid al-Kissi, named after Kiss near… - Person
Abd Kulal ibn Muthawwib
The Himyarite Tubba' who came up to Yamama and destroyed the remnants of Tasm and Jadis — crucifying the… - Person
Abd Manaf ibn Qusayy
Son of Qusayy who had already risen to leadership in his father’s lifetime; after his death his sons… - Person
Abd Yalil ibn Amr
Chief of Thaqif who led the six-man delegation to the Prophet in Ramadan 9 AH after initially refusing the… - Person
Abdal Hakim Murad
15 May 1960 CE · 1379 AHBritish Islamic scholar, born Timothy John Winter in London in 1960; he converted to Islam in his youth,… - Person
Abdallah al-Aydarus
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Abdallah al-Battal
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Abdallah al-Baytushi
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Abdallah al-Ghalib bi'llah al-Sa'di
Muhammad al-Shaykh's son and successor. His challenge to the Ottoman admiral — 'the sultan of the West will… - Person
Abdallah al-Ghalib II
1590 CE · 998 AH†Draft card for Abdallah al-Ghalib II the Saadian, sultan of Marrakesh to 1623; his entry is not yet checked… - Person
Abdallah al-Irmawi
Abdallah b. Yunus al-Irmawi (d. 631) — the model ascetic of the Qasyun zawiya; once seized by Frankish… - Person
Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn Sa'd Al Khunayn
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Abdallah Sayrafi
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Abdallah al-Shabrawi
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Abdallah al-Suwaydi
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Abdallah al-Yazdi
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Abdallah al-Yunini
c. 1140 CE · c. 535 AHAbu Uthman Abdallah ibn Abd al-Aziz ibn Jafar al-Yunini, the great ascetic, 'Lion of Syria', from the village… - Person
Abdallah Ba'alawi
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Abdallah Bin Bayyah
1935 CE · 1354 AHMauritanian jurist (born 1935 in Timbedra), a former minister of education and of justice and vice-president… - Person
Abdallah ibn Abdallah ibn al-Ahtham (Abu Haqan / Abu Tutayna)
Abdallah ibn al-Ahtham, Abu Haqan — Qutayba's Marw deputy whose denunciation al-Hajjaj returned; forewarned… - Person
Abd Allah ibn Abd Allah ibn Umar
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Abdallah ibn Abi Bakr ibn Hazm
Abdallah ibn Abi Bakr ibn Hazm — second-tier maghazi writer whose grandfather Amr ibn Hazm was the Prophet's… - Person
Abd Allah ibn Abi Muhammad, Hafsid
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Abdallah ibn Ahmad II
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'Abd Allah ibn al-Ahmar
The Penitents' poet — his march-songs mourned Husayn, reproached the Kufans' abandonment, and drove them to… - Person
Abdallah ibn al-Asbahani
Abdallah ibn al-Asbahani; Basra's Dar Ibn al-Asbahani bears his name — he commanded four hundred men when he… - Person
Abdallah ibn al-Harith ibn Nawfal
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Abdallah ibn al-Hasan
Abdallah ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib, father of Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya and Ibrahim;… - Person
'Abd Allah ibn al-Kawwa' al-Yashkuri
The Bakri whom the Hururiyya made their prayer-leader at Harura' — part of the secession Ali argued back into… - Person
Abdallah ibn al-Munir al-Marwazi
Al-Marwazi ascetic heard by Ibn Makhlid; Yahya ibn Badr saw him at Qazwin before Friday prayer then again at… - Person
Abdallah ibn al-Rabi' ibn Ziyad
Abdallah ibn al-Rabi' ibn Ziyad al-Harithi; succeeded his father over Khurasan in 53h, fought Amul and Zamm… - Person
Abdallah ibn al-Saqr al-Sakari
Abu'l-'Abbas al-Sakari, who heard Ibrahim ibn al-Mundhir al-Hizami and was heard by Ja'far al-Khaldi —… - Person
Abdallah ibn Ali
Abdallah ibn Ali ibn Abdallah ibn al-Abbas, the Abbasid commander; in al-Baladhuri he stayed at Basra, and… - Person
Abdallah ibn Alwan
Abdallah ibn Alwan; he severed Qutayba's head after the faza's pole crushed his skull. - Person
Abdallah ibn Amr al-Kawsaj
Abdallah ibn Amr al-Thaqafi al-Kawsaj; when Abu Bakra and his brother Nafi' contested the Kawsajan tract, he… - Person
Abdallah ibn Awn al-Kharraz
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'Abd Allah ibn 'Ayyash al-Mantuf
Al-Mansur's table-companion — source of the arrow-verse, the ''ayn kills 'ayn' riddle, and the Umm Salama… - Person
Abdallah ibn Bahina
Abdallah ibn Malik ibn al-Qashib ibn Jundab, Abu Muhammad, a Companion known as Ibn Bahina. He related from… - Person
Abdallah ibn Budayl
Abdallah ibn Budayl ibn Warqa' al-Khuza'i; in al-Baladhuri sent by Umar to Isbahan in 23 — took Jayy by… - Person
Abdallah ibn Buraydah
A Successor and judge among the transmitters: from Kufa, he lived in Basra and held the judgeship of Marw; he… - Person
Abdallah ibn Darraj
Mu'awiya's mawla; in al-Baladhuri he had estates reclaimed during his tenure of Kufa's kharaj office under… - Person
Abd Allah ibn Dawud al-Khuraybi
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Abdallah ibn Firuz
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Abdallah ibn Ghaniya
Abu Muhammad Abdallah ibn Ali ibn Ishaq ibn Ghaniya al-Sanhaji al-Mayurqi, the youngest of the brothers. He… - Person
Abdallah ibn Hamdan al-Taghlibi
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'Abd Allah ibn Hammam al-Saluli
The Umayyad-era poet on Yazid's pre-death bay'a for his son: 'catch it from your father, Mu'awiya — pass it… - Person
Abdallah ibn Hamuwayh al-Juwayni
c. 1057 CE · 449 AHShaykh of the shaykhs Abu al-Qasim Abdallah ibn Hamuwayh of Juwayn, forefather of the Banu Hamuwayh; a man of… - Person
Abdallah ibn Hashim al-Tusi
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Abdallah ibn Ibad
Abdallah ibn Ibad — the eponym of the Ibadiyya, the one Khariji branch to survive, in North Africa, Oman,… - Person
Abdallah ibn Ja'far al-Himyari
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'Abd Allah ibn Jubayr
al-'Abbas's mawla — died 105. - Person
'Abd Allah ibn Khabbab
Ali's governor of Mada'in — slaughtered with his pregnant wife's womb split open when the Kharijites mustered… - Person
Abdallah ibn Khazim al-Sulami
Abdallah ibn Khazim ibn Asma' ibn al-Salt al-Sulami; his Basra house came as a qati'a from his aunt Dajaja,… - Person
Abdallah ibn Makhrama
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'Abd Allah ibn Malik al-Khuza'i
The master of al-Rashid's household and guard summoned at an unwonted hour to release Musa ibn Ja'far after… - Person
Abdallah ibn Ma'mar al-Yashkari
Abdallah ibn Ma'mar al-Yashkari; Yazid's governor of Dihistan and al-Biyasan with four thousand — the… - Person
'Abd Allah ibn Mu'awiya ibn Ja'far
The Ja'farid Talibi who held Istakhr and Fars in the last Umayyad fitna, then fled to Khurasan where Abu… - Person
Abdallah ibn Muhammad al-Shinshawri
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Abdallah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi
Eighth Umayyad emir of Córdoba (AH 275–300): the treasury's third-of-a-million reserve was consumed by years… - Person
Abdallah ibn Muhammad al-Husayni Nuqrahkar
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'Abd Allah ibn Mus'ab
The traducer whose false word against Musa ibn 'Abd Allah was answered by three-day leprosy and a grave that… - Person
'Abd Allah ibn Muti' al-'Adawi
The Medinan noble who commanded with Ibn Hanzala at the Harra, then governed Kufa for Ibn al-Zubayr until… - Person
Abdallah ibn Nafi' al-Sa'igh
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'Abd Allah ibn Najda
The clansman who found the fleeing Shabib ibn Bajra at his lodging stripping off his armour — heard the tale… - Person
Abdallah ibn Nashira al-Tamimi
Abdallah ibn Nashira al-Tamimi; he counselled Abd al-Aziz to empty Sijistan's treasury and leave, then came… - Person
Abdallah ibn Qays al-Ash'ari
in al-Baladhuri, sent by Abu Musa al-Ash'ari with al-Sa'ib ibn al-Aqra' his son-in-law to al-Saymara, which… - Person
Abdallah ibn Sad ibn Ammar
First of Ammar b. Yasir's line to enter al-Andalus; as amir of the Damascene Yamanis, Yusuf al-Fihri called… - Person
'Abd Allah ibn Sa'd ibn Nufayl
One of the five chiefs of the Penitent movement mustered at Nukhayla in 65 AH for the march to 'Ayn al-Warda. - Person
Abdallah ibn Sawar al-Abdi
Abdallah ibn Sawar al-Abdi; frontier lord who gifted Mu'awiya Qiqani horses, then died at Qiqan to Turkish… - Person
Abd Allah ibn Sharaf al-Marzuqi
Abd Allah ibn Sharaf ibn Najda al-Marzuqi, a Shafi'i jurist who attended the lectures of Taqi al-Din ibn… - Person
Abdallah ibn Shibl al-Antamasi
Abdallah ibn Shibl al-Antamasi; he led al-Walid ibn Uqba's van in the 25 AH Azerbaijan campaign, raiding… - Person
Abdallah ibn Ubayd Allah al-Husayni
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Abdallah ibn Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz
Abdallah ibn Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz; Yazid ibn al-Walid's governor — the two-flask complaint of Basra's… - Person
'Abd Allah ibn 'Utba ibn Mas'ud
Ibn Mas'ud's nephew through his brother 'Utba the emigrant — died 86; his son 'Ubayd Allah ranked among the… - Person
'Abd Allah ibn Wahb al-Rasibi
The Kharijites' first elected imam — four thousand under his bay'a at Mada'in, where Ibn Khabbab and his… - Person
'Abd Allah ibn Wal al-Tamimi
One of the five Penitent leaders at Nukhayla before the 'Ayn al-Warda march. - Person
'Abd Allah ibn Yahya, Talib al-Haqq
The Ibadi Kharijite chief proclaimed Commander of the Faithful as 'Seeker of the Right' in 129 — killed in… - Person
Abdallah ibn Yahya al-Yafi'i
The imam Abdallah ibn Yahya al-Yafa'i of Yemen; he died lecturer of his town — one account has men falling on… - Person
Abdallah ibn Yasin al-Jazuli
c. 1008 CE · c. 400 AHAbdallah ibn Yasin al-Jazuli, founder of the Almoravid call; sent by the jurist Wajjaj b. Zallu with the… - Person
'Abd Allah ibn Yazid al-Ibadi
Kufa's Ibadi teacher — leather-seller and shop-partner of the Rafidi Hisham ibn al-Hakam, who answered his… - Person
Abdallah ibn Yusuf al-Juwayni
Abu Muhammad Abdallah b. Yusuf al-Juwayni — Shafi'i jurist of Nishapur and father of Imam al-Haramayn;… - Person
Abd Allah ibn Zaydun
c. 965 CE · 354 AHAbdallah b. Ahmad b. Ghalib b. Zaydun (354–405) — kunya Abu Bakr; father of the poet Ibn Zaydun; praised by… - Person
Abdel Daim Kaheel
10 May 1966 CE · 1386 AHSyrian mechanical engineer and researcher in the scientific miracles (i'jaz) of the Qur'an and Sunnah. He is… - Person
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
19 November 1954 CE · 1374 AHAbdel Fattah el-Sisi (born 19 November 1954) is an Egyptian officer and politician born in Cairo's Gamaleya… - Person
Abdel Halim Hafez
21 June 1929 CE · 1348 AHEgyptian singer and actor (1929–1977), known as al-Andaleeb el-Asmar ('the Dark Nightingale'), 'King of… - Person
Abdel Khalek Sarwat Pasha
1873 CE · 1290 AHEgyptian politician and jurist, the first Egyptian attorney general since the British occupation, minister of… - Person
Abd al-Rahman al-Sumayt
Abd al-Rahman al-Sumayt as Tareq al-Suwaidan presents him: the Kuwaiti physician who turned his whole life to… - Person
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
2 March 1937 CE · 1355 AHAlgerian politician and diplomat, born at Oujda in Morocco in 1937. He fought in the National Liberation Army… - Person
Abdelaziz Thâalbi
5 September 1876 CE · 1293 AHTunisian political and religious leader (1876–1944). Educated at the Zaytuna, he published the journal Sabil… - Person
Abdelkader Hadj Ali
23 December 1883 CE · 1301 AHFranco-Algerian communist militant (1883–1957). He emigrated to France as a young man, joined the French… - Person
Abdelmadjid Tebboune
17 November 1945 CE · 1364 AHAlgerian politician, president of Algeria and minister of national defence since 19 December 2019. Born at… - Person
AbdelRahman Murphy
American Muslim teacher and imam: he took a bachelor's degree in the Teaching of English and Religious… - Person
Abdelwahab Annaib
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Abderrahmane Youssoufi
8 March 1924 CE · 1342 AHMoroccan politician, lawyer and human-rights activist, prime minister of Morocco from 4 February 1998 to 9… - Person
Abderrazak Hamdallah
17 December 1990 CE · 1411 AHMoroccan striker born in Safi in 1990 who plays for Saudi club Al-Taawoun. He began with Olympic Safi, played… - Person
Abdi
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Abdi Nishapuri
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Abdi (poet)
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Abdirashid Ali Shermarke
8 June 1919 CE · 1337 AHSomali politician (1919–1969) from Harardhere, the first prime minister of Somalia (1960–1964) and then its… - Person
Abdiweli Mohamed Ali
2 July 1965 CE · 1385 AHSomali politician and economist (born 1965) from Dhusamareb, known as Gaas, an associate professor of… - Person
Abdol Javad Alamolhoda
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Abdoldjavad Falaturi
1926 CE · 1344 AH†Draft card for Abdoldjavad Falaturi, the Iranian founder of Islamic studies in Germany; his entry is not yet… - Person
Abdou Diouf
7 September 1935 CE · 1354 AHSenegalese politician (born 1935) from Louga; prime minister of Senegal (1970–1981) and then its second… - Person
Abdou Filali-Ansary
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Cheikh Abdou Khadre Mbacke
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Abdoulaye Wade
29 May 1926 CE · 1344 AHSenegalese politician (born 1926) from Kébémer; founder of the Senegalese Democratic Party (1974) and third… - Person
Abdul Aleem Farooqui
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Abdul Aleem Siddiqi
3 April 1892 CE · 1309 AHScholar and travelling preacher (1892–1954), born at Meerut in India, died in Medina and buried in al-Baqi. A… - Person
Abdul Azeez Madani
1950 CE · 1369 AH†Draft card for Abdul Azeez Madani, the Samasta leader and chief scholar of Malabar; his entry is not yet… - Person
Abdul Aziz Al-Tarefe
29 November 1976 CE · 1396 AHSaudi hadith scholar and jurist, born in Kuwait in 1976 and settled in Riyadh. Known for recalling hadith… - Person
Abdul Aziz Mollazadeh
1916 CE · 1334 AH†Draft card for Abdul Aziz Mollazadeh, the Sunni mufti of Zahedan in Iran; his entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Abdul Bari Al-Thubaiti
1960 CE · 1380 AHSaudi imam (born 1960 in Mecca), guest imam for Tarawih at Masjid al-Haram from 1990 to 1993 and imam and… - Person
Abdul Bari Firangi Mahali
12 April 1878 CE · 1295 AHIndian scholar (1878–1926) of Firangi Mahal in Lucknow, author of 111 books across hadith, exegesis,… - Person
Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad
1927 CE · 1345 AHEgyptian Quran reciter (1927–1988) known as the 'Golden Throat' and the 'Voice of Mecca'. He joined Egyptian… - Person
Abdul Batin Nomani
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Abdul Ghani al-Jamil
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Abdul Ghani Samsudin
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Abdul Hai Arifi
1898 CE · 1316 AH†Draft card for Abdul Hai Arifi, the Pakistani Deobandi scholar and spiritual master; his entry is not yet… - Person
Abdul Hakim Sialkoti
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Abdul Hakkul Mubin of Brunei
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Abdul Haleem Chishti Nomani
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Abdul Hameed Azhari
1944 CE · 1363 AH†Draft card for Abdul Hameed Azhari, the Indian Islamic scholar of Kerala; his entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Abdul Hameed Khan Swati
1917 CE · 1335 AH†Draft card for Abdul Hameed Khan Swati, the Pakistani scholar and imam; his entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh
1959 CE · 1378 AH†Libyan politician and businessman from Misrata, prime minister of the Government of National Unity since 15… - Person
Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani
12 December 1880 CE · 9 Muharram 1298 AH†Bangladeshi peasant leader and politician (1880–1976), known as the Red Maulana, who was taken as a disciple… - Person
Abdul Haq
20 April 1870 CE · 1287 AHUrdu linguist, scholar and literary critic (1870–1961), known as Baba-e-Urdu ('Father of Urdu'). He was for… - Person
Molana Abdul Haq Baloch
1947 CE · 1366 AH†Draft card for Molana Abdul Haq Baloch, the Baloch Pakistani scholar; his entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Syed Abdul Haq Nafay Kakakhail
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Abdul-Hussein Dastghaib
1913 CE · 1331 AH†Draft card for Abdul-Hussein Dastghaib, the Iranian ayatollah and exegete; his entry is not yet checked on… - Person
Abdul Jabbar Ghaznavi
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Abdul Jalil bin Ahmed al-Jameel
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Abdul Jalilul Akbar of Brunei
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Abdul Jalilul Jabbar of Brunei
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Abdul Karim Amrullah
10 February 1879 CE · 1296 AHMinangkabau scholar and reformer (1879–1945), known as Haji Rasul: he studied at Mecca under Sheikh Ahmad… - Person
Abdul Karim Khan
11 November 1872 CE · 1289 AHIndian classical singer (1872–1937), born at Kairana and died returning from a concert tour of the South.… - Person
Abdul-Karim Qasim
21 November 1914 CE · 1333 AHAbdul-Karim Qasim (21 November 1914 – 9 February 1963) was an Iraqi army officer who led the revolution of 14… - Person
Abdul Khaliq Madrasi
1953 CE · 1372 AH†Draft card for Abdul Khaliq Madrasi, the mufti of Darul Uloom Deoband; his entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali
1913 CE · 1331 AH†Draft card for Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali, the famous Bengali scholar; his entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Abdul Latif Rashid
10 August 1944 CE · 1363 AHAbdul Latif Jamal Rashid (born 10 August 1944) is an Iraqi Kurdish politician who was president of Iraq from… - Person
Abdul Majeed Sohdravi
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Abdul-Majid al-Khoei
1962 CE · 1382 AH†Draft card for Abdul-Majid al-Khoei, the Iraqi cleric killed in Najaf in 2003; his entry is not yet checked… - Person
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
16 March 1892 CE · 1309 AHIndian scholar, writer and exegete (1892–1977) of Daryabad in Barabanki district, author of the… - Person
Abdul Majid Sindhi
7 July 1889 CE · 1306 AHShaikh Abdul Majeed Sindhi (1889–1978), a Sindhi writer, journalist and politician. Born at Thatta into a… - Person
Abdul Malik Mujahid
1951 CE · 1370 AHAmerican imam, producer, author and non-profit executive of Pakistani origin, based in Chicago. He is the… - Person
Abdul Muis
3 July 1883 CE · 27 Sha'ban 1300 AH†Indonesian writer, journalist and nationalist (1883 or 1886–1959), a Sarekat Islam activist and Volksraad… - Person
Abdul Nasir Jangda
American scholar and teacher from Dallas, Texas, founder and president of the Qalam Institute. He memorised… - Person
Abdul Qadeer Khan
1 April 1936 CE · 1355 AHPakistani nuclear physicist and metallurgical engineer, born in Bhopal in 1936 and died in Islamabad in 2021.… - Person
Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais
22 November 1962 CE · 1382 AHImam and khatib of the Grand Mosque in Mecca since 1984 and, since 2023, president of religious affairs for… - Person
Abdul Rahman bin Al Mubarak
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Abdul Rahman Dhaker al-Hashemi
Physician and consultant in educational psychology and psychotherapy, originator of the Fiqh al-Nafs training… - Person
Abdul Rahman Hilmi
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Abdul Rahman Ibrahima Sori
1762 CE · 1175 AHA prince and military commander of Futa Jallon in Guinea, son of the Almami Ibrahima Sori, who received an… - Person
Abdul Rahman Kamilpuri
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Abdul Rahman Limbong
1868 CE · 1285 AHMalay ulama of Terengganu (1868–1929), known as Haji Abdul Rahman Limbong from his teaching and trading at… - Person
Abdul Salam Rustami
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Abdul Samie Al-Anis
1963 CE · 1382 AHLevantine hadith scholar, born in 1963. He took his doctorate in the Prophetic Hadith and its sciences from… - Person
Abdul Sattar Edhi
28 February 1928 CE · 1346 AHAbdul Sattar Edhi (28 February 1928 – 8 July 2016) was a Pakistani humanitarian born at Bantva, Gujarat, into… - Person
Abdul Wahhab
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Abdulazeez ibn Abdallah ibn Khalid ibn Asid
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Abdulfettah Efendi
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Abdülkadir el-Mağribi
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Abdulkadir Mohamed Abdullahi
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Abdulkadir Sukri Efendi
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Abdulla Qodiriy
10 April 1894 CE · 4 Shawwal 1311 AH†Uzbek novelist, playwright and poet (1894–1938) from Tashkent, founder of the Uzbek novel with Oʻtgan kunlar… - Person
Abdullah Abdullah
5 September 1960 CE · 1380 AHAfghan ophthalmologist and politician, born at Kabul in 1960 to a Pashtun father from Kandahar and a Tajik… - Person
Abdullah al-Ajiri
1976 CE · 1396 AHSaudi researcher, thinker and engineer, born in al-Khobar in 1976. He directs the Takween Center for Studies… - Person
Abdullah Al-Alayli
1914 CE · 1332 AH†Draft card for Abdullah al-Alayli, the Lebanese exegete and lexicographer; his entry is not yet checked on… - Person
Abdullah Bosnevi
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Abdullah al-Nadim
10 December 1845 CE · 1261 AHEgyptian writer, orator and poet, born in Alexandria in 1845. He was the leading orator of the Urabi revolt… - Person
Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Amin al-Shanqiti
A Saudi scholar of tafsir of Mauritanian origin, son of Muhammad al-Amin al-Shinqiti, author of 'Adwa… - Person
Abdullah al-Yafi'i
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Abdullah al-Zawawi
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Abdullah Awad Al-Juhany
13 January 1976 CE · 1396 AHSaudi Qur'an reciter and imam and khatib of Masjid al-Haram in Mecca. Born in Medina on 13 January 1976 (11… - Person
Abdullah Bahauddin al-Alusi
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Abdullah Bahlavi
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Abdullah Bash Aayan
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Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
1 August 1924 CE · 1342 AHSixth King of Saudi Arabia (r. 2005–2015), the tenth son of King Abdulaziz, by Fahda bint Asi Al Shuraim. He… - Person
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani
11 February 1880 CE · 1297 AHAbdullah bin Jassim Al Thani, Abu Ali (born at Doha on 11 February 1880 – died on 25 April 1957), Emir of… - Person
Abdullah Cevdet
9 September 1869 CE · 1286 AHKurdish-Turkish physician, poet and thinker (1869–1932), one of the five medical students who founded the… - Person
Abdullah Chakralawi
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Abdullah Daraz
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Abdullah Edirnevi
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Abdullah Gül
29 October 1950 CE · 1370 AHTurkish economist and politician, the eleventh president of Turkey from 2007 to 2014, previously prime… - Person
Abdullah Haroon
1872 CE · 1289 AH†Sir Abdullah Haroon (1872–1942), a Karachi politician and businessman of British India, called the 'Sugar… - Person
Abdullah I of Jordan
2 February 1882 CE · 1299 AHAbdullah I bin Hussein (2 February 1882 – 20 July 1951) was the second son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali, by his… - Person
Abdullah ibn Abbas
c. 619 CEThe Prophet's young cousin who grew up in Medina and became the tradition's founding authority on the… - Person
Abdullah ibn Abd al-Malik
Abdullah ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan the Umayyad; in al-Baladhuri: he led the summer raid of year 84,… - Person
Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib
c. 545 CEThe Prophet's father; the handsomest, most chaste and best-loved of Abd al-Muttalib's sons, the 'sacrifice'… - Person
Abdullah ibn Abi Atiq
Abdullah ibn Abi Atiq, of the family of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, a man of lineage, restraint and standing, known… - Person
Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr
Abu Bakr's son, 'a bright, quick-witted youth' in Aisha's description, who spent the three cave nights with… - Person
Abdullah ibn Abi Hadrad al-Aslami
A Companion of Banu Aslam dispatched by the Prophet as an undercover scout to Hawazin's camp at Awtas before… - Person
Abdullah ibn Abi Rabi'a
One of Quraysh's two picked envoys — with Amr ibn al-As — sent to the Negus with gifts and coached arguments… - Person
Abdullah ibn Abi Umayya
A Qurashi nobleman of Banu Makhzum, brother of Umm Salama and maternal cousin of the Prophet; after opposing… - Person
Abdullah ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal
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Abdullah ibn al-Harith the Poet
Of Banu Sahm, whom Ibn Ishaq calls 'the poet'; he emigrated to Abyssinia and died there. - Person
Abdullah ibn al-Mughaffal al-Muzani
The fifth of the Weepers, of Muzayna; Ibn Ishaq lists him among those who begged the Prophet for mounts on… - Person
Abdullah ibn al-Muttalib ibn Azhar
Born in the land of Abyssinia to his father al-Muttalib ibn Azhar and his mother Ramla bint Abi Awf. - Person
Abdullah ibn al-Zib'ara
One of the finest poets of Quraysh, harsh against the Muslims, who embraced Islam at the conquest; he fled to… - Person
'Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr
al-Zubayr ibn al-'Awwam and Asma' bint Abi Bakr's son — the Meccan counter-caliph of the second fitna,… - Person
'Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr al-Asadi
The terrified deserter who met Ibrahim by the bridle-post after 'Umayr's beheading — 'al-Hajjaj will not… - Person
Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr ibn Abd al-Muttalib
A cousin of the Prophet, listed by Ibn Sa'd in the fifth class of Companions; one of those who held firm at… - Person
Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As
A Companion of Banu Sahm, a prolific transmitter of hadith who used to write; Abu Hurayra said none had more… - Person
Abdallah ibn Amr ibn Ghaylan
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Abdullah ibn Amr ibn Haram
A prominent chief of Banu Salima of the Khazraj, father of Jabir ibn Abdullah; he embraced Islam and took the… - Person
Abdullah ibn Atik
A heroic Companion from Banu Salima of the Khazraj fluent in Jewish dialect; chosen by the Prophet to lead… - Person
Abd Allah ibn Budayl al-Khuza'i
A commander of Ali's right wing at Siffin; on the second day Ali put him in place of al-Ash'ath ibn Qays, and… - Person
Abdallah ibn Hanzala, known as Ibn al-Ghasil
Leader of Medina's deposition of Yazid in 63: 'by God, we did not march out against Yazid until we feared… - Person
Abdullah ibn Hudhafa al-Sahmi
Of Banu Sahm; he emigrated to Abyssinia. Ibn Ishaq describes him as the Messenger of God's envoy to the… - Person
Abdullah ibn Ja'far
Son of Ja'far ibn Abi Talib and Asma bint Umays, born in the land of Abyssinia. - Person
Abdullah ibn Jafar al-Isbahani
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Abdullah ibn Jahsh
One of the earliest Muslims and an ally of Banu Abd Shams; he emigrated to Abyssinia and fought at Badr; the… - Person
Abdullah ibn Jud'an
The aged, honoured chief of Taym ibn Murra in whose house the Fudul pact was sworn — a byword in Mecca for… - Person
Abdullah ibn Ka'b ibn Malik
Son of Ka'b ibn Malik and his guide when his sight was stricken; his son Abd al-Rahman related from him his… - Person
Abdullah ibn Khatal
A former Muslim sent by the Prophet to collect sadaqa; he killed his Muslim servant over a meal, apostatized… - Person
Abdullah ibn Mas'ud
c. 594 CEA shepherd of Mecca among the first converts, remembered as the first man to recite the Qur'an aloud there;… - Person
Abdullah ibn Mazun
One of the earliest Muslims of the secret call; al-Raheeq al-Makhtum names him as a brother of Uthman ibn… - Person
Sharaf al-Din Abdullah Ibn Muflih
Sharaf al-Din Abdullah Ibn Muflih — son of the Hanbali chief qadi Shams al-Din Ibn Muflih; 'the scholar of… - Person
Abdullah ibn Muhammad
The Prophet's son by Khadija, called al-Tayyib and al-Tahir; he died young in Mecca. - Person
Abdullah ibn Mutiq al-Sahli
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Abdullah ibn Qurad al-Ziyadi
A member of the Banu al-Harith ibn Ka'b delegation that came with Khalid ibn al-Walid to the Prophet in 10… - Person
Abd Allah ibn Saba
A man the sources tie to the Jews of Sana'a, called Ibn al-Sawda, who in the last years of Uthman's caliphate… - Person
Abdullah ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Sarh
A scribe of revelation who apostatized back to Quraysh; proscribed on the day of the Conquest, he was… - Person
Abdullah ibn Salam
c. 550 CEA learned rabbi of Banu Qaynuqa' who examined the Prophet, declared him genuine, and became the most famous… - Person
Abdullah ibn Shaykh al-Aidarus
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Abdullah ibn Sufyan al-Makhzumi
Of Banu Makhzum, brother of Habbar ibn Sufyan; he emigrated to Abyssinia. Ibn Ishaq says he was killed in the… - Person
Abdullah ibn Ubayy
c. 580 CEThe chief of Khazraj who had been preparing to be crowned king of Medina when the Hijra ended his ambition —… - Person
Abdullah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab
The son of the caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab and Zaynab bint Maz'un; he embraced Islam young with his father and… - Person
Abdullah ibn Umayya
Abdullah ibn Umayya; given Sijistan by his father while at Kirman — truced the second Rutbil at Bust for a… - Person
Abdullah ibn Unays
A Juhani and ally of Banu Salima among the Ansar; he was at al-Aqaba and later campaigns and was one of those… - Person
Abdullah ibn Urayqit
The Laythi tracker hired as guide for the Hijra — 'a skilled guide' still on Quraysh's religion, whom they… - Person
Abdullah II of Jordan
30 January 1962 CE · 1381 AHKing of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan since 7 February 1999, born in Amman in 1962, the eldest son of King… - Person
Abdullah Musawi Shirazi
1892 CE · 1309 AH†Draft card for Abdullah Musawi Shirazi, the Iranian marja'; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Abdullah Rushdy
3 February 1984 CE · 1404 AHEgyptian preacher, and imam and preacher at the Sayyida Nafisa Mosque in Cairo for the Egyptian Ministry of… - Person
Abdullah Shams El-Din
1921 CE · 1339 AHEgyptian lyric poet (1921–1977), educated at al-Azhar, who served as cultural adviser to Egypt's Supreme… - Person
Abdullah Tabbakh
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Abdullah Zuhdi
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Abdullahi dan Fodio
1767 CE · 1181 AH†Draft card for Abdullahi dan Fodio, the Fulani scholar, brother of Shehu Usman and founder of Gwandu; his… - Person
Abdullo Rakhimbayev
1 June 1896 CE · 19 Dhu al-Hijja 1313 AH†Soviet politician of an Uzbek family from Khujand (1896–1938): he chaired the Central Executive Committee of… - Person
Abdülmecid II
29 May 1868 CE · 1285 AHLast Ottoman caliph (19 November 1922 – 3 March 1924), the only caliph elected by the Grand National Assembly… - Person
Abdulsalam al-Lamoghani
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Abdulsalami Abubakar
13 June 1942 CE · 1361 AHNigerian general (born 1942) from Minna who was Chief of Defence Staff (1997–1998) and became Nigeria's head… - Person
Abdun ibn Muhammad
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Abdur Rab Nishtar
13 June 1899 CE · 1317 AHPakistani independence activist and politician (1899–1958) of Peshawar; Pakistan's first minister of… - Person
Abdur Raheem Green
September 1964 CE · 1384 AHA British dawah preacher, and the founder and chairman of iERA, the Islamic Education and Research Academy.… - Person
Abdur Rahman al-Kattani
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Abdur Rahman Chughtai
21 September 1897 CE · 1315 AHPakistani painter (1897–1975), regarded as the national artist of Pakistan and founder of the 'Chughtai… - Person
Abdur Rozaq Fachruddin
1916 CE · 1334 AH†Draft card for Abdur Rozaq Fachruddin, the Muhammadiyah chairman; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Abdurauf Fitrat
1886 CE · 1303 AH†Uzbek Jadid writer, scholar and politician from Bukhara (1886–1938), a leading ideologue of the Central Asian… - Person
Abdürrahim Abbasi
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Abdürrahim Şeyhzade
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Abdurrahman Aamir Dhuubow
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Abdurreshid Ibrahim
23 April 1857 CE · 1273 AHTatar scholar, journalist and traveller (1857–1944), born at Tara in Siberia. He served as qadi of the… - Person
Abdus ibn Malik al-Attar
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'Abdus of Egypt
The usurper of Egypt killed on al-Ma'mun's entry in 217. - Person
Abdus Salam
29 January 1926 CE · 1344 AHPakistani theoretical physicist, born in Jhang, Punjab, in 1926 into a family professing Ahmadiyya. He shared… - Person
Abdyl Frashëri
1 June 1839 CE · 1255 AHAlbanian-Ottoman politician (1839–1892), the eldest of the three Frashëri brothers and the leading political… - Person
Abeid Karume
4 August 1905 CE · 1323 AHTanzanian politician (1905–1972) who worked as a seaman, led the Afro-Shirazi Party and, after the revolution… - Person
Abida Parveen
1954 CE · 1373 AH†The foremost female voice of Pakistani Sufi song — sings Shah Abdul Latif and Bulleh Shah at Sindh's shrines. - Person
Iskandar Abkarius
A Lebanese man of letters, poet, journalist and historian from an Armenian family settled in Beirut; one of… - Person
Abolfazl Mousavi Tabrizi
1935 CE · 1354 AH†Draft card for Abolfazl Mousavi Tabrizi, the ayatollah and Qom teacher; his entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Abolqasem Lahouti
12 October 1887 CE · 1305 AHIranian-Soviet poet and political activist (1887-1957) from Kermanshah who led the 1922 gendarmerie uprising… - Person
Abraha
c. 520 CEThe Aksumite governor who made himself ruler of Yemen, built the great church of San'a, and marched on Mecca… - Person
Abraham Maslow
The American psychologist Abraham Maslow, as presented by Tareq al-Suwaidan: in 1943 he published the… - Person
Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Hubuli
Abdallah b. Yazid the Ansari tabi'i, fourth of the tabi'in counted as entering al-Andalus, transmitting from… - Person
al-Mu'ayti
Draft card for Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Mu'ayti, the Maliki hadith scholar in the east; his entry is not yet… - Person
Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Shafi'i
Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah, Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Shafi'i. Abu al-Hasan al-Razi called him learned and… - Person
Abu Abd Allah al-Abdusi
Muhammad ibn Musa ibn Muhammad ibn Mu'ti al-Abdusi, Abu Abd Allah son of Abu Imran, who studied with his… - Person
Abu Abd Allah al-Balali
Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Ja'far, Abu Abd Allah al-Balali al-Ajluni then al-Qahiri al-Shafi'i, Shams al-Din, a… - Person
Abu Abd Allah al-Hannat al-Shirazi
Abu Abd Allah al-Hannat al-Shirazi, a jurist of Fars. Al-Shirazi gives neither his date of death nor his… - Person
Abu Abd Allah al-Hannati al-Tabari
Abu Abd Allah al-Hannati al-Tabari, one of the imams of Tabaristan, came to Baghdad in the days of Shaykh Abu… - Person
Abu Abd Allah al-Khatan
Abu Abd Allah al-Khatan, son-in-law of Abu Bakr al-Isma'ili, was an excellent jurist who wrote a commentary… - Person
Abu Abd Allah al-Shi'i
The da'i who appeared in the Maghreb in 288 calling Kutama to al-Mahdi — first emergence of the Ubaydids. - Person
Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Abdari
Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Abdari, a Maghribi traveller and author of the Rihla al-Maghribiyya, a record of… - Person
Abu Abdallah al-Baridi
Eldest of the Baridi brothers; tax-farmer of the khassa who scorned it — 'my drum has a voice that will soon… - Person
Abu Abdallah al-Natili
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Abu Abdallah VI, Zayyanid
Draft card for Abu Abdallah Muhammad VI al-Zayyani, the Zayyanid sultan of Tlemcen from 1524 to 1544; the… - Person
Abu Abs ibn Jabr
An Ansari of the Aws, from the Banu Haritha; his pre-Islamic name is reported as Abd al-Uzza or Ma'bad and… - Person
Abu Afak
An old man of Banu Amr ibn Awf, then of Banu Ubayda, of al-Aws; Ibn Ishaq says his hypocrisy became open when… - Person
Abu Afra'a Umayr al-Mazini
Abu Afra'a Umayr al-Mazini; he killed Rutbil in Abd al-Aziz ibn Abdallah ibn Amir's war, and the unbelievers… - Person
Abu Ahmad al-Askari
Draft card for Abu Ahmad al-Askari, the tenth-century muhaddith, poet and literary scholar, d. 993; the… - Person
Abu Ahmad al-Musawi
Naqib of the Talibids in Baghdad and father of al-Sharif al-Radi; when al-Qadir sent Ibn al-Baqillani to make… - Person
Abu Ahmad al-Shirazi
Al-Mustakfi's secretary, keeper of his allowance under Buyid tutelage; seized at the deposition of 334. - Person
Abu Ahmad Assal
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Abu Ahmad ibn Abi Muslim al-Faradi
Abu Ahmad ibn Abi Muslim al-Faradi studied the law of inheritance (fara'id) under Ibn al-Labban al-Faradi,… - Person
Abu al-Abbas Ahmad b. Qadi
The jurist who led the embassy of Algiers to Sultan Selim I, bearing a letter of early Dhu'l-Qa'da… - Person
Sultan Abu al-Abbas Ahmad al-Musta'in al-Marini
Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Abi Salim al-Marini, called al-Musta'in; meeting his cousin the amir Abd al-Rahman at… - Person
Abu al-Abbas al-Azafi
1162 CE · 557 AH†Draft card for Abu al-Abbas al-Azafi, the historian of Ceuta of the Raud al-Mu'tar supplement; his entry is… - Person
Abu al-Abbas al-Fayyumi
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Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi
Ahmad Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi, the Murcian Ansari who succeeded al-Shadhili at Alexandria — his tomb famed for… - Person
Abu'l-'Abbas al-Nashi'
The Anbari secretary — critic of al-Khalil's prosody, author of a four-thousand-line nuniyya on the sects,… - Person
Abu al-Abbas al-Qurti
1182 CE · 578 AHThe Maliki shahid of Alexandria (b. 578, d. Dhu al-Qa'da 656) — epitomist of the two Sahihs and author of… - Person
Abu'l-Abbas al-Sabti
Draft card for Abu'l-Abbas Ahmad ibn Ja'far al-Sabti, the twelfth-century patron saint of Marrakesh, d. 1204;… - Person
Abu al-Abbas ibn al-Qass al-Tabari
Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Abi Ahmad, known as Ibn al-Qass al-Tabari, a disciple of Abu al-Abbas ibn Surayj. He… - Person
Abu al-Abbas ibn Wasil, lord of al-Bata'ih
Abu al-Abbas ibn Wasil. He served the Karaj, and by reckoning it was calculated that he would become a king,… - Person
Abu al-Abyad al-'Absi
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Abu'l-'Adiyya al-'Amili
One of 'Ammar ibn Yasir's two killers at Siffin (with Ibn Jawn al-Saksaki); they quarrelled over his spoils… - Person
Abu al-Aghar Khalifa ibn al-Mubarak
Commander of the Iraqi caravan; he fought Tayyi' a day and a night in 287, killed their amir Salih and took… - Person
Abu al-'Ala al-Majashi'i
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Abu al-Ala Zuhr ibn Abd al-Malik
Abu al-Ala Zuhr ibn Abd al-Malik al-Iyadi of Seville — physician of al-Andalus and author, who took from his… - Person
Abu al-Aliya al-Riyahi
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Abu'l-'Anbas al-Saymari
Al-Mutawakkil's jester whose obscene counter-ode to al-Buhturi and whose dead donkey's love-elegy set the… - Person
Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad
865 CE · 251 AHA Maliki jurist, hadith scholar and historian from Kairouan. - Person
Abu al-As ibn al-Rabi'
A son of Hala bint Khuwaylid, Khadija's sister, nicknamed 'the cub of al-Batha' and called 'the trustworthy';… - Person
Abu al-Asad
al-Mansur's mawla-commander; in al-Baladhuri sent to Basra during Abdallah ibn Ali's stay there and the one… - Person
Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali, Zalim ibn Amr
A philologist and transmitter credited with the vowel-pointing of the Qur'an and the founding of Arabic… - Person
Abu'l-'Atahiyya
Isma'il ibn al-Qasim the jar-seller — flogged for his 'Utba verses, enriched for them, denied her hand ('a… - Person
Abu al-A'war al-Ansari
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Abu'l-A'war al-Sulami
Mu'awiya's commander holding Siffin's water-gate — forty thousand men blocking Ali's army from the Euphrates… - Person
Abu al-Ayna
806 CE · 190 AHAbu al-Ayna (190–283) — the blind wit of Baghdad, mawla of al-Mansur; heard hadith and adab from Abu Ubayda… - Person
Abu'l-Azhar al-Muhallabi
The executioner who strangled the caliph's uncle, staged the lovers' death-scene under the fallen house, and… - Person
abu-al-bakhtari-ibn-hisham
A Quraysh notable named in al-Raheeq al-Makhtum's account of the boycott covenant (pp. 110–111). - Person
Abu al-Baqa al-Hamdani
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Abu al-Baqa al-Kafawi
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Abu al-Baqa' al-Musawi
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Abu'l-Baqa Khalid, Hafsid
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Abu al-Barakat al-Madaini (Hanafi jurist and man of letters)
A Hanafi jurist and man of letters, of the Madaini family; author of works on literature (born 570 and died… - Person
Abu al-Darda' (Uwaymir)
Uwaymir al-Ansari al-Khazraji, known by his kunya; it is said he embraced Islam the day of Badr, he fought… - Person
Abu al-Fadl al-Bahrani
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Abu al-Fadl al-Balkhi
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Abu al-Fadl al-Bazzaz
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Abu al-Fadl al-Duri
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Abu al-Fadl al-Qantari
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Abu al-Fadl al-Qiratisi
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Abu'l-Fadl al-Riashi
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Abu al-Fadl al-Tabari
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Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak
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Abu al-Fadl Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Fasawi
Abu al-Fadl Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Fasawi, one of the companions of Abu al-Husayn ibn al-Qattan, a skilled… - Person
Abu al-Fada'il Sa'd ibn Sharif
Abu al-Fada'il Sa'd b. Sharif — last of Sayf al-Dawla's line at Aleppo; Ibn Khallikan found no death date for… - Person
Abu al-Faraj al-Armanazi
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Abu al-Faraj al-Fami
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Abu al-Faraj al-Khatib the Elder
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Abu al-Faraj al-Laythi
Umar ibn Muhammad al-Laythi al-Baghdadi, Abu al-Faraj, a Maliki jurist who studied fiqh under the qadi… - Person
Abu al-Faraj al-Maqdisi, Abd al-Wahid ibn Muhammad
Abu al-Faraj Abd al-Wahid ibn Muhammad ibn Ali al-Maqdisi, a Hanbali jurist settled in Damascus; he studied… - Person
Abu al-Faraj al-Shirazi al-Hanbali, shaykh of al-Sham
Shaykh Abu al-Faraj al-Shirazi al-Hanbali Abd al-Wahid b. Muhammad — shaykh of the Sham in his day; studied… - Person
Abu al-Fath Abdus, ra'is of Hamadhan
Abu al-Fath Abdus b. Ubayd Allah b. Muhammad — ra'is of Hamadan and its muhaddith; licensed by Abu Bakr Ibn… - Person
Abu al-Fath al-Haddad al-Isfahani
The Shafi'i faqih of Tus Abu al-Fath al-Haddad — Imam al-Haramayn delighted in his eloquence, he lectured in… - Person
Abu al-Fath al-Karajki
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Nasir ibn Sulayman ibn Nasir ibn Imran, Abu al-Fath al-Naysaburi
Nasir ibn Sulayman ibn Nasir ibn Imran, Abu al-Fath al-Ansari al-Naysaburi, a Shafi'i scholar, an imam in… - Person
Abu al-Fath al-'Umri
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Abu al-Fath Husayni
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Abu al-Fath ibn al-Ta'awidhi
Abu al-Fath Muhammad b. Abdallah Ibn al-Ta'awidhi, the celebrated scribe-poet; named for his maternal… - Person
Abu al-Fayyad ibn al-Muntasir
Abu al-Fayyad Muhammad ibn al-Husayn ibn al-Muntasir, a companion of Abu Hamid al-Marwarudhi. He taught in… - Person
Abu l-Fida
1273 CE · 672 AHAbu l-Fida, Ismail b. Ali, al-Malik al-Mu'ayyad 'Imad al-Din, a Syrian Ayyubid prince, governor of Hama,… - Person
Abu al-Futuh al-Hasan ibn Ja'far al-Alawi
Mecca's sharif; he made the caliphal claim in 381 as al-Rashid bi'llah — shaking Egypt's lord — then flagged… - Person
Abu'l-Futuh al-Razi
Draft card for al-Husayn ibn Ali Abu'l-Futuh al-Razi, the twelfth-century exegete author of Rawh al-Jinan, d.… - Person
Abu al-Ghanaim al-Narsi
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Abu al-Ghayth b. Jamil al-Yamani
Shaykh of Yemen's shaykhs (d. ~652) — a highwayman in his beginnings, turned by a voice heard while lying in… - Person
Abu al-Ghayth Munqidh
Abu al-Ghayth Munqidh b. Nasr (d. 539) — of the Banu Munqidh of Shayzar; Ibn al-Qaysarani of Aleppo mourned… - Person
Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur
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Abu al-Hajjaj al-Biyasi
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Abu al-Hasan al-Marini, sultan of the Maghrib
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Abu al-Hasan al-Qabisi (Maliki jurist, hadith scholar and usuli)
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Abu al-Hasan al-Saghir (Ali ibn Muhammad al-Zarwili)
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Abu al-Hasan ibn al-Marzuban al-Baghdadi
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Abu al-Hasan ibn Khayran al-Baghdadi
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Abu al-Hasan Ali, sultan of Granada
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Abu al-Hayja al-Samin
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Abu al-Hayyaj al-Asadi
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Abu al-Husayn al-Kazaruni
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Abu al-Husayn al-Basri
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Abu al-Husayn al-Jallabi al-Tabari
Abu al-Husayn al-Jallabi al-Tabari studied jurisprudence in his town, attended the circle of al-Daraki, then… - Person
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Abu al-Husayn Ibn al-Labban al-Fardi al-Basri
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Abu al-Husayn Ibn al-Qattan al-Baghdadi
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Abu al-Jahm
A courtier who confirmed a debt, with Salman ibn Mujalid, in an anecdote of Abu Dulama. - Person
Abu al-Jarrah the Qadi
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Abu al-Jawa'iz al-Wasiti
Abu al-Jawa'iz al-Wasiti — katib and poet of Wasit. - Person
Abu al-Jawza
Aws ibn Abd Allah, Abu al-Jawza al-Rib'i al-Basri, a Successor. He narrated from Aisha, Ibn Abbas and Abd… - Person
Abu al-Khasib Marzuq
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Abu l-Khattab Abd al-A'la b. al-Samh al-Ma'afiri
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Abu l-Khattab Muhammad b. Abi Zaynab Miqlas al-Asadi
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Abu al-Khattar Husam ibn Dirar al-Kalbi
Governor of al-Andalus sent by sea from Tunis in 125; he dispersed the crowded Syrian junds through the land,… - Person
Abu al-Khayr al-'Ala'i al-Muqaddisi
c. 1326 CE · c. 726 AHJerusalem's musnid — the man scholars journeyed to for the capital's audition-list; Ibn Hajar set out from… - Person
Abu al-Khayr al-Armuni
One of the mathematicians and astronomers of Egypt. Born in Armant in western Egypt; the nisba al-Azhari… - Person
Abu l-Khayr al-Ishbili
Abu l-Khayr al-Ishbili, surnamed al-Mushajjir, 'the arboriculturist', a native of Seville and author of the… - Person
Abu l-Khayr Khan
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Abu al-Ma'ali al-Talawi
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Abu al-Mafakhr al-Qaini
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Abu al-Mahasin al-Ruyani
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Abu al-Mahasin al-Shawwa
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Abu al-Mahasin Yusuf al-Fasi
Chief of the Shadhili-Jazuli order; when the people of al-Qasr al-Kabir saw the Christians and, despairing of… - Person
Abu al-Makaram al-Misri
Abu al-Makaram Hibat Allah b. Wazir b. Muqallid — the Egyptian katib-poet punished by al-Qadi al-Sa'id for a… - Person
Abu al-Marhaf al-Namiri
Abu al-Marhaf Nasr b. Mansur al-Namiri — blind poet of Baghdad, a Hanbali who lost his sight to smallpox at… - Person
Abu al-Mawahib al-Tunisi al-Shadhili
The Shadhili of Tunis resident in Cairo, seated facing the Maghreb riwaq at the Azhar, a man of litanies and… - Person
Abu al-Muhajir Dinar
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Abu al-Mukhtar al-Sa'iq
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Abu al-Muthanna Ahmad ibn Ya'qub
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Abu al-Muzaffar al-Sam'ani Mansur ibn Muhammad al-Tamimi
Imam Abu al-Muzaffar al-Sam'ani Mansur b. Muhammad al-Tamimi al-Marwazi — the Hanafi turned Shafi'i; imam of… - Person
Abu al-Najib al-Suhrawardi
c. 1097 CE · c. 490 AHAbu al-Najib al-Suhrawardi Abd al-Qahir ibn Abdallah, nisba to Suhraward near Zanjan; the exemplary Sufi… - Person
Abu al-Nasr al-Khatib
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Abu al-Nur al-Tunisi
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Abu'l-Qasim al-Ansari
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Abu al-Qasim al-Burzuli
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Abu al-Qasim al-Hamid
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Abu al-Qasim al-Hawwari al-Awfi
The famous ascetic — the Hanbali shaykh of the zawiya at Hawwara. - Person
Abu al-Qasim al-Kush al-Dar'i
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Abu al-Qasim al-Kalbi
The Kalbid amir of Sicily; in 373 he led the Muslim host with scholars and ascetics through Messina and the… - Person
Abu al-Rabi' al-Asqalani
The Shafi'i khatib of the Haram — al-Mayanishi's grandson; d. Muharram 661. - Person
Abu al-Rabi al-Kila'i
c. 1169 CE · 565 AHThe Andalusi hafiz Abu'l-Rabi al-Kila'i, killed at Anija in 634 calling to the rout 'are you fleeing… - Person
Sultan Abu al-Rabi' Sulayman al-Marini
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Abu al-Rum ibn Umayr
Of Banu Abd al-Dar; Ibn Ishaq names him among the rest of the emigrants to Abyssinia. - Person
Abu al-Sa'adat al-Fakihi
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Abu'l-Sa'ib 'Utba al-Hamadhani
c. 877 CE · 264 AHAbu'l-Sa'ib 'Utba b. 'Ubayd Allah al-Hamadhani (264–350), chief qadi of Baghdad: drawn first to Sufism and… - Person
Abu al-Saj
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Abu al-Salah al-Halabi
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Abu al-Salt Abd al-Salam ibn Salih
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Abu al-Salt al-Andalusi
c. 1087 CE · 480 AHAbu al-Salt Umayya al-Dani — Andalusi physician, astronomer and poet; reached Alexandria in 489, was exiled… - Person
Abu al-Sanabil ibn Ba'kak al-Abdari (Companion)
A Companion of the Prophet from Quraysh, of Banu Abd al-Dar; his name is given as Amr or Ubayd Rabbih; he… - Person
Abu al-Shabl
A witty poet with anecdotes about Khalid ibn Yazid ibn Hubayra and his singing slave-girl, and another about… - Person
Abu 'l-Sha'tha' al-Ajdaji
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Abu al-Su'ud Afandi
c. 1492 CE · 898 AHThe Ottoman shaykh al-islam Abu al-Su'ud Afandi, whose Irshad al-aql al-salim became the most celebrated… - Person
Abu al-Su'ud al-Harimi
Abu al-Su'ud Ahmad b. al-Mubarak the ascetic of the Haram; a druggist till God set him aright — he cut… - Person
Abu al-Tahir al-Tanukhi
Ibrahim ibn Abd al-Samad ibn Bashir, Abu al-Tahir al-Tanukhi al-Mahdawi, a hadith scholar, philologist and… - Person
Abu al-Tamhan al-Qinai
The poet whose verses al-Mas'udi cites on Ma'rib's fortress-palace — its doorman watering atop the keep until… - Person
Abu al-Tayyib Ibn Salama
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Abu al-Tayyib al-Su'luki al-Hanafi
Abu al-Tayyib Sahl ibn Muhammad al-Su'luki al-Hanafi, of the Banu Hanifa, studied jurisprudence under his… - Person
Qadi Abu'l-Tayyib Tahir ibn 'Abd Allah
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Abu al-Thana' al-Lamishi
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Abu al-Tufayl Amir ibn Wathila
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Abu al-Ushara al-Darimi
A transmitter who narrated from his father, and from whom Hammad ibn Salama narrated. Fifteen reports from… - Person
Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, Muhammad ibn Muhammad
940 CE · 328 AHOne of the leading Muslim scholars of mathematics and astronomy, born in Buzjan in Khurasan. - Person
Abu al-Wafa al-Ghunaymi al-Taftazani
1930 CE · 1348 AHBorn in Kafr al-Ghunaymi in the Sharqiyya governorate of Egypt. He studied Islamic philosophy and Sufism. - Person
Abu al-Wafa Mustafa al-Maraghi
A senior scholar of al-Azhar and former Assistant Secretary-General of the Islamic Research Academy (p. 2).… - Person
Abu al-Walid Ibn Jahwar
Son and successor of the Jahwarid vizier at Cordoba from 435. - Person
Abu al-Waqt al-Sijzi
Musnid al-dunya Abu al-Waqt Abd al-Awwal ibn Isa al-Sijzi then of Herat, Sufi ascetic; he heard the Sahih and… - Person
Abu'l-Yusr Ka'b ibn Amr
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Abu'l-Za'zi'a
Abd al-Malik's guard-captain — struck off al-Ashdaq's head inside the trapped room. - Person
Abd Allah ibn Dhakwan Abu al-Zinad
A Medinan jurist of the third generation; Shirazi reports his mission to Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik about the… - Person
Abu Ali Ibn al-Atrush al-Alawi
The captive Alid who killed his gaoler Abu'l-Hasan ibn Kaki in a drunken night; the troops dragged him from… - Person
Abu 'Ali al-Basir
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Abu Ali al-Daqqaq
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Abu Ali al-Farimi
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Abu Ali al-Farisi
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Abu Ali al-Haeri
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Abu Ali ibn Hamkan al-Hamadhani
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Abu Ali al-Hashimi
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Abu Ali al-Hatimi
The Baghdadi philologist-secretary al-Hatimi, pupil of Abu 'Umar al-Zahid and teacher of al-Tanukhi; his… - Person
Abu Muhammad al-Hijri
c. 1111 CE · 505 AHAbu Muhammad Abdallah b. Muhammad al-Hijri al-Andalusi al-Mari, hafiz, ascetic exemplar, one of the… - Person
Abu Ali al-Khayyat
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Abu Ali al-Muhassin al-Tanukhi
938 CE · 327 AHA judge and man of letters from the Tanukh tribe, who compiled reports on judges and on those who did good. - Person
Abu Ali al-Shalubin
1166 CE · 562 AHThe Sevillian grammarian (b. 562, d. 645) — in his generation the science of Arabic terminated with him. - Person
Abu 'Ali al-Sinji
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Abu Ali al-Tabari al-Hasan ibn al-Qasim
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Abu Ali al-Tusi
c. 1086 CE · 479 AHAbu Ali al-Tusi, shaykh of the denomination — son of Shaykh Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn al-Hasan, author of the… - Person
Abu Ali al-Zajjaji al-Tabari
Abu Ali al-Zajjaji al-Tabari, one of the companions of Abu al-Abbas Ibn al-Qass and author of «Ziyadat… - Person
Abu 'Ali al-Bayhaqi
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Abu 'Ali Husayn, the shape-shifter Sufi of Bulaq
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Qadi Abu Ali Ibn Abi Hurayra al-Baghdadi
Qadi Abu Ali Ibn Abi Hurayra al-Baghdadi. He studied under Abu al-Abbas Ibn Surayj and under Abu Ishaq… - Person
Abu Ali ibn al-Ikhwa
Abu Ali al-Faraj b. Muhammad Ibn al-Ikhwa (d. 436) — a noted Baghdad mu'addib and poet. - Person
Abu Ali b. Duwayra al-Basri
Shaykh of Basra's Hanbalis (d. 652) — more than a thousand finished the Qur'an under him; his pupil Nur… - Person
Abu Ali Ibn Khayran
Abu Ali Ibn Khayran died in 320. The qadi-ship was offered to him and he did not accept it. One of the… - Person
Abu Ali ibn Marwan al-Kurdi
Abu Ali ibn Marwan ibn Dushk, nephew of Bad al-Kurdi; surviving the battle that killed his uncle he slipped… - Person
Abu Ali ibn Muhammad, Ghurid
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Abu Ali ibn Muhtaj
The Muhtajid Samanid commander; governor of Khurasan who took Rayy and killed Makan ibn Kaki in 329. - Person
Amid al-Juyush Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn Ustadh Hurmuz
c. 961 CE · 350 AHAl-Hasan ibn Abi Ja'far Ustadh Hurmuz, Abu Ali, titled Amid al-Juyush, born in 350. His father had been one… - Person
Abu al-Karam Lahiq al-Artahi
The Artahi Hanafi — sole ijaza-heir of al-Mubarak; 'devout, self-restrained'; d. Egypt Jumada II 658. - Person
Abu Amir al-Ash'ari
A senior Ash'ari Companion and paternal uncle of Abu Musa al-Ash'ari; appointed by the Prophet to lead the… - Person
Abu Amir al-Azdi, the qadi Mahmud ibn al-Qasim al-Muhallabi
c. 1009 CE · 400 AHAbu Amir al-Azdi, qadi Mahmud b. al-Qasim al-Muhallabi al-Harawi the Shafi'i — rawi of Tirmidhi's Jami' from… - Person
Abu 'Amir al-Rahib
Abu 'Amir 'Abd 'Amr ibn Sayfi al-Awsi, known as 'the Monk', father of Hanzala 'the one washed by the angels';… - Person
Abu Amir al-Balawi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad
An Andalusian vizier and secretary, a man of learning and a poet. - Person
Abu Amr al-Dani
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Abu Amr ibn al-Ala'
Abu Amr ibn al-Ala' the philologist; in al-Baladhuri via al-Athram from Abu Ubayda from him: when the Arabs… - Person
Abu Aruba al-Harrani
837 CE · 222 AHAbu Aruba al-Harrani, al-Husayn b. Abi Ma'shar Muhammad b. Mawdud al-Sulami, a hadith scholar of Harran, born… - Person
Abu 'Asim al-'Abbadi
985 CE · 375 AHAbu 'Asim Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-'Abbadi, known as al-Qadi al-Harawi, a Shafi'i jurist. Born in Herat in… - Person
Abu 'Asim al-Nabil
The traditionist al-Dahhak ibn Makhlad — dead in 212. - Person
Abu Asma al-Sayqal
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Marzuq al-Sindi
Abu Ata Marzuq al-Sindi — the lisping client-poet of Asad b. Khuzayma whom Hammad al-Rawiya's circle once… - Person
Abu 'Atika al-Basri
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al-Waddah ibn Abdallah al-Yashkuri (Abu Awana)
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Abu Awana, Ya'qub ibn Ishaq
845 CE · 230 AHA hadith scholar, memorizer and jurist from Isfara'in, known for his extract on Sahih Muslim. He was the… - Person
Abu 'Awn 'Abd al-Malik ibn Yazid
Salih ibn 'Ali's partner in the pursuit to Busir — the night assault crying 'revenge for Ibrahim' in which… - Person
Abu Awn Abd Allah ibn Awn
Abu Awn Abd Allah ibn Awn ibn Artaban, a client (mawla) of the Muzayna, died in 151. Ibn al-Mubarak said of… - Person
Abu Ayyub al-Ansari
The Najjari Ansari who took the Prophet's baggage into his house when the she-camel knelt among Banu… - Person
Abu Ayyub al-Muryani
Abu Ayyub al-Muryani; al-Mansur's minister, ordered to write the money-letters on yellowed sheets — and so it… - Person
Abu 'Azza al-Jumahi
A poet of the Banu Jumah whom the Muslims took captive at Badr; the Prophet released him without ransom on… - Person
Abu Bakar of Johor
3 February 1833 CE · 13 Ramadan 1248 AH†Sultan of Johor (1833–1895) and founder of modern Johor: he succeeded his father as Temenggong in 1862,… - Person
Abu Bakr al-Siddiq
c. 573 CEClose companion of the Prophet and the first caliph (r. 632–634 CE); his succession is understood differently… - Person
Ebubekir Aga
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Abu Bakr al-Adani
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Abu Bakr al-A'mash
Muhammad ibn Sa'id ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah, Abu Bakr, known as al-A'mash, a Hanafi jurist. He studied… - Person
Abu Bakr al-Asamm
Abu Bakr al-Asamm — a leading man of the Basra branch of the Mu'tazila in Ahmad Amin's stemma. - Person
Shaykh Abu Bakr al-Aydarus al-Shadhili
The Shadhili saint al-Aydarus, 'innovator of coffee' — encountering the abandoned coffee tree on his… - Person
Abu Bakr al-Baydawi al-Shafii (Muhammad ibn Ahmad), judge and jurist
Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn al-Abbas, Abu Bakr al-Baydawi al-Farisi, a Shafii judge, jurist and man of letters;… - Person
Abu Bakr al-Dinawari
Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Dinawari the Hanbali; a venerable shaykh who debated and argued, whose… - Person
Abu Bakr al-Farisi (Shafi'i jurist)
Ahmad ibn al-Husayn ibn Sahl, Abu Bakr al-Farisi, Shafi'i jurist; he studied with al-Muzani and Ibn Surayj,… - Person
Abu Bakr al-Haddad
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Abu Bakr al-Hudhali
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Abu Bakr al-Kalabadhi
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Abu Bakr al-Khabbaz al-Isbahani
An Isfahani baker whose refrain 'what a day of toil I have from you' whenever Nasr was named made people… - Person
Abu Bakr al-Khaffaf Ahmad ibn Umar
Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Umar al-Khaffaf, the author of the book al-Khisal. al-Shirazi does not mention the date of… - Person
Abu Bakr al-Khallal
He gathered Imam Ahmad's transmitted answers and wrote them down with their chains of transmission in the… - Person
Abu Bakr al-Khwarazmi
Abu Bakr al-Khwarazmi (d. 383) — nephew of the historian al-Tabari; master of letters and genealogy, author… - Person
Abu Bakr al-Marrudhi
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Abu Bakr al-Muradi al-Hadrami
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Abu Bakr al-Mutawwi'i
Abu Bakr al-Mutawwi'i, who heard Ibn Hanbal and Ibn al-Madini; Ja'far al-Khaldi heard him say his youth's… - Person
Abu Bakr al-Naysaburi Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Ziyad
c. 852 CE · 238 AHAbu Bakr Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Ziyad ibn Wasil ibn Maymun al-Naysaburi, a client (mawla) of Aban ibn… - Person
Abu Bakr al-Samarqandi
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Abu Bakr al-Shafi'i
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Abu Bakr al-Shashi Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Hamid
c. 1007 CE · 397 AHAbu Bakr al-Shashi Muhammad b. Ali b. Hamid — shaykh of the Shafi'is and author of the celebrated works; born… - Person
Abu Bakr al-Shatri
1 January 1970 CE · 1389 AHSaudi Quran reciter and imam of Yemeni descent, born in Jeddah in 1970. He received an ijaza in the Hafs… - Person
Abu Bakr al-Sibi Ahmad ibn Muhammad
c. 909 CE · 296 AHAbu Bakr Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Yahya al-Sibi. He was born in Qasr Ibn Hubayra in 296,… - Person
al-Utbi, author of the Utbiyya responsa
Author of the Utbiyya responsa in Malik's madhhab, died in al-Mu'tazz's days. - Person
Qadi Abu Bakr al-Yafai
Qadi Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad al-Yafa'i; the Sahib al-Bayan attended his death and said 'chivalry has died'; he… - Person
Abu Bakr al-Shahid, Hafsid
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Abu Bakr Abd al-Aziz (Ghulam al-Khallal)
A Hanbali jurist, author of al-Shafi and al-Tanbih in the school's jurisprudence; he wrote on his copy of the… - Person
Abu Bakr ibn Abd al-Baqi
c. August 1050 CE · Safar 442 AHAbu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd al-Baqi al-Ansari, qadi of the Maristan — a descendant of Ka'b ibn Malik's house; a… - Person
Abu Bakr ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Makhzumi
Abu Bakr b. Abd al-Rahman b. al-Harith al-Makhzumi — one of the Seven Fuqaha of Medina, called 'the monk of… - Person
Abu Bakr ibn Abi al-Qasim al-Ahdal
1576 CE · 983 AHThe Tihami Sufi Abu Bakr ibn Abi al-Qasim ibn Ahmad al-Ahdal al-Husayni, born in 983 AH and died in 1035 AH;… - Person
Abu Bakr ibn Abi Ali al-Dhikwani
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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Dawud al-Sijistani
Son of Abu Dawud; when the vizier Ali ibn Isa called him 'a false shaykh' he answered 'the false shaykh is… - Person
Abu Bakr ibn Abi Musa al-Ash'ari
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Qadi Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi
Qadi Abu Bakr b. al-Arabi, the 'seal of al-Andalus's scholars'; travelled east at seventeen, heard al-Ghazali… - Person
Qadi Abu Bakr Ibn al-Daqqaq al-Baghdadi
c. 918 CE · 306 AHQadi Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Baghdadi, known as Ibn al-Daqqaq, a jurist and scholar of legal theory… - Person
Abu Bakr ibn al-Harith ibn Hisham
The Makhzumi cousin whose counsel to al-Husayn survives — 'the one who promised to aid you will fight you;… - Person
Abu Bakr ibn al-Jaabi
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Abu Bakr Ibn al-Mundhir al-Nisaburi
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Mundhir al-Nisaburi, who died in Mecca. He wrote books on the… - Person
Abu Bakr ibn al-Pahlawan
Last Eldiguzid Atabeg of Azerbaijan — in Ibn al-Athir's portrait a ruler 'occupied with drink night and day'… - Person
Abu Bakr ibn Anas ibn Malik
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Ebu Bekir ibn Behram
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Abu Bakr ibn Dawud al-Hanbali
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Abu Bakr ibn Faris
1340 CE · 740 AH†Draft card for Abu Bakr ibn Faris, the Marinid sultan; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Abu Bakr ibn Hafs
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Abu Bakr ibn Hazm
Governor of Medina in the time of Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz. The caliph wrote to him, together with the governors… - Person
Abu Bakr ibn Lal
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Abu Bakr Ibn Lal al-Hamadhani
c. 919 CE · 307 AHAbu Bakr Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Lal al-Hamadhani, a pious and devout man who studied fiqh with Abu Ishaq… - Person
Abu Bakr al-Sam'ani
The Marwazi hafiz Taj al-Islam Abu Bakr al-Sam'ani, father of the hafiz Abu Sa'd — master of hadith, Shafi'i… - Person
Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad, Sultan of Adal
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Abu Bakr ibn Qawam al-Balisi
1188 CE · 584 AHThe great ascetic of Balis (b. 584) — a guide with kashf and a zawiya and following; he died end of Rajab 658… - Person
Abu Bakr b. Qutlubak the Astrologer
Abu Bakr b. Qutlubak, the astrologer; died 812. - Person
Abu Bakr ibn Sabiq al-Bayri
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Sabiq ibn Abd Allah ibn Sabiq al-Umawi, also given as Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Sabiq… - Person
Abu Bakr b. Salim Ba 'Alawi, the saint of 'Aynat
Abu Bakr b. Salim Ba 'Alawi of 'Aynat — 'sought by visitors from the farthest lands, his miracles carried by… - Person
Abu Bakr ibn Ubayd Allah ibn Anas ibn Malik
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Abu Bakr ibn Umar al-Lamtuni
The Lamtuni commander who led the mulaththamun from the Sudan borderlands and took the Maghreb from Zanata's… - Person
Abu Bakr ibn Ibn Zaydun
Abu Bakr b. Ibn Zaydun (d. 484, Cordoba) — son of the poet; vizier to the Abbadids, honored by al-Muwaffaq b.… - Person
Abu Bakr Khuqir
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Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd Allah al-Sayrafi
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd Allah al-Sayrafi, who died in 330 and wrote works on the principles of… - Person
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn al-Jahm
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn al-Jahm, known as Ibn al-Warraq al-Marwazi, was a trusted and excellent imam,… - Person
Abu Bakr Qayyim al-Jawziyya
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Abu Bakr Shah, Tughlaq sultan
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Abu Bakr Zoud
Australian Islamic preacher and teacher based in Sydney, a graduate of the Islamic University of Madinah who… - Person
Abu Bakra Nufay' ibn al-Harith
A slave of Thaqif who descended from the besieged fortress of Ta'if on a pulley (bakra) in response to the… - Person
Abu Barza al-Aslami
Abu Barza Nadla ibn Ubaydallah al-Aslami; he held Ibn Amir's right wing at Istakhr's fall. - Person
Abu Basir (Utba ibn Usayd)
A determined Meccan convert who escaped to Medina following the Hudaybiyya Treaty; surrendered to Quraysh… - Person
Abu Basir al-Asadi
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Abu Basir al-Tartusi
1959 CE · 1378 AH†Draft card for Abu Basir al-Tartusi, the Syrian writer and theorist; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Abu Basra al-Ghifari
Humayl ibn Basra ibn Waqqas ibn Hajib ibn Ghifar, Abu Basra al-Ghifari, a Companion. He narrated from the… - Person
Abu Bayhas
Draft card for Abu Bayhas al-Haytham ibn Malik, the eighth-century muhaddith, d. 713; the biographical entry… - Person
Abu Bishr al-Harawi al-Alim
Abu Bishr Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Harawi, known as al-Alim, settled in Baghdad, and the caliph al-Qadir billah… - Person
Abu Burayda al-Aslami
A tribal chief who rode out hunting the Quraysh bounty on the Prophet's head, but on meeting him embraced… - Person
Abu Burda ibn Niyar
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Abu Burqan
Of the Banu Sa'd ibn Bakr and reckoned a foster-uncle of the Prophet. The only report about him, on al-Hira,… - Person
Abu Dabbous al-Wathiq bi-Allah
The last Almohad king — rallied the armies, leapt on Marrakesh and killed his cousin its lord Abu Hafs; 'a… - Person
Abu Dahbal al-Jumahi
Draft card for Abu Dahbal al-Jumahi, the seventh-century Arabic poet, d. 682; the biographical entry is not… - Person
Abu Dalama
Abu Dalama Zand b. al-Jawn — the celebrated black jester-poet, mawla of Banu Asad; attached to al-Saffah,… - Person
Abu Damdam
Abu Damdam, the hero of a collection of anecdotes cited already in the tenth century, to whom foolish remarks… - Person
Abu Darba Muhammad al-Mustansir
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Abu Dawood Muhammad Sadiq
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Abu Dawud al-Sijistani
c. 817 CE · 202 AHThe muhaddith of Sijistan, author of the Sunan counted among the six books; he travelled for hadith to Basra,… - Person
Abu Dawud al-Tayalisi
The traditionist Sulayman ibn Dawud al-Tayalisi — dead at ninety-one in 204. - Person
Abu Dawud Sulayman ibn Najah, muqri' of al-Andalus
Abu Dawud Sulayman b. Najah al-Andalusi, mawla of the Umayyad al-Mu'ayyad — muqri' of al-Andalus and… - Person
Abu Dharr al-Ghifari
c. 590 CEA tribesman of Ghifar among the very first converts, remembered for fierce asceticism and for denouncing the… - Person
Abu Dharr al-Harawi
The Meccan Maliki master Ibn al-Sammak through whom al-Baji carried Bukhari's Sahih to the Maghreb — a… - Person
Abu Dhu'ayb al-Hudhali
Abu Dhu'ayb Khuwaylid ibn Khalid al-Hudhali the poet; he rode out in Abdallah ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Sarh's army to… - Person
Abu Duad al-Iyadi
Abu Duad al-Iyadi, a pre-Islamic poet of al-Hira, a contemporary of al-Mundhir b. Ma' al-Sama' (about… - Person
Abu Dujana
His name was Simak ibn Kharasha, or ibn Aws ibn Kharasha; agreed to have been at Badr; at Uhud he took the… - Person
Abu Dulaf al-Qasim ibn Isa
Abu Dulaf al-Qasim ibn Isa al-Ijli, lord of al-Karaj and al-Mu'tasim's commander; he raided Daylam under… - Person
Abu Dulaf Misar b. Muhalhil
Abu Dulaf Misar b. Muhalhil al-Khazraji, a mineralogist and traveller of the fourth/tenth century, to whom… - Person
Abu Fakiha
One of the earliest weak converts, a client of Safwan ibn Umayya (or of the Banu Abd al-Dar), said to be of… - Person
Abu Faqas
A man scourged at Baghdad in Ramadan 258 after witnesses established he cursed the early generations — he… - Person
Abu Faris Abd al-Aziz II
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Abu Faris Abd al-Aziz al-Hafsi
Sultan Abu Faris Abd al-Aziz of Tunis — the sleepless ruler who called the adhan and led prayer himself,… - Person
Abu Firas al-Hamdani
Al-Harith ibn Sa'id ibn Hamdan the poet-prince; killed in Rabi II 361 at Sadda on the desert fringe of Hims —… - Person
Abu Ghalib al-Zurari
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Abu Ghalib the vizier
c. 963 CE · 352 AHAbu Ghalib al-Hasan ibn Mansur, 'possessor of the two felicities'; born at Siraf in 352, he served Fakhr… - Person
Abu Ghanim Bishr b. Ghanim al-Khurasani
Abu Ghanim Bishr b. Ghanim al-Khurasani, an Ibadi jurist of the end of the second/eighth and the beginning of… - Person
Abu Ghubshan al-Khuzaʾi
The Khuzaʾi who held the guardianship of the Kaaba on behalf of Hubba bint Hulayl and sold it to Qusayy for a… - Person
Abu Habiba ibn al-Az'ar
One of the twelve men who built Masjid al-Dirar, according to Ibn Ishaq; his ascription: of Banu Dubay'a ibn… - Person
Abu Hadrad al-Aslami
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Abu Hafs al-Bazzar
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Abu Hafs al-Kabir
767 CE · 150 AH†Draft card for Abu Hafs al-Kabir, the great Hanafi jurist of Bukhara; his entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Abu Hafs Ibn al-Wakil
Abu Hafs Ibn al-Wakil al-Bab al-Shami, who died in Baghdad after 310. The nisba refers to Bab al-Sham, one of… - Person
Abu Hafs Umar al-Alawi
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Abu Hafs Umar ibn Yahya al-Hintati
Abu Hafs Umar al-Hintati, one of the Ten of Ibn Tumart's first circle at Bougie. - Person
Abu Hafs Umar I, Hafsid
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Abu Hafs Umar, Hafsid
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Abu Hakim al-Nahrawani (Ibrahim ibn Dinar)
Abu Hakim Ibrahim ibn Dinar al-Nahrawani, a Hanbali jurist and one of the imams of Baghdad. Al-Dhahabi… - Person
Abu Hamid al-Barawi al-Tusi
Abu Hamid al-Barawi of Tus, Shafi'i jurist, pupil of Muhammad ibn Yahya and author of the famed Ta'liqa on… - Person
Abu Hamid al-Gharnati
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Abu Hamid al-Isfarayini, Ahmad ibn Muhammad
c. 955 CE · 344 AHAhmad b. Muhammad al-Isfarayini, 'Abu Hamid' — the Shafi'i imam of Iraq to whom the school's headship came;… - Person
Qadi Abu Hamid al-Marwarudhi, Ahmad ibn Amir ibn Bishr
Qadi Abu Hamid Ahmad ibn Amir ibn Bishr al-Marwarudhi, a companion of Abu Ishaq al-Marwazi. He died in 362,… - Person
Abu Hamid al-Marwazi
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Abu Hammu I Musa ibn Uthman
Abu Hammu Musa ibn Uthman ibn Yaghmurasan, sultan of Tlemcen; he singled out his cousin Mas'ud ibn Abi Amir… - Person
Sultan Abu Hammu Musa II
Abu Hammu Musa ibn Yusuf ibn Abd al-Rahman, the Abd al-Wadid sultan of Tlemcen of the 'third return'; he… - Person
Abu Hamza al-Thumali
Draft card for Thabit ibn Dinar Abu Hamza al-Thumali, the eighth-century transmitter from Ali Zayn al-Abidin… - Person
Abu Hanifa al-Nu'man ibn Thabit
699 CE · 80 AHal-Nu'man ibn Thabit of Kufa, Abu Hanifa, the imam of Iraq's jurisprudence in the second century; in… - Person
Abu Hanifa al-Dinawari
Praised by al-Mas'udi as a man of great standing in knowledge whose book perfected the astronomy of measures… - Person
Abu Hansh al-La'i
Abu Hansh al-La'i, also said to be al-Numayri, whose name was Hudayr ibn Qays al-Basri; he lived a hundred… - Person
Abu Haritha al-Nahri
Al-Mahdi's treasury-keeper who flung down the keys of the emptied vaults — 'accidents do not wait while you… - Person
Abu Haritha ibn Alqama
Bishop of Najran and its religious leader, one of the three chiefs who headed the sixty-man Christian… - Person
Abu Hashim al-Ja'fari
The senior-most Ja'farid of his day — who told Ibn Tahir at the congratulations 'you are feted for killing a… - Person
Abu Hashim al-Jubba'i
861 CE · 247 AHAbu Hashim Abd al-Salam al-Jubba'i (247–321) — celebrated Mu'tazili theologian, son and successor of Abu Ali… - Person
al-Mughira ibn Miqsam al-Dabbi
Abu Hashim al-Mughira ibn Miqsam al-Dabbi, a client of the Banu Dabba and transmitter of Ibrahim al-Nakha'i.… - Person
Abu Hashim Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyya
Son of Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyya ibn Ali; on a journey to Syria he met Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abdallah ibn… - Person
Abu Hassan al-Ziyadi
A mihna jurist who answered 'the Quran is God's speech; whatever the commander of the faithful commands we… - Person
Bu Hasun al-Wattasi
Last of the Wattasid kings, whom al-Salabi styles 'the Ottoman pasha Bu Hasun'. Salih Reis and Ottoman forces… - Person
Abu Hatib ibn Amr
A Companion of Banu Amir ibn Lu'ayy; he emigrated to Abyssinia and arrived in the two ships. - Person
Abu Hatim Ahmad ibn Hamdan al-Razi
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Abu Hatim al-Qazwini
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Abu Hatim al-Sijistani
Abu Hatim al-Sijistani, a philologist of Basra, a pupil of Abu Zayd al-Ansari, Abu 'Ubayda and al-Asma'i, and… - Person
Abu Hatim Muhammad ibn Idris al-Razi
Abu Hatim Muhammad ibn Idris al-Razi al-Handhali — a leading hadith master of transmission-defects and… - Person
Abu Hatim Yaqub b. Labid al-Mazuzi al-Nafusi
Abu Hatim Yaqub b. Labid al-Mazuzi al-Nafusi, an Ibadi imam in the Maghrib who held Tripoli in the middle of… - Person
Abu Hayyan al-Gharnati
Athir al-Din Abu Hayyan the grammarian — author of Irtishaf al-Darab min Lisan al-Arab, a two-volume grammar… - Person
Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi
Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi of Baghdad (d. 380) — philosopher-adib; author of al-Imta' wa-l-Mu'anasa, al-Basa'ir… - Person
Abu Hazim al-A'raj
The ascetic whose counsel to Sulayman — 'you loathe death because you built your world and ruined your next;… - Person
Abu Hilal al-Askari
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Abu Hudhayfa ibn Utba
One of the earliest to embrace Islam, he made both emigrations, prayed towards both qiblas and fought at… - Person
Abu Humayd al-Sa'idi
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Abu Humayd al-Tusi
The Khurasani commander whose chance meeting with Sabiq in the sweeper's market uncovered the hidden Abbasids… - Person
Abu Hurayra
c. 603 CEA convert of the Khaybar years who became, by far, the most prolific narrator of hadith in the Sunni… - Person
Abu Husayn al-Asadi
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Abu Idris al-Khawlani
A qadi of Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan; the book says he took up the judgeship in 74 AH. He also held the mazalim… - Person
Abu Imran al-Fasi
Abu Imran al-Fasi, the Maliki master of Kairouan; the Guddala pilgrims asked him for a companion-scholar and… - Person
Abu Imran al-Mirtuli
Draft card for Abu Imran al-Mirtuli, the twelfth-century Andalusi mystic, poet and exegete, d. 1207; the… - Person
Abu Inan Faris al-Marini
Abu Inan Faris ibn Ali al-Marini, the Marinid sultan who seized power while his father Abu al-Hasan lay… - Person
Abu Isa al-Isfahani
Abu Isa al-Isfahani, a Jewish pretender to the title of Messiah under the Umayyad 'Abd al-Malik b. Marwan… - Person
Abu Ishaq Ibrahim b. Isma'il al-Adidabi
A philologist and calligrapher of the Luwata Berbers, lived in the second half of the 5th/11th century and… - Person
Abu Ishaq al-Ansari al-Tilimsani
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Abu Ishaq al-Fazari
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Abu Ishaq al-Habbal
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Abu Ishaq Al-Heweny
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Abu Ishaq al-Ilbiri
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Abu Ishaq al-Saffar al-Bukhari
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Abu Ishaq al-Shaybani
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Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi
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Sultan Abu Ishaq al-Hafsi
Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Abi Zakariya, brother of al-Mustansir; settled in al-Andalus during his brother's… - Person
Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Ahmad al-Marwazi
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Abu Ishaq Ibrahim, Hafsid
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Abu Isma'il al-Sulami
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Abu Jafar ibn Shirzad
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Abu Ja'far al-Hashmi
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Abu Ja'far al-Nufayli
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Abu Jafar al-Saymari
Mu'izz al-Dawla's vizier, sent against Umran ibn Shahin of the marshes campaign after campaign till Imad… - Person
Abu Ja'far al-Simnani
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Abu Jafar al-Tirmidhi
c. 816 CE · 200 AHAbu Jafar Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Nasr al-Tirmidhi, who settled in Baghdad. In Iraq in his time no one was a… - Person
Abu Ja'far al-Uqayli
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Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn al-Qasim ibn Ubayd Allah
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Abu Jahl (Amr ibn Hisham)
c. 570 CEThe most implacable leader of Meccan opposition to Muhammad: organizer of the boycott of Banu Hashim,… - Person
Abu Jalnak, the Aleppan poet
The famous Aleppan poet — taken by the Tatars, he magnified and multiplied the Muslim army for them, and they… - Person
Abu Jamila Maysara ibn Ya'qub
Maysara ibn Ya'qub, Abu Jamila al-Tuhawi al-Kufi, who carried the banner of Ali ibn Abi Talib. He narrated… - Person
Abu Jandal ibn Suhayl
Son of Suhayl ibn Amr who embraced Islam early in Mecca and was imprisoned by his father; at the conclusion… - Person
Abu Jubayla
Abu Jubayla — Ubayd ibn Salim, a Khazraji magnate at the Ghassanid court: he swore off perfume and women… - Person
Abu Juhayfa al-Suwa'i
Wahb ibn Abd Allah ibn Muslim ibn Janada, Abu Juhayfa al-Suwa'i, called Wahb al-Khayr, one of the younger… - Person
Abu Kabir al-Hudhali
Abu Kabir al-Hudhali, a pre-Islamic poet of the Hudhayl, the second greatest poet of his tribe after Abu… - Person
al-Malik Abu Kalijar ibn Sultan al-Dawla
c. 1008 CE · 399 AHAl-Malik Abu Kalijar b. Sultan al-Dawla — his father's designated heir; when Sultan Sharaf al-Dawla died in… - Person
Tubba' Abu Karib
The Himyarite conqueror who broke the Partisan king Qubadh and ruled Iraq, Syria and the Hijaz — his verses… - Person
Abu Khalaf al-Tabari
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Abu Khalifa al-Jumhi
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Abu Kharija 'Anbasa
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Abu Khaythama
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Abu Khazim al-Qadi
The qadi who told al-Mu'tadid 'you put the matter on my neck — I may not judge a man's wealth to a claimant… - Person
Abu Khazim ibn al-Qadi Abu Ya'la
c. January 1065 CE · Safar 457 AHThe ascetic Hanbali jurist Abu Khazim Muhammad ibn Muhammad — son of the qadi-imam Abu Ya'la and brother of… - Person
Abu Khirash Huwaylid b. Murra al-Hudhali
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Abu al-Aysh Ahmad ibn Kannun
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Abu l-Ala al-Maarri
c. December 973 CE · 17 Rabi' I 363 AHThe blind poet-philosopher of Ma'arra — 'prisoner of two gaols', his house and his sight, vegetarian… - Person
Abu l-Baz 'al-Uqab'
Baghdad's legendary master-thief: demolished a judge's stalls to be paid for 'stolen' clothes, and smuggled… - Person
Abu l-Faraj al-Isfahani
Abu l-Faraj Ali b. al-Husayn al-Isfahani, author of the Aghani — fifty years of gathering and a single… - Person
Abu l-Fawaris al-Qarmati
The Qarmatian whose mutilation and crucifixion spawned the forty-day-return craze among Baghdad's crowds. - Person
Abu al-Hasan al-Kharaqani
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Abu l-Hasan al-Masarjisi
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Abu l-Hayja Abd Allah ibn Hamdan
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Abu Labid al-Jahdami
An Azdi asked whether he loved Ali — 'how could I love a man who killed twenty-five hundred of my tribe in… - Person
Abu Lahab
c. 560 CEAn uncle of the Prophet who became one of his most vocal opponents in Mecca, alongside his wife Umm Jamil —… - Person
Abu Layla Abd al-Rahman ibn Ka'b
The third of the Weepers, brother of Banu Mazin ibn al-Najjar; Ibn Ishaq lists him among those who begged the… - Person
Abu Layla Ishaq ibn Muhammad al-Awrabi
Chief of Awraba who sheltered the fugitive Idris ibn Abdallah in 172 and rallied the Berbers to his da'wa. - Person
Abu Lubaba ibn Abd al-Mundhir
An Ansari of the Aws, of Banu Amr ibn Awf; his name is disputed (Bashir, Rifa'a or Marwan); the Prophet sent… - Person
Abu Madyan al-Ghawth
The singular gnostic Abu Madyan Shu'ayb b. al-Husayn, shaykh of the Maghrib; he settled at Tlemcen, unmatched… - Person
Abu Mahdhura
A Companion from Mecca who was a muezzin. He narrated from the Prophet, and his son Abd al-Malik, his… - Person
Abu Mahjan al-Thaqafi
The chained poet-knight: jailed under Sa'd for his wine verses, he begged Salma bt Hafsa for the loan of… - Person
Abu Malik al-Hadrami
The Kharijite speaker — 'sorcery's breath, subtler and hotter than embers' — at Yahya's majlis. - Person
Abu Mansur al-Ashqar
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Abu Mansur al-Azhari
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Abu Mansur al-Khayyat, reciter of the blind in Baghdad
c. 1010 CE · 401 AHAbu Mansur al-Khayyat Muhammad b. Ahmad al-Shirazi al-Baghdadi, the Hanbali muqri'-ascetic born 401; author… - Person
Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
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Abu Mansur ibn Qanna
Vizier of Imad al-Dawla Abu Kalijar al-Buwayhi; a man of merit, and among his works he endowed a library for… - Person
Abu Mansur Ilyas al-Nafusi
Abu Mansur Ilyas al-Nafusi, governor of the Nafusa mountains and Tripolitania for the Rustamid imam of… - Person
Abu Marthad al-Ghanawi
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Abu Maryam al-Hanafi
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Abu Ma'shar
The astrologer whose Great Introduction to the science of the stars al-Mas'udi cites on the forms the… - Person
Abu Ma'shar Najih b. Abd al-Rahman al-Sindi al-Madani
Abu Ma'shar Najih b. Abd al-Rahman al-Sindi al-Madani, a freed slave from the Yaman, possibly of Indian… - Person
Abu Mas'ud al-Dimashqi Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Hafiz
Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Ubayd, Abu Mas'ud al-Dimashqi the hafiz, travelled widely and heard and wrote down… - Person
Abu Mikhnaf Lut ibn Yahya
The Kufan akhbari of the maghazi and fitna books — one of Mas'udi's three authorities for the… - Person
Abu Mughatil al-Samarqandi
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Abu Muhallim
A dream-interpreter of al-Wathiq's court; he read the caliph's vision of al-murt — 'the barren waste where… - Person
Abu Muhammad al-Khwarazmi al-Bafi
Abu Muhammad Abd Allah ibn Muhammad al-Khwarazmi al-Bafi, a companion of al-Daraki, was a jurist, man of… - Person
Abu Muhammad Abdullah I
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Abu Muhammad al-Battal
One of the Syrian Muslim commanders and champions; he served in the army of Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik, based… - Person
al-Qadi Abu Muhammad al-Istakhri
Al-Qadi Abu Muhammad al-Istakhri studied fiqh under al-Qadi Abu Hamid al-Marwarudhi; he was judge of Fasa and… - Person
Abu Muhjan ibn Habib al-Thaqafi
Abu Muhjan ibn Habib al-Thaqafi; in al-Baladhuri he charged the elephant at the Day of the Bridge and… - Person
Abu Mulayh ibn Urwa al-Thaqafi
Of Thaqif, son of Urwa ibn Mas'ud, killed after calling his people to Islam; he came with Qarib ibn al-Aswad,… - Person
Abu Musa al-Ashari
c. 614 CECompanion from the Ashari tribe, a client of the family of Utba ibn Rabi'a; came to the Prophet on the two… - Person
Abu Musa al-Madini
c. 1107 CE · 501 AHThe hafiz Abu Musa Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr Umar ibn Abi Isa al-Isfahani al-Madini; he was the foremost figure… - Person
al-Hafiz Abu Musa al-Maqdisi
c. 1185 CE · Shawwal 581 AHAbu Musa al-Maqdisi — 'the hafiz son of the hafiz', born 581, a scholar of such standing that al-Ashraf built… - Person
Abu Muslim, mustamli of Yazid ibn Harun
مستملي يزيد بن هارون، أشخصه المأمون سنة ثمان عشرة ضمن السبعة الأوائل للمحنة فأجاب ورد إلى بغداد. - Person
Abu Muslim al-Nakha'i
Narrator of the four-heads report — Husayn's, Ibn Ziyad's, al-Mukhtar's and Mus'ab's on one spot in Kufa's… - Person
Abu Muti’ al-Balkhi
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Abu Muwayhiba, client of the Prophet
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Abu Nadra al-Abdi
A Successor from the Abd al-Qays tribe. He narrated from Ali, Abu Musa al-Ash'ari, Abu Dharr, Abu Hurayra,… - Person
Abu Nakhayla
The panegyrist who repudiated before al-Saffah every earlier praise-poem — 'all I said of others was false' —… - Person
Abu Nasr Ahmad al-Ibri
Abu Nasr Ahmad b. al-Faraj al-Ibri (d. 506, Baghdad) — father of the calligrapher Shahda; rose from service… - Person
Abu Nasr al-Azdi
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Abu Nasr al-Balkhi
Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Salam, Abu Nasr, of Balkh, a Hanafi scholar and a contemporary of Abu Hafs al-Kabir. - Person
Abu Nasr al-Saffar
Ishaq ibn Ahmad ibn Shayth, Abu Nasr al-Saffar, though some name him Ahmad ibn Ishaq. A Hanafi jurist from… - Person
Abu Nasr al-Tamar
754 CE · 136 AH†Draft card for Abu Nasr al-Tamar, the third-century hadith scholar; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Abu Nasr al-Zaynabi
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Abu Nasr ibn al-Hannat al-Shirazi
Abu Nasr ibn al-Hannat al-Shirazi studied fiqh under his father Abu Abd Allah al-Hannat; a jurist and… - Person
Abu Nasr ibn al-Qushayri
An Ash'ari preacher; he came to Baghdad in 469 AH and sat at the Nizamiyya denouncing the Hanbalis and… - Person
Abu Nu'aym al-Asbahani, Ahmad ibn Abd Allah
948 CE · 336 AHA memorizing hadith scholar from Isfahan and a major compiler of hadith; he was distinguished by high-grade… - Person
Abu Numayy II, sharif of Mecca
c. 1504 CE · 910 AHAbu Numayy II Muhammad b. Barakat — sharif of Mecca, partner to his father then sole amir; briefly deposed… - Person
Abu Numayy, Sharif of Mecca
Abu Numayy ibn Abi Sa'd al-Hasani, Sharif of Mecca, keeper of its affairs and lord of the pilgrimage season;… - Person
Abu Nuwas
al-Hasan b. Hani' — the poet who nearly closed the door on describing wine. - Person
Abu Qatada al-Ansari
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Abu Qatada, cousin of Ka'b ibn Malik
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Abu Qays ibn Abd Manaf ibn Zuhra
a Qurashi who learned the script with Sufyan ibn Umayya from Bishr ibn Abd al-Malik. - Person
Abu Qays ibn Sayfi ibn al-Aslat
Poet and wartime leader of the Aws before Islam, chief of the 'Aws Allah' clans — Banu Umayya ibn Zayd,… - Person
Abu Qays ibn al-Harith
Of Banu Sahm; he emigrated to Abyssinia and was killed on the day of al-Yamama in Abu Bakr's caliphate. - Person
Abu Qilaba al-Jarmi
Abu Qilaba Abd Allah ibn Zayd ibn Amr al-Jarmi al-Azdi died in Syria in 106 or 107 AH. Muslim ibn Yasar said:… - Person
Abu Quhafa Uthman ibn Amir
The father of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq; an old, blind man who watched the Muslim army enter Mecca from Mount Abu… - Person
Abu Qurra al-Yafrani
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Abu Rabi' al-Ilaqi
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Abu Rifa'a Umara ibn Wathima
Abu Rifa'a Umara b. Wathima b. al-Furat — Egyptian chronicler; transmitted from Ibn Lahi'a's katib and from… - Person
Abu Rafi' al-Fadl ibn Hazm
Abu Rafi' al-Fadl b. Ahmad b. Hazm — son of Ibn Hazm the Zahiri's father and a katib of al-Mu'tamid Ibn… - Person
Abu Raja' al-Farisi
Narrator from his father of his grandfather, who said: 'I was a Magian at al-Qadisiyya; when the Arabs shot… - Person
Abu Raja al-Utaridi
Imran ibn Milhan, also called Ibn Abd Allah, Abu Raja al-Utaridi of Basra, one of the senior mukhadramun. He… - Person
Abu Rakwa al-Walid al-Umawi
Al-Walid, known as Abu Rakwa, a Umayyad of the descendants of Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik. He was given the kunya… - Person
Abu Rashid al-Nisaburi
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Abu Rawka
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Abu Rayhana Shimun
Shimun ibn Yazid ibn Khunaqa, Abu Rayhana, a Companion who took part in the conquest of Damascus. He narrated… - Person
Abu Righal
Abu Righal, a mythical figure of Arab tradition with two distinct stories: in the first he is a Thaqafi of… - Person
Abu Ruhm al-Ghifari
A Companion of Ghifar, among those who pledged under the tree, according to Ibn Ishaq; he related of the… - Person
Abu Sa'da
A man of Banu Abs at Kufa; in al-Baladhuri he told the investigators Sa'd 'neither divided equally nor judged… - Person
Abu Sa'd al-Mutawalli
1034 CE · 426 AHAbu Sa'd al-Mutawalli of Nishapur (426–478) — Shafi'i jurist who succeeded Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi at the… - Person
Muhyi al-Din Abu Sa'd al-Nisaburi
Muhammad ibn Yahya, the allama Abu Sa'd of Nishapur, Muhyi al-Din — shaykh of the Shafi'is and al-Ghazali's… - Person
Abu Sa'd al-Sa'idi
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Sharif Abu Sa'd ibn Barakat, lord of the Hijaz
Abu Sa'd b. Barakat b. Hasan b. 'Ajlan — sharif and lord of the Hijaz; died Rabi' II 894. - Person
Abu Sadaqa Miskin ibn Sadaqa
A witty, greedy singer from Medina whom Harun al-Rashid enjoyed teasing; anecdotes include his mimicry of the… - Person
Abu Sahl al-Saluki
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Abu Sahl al-Su'luki al-Hanafi Muhammad ibn Sulayman
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Abu Sahl ibn Ziyad
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Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr
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Abu Sa'id al-Istakhri
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Abu Sa'id Al-Janadi
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Abu Sa'id al-Jannabi
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Abu Said al-Khadimi
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Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz
A major Sufi, known for the station of trust in God. Ibn al-Jawzi places his death under 277 (with a variant… - Person
Abu Said al-Khudri
A Khazraji Companion known by his kunya, judged too young at Uhud, where his father was killed; he campaigned… - Person
Abu Sa'id al-Makhzumi
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Abu Sa'id al-Maqburi (Kaysan)
Kaysan ibn Sa'id, Abu Sa'id al-Maqburi of Medina, a trustworthy Successor who narrated much hadith; he… - Person
Abu Sa'id al-Qarmati
The Qarmati chief who rose in Bahrayn in 286, raided Basra and beat the caliph's armies — father of Abu Tahir… - Person
Abu Said ibn al-Mu'alla
Abu Said ibn al-Mu'alla al-Ansari of Medina, a Companion. His name is given as Rafi ibn Aws, or al-Harith ibn… - Person
Abu Sa'id ibn Yunus
895 CE · 281 AHAbu Sa'id Abd al-Rahman b. Yunus al-Sadafi (281–347) — the Egyptian historian, grandson of Yunus b. Abd… - Person
Abu Sa'id ibn Khudabanda
Khudabanda's son, best of the Tatar kings — he restored the Sunna and the four-caliph order in the khutba; on… - Person
Abu Sa'd al-Isma'ili
Abu Sa'd Isma'il ibn Ahmad al-Isma'ili, a jurist, man of letters and generous; in Jurjan he combined… - Person
Abu Sa'id Mirza (Timurid sultan)
Abu Sa'id Mirza, Timurid sultan, who at the age of twenty-five in 853/1449 tried to take Transoxiana, failed… - Person
Abu Sa'id Uthman I al-Marini
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Abu Said Uthman II, Marinid sultan
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Sultan Abu Sa'id Uthman II al-Marini
Abu Sa'id Uthman ibn Ya'qub ibn Abd al-Haqq al-Marini (710-731 AH); his sister Urayba worked for his bay'a… - Person
Abu Sa'id Uthman ibn Abd al-Rahman
Abu Sa'id Uthman ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Yahya ibn Yaghmurasan; of the Abd al-Wadid house carried off to… - Person
Abu Sakhr al-Hudhali
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Abu Salama (Abdullah ibn Abd al-Asad)
Abdullah ibn Abd al-Asad al-Makhzumi, Abu Salama; one of the earliest Muslims of the secret call and the… - Person
Abu Salama al-Zutti
Abu Salama al-Zutti; chief of the Sayabija treasury-guards when they were killed in the Camel affair —… - Person
Abu Salama ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf
Abu Salama ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf al-Zuhri, one of the senior Successors in Medina, a trustworthy and… - Person
Abu Salih al-Samman
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Abu Salih Mansur ibn Ishaq al-Samani
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Abu Salim al-Ayyashi
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Abu Shama al-Dimashqi
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Abu Shu'ayb al-Doukkali
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Abu Sufyan ibn al-Harith
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Abu Sufyan ibn Harb
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Abu Taghlib Fadl Allah ibn Nasir al-Dawla
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Abu Tahir al-Khujandi of Medina
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Abu Tahir Sulayman al-Qarmati
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Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib
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Abu Talib al-Makki
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Sultan Abu Thabit al-Marini
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Abu Tha'laba al-Khushani
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Abu Thawr
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Abu Thawr al-Kalbi
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Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah
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Abu Ubayda ibn Ziyad
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Abu 'Ubayda Ma'mar ibn al-Muthanna
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Abu Umar al-Maqdisi
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Abu Umayya ibn al-Mughira al-Makhzumi
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Qadi Abu Amr Muhammad ibn Yusuf
The qadi of Baghdad who presided over al-Hallaj's examination under vizier Hamid ibn al-Abbas; when al-Hallaj… - Person
Abu 'Urwa al-Bahili
Abu 'Urwa al-Bahili of Basra, who came to Baghdad and transmitted there from Salam ibn Sulayman al-Dabbi; Ibn… - Person
Abu Usamah at-Thahabi
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Abu Usayd al-Sa'idi
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Abu Uthman al-Nahdi
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Abu Uyayna ibn al-Muhallab
Abu Uyayna ibn al-Muhallab, Yazid's brother; sent with Khalid against the Ispahbadh and routed with him. - Person
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Abu Yahya ibn Abd al-Haqq al-Marini
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Abu Ya'la al-Farra'
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Abu Ya'la al-Saghir
1100 CE · 494 AHMuhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Husayn ibn Muhammad ibn Khalaf ibn Ahmad al-Farra', Imad al-Din,… - Person
Abu Ya'la ibn al-Farra'
Abu Ya'la Muhammad ibn al-Husayn ibn al-Farra' al-Hanbali, d. Baghdad AH 458 — author of the Hanbali al-Ahkam… - Person
Abu Ya'qub al-Hamadhani
Abu Ya'qub Yusuf ibn Ayyub of Hamadhan, shaykh of the Sufis at Marw; he read fiqh in Baghdad under Abu Ishaq… - Person
Abu Ya'qub al-Qarrah al-Harawi
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Abu Ya'qub Yusuf ibn Abd al-Mu'min
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Abu Ya'qub Yusuf al-Marini
Marinid sultan; pressed Tlemcen by building a counter-city al-Mansura with wall, mosque, baths and hospital,… - Person
Abu Yusuf al-Qazwini, shaykh of the Mu'tazila
Abu Yusuf al-Qazwini Abd al-Salam b. Muhammad — shaykh of the Mu'tazila and author of a tafsir exceeding… - Person
Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Marini
Abu Yusuf Ya'qub ibn Abd al-Haqq, Marinid sultan of Fez — the crossing whose victories Muslims had not seen… - Person
Abu Zakariya' al-Djanawuni
An Ibadi jurist of the Djabal Nafusa, from Idinawun, probably active in the first half of the 6th/12th… - Person
Abu Zakariya al-Hafsi
Abu Zakariya Yahya ibn Abi Muhammad, grandson of the shaykh Abu Hafs al-Hintati, founder of the Hafsid state… - Person
Abu Zakariya al-Sarraj (Yahya ibn Ahmad), Andalusian-Fasi jurist
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Abu Zakariya' al-Wardilani
Historian of the Ibadis of the Maghrib, a native of Wardilan (Ouargla) and author of the Sira wa-akhbar… - Person
Amir Abu Zakariya, lord of Bejaia
Abu Bakr Zakariya ibn al-Mustansir al-Hafsi, who titled himself 'al-Muntakhab for the revival of God's… - Person
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Abu Zakkar al-A'ma
A blind singer who became furious when Abu Sadaqa mimicked him at a drinking party and cursed him. - Person
Abu Zayd al-Ansari
One of those who collected the Qur'an in the Prophet's time, per Abu Mikhnaf; killed at the Day of the Bridge. - Person
Abu Zayd Ahmad ibn Sahl al-Balkhi
Abu Zayd Ahmad ibn Sahl al-Balkhi — the polymath who walked from Balkh to Iraq, spent eight years among its… - Person
Abu Zayd al-Dabusi
Abu Zayd Abdallah b. Umar al-Dabusi (d. 430 Bukhara) — Hanafi jurist, counted among Abu Hanifa's greatest… - Person
Abu Zayd al-Hilali
The legendary hero of the Banu Hilal romances, son of Rizq, ruler of the Bilad al-Sarw. In the romances he is… - Person
Abu Zayd al-Marwazi Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abd Allah
Abu Zayd Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abd Allah al-Marwazi, companion of Abu Ishaq, died at Marw in Rajab 371, a… - Person
Abu Zayd ibn Amr al-Dubaybi
Of the Dubayb of Judham; he rode on his horse Shamir to Zayd ibn Haritha's army with Hassan and Unayf the… - Person
Abu Zaynab ibn 'Awf al-Azdi
The Azdi who with Jundub bore the governor's seal and the wine-witness to Medina. - Person
Abu Zayyan Ahmad II
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Abu Zayyan Muhammad IV
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Abu Zayyan Muhammad V, Marinid Sultan
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Abu Ziyan Muhammad ibn Uthman
Abu Ziyan Muhammad ibn Uthman ibn Yaghmurasan, third of the Abd al-Wadid kings; he took the rule when his… - Person
Abu Zur'a al-Razi
Ubayd Allah ibn Abd al-Karim Abu Zur'a al-Razi, mawla of al-'Abbas ibn al-Mutarrif al-Qurashi — the… - Person
Abu Zur'a al-Razi the Younger
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Abubakar Gumi
5 November 1922 CE · 1341 AHNigerian scholar and judge (d. 1992), Grand Khadi of the Northern Region (1962-1967) and the leading figure… - Person
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
December 1912 CE · 1331 AHNigerian politician (1912–1966) from Bauchi province who worked as a teacher and headmaster and wrote the… - Person
Abul A'la Maududi
25 September 1903 CE · 1321 AHPakistani scholar and thinker (1903–1979), born in Aurangabad, India. He founded Jamaat-e-Islami in 1941 and… - Person
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Abul Kalam Azad
11 November 1888 CE · 1306 AHIndian scholar, writer and statesman (1888–1958), born in Mecca and raised between Mecca and Medina, master… - Person
Abu'l-Ma'ali al-Balkhi
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Abu'l Tayyeb Tabari
960 CE · 349 AH†Draft card for Abu al-Tayyib Tahir ibn Abd Allah al-Tabari, shaykh of the Shafi'is and Baghdad's mufti; his… - Person
Abdun ibn Makhlad al-Nasrani
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Abu al-Abbas Abd Allah al-Abyani
A scholar of Ifriqiya in the fourth century AH. Al-Asili and Abu al-Hasan al-Qabisi were among those who… - Person
Abd al-Hadi Naja al-Abyari
1821 CE · 1236 AHAn Egyptian grammarian trained at al-Azhar. He tutored the children of Khedive Isma'il and served as personal… - Person
Ali ibn Isma'il al-Abyari
1161 CE · 557 AHFrom Abyar in the Gharbiya province of Egypt; born in 557 AH and died in 616 AH. The biographical… - Person
Achraf Hakimi
4 November 1998 CE · 1419 AHMoroccan professional footballer (born 1998 in Madrid to Moroccan parents). A right-back raised in Getafe who… - Person
Ad ibn Aws
Reputed first king of 'Ad — 'Ad ibn 'Aws, three hundred years, succeeded by his son; the last of their kings… - Person
Adam
The father of mankind. In Bukhari, God created him sixty cubits tall and sent him to greet the angels, whose… - Person
Adam ibn Abi Iyas
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Adam ibn Yunus al-Nasafi
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Adam Smith
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Adama Traoré
25 January 1996 CE · 1416 AHSpanish professional footballer (born 1996 in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat to Malian parents). A right winger… - Person
Addas the Christian
A Christian slave from Nineveh serving Utba and Shayba ibn Rabi'a in their orchard at al-Ta'if; upon offering… - Person
Adel Al-Kalbani
3 April 1959 CE · 1378 AHSaudi imam and Quran reciter, born in Riyadh in 1959. He led prayers for many years at the King Khalid Mosque… - Person
Aden Adde
9 December 1908 CE · 1326 AHSomali politician (1908–2007) from Beledweyne, a leader of the Somali Youth League and speaker of the… - Person
Adham ibn Muhriz al-Bahili
One of the five commanders of Ibn Ziyad's vanguard from Raqqa against the Penitents. - Person
Adham Khan
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Adi ibn Adi ibn Amira al-Kindi
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Adi ibn Hatim
The son of the famously generous Hatim al-Ta'i; he embraced Islam in 9 AH or 10 AH, having been a Christian,… - Person
Shaykh 'Adi ibn Musafir al-Hakkari
A Sufi of Umayyad descent from Bayt Far near Baalbek, who founded the 'Adawiyya order at Laylash near Mosul.… - Person
Adi ibn Nadla
Of Banu Adi ibn Ka'b; he emigrated to Abyssinia with his son al-Nu'man and died there. - Person
'Adi ibn Zayd al-'Ibadi
The Christian poet of al-Hira whose famous ode on Shapur's killing of al-Nadira — 'A calamity poured over… - Person
Adib Ishaq
21 January 1856 CE · 1272 AHSyrian writer, journalist and poet of Armenian origin (1856–1885). Schooled at the Lazarist school in… - Person
Adil Rashid
17 February 1988 CE · 1408 AHEnglish cricketer, born in Bradford in 1988 of Pakistani Mirpuri descent. A right-arm leg-break bowler, he… - Person
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Adly Yakan Pasha
18 January 1864 CE · 1280 AHEgyptian politician of the Muhammad Ali family — he was a sister's son of the dynasty's founder, whence his… - Person
Adnan
The ancestor at whom the Prophet’s lineage is said to stop: twenty-first in the chain of the prophetic… - Person
Adnan al-Aroor
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Adnan Rashid
A British Muslim historian and lecturer based in London, specialising in the history of Islamic civilisation… - Person
Adonis
1 January 1930 CE · 1348 AHSyrian poet and critic born in 1930 at the village of al-Qassabin near Latakia, who led the modernist… - Person
Adud al-Dawla Fanakhusraw ibn Rukn al-Dawla
Greatest of the Buyid sultans; he came to Baghdad in 364 'aiding' Izz al-Dawla, liked it and took it, beat… - Person
Adud al-Din al-Iji
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Affan ibn Muslim al-Saffar
Abu 'Uthman al-Saffar of Basra, settled at Baghdad — so firm in hadith that Ibn Ma'in ruled 'when Abu'l-Walid… - Person
Afif al-Din al-Tilimsani
c. 1213 CE · c. 610 AHThe Sufi poet of the 'absolute unity' circle — the Sunni source brands him among the 'zinadiqa of the Sufis'… - Person
Afif al-Din ibn Mazru'
c. September 1228 CE · Shawwal 625 AHThe Basran Hanbali hafiz who settled in Medina some fifty years and made forty pilgrimages 'on devotion';… - Person
Afif ibn Awf al-Yarbu'i
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Afifa Khatun
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Plato (Aflatun)
The Greek sage — his dictum 'know thyself and become divine' stood in Syriac on the Sabians' assembly-house… - Person
Afonso de Albuquerque
Afonso de Albuquerque — 'al-Buqarq' in al-Salabi's text — the Portuguese commander who seized Hormuz and… - Person
'Afra bint 'Uqayl
'Urwa's beloved — dead stretched upon his grave and buried beside him. - Person
Afrasiyab (legendary king of Turan)
Legendary king of the Turanians in Iranian tradition, enemy of Kay Khusraw, who treacherously murdered… - Person
Afridun (Fereydun)
The deliverer who took and bound al-Dahhak in Mount Damavand under the leather banner, and set his son Tuj… - Person
Afuqay, Ahmad ibn al-Qasim al-Hajari
1570 CE · 977 AHAn Andalusian from the Red Stone quarter near Granada. He lived under Spanish rule and was known as al-Shihab. - Person
Afzal Khan Shirazi
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Aga Khan III
2 November 1877 CE · 1294 AHSultan Muhammad Shah (1877–1957), 48th Imam of the Nizari Ismailis from 1885, when he succeeded his father at… - Person
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Agehi (Ottoman poet and historian)
An Ottoman poet and historian, born at Yenice-i Vardar (Giannitsa), who worked as mudarris and qadi. He is… - Person
Ageng Tirtayasa
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Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar
1742 CE · 1155 AHFounder of the Qajar dynasty of Persia, born 1155/1742. As a child he was castrated on the order of 'Adil… - Person
Aghasi Mammadov
1 June 1980 CE · 1400 AHAzerbaijani boxer, born in Baku in 1980. He competed for Turkey for several years, winning the European title… - Person
Agus Salim
8 October 1884 CE · 1301 AHIndonesian journalist, diplomat and statesman (1884–1954), a leader of Sarekat Islam and Tjokroaminoto's… - Person
Ahmad Abd al-Sattar al-Jawari
1922 CE · 1341 AHAn Iraqi scholar born in Karkh, Baghdad, who held a doctorate and was a leading researcher of the Arabic… - Person
Ahmad Akansus (Moroccan historian, 1797–1877)
1797 CE · 1211 AHMoroccan historian and man of letters from the Ida u Kansus of Sus, born 1211/1797. He served the Sharifian… - Person
Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa'i (founder of the Shaykhi school, 1753–1826)
1753 CE · 1166 AHShaykh Ahmad b. Zayn al-Din al-Ahsa'i, founder of the Shaykhi school within Twelver Shi'ism. Born at al-Ahsa'… - Person
Ahmad al-A'raj al-Sa'di
The Sa'di sultan who profited from Ottoman-Algerian pressure: he besieged Safi and Azemmour in 941/1534… - Person
Ahmad al-Arusi
Draft card for Ahmad ibn Musa al-Arusi, the eighteenth-century Grand Imam of al-Azhar, d. 1793; the source… - Person
Shihab al-Din al-Asyuti
Shihab al-Din al-Asyuti — licensed by his father and Abd al-Rahim b. al-Qari, earning steadily as a witness… - Person
Ahmad al-Attar
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Ahmad ibn Abdallah Ba'li
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Ahmad al-Badawi
c. 1199 CE · c. 596 AHAhmad al-Badawi of Tanta — the veiled saint of Fes who fasted forty days, heard the voice thrice bidding him… - Person
Ahmad al-Badawi Zawitan
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Ahmad al-Bardiji
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Ahmad ibn Abd al-Latif al-Bashbishi, Shihab al-Din
Ahmad ibn Abd al-Latif ibn al-Qadi Ahmad, Shihab al-Din al-Bashbishi, born in Bashbish in the Gharbiyya… - Person
Ahmad al-Bazanti
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Ahmad al-Buni
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Ahmad al-Damanhuri
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Ahmad al-Ghazali
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali's brother, who abridged the Ihya' as Lubab al-ihya'; he died in 520. - Person
Shihab al-Din al-Halawani, Ahmad ibn Ahmad
1833 CE · 1249 AHA Shafi'i and Khalwati scholar from Egypt. - Person
Ahmad al-Hamlawi
1856 CE · 1273 AHBorn in a village of the Belbeis district of the Sharqiyya governorate, and graduated from Dar al-Ulum in… - Person
Ahmad al-Hisami the grammarian
The nahwi the scholars compared to Ibn Malik and Ibn Hisham — yet he carried his own market goods, bathed in… - Person
Al-Jara'i, Ahmad ibn Abd al-Salam
From Jarawa in the Maghrib, known for poetry and learning. - Person
Ahmad al-Jawhari
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Ahmad al-Ladn
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Al-Maghribi al-Rashidi
Ahmad ibn Abd al-Razzaq ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad, known as al-Maghribi al-Rashidi, of Moroccan origin from… - Person
Ahmad al-Mansur al-Dhahabi al-Sa'di
Abd al-Malik's brother and right hand in all state affairs; he fled with him to the Ottoman sultan and was… - Person
Ahmad al-Manufi al-Maliki
The model qadi of Minuf — per al-Manawi's Nafa'is, an imam of piety; jurist of Minuf for thirty-three years… - Person
Ahmad al-Muhajir
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Ahmad al-Munqur
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Ahmad al-Nasiri al-Salawi (Moroccan historian, 1835–1897)
20 April 1835 CE · 1250 AHAbu l-'Abbas Shihab al-Din Ahmad b. Khalid al-Nasiri al-Salawi, Moroccan historian of the Nasiriyya family,… - Person
Ahmad al-Nufais
8 February 1991 CE · 1411 AHKuwaiti Quran reciter and imam of the Grand Mosque of Kuwait, born in Kuwait on 23 Rajab 1411 AH (8 February… - Person
Ahmad al-Qubanji
1958 CE · 1377 AH†Draft card for Ahmad al-Qubanji, the Iraqi Shia thinker and Najaf imam; his entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Ahmad al-Quduri
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Ahmad al-Rashidi al-Barzanji
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Mulai Ahmed er Raisuni
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Shaykh Ahmad al-Rifa'i
c. August 1106 CE · Muharram 500 AHThe ascetic exemplar Ahmad ibn Ali al-Rifa'i of the Bata'ih — the marsh villages between Wasit and Basra; of… - Person
Ahmad al-Rumi
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Ahmad al-Saghir ibn Hamallah
1809 CE · 1224 AHA learned and pious scholar whose lineage goes back to al-Muslimi, known as al-Saghir. - Person
Al-Sawi
Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Khalwati, known as al-Sawi, a Maliki jurist who studied with al-Dardir and al-Dasuqi.… - Person
Ahmad Al Shugairi
6 June 1973 CE · 1393 AHSaudi media presenter, writer and television host, born in Jeddah in 1973. He is best known for Khawater… - Person
Ahmad al-Ghumari
1902 CE · 1320 AH†Draft card for Ahmad ibn al-Siddiq al-Ghumari, the Moroccan hadith scholar of the 14th Hijri century; his… - Person
Ahmad al-Siqilli
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Ahmad al-Suhrawardi
c. 1256 CE · c. 654 AH†Draft card for Ahmad al-Suhrawardi, the Baghdadi calligrapher of Yaqut's school; his entry is not yet checked… - Person
Al-Tahtawi (Hanafi)
Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ismail, a Hanafi jurist born in Tahta near Asyut, who studied at al-Azhar and was… - Person
Ahmad Muhammad al-Tayyib
Grand Imam of al-Azhar and chairman of the Council of Muslim Elders. The book records his birth in al-Qurna,… - Person
Ahmad al-Tijani
1737 CE · 1150 AHThe founder of the Tijaniyya Sufi order, born in Ain Madi in Algeria. - Person
Ahmad al-Tijani al-Kitabi
1912 CE · 1331 AHA scholar of the Kitabi family, well known among the tribes of the Maghrib. - Person
Ahmad al-Wasli Samarqandi
1870 CE · 1287 AH†Draft card for Ahmad al-Wasli Samarqandi, the Uzbek scholar and qadi of its Muslims; his entry is not yet… - Person
Ahmad al-Wattasi
The Wattasid king defeated by the Sa'dis at Bi'r 'Uqba near Wadi al-'Abid in 943/1536 when the Khalut tribes… - Person
Ahmad al-Zarqani al-Maliki
Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Zarqani al-Maliki, a grammarian with a commentary on Ibn Hisham's Qawa'id al-I'rab. The… - Person
Ahmad al-Zawawi
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Ahmad Ali Saharanpuri
1810 CE · 1225 AH†Draft card for Ahmad Ali Saharanpuri, the Deobandi hadith scholar and printer of the Bukhari; his entry is… - Person
Ahmad Amin
Ahmad Amin — Egyptian historian of Islamic intellectual life, author of the Fajr/Duha/Zuhr al-Islam trilogy;… - Person
Ahmad Assmin al-Albaani
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Ahmad Baba al-Timbukti
1556 CE · 963 AHAhmad Baba b. Ahmad al-Takruri al-Massufi, Sudanese Maliki jurist and biographer of the Aqit family of… - Person
Ahmad Bek Abu al-Fath
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Ahmad Bey (Husaynid ruler of Tunis, 1837–1855)
Ahmad Bey, tenth ruler of the Husaynid dynasty of Tunis (1837–1855). He tried to modernise the army and… - Person
Ahmad Bisisu
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Ahmed Bukhatir
1975 CE · 1395 AH†The Emirati munshid behind 'Hijabtum Nurakum' — among the Gulf's best-known nasheed voices. - Person
Ahmad Dahlan
1 August 1868 CE · 1285 AHIndonesian reformer and religious leader (1868–1923), born as Muhammad Darwis in Yogyakarta. He performed the… - Person
Ahmad Fanakati
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Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq
1804 CE · 1219 AH†Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq (1804–1887 CE) — the Lebanese lexicographer and satirist who embraced Islam in Tunis… - Person
Ahmad Fathi Zaghlul
1863 CE · 1279 AH†Ahmad Fathi Zaghlul (1863–1914 CE) — the Egyptian jurist who translated Bentham and Demolins's Secret of… - Person
Ahmed I
1590 CE · 998 AHAhmed I, the fourteenth Ottoman sultan and son of Mehmed III, born at Manisa in 998/1590 and succeeded in… - Person
Ahmad ibn Abd al-Rahim ibn al-Husayn, Ibn al-Iraqi
Ahmad ibn Abd al-Rahim ibn al-Husayn, Abu Zur'a Wali al-Din, known as Ibn al-Iraqi, of Kurdish origin, born… - Person
Ahmad ibn Abdallah al-Asabi al-Salami
A scholar of Zabid in Yemen, named after Dhu Asab near Zabid, who studied his sciences in Zabid under Shaykh… - Person
Ahmad ibn Abdallah al-Barqi
Abu Bakr of Barqa, a sound traditionist who completed and transmitted the Tarikh his brother Muhammad had… - Person
Ahmad ibn Abdallah al-Khayri
Abu Tahir al-Khayri, 'accepted before the judges' as a witness; he died at Hira in Safar 263. - Person
Ahmad ibn Abdallah al-Suwaydi
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Ahmad ibn Abi al-Rijal
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Ahmad ibn Abi Du'ad
Al-Mu'tasim's judge; he reported the caliph would bare his forearm — 'Bite it with all your strength; it does… - Person
Ahmad ibn Abi Khalid al-Ahwal
Ahmad ibn Abi Khalid al-Ahwal the katib; al-Ma'mun's commander who took Haydar's short road and camped on… - Person
Ahmad ibn Abi Tahir al-Marwazi
Abu al-Fadl the scribe and foremost poet, author of a caliph history, d. 280h. - Person
Ahmad ibn Abi Tayba al-Darimi
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Ahmad ibn Ahmad al-Gharqawi al-Fayyumi (Maliki jurist)
A Maliki jurist learned in several sciences, of al-Fayyum, known as al-Gharqawi; works include a treatise on… - Person
Shihab al-Din Ibn al-'Askari
Damascus's Hanbali mufti — 'no peer in his age for learning, humility and Salafi-style austerity', a recluse… - Person
Ahmad al-'Aydarus, qutb of Tarim
Ahmad al-'Aydarus — 'qutb, knower of God, master of the way's shaykhs, unveiled by the lights of reality'; he… - Person
Ahmad ibn al-Faraj al-Baghdadi (Abu al-Abbas, Hanbali judge)
A Hanbali jurist and judge, Abu al-Abbas, of Baghdad; he held the judgeship of Dujayl for a time, studied… - Person
Ahmad ibn al-Furat
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Ahmad ibn al-Ha'im
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Shihab al-Din ibn al-Zarkashi (Ahmad ibn al-Hasan)
Ahmad ibn al-Hasan, known as Ibn al-Zarkashi, Shihab al-Din: a jurist with a share in several sciences, who… - Person
Ahmad ibn al-Hasan ibn Kharrash
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Ahmad ibn al-Hasan 'Rasul Nafsihi'
Abu'l-Hasan of Kufa nicknamed 'Rasul Nafsihi', a transmitter from Ibn 'Uyayna whom al-Daraqutni abandoned and… - Person
Ahmad ibn al-Khasib
Al-Mu'tasim's minister; per al-Suli the caliph told him 'the Umayyads ruled when none of us ruled — we rule… - Person
Ahmad ibn al-Mu'adhdhal
A scholar gathered by al-Mutawakkil; alone he kept his seat — 'it is not my sight; I held you above God's… - Person
Ahmad ibn al-Mudabbir
Al-Muhtadi's kharaj governor of Palestine, keeper of seven select boon-companions and target of the famous… - Person
Ahmad ibn al-Muktafi
Son of the caliph al-Muktafi; hunted down under al-Qahir in 321 and walled up alive until he died. - Person
Ahmad ibn al-Mulla al-Haskafi
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Ahmad ibn al-Nadr
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Ahmad ibn al-Tayyib
Ahmad ibn al-Tayyib, counted by al-Mas'udi among the post-Islamic astronomers. - Person
Ahmad ibn al-Tayyib al-Sarakhsi
Al-Kindi's pupil and Baghdad's muhtasib, whose confiscation and killing under al-Mu'tadid yielded 150,000… - Person
Ahmad ibn Ali al-Bagha'i
Draft card for Ahmad ibn Ali al-Bagha'i, the eleventh-century Maliki jurist, d. 1011; the biographical entry… - Person
Ahmad ibn Ali al-Manini
Draft card for Ahmad ibn Ali al-Manini, the Ottoman-era litterateur, historian and muhaddith, d. 1758; the… - Person
Ahmad ibn Ali al-Saffuri
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Ahmad ibn Aqbaras, the Khwarazmian
Al-Khwarazmi al-Salihi; he heard from Ishaq al-Amidi, Muhammad ibn al-Muhibb and Zaynab bint al-Kamal. Ibn… - Person
Ahmad ibn 'Arus of Tunis
Ibn 'Arus — 'among the greatest saints of the ecstatic way at Tunis': wild birds came down to eat from his… - Person
Ahmad ibn Asfandyar al-Baghdadi
Draft card for Ahmad ibn Asfandyar al-Baghdadi, the Iraqi Sufi and poet, d. 1242; the biographical entry is… - Person
Ahmad b. 'Ata' Allah al-Azhari
Ahmad b. 'Ata' Allah al-Azhari, author of a work on rhetoric written in 1161 AH (1748), with a commentary by… - Person
Ahmad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Attash
Master of the Batiniyya's fortress at Isfahan for twelve years — a castle Malikshah built atop a mountain —… - Person
Ahmad ibn Atwah
Draft card for Ahmad ibn Atwah, the sixteenth-century jurist and judge, d. 1541; the source entry is not yet… - Person
Ahmad ibn Badil
Abu Ja'far al-Yami al-Kufi, traditionist and judge of Kufa and Hamadhan — on appointment he said 'I have been… - Person
Ahmad ibn Baqi ibn Makhlid
Son of the great Baqi ibn Makhlid — chief qadi of al-Andalus, where he transmitted and died. - Person
Ahmad ibn Baraka Abu Bakr al-Baqal
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Prince Ahmad, son of Bayezid II
Prince Ahmad, brother of Sultan Selim I; al-Salabi places him foremost among the Ottoman princes who fled to… - Person
Ibn Fahad al-Hilli
Draft card for Ahmad ibn Fahad al-Hilli al-Asadi, the fifteenth-century jurist of al-Hilla, d. 1437; the… - Person
Ahmad ibn Hamallah al-Tishiti
1695 CE · 1107 AHA Mauritanian scholar known by the nisba of his homeland, Tishit, and descended from the Sharif Ahmad. - Person
Ahmad ibn Hanbal
An imam and hadith scholar who compiled the Musnad; eponym of the Hanbali school, which gives precedence to… - Person
Qadi al-Jama'a Ibn Harith (Ahmad ibn 'Abd al-Rahman)
Ahmad ibn 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Sa'd ibn Harith, Abu al-'Abbas al-Lakhmi al-Jayyani al-Qurtubi,… - Person
Ahmad ibn Harun al-Bardiji
Draft card for Ahmad ibn Harun al-Bardiji, the tenth-century muhaddith, d. 914; the biographical entry is not… - Person
Ahmad ibn Harun al-Rashid
Ahmad b. Harun al-Rashid — the ascetic Abbasid prince who renounced the world in his father's lifetime,… - Person
Ahmad ibn Hasan al-Nahwi
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Ahmad ibn Hazim ibn Isma, Abu al-Qasim al-Saffar al-Balkhi
Ahmad ibn Hazim ibn Isma, Abu al-Qasim al-Saffar al-Balkhi, a Hanafi jurist and a great imam to whom people… - Person
Ahmad ibn Husayn ibn Rislan
Ahmad ibn Husayn ibn Rislan, Abu al-Abbas al-Ramli al-Shafi'i (d. 844 AH), a Shafi'i jurist born in Ramla in… - Person
Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Dawraqi
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Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi
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Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Saruji
Ahmad ibn Ibrahim ibn Abd al-Ghani, Abu al-Abbas Shams al-Din al-Saruji, a Hanafi jurist. He studied under… - Person
Ahmad ibn Imad al-Aqfahsi
The Shafi'i jurist Ahmad ibn Imad al-Aqfahsi, known as al-Imad, of Cairo; the sources do not record his date… - Person
Ahmad ibn Isa al-Kharraz
A major Sufi, named al-Kharraz after the trade of leather-stitching. - Person
Ahmad ibn Ishaq al-Ash'ari
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Ahmad ibn Ishaq al-Tamimi
Ahmad ibn Ishaq ibn Atiya, Abu al-Hasan al-Tamimi al-Sayda'lani, a reciter of the Qur'an who heard from Abu… - Person
Ahmad ibn Ishaq al-Tanukhi
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Ahmad ibn Ismail al-Jazayiri
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Ahmad ibn Ismail al-Kurani
Ahmad ibn Ismail al-Kurani, 'the godly scholar' whom Murad II appointed to teach his son Mehmed when the… - Person
Ahmad ibn Ismail al-Taliqani
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Ahmad ibn Ismail al-Tamartashi
Ahmad ibn Ismail ibn Muhammad, Zahir al-Din Abu Muhammad, or Abu al-Abbas, al-Tamartashi, a Hanafi of… - Person
Ahmad ibn Kamil al-Qadi
Abu Bakr Ahmad b. Kamil b. Khalaf al-Qadi al-Baghdadi (d. Muharram 350, aged 90) — al-Tabari's student, qadi… - Person
Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh
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Ahmad ibn Khabit
Draft card for Ahmad ibn Khabit, the ninth-century Basran theologian and qadi, d. 845; the biographical entry… - Person
Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri
20 April 1835 CE · 1250 AHMoroccan historian from Salé (1835–1897), considered the greatest Moroccan historian of the 19th century. He… - Person
Ahmad ibn Khalil al-Khu'i
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Ahmad ibn Kulayb the poet
A Baghdadi poet whose passion for Aslam ibn Ahmad spread so far that the muezzin's musicians played his… - Person
Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Natifi
Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Umar, Abu al-Abbas al-Natifi al-Tabari, a Hanafi jurist from Rayy, named for making or… - Person
Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Qamuli
653 AHAhmad ibn Muhammad ibn Abi al-Hazm, Najm al-Din Abu al-Abbas al-Qurashi al-Makhzumi al-Qamuli al-Shafi'i,… - Person
Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Sab'i
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Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Tawawisi
Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Hamid ibn Hashim al-Tawawisi, named after Tawawis, a village eight farsakhs from… - Person
Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Zakari
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Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Musa
An akhbar-man who hunted chronicles; he held the hisba of the slave market and of Egypt's market and wrote… - Person
Ahmad ibn Muhsin al-Ba'labakki
c. September 1220 CE · Ramadan 617 AHShafi'i jurist of Ba'labakk; he came to Damascus and studied jurisprudence under Zayn al-Din Abd al-Rahim ibn… - Person
Ahmad ibn Musa al-Kazim
Draft card for Ahmad ibn Musa al-Kazim, the ninth-century son of the seventh Imam buried at Shiraz; the… - Person
Ahmad ibn Mustafa ibn al-Khawja
1664 CE · 1074 AHThe author of several works, who lived in Tunis; a Hanafi in Tunisian religious life. - Person
Ahmad ibn Muzahim ibn Khaqan
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Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri
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Ahmad ibn Nasir al-Qu'aymi
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Ahmad ibn Nasr al-Dawudi
Ahmad ibn Nasr al-Dawudi al-Asadi, Abu Ja'far, a Maliki jurist among the leading masters of the school in the… - Person
Ahmad ibn Nasr al-Khuza'i
A hadith man devoted to commanding right and forbidding wrong; brought shackled to Samarra in 231 he refused… - Person
Ahmad ibn Nasr al-Shadha'i
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Ahmad ibn al-Husayn ibn Qasi
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Ahmad ibn Qasim al-Buni
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Ahmad ibn Sa'd al-Zuhri
Ahmad ibn Sa'd al-Zuhri Abu Ibrahim — the Qurashi hadith scholar of a house of scholars, praised for learning… - Person
Ahmad ibn Sahl al-Samani
One of the chief commanders of the Samanid amir Ahmad ibn Isma'il, among the generals sent against Sistan in… - Person
Ahmad ibn Said al-Busaidi
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Ahmad ibn Sa'id al-Darimi
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Ahmad ibn Said ibn Ibrahim al-Hamdani al-Qurtubi, Ibn al-Hindi
Ahmad ibn Said ibn Ibrahim, Abu Umar, known as Ibn al-Hindi, of Hamadan origin and Cordoba, a trustworthy… - Person
Ahmad ibn Sa'id ibn Hazm
The vizier Abu 'Amr Ahmad b. Sa'id b. Hazm, father of the polymath Ibn Hazm — a secretary, mufti and… - Person
Ahmad ibn Salih al-Shami
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Ahmad ibn Salman ibn al-Hasan, Abu Bakr al-Najjad
Ahmad ibn Salman ibn al-Hasan, Abu Bakr al-Najjad, of Baghdad, a Hanbali scholar who led in law and… - Person
Ahmad ibn Sawada (Khashish)
Abu'l-'Abbas 'Khashish', a Kufan settled at Baghdad who transmitted from 'Abida ibn Humayd and Zayd ibn… - Person
Ahmad b. Shah Rukh
Ahmad b. Shah Rukh the Timurid, king of the East; died Sha'ban 839 shortly after returning from a journey. - Person
Ahmad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Shuhayd
Al-Nasir's wazir whose gift of Jumada I 327 — half a million mithqals of coined gold, ambergris, musk,… - Person
Ahmad ibn Tahir
The poet of the great 'peace be upon Islam' elegy for Yahya ibn 'Umar. - Person
Ahmad ibn Tamim al-'Anbari al-Ifriqi
An Ifriqi traditionist transmitting from Anas ibn 'Iyad; he died at 'Aqsa — Ibn Yunus notes its people say… - Person
Ahmad ibn Tulun
The commander; al-Mu'tazz sent him to kill al-Musta'in and he answered 'by God, I do not kill the sons of… - Person
Ahmad ibn Ubayya al-Maqdisi
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Shihab al-Din Ibn 'Ubba al-Maqdisi
c. January 1429 CE · 12 Rabi' I 831 AHJerusalem's qadi, b. 831 — tried over the Qumama, the famous church whose demolition Qaytbay punished him,… - Person
Ahmad ibn Umar al-Susi
Abu Ja'far al-Susi of Kufa, traditionist; on the Hajj he was seen dead in prostration during the Maghrib… - Person
Ahmad ibn Umar ibn Hilal
Ahmad ibn Umar ibn Hilal, Abu al-Abbas, chief judge, a jurist and judge learned in many fields. He studied… - Person
Ahmad ibn Umar ibn Surayj
Qadi Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Umar ibn Surayj died in Baghdad in 306. He was among the great Shafi'is, called… - Person
Ahmad ibn Uways al-Jalayiri
Ahmad ibn Uways the Jalayirid, sultan of Baghdad, Tabriz and the Iraqi lands after his brother Shaykh Husayn… - Person
Ahmad ibn Yahya al-Jalla'
A major Sufi of Baghdadi origin, who lived in Ramla and Damascus. - Person
Ahmad ibn Yahya al-Karmi
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Ahmad ibn Yahya al-Mutakallim
Abu Abd al-Rahman Ahmad ibn Yahya al-Mutakallim was one of the senior companions of al-Shafi'i, and later… - Person
Tha'lab, Ahmad ibn Yahya
815 CE · 200 AHA Kufan philologist and grammarian, a client of the Banu Shayban. Many sayings on grammar are transmitted… - Person
Ahmad ibn Yunus al-'Aythawi
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Ahmad ibn Yunus al-Sadafi
Dhu al-Qa'da 240 AHAbu'l-Hasan al-Sadafi, b. Dhu'l-Qa'da 240, counted among the bakka'in — the weeping devotees; he transmitted… - Person
Ahmad ibn Yusuf
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Ahmad ibn Yusuf al-Tifashi
1184 CE · 580 AHA scholar and writer of the Qays lineage, named after Tifash in the Maghrib. - Person
Ahmad ibn Zaydan
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Ahmad ibn Zirak
Baghdad police chief who made the arrests in Mu'nis's house for al-Qahir in 321; his own house was later… - Person
Ahmad II al-Mustansir, Hafsid
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Sultan Ahmed II
Sultan Ahmed II (r. 1691–1694): a four-year reign of skirmishes in which the great Köprülü vizier Mustafa… - Person
Sultan Ahmed III
1673 CE · 1084 AHThe twenty-third Ottoman sultan, son of Mehmed IV, born in 1084/1673. He succeeded his brother Mustafa II on… - Person
Ahmad Jalayir
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Ahmad-e Jami (Zhanda Pil, Khorasani Sufi, d. 1141)
c. 1049 CE · c. 441 AHAhmad-e Jami, Shihab al-Din Abu Nasr, a Khorasani Sufi and Persian writer, born in the village of Nama in… - Person
Ahmad Jawad al-Safi
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Ahmad Khan, lord of Samarqand
Lord of Samarqand; when zandaqa showed in him the amirs seized him and the jurists fatwa'd his death — killed… - Person
Ahmad Khani
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Ahmad Khatib al-Minangkabawi
26 June 1860 CE · 1276 AHMinangkabau scholar (1860–1916) who became imam and preacher of the Shafi'i school at the Grand Mosque of… - Person
Ahmad Mashhadi
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Ahmad Mohd Nor
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Ahmad Monshi Qomi
c. 1546 CE · c. 953 AH†Draft card for Ahmad Monshi Qomi, the Safavid calligrapher and historian; his entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Ahmad Muhammad al-Bari
A scholar of al-Azhar who wrote the treatise on the principles of education in the Qur'an and the Sunna,… - Person
Ahmad Muhammad Shakir
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Ahmed Muhtar Pasha
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Ahmad Muqran al-Zawawi
Abd al-Aziz b. Abbas's successor at Qal'at Bani Abbas; he held the Kuku country with Hasan b. Khayr al-Din's… - Person
Ahmad Najafi Zanjani
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Ahmed Osmanzade Taib
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Ahmad Pasha Bursali (Ottoman poet, d. 1496–97)
Ahmad Pasha Bursali, the greatest Ottoman poet of the second half of the fifteenth century, son of the qadi… - Person
Ahmad Pasha ibn Khidr Beg
Khidr Beg's son — 'my grandfather recounted he was a man people and the poor sought out for his forbearance,… - Person
Ahmed Pasha 'the Traitor'
Ahmed Pasha, known in the chronicles as 'the Traitor'; the Sicill-i Osmani records an Albanian raised in the… - Person
Ahmad Pasha of Baghdad
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Ahmad Rasim (Turkish writer, 1864–1932)
1864 CE · c. 1281 AHAhmad Rasim, Turkish writer, journalist and historian, born at Sarigüzel in Fatih, Istanbul, in 1864, and… - Person
Ahmad Saeed Kazmi
1913 CE · 1331 AH†Draft card for Ahmad Saeed Kazmi, the Pakistani scholar and Sufi; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Ahmad Sahib al-Sha'b
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Ahmad Shah Durrani
Ahmad Shah Durrani, founder of the Durrani empire in Afghanistan. A leader of the Abdali tribe, he was… - Person
Ahmad Shah I Bahmani
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Ahmad Shah I of Gujarat
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Ahmad Shah Massoud
1953 CE · 1372 AH†Afghan military commander and politician, the foremost mujahideen commander of the Panjshir Valley against… - Person
Ahmad Shah Qajar
21 January 1898 CE · 1315 AHSeventh and last shah of Qajar Iran (reigned 16 July 1909 – 31 October 1925), placed on the throne at the age… - Person
Ahmad Shakir al-Alusi
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Ahmad Shalabi ibn Abd al-Ghani
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Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi (Mujaddid-i Alf-i Thani)
1564 CE · 971 AHShaykh Ahmad Sirhindi, known as Mujaddid-i Alf-i Thani, was a leading Indian divine and Naqshbandi mystic,… - Person
Ahmad Syahrin Thoriq
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Ahmad Tajuddin
22 August 1913 CE · 1331 AHThe 27th Sultan of Brunei (1924–1950), eldest surviving son of Muhammad Jamalul Alam II. He came to the… - Person
Ahmad 'Urabi
31 March 1841 CE · 1257 AHEgyptian officer of fellah origin (1841–1911) who led the nationalist movement known as the 'Urabi revolt: he… - Person
Ahmad Wafi Maimoen
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Ahmad Yar Khan Daultana
13 April 1896 CE · 1313 AHChief of the Daultanas of Luddan and a Punjabi politician (1896–1940), elected to the Punjab legislatures in… - Person
Ahmad Yar Khan Naeemi
1 March 1894 CE · 1311 AHQur'an commentator, mufti and scholar of the subcontinent (1894–1971 on the followed reading; the conflict is… - Person
Ahmad Yasawi (Turkish Sufi shaykh of Central Asia, d. 1166)
Ahmad Yasawi, Turkish Sufi shaykh of Central Asia, born at Sayram (Isfijab) in Turkistan in the second half… - Person
Ahmad Zarruq
Draft card for Ahmad ibn Ahmad Zarruq al-Barnusi, the fifteenth-century jurist and Shadhili shaykh author of… - Person
Ahmad Zayni Dahlan
Draft card for Ahmad Zayni Dahlan, Mecca's Shafi'i mufti, its historian, and author of al-Futuhat… - Person
Ahmadi Taj al-Din Ibrahim ibn Khidr
c. 1334 CE · 735 AHOne of the best-known Ottoman poets of the fourteenth century, named Ibrahim with the laqab Taj al-Din and… - Person
Ahmadu Bello
12 June 1910 CE · 1328 AHNigerian politician (1910–1966) from Rabah, a descendant of Uthman dan Fodio who held the Sardauna of Sokoto… - Person
Ahmadu Tall
21 June 1836 CE · 1252 AHRuler of the Toucouleur Empire (1836–1897), eldest son and successor of al-Hajj Umar Tall. He conquered Ségou… - Person
Ahmadullah Shah
1787 CE · 1201 AHIndian scholar and rebel leader (1787–1858), known as the Maulvi of Faizabad and a leading figure of the… - Person
Ahmed Abdel Monem
Egyptian preacher and lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, known for his concern with… - Person
Ahmed al-Hiba
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Ahmed al-Sharaa
29 October 1982 CE · 1403 AHSyrian statesman, president of Syria since 29 January 2025 for the transitional period. Formerly known by his… - Person
Ahmed Ali Assami
1915 CE · 1333 AH†Draft card for Ahmed Ali Assami, the Indian scholar and hadith man; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Ahmed Asmat Abdel-Meguid
22 March 1923 CE · 1341 AHAhmed Asmat Abdel-Meguid (22 March 1923 – 21 December 2013) was an Egyptian diplomat from Alexandria who, as… - Person
Ahmed Bakir Mahmoud
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Ahmed Bayram
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Ahmed Belkhodja
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Ahmed Ben Bella
25 December 1916 CE · 1335 AHAhmed Ben Bella (1916–2012) was an Algerian politician and revolutionary, a leader of the National Liberation… - Person
Ahmet Cevdet Oran
1862 CE · 1278 AHOttoman-Turkish journalist and publisher (1862-1935) who founded and edited the newspaper Ikdam from 1894 to… - Person
Ahmed Cevdet Pasha
22 March 1822 CE · 1237 AHAhmed Cevdet Pasha (born at Lovech in 1822 – died in Istanbul in May 1895) was an Ottoman scholar, historian,… - Person
Ahmed Deedat
1 July 1918 CE · 1336 AHSouth African preacher of Indian origin, born in 1918 and died in 2005; famous for his public debates on… - Person
Ahmed el-Tayeb
6 January 1946 CE · 1365 AHEgyptian scholar and professor of Islamic doctrine and philosophy, Grand Imam of al-Azhar since 19 March… - Person
Ahmed Elsayed
1985 CE · 1405 AH†Preacher and researcher, born in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, in 1985, raised there and later based in Madinah. He is… - Person
Ahmed Ghulamali Chagla
31 May 1902 CE · 1320 AHPakistani composer and writer (1902–1953) who composed the music of Pakistan's national anthem in 1949. Born… - Person
Ahmed Hussen
1976 CE · 1396 AHSomali-Canadian lawyer and Liberal politician, the first Somali-Canadian elected to Canada's Parliament, who… - Person
Ahmed-i Rumi Akhisari
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Ahmed III
Ahmed III (r. 1115–1143/1703–1730) — recovered the Morea and Azov, nearly captured Peter the Great on the… - Person
Ahmed Karahisari
Draft card for Ahmed Semseddin Karahisari, the celebrated Ottoman calligrapher of Suleiman the Magnificent's… - Person
Ahmed Kesfi Efendi
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Ahmed Kathrada
21 August 1929 CE · 1348 AHSouth African anti-apartheid activist and politician who was convicted in the 1964 Rivonia Trial and spent 26… - Person
Ahmed Kuftaro
December 1915 CE · Safar 1334 AH†Syrian Kurdish scholar and Naqshbandi Sufi shaykh who served as Grand Mufti of Syria from 1964 until his… - Person
Ahmed Lemu
21 December 1929 CE · 1348 AHNigerian Muslim scholar, educationist and judge, born in the village of Lemu near Bida in Niger State in 1929… - Person
Ahmed Lutfi al-Sayyid
15 January 1872 CE · 1288 AHEgyptian intellectual and politician (1872-1963), founder of the newspaper al-Jarida and of Hizb al-Umma in… - Person
Ahmed Mamdouh
Egyptian scholar and one of the fatwa secretaries of Egypt's Dar al-Ifta. He directed the Dar's Sharia… - Person
Ahmed Midhat (Ottoman writer and journalist, 1844–1912)
1844 CE · 1260 AHAhmed Midhat, Ottoman writer and journalist, born in Istanbul in 1260/1844. He served under Midhat Pasha in… - Person
Ahmed Munir Bahaeddin
Draft card for Ahmed Munir Bahaeddin, the Ottoman writer (poet, d. 1769); the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Ahmed Pasa
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Ahmed Aksarayi
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Ahmed Raissouni
1953 CE · 1372 AHMoroccan Muslim scholar and jurist, born in 1953 in the village of Ouled Soltane near Ksar el-Kebir. He… - Person
Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi
14 June 1856 CE · 1272 AHIndian Hanafi jurist and Qadiri Sufi, born in Bareilly in 1856 and died in 1921; founder of the Barelvi… - Person
Ahmed Resmi Efendi (Ottoman statesman, envoy and historian, 1700–1783)
1700 CE · 1112 AHAhmed Resmi Efendi, Ottoman statesman, envoy and historian, born in 1112/1700 at Rethymno in Crete of Greek… - Person
Ahmed Rıza
1858 CE · 1274 AHAhmed Rıza (born in Istanbul in 1858 by the English and Turkish articles, 1859 by the Arabic article and… - Person
Ahmed Sbei
1985 CE · 1405 AHEgyptian comparative-religion researcher from Giza, born in about 1985. He learned Hebrew in order to read… - Person
Ahmed Sékou Touré
9 January 1922 CE · 1340 AHGuinean politician (1922–1984) from Faranah, a trade-union leader who led the Democratic Party of Guinea to… - Person
Ahmed Sharif as-Senussi
18 December 1873 CE · 1290 AHLibyan leader (1873–1933). He took over the leadership of the Senussi movement in 1902, succeeding his uncle… - Person
Ahmed Shawqi
16 October 1868 CE · 1285 AHEgyptian poet and playwright (1868–1932), crowned 'Prince of Poets' (Amir al-Shu'ara) by his peers in 1927… - Person
Ahmed Skirej
1878 CE · 1295 AH†Draft card for Ahmed Skirej, the Moroccan qadi and scholar; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Ahmed Vefki Efendi
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Ahmed Wefik Pasha (Ottoman statesman, diplomat and Turcologist, 1823–1891)
6 July 1823 CE · 1238 AHAhmed Wefik Pasha, Ottoman statesman, diplomat and Turkish scholar, born in Istanbul in 1238/1823 into a… - Person
Ahmed Yassin
28 June 1936 CE · 9 Rabi' II 1355 AH†Ahmed Yassin (1936 – 22 March 2004) was a Palestinian preacher and politician born in the village of al-Jura… - Person
Ahmed Yusuf
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Ahmed Zewail
26 February 1946 CE · 1365 AHEgyptian-American chemist, born in Damanhur in 1946, raised in Desouk and educated at Alexandria University.… - Person
Ahmedi
Draft card for Taj al-Din Ibrahim Ahmedi, the fifteenth-century Anatolian Ottoman poet author of the… - Person
Ahmet Ağaoğlu
December 1869 CE · 1286 AHAzerbaijani-Turkish writer, politician and jurist (1869–1939), born at Shusha and educated at St Petersburg… - Person
Ahmet Baitursynuly
5 September 1872 CE · 2 Rajab 1289 AH†Ahmet Baitursynuly (1872–1937) was a Kazakh linguist, poet and educator who reformed the Arabic-based… - Person
Ahmet Davutoğlu
26 February 1959 CE · 1378 AHTurkish academic and politician, prime minister of Turkey and leader of the Justice and Development Party… - Person
Ahmet İzzet Çalgüner
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Ahmet Refet Efendi
1873 CE · 1290 AH†Draft card for Ahmet Refet Efendi, the Turkish calligrapher; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Ahsan al-Baqili
1883 CE · 1301 AHA Moroccan jurist and Tijani Sufi from the Souss (1883–1949) who settled in Casablanca in 1929, founded about… - Person
Ahsan Hanif
British scholar and imam from Birmingham. He memorised the Qur'an at thirteen, won a scholarship to the… - Person
Aida Azlin
Singaporean writer residing in Morocco who has written the weekly Tuesday Love Letters newsletter for Muslim… - Person
Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi
17 March 1980 CE · 1400 AHPakistani former professional tennis player who specialised in doubles, born in Lahore in 1980. He is the… - Person
Aisha bint Abi Bakr
c. 613 CEA wife of the Prophet and daughter of Abu Bakr; one of the most prolific transmitters of hadith in Sunni… - Person
A'isha al-Ba'uniyya
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Aixa (A'isha al-Hurra)
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A'isha bint al-Harith ibn Khalid
Daughter of al-Harith ibn Khalid and Rayta, born in the land of Abyssinia; she died on the road with her… - Person
A'isha bint al-Mustanjid
A'isha bint al-Mustanjid (d. Dhu al-Hijja 640) — the Abbasid princess, al-Mustadi''s sister and al-Nasir's… - Person
A'isha bint Sa'd
A'isha bint Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas; in al-Baladhuri via al-Waqidi, she related that when Mu'awiya killed Hujr… - Person
A'isha bint Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas
653 CE · 32 AH†Draft card for A'isha bint Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, who narrated from her father; her entry is not yet checked on… - Person
Aisha bint Talha
A prodigy in literature and generosity like her father Talha, she is mentioned alongside Sakina bint… - Person
Aisha Khalid
Qur'an teacher who presents word-by-word Urdu translation and tafseer of the Qur'an in live classes for women… - Person
Aisha Lemu
1940 CE · 1359 AHBritish author and religious educator, born at Poole, Dorset, in 1940 as Bridget Honey. She converted to… - Person
Aisha Sonbul
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Aisha Taymur
1840 CE · 1256 AHEgyptian poet and writer (1840–1902) who composed in Arabic, Turkish and Persian and is counted among the… - Person
Itakh al-Turki
The Turkish amir commanding al-Mu'tasim's right wing at Amorium. - Person
Aizaz ul Haq Shams
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Ajiba bint al-Baqdari
c. 1159 CE · c. 554 AHThe last living ijaza-granter of her time — 'the recourse of the transmitters', dead in Safar 647 at… - Person
Ajwad ibn Zamil
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Akbar Allahabadi (Urdu satirical poet, 1846–1921)
1846 CE · 1262 AH†Akbar Allahabadi, an Urdu poet of Indian Islam born near Allahabad in 1846 and dead in September 1921, who… - Person
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
25 August 1934 CE · 1353 AHAkbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (1934–2017) was an Iranian Shia cleric and politician and a founding figure of the… - Person
Akhi-zade Yusuf Efendi
An Ottoman scholar, also known as Akhi Qalbi, who died at the start of the tenth century AH. - Person
Akhidjuk (amir of Tabriz, d. 760/1359)
Akhidjuk, 'little akhi', an amir of unknown name at Tabriz in the 8th/14th century, a follower of the… - Person
Akhmed Tsalikov
1882 CE · 1299 AH†Ossetian writer and public figure (1882–1928), a Menshevik leader and a leading voice of Russia's Muslims in… - Person
Akil al-Murar of Kinda
A king of Kinda to whom al-Ash'ath ibn Qays traced his line through women and whose descendant the delegation… - Person
Akmal Ikramov
September 1898 CE · Rabi' II 1316 AH†Uzbek Soviet politician (1898–1938), first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of… - Person
Akon
16 April 1973 CE · 1393 AHSenegalese-American singer and songwriter, born at St. Louis, Missouri, on 16 April 1973 to a Senegalese… - Person
Akram Afif
18 November 1996 CE · 1417 AHQatari winger born in Doha in 1996 who plays for Al Sadd. He won the Asian Footballer of the Year award twice… - Person
Aktham ibn Sayfi
A pre-Islamic Arab sage to whom proverbs are attributed; the book cites his saying: when you are wronged,… - Person
al-A'war ibn Qutba
The duelist who traded deaths with Shahriyar of Sijistan on the day of Aghwath — carried grievously wounded… - Person
Muhyi al-Din al-'Abadi, the grammarian of Mecca
c. 15 August 1411 CE · 18 Rabi' II 814 AHAl-'Abadi (b. Mecca 18 Rabi' II 814) — the Maliki nahwi of Mecca, recipient of al-Suyuti's praise litany… - Person
Al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Azim
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Al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Sami
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Al-Abbas ibn Abdallah al-Tarqafi
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al-Abbas ibn Abdallah al-Tartushi
Al-Abbas ibn Abdallah Abu'l-Fadl al-Tartushi of Baghdad — a trustworthy, upright transmitter heard by Ibn… - Person
Al-Abbas ibn al-Ahnaf
An Abbasid poet raised in Baghdad, with family in Basra. He was linked by nisba to the Banu Hanifa. - Person
Al-Abbas ibn al-Fadl al-Abdi
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Al-Abbas ibn al-Fadl al-Ansari
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al-Abbas ibn al-Hasan
Al-Muqtadir's vizier; deeming the thirteen-year-old caliph a mere boy he worked to depose him for Ibn… - Person
al-'Abbas ibn al-Ma'mun
Al-Ma'mun's son whose correspondence with the emperor and oath-ring in the army cut short the march on… - Person
al-'Abbas ibn al-Walid
Umayyad general and son of the caliph al-Walid I. With his uncle Maslama ibn 'Abd al-Malik he took Tuwana in… - Person
al-'Abbas ibn 'Ali
Ali's son by Umm al-Banin — killed beside al-Husayn on 'Ashura' 61, one of the five sons through whom Ali's… - Person
Al-Abbas ibn Ghalib al-Warraq
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Al-Abbas ibn Hammad al-Baghdadi
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Al-Abbas ibn Hammad al-Madaini
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Al-Abbas ibn Ja’far al-Zubayriqan
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al-'Abbas ibn Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn 'Abd Allah
Brother of the first two Abbasid caliphs, Abu al-'Abbas al-Saffah and Abu Ja'far al-Mansur. He helped retake… - Person
al-Abbas ibn Muhammad ibn Ali
al-Abbas ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abdallah ibn al-Abbas, uncle of al-Saffah and al-Mansur; in al-Baladhuri:… - Person
al-Abbas ibn Ubada
A zealous leader of the Khazraj who attended both Pledges of Aqaba; at the Second Pledge he stood to impress… - Person
Al-Abbi, Muhammad ibn Khalfa
c. 1344 CE · c. 745 AH†A Maliki usuli scholar from the Maghrib, known for the rational sciences, memorization and rigorous editing;… - Person
Al-Abhari, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd Allah
901 CE · 289 AHA Maliki jurist who combined the Qur'anic readings, high-grade chains of transmission and sound… - Person
Al-Abhari, Athir al-Din al-Mufaddal ibn Umar
One of the best-known scholars of Islamic thought in logic, astronomy and mathematics. The nisba al-Abhari… - Person
al-Abili, Abu Abd Allah
1282 CE · 681 AHMaghribi scholar of logic and the rational sciences; Ibn Khaldun attended his lessons in Tunis. - Person
al-Abiwardi
1017 CE · 408 AHal-Abiwardi (408–498) — Umayyad-descended poet and genealogist, author of the celebrated alifiyya ode 'alimm… - Person
al-Ablah, the poet
Al-Ablah — Muhammad b. Bakhtiyar al-Baghdadi, the polished court poet praised by Imad al-Din al-Isfahani in… - Person
al-Ablaq al-Azdi
One of the Arabs' 'arrafs — the diviner a rank below the kahin — alongside al-Ahlaj al-Dahri and 'Urwa. - Person
Al-Abraqawhi, Ahmad ibn Ishaq
1218 CE · 615 AHJudge of Abarquh and a Shafi'i scholar, hadith transmitter and Sufi; born in Abarquh in Fars and died in… - Person
al-Abri, Abu al-Hasan
Hadith scholar, memoriser and historian from Sijistan who travelled to Syria, Khurasan and al-Jazira to hear… - Person
al-Abshihi, Abu al-Fath
1388 CE · 790 AHEgyptian man of letters and author of the Mamluk period who gathered anecdotes and curiosities in his books. - Person
Al-Ibshitay, Ahmad ibn Isma'il
1399 CE · 802 AHA Cairene jurist, first Shafi'i and then Hanbali; born in Ibshit in the Gharbiya province of Egypt. - Person
Al-Adfawi, Ja'far ibn Tha'laba
1286 CE · 685 AHCombined jurisprudence with literature. From Adfu in Upper Egypt; died in 748 AH. - Person
al-Adid li-Din Allah, last Ubaydid caliph
c. 1151 CE · 546 AHFourteenth and last Ubaydid caliph; Shirkuh then Salah al-Din viziered under him till the Abbasid khutba was… - Person
al-Adil Abdallah al-Muwahhidi
Abu Muhammad Abd Allah, son of the amir Ya'qub al-Mansur al-Muwahhidi, known as al-Adil. When Abd al-Wahid… - Person
al-Malik al-Adil II
Al-Malik al-Adil II Sayf al-Din Abu Bakr — last Ayyubid sultan of Egypt; his own amirs seized him outside… - Person
al-Af'a al-Jurhumi
Jurhumite king of Najran appointed by the dying Nizar ibn Ma'add to arbitrate his sons' riddling bequest —… - Person
al-Afdal ibn Badr al-Jamali
Fatimid vizier, born about 458/1066, known as al-Afdal. He succeeded his father Badr al-Jamali as vizier and… - Person
al-Afshin
al-Afshin, lord of Ushrusana; he bought off Muslim ibn Sa'id's invasion with six thousand heads and his… - Person
al-Afwah al-Awdi
A pre-Islamic Arab poet, chieftain of the Awd clan of Madhhij, who lived about the middle of the 6th century.… - Person
Al-Afyuni, Abd Allah ibn Umar
A man of letters and poet from Tripoli in Syria, where he was born and raised; he later worked in Egypt. - Person
al-Ahlaj al-Dahri
Another of the named 'arrafs of the Arabs, below the kahin in rank. - Person
al-Ahmar the grammarian
Al-Amin's tutor — briefed by al-Rashid to teach Qur'an, athar, verse and sunna 'without killing his mind'. - Person
al-Ahnaf ibn Qays
al-Ahnaf ibn Qays — al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Tamimi; in al-Baladhuri, sent by Abu Musa to take Qashan by force… - Person
al-Ahwal, Abu al-Abbas
Poet and philologist of Basra, mentioned in the classical biographies of poets. - Person
al-Ahwas
The Medinese poet whose lines for Hababa — 'be a stone of the hard earth if you never loved; life is only… - Person
al-Ahwas al-Ansari
Umayyad poet from the Ansar of Medina, known for love poetry and for his standing in Arabic letters. - Person
al-Ahwas ibn Ja'far
Al-Ahwas ibn Ja'far, the Kilabi satirist; when al-Harith ibn Zalim treacherously killed his brother Khalid he… - Person
al-Ajda' ibn Malik al-Hamdani
Leader of Hamdan against Murad on the Day of al-Radm shortly before Islam according to Ibn Ishaq; Ibn Hisham… - Person
al-Ajurri
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Husayn al-Ajurri, d. AH 360 — author of Akhbar 'Umar ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz. - Person
Al-Akhdari, Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad
1514 CE · 920 AHA Maliki jurist and versifier from the Maghrib, known for verse treatises on law and worship that were taught… - Person
Ahmad ibn Imran al-Akhfash
Draft card for Ahmad ibn Imran ibn Salama al-Akhfash, the Abbasid-era grammarian and linguist; the… - Person
al-Akhfash al-Akbar
Early grammarian of Basra; transmitter of Sibawayh's circle. - Person
Al-Akhfash al-Asghar, Ali ibn Sulayman
849 CE · 235 AHA Baghdadi grammarian known as al-Akhfash al-Asghar, to distinguish him from other grammarians who bore the… - Person
Al-Akhfash al-Awsat, Sa'id ibn Mas'ada
A Basran grammarian of Khwarazmian origin and a pupil of Sibawayh. He is known as al-Awsat to distinguish him… - Person
al-Akhnas ibn Shariq
A Thaqafi leader allied to Banu Zuhra who marched with the Meccan army, then judged a battle against Medina… - Person
al-Akhsikathi, Husam al-Din
Scholar from Akhsikath in the Fergana valley who died in 644 AH. - Person
al-Akhtal
Ghiyath ibn Ghawth al-Taghlibi, the Christian poet of the Umayyad state; Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan lavished… - Person
al-Akhzar ibn Lut al-Dili
A poet of Banu al-Dil who boasted in verse of driving Banu Ka'b of Khuza'a away from al-Watir; Budayl ibn Umm… - Person
Al-Akwa', Muhammad ibn Ali
1903 CE · 1321 AHA scholar of jurisprudence and inheritance law, philologist and prolific writer, with wide knowledge of the… - Person
al-Ala' ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Mukhriz
al-Ala' ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Mukhriz, Qurashi of Abd Shams; in al-Baladhuri — per al-Kalbi — he was over… - Person
Al-Ala ibn al-Hadrami (Companion, governor of Bahrain)
A Companion from Hadramawt, whose father settled in Mecca where al-Ala was born; the Prophet made him… - Person
al-Ala ibn Jariya al-Thaqafi
A leader of Thaqif allied to Banu Zuhra; he embraced Islam after the fall of Mecca and was granted one… - Person
al-Ala ibn Wahb
al-Ala ibn Wahb ibn Abd ibn Wahban of Banu Amir ibn Lu'ayy; in al-Baladhuri, Sa'd's appointee for Uthman over… - Person
al-Ala ibn al-Harith
Draft card for al-Ala ibn al-Harith, a hadith transmitter; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Al-Albani, Muhammad Nasir al-Din
1914 CE · 1333 AHA well-known hadith scholar of Albanian origin and Syrian nationality, distinguished in the authentication… - Person
al-Allama al-Hilli
Draft card for Jamal al-Din Ibn al-Mutahhar al-Hilli, the thirteenth-century Imami jurist-theologian author… - Person
Vizier Mu'ayyad al-Din al-Alqami
Al-Musta'sim's vizier; keen to end the Abbasid state for an Alid caliph, he courted the Tatars, hid their… - Person
al-Mu'ayyad al-Alusi
1101 CE · 494 AHal-Mu'ayyad al-Alusi — famous Iraq poet, chamberlain of al-Mustarshid, then client of the wazir Ibn Hubayra;… - Person
Al-A'ma al-Tutili, Ahmad ibn Abd Allah
An Andalusian poet who was blind and known as al-A'ma. He is linked by nisba to Tudela and to Seville. - Person
Al-A'mash, Sulayman ibn Mihran
680 CE · 61 AHA hadith scholar, reciter and expert in inheritance law, nicknamed al-A'mash for weakness of sight. Accounts… - Person
Al-Amidi, Abu al-Qasim al-Hasan ibn Bishr
A literary critic and philologist from Basra who worked as a secretary in the offices of Basra and Baghdad;… - Person
al-Amin (Muhammad)
Draft card for Muhammad al-Amin, sixth Abbasid caliph and al-Ma'mun's rival in the civil war, named from an… - Person
al-Amir al-'Alim al-A'jami
The Ajami who, seeing the amirs' hang-back, mounted the minbar before the khatib on the first Jumu'a of… - Person
al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah Mansur ibn al-Musta'li
Mansur ibn al-Musta'li, tenth Ubaydid caliph as al-Amir bi-Ahkam Allah, raised at five years old on his… - Person
al-Amir Husayn b. Abi Faris al-Hafsi
al-Amir Husayn, son of sultan Abu Faris the Hafsid of Tunis; died 839. - Person
al-Malik al-Amjad Bahram Shah
Al-Malik al-Amjad Bahram Shah b. Farrukhshah (d. 628) — Ayyubid prince of Baalbek until al-Ashraf expelled… - Person
Al-'Anbari
Draft card for Al-'Anbari; the entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Al-Anbari, Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad
1119 CE · 513 AHA scholar from al-Anbar on the Euphrates, known as Kamal al-Din. He died in 577 AH. - Person
Abu al-Barakat al-Anmati
c. June 1070 CE · Rajab 462 AHThe Hanbali hafiz Abu al-Barakat Abd al-Wahhab ibn al-Mubarak al-Anmati, mufid of Baghdad; b. Rajab 462, he… - Person
Al-Ansari al-Harawi, Abd Allah ibn Muhammad
1005 CE · 396 AHA memorizer, historian, hadith scholar, Sufi and Qur'an commentator from Herat, a Hanbali who traced his… - Person
Al-Ansari al-Saraqusti, Isma'il ibn Khalaf
A reciter, grammarian and man of letters from Zaragoza in al-Andalus, who moved to Egypt and settled there. - Person
al-Aqaybil al-Qayni
Draft card for al-Aqaybil al-Qayni, the early Islamic Arab poet, d. 704; the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
al-Aqayshar (Abu Mu'arrid)
A Kufan poet of the Asad tribe, nicknamed al-Aqayshar, known for wine poetry and anecdotes of tavern drinking. - Person
al-Aqra' ibn Habis al-Tamimi
A paramount chieftain and arbitrator of Banu Tamim in Najd; given one hundred camels at al-Ji'rana among… - Person
Al-Ardabili, Faraj ibn Muhammad
A Shafi'i jurist who combined transmitted and rational sciences. Named after Ardabil; died in 749 AH. - Person
al-Ardabili, Jamal al-Din
Shafi'i jurist from Ardabil in Azerbaijan who died in 779 AH. - Person
Abu al-Fath al-Arghiyani
Abu al-Fath Sahl b. Ahmad al-Arghiyani (d. 529) — Shafi'i imam of great standing, constant in worship. - Person
al-Arqam ibn Abi al-Arqam
One of the earliest Muslims of the secret call; his name is tied in the sira to his house, which became the… - Person
Nasih al-Din Abu Bakr Ahmad al-Arradjani
Arab poet from Arradjan, born in 460 AH (1067) and died in 544 AH (1149-1150) at Tustar or Askar Mukram; he… - Person
al-As ibn Wa'il
The Sahmi notable whose withholding of a Zabidi merchant's due sparked the events leading to the Fudul pact —… - Person
al-As'ad ibn Mammati
Al-Qadi al-As'ad Ibn Mammati (d. 606, aged 62) — head of Salah al-Din's Egyptian chanceries; versified the… - Person
al-Asadi, Ahmad al-Sammaki
1625 CE · 1035 AHMeccan scholar of the eleventh century AH who grew up in Mecca. - Person
al-A'sha Maymun b. Qays
A prominent pre-Islamic Arab poet of the tribe of Kays b. Tha'laba of Bakr b. Wa'il, born before 570 at Dumna… - Person
Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari
A Sunni theologian to whom the Ash'ari school is attributed, author of Maqalat al-Islamiyyin in which he sets… - Person
Al-Ash'ari, Ali ibn Isma'il
874 CE · 260 AHA Basran theologian to whom the Ash'ari school of kalam is attributed. Little is known of his life beyond… - Person
al-Ash'ath ibn Qays
One of the kings of Kinda and holder of the quarter-share of Hadramawt; he came to the Prophet in 10 AH with… - Person
al-Ashhab ibn Bishr al-Kalbi
al-Ashhab ibn Bishr al-Kalbi; al-Hajjaj's governor of Sijistan when the truce-years ended — he pressed Rutbil… - Person
al-Ashiri al-Sinhaji
The hafiz Majd al-Din Abu Muhammad Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Ali al-Ashiri al-Sinhaji; he… - Person
al-Ashraf ibn al-A'az
Draft card for al-Ashraf ibn al-A'az, the thirteenth-century Levantine poet and genealogist, d. 1213; the… - Person
Sultan al-Ashraf Inal
Circassian sultan invested by caliph al-Qa'im in 857; their breach over the soldiers' intrusion led him to… - Person
al-Malik al-Ashraf Salah al-Din Khalil ibn Qalawun
Qalawun's son; he raised the sidelined caliph — no deed ever asked of him — whose Jumu'a khutba named him to… - Person
al-Malik al-Ashraf Sha'ban ibn Husayn
Mamluk sultan from 764, maker of the ashraf's green turban-badge; betrayed by his amirs on the hajj road in… - Person
al-Ashras ibn Abdallah al-Sulami
al-Ashras ibn Abdallah al-Sulami; Hisham's governor, guided by his Nabati katib Abu Umayya — raised the… - Person
Abu Muhammad Abd Allah al-Asili
936 CE · 324 AHThe Maliki traditionist, jurist and judge Abu Muhammad Abd Allah ibn Ibrahim al-Asili of al-Andalus, one of… - Person
al-Asma'i
The philologist whose tale of Sulayman's sleeve-snatched chickens explained the grease-marks in the Umayyad… - Person
Al-Asmandi, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Hamid
1095 CE · 488 AHA scholar recorded in the biographical dictionaries. The sources differ on his kunya and origins. - Person
al-Asmar, Abd al-Salam
Libyan Sufi shaykh of Tripoli whose seclusion (khalwa) became known under his name. - Person
Al-Astarabadhi, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad
1247 CE · 645 AHFrom Astarabad in Mazandaran; born in 645 AH and died in 715 AH. - Person
al-Aswad al-Ansi
c. 580 CEAbhala ibn Ka'b, called al-Aswad 'the veiled one' — a soothsayer of Yemen who claimed prophecy, seized San'a… - Person
al-Aswad ibn Ghaffar
Last king of Jadis — fled Hassan's sack to Tayyi' who sheltered him unknowing; his line, they say, yet… - Person
al-Aswad ibn Kulthum 'Adi al-Ribab'
al-Aswad ibn Kulthum al-Adawi, the ascetic called Adi al-Ribab; at Bayhaq he and a band entered by a… - Person
Al-Aswad ibn Nawfal
A Companion of Banu Asad ibn Abd al-Uzza; he emigrated to Abyssinia and arrived in the two ships. - Person
al-Aswad ibn Sari' al-Tamimi
Al-Aswad ibn Sari' al-Tamimi; some say he laid out Basra's mosque and was the first to judge in it — the sons… - Person
al-Aswad ibn Ya'fur
A jahili poet of Najran, author of the celebrated elegy for the house of Muharriq opening 'what can I hope… - Person
al-Aswad ibn Yazid al-Nakha'i
One of the Kufan jurists among the Successors: Abu Amr al-Aswad ibn Yazid ibn Qays al-Nakha'i, brother of Abd… - Person
Al-Atabi
Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Umar, Abu Nasr or Abu al-Qasim, Zayn al-Din al-Atabi al-Bukhari, a Hanafi scholar of… - Person
al-Awhi, ascetic of Jerusalem
al-Awhi — Abu Ali Hasan b. Ahmad of Awuh, a village between Zanjan and Hamadan, settled at Jerusalem; a… - Person
Al-Awwam ibn Hawshab
Al-Awwam ibn Hawshab ibn Yazid ibn al-Harith, Abu Isa al-Shaybani al-Rab'i al-Wasiti, a trustworthy man of… - Person
Al-Awza'i, Abd al-Rahman ibn Amr
706 CE · 88 AHThe imam and foremost jurist of Syria in his time. Historians differ on the origin of his nisba al-Awza'i. - Person
al-Awza'i al-Juhani, qadi of Suhag
Suhag's just and knowing qadi — of the house of al-Awza'i. - Person
al-Ayki, Shams al-Din
c. 1230 CE · c. 627 AHThe learned Persian Shafi'i, a Sufi jurist and imam in both foundational disciplines; he came to Damascus and… - Person
al-Ayzar ibn Hurayth
Kufan narrator; in al-Baladhuri he transmits an alternative table of Umar's Sawad levies — two dirhams and… - Person
al-Azdi al-Qurtubi
1093 CE · 486 AHAndalusi scholar of Cordoba from whom students took hadith. - Person
Abu al-Qasim al-Azhari al-Sayrafi al-Baghdadi
Ubayd Allah b. Ahmad al-Azhari al-Sayrafi of Baghdad — the hafiz who wrote much and busied himself with… - Person
al-Malik al-Aziz Fakhr al-Din Uthman
Al-Malik al-Aziz Fakhr al-Din Uthman — the boy-prince of the Karak line, raised at Baybars' court, then… - Person
al-Aziz bi'llah Nizar ibn al-Mu'izz
Nizar ibn al-Mu'izz, fifth Ubaydid caliph as al-Aziz bi'llah; his envoy reached Baghdad in 369, and per… - Person
al-Malik al-Aziz Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad
1214 CE · 610 AHAl-Malik al-Aziz Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad (610–634) — Ayyubid sultan of Aleppo, son of al-Malik al-Zahir… - Person
al-Malik al-Aziz Yusuf ibn Barsbay
Al-Aziz Yusuf ibn Barsbay — boy-sultan proclaimed on his father's death in 840, deposed after ~three months… - Person
al-Azjani, Nasih al-Din
1068 CE · 460 AHScholar from Arjan in Persia who died in 544 AH. - Person
al-Azraqi
Meccan historian of the third century AH who wrote on the history and monuments of Mecca. - Person
al-Husayn al-Ba'alawi, shaykh of Hadramawt
Shaykh al-Husayn ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Ba'alawi, 'shaykh of the Hadramawt lands'; died Ramadan 865. - Person
al-Babarti Akmal al-Din
Hanafi jurist and theologian who worked in Cairo under the Mamluk sultans; died 786 AH. - Person
Abu al-Faraj al-Makhzumi al-Babbagha
Abd al-Wahid ibn Nasr ibn Ali, Abu al-Faraj al-Makhzumi, the poet called al-Babbagha; a cultivated man of… - Person
Al-Badi' al-Astarlabi
A native of Baghdad and one of the leading astronomers and astrolabists of his time. - Person
al-Badi' al-Asturlabi
Hibatallah ibn al-Hasan, known as al-Badi' al-Asturlabi; a translator, famed poet and eminent littérateur,… - Person
al-Badisi
Hadith scholar, historian and genealogist from Granada, author of al-Maqsad al-Sharif on the righteous of the… - Person
Najm al-Din al-Badrai
1198 CE · 594 AHThe faridi (b. 594) — taught at the Nizamiyya, built Damascus's famous Badra'iyya madrasa; appointed qadi of… - Person
al-Baghawi Ahmad ibn Mani
One of the hadith memorists, companion of Abu Ubayd al-Qasim ibn Sallam, known as Ibn Bint Mani after his… - Person
Al-Baghawi, al-Husayn ibn Muhammad
1044 CE · 436 AHA hadith scholar and jurist from the town of Baghh in Khurasan, between Marw and Herat. His works include… - Person
al-Baghawi Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn al-Aziz
Hadith scholar who transmitted from al-Nasa'i, Abd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal and Musa ibn Harun, among… - Person
al-Baghdadi Abu Mansur Abd al-Qahir ibn Tahir
Theologian of Baghdad who wrote on the principles of faith, on the createdness of the Qur'an and on the… - Person
al-Baghdadi Abu al-Ala Sa'id ibn al-Hasan
Baghdadi lexicographer of Rabi'a origin from Mosul, who transmitted in the East from al-Sirafi and al-Farisi;… - Person
al-Baghdadi Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Jabir
850 CE · 235 AHMajor scholar of the Zahiri legal school, which traces to Dawud ibn Ali al-Isfahani; wrote on the differences… - Person
al-Baghdadi Malik al-Nuhat al-Hasan ibn Safi
1096 CE · 489 AHGrammarian, jurist and man of letters of Baghdad, known as the King of Grammarians; born to a freedman… - Person
al-Bakharzi
Poet and man of letters from Bakharz in Khurasan, trained in Shafi'i jurisprudence and author of a… - Person
al-Bahrani
al-Bahrani Muwaffaq al-Din (d. 585) — the Irbil-raised, Bahrain-born poet and critic, a master of prosody and… - Person
Al-Baji, Abu al-Walid Sulayman ibn Khalaf
1012 CE · 403 AHA hadith scholar, jurist, man of letters, poet, theologian and legal theorist from Beja in al-Andalus, a… - Person
Al-Baji, Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Saghir
1698 CE · 1109 AHA Tunisian historian whose full name is often misreported, since he is widely known by the kunya al-Saghir… - Person
Al-Bajuri, Ibrahim ibn Muhammad
1784 CE · 1198 AHA Shafi'i theologian and jurist, born in al-Bajur in the Minufiya province of Egypt. He memorized the Qur'an… - Person
Abu al-Hasan al-Bakharzi, author of Dumyat al-qasr
Abu al-Hasan al-Bakharzi Ali b. al-Hasan — author of *Dumyat al-qasr*, the supplement to al-Tha'alibi's… - Person
al-Bakharzi, Sayf al-Din Sa'id
Companion of Shaykh Najm al-Din al-Kubra — 'an imam in the Sunna, a head in tasawwuf'; transmitter of forty… - Person
Al-Bakri, Abu Ubayd Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Aziz
1041 CE · 432 AHAn encyclopaedic scholar of al-Andalus, author of al-Masalik wa-l-Mamalik on geography and history. - Person
al-Baladhuri
Abbasid historian and poet, author of 'Futuh al-Buldan' and 'Ansab al-Ashraf'; the Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif… - Person
Abu al-Hasan al-Balansi
Abu al-Hasan al-Khayr ibn Muhammad ibn Sahl al-Ansari of Valencia, the muhaddith; he journeyed east and… - Person
Al-Balawi, Ahmad ibn Ali
1462 CE · 866 AHA philologist, man of letters and poet from Wadi Ash, linked to the tribe of Bali. - Person
al-Balkhi Abu Ma'shar Ja'far ibn Muhammad
Astrologer and astronomer Abu Ma'shar Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-Balkhi, leading figure of his time in his field,… - Person
Al-Banani, Abd al-Rahman ibn Jad Allah
Named after Bannan, a village in Syria. A scholar of Syria. - Person
al-Bandarmahwi
Draft card for al-Bandarmahwi, the eighteenth-century Hanafi jurist, d. 1758; the biographical entry is not… - Person
al-Banna Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Muhammad
Linguist from Damietta in Egypt, described by biographers as master of the Arabic language and of the Islamic… - Person
al-Baqillani
Draft card for Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Tayyib al-Baqillani, the Ash'ari theologian of Baghdad author of… - Person
al-Bara' ibn Azib
A Companion of the Aws, as was his father; he was judged too young at Badr along with Ibn Umar and sent back,… - Person
al-Bara' ibn Malik
The brother of Anas ibn Malik and son of Umm Sulaym, he was the Prophet's camel-driver chanting on his… - Person
al-Bara ibn Ma'rur
Senior chief of Banu Salima of the Khazraj and the foremost spokesman for the Yathrib delegation at the… - Person
Al-Baraa' ibn Zayd
Draft card for Al-Baraa' ibn Zayd; the entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Al-Barbahari, al-Hasan ibn Ali
847 CE · 233 AHA Hanbali, named after barbahar, a drug imported from India. - Person
Nasir al-Din al-Barinbari
c. 1368 CE · c. 769 AHNasir al-Din al-Barinbari (b. ~770) — al-Suyuti's own teacher; taught gratis at the Azhar, lectured, gave… - Person
al-Barjami
Chief of the ayyarun of Baghdad in the two years of the Buyid state's decline; he raided the houses of Abu… - Person
Al-Barjandi, Nizam al-Din Abd al-Ali
From Barjand in Khurasan, born in the middle of the ninth century AH. - Person
Shams al-Din al-Barmawi
c. 1361 CE · Dhu al-Qa'da 763 AHShams al-Din al-Barmawi (b. 763) — 'peerless of his age, an unclouded sea' per Ibn al-Ghurabili; author of a… - Person
Al-Barqani, Ahmad ibn Muhammad
948 CE · 336 AHA Shafi'i jurist from Khwarazm, known as al-Barqani after the village of Barqan near Kath. - Person
al-Barqi Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Abd Allah
Egyptian hadith scholar, historian and jurist known as al-Hafiz al-Barqi; died 270 AH (883 CE). - Person
Al-Barzali, Abu al-Qasim ibn Ahmad
1339 CE · 741 AHThe jurist and leading scholar of Tunis, author of the large legal compendium al-Diwan al-Kabir. Born in… - Person
al-Barzanji
1716 CE · 1128 AHScholar from the Barzanji family of sayyids in Medina, a family known for learning and piety; died 1177 AH. - Person
Arslan al-Basasiri al-Turki
The Turk whose power grew till he was preached on the minbars and the caliph decided nothing without him; his… - Person
al-Bashti Abu Hamid Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Kharazanji
Scholar of Nishapur, named after the district of Busht and the village of Kharazanj; died 348 AH (959 CE). - Person
al-Basri Abu al-Qasim Ali ibn Hamza
Lexicographer, man of letters and critic of Basra who stayed for a time in Baghdad, where al-Mutanabbi lodged… - Person
al-Basus bint Munqidh
Al-Basus bint Munqidh of Tamim, Jasas's aunt: her guest's she-camel Sarab was the beast Kulayb shot in the… - Person
Abu Ja'far al-Batruji
Abu Ja'far al-Batruji Ahmad ibn Abd al-Rahman of al-Andalus, one of the imams; he transmitted from Abu… - Person
al-Battani
Muhammad ibn Jabir al-Battani, numbered by al-Mas'udi among Islam's astronomers. - Person
Al-Bayadi, Ahmad ibn al-Hasan
A Hanafi scholar of Rumi origin, linked to Bosnia, known as Kamal al-Din. - Person
Al-Bayakandi, Ahmad ibn Ali
923 CE · 311 AHA scholar of Bikand, from which he takes his nisba. He died in 404 AH. - Person
al-Baydawi
Commentator whom Rashid Rida quotes on 'the foolish' in Q. 2:142: people whose judgement is unsettled, who… - Person
Al-Baydawi, Abd Allah ibn Umar
1172 CE · 568 AHA jurist, Qur'an commentator, theologian and legal theorist, author of Anwar al-Tanzil. - Person
al-Bayduq Abu Bakr ibn Ali al-Sanhaji
c. 1096 CE · 490 AHFrom the Sanhaja tribe of the central Maghrib, born around 490 AH (1096 CE) and died 555 AH (1160 CE). - Person
al-Bayhaqi Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn al-Husayn
994 CE · 384 AHImam, hadith memorist, legal theorist and jurist Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn al-Husayn al-Bayhaqi of Khusrawjird in… - Person
al-Sharif al-Bayyadi
al-Sharif al-Bayyadi (d. 568) — Baghdad's 'white-clad' sharif poet, named for an ancestor who stood out in… - Person
al-Bazdawi Abu al-Yusr Muhammad
1030 CE · 421 AHHanafi jurist of Bukhara and judge of Samarqand, to whom the leadership of the Hanafi school passed in his… - Person
al-Bazmawi Shams al-Din Muhammad
Scholar of law, Arabic grammar and inheritance who was shaykh of the Fakhriyya school in Cairo, taught at the… - Person
al-Bazzar Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Amr
825 CE · 210 AHWell-known hadith scholar known as al-Bazzar, who narrated hadith in Isfahan, Baghdad, Egypt and Mecca in his… - Person
al-Bazzar Abu al-Tahir Abd al-Wahid ibn Umar
891 CE · 278 AHBaghdadi reader and grammarian of the late fourth century AH, who died in 349 AH (961 CE); the sources differ… - Person
al-Bazzazi
Draft card for al-Bazzazi, the fifteenth-century Central Asian Hanafi jurist author of al-Fatawa… - Person
al-Bazzi, the Rawi of Ibn Kathir
Al-Bazzi — Abu al-Hasan Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Farisi (d. 270, aged 90) — Ibn Kathir's second rawi; the… - Person
Al-Biqa'i, Ibrahim ibn Umar
1406 CE · 809 AHA Shafi'i scholar and hadith specialist from the Biqa' valley, born in 809 AH and died in 885 AH. Among his… - Person
Al-Biruni, Muhammad ibn Ahmad
973 CE · 362 AHBorn in Kath, the old city of Khwarazm. One of the leading astronomers, mathematicians, geographers and… - Person
al-Birzali
Draft card for Alam al-Din al-Qasim al-Birzali, the fourteenth-century historian and muhaddith of Damascus… - Person
Shams al-Din al-Bisati
c. May 1359 CE · Jumada I 760 AHAl-Bisati (b. Bisat Jumada I 760) — Egypt's Maliki chief qadi for twenty uninterrupted years from 823; once… - Person
al-Bitruji Abu Ishaq Nur al-Din
Among the great Arab astronomers, of Andalusi origin from Bidrush near Cordoba, active in the sixth century… - Person
al-Buhturi
Abu Ubada al-Walid ibn Ubayd, the poet; he praised al-Mutawakkil for lifting the mihna — 'commander of the… - Person
al-Buhuti Mansur ibn Yunus
1591 CE · 1000 AHHanbali jurist, shaykh of the Hanbalis in Egypt in his time, named after Buhut in the Gharbiyya province;… - Person
al-Bukhari, Ala al-Din
Hanafi jurist from Bukhara; died 1331 CE (the printed Hijri year does not match and is not recorded). - Person
Al-Bukhari, Iftikhar al-Din Tahir ibn Ahmad
A Hanafi jurist from Bukhara, who is thought to have been born in the nearby village of Maymurgh. - Person
Ahmad al-Bukhari al-Makki
c. October 1480 CE · Safar 883 AHThe Bukharan-born Meccan — b. Safar 803; he read Abu Dawud and the Shifa' on al-Sakhawi, heard al-Dimyati and… - Person
al-Bulaydi Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Muhammad
1685 CE · 1096 AHScholar born in Algeria who moved between the Maghrib, al-Andalus and Tunisia, named after the town of… - Person
al-Bundari
Draft card for al-Fath ibn Ali al-Bundari al-Isfahani, the thirteenth-century historian who translated and… - Person
Burhan al-Din al-Buqa'i
c. 1406 CE · c. 809 AHBurhan al-Din al-Buqa'i the chronicler — wounded at twelve (Sha'ban 821) when a clan raid on his Baq'a… - Person
al-Burak ibn Abdallah al-Tamimi
A Tamimi Khariji who joined the Meccan pact with Ibn Muljim and Amr ibn Bakir to kill the three governors on… - Person
al-Burjini
Maliki jurist from Tunisia, among the notable Maliki jurists of his age, who studied with a pupil of… - Person
Al-Burqani
Draft card for Al-Burqani; the entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
al-Burshani Ibrahim ibn Muhammad
1403 CE · 806 AHAndalusi jurist, linguist and scholar of inheritance law and arithmetic from Wadi Ash (Guadix), who studied… - Person
al-Busayli Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad
Scholar from Algeria who settled and was buried in Tunis, and is linked with the transmission of Ibn Arafa's… - Person
al-Busiri, author of the Burda
c. March 1212 CE · 1 Shawwal 608 AHThe poet of the Burda — born near Dalas on Tuesday 1 Shawwal 608, Maghrebi by origin, Busiri by home; the… - Person
al-Busrawi Ala al-Din Ali ibn Yusuf
c. 1438 CE · c. 841 AH†Shafi'i jurist of Damascus, a student of Shaykh al-Islam Radi al-Din al-Ghazzi, named after Busra al-Sham;… - Person
Abu Ya'qub al-Buwayti
Al-Shafi'i's chosen disciple who filled his place in lesson and fatwa; carried to Baghdad in al-Wathiq's days… - Person
al-Dahhak dhu al-afwah
The tyrant on whose shoulders grew two serpents fed daily on human brains — the spared tribute fleeing to the… - Person
al-Dahhak ibn Haritha
Draft card for al-Dahhak ibn Haritha, a figure of the early community; the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Al-Dahhak ibn Khalifa
Ibn Hisham names him among those in Suwaylim's house when Talha burned it; he broke out of the back of the… - Person
Al-Dahhak ibn Makhlad
740 CE · 122 AH†Draft card for al-Dahhak ibn Makhlad of Nishapur, shaykh of al-Bukhari and the memorizer; his entry is not… - Person
al-Dahhak ibn Muzahim
Al-Dahhak ibn Muzahim al-Hilali, Khurasan's exegete; met Sa'id ibn Jubayr at Rayy and wrote down tafsir from… - Person
al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Fihri
He proclaimed the caliphate of Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr in Syria and was at the head of his army there. At… - Person
al-Dahhak ibn Qays al-Shaybani al-Khariji
Leader of the Kharijites in the strife at the end of the Umayyad dynasty. He rose in al-Jazira and prevailed… - Person
al-Dahhak ibn Sufyan al-Kilabi
A companion of Banu Kilab appointed sadaqa collector over his people in 9 AH; when a clan of them refused the… - Person
al-Da'i ibn Abi al-Su'ud ibn al-Zuray'
Al-Da'i ibn Abi al-Su'ud ibn al-Zuray' ibn al-Abbas ibn al-Mukarram al-Hamdani; the first named of Banu… - Person
Muhadhdhib al-Din al-Dakhwar, shaykh of medicine
c. 1170 CE · 565 AHal-Muhadhdhib al-Dakhwar — Damascus's shaykh of medicine, pupil of Ibn al-Matran and al-Radi al-Rahbi, who… - Person
al-Dalji al-'Uthmani
c. 1456 CE · 860 AHThe Shafi'i of Dalja — b. 860; after Cairo he lived thirty years in Damascus studying under al-Biqa'i, Burhan… - Person
Abu Abdallah al-Damaghani
Chief qadi of Baghdad through the Seljuk transition: invested on 10 Dhu'l-Qa'da 447, witness of the caliph's… - Person
Al-Daraqutni
c. November 918 CE · Dhu al-Qa'da 306 AH'Ali b. 'Umar Abu'l-Hasan al-Daraqutni (306–385), Baghdad's hafiz, singular of his age: the science of… - Person
al-Dardir
Draft card for Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Dardir, the eighteenth-century Maliki jurist of Egypt author of al-Sharh… - Person
al-Darimi
Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Rahman, author of the Musnad, died in al-Mu'tazz's days. - Person
al-Dawlabi al-Warraq
Abu Bishr al-Dawlabi (d. 320) — the Rayy warraq-historian; a trusted authority on births and deaths of the… - Person
al-Dayzan ibn Mu'awiya
King of Tanukh holding Hatra — 'al-Dayzan ibn Jabhala' named for his mother — a Roman-aligned warlord whose… - Person
al-Dhahabi
Draft card for Shams al-Din al-Dhahabi, the hadith master and historian of Siyar A'lam al-Nubala' and Tarikh… - Person
al-Dimyati
1217 CE · 614 AH†Draft card for al-Dimyati, the Damietta hadith scholar of the seventh Hijri century; his entry is not yet… - Person
al-Dulai, preacher of Damascus
Diya' al-Din Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Malik ibn Zayd ibn Yasin ibn Zayd ibn Qa'id ibn Jamil al-Taghlibi al-Arqami… - Person
al-Dumustuq
The Byzantine Domestic; in 315 he marched on Dabil with siege-towers, mangonels and naphtha-tubes, while… - Person
al-Fadhusfan
Isbahan's aged marzban; in al-Baladhuri, betrayed by his besieged cityfolk, he fled with thirty archers… - Person
al-Fadil al-Yamani
Draft card for al-Fadil al-Yamani, the fourteenth-century Yemeni jurist, poet and exegete, d. 1349; the… - Person
Al-Fadl al-Raqqashi
Abu'l-Abbas al-Raqqashi — the Basran panegyrist of al-Rashid, al-Amin and the Barmakids whose lampoon war… - Person
al-Fadl al-Sinani
Draft card for al-Fadl al-Sinani of Yemen, a hadith transmitter; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
al-Fadl, Hafsid caliph
Draft card for Abu'l-Abbas al-Fadl, the fourteenth-century Hafsid caliph of Ifriqiya, d. 1350; the dynastic… - Person
al-Fadl ibn Abd al-Rahman, Ra'id al-Bighal
Al-Fadl ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Abbas ibn Rabi'a ibn al-Harith ibn Abd al-Muttalib — nicknamed Ra'id… - Person
al-Fadl ibn al-Abbas
Son of al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib; rode behind the Prophet from Arafat to Muzdalifa in the Farewell… - Person
Al-Fadl ibn al-Sabbah al-Simsar
Abu'l-Abbas al-Simsar — a Baghdad transmitter who heard from Hushaym, Sufyan ibn 'Uyayna, Waki' and Abu… - Person
al-Fadl ibn Dukayn
The Kufan Abu Nu'aym — dead in 219. - Person
al-Fadl ibn Ja'far ibn al-Furat
Al-Muqtadir's last vizier, who cast his horoscope on the fatal ride to Bab al-Shamasiyya. - Person
al-Fadl ibn Mahan
al-Fadl ibn Mahan, mawla of Banu Sama; Sindan's conqueror who sent al-Ma'mun an elephant and kept him in the… - Person
al-Fadl ibn Naubakht
Draft card for al-Fadl ibn Naubakht, the ninth-century translator and astrologer of the Bayt al-Hikma, d.… - Person
Abu Sahl al-Fadl ibn Nawbakht
Abu Sahl al-Fadl ibn Nawbakht the Persian, in al-Rashid's khizanat al-hikma, rendering into Arabic whatever… - Person
Al-Fadl ibn Salih ibn Ali
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al-Fadl ibn Shadhan
Draft card for al-Fadl ibn Shadhan al-Nishapuri, the hadith scholar and jurist; his entry is not yet checked… - Person
al-Fadl ibn Yahya al-Barmaki
al-Fadl ibn Yahya al-Barmaki — al-Rashid's foster-brother and al-Amin's tutor, governor of the East, confined… - Person
al-Fa'iz bi-Nasr Allah Isa ibn al-Zafir
Isa ibn al-Zafir, thirteenth Ubaydid caliph as al-Fa'iz bi-Nasr Allah — a small boy raised in 549 as Egypt's… - Person
al-Fajiji
Draft card for Ibrahim ibn Abd al-Jabbar al-Fajiji, the sixteenth-century Moroccan jurist and poet, d. 1514;… - Person
al-Fakhr al-Ba'labakki
c. 1214 CE · 611 AHThe Baalbek Hanbali — recited Ibn al-Salah's Ulum al-Hadith back to its author from memory; al-Yunini loved… - Person
al-Fakhr ibn al-Bukhari, musnid of the age
c. 1199 CE · c. 595 AHMusnid al-dunya — transmitted hadith over sixty years, joining grandsons to grandfathers in isnad-loftiness;… - Person
Shams al-Din al-Fanari
Shams al-Din al-Fanari the Ottoman polymath, author of the hundred-science riddle he wrote — per his son — to… - Person
al-Farabi
c. 878 CE · c. 264 AH†Abu Nasr Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Tarkhan al-Farabi, d. AH 339 — 'the Second Teacher' after Aristotle,… - Person
Abu Ahmad al-Faradi Ubayd Allah ibn Ahmad al-Muqri'
Ubayd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Mihran, Abu Ahmad al-Faradi, reciter and transmitter of hadith. He heard… - Person
al-Farawi
c. 1049 CE · 441 AHAbu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abi al-Abbas al-Sa'idi al-Farawi al-Nisaburi, known as Kamal al-Din, jurist and… - Person
al-Farbari
c. 845 CE · 231 AHAbu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Yusuf ibn Mattar ibn Salih al-Farbari, the transmitter of Sahih al-Bukhari from… - Person
al-Farghani
Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani, author of the Thirty Chapters on the science of the spheres. - Person
al-Fari'a al-Kharijiyya
al-Fari'a — the Khariji poetess who mourned her brother al-Walid ibn Tarif as al-Khansa' mourned Sakhr and… - Person
al-Fariqani Aqsunqur al-Zahiri
Baybars's ustadh-dar — made na'ib by al-Sa'id, then seized and reportedly strangled in Jumada I by the… - Person
Al-Fariqi
Abu Ali al-Fariqi — Shafi'i qadi of Wasit; studied under Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi and Ibn al-Sabbagh at Baghdad,… - Person
Ibn Shahuya
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Shahuya al-Farisi, the Shafi'i jurist. Al-Hakim Abu Abd Allah… - Person
al-Faruthi, shaykh of Iraq
c. January 1218 CE · Dhu al-Qa'da 614 AHIraq's shaykh — qira'at on Ibn al-Baqillani's pupils, the khirqa from al-Suhrawardi; Dhahabi: 'he came to us… - Person
Shams al-Din al-Faryani
Al-Faryani of Faryana near Qayrawan — a Moroccan preacher who haunted Cairo, frequented al-Maqrizi, claimed… - Person
al-Fasi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad
Draft card for Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Fasi, the fifteenth-century hadith scholar and historian of… - Person
al-Fasihi al-Istrabadhi
Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Abi Zayd ibn Muhammad ibn Ali, the grammarian known as al-Fasihi al-Istrabadhi. He… - Person
al-Fatammash ibn al-A'war
Al-Fatammash ibn al-A'war ibn Amr al-Dabbi, poet; his verse on Rayy's Furkhan fortress curses 'the keep on… - Person
al-Fath ibn Khaqan
Al-Mutawakkil's vizier, slain with him in the night-murder by five Turks on 5 Shawwal 247. - Person
Abu al-Fath Sulaym ibn Ayyub al-Razi, the exegete
Abu al-Fath Sulaym b. Ayyub al-Razi — the Shafi'i exegete, pupil-successor of Abu Hamid al-Isfarayini, who… - Person
al-Fayd ibn Abi Salih
Abu Ja'far al-Fayd ibn Abi Salih, vizier of the Abbasid caliph al-Mahdi. When al-Mahdi imprisoned Ya'qub ibn… - Person
Muhammad al-Fazari
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Fazari, al-Mansur's astrologer and maker of an early astrolabe in… - Person
al-Fazari
Draft card for al-Fazari; the entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
al-Firuzabadi
Draft card for Majd al-Din Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Firuzabadi, the lexicographer and qadi of Yemen author of… - Person
al-Firyani
Shams al-Din Muhammad al-Firyani of the Maghreb — a wandering preacher who frequented al-Maqrizi in Cairo,… - Person
al-Fudayl ibn 'Iyad
The Kufan-born ascetic of Mecca who told al-Rashid to his face 'a mighty charge' — and refused the gift-bag… - Person
al-Furani
Draft card for al-Furani, the eleventh-century scholar, d. 1069; the biographical entry is not yet checked on… - Person
al-Furay'a bint Malik, sister of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri
al-Furay'a bint Malik ibn Sinan al-Khudriyya al-Ansariyya, sister of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri; she is also called… - Person
al-Ghadban ibn al-Qab'athari
The Shaybani wit who preached Kufa to kill al-Hajjaj on the road before it counted as insurrection — jailed… - Person
The Ghamidi woman
A woman of the Ghamid tribe who came to the Prophet in 9 AH and confessed to fornication; he turned her away… - Person
al-Gharid the singer
The famed early singer whom the jinn forbade to sing certain verses — he sang them and they killed him. - Person
al-Gharur ibn al-Mundhir
Of the Lakhmid house of al-Hira; after the Prophet's death those of Abd al-Qays who had converted reverted… - Person
al-Ghaydaq ibn Abd al-Muttalib
One of the ten sons of Abd al-Muttalib in al-Raheeq al-Makhtum's count, and an uncle of the Prophet; some say… - Person
Najm al-Din al-Ghayti, Egypt's shaykh al-Islam
c. 1510 CE · c. 916 AH†Najm al-Din al-Ghayti — Alexandria-born musnid of Egypt, 'the Bukhari of his age' per qadi Muhibb al-Din;… - Person
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
1058 CE · 450 AH†Hujjat al-Islam al-Ghazali the Shafi'i, author of the Ihya' — of which al-Nawawi said that were all Islam's… - Person
Yahya ibn al-Hakam al-Ghazal
Al-Ghazzal (Yahya ibn al-Hakam) — the poet-ambassador: sent past fifty to the Majus king, he told Queen Tud… - Person
Abu Ishaq al-Ghazzi
Abu Ishaq al-Ghazzi Ibrahim ibn Uthman — 'poet of the age and standard-bearer of verse', whose poetry… - Person
al-Hadi (Musa)
Draft card for Musa al-Hadi, fourth Abbasid caliph, named from an open reference description (Wikidata); his… - Person
al-Hadi Musa
Musa ibn al-Mahdi, al-Hadi; in al-Baladhuri he dwelt at Madinat al-Salam and died there. - Person
Yahya al-Hadi al-Rassi
Yahya ibn al-Husayn ibn al-Qasim al-Rassi, laqab al-Hadi; the first of Banu al-Rassi to summon Sa'da to… - Person
al-Hafiz li-Din Allah Abd al-Majid ibn Muhammad ibn al-Mustansir
Eleventh Ubaydid caliph, raised when his nephew al-Amir was killed heirless in 524; died 544, succeeded by… - Person
al-Hafizi al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Muhammad
1926 CE · 1345 AHOf the Hafizi family of Rijal Alma in Asir; born 1345 AH (1926 CE) and died 1406 AH (1986 CE). - Person
al-Hafizi Ibrahim ibn Ali Zayn al-Abidin
1888 CE · 1305 AHOf the Al Bakri al-Ujayli family of Rijal Alma in Asir; born 1305 AH (1888 CE) and died 1372 AH (1952 CE). - Person
al-Hafizi Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abd al-Qadir
1762 CE · 1176 AHOf the Hafizi family, whose lineage links to Shaykh Abu al-Abbas ibn Musa, in Rijal Alma in Asir; born 1176… - Person
Arghwan, called al-Hafiziyya
Freedwoman of al-Adil and great-aunt of Turanshah (d. 20 Sha'ban 648) — she endowed and built Cairo's… - Person
al-Hajari al-Irbili
c. 1186 CE · c. 582 AHal-Hajari (d. 632) — the soldier-poet of Arbil, master of shi'r, dubayt and muwaliya together; imprisoned in… - Person
al-Hajj Bakir
The man Algiers' diwan chose unanimously as governor on Hasan Agha al-Tushi's death in 951/1544, holding… - Person
al-Hajj Bashir
The commander whose exploits stood out in Algiers' 948/1541 defence against Charles V's expedition —… - Person
al-Hajj Umar Tal
Draft card for al-Hajj Umar ibn Sa'id al-Futi Tal, the Tijani mujahid and Toucouleur scholar who founded a… - Person
al-Hajjaj ibn Artat
Al-Hajjaj ibn Artat, called Abu Artat; he travelled to Rayy with al-Mahdi and died there. - Person
al-Hajjaj ibn Utayk al-Thaqafi
Al-Hajjaj ibn Utayk of Thaqif; husband of Umm Jamil bint Yahjan, on whom the watchers saw al-Mughira call; he… - Person
al-Hajjaj ibn 'Uzayya al-Ansari
The Ansari poet who elegised 'Ammar after Siffin — 'for men's eyes a flowing tear; Abu'l-Yaqzan 'Ammar has… - Person
al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf ibn Matar
Draft card for al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf ibn Matar, the ninth-century translator of Euclid's Elements and Ptolemy's… - Person
al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Idrisi "al-Hajjam"
al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn al-Qasim ibn Idris, nicknamed al-Hajjam ('the cupper'); brave and daring, he rose… - Person
al-Hakam I ibn Hisham
c. 771 CE · c. 154 AHFourth Umayyad emir of Córdoba (AH 180–206): first to raise a standing army of mamlūks in al-Andalus — five… - Person
al-Hakam ibn Abi al-As al-Thaqafi
al-Hakam ibn Abi al-As al-Thaqafi, Uthman's brother; sent to Bahrayn and on to Barus in 15h. - Person
al-Hakam ibn Amr al-Ghifari
al-Hakam ibn Amr al-Ghifari, a chaste Companion; fetched to Ziyad by mistake for al-Hakam ibn Abi al-As, he… - Person
al-Hakam ibn Awana al-Kalbi
al-Hakam ibn Awana al-Kalbi; Asad ibn Abdallah's deputy over Khurasan on his departure. - Person
Abu Bakkar al-Hakam ibn Farrukh
Abu Bakkar al-Hakam ibn Farrukh al-Ghazzal of Basra, a transmitter of hadith. He narrated from Abu al-Malih… - Person
al-Hakam ibn Hazn al-Kulafi
A Companion of the Kulaf, a branch of Tamim, who came as a delegation to the Prophet. Abu Dawud, Abu Ya'la… - Person
Al-Hakam ibn Kaysan
A client (mawla) of the Banu Makhzum, taken captive on the expedition of Abd Allah ibn Jahsh (Nakhla); he… - Person
al-Hakam ibn Mas'ud
Brother of Abu Ubayd ibn Mas'ud al-Thaqafi; in al-Baladhuri he took the banner at the Day of the Bridge after… - Person
al-Hakam ibn Muhammad ibn Hakam al-Judhami al-Qurtubi
Abu al-As al-Hakam b. Muhammad al-Judhami al-Qurtubi, musnid of al-Andalus; made hajj and heard Abu Muhammad… - Person
al-Hakam ibn Nuhayk al-Hujaymi
Al-Hakam ibn Nuhayk al-Hujaymi; al-Hajjaj's governor of Kirman after Fars — he built Arrajan's mosque and dar… - Person
al-Hakam ibn 'Utayba
Kufa's Kindite jurist — died 115, the year 'Ata' ibn Abi Rabah is also said to have died. - Person
al-Hakim al-Munajjim
Draft card for al-Hakim al-Munajjim, the twelfth-century Nizari da'i, physician and astrologer, d. 1103; the… - Person
al-Hakim al-Nisaburi
al-Hakim al-Nisaburi (d. 405, var. 403) — the Nishapuri hafiz known as Ibn al-Bayyi'; his shuyukh numbered… - Person
al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Ali al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi, the ninth-century Khurasani Sufi author of Khatm… - Person
al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah Mansur ibn al-Aziz
Mansur ibn al-Aziz, sixth Ubaydid caliph, titled al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah. Al-Maqrizi says he disappeared in… - Person
al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah Ahmad al-Qabi
Second Cairo caliph [661–701], of al-Mustarshid's line — he escaped the sack to the Arabs, fought the Tatars… - Person
al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah II Ahmad ibn al-Mustakfi
Cairo caliph [741–753]; his father's deed — witnessed by forty just men of Qus — was read in al-Mansur Abu… - Person
al-Halabi Qutb al-Din Abd al-Karim ibn Abd al-Nur
1266 CE · 664 AHHadith memorist of celebrated standing, of Aleppine origin who settled in Egypt; born 664 AH (1266 CE), died… - Person
al-Halimi Abu Abd Allah al-Husayn ibn al-Hasan
949 CE · 338 AHScholar of the fourth century AH; born 338 AH (949 CE), died 403 AH (1012 CE). - Person
Taj al-Din al-Hamadani
Taj al-Din al-Hamadani — the Hanafi who compiled his sixteen-point refutation of Ibn Kamal Pasha's Sadr… - Person
al-Hamdani
Abu Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Ahmad al-Hamdani, d. AH 334 — the Yemeni polymath author of the ten-volume Iklil on… - Person
Abu al-Faraj al-Makhzumi
927 CE · 315 AHA poet, prose writer and man of letters born in Nasibin. Little is known of his upbringing. - Person
Abu Musa al-Hamidh
Abu Musa al-Hamidh (d. 305, Baghdad) — Baghdadi grammarian-poet nicknamed 'the Sour' for his harsh temper. - Person
al-Hammani Abu Zakariyya Yahya ibn Abd al-Hamid
Travelling hadith memorist who came to Baghdad, first to compile a musnad in Kufa; died 228 AH (842 CE).… - Person
al-Harfush, author of the wa'z book
Author of the book al-Harfish on wa'z (preaching): a learned, ascetic Sufi preacher renowned for his… - Person
Abu Mansur al-Harimi
The Hanbali hafiz (d. 3 Jumada I 643, Baghdad) — one of the two hadith shaykhs al-Mustansir appointed to his… - Person
al-Hariri
Al-Hariri of Basra, author of the celebrated Maqamat in which he followed Badi' al-Zaman; his 21st (Raziyya)… - Person
Abu al-'Abbas al-Hariri al-Misri
Ibn 'Anan's favourite son-in-law and al-Murshifi's successor — he would not give guidance until voices bade… - Person
al-Harith al-A'war
A jurist of Kufa. Abu Ishaq said that no one in Kufa knew the law of inheritance (al-fara'id) better than… - Person
al-Harith al-Hamdani
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al-Harith ibn Yazid al-Ukli
Al-Harith ibn Yazid al-Ukli, a jurist of Kufa of this generation, named with al-Mughira ibn Miqsam, Abu… - Person
al-Harith ibn Abd al-Muttalib
One of the ten sons of Abd al-Muttalib in al-Raheeq al-Makhtum's count, and an uncle of the Prophet; chapter… - Person
Al-Harith ibn Abd al-Uzza
Of the Banu Sa'd of Hawazin, husband of Halima, the Prophet's wet-nurse, with the kunya Abu Dhu'ayb. Ibn… - Person
al-Harith ibn Abd Kulal
One of the kings of Himyar who wrote to the Prophet announcing their Islam on his return from Tabuk, and to… - Person
Al-Harith ibn Abd Qays
A Companion of Banu al-Harith ibn Fihr; he emigrated to Abyssinia and arrived in the two ships. - Person
al-Harith ibn Abdallah ibn Abi Rabi'a 'al-Quba''
Al-Harith ibn Abdallah ibn Abi Rabi'a al-Makhzumi, called al-Quba'; he gave Abd al-Aziz ibn Abdallah ibn Amir… - Person
Al-Harith ibn Abi Dirar
Chief of the Banu al-Mustaliq of Khuza'a and father of Juwayriya, mother of the believers. He came to Medina… - Person
al-Harith ibn Abi Shamir al-Ghassani
Al-Harith ibn Abi Shamir 'the Lame' (Arethas), Ghassanid king of Syria: routed by Taghlib after Amr ibn… - Person
al-Harith ibn Abi Shumr
The Ghassanid king ruling Syria when the Prophet's mission began and the recipient of his call to Islam —… - Person
Al-Harith ibn al-Harith ibn Kalada
Of Thaqif; Ibn Abd al-Barr counts him among those whose hearts were won over (al-mu'allafa qulubuhum) and… - Person
Al-Harith ibn al-Harith al-Sahmi
Of Banu Sahm; he emigrated to Abyssinia. Ibn Ishaq mentions him without recording his fate. - Person
al-Harith ibn al-Nu'man ibn Usaf
Companion from the Ansar, of Banu Mazin al-Najjar (Khazraj); martyred at Mu'tah. Ibn Ishaq records his full… - Person
al-Harith ibn Amr al-Kindi
The Kindite whom Qubadh ibn Firuz installed at al-Hira after dismissing al-Mundhir ibn Ma' al-Sama', because… - Person
al-Harith ibn Arfaja
Draft card for al-Harith ibn Arfaja, a figure of the early community; the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Al-Harith ibn Aws ibn Mu'adh
An Ansari of the Aws, nephew of Sa'd ibn Mu'adh, chief of the Aws. A sound report places him at the Trench… - Person
Al-Harith ibn Hatib
Son of Hatib ibn al-Harith and Fatima bint al-Mujallal; he arrived with his mother and brother in one of the… - Person
al-Harith ibn Hisham
A prominent nobleman of Banu Makhzum and brother of Abu Jahl; after fierce opposition to Islam at Badr and… - Person
al-Harith ibn Kalada
the famed physician of the Arabs; ate the poisoned khazira with Abu Bakr — 'a year's poison is in it, we die… - Person
Al-Harith ibn Khalid ibn Sakhr
A Companion of Banu Taym ibn Murra; he emigrated to Abyssinia with his wife Rayta and arrived in the two… - Person
Al-Harith ibn Malik ibn al-Barsa' al-Laythi
A man of Layth whom Ghalib ibn Abdullah's detachment met at Qudayd and seized; he said he was on his way to… - Person
al-Harith ibn Miskin
A Maliki appointed qadi of Egypt in 237 after much refusal, replacing Ibn Abi al-Layth — he had the deposed… - Person
al-Harith ibn Murra al-Abdi
al-Harith ibn Murra al-Abdi; Ali-sanctioned volunteer of the Indian frontier — a thousand heads' booty in one… - Person
al-Harith ibn Sulayl al-Asadi
Of Banu Asad, an ally of Alqama ibn Hasafa; named as the first to say the proverb 'the free woman goes hungry… - Person
al-Harith ibn Uqba
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al-Harith ibn Zalim al-Murri
Harith ibn Zalim al-Murri, the byword for treachery in the ayyam; he broke bread with al-Nu'man then went in… - Person
al-Hasan ibn al-Amir Ali al-Murtada al-Alawi
c. 1149 CE · c. 544 AHal-Hasan b. al-Amir Ali b. al-Murtada — the Husayni Alid and last hearer of Ibn Nasir, transmitter of his… - Person
al-Hasan al-Askari
Abu Muhammad al-Hasan b. 'Ali — died at Samarra in 260, aged 29; father of the awaited Mahdi for the… - Person
Abu al-Hasan al-Basri
Abu al-Hasan al-Basri, al-Hasan ibn Yasar — his father once Qayruz; of Maysan's captives with his brother… - Person
al-Hasan al-Muthallath
695 CE · 76 AH†Draft card for al-Hasan al-Muthallath ibn al-Hasan al-Muthanna, the Alid imprisoned in the Fakhkh affair; his… - Person
Al-Hasan al-Muthanna
Draft card for al-Hasan al-Muthanna son of al-Hasan, the Alid family's leading man of his age and father of… - Person
Mu'ayyad al-Mulk al-Hasan al-Rakji
Vizier of Musharrif al-Dawla for two years, then dismissed yet kept great prestige. Seeing Wasit lacked a… - Person
al-Hasan al-Saghani
1181 CE · 577 AH†Draft card for al-Hasan al-Saghani, the lexicographer of Mashariq al-Anwar; his entry is not yet checked on… - Person
Al-Hasan al-Zaydi, naqib of the 'Abbasids
Abu Tamam al-Hasan b. 'Ali b. 'Abd al-Wahhab al-Zaydi (d. c. 384), naqib of the 'Abbasids and holder of the… - Person
al-Hasan ibn Abi'l-Rabi'
Son of the transmitter Abu'l-Rabi' (Yahya b. al-Ju'd), heard by al-Baghawi and Ibn Sa'id, graded truthful by… - Person
al-Hasan ibn Ahmad al-Qarmati al-A'sam
al-Hasan b. Ahmad al-Qarmati, called al-A'sam — held Damascus before 360, then captured and killed the ailing… - Person
al-Hasan ibn al-Harith al-Habubi al-Khwarizmi
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al-Hasan ibn al-Husayn al-Tahiri
Al-Hasan ibn al-Husayn, Abdallah ibn Tahir's uncle; sent at Khurasan's head against Mazyar, his the… - Person
Al-Hasan ibn al-Khizrani
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Al-Hasan ibn al-Qasim al-Alawi
An Alid missionary (da'i) descended from al-Hasan ibn Ali, killed in Tabaristan by Asfar. - Person
al-Hasan ibn al-Shahid al-Thani
Draft card for al-Hasan ibn Zayn al-Din Sahib al-Ma'alim, the seventeenth-century jurist of Jabal Amil, d.… - Person
al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Jawhari
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al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Nahhas
Abu 'Ali al-Nahhas of Nishapur, a trustworthy and pious traditionist; he died in Egypt. - Person
al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Zayri
1109 CE · 502 AHAl-Hasan b. Ali (b. Rajab 502, Susa) — last Zirid king of Ifriqiya; enthroned at twelve, lost Tripoli (541)… - Person
al-Hasan ibn Ali, last of the Banu Badis
Last Zirid sultan of Mahdiyya, enthroned a boy of twelve under his freedmen Sandal and Muwaffaq; after the… - Person
Al-Hasan ibn Arafa al-Abdi
Al-Hasan ibn Arafa ibn Yazid, Abu Ali al-Abdi al-Baghdadi, a hadith scholar, learned in the Arab days and in… - Person
al-Hasan ibn Harun
Ibn Muqla's fellow-conspirator; both in hiding from al-Qahir, they suborned the Sajiyya and Hujariyya… - Person
al-Hasan ibn Husayn al-Tuluni
Draft card for al-Hasan ibn Husayn Ibn al-Tuluni, the jurist, historian and writer, d. 1503; the biographical… - Person
al-Hasan ibn Isa al-Abbasi
Al-Hasan b. Isa b. al-Muqtadir — the Abbasid prince Abu Muhammad, a dignified pious man who kept the lore of… - Person
al-Hasan ibn Kannun al-Idrisi
al-Hasan ibn Kannun al-Idrisi, the last Idrisid king of the Maghreb; succeeding his martyred brother Abu… - Person
al-Hasan ibn Mahbub
Draft card for al-Hasan ibn Mahbub al-Sarrad, the ninth-century transmitter from al-Sadiq, d. 839; the… - Person
al-Hasan ibn Makhlad al-Jarrah
Draft card for al-Hasan ibn Makhlad ibn al-Jarrah, the tenth-century Abbasid vizier of the Christian Jarrahid… - Person
al-Hasan ibn Makula
Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Ja'far ibn Makula, vizier of Jalal al-Dawla after his cousin Abu Sa'd was… - Person
al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Nisaburi al-A'raj
al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn al-Husayn, Nizam al-Din al-Qummi al-Nisaburi, known as al-A'raj: a Qur'an… - Person
al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Za'farani
Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn al-Sabbah al-Za'farani, one of al-Shafi'i's Baghdadi companions; he died in… - Person
al-Hasan b. Muhammad al-Hafsi
The Hafsid sultan of Tunis in Khayr al-Din's day; al-Salabi depicts misrule and fratricide that drove his… - Person
al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Abi'l-Shawarib
Chief qadi under al-Mu'tamid, of the Banu Abi'l-Shawarib house of judges; he died at Baghdad on 18… - Person
al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba al-Ta'i
al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba al-Ta'i of Kufa, commander of the Khurasani army and da'i of the Abbasid da'wa; in… - Person
al-Hasan ibn Sahl
وزير المأمون، استعمله في سنة ثمان وتسعين على ما افتتح طاهر بن الحسين من كور الجبال والعراق والحجاز واليمن،… - Person
al-Hasan ibn Sa'id al-Farisi
Abu Ahmad 'Ibn al-Bustaban' of Fars, a truthful transmitter from Sufyan ibn 'Uyayna and Ibn 'Ulayya heard by… - Person
Al-Hasan ibn Sallam
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al-Hasan ibn Sufyan al-Nasawi
Abu'l-'Abbas al-Shaybani of Nasaf, Khurasan's traditionist of his age: he heard Ibn Hanbal, Ibn Ma'in and Abu… - Person
Ibn al-Ruzjar (al-Hasan ibn Thabit)
Al-Hasan ibn Thabit, Abu al-Hasan al-Ahwal al-Tha'alabi of Kufa, known as Ibn al-Ruzjar, a Successor. He… - Person
Al-Hasan ibn Thawab
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al-Hasan ibn Zayd al-Da'i ila al-Haqq
Founder of Tabaristan's Alid state, rising at Rayy and Daylam in 250 as 'al-Da'i ila al-Haqq'; his brother… - Person
al-Hasan al-Zayyani
Brother of Abu Zayyan Ahmad II, whom the people of Tlemcen acclaimed in his stead for the other's leanings to… - Person
Al-Haskafi, Muhammad ibn Ali
1616 CE · 1025 AHA Hanafi mufti of Damascus of Hisn origin, author of al-Durr al-Mukhtar on Hanafi law. - Person
Mu'in al-Din al-Haskafi
Mu'in al-Din al-Haskafi Yahya ibn Salama, the Shafi'i known as al-Khatib, nisba to the fortress Hisn Kayfa;… - Person
al-Hasan ibn Abdallah, last Zayyanid
Draft card for al-Hasan ibn Abdallah II al-Zayyani, the last Zayyanid sultan of Tlemcen until 1556; the… - Person
al-Hatimi
Abu Ali al-Hatimi (d. 388) — the Baghdadi philologist-katib, pupil of Abu Umar al-Zahid; author of the famous… - Person
al-Hawfazan ibn Shurayk
al-Hawfazan b. Shurayk al-Shaybani — the famed generous-and-brave tribesman; nicknamed for being goaded… - Person
al-Hawfi Abu al-Qasim Ahmad ibn Muhammad
One of the leading specialists in inheritance law and contract formulas in al-Andalus; died 588 AH (1192 CE). - Person
Abu al-Hasan al-Hawfi, author of I'rab al-Qur'an
Abu al-Hasan Ali b. Ibrahim al-Hawfi of Egypt — author of a ten-volume I'rab al-Qur'an, imam in Arabic,… - Person
al-Hawshabi
Draft card for al-Hawshabi; the entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
al-Haytham ibn 'Adi al-Ta'i
Mas'udi's oft-cited akhbari — with al-Sharqi and Abu Mikhnaf he put Siffin's dead at seventy thousand (45,000… - Person
Al-Haytham ibn Khalaf al-Duri
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Al-Haytham ibn Kharija al-Marwazi al-Baghdadi (Abu Ahmad, traditionist)
A traditionist and memorizer from Marw and later Baghdad, called Abu Ahmad (also Abu Yahya); he transmitted… - Person
al-Haytham ibn Ubayd al-Kilabi
Governor of al-Andalus under Ubayda of Ifriqiya; he entered in Muharram 111, conquered the land of Manusca… - Person
al-Hazimi
1153 CE · 548 AHal-Hazimi al-Hamadhani (548/549–584) — the precise hafiz of Baghdad's east side; traveller through Iraq,… - Person
al-Hifnawi Abu al-Makarim Najm al-Din Muhammad ibn Salim
1690 CE · 1101 AHShafi'i jurist of the Khalwati Sufi order, named after Hifna in the Sharqiyya province of Egypt; born 1101 AH… - Person
al-Hirbadh
The Hirbadh, master of Darabjird — banner-town of Fars's folk and their religion; he truced Uthman on payment… - Person
al-Husni Taqi al-Din Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad
1351 CE · 752 AHShafi'i jurist of Damascus, known as al-Husni and called Taqi al-Din; born 752 AH (1351 CE), died 829 AH… - Person
al-Hubab ibn Zayd
Draft card for al-Hubab ibn Zayd, a figure of the early community; the biographical entry is not yet checked… - Person
al-Hudayn ibn al-Mundhir
al-Hudayn ibn al-Mundhir; Khurasan's people begged him to lead them against Qutayba — he refused and pointed… - Person
al-Hudhayl ibn Qays al-Anbari
in al-Baladhuri via al-Kalbi and Abu al-Yaqzan, Marwan's governor over Isbahan — whence the Anbari line… - Person
al-Hujja al-Atabakiyya
al-Hujja al-Atabakiyya (d. 640) — the Zengid princess Turkan bint Izz al-Din Mas'ud b. Qutb al-Din Mawdud b.… - Person
al-Hulwani al-Nahrawani Sulayman ibn Abd Allah
Came to Baghdad as a boy, studied grammar with al-Thamanini and philology with Ibn al-Dahhan, and heard… - Person
Al-Humaydi, Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr
A hadith scholar from Mecca of the Asad clan, among the great transmitters of hadith in Mecca and a teacher… - Person
al-Humaydi Muhammad ibn Futuh
1029 CE · 420 AHHistorian, man of letters, jurist and hadith scholar who followed the Zahiri school, devoted to learning and… - Person
Al-Hunayd ibn Us al-Dula'i
Of the Dula' of Judham; he and his son Us robbed Dihya ibn Khalifa al-Kalbi in the valley of Shinar on his… - Person
al-Hurr al-Amili
Draft card for Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Hurr al-Amili, the Imami jurist and hadith scholar author of Wasa'il… - Person
al-Hurr ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Thaqafi
Governor of al-Andalus, who moved the seat of government from Seville, where Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa had ruled,… - Person
Al-Husayn ibn 'Ali al-Jall
Al-Husayn b. 'Ali Abu 'Abd Allah al-Basri, known as al-Jall (d. c. 368), who settled at Baghdad among the… - Person
Abu 'Ali al-Tabari, author of al-Muharrar
Al-Husayn b. al-Qasim Abu 'Ali al-Tabari the Shafi'i jurist (d. 350); he studied under Abu 'Ali b. Abi… - Person
al-Husayn Dhi al-Dam'a
Draft card for al-Husayn ibn Zayd known as Dhi al-Dam'a, an eighth-century muhaddith, d. 752; the… - Person
al-Husayn ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Ahdal (Ibn al-Ahdal)
Draft card for al-Husayn ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Ahdal, the Yemeni historian Ibn al-Ahdal, d. 1451; the… - Person
al-Husayn ibn Abi al-Hurr al-Anbari
Al-Husayn ibn Abi al-Hurr al-Anbari; granted leave for a Basra bathhouse in the permission-wave. - Person
Al-Husayn ibn al-Dahhak al-Khali'
c. 773 CE · c. 156 AH†A poet born and raised in Basra, of Khurasani origin, known as al-Khali' al-Ashqar. - Person
Al-Husayn ibn al-Fadl al-Bajali
Al-Husayn ibn al-Fadl ibn Umayr al-Bajali, Abu Ali, of Kufa and then Nishapur, an exegete, philologist and… - Person
al-Husayn ibn al-Qasim
Son of the dread vizier, himself a late vizier of al-Muqtadir — killed at al-Raqqa. - Person
al-Husayn ibn al-Qasim ibn Ubayd Allah al-Barbahari
The leading Hanbali of Baghdad at the century's end, with great hold over the common folk; during Ibn… - Person
al-Husayn ibn al-Qasim ibn Abd Allah ibn Sulayman ibn Wahb
A vizier of al-Muqtadir said to have followed al-Shalmaghani; a note in his hand addressing the man in… - Person
al-Husayn ibn al-Siddiq al-Ahdal
Draft card for al-Husayn ibn al-Siddiq al-Ahdal, the fifteenth-century Yemeni muhaddith, jurist and poet, d.… - Person
Abu'l-Qasim al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Maghribi
Draft card for Abu'l-Qasim al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Maghribi, the eleventh-century secretary and vizier, last of… - Person
al-Husayn ibn Fadl ibn Sahlan
Al-Husayn ibn al-Fadl ibn Sahlan, Abu Ali al-Ramhurmuzi, vizier of Sultan al-Dawla. Ibn al-Jawzi, in his… - Person
al-Husayn ibn Hamdan
Hamdan b. Hamdun's son, who took al-Mu'tadid's aman and later hunted down the Kharijite Harun al-Shari. Ibn… - Person
Al-Husayn ibn Muhammad al-Lumghani
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al-Husayn ibn Nasir al-Dawla
Draft card for Abu Abdallah al-Husayn ibn Nasir al-Dawla, the tenth-century Hamdanid emir of Mosul; the… - Person
al-Husayn ibn Numayr
Musrif's successor — besieged Ibn al-Zubayr in the sanctuary, planted mangonels on the heights, and the… - Person
Abu al-Qasim al-Husayn ibn Ruh al-Nawbakhti
The man the Imamis call the Bab; attached to the vizierate of Hamid ibn al-Abbas — after him al-Shalmaghani… - Person
Al-Husayn ibn Safwan al-Bardha'i
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al-Husayn ibn Sa'id al-Hamdani
Al-Husayn b. Sa'id b. Hamdan (d. 338, Mosul) — Abu Firas's brother and the first Hamdanid to hold Aleppo,… - Person
al-Husayn ibn Zikrawayh 'Sahib al-Shama'
The Qarmatian 'Sahib al-Shama', who led the Syrian revolt after his brother Yahya's death; defeated and… - Person
Abu al-Hasan al-Husri, Ali ibn Abd al-Ghani al-Fihri
Abu al-Hasan al-Husri, the blind muqri-poet resident at Ceuta, Ali b. Abd al-Ghani al-Fihri — nephew of Abu… - Person
al-Husri Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Ali
Of Qayrawan, named after the reed-mat trade or the village of al-Husr near Qayrawan; died 413 AH (1022 CE). - Person
al-Hutat ibn Yazid al-Mujashi'i
A notable of Banu Tamim in the 9 AH delegation; Ibn Ishaq calls him al-Habhab ibn Yazid and Ibn Hisham… - Person
Al-Hutay'a, Jarwal
A poet of the Abs tribe, known for satire and panegyric, who lived into the Islamic period. - Person
al-Huwayrith ibn Nuqaydh
A Qurashi in Mecca who persistently harassed the Prophet; when al-Abbas was escorting the Prophet's daughters… - Person
Al-Idrisi, Muhammad ibn Abd Allah
1100 CE · 493 AHA geographer who wrote Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq for Roger II, king of Sicily, and completed it… - Person
Al-Ifliili, Ibrahim ibn Muhammad
963 CE · 352 AHA vizier and an authority on language and literature in al-Andalus, from Cordoba. His nisba refers to a… - Person
al-Iji Adud al-Din
Adud al-Din Abu al-Fadl al-Iji, a scholar of kalam and legal theory and author of works in both fields; the… - Person
'Abdallah al-Ilahi al-Simawi
Al-Ilahi of Simav — the Naqshbandi carrier to Anatolia: a faqir's prompting saved only the book of shaykhs'… - Person
Abu Muhammad al-Ilyusi
c. 1052 CE · 444 AHAbu Muhammad Abdallah ibn Muhammad al-Ilyusi of Badajoz in al-Andalus; a profound master of adab and the… - Person
Burhan al-Din al-Iqsara'i al-Muwahhibi
Named 'al-Muwahhibi' after his initiator Abu al-Mawahib al-Tunisi — 'the great saint' whose grace, the source… - Person
al-Iraqi al-Khatib
c. 1116 CE · 510 AHAbu Ishaq Ibrahim b. Mansur al-Musallami, 'al-Iraqi' (510–596) — Egyptian Shafi'i, preacher of Cairo's old… - Person
Zayn al-Din al-Iraqi
The hafiz Zayn al-Din al-Iraqi, who in 751 compiled two siftings of the Ihya's hadiths; he died in 806. - Person
Al-Irbili, Ahmad ibn al-Husayn
1193 CE · 589 AHA scholar from Irbil, one of the learned men of the seventh century AH. - Person
al-Isbijabi, Abu Nasr
Hanafi jurist of Transoxiana, remembered for piety and good character in the pursuit of learning. - Person
Al-Isfara'ini, Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Muhammad
c. 949 CE · 337 AHA Shafi'i theologian and jurist from Isfara'in, between Nishapur and Gurgan. He studied theology and legal… - Person
al-Isfara'ini, Imad al-Din
Shafi'i scholar from Isfara'in who died in 471 AH. - Person
Al-Isma'ili, Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Ibrahim
890 CE · 277 AHA memorizer and hadith scholar of Jurjan, raised by his father and educated by the scholars of Jurjan. - Person
Al-Isnawi, Abd al-Rahim ibn al-Hasan
1305 CE · 704 AHA Shafi'i jurist from Isna in Upper Egypt. He memorized the Qur'an and al-Tanbih by al-Shirazi in its mosque. - Person
Al-Istakhri, Abu Sa'id al-Hasan ibn Ahmad
858 CE · 244 AHOne of the Shafi'i authorities of Baghdad and judge of Qumm; named after Istakhr in Fars. - Person
Al-Istakhri, Ibrahim ibn Muhammad
A Persian geographer and traveller who visited many lands. He met the geographer Ibn Hawqal in Baghdad. - Person
Abu Hanifa al-Itqani, Qawam al-Din
Amir Katib ibn Amir Umar ibn Amir Ghazi, Qawam al-Din Abu Hanifa al-Itqani al-Farabi, a leader of the Hanafi… - Person
Muzaffar al-Din al-Iylani, the blind prosodist
c. 1149 CE · Jumada II 544 AHMuwaffaq al-Din Muzaffar al-Iylani — Egypt's blind prosodist, born 544, whose celebrated arud treatise proved… - Person
Muhammad al-Izniki
Al-Izniki — al-Fanari's pupil who 'joined shari'a, tariqa and haqiqa'; author of a fine sharh of Sadr al-Din… - Person
al-Izz ibn Abd al-Ghani
c. 1170 CE · 566 AHAl-Izz Muhammad, Abu al-Fath, son of the hafiz Abd al-Ghani ibn Abd al-Wahid al-Maqdisi, himself a hafiz and… - Person
al-'Izz ibn Fahd al-Makki
Draft card for Abd al-Aziz ibn Umar Ibn Fahd al-Makki known as al-'Izz, the sixteenth-century muhaddith and… - Person
al-Jabali Ibrahim Hasan ibn Yusuf
1878 CE · 1295 AHScholar and writer of al-Azhar, born in al-Rahmaniyya in the Beheira province of Egypt in 1295 AH (1878 CE);… - Person
al-Ju'bari Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Umar
1242 CE · 640 AHReader of the Qur'an known in Baghdad as Taqi al-Din and elsewhere as Burhan al-Din; died 732 AH (1332 CE). - Person
Al-Jadd ibn Qays
Of Banu Salima; the Prophet asked him about fighting the Banu al-Asfar and he asked leave to stay behind for… - Person
Badr al-Din al-Ja'fari al-Nabulsi
c. 1390 CE · c. 792 AHAl-Ja'fari (b. ~791) — from the house of knowledge and riyasa; qadi of Nablus, Jerusalem, Ramla and deputy of… - Person
al-Jaghmini Mahmud ibn Muhammad
1154 CE · 549 AHAmong the scientific pioneers of Anatolia within Islamic civilisation, named after the village of Jaghmin;… - Person
al-Jahiz
c. 767 CE · 150 AHThe man of letters — his 'Imamat wuld al-'Abbas argues the Rawandiyya case through the Fadak affair, composed… - Person
al-Jahshiyari Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abdus
Man of letters of Kufan origin, who played a political role in the early fourth century AH through his ties… - Person
al-Jajarmi
The imam Mu'in al-Din Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Jajarmi, nisba to Jajarm, a town between Nishapur and… - Person
al-Jalis al-Nahwi al-Husayn ibn Musa
Grammarian and philologist of Dinawar known as al-Jalis; died 490 AH (1097 CE). - Person
Jamal al-Din al-Afandi, Muhammad ibn Hamid al-Din
A Sufi shaykh from a scholarly family, a follower of the Halveti order, known as al-Afandi. - Person
Al-Janadari, Ahmad ibn Abd Allah
1862 CE · 1279 AHA Yemeni scholar, known as al-Janadari after the town of al-Janad. - Person
Al-Jarmi, Salih ibn Ishaq
A Basran philologist and grammarian, a client of the Jurm clan, and one of the leading grammarians of Basra. - Person
al-Jarmuzi
Draft card for al-Jarmuzi, the seventeenth-century Yemeni historian, d. 1667; the biographical entry is not… - Person
al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah al-Hakami
al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah al-Hakami of Mudhhij; in al-Baladhuri: governing Armenia he settled at Bardha'a, where… - Person
Al-Jarrah ibn Malih
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al-Jarud al-Abdi
A chief of Abd al-Qays who had been a Christian; he came in his people's delegation and asked the Prophet to… - Person
Abu Bakr al-Jassas al-Razi
Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Ali al-Razi, known as al-Jassas — the Hanafi jurist, author of Ahkam al-Quran, d. AH 370. - Person
al-Malik al-Jawad Yunus
Al-Malik al-Jawad Yunus b. Mamdud b. al-Adil — al-Kamil's nephew, briefly proclaimed sultan at Damascus after… - Person
al-Jawaliqi Abu Mansur Mawhub ibn Ahmad
1073 CE · 465 AHBaghdadi philologist and man of letters, born and raised in Baghdad, named after the Persian word jawaliq… - Person
al-Jawhari Abu Nasr Isma'il ibn Hammad
Philologist from Farab in Turkestan, whose nisba al-Jawhari has no known explanation; died about 398 AH (1008… - Person
al-Jawniyya
A woman of Kinda contracted to the Prophet but the marriage was not consummated; the sira literature… - Person
Al-Jawzajani, Ibrahim ibn Ya'qub
781 CE · 165 AHA hadith scholar from Jawzjan, named after Bushanj. The biographical dictionaries give him a full entry. - Person
Al-Jawzajani, Musa ibn Sulayman
From Jawzjan, a great city in Khurasan, and one of the transmitters of hadith. - Person
al-Jawzaqani
Al-Husayn ibn Ibrahim al-Jawzaqani of Hamadan; a hafiz well-versed in his lore, among whose works is the… - Person
Jaysh ibn Khumarawayh
Khumarawayh's son and successor in Egypt, acclaimed the morning after his father's murder reached Fustat. - Person
al-Jayyani al-Husayn ibn Muhammad
1035 CE · 427 AHImam, hadith memorist and traditionist of al-Andalus, named after Jaen where his father lived for a time, of… - Person
al-Juba'i
Al-Juba'i, the Sunni imam Abu Muhammad Abdallah b. Abi al-Hasan — from al-Jubba near Busra in the Tripoli… - Person
al-Jubba'i
Abu Ali Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab ibn Salam ibn Khalid al-Jubba'i, one of the imams of the Mu'tazila; he was… - Person
al-Julanda ibn Mas'ud
al-Julanda ibn Mas'ud — the Ibadi imam of Oman whose rising against al-Saffah was drowned in fire and sword… - Person
al-Jullawi Abu Ali Hasan ibn Ali
Jurist named after Jullula, a place near Qayrawan; died before 450 AH (about 1057 CE). - Person
al-Junayd ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Murri
al-Junayd ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Murri; Hisham's governor from 112h — his scouts took the Khaqan's son drunk… - Person
al-Jundi Abu al-Diya Khalil ibn Ishaq
Maliki jurist known as al-Jundi; died 767 AH (1365 CE). - Person
al-Jundi Ali al-Sayyid
1898 CE · 1316 AHMan of letters, poet and professor of Arabic literature, dean of Dar al-Ulum and member of the Arabic… - Person
Al-Jurayri, al-Mu'afa ibn Zakariyya
917 CE · 305 AHA scholar from Nahrawan, known as al-Jurayri and Ibn Tarar, who wrote on language and hadith. - Person
Al-Jurjani, Ali ibn Abd al-Aziz
Born and raised in Jurjan, where he studied the learning of his time. He wrote on literary criticism,… - Person
al-Juwayni
Draft card for al-Juwayni; the entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
al-Kafiyaji
c. 1386 CE · 788 AHAl-Kafiyaji (b. 788) — al-Suyuti's 'master of masters,' nicknamed for his lifelong work on the Kafiya;… - Person
Al-Kahina, Queen of the Berbers
Al-Kahina, queen of the Berbers; Hassan ibn al-Nu'man al-Ghassani, Ifriqiya's governor, raided her and she… - Person
al-Kalabadhi
Abu Nasr Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Rustam al-Kalabadhi, the precise hafiz, one of the leading imams of… - Person
Abu al-Khattab al-Kalwadhani
Shaykh of the Hanbalis — pupil of Qadi Abu Ya'la, teacher of Abd al-Wahhab b. Taymiyya and Abd al-Qadir… - Person
al-Kamal al-Darir
1176 CE · 572 AHShaykh of the qurra' — al-Shatibi's own companion and son-in-law (b. 572); read on al-Shatibi, Shuja'… - Person
al-Kamal al-Fuwayra, musnid of Iraq
c. 1202 CE · c. 599 AHMusnid of Iraq and shaykh of the Mustansiriyya; he read the readings with al-Fakhr al-Mawsili, and the… - Person
al-Kamal al-Mahalli the Blind
c. 1222 CE · c. 621 AHCairo's blind shaykh of the qurra' — holder of the western-iwan hadith chair at the newly finished Zahiriyya… - Person
al-Kamal Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr, father of al-Suyuti
The author's father, imam to caliph al-Mustakfi II — held in highest honour, writer of his deed of… - Person
al-Kamal Ibn al-Sha'ar
The Mosul hafiz (d. Aleppo 654) — author of Uqud al-Juman fi Shu'ara' al-Zaman, the anthology of his age's… - Person
al-Kamal Ishaq b. Ahmad
Musnid of Syria (d. 650, aged 93) — al-Nawawi read Sahih Muslim and the Musnad of Ahmad on him; ijaza-issuer… - Person
al-Kamal Salar al-Irbili
Mufti of Syria — Ibn al-Salah's senior pupil ('shaykh of the ashab'), al-Nawawi among those who profited from… - Person
al-Malik al-Kamil of Mayyafariqin
Lord of Mayyafariqin (r. 645) — 'a learned, virtuous, just prince, none in his house his peer'; after a… - Person
Abu al-Fath al-Karajiki Muhammad ibn Ali
Abu al-Fath al-Karajiki (al-Khaymi) Muhammad b. Ali — head of the Shi'a and an author, physician, mutakallim… - Person
Abu al-Fath al-Karukhi
Abu al-Fath al-Karukhi Abd al-Malik ibn Abdallah of Herat — nisba to Karukh in Herat's environs; the… - Person
Jamshid al-Kashi
Draft card for Ghiyath al-Din Jamshid al-Kashi, the astronomer and mathematician of Ulugh Beg's Samarkand… - Person
Abu al-Fath al-Kashmihani
Abu al-Fath Abdallah ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Kashmihani of Marw al-Rudh, the khatib — shaykh of the Sufis of his… - Person
Muwaffaq al-Din al-Kawashi
c. 1195 CE · 591 AHMosul's hermit-mufassir of Kawasha (b. 591) — a large and a small tafsir, qurra' master; Dhahabi: 'the sultan… - Person
al-Kawkabani
Draft card for al-Kawkabani; the entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
al-Kawki
A Daylami known as al-Kawki around whom the Daylamis rallied when the Talibis rose in Daylam and the… - Person
Jamal al-Din al-Kazaruni al-Madani
Al-Kazaruni al-Madani — Medina's head of scholarship, its qadi and khatib until removed; repeatedly in Cairo,… - Person
al-Khabri Abu Hakim Abd Allah ibn Ibrahim
Imam Abu Hakim Abd Allah ibn Ibrahim al-Khabri, a Shafi'i scholar named after Khubr; died 476 AH (1083 CE). - Person
al-Khafaji, brother of al-Mustansir
Al-Mustansir's fierce brother who vowed 'let me rule and I will cross the Jayhun and root out the Tatars' —… - Person
Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi
c. 718 CE · 100 AHOne of the greatest scholars of Arabic, of the Azd of Oman, raised in Basra. He is likely the originator of… - Person
Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad the qadi
Al-Khalil b. Ahmad the qadi (d. 378), shaykh of the Hanafis in his time — foremost in fiqh and preaching; he… - Person
Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Sijzi
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al-Khalili Abu Imran Musa ibn Muhammad
Astronomer who grew up in Damascus and wrote a treatise on astronomy; died 1402 CE. - Person
al-Khalili Abu Ya'la al-Khalil ibn Abd Allah
c. 980 CE · 370 AHHadith scholar, born about 370 AH (980 CE, estimated) and died 446 AH (1055 CE). - Person
Al-Khalwati, Muhammad ibn Ahmad
An Egyptian Hanbali jurist, named after Buhut, known as al-Khalwati. - Person
al-Khansa' (Tumadir bint Amr)
The elegiac poet of Banu Sulaym (Qays 'Aylan), famous for her laments for her brothers Sakhr and Mu'awiya… - Person
al-Khansa' bint Khidham
An Ansari woman of Banu Amr ibn Awf whose hadith is established in the Muwatta': her father married her off… - Person
al-Kharaqi
Author of the famous Mukhtasar al-Kharaqi on the jurisprudence of Imam Ahmad; he died in Damascus in 334 AH. - Person
Al-Kharaqi, Umar ibn al-Husayn
A Hanbali jurist, author of the widely used Mukhtasar on Hanbali law. - Person
al-Kharashi
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Abd Allah al-Kharashi, the seventeenth-century Maliki jurist of Egypt,… - Person
al-Kharit ibn Rashid
Draft card for al-Kharit ibn Rashid al-Naji, the first-century figure associated with contested reports, d.… - Person
al-Khashshab Abu al-Hasan Isma'il ibn Sa'd
Shafi'i scholar of Egypt, a friend of the historian Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti; died 1230 AH (1815 CE). - Person
al-Khasibi
Al-Qahir's vizier; the regiments answered his protest that the caliph was digging oubliettes for their… - Person
Shams al-Din al-Khasruwshahi
1184 CE · 580 AHThe Shafi'i mutakallim of Khasruwshah near Marw (b. 580, d. 12 Shawwal 652, Qasyun) — took kalam from Fakhr… - Person
al-Khassaf
Draft card for Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Amr al-Khassaf al-Shaybani, the ninth-century Abbasid court qadi author of… - Person
Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Ahmad ibn Ali
1002 CE · 392 AHA hadith scholar, historian and memorizer from a village near the Nahr al-Malik, author of the History of… - Person
al-Khatib al-Shirbini
Draft card for Shams al-Din Muhammad al-Khatib al-Shirbini, the sixteenth-century Shafi'i imam of Egypt… - Person
al-Khawafi Abu al-Qasim Mahdi ibn Ahmad
Named after Khawaf, a district of Nishapur that produced several scholars; died 450 AH (1058 CE). - Person
al-Khayali Ahmad ibn Musa Shams al-Din
1425 CE · 829 AHTheologian of the creed, a Rumi Hanafi and pupil of Khidr Bik; taught at the Sultan's madrasa in Bursa and… - Person
al-Khayzuran, Mother of the Caliphs
Mother of the caliphs; in al-Baladhuri she ordered the canal known as Mahdud dug — naming it al-Rayyan — her… - Person
al-Khazin al-Baghdadi
Draft card for Ala al-Din Ali ibn Muhammad al-Khazin al-Baghdadi, the fourteenth-century exegete and… - Person
al-Khazini
Draft card for Abd al-Rahman al-Khazini, author of the Mizan al-Hikma and the Zij al-Sanjari, named from an… - Person
al-Khazraji Muwaffaq al-Din Ali ibn al-Hasan
Shafi'i jurist of Zabid, known as Ibn al-Naqqash; died 812 AH (1410 CE). - Person
al-Khidr
The servant given knowledge from God whom Musa accompanied at the junction of the seas — the full account in… - Person
Abu al-Barakat al-Khidr ibn Shibl
c. 1093 CE · 486 AHAbu al-Barakat al-Khidr ibn Shibl, khatib of Damascus, Shafi'i jurist; he lectured at the Ghazaliyya and… - Person
al-Khidr ibn Tharwan
Draft card for al-Khidr ibn Tharwan, the Iraqi linguist and poet, d. 1185; the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
al-Khirit ibn Rashid al-Naji
The Khariji of Banu Najiya who broke with Ali after Nahrawan — 'your man's imamate and conduct alike… - Person
Abu Bakr al-Khujandi, lecturer at the Nizamiyya of Isfahan
The alim Abu Bakr al-Khujandi — of Khujanda on the Jaxartes — Muhammad b. Thabit b. al-Hasan, the Shafi'i… - Person
al-Khujandi Abu Mahmud Hamid ibn al-Khidr
Mathematician and astronomer of the fourth century AH, a resident of Rayy near Tehran; died 391 AH (1000 CE). - Person
Ahmad ibn Abd Allah al-Khujistani
Seized Khurasan, Kirman and Sijistan in 267, resolved on Iraq and struck coin in his name with al-Mu'tamid's… - Person
Afdal al-Din al-Khunaji
1194 CE · Jumada I 590 AHThe Shafi'i qadi al-qudat and logician (b. 590, d. Ramadan 646, Muqattam) — alone in his age's headship of… - Person
al-Khunaji Afdal al-Din Muhammad
1194 CE · 590 AHScholar of medicine, philosophy and logic of Persian origin; born 590 AH (1194 CE) and died 646 AH (1248 CE). - Person
Al-Kharashi, Samarra akhbari
An Iraqi from Samarra, a historian of reports, who collected anecdotes and rarities and was original in his… - Person
al-Khuwayyi Abu al-Abbas Shams al-Din Ahmad
1187 CE · 583 AHLived about fifty-five years, died in Hebron and was buried there in 637 AH (1240 CE). - Person
al-Khuyi, qadi al-qudat of al-Sham
1187 CE · Shawwal 583 AHQadi al-qudat al-Khuyi (b. 583, d. Sha'ban 637, buried below Qasyun) — al-Razi's usul pupil and al-Rafi'i's… - Person
Najm al-Din al-Khuyuqi
Shaykh Najm al-Din Abu al-Janab al-Khuyuqi, Ahmad ibn Umar ibn Muhammad, the ascetic Sufi and hadith scholar,… - Person
al-Khwarazmi Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Abbas
935 CE · 323 AHBorn in Khwarazm in 323 AH (935 CE); travelled widely in pursuit of learning and wealth; died 382 AH (993 CE). - Person
al-Khwarizmi
780 CE · 164 AHMuhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, numbered by al-Mas'udi among Islam's astronomers. - Person
al-Khwarizmi the poet
c. 934 CE · 323 AHAbu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Abbas al-Khwarizmi, the well-known poet, also called al-Tabarkhazi because his… - Person
al-Kindi
Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi — 'philosopher of the Arabs' — named by al-Mas'udi among the post-Islamic masters… - Person
Abu al-Yumn al-Kindi
c. 1126 CE · 520 AHThe alim Taj al-Din Abu al-Yumn Zayd ibn al-Hasan ibn Zayd ibn al-Hasan al-Baghdadi, reader, grammarian and… - Person
al-Kindi, chronicler of the judges of Egypt
Abu Umar Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Kindi — the first compiler of the judges of Egypt, to AH 246, continued by Ibn… - Person
al-Kisa'i the Grammarian
Ali ibn Hamza al-Kisa'i, master of Kufa's reading and grammar and tutor of al-Hadi, al-Amin and al-Rashid;… - Person
Ilkiya al-Harrasi, Ali ibn Muhammad
1058 CE · 450 AHOne of the leading Shafi'i authorities in jurisprudence, legal theory and disputation, and in memorizing the… - Person
Shams al-Din al-Kughiri
c. 1356 CE · c. Shawwal 757 AHShams al-Din al-Kughiri (b. 757) — famed for memorized furu', qadi al-rakb, compiler of a six-volume… - Person
Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
al-Kulayni — 'the Bukhari of the Shi'a', titled Thiqat al-Islam; his al-Kafi gathered sixteen thousand… - Person
al-Kumayt ibn Zayd
The Hashimite poet whose Nizar-Yaman boasting verse fanned the tribal asabiyya that Mas'udi counts among the… - Person
Amid al-Mulk al-Kunduri
The Seljuks' first vizier — whose zeal against the Shafi'is won a licence to curse Rafida and Ash'aris alike… - Person
al-Kurani al-Harawi
Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Abd al-Salam al-Kurani al-Harawi, a man of letters of distinction in memorising… - Person
Shams al-A'imma al-Kurdari
Shams al-A'imma of Kurdar in Khwarazm (d. Friday 9 Muharram, Bukhara) — Ibn Kamal Pasha's 'teacher of the… - Person
al-Kutubi al-Hafiz
The hafiz Abu Mas'ud Abd al-Jalil ibn Muhammad al-Kutubi of Isfahan; d. Sha'ban 553 aged eighty-seven,… - Person
Abu al-Qasim al-Lalaka'i Hibat Allah ibn al-Hasan
Hibat Allah b. al-Hasan al-Lalaka'i — Baghdad's Shafi'i hadith master, author of a two-volume Sharh al-Sunna… - Person
al-Laqani
Draft card for Ibrahim ibn Ibrahim al-Laqani, the seventeenth-century Maliki theologian of Egypt author of… - Person
al-Layth ibn Ali al-Saffar
Al-Layth b. Ali b. al-Layth — last Saffarid; took Sistan in 296, marched on Fars, and was captured with his… - Person
al-Loubsi
Draft card for al-Loubsi; the entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
al-Ma'afiri
c. 1075 CE · 468 AHAbu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Muhammad al-Ma'afiri al-Andalusi al-Ishbili, the well-known hafiz. His… - Person
Muhammad al-Mahdi
Muhammad ibn Abdullah al-Mansur, al-Mahdi, third Abbasid caliph; in al-Baladhuri: he sent his son Harun… - Person
al-Mahdi al-Husayn
Draft card for al-Mahdi al-Husayn ibn al-Qasim, the imam of the Zaydi state of Yemen from 1003 to 1013; the… - Person
al-Majusi
An Andalusi who entered Sultan Abu Zakariya's service at Tunis, showed him the state's revenues were… - Person
Shaykh al-Islam al-Makari
c. 1018 CE · 409 AHShaykh al-Islam al-Makari (409–486) — Umayyad-descended shaykh of al-Makara near Aleppo; met al-Ma'arri and… - Person
al-Malik al-Adil Sayf al-Din Abu Bakr ibn Ayyub
c. 1145 CE · c. 540 AHSalah al-Din's brother; when al-Aziz died in 595 leaving the boy al-Mansur, al-Adil seized Egypt then placed… - Person
al-Malik al-Adil Salamish
c. 1270 CE · c. 670 AHBaybars's son — sultan for three months after al-Sa'id's deposition, then set aside; al-Ashraf Khalil shipped… - Person
al-Malik al-Afdal Nur al-Din Ali ibn Salah al-Din
Salah al-Din's son; Damascus settled for him in 589. - Person
al-Malik al-Afdal Shahanshah
c. 1066 CE · 458 AHAl-Afdal Shahanshah b. Badr al-Jamali (k. 515) — Fatimid vizier who installed al-Musta'li then al-Amir;… - Person
al-Malik al-Amjad Hasan
Karak's prince, al-Nasir Dawud's son — 'of the virtuous, with real shares in many sciences and complete… - Person
al-Malik al-Ashraf, lord of Damascus
c. 1180 CE · 576 AHThe Ayyubid lord of Damascus who ordered the Ashrafiyya dar al-hadith in 628, finished in 630. - Person
al-Malik al-Awhad Ayyub ibn al-Adil
Al-Malik al-Awhad Ayyub, son of al-Malik al-Adil Abu Bakr b. Ayyub; he took the city of Akhlat in 604 after a… - Person
al-Malik al-Awhad, lord of Karak
c. 1231 CE · c. 628 AHLord of Karak from the house of Ayyub, son of al-Nasir Dawud; he heard from Ibn al-Lati, and al-Dimyati… - Person
al-Malik al-Aziz Uthman ibn al-Adil, lord of Banias
al-Malik al-Aziz Uthman b. al-Adil — full brother of al-Mu'azzam, lord of Banias, Tibnin and Hunin and… - Person
al-Malik al-Aziz Imad al-Din Uthman ibn Salah al-Din
Salah al-Din's son; Egypt settled for him on his father's death in 589. - Person
al-Malik al-Kamil Muhammad ibn al-Adil ibn Ayyub
c. 1180 CE · 576 AHAyyubid sultan, set over Egypt by his father al-Adil in 595; when the Franks took Damietta in 616 he founded… - Person
al-Malik al-Mansur Ali b. Aybak
c. 1242 CE · c. 640 AHAl-Mu'izz Aybak's son — enthroned at fifteen on his father's murder in 655. - Person
al-Malik al-Mansur Muhammad ibn Hajji
c. 1347 CE · 748 AHHe succeeded his uncle al-Nasir Hasan in Jumada I 762, with Yalbugha directing his state; Yalbugha travelled… - Person
al-Malik al-Mansur, lord of Hama
Lord of Hama, al-Malik al-Mansur Muhammad ibn al-Muzaffar Taqi al-Din Umar ibn Shahanshah ibn Ayyub; he heard… - Person
al-Malik al-Mansur b. Shirkuh
Asad al-Din Shirkuh's son (d. 11 Safar 644) — fell ill at al-Ashraf's Nirab estate outside Damascus while… - Person
al-Malik al-Mansur II of Hama
c. 1234 CE · c. 632 AHHama's last long Ayyubid — enthroned at ten in 642 under his mother's regency and ruling some forty years;… - Person
al-Malik al-Mansur Nasir al-Din Muhammad
Al-Malik al-Mansur Nasir al-Din Muhammad b. Umar (d. 617, Hama) — son and successor of al-Malik al-Muzaffar… - Person
al-Malik al-Mas'ud, lord of Amid
al-Malik al-Mas'ud, lord of Amid — battered by al-Kamil's mangonels in 630 he surrendered with the… - Person
al-Malik al-Mas'ud ibn al-Kamil
Al-Malik al-Mas'ud Atsiz — 'Afsis' meaning death in the Yemeni tongue — al-Kamil's eldest son and sultan of… - Person
al-Malik al-Mu'azzam Isa ibn al-Adil, lord of Damascus
Son of al-Malik al-Adil Abu Bakr ibn Ayyub, lord of Damascus from his father's death in 615 until his own… - Person
al-Malik al-Mughith Umar b. al-Salih Ayyub
Al-Salih Ayyub's son (d. 642) — of whom no foul word was ever recorded; imprisoned by al-Salih Isma'il and… - Person
al-Malik al-Zafir al-Mushammar
c. 1170 CE · 5 Sha'ban 565 AHal-Malik al-Zafir, known as al-Mushammar, Muzaffar al-Din, son of Sultan Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub and… - Person
al-Malik al-Muzaffar Ghazi b. al-Adil
Al-Adil's son (d. 645) — the bold, awe-inspiring lord of Mayyafariqin, Khilat and Hisn Mansur, who performed… - Person
al-Malik al-Muzaffar, last king of Hama
The last king of Hama from the house of Ayyub; he died on 21 Dhu'l-Qa'da 698. - Person
al-Malik al-Nasir Salah al-Din Dawud
1207 CE · 603 AHAl-Malik al-Nasir Salah al-Din Dawud b. al-Mu'azzam Isa (603–656) — Ayyubid ruler of Damascus after his… - Person
al-Malik al-Qahir Mas'ud
c. 1194 CE · 590 AHLord of Mosul, Sultan al-Malik al-Qahir Izz al-Din Abu'l-Fath Mas'ud, son of Sultan Nur al-Din Arslan Shah… - Person
al-Malik al-Rahim Abu Nasr Khusraw Firuz
Al-Malik al-Rahim ibn Abi Kalijar ibn Sultan al-Dawla ibn Baha' al-Dawla ibn Adud al-Dawla, last Buyid king… - Person
al-Malik al-Sa'id Baraka Khan
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al-Malik al-Sa'id Hasan
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al-Malik al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub ibn al-Kamil
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al-Malik al-Salih Isma'il ibn Nur al-Din
Nur al-Din's boy-heir at Damascus in 569; the Franks stirred on the coasts and were bought off with money. - Person
al-Malik al-Zahir Ghiyath al-Din Ghazi ibn Salah al-Din
c. 1172 CE · 568 AHSalah al-Din's son; Aleppo settled for him in 589. - Person
al-Malik Jawish al-Saghir
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al-Ma'mun al-Bata'ihi
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al-Ma'mun ibn al-Mansur al-Muwahhidi
The Almohad caliph (624-630 AH) who revolted against his own dynasty's doctrine: acclaimed at Seville, he… - Person
al-Ma'mun al-Qadir ibn Dhi'l-Nun
Yahya al-Qadir ibn Dhi-l-Nun, last king of Toledo; famed for the palace whose dome sat in a veil of falling… - Person
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Abu Nasr al-Manazi — poet-katib of Diyarbakir under Ibn Marwan of Mayyafariqin; envoy to Constantinople;… - Person
al-Manla ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Kurdi
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Abu Ja'far al-Mansur
Abdullah ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abdullah ibn al-Abbas, second Abbasid caliph; in al-Baladhuri: the thousand… - Person
al-Malik al-Mansur Abu Bakr ibn al-Nasir
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Muhammad b. Abi Amir, moved by al-Hakam II from the qadi post to the vizierate, hijacked the boy caliph… - Person
al-Mansur b. Bu Ghannam
The captain who led the Bani 'Amir, Fulitta and Bani Rashid levies — Spanish subjects — in the army Oran's… - Person
al-Mansur Buluggin (Bulukkin) ibn Buluggin
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al-Mansur bi-Allah Isma'il ibn al-Qa'im
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al-Taqi al-Maqrizi
The historian Taqi al-Din al-Maqrizi, who died under al-Mustakfi II. - Person
al-Maradi
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Abu al-Hasan al-Masarjisi Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Sahl
Abu al-Hasan Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Sahl al-Masarjisi. He died in 383. He studied jurisprudence under Abu Ishaq… - Person
Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Mas'udi
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al-Mas'udi the jurist
Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud ibn Ahmad al-Mas'udi, the Shafi'i jurist: a learned,… - Person
al-Matiji al-Iskandarani
The Alexandrian Maliki jurist-muhaddith from Matija near Bijaya — 'one who devoted himself to hadith'; d.… - Person
al-Mawardi
Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Muhammad al-Mawardi al-Shafi'i, d. AH 450 — author of A'lam al-Tubwa, a… - Person
al-Mawardi the chess-player
Al-Muktafi's favorite chess-master until al-Suli crushed him — 'your rose-water has turned to urine'. - Person
al-Maydani
Abu al-Fadl al-Maydani al-Nisaburi (d. 518) — the great collector of Arab proverbs (Majma' al-Amthal),… - Person
al-Maziri
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al-Miqdad al-Siyuri (Fadil Miqdad)
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al-Miqdad ibn Amr
A Bahrani confederate adopted into Quraysh and one of the first Muslims; at Badr he was one of the army's two… - Person
Al-Miqdad ibn Madi Karib
Al-Miqdad ibn Madi Karib ibn Amr, Abu Karima al-Kindi, a Companion who came as a youth from Yemen with the… - Person
al-Miqdam ibn Ma'dikarib
A Companion who lived in Syria, called Abu Karima (or Abu Yahya); he settled at Homs and narrated from the… - Person
al-Miswar ibn Makhrama
A young Companion of Banu Zuhra, born two years after the Hijra, who came to Medina as a boy after the… - Person
al-Mu'addal ibn Ali ibn al-Layth al-Saffar
The last Saffarid amir of Sistan; besieged by the Samanid army in 298, he took safe-conduct and was carried… - Person
Abu Muhammad al-Mu'afa ibn al-Haddus al-Mawsili
al-Mu'afa b. al-Haddus of Mosul — the Shafi'i imam, pupil of Ibn Muhajir, al-Fakhr al-Suhrawardi and al-Imad… - Person
Al-Mu'afa ibn Zakariya
Qadi Abu al-Faraj al-Mu'afa b. Zakariya al-Nahrawani — jurist, adib and poet of Baghdad; 'when the qadi Abu… - Person
al-Mu'ayyad ibn al-Mutawakkil
Al-Mu'tazz's brother, third in Mutawakkil's succession oaths; in Rajab al-Mu'tazz deposed, beat and shackled… - Person
al-Mu'ayyad Ahmad
Draft card for al-Mu'ayyad Ahmad ibn al-Husayn al-Haruni, the Zaydi imam and jurist of Yemen, d. 1020; the… - Person
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al-Mu'ayyad Muhammad
Draft card for al-Mu'ayyad Muhammad ibn al-Nasir, Imam of the Zaydi state in Yemen until 1503; the source… - Person
Radi al-Din al-Mu'ayyad al-Naysaburi
1130 CE · 524 AHRadi al-Din al-Mu'ayyad of Nishapur (524–617) — the latest high-isnad traditionist of his age; heard Sahih… - Person
Sultan al-Mu'ayyad Shaykh
Circassian sultan who routed and killed Faraj, ruled as 'Nizam al-Mulk' from the stables till he seized the… - Person
al-Malik al-Mu'azzam Turanshah the Elder
1181 CE · 577 AHThe grand old man of the Ayyubid house (b. 577) — the sultan stood in awe of him; unable to hold Aleppo's… - Person
al-Mubarak al-Turki
Al-Mubarak al-Turki, mawla of Musa al-Hadi; built at Qazwin the fortress called Madinat al-Mubarak, peopled… - Person
Al-Mubarak ibn Abi Talib al-Nahwi
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Al-Mubarak ibn Ahmad al-Dinawari
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al-Mubarak ibn Kamil al-Tughri
c. October 1101 CE · Dhu al-Hijja 495 AHAl-Mubarak ibn Kamil al-Tughri of Baghdad, the Hanbali muhaddith, mufid of Iraq; b. Thursday 12 Dhu al-Hijja… - Person
al-Mubarak ibn Kamil al-Baghdadi
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al-Mubarrad
The Basran grammarian whose verdict on Abu Tammam vs al-Buhturi — 'a diver who sets the pearl and the… - Person
Al-Mudhaffar al-Himsi
A physician and man of letters born in Homs. - Person
al-Mudliji (al-Nasha'i)
Draft card for Ahmad ibn Umar al-Mudliji known as al-Nasha'i, the fourteenth-century Shafi'i jurist, d. 1356;… - Person
al-Mufaddal ibn al-Muhallab
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Al-Mufaddal ibn Ghassan
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Al-Mufaddal ibn Salama
Al-Mufaddal ibn Salama ibn Asim, Abu Talib al-Dabbi, a philologist known for works on the arts of literature… - Person
al-Mufaddal ibn Umar al-Ju'fi
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Ja'far al-Mufawwid ila Allah ibn al-Mu'tamid
Al-Mu'tamid's son, made heir over Egypt and the Maghreb as 'al-Mufawwid ila'llah', then publicly deposed in… - Person
al-Mughira ibn 'Abd al-Rahman
al-Mughira ibn 'Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Harith ibn Hisham ibn al-Mughira, Abu Hashim, of Madina. He narrated… - Person
al-Mughira ibn Abi al-As al-Thaqafi
al-Mughira ibn Abi al-As al-Thaqafi, Uthman's brother; sent to the Daybul creek he met the enemy and… - Person
al-Mughira ibn al-Muhallab
Abu Firas al-Mughira b. al-Muhallab — of the Muhallabid house; the satirist Ziyad al-A'jam mocked his Persian… - Person
al-Mughira ibn Nawfal ibn al-Harith
The Prophet's cousin who felled Ibn Muljim with a face-blow as the crowd closed on him, and brought him to… - Person
al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba
Thaqafi Companion renowned for wit and statecraft; he broke the gate of al-Lat with the pickaxe during its… - Person
al-Malik al-Mughith Umar
Al-Malik al-Mughith Umar b. al-Adil — last Ayyubid lord of Karak and Shawbak (to 661); lured down by Baybars'… - Person
al-Muhadhdhab ibn Muqbil, the physician
Mosul's celebrated physician — 'most learned of his age in medicine', a transmitter of hadith, generous and… - Person
al-Muhajir ibn Qunfudh
al-Muhajir ibn Qunfudh ibn Umayr, a Qurashi of the Taym clan and a Companion. Some say his name was Amr; the… - Person
al-Muhajir ibn Ziyad al-Harithi
Al-Muhajir ibn Ziyad al-Harithi, al-Rabi' ibn Ziyad's brother; martyred at Manadhir — he would sell his life… - Person
al-Muhalhil ibn Rabi'a
Al-Muhalhil (Adi) ibn Rabi'a of Taghlib, called Abu Layla and Zir Salim — Kulayb's brother and father of Amr… - Person
al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra
Al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra al-Azdi; the Basrans' amir and commander of the Azraqite wars — he gave his wife… - Person
al-Wazir al-Muhallabi
Mu'izz al-Dawla's vizier; when the curses the Shi'a wrote on the mosque doors were erased he counselled… - Person
al-Muhaqqiq al-Hilli
Draft card for Najm al-Din Ja'far ibn al-Hasan al-Muhaqqiq al-Hilli, the thirteenth-century jurist author of… - Person
al-Muhaqqiq al-Maysi
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al-Muhibb Abdallah, Mufid al-Jabal
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al-Muhsin ibn Ali ibn al-Furat
Son of the vizier Ibn al-Furat; hidden in women's dress by his aunt until a maid betrayed him, tortured… - Person
al-Muhsin ibn Muhammad al-Bayhaqi (Ibn Karama)
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al-Malik al-Muhsin ibn Salah al-Din
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al-Muhtadi, Nizari imam
Draft card for Muhammad al-Muhtadi bi'llah, the Nizari imam at Alamut from 1138 to 1157; the source entry is… - Person
al-Mu'tadid Yahya al-Muwahhidi
Abu Zakariyya Yahya ibn al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Muwahhidi, titled al-Mu'tadid. The people of… - Person
al-Mu'in al-Qurashi
The meticulous muhaddith — he wrote much from Ibn Sabbah, Ibn al-Latti and above all from the musnida Karima;… - Person
al-Mu'izz ibn Badis, lord of the Maghrib
The Zirid lord of the Maghreb; in 443 he cut the Ubaydid khutba and preached for the Abbasids. - Person
al-Mu'izz ibn Ziri ibn Atiyya
al-Mu'izz ibn Ziri ibn Atiyya al-Maghrawi, second king of the Banu Ziri at Fez; all Maghrawa gave him bay'a… - Person
al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah Ma'add ibn al-Mansur
Ma'add ibn al-Mansur, fourth Ubaydid ruler, titled al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah; his mawla Jawhar took Egypt with a… - Person
al-Mujir al-Wasiti
c. 1123 CE · 517 AHAl-Mujir the imam Abu al-Qasim Mahmud b. al-Mubarak, of Wasit then Baghdad, the Shafi'i jurist — one of the… - Person
Azad Firuz al-Mukabbir
Azad Firuz ibn Jushish, Khusraw's governor of Bahrayn, called al-Muka'bbir by the Arabs for cutting off hands… - Person
Abu Sa'd al-Mukharrimi
The Baghdadi Hanbali faqih Abu Sa'd al-Mukharrimi — pupil of the Sharif Abu Ja'far and the qadis Ya'qub and… - Person
al-Mukhtar ibn Abi Ubayd
al-Mukhtar ibn Abi Ubayd al-Thaqafi; in al-Baladhuri the saying 'the Kufans' love is honor and their hatred… - Person
al-Mukhtar ibn Ka'b al-Jumhi
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Molla Asad al-Shirazi, Shafi'i mufti of Damascus
Molla Asad al-Shirazi — the Persian Shafi'i mufti of Damascus after al-Nabulsi; arrived 964 with munshi Shah… - Person
al-Mullawi
Draft card for al-Mullawi, the Egyptian Shafi'i jurist known for his commentary, d. 1767; the biographical… - Person
al-Mundhir al-Ifriqi
The Companion whom Ibn Habib counted as the one Sahabi to enter al-Andalus; he lived in Ifriqiya and Abu Abd… - Person
al-Mundhir al-Ma'rur
The last Lakhmid king of al-Hira: in 632 the kingship returned to the house of Lakhm in al-Mundhir called… - Person
al-Mundhir ibn Muhammad
Seventh Umayyad emir of Córdoba (AH 273–275) — a two-year reign after which the verse ran 'by al-Mundhir ibn… - Person
al-Mundhir ibn Amr
one of the literate Ansar when Islam came. - Person
al-Mundhir ibn Amr
Draft card for al-Mundhir ibn Amr al-Sa'idi al-Ansari, the seventh-century Ansari chieftain killed at the… - Person
al-Mundhir ibn Haram
Al-Mundhir ibn Haram al-Najjari of Khazraj, grandfather of Hassan ibn Thabit; the Ansar's arbitrator in the… - Person
al-Mundhir ibn Hassan ibn Dirar
Al-Mundhir ibn Hassan ibn Dirar of the Malik ibn Zayd Dabis; he shared in Mihran's blood on al-Nukhayla day. - Person
al-Mundhir ibn Hassan al-Dabbi
al-Mundhir ibn Hassan ibn Sirar al-Dabbi; disputed with Jarir ibn Abdallah over killing Mihran at al-Buwayb —… - Person
al-Mundhir ibn Imru' al-Qays
Al-Mundhir ibn Imru' al-Qays, the Lakhmid king of al-Hira — the man of the first day of Awara, who swore to… - Person
al-Mundhir ibn Maʾ al-Samaʾ
The Lakhmid king deposed by Qubadh for refusing the Mazdakite creed, replaced by al-Harith ibn Amr al-Kindi,… - Person
al-Mundhir ibn Sawa al-Abdi
The lord of Bahrayn to whom the Prophet sent al-Ala' ibn al-Hadrami before the conquest of Mecca; he became a… - Person
al-Mundhiri al-Nabulsi
1178 CE · 574 AHAbu al-Tahir al-Mundhiri (b. 574 Damascus, d. 4 Shawwal 639 below Qasyun) — the Hanbali whose rihla ran Mecca… - Person
al-Munjab ibn Rashid al-Dabbi
Al-Munjab ibn Rashid al-Dabbi; granted leave for a Basra bathhouse, the dying man's verse asks 'how is the… - Person
al-Muqaddasi al-Bashshari
Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Muqaddasi (al-Bishshari, d. c. 380 AH) — the geographer who compiled Ahsan… - Person
Al-Muqallad ibn al-Musayyib (Husam al-Dawla)
Al-Muqallad ibn al-Musayyib al-Uqayli, titled Husam al-Dawla; he won over the Daylamites at Mosul and wrote… - Person
al-Muqanna' al-Khurasani
al-Muqanna' — the Veiled One of Khurasan who wore a golden mask and claimed divinity through the… - Person
The Muqawqis
The Muqawqis, lord of Egypt; he compounded with Amr ibn al-As — the Romans free to depart or stay on stated… - Person
al-Muqawwim ibn Abd al-Muttalib
One of the ten sons of Abd al-Muttalib in al-Raheeq al-Makhtum's count, and an uncle of the Prophet; some say… - Person
al-Muqtadi bi-Amr Allah Abdullah ibn Muhammad ibn al-Qa'im
Abbasid caliph [467–487], posthumous son of the Qa'im's son Muhammad, born six months after his father's… - Person
Ahmad al-Muqtadir ibn Hud
Ahmad al-Muqtadir ibn Hud, lord of Zaragoza; after his brother's neglect lost Barbastro to the Nordmanni in… - Person
al-Muqtafi li-Amr Allah Muhammad ibn al-Mustazhir
Abbasid caliph [530–555], hailed at forty when his nephew was deposed — his laqab from a dream of the Prophet… - Person
Sharaf al-Din al-Mursi
1175 CE · 570 AHThe wandering mufassir-nahwi (b. 570) — heard the Muwatta, travelled to the far edge of Khurasan for the… - Person
al-Mursi al-Lawraqi
1179 CE · 575 AHShaykh of the qurra' in Syria — of Lorca in Andalusia; read the qira'at on three pupils of Ibn Hudhayl, then… - Person
al-Murtada Muhammad
Draft card for al-Murtada Muhammad Yahya al-Husayn, the tenth-century Zaydi imam of Yemen, d. 922; the… - Person
al-Murtada Umar al-Muwahhidi
The Almohad caliph al-Murtada, who fled Marrakesh for Azemmour when Abu Dabus entered in 665, was seized by… - Person
al-Musabbihi
919 CE · 306 AHAl-Amir al-Mukhtar Muhammad b. Ubayd Allah al-Musabbihi (306–420) — Fatimid court official and historian of… - Person
al-Musayyab ibn Zuhayr al-Dabbi
Al-Mansur's commander whose 'we obeyed you against our Prophet's sons — was that not loyalty?' silenced the… - Person
al-Mustadi bi-Amr Allah al-Hasan ibn al-Mustanjid
Abbasid caliph [566–575], born 536 to an Armenian umm walad; Ibn al-Jawzi: 'he proclaimed the lifting of… - Person
al-Musta'in bi'llah al-Abbas ibn al-Mutawakkil
Cairo caliph [808–815] and for months sultan too — hailed after Faraj's death, coining in his own name,… - Person
al-Musta'in Billah, Cairo Abbasid
al-Musta'in Billah, Abbasid caliph of Cairo from Rajab 808 — briefly sultan as well until al-Mu'ayyad deposed… - Person
al-Mustajir bi'llah al-Abbasi
A son of Isa ibn al-Muktafi who appeared in Armenia and Muqan in 349 styling himself al-Mustajir-billah,… - Person
al-Mustajir claimant
A son of al-'Isa ibn al-Muktafi; in Sha'ban 349 he appeared in Armenia and Muqan styling himself al-Mustajir… - Person
al-Mustakfi bi'llah Sulayman ibn al-Hakim
Third Cairo caliph [701–740], hailed by his father's will; moved with the Abbasids from Kabsh to a citadel… - Person
al-Mustakfi bi'llah II Sulayman ibn al-Mutawakkil
Cairo caliph [845–854] — the author's own father wrote his deed of appointment and served as his imam: 'we… - Person
al-Musta'li bi'llah Ahmad ibn al-Mustansir
Ahmad ibn al-Mustansir, ninth Ubaydid caliph as al-Musta'li bi'llah, succeeding on his father's death in 487. - Person
al-Mustanjid bi'llah Yusuf ibn al-Muqtafi
Abbasid caliph [555–566]; he lifted Iraq's tolls and was hard on mischief-makers — to the man offering ten… - Person
al-Mustanjid bi'llah Yusuf ibn al-Mutawakkil
The author's own reigning caliph [859–884], investing five sultans ending with Qaytbay; confined to the… - Person
al-Mustansir bi'llah Mansur ibn al-Zahir
1192 CE · 588 AHAbbasid caliph [623–640], hailed Rajab 623; builder of the Mustansiriyya — four madhhab chairs, bimaristan,… - Person
al-Mustansir bi'llah II Ahmad ibn al-Zahir
First of the Cairo Abbasids; freed from Baghdad's prison, he was hailed at Cairo 13 Rajab 659, then vanished… - Person
al-Mustansir bi'llah Ma'add ibn al-Zahir
Ma'add ibn al-Zahir, eighth Ubaydid caliph, enthroned at seven in 428 and reigning sixty years and four… - Person
al-Mustansir billah al-Hafsi
Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abi Zakariya, second caliph of the Hafsid state; acclaimed after his father's… - Person
al-Mustansir bi'llah al-Hakam ibn al-Nasir al-Umawi
The Umayyad caliph of Cordoba al-Hakam al-Mustansir (AH 350–366): lover of learning who gathered books as no… - Person
al-Mustansir Yusuf al-Muwahhidi
Abu Ya'qub Yusuf ibn Muhammad ibn Amir Ya'qub al-Mansur al-Muwahhidi, called al-Mustansir. He succeeded his… - Person
al-Mustarshid bi'llah al-Fadl ibn al-Mustazhir
c. March 1092 CE · Rabi' I 485 AHAbbasid caliph [512–529], Abu Mansur al-Fadl ibn al-Mustazhir, born Rabi' I 485. Of soaring resolve and dread… - Person
al-Musta'sim bi'llah Abdullah ibn al-Mustansir, last caliph of Baghdad
c. 1212 CE · 609 AHAbbasid caliph [640–656], the last of Baghdad — raised over his fierce uncle al-Khafaji for his softness,… - Person
al-Musta'sim bi'llah Zakariya ibn Ibrahim
Twice-set Cairo caliph: fifteen days under Aynbak in 779 'without bay'a or consensus', then under Barquq till… - Person
al-Mustazhir bi'llah Ahmad ibn al-Muqtadi
Abbasid caliph [487–512], Abu'l-Abbas Ahmad ibn al-Muqtadi, born Shawwal 470, hailed at sixteen; Ibn al-Athir… - Person
al-Mu'tadid Abbad
al-Mu'tadid 'Abbad (r. 433–461) — the fearsome Abbadid who built Seville into a power; Ibn Bassam's famous… - Person
al-Mu'tadid, the Almohad
The Almohad caliph al-Mu'tadid (killed Safar 646) — succeeded his drowned brother Abd al-Wahid b. Idris in… - Person
al-Mu'tadid bi'llah Abu'l-Fath Abu Bakr ibn al-Mustakfi
Cairo caliph [753–763], hailed by his brother's deed — 'good, humble, loving the people of knowledge'. - Person
al-Mu'tadid bi-llah Dawud ibn al-Mutawakkil
Cairo caliph [815–845] — 'of the caliphs' elite: noble, bright, alert; scholars sat with him and he shared… - Person
al-Mu'tadid Billah Dawud, Cairo Abbasid
Al-Mu'tadid Billah Dawud — Cairo's Abbasid caliph for 28 years and two months, installed by al-Mu'ayyad… - Person
al-Mutahhar, Zaydi imam
Draft card for al-Mutahhar ibn Yahya Sharaf al-Din, the imam of the Zaydi state of Yemen from 1503 to 1572;… - Person
al-Mutalammis
A pre-Islamic poet, maternal uncle of Tarafa ibn al-Abd; he threw away the letter he was carrying to the… - Person
al-Mu'tamin al-Saji
The Baghdadi hafiz al-Mu'taman al-Saji — a wide-travelling, prolific, deeply scrupulous scholar who… - Person
al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad
Muhammad ibn Abbad al-Mu'tamid, last Abbadid king of Seville and the most celebrated poet-king of the Taifas:… - Person
al-Mutanabbi
Arabic's greatest panegyrist; at Kafur's court in Egypt he met the Ikhshidid commander Fatik by chance in the… - Person
Abu Umar al-Mutarriz
778 CE · 161 AHAbu Umar al-Mutarriz (161–345) — Tha'lab's companion and the most prolific transmitter of gharib al-lugha;… - Person
al-Mu'tasim
Draft card for al-Mu'tasim, eighth Abbasid caliph and founder of Samarra, named from an open reference… - Person
al-Mu'tasim Abu Ishaq ibn al-Rashid
al-Mu'tasim bi'llah Abu Ishaq Muhammad ibn Harun al-Rashid, eighth caliph of the Abbasids; in al-Baladhuri:… - Person
al-Mu'tasim ibn Sumadih
al-Mu'tasim b. Sumadih (d. 484) — last Tujibid king of Almeria; sided with al-Mu'tamid b. Abbad against Yusuf… - Person
al-Mutawakkil ala Allah Muhammad ibn al-Mu'tadid
Sixth Cairo caliph [763–808] — 'father of the age's caliphs': of his hundred children five reigned… - Person
al-Mutawakkil ala Allah II, Abd al-Aziz ibn Ya'qub
Cairo caliph [884–903] — a Hashimi between Hashimis, who read hadith with the author's father; hailed in the… - Person
al-Mutawakkil 'Uthman, lord of the Maghreb
Al-Mutawakkil 'Uthman al-Hintati — lord of the Maghreb; died the night of 27 Ramadan 893 past seventy. - Person
al-Mutawakkil Yahya Sharaf al-Din
Draft card for al-Mutawakkil Yahya Sharaf al-Din, the sixteenth-century imam of the Zaydi state of Yemen, d.… - Person
Al-Mutayti, Ali ibn Abd Allah, Maliki notary-jurist and judge
Ali ibn Abd Allah ibn Ibrahim ibn Muhammad, Abu al-Hasan, al-Ansari al-Maliki al-Mutayti, from the village of… - Person
al-Muthanna ibn al-Sabbah
al-Muthanna ibn al-Sabbah, Abu Abd Allah, of Yemen, then Mecca, a prolific narrator. He narrated from… - Person
al-Muti li-llah al-Fadl ibn al-Muqtadir
Abbasid caliph [334–363], Abu'l-Qasim al-Fadl ibn al-Muqtadir, born 301 to the slave Mashghala, hailed on… - Person
al-Muttalib ibn Abd Allah ibn Hantab
al-Muttalib ibn Abd Allah ibn Hantab ibn al-Harith, of Quraysh and Banu Makhzum, from Medina. He transmitted… - Person
Al-Muttalib ibn Azhar
Of Banu Zuhra; he emigrated to Abyssinia with his wife Ramla bint Abi Awf and died there, and his son… - Person
al-Muttaqi li-llah Ibrahim ibn al-Muqtadir
Abbasid caliph [329–333], Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn al-Muqtadir, hailed at thirty-four; he altered nothing, never… - Person
Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Iskafi al-Muwaffaq
Al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Isma'il, Abu Ali al-Iskafi, known as al-Muwaffaq. He was highly regarded by Baha'… - Person
al-Muwaffaq ibn Ahmad al-Makki
Al-Muwaffaq b. Ahmad al-Makki (d. 568 at Khwarazm) — the Khatib, teacher of the grammarian Nasir… - Person
al-Muzaffar ibn al-Aftas, king of Badajoz
Al-Muzaffar Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abdallah ibn al-Aftas, the scholar-king of Badajoz — author of the… - Person
al-Muzani
Abu Ibrahim Isma'il b. Yahya al-Muzani, author of the Mukhtasar and al-Shafi'i's great pupil — died in Egypt,… - Person
al-Muzawwar b. Bu Ghannam
Leader of the tribes around Tlemcen against Ottoman influence, who wished to back his son-in-law the prince… - Person
al-Nadir ibn al-Harith al-Thaqafi
A prominent Thaqafi physician-nobleman and son of the famed physician al-Harith ibn Kalada; allied to Banu… - Person
al-Nadira bint al-Dayzan
The princess who loved Shapur from Hatra's wall, betrayed the water-gate for his hand, drugged her father's… - Person
Al-Nadr ibn Abd Allah al-Qaysi
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al-Nadr ibn al-Harith
c. 575 CEA Qurashi who had traveled to al-Hira and returned with Persian tales of kings and heroes, offering them… - Person
Al-Nadr ibn Anas ibn Malik
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al-Nahdiya
An enslaved woman who embraced Islam in Mecca with her daughter; the polytheists tortured her, and Abu Bakr… - Person
al-Najashi
Draft card for Ahmad ibn Ali al-Najashi, the eleventh-century Imami rijal scholar author of Rijal al-Najashi,… - Person
al-Najirmi, grammarian of Egypt
c. 12 March 957 CE · 9 Dhu al-Hijja 345 AHAbu Ya'qub Yusuf ibn Ya'qub ibn Isma'il ibn Kharrazadh al-Najirmi, the Basran philologist who settled in… - Person
al-Najjar, Sahib al-Musalla
Al-Najjar 'Sahib al-Musalla' (d. 358, before Jawhar's conquest of Egypt) — the saint remembered at Cairo's… - Person
al-Nakhirjan
commander of al-Mada'in who met the Muslims past Dayr Ka'b in a great host; Zuhayr ibn Sulaym grappled him… - Person
al-Nami
Al-Nami, Abu al-Abbas Ahmad al-Darimi al-Masisi (d. 399, or 370/1) — foremost panegyrist of Sayf al-Dawla… - Person
al-Naqqash
878 CE · 265 AHal-Naqqash (265/266–351) — the Baghdadi qari' and exegete of Mosuli origin; author of Shifa' al-Sudur and… - Person
al-Nasa'i
c. 830 CE · 215 AHThe muhaddith of Nasa in Khurasan, author of the Sunan counted among the six books; famed for his attention… - Person
Muhammad ibn Dawud al-Nasimi al-Manzilawi
A saint of al-Manzilawa who held his community to the Prophet's words and deeds alone — 'we have no shaykh… - Person
al-Malik al-Nasir Ahmad ibn al-Ashraf, Rasulid
Rasulid king of Yemen (r. 803-827) — 'dissolute and tyrannical' per Ibn Hajar, who records that he died of… - Person
al-Nasir Ahmad, Zaydi imam
Draft card for Ahmad ibn Yahya al-Nasir, the third Zaydi imam of Yemen, d. 937; the dynastic handbook entry… - Person
al-Nasir al-Hasan
Draft card for al-Nasir al-Hasan ibn Izz al-Din, the sixteenth-century imam of the Zaydi state of Yemen, d.… - Person
al-Nasir li-Din Allah Ahmad ibn al-Mustadi'
Abbasid caliph [575–622], longest reign of any — forty-seven years. His web of correspondents reached every… - Person
al-Nasir ibn Alnas al-Hammadi
al-Nasir ibn Alnas al-Hammadi, greatest of the Hammadid kings; master of the Qal'a and Bijaya who seized… - Person
Al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qaitbay
Draft card for al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qaitbay, the Burji sultan who succeeded his father as a boy and was… - Person
al-Malik al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qalawun
Mamluk sultan thrice fated: raised at nine in 693, deposed for Kitbugha then Lajin, restored from Karak's… - Person
al-Malik al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qaytbay
Qaytbay's son, acclaimed a day before his father's death in 901 while just of age; deposed after six months… - Person
al-Nasir Muhammad Salah al-Din
Draft card for al-Nasir Muhammad Salah al-Din ibn al-Mahdi, the fourteenth-century Zaydi imam of Yemen, d.… - Person
al-Nasir, lord of Damascus
1230 CE · 627 AHDamascus's lord, to whom Hulagu sent the three dread letters after Baghdad's fall. Salah al-Din Yusuf b.… - Person
Imam al-Nawawi
c. October 1233 CE · Muharram 631 AHThe jurist and ascetic Imam Abu Zakariyya Yahya al-Nawawi; compiler of the 'Arba'un', forty-two concise… - Person
Imad al-Din al-Nayhi
Imad al-Din Abu Muhammad Abd al-Rahman ibn Abdallah al-Nayhi the Shafi'i — nisba to Nih, a small town between… - Person
al-Nayrizi
Draft card for Abu al-Abbas al-Fadl ibn Hatim al-Nayrizi, the tenth-century astronomer and mathematician who… - Person
al-Nazzam
Ibrahim ibn Sayyar the Mu'tazili — 'finer than mirage, subtler than wine' — whose dosed-love definition… - Person
Al-Nil Abu Qarun
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al-Nujib Abu al-Asha'ir al-Asqalani
The merchant-witness of Ascalon transplanted to Damascus — transmitter from al-Khashshu'i and Ibn Asakir. - Person
Al-Nu'man ibn Abi Ji'al al-Dubaybi
Of the Dubayb of Judham, among those who converted on Rifa'a's letter; he went out with his people against… - Person
Al-Nu'man ibn Adi
Son of Adi ibn Nadla; he accompanied his father to Abyssinia and arrived from there. Umar later appointed him… - Person
al-Nuʾman ibn al-Mundhir
The Lakhmid king of al-Hira whom Khosrow summoned after the courtier Zayd ibn Adi’s intrigue; he entrusted… - Person
al-Nu'man ibn Imri' al-Qays
al-Nu'man ibn Imri' al-Qays ibn al-Shaqiqa bint Abi Rabi'a ibn Duhl ibn Shayban, king of al-Hira; in… - Person
al-Nu'man ibn Jabala al-Tanukhi
Tanukh and Bahra's bannerman in Mu'awiya's host — whose devastatingly honest reply at Siffin survives: 'I… - Person
al-Nu'man ibn Muqarrin
al-Nu'man ibn Amr ibn Muqarrin al-Muzani; in al-Baladhuri governor over Kaskar and its district — or at… - Person
al-Nu'man ibn Muqrin
Draft card for al-Nu'man ibn Muqrin al-Muzani, the Companion who led the armies at al-Qadisiyya in Sa'd's… - Person
al-Nu'man ibn Suhban al-Rasibi
Al-Nu'man ibn Suhban al-Rasibi; he judged between Mudar and Rabi'a in the days Yazid died — his Qasr… - Person
al-Nu'man, qayl of Dhu Ru'ayn, Ma'afir and Hamdan
A qayl, a lesser king, of Himyar over Dhu Ru'ayn, Ma'afir and Hamdan, who wrote with al-Harith and Nu'aym the… - Person
al-Nusayr
Raider on the Iraq marches at the conquest; in al-Baladhuri sent by al-Muthanna ibn Haritha with Hudhayfa ibn… - Person
Shams al-Din al-Nuwaji
c. 1383 CE · 785 AHAl-Nuwaji (b. Cairo ~785) — the celebrated man of letters who 'took the palm of precedence in adab'; author… - Person
al-Nuwayri
Draft card for Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Abd al-Wahhab al-Nuwayri, the Egyptian encyclopedist author of Nihayat… - Person
Muhammad al-Nuwayri 'al-Khidr'
c. 1360 CE · Rabi' II 762 AHMuhammad 'called al-Khidr' al-Nuwayri (b. 762) — transmitted to Ibn Jama'a, Ibn Habib, al-Umyuti's circle;… - Person
al-Qada'i
Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Salama ibn Ja'far al-Qada'i, Shafi'i jurist. Ibn Asakir mentions him in the… - Person
al-Qadi al-Fadil
1140 CE · 535 AHal-Qadi al-Fadil Abd al-Rahim al-Baysani (535–596) — Salah al-Din's chancellor of correspondence, master of… - Person
al-Qadi al-Jurjani
Draft card for al-Qadi Ali ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Jurjani, tenth century, d. 1001; the biographical entry is not… - Person
al-Qadi al-Muhadhdhab ibn al-Zubayr
Al-Qadi al-Muhadhdhab Ahmad b. al-Hasan (d. 561, Cairo) — brother of al-Rashid b. al-Zubayr; diwan poet whose… - Person
al-Qadi al-Nu'man
Abu Hanifa al-Nu'man b. Muhammad — al-Qadi al-Nu'man; chief jurist and da'i of the Fatimid caliph al-Mu'izz;… - Person
al-Qadi al-Rashid al-Aswani
Qadi al-Rashid Ahmad ibn Ali al-Ghassani of Aswan; scribe, poet, jurist, grammarian, physician and astronomer… - Person
al-Qadi Iyad
c. 1083 CE · c. 476 AHQadi 'Iyad the Maliki hadith-master, judge of Ceuta then Granada, author of the unmatched al-Shifa'; so… - Person
al-Qadir bi-llah Ahmad ibn Ishaq ibn al-Muqtadir
Abbasid caliph [381–422], Abu'l-Abbas Ahmad ibn Ishaq ibn al-Muqtadir, born 336; hailed after al-Ta'i's… - Person
Ahmad al-Qadisi al-Darir al-Janbali
Ahmad al-Qadisi the blind — a man of rough living whom al-Mustadi' summoned to lead the tarawih; told that no… - Person
Abu Bakr al-Qaffal al-Marwazi al-Saghir
Abu Bakr Abdallah b. Ahmad al-Marwazi, 'al-Qaffal al-Saghir' — head of Khurasan's Shafi'is, called 'the… - Person
al-Qaffal al-Shashi, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ali
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Isma'il al-Qaffal al-Shashi. He studied under Abu al-Abbas Ibn Surayj; he was… - Person
al-Qahir, Nizari imam
Draft card for al-Hasan al-Qahir bi-Quwwat Allah, the Nizari imam at Alamut in the twelfth century, d. 1162;… - Person
al-Qahl ibn Iyash
Al-Qahl b. Iyash al-Kalabi — killer of Yazid b. al-Muhallab; charged crying 'cursed be Yazid, I shall kill… - Person
al-Qa'id Fadl ibn Salih
Abu al-Futuh Fadl ibn Salih, al-Qa'id Fadl: one of the commanders of the Ubaydid state of al-Hakim bi-Amr… - Person
al-Qa'id ibn Hammad
Draft card for al-Qa'id ibn Hammad, the Hammadid sultan who founded Qal'a Bani Hammad in 1007, d. 1054; the… - Person
al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah Hamza ibn al-Mutawakkil
Cairo caliph [854–859], hailed without any deed — 'bold, severe, with a majesty unlike his brothers'' — till… - Person
al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah Abd Allah ibn al-Qadir
c. 8 October 1001 CE · 18 Dhu al-Qa'da 391 AHAbbasid caliph [422–467], Abu Ja'far Abd Allah ibn al-Qadir, born 391 to an Armenian mother; Ibn al-Athir… - Person
al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah Muhammad ibn al-Mahdi
Abu'l-Qasim Muhammad, the Ubaydid Mahdi's son and second ruler of the dynasty, succeeding on his father's… - Person
al-Qali
Abu Ali Isma'il ibn al-Qasim al-Qali the lexicographer, d. AH 356 — he composed his Amali at Cordoba after… - Person
al-Qalqashandi
Draft card for Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Ali al-Qalqashandi, the Mamluk chancery writer author of Subh… - Person
'Ala' al-Din al-Qalqashandi
c. May 1377 CE · Dhu al-Hijja 778 AHAl-Qalqashandi (b. Cairo Dhu'l-Hijja 778) — 'singular among the notables'; pupil of both Bulqinis, Ibn Jama'a… - Person
al-Qa'qa' ibn 'Amr
The champion who came with the Syria relief, called for single combat, and killed Dhu'l-Hajib Bahman ibn… - Person
al-Qa'qa' ibn Yazid
al-Qa'qa' ibn Yazid, one of those who used to sit at night with Ibn Shubruma, Fadl, al-Harith al-Ukli and… - Person
Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi
Draft card for Shihab al-Din Ahmad al-Qarafi, the thirteenth-century Maliki jurist of Egypt author of… - Person
al-Qasim Gannun
Draft card for al-Qasim ibn Muhammad Gannun, the Idrisid emir in Far Morocco from 937 to 948 who rebelled… - Person
Al-Qasim ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Masudi, judge of Kufa
Al-Qasim ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud, Abu Abd al-Rahman, al-Mas'udi of Kufa and its judge; the… - Person
Al-Qasim ibn al-Hasan
Al-Qasim ibn al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib; Ibn Kathir records his killing at Karbala in 61 AH among the ahl… - Person
Abu al-Qasim ibn al-Qadir
Abu al-Qasim, son of the caliph al-Qadir bi-llah, died on the night of Saturday, with one night of Jumada II… - Person
al-Qasim ibn al-Rashid
al-Qasim ibn Harun al-Rashid, third of his sons to rule; in al-Baladhuri: he was dwelling at Dabiq when the… - Person
Al-Qasim ibn 'Asakir
Draft card for Al-Qasim ibn 'Asakir; the entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
al-Qasim ibn Hammud al-Ma'mun
al-Qasim ibn Hammud ibn Maymun al-Idrisi, brother of Ali ibn Hammud al-Nasir; the two stood by Sulayman ibn… - Person
al-Qasim ibn Ibrahim al-Rassi
785 CE · 168 AH†Draft card for al-Qasim ibn Ibrahim al-Rassi, the Zaydi imam and theologian; his entry is not yet checked on… - Person
al-Qasim ibn Idris
Draft card for al-Qasim ibn Idris, the ninth-century Idrisid prince of Morocco; the dynastic handbook entry… - Person
al-Qasim ibn Muhammad
The Prophet's eldest son by Khadija, from whom his kunya Abu al-Qasim derives; he died young in Mecca. - Person
Al-Qasim ibn Muhammad al-Anbari
Abu Muhammad al-Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Bashshar al-Anbari, a traditionist and philologist who died in 304/916… - Person
al-Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr
Draft card for al-Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr, the Medinan jurist counted among the Seven and a hadith… - Person
al-Qasim ibn Sima
Abbasid commander who led the summer expedition against Byzantium in 298. - Person
al-Qasim ibn Tha'laba al-Ta'i
al-Qasim ibn Tha'laba ibn Abdallah ibn Hasn al-Ta'i; by Ibn al-Kalbi's account, Dahir's killer. - Person
al-Qasim ibn Ubaydallah
Al-Muktafi's dread vizier who killed Abd al-Wahid b. al-Muwaffaq and poisoned Ibn al-Rumi — Baghdad drank to… - Person
Abu al-Abbas al-Qastalani
Abu al-Abbas Ahmad b. Ali al-Qastalani — companion and faithful recorder of the Andalusi shaykh Abu Abdallah… - Person
al-Qastallani al-Misri
The Maliki ascetic of Mecca (d. Jumada II 636) — the mujawir whose rain prayer with the weak was answered… - Person
al-Qastallani Shihab al-Din
c. 25 January 1448 CE · 12 Dhu al-Qa'da 851 AHThe hafiz of Bukhari's greatest sharh — b. Cairo 12 Dhu'l-Qa'da 851, he read the Sahih on al-Sakhawi in five… - Person
al-Qati'i al-Azji
al-Qati'i al-Azji (d. 634) — Hanbali historian of Baghdad, last to transmit Sahih al-Bukhari from Abu… - Person
Abu Bakr al-Qati'i
c. June 887 CE · Muharram 274 AHAhmad b. Ja'far Abu Bakr al-Qati'i (274–368), the Baghdad muhaddith named for Qati'at al-Daqiq where he… - Person
Ubayd Allah ibn Umar al-Qawariri
Abu Sa'id al-Qawariri — a Basran traditionist settled at Baghdad whose students include Abu Dawud, Abu Zur'a… - Person
Shams al-Din al-Qayati
c. 1383 CE · 785 AHAl-Qayati (b. ~785) — Shafi'i chief qadi of Egypt, 'verifier of the age and mark of the horizons'; taught at… - Person
Izz al-Din al-Qaylawi
c. 1378 CE · 780 AHAl-Qaylawi (b. Baghdad's east side ~780) — the survivor of Timur's sack who fled to 'Ajam, learned Hanafi… - Person
al-Qaysari
Al-Qaysari, a Shafi'i jurist whom Ibn al-Salah counted among the leading scholars of Iraq. The text gives… - Person
al-Qaysi al-Dimashqi
c. 1184 CE · c. 580 AHDamascus adib — companion and transmitter of Ibn Khalil, insha'-scribe for al-Adil then Baybars; d. 8 Dhu… - Person
Zakariyya al-Qazwini
Zakariyya b. Muhammad al-Qazwini, author of 'Aja'ib al-makhluqat and Athar al-bilad (composed 674); his pupil… - Person
al-Qazzaz al-Qayrawani
Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ja'far al-Tamimi, the grammarian known as al-Qazzaz al-Qayrawani. He lived in… - Person
al-Qifti
Jamal al-Din Ali ibn Yusuf al-Qifti, d. AH 646 — author of Inbah al-Ruwat 'ala Anbah al-Nuhat, the history of… - Person
Abu Bakr al-Qudaydi Khwarazada al-Khatafi
Khwarazada al-Khatafi, shaykh of the ta'ifa in Transoxiana — Abu Bakr Muhammad b. al-Husayn al-Bukhari… - Person
Abu al-Husayn al-Quduri Ahmad ibn Muhammad
c. 972 CE · 362 AHAbu al-Husayn Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Quduri of Baghdad — head of Iraq's Hanafis and author of the celebrated… - Person
Muhyi al-Din al-Qujawi
The recluse of the fifteen uthmani — 'ten is enough for me'; he gave up teaching for his house and mosque,… - Person
Jamal al-Din al-Qurashi Muhammad ibn Umar
1231 CE · 628 AHAbu al-Fadl Jamal al-Din Muhammad ibn Umar al-Qurashi, born 628 AH (1231 CE) and died 702 AH (1303 CE); his… - Person
al-Qurtubi
Draft card for Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Ansari al-Qurtubi, the Maliki exegete author of al-Jami'… - Person
al-Qurtubi the muqri'
al-Qurtubi Abu Abdallah Muhammad b. Umar (d. Safar 631) — the Maliki muqri' who read the seven readings under… - Person
Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayri
The Qushayri of the Risala — among the imams al-Kunduri drove from Khurasan by lumping the Ash'aris with the… - Person
al-Rabi' bint al-Nadr
Al-Rabi' bint al-Nadr, Anas ibn Malik's aunt; it is said al-Hasan al-Basri and his brother fell to her from… - Person
al-Rabi' ibn Anas
Draft card for al-Rabi' ibn Anas al-Bakri of Basra, the Successors' exegete and transmitter; his entry is not… - Person
al-Rabi' ibn Khuthaym al-Thawri
Al-Rabi' ibn Khuthaym al-Thawri, ascetic of the Followers; Ali sent him raiding Daylam at the head of four… - Person
al-Rabi' ibn Sabih the Jurist
Al-Rabi' ibn Sabih, mawla of Banu Sa'd and narrator from al-Hasan al-Basri; he gathered Basran money,… - Person
Al-Rabi ibn Sulayman al-Jizi
An Egyptian companion of al-Shafi'i — 'a jurist and a righteous man' — transmitting from al-Shafi'i,… - Person
al-Rabi' ibn Sulayman
Al-Shafi'i's muezzin-companion, the chain for his death-account. - Person
Al-Rabi ibn Sulayman al-Muradi
790 CE · 174 AHThe muezzin of the congregational mosque of Fustat — al-Shafi'i's own companion and the transmitter of his… - Person
Al-Rabi ibn Ziyad al-Bakri al-Khurasani
Al-Rabi ibn Ziyad al-Bakri al-Khurasani al-Marwazi al-Basri, a figure of the second Islamic century,… - Person
al-Rabi' ibn Ziyad al-Harithi
Al-Rabi' ibn Ziyad al-Harithi; in one telling Abu Musa sent him against the asawira at al-Kalbaniyya — he… - Person
al-Radi bi-llah Abu al-Abbas Muhammad ibn al-Muqtadir
Abbasid caliph [322–329], Abu'l-Abbas Muhammad ibn al-Muqtadir, born 297 to a Roman slave Zulum, hailed the… - Person
Al-Raffaqi, al-Husayn ibn Muhammad
983 CE · 373 AHA man of letters from al-Raqqa, with the kunya Abu Abd Allah. - Person
al-Rafi' al-Jili
Draft card for al-Rafi' al-Jili, the thirteenth-century scholar and philosopher, d. 1244; the biographical… - Person
Imam al-Rafi'i Abd al-Karim al-Qazwini
c. 1162 CE · c. 557 AHImam al-Din Abd al-Karim al-Rafi'i of Qazvin — the Shafi'i whose al-Aziz commentary on al-Wajiz in a… - Person
al-Rafi'i al-Qazwini
Draft card for Abd al-Karim al-Rafi'i al-Qazwini, the thirteenth-century Shafi'i jurist author of al-Aziz… - Person
al-Rafi'i al-Jili, qadi of Damascus
The Shafi'i qadi al-qudat of Damascus (d. 642) — a capable jurist and mutakallim who commented Ibn Sina's… - Person
al-Raghib al-Isfahani
Draft card for al-Raghib al-Isfahani, the eleventh-century man of letters author of Mufradat Ghara'ib… - Person
al-Rahmati
1762 CE · 1176 AHMuhammad ibn Mustafa ibn Muhammad ibn Rahmat Allah, al-Ayyubi, al-Ansari, al-Dimashqi, Abu al-Barakat, known… - Person
Yusuf ibn Harun al-Ramadi
Cordoba's great poet al-Ramadi — 'poetry was opened by Kinda and sealed by Kinda' said the critics, meaning… - Person
al-Ramahurmuzi
Draft card for al-Hasan ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Ramahurmuzi, the tenth-century hadith scholar author of… - Person
Yusuf ibn Harun al-Rammadi
Abu Umar Yusuf ibn Harun al-Kindi, known as al-Rammadi, the well-known poet of Cordoba, foremost among its… - Person
al-Ras'ani
1193 CE · 589 AH'Shaykh of the Jazira in his time' — Ibn Rajab: Ibn Qudama's pupil, counted by Dhahabi among the huffaz,… - Person
al-Rashid ibn al-Ma'mun al-Muwahhidi
Abd al-Wahid ibn al-Ma'mun, titled al-Rashid; acclaimed after his father's death in 630 AH, he defeated Yahya… - Person
al-Rashid bi-llah Mansur ibn al-Mustarshid
c. 1111 CE · 505 AHAbbasid caliph [529–530], hailed on his father's murder; deposed by Mas'ud's judicial instrument in 530, he… - Person
al-Qadi al-Rashid ibn al-Zubayr
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al-Amir al-Rashid al-Hafsi
Brother of the Hafsid sultan al-Hasan b. Muhammad; fleeing his brother's executions he sought refuge among… - Person
al-Rawwad al-Azdi
Al-Rawwad al-Azdi; he settled Tabriz, then his son al-Wajna' ibn al-Rawwad, who built and walled it so the… - Person
Abu Bakr al-Razi
The philosopher-physician, author of the Mansuri — al-Mas'udi saw his book on the Harranian Sabians'… - Person
al-Ru'asi
Draft card for Abu Ja'far Muhammad al-Ru'asi, the ninth-century Kufan grammarian, d. 802; the biographical… - Person
al-Rubayyi' bint Mu'awwidh
A Companion of Banu Adi ibn al-Najjar; she gave the pledge under the tree, narrated that women campaigned… - Person
al-Ruqad al-Mutakki
al-Ruqad al-Mutakki; killed at Herat by the Hashimi Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Abbas in Ibn al-Ash'ath's remnant. - Person
al-Ruqi
657 CE · 36 AH†Draft card for Abd Allah ibn Yazid al-Ruqi, Uthman's mawla and the narrator; his entry is not yet checked on… - Person
al-Rusafi
Draft card for Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Ghalib al-Rusafi al-Balansi, the twelfth-century poet of Valencia,… - Person
al-Rushati al-Mariyyi
Abu Muhammad Abdallah ibn Ali al-Rushati al-Mariyyi — the renowned imam of Almeria, devoted to hadith, rijal… - Person
al-Ruwayani, author of al-Bahr, shaykh of the Shafi'is
Shaykh of the Shafi'is, author of al-Bahr; the Batiniyya killed him at Baghdad in their terror of 494, when… - Person
Shihab al-Din al-Sa'di, Hanbali qadi of Damascus
Al-Sa'di — 'a head among Damascus's heads' from a house of knowledge and riyasa; briefly succeeded Burhan ibn… - Person
Al-Sa'b ibn Jathama
Al-Sa'b ibn Jathama ibn Qays ibn Rabi'a al-Laythi, a Companion known for his bravery. He took part in the… - Person
Abu Uthman al-Sabuni Isma'il ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Nisaburi
Shaykh al-Islam Abu Uthman al-Sabuni Isma'il b. Abd al-Rahman al-Nisaburi — the Shafi'i preacher-exegete who… - Person
Abu Ali al-Sadafi
Abu Ali al-Sadafi, among the most famous scholars of al-Andalus — he and his peer Ibn al-Farra went out as… - Person
al-Sadid b. Makki al-Dimashqi
c. 1166 CE · c. 563 AHThe last companion of hafiz Ibn Asakir to die (Safar 652, aged 89) — sole transmitter also from Ibn… - Person
al-Shaykh al-Sadid
Al-Shaykh al-Sadidi Sharaf al-Din Abdallah b. Ali, head of medicine in Egypt; trained under al-Muwaffaq Ibn… - Person
al-Sadr al-Bakri
1178 CE · 574 AHThe Sufi hafiz (b. 574, d. 656) — of Nishapur then Damascus; heard at Mecca, Damascus, Khurasan and Isfahan. - Person
Khalil ibn Aybak al-Safadi
Salah al-Din Khalil ibn Aybak al-Safadi — historian and chancery writer who composed al-Salih Isma'il's reply… - Person
al-Sayyid al-Safawi al-Husayni
c. 1495 CE · 900 AHThe Iji grandson — b. 900, grandson of Safi al-Din al-Iji the mufassir; trained at Delhi's majalis under… - Person
al-Saffarini
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Saffarini, the eighteenth-century Hanbali jurist of Nablus author of… - Person
al-Sa'ib ibn al-Aqra'
al-Sa'ib ibn al-Aqra' al-Thaqafi; in al-Baladhuri, sent by Umar with his letter to al-Nu'man and charged with… - Person
Al-Sa'ib ibn al-Harith
Of Banu Sahm; he emigrated to Abyssinia, was wounded with the Prophet at al-Ta'if and was killed on the day… - Person
al-Sa'id Ali ibn Idris al-Muwahhidi
Abu Salama Ali ibn Idris al-Muwahhidi, titled al-Mu'tadid and known as al-Sa'id. He was given the caliphate… - Person
Shams al-Din al-Sakhawi
between 1427 and 1428 CE · Rabi' I 831 AHCairo's last great hadith master (831-902): Ibn Hajar's closest student — 'the best of my company' — a… - Person
Alam al-Din al-Sakhawi
c. 1164 CE · c. 559 AHDamascus's master of qira'at (d. Jumada II 643, Qasyun) — pupil of al-Shatibi himself; Dhahabi knew no one in… - Person
Siraj al-Din al-Sakkaki, author of al-Miftah
c. 1160 CE · c. 555 AHAbu Ya'qub Yusuf al-Sakkaki — the great Hanafi master of grammar, rhetoric and prosody whose Miftah al-Ulum… - Person
Al-Sakran ibn Amr
A Qurashi of Amir ibn Luayy and brother of Suhayl ibn Amr; Musa ibn Uqba and Ibn Ishaq list him among the… - Person
al-Salah Abd al-Rahman ibn Uthman
c. 1144 CE · c. 539 AHAl-Salah Abd al-Rahman b. Uthman al-Shahrazuri (b. c. 539, d. 618 Aleppo) — father of the great hadith… - Person
al-Salami, Muhammad ibn Abdallah
947 CE · 336 AHAl-Salami (336–393) — the Makhzumi poet of Baghdad, descended from al-Walid b. al-Mughira; al-Tha'alibi calls… - Person
al-Salih Hajji
Draft card for the Mamluk sultan al-Salih Salah al-Din Hajji, son of Sha'ban, enthroned as a child in 1382… - Person
al-Malik al-Salih Isma'il b. al-Adil
Al-Adil's son, lord of Damascus; stormed the city in Safar 637 taking its citadel, and in 638 surrendered… - Person
al-Malik al-Salih Isma'il b. Lu'lu'
Lord of Mosul after Badr al-Din Lu'lu' — the same prince his father had sent with his contingent to Hulagu's… - Person
al-Malik al-Salih Salah al-Din Ahmad
1203 CE · 600 AHAl-Malik al-Salih Salah al-Din Ahmad (600–651) — Ayyubid lord of Ayntab, elder brother of al-Aziz of Aleppo,… - Person
al-Salih Salih, Mamluk sultan
Draft card for al-Malik al-Salih Salah al-Din Salih ibn Muhammad ibn Qalawun, Mamluk sultan of Egypt between… - Person
Abu Abdallah al-Salmasi
A renowned benefactor — famous for kindness to the poor and abundant alms, refusing even the office of a… - Person
al-Salt ibn Malik
Draft card for al-Salt ibn Malik al-Kharusi, the imam of Oman from 851 to 885; the dynastic handbook entry is… - Person
'Abd al-Samad al-Samadi al-Qadiri of Damascus
c. 1505 CE · 911 AH'Abd al-Samad al-Samadi al-Qadiri — b. 911, devout Qur'an-hafiz of the qadiri path, served at Medina under… - Person
al-Sam'ani
c. January 1113 CE · Sha'ban 506 AHAbu Sa'd Abd al-Karim ibn Muhammad al-Sam'ani al-Marwazi, d. AH 562 — his al-Ansab, 'a great work in the… - Person
al-Samaw'al al-Maghribi
Draft card for al-Samaw'al ibn Yahya al-Maghribi, the mathematician and physician who embraced Islam and… - Person
al-Samaw'al ibn 'Adiya
Samaw'al ibn 'Adiya — of the famous tale with Khazin the night-knocking kahin and his trust, the grey ass,… - Person
al-Samhudi
1440 CE · Safar 844 AHHistorian, mufti and teacher of Medina, resident there from 873 AH; he wrote three histories of the Prophet's… - Person
Ibn Sinina al-Samiri
c. 1140 CE · 535 AHAbu Abdallah Nasir al-Din Muhammad ibn Abdallah ibn al-Husayn al-Samiri, the Hanbali jurist and expert in… - Person
Jamal al-Din al-Sanbati, the preacher
Al-Sanbati — the Azhar's preaching voice for some seventy years; al-Bulqini's constant companion, deputy… - Person
Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Sanusi
Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Sanusi — author of Umm al-Barahin, the compact epitome of tawhid doctrines, which he… - Person
al-Sari al-Raffa'
Draft card for al-Sari al-Raffa', the tenth-century Baghdad poet of the celebrated diwan, d. 973; the… - Person
al-Sari ibn al-Hakam
Egypt's governor who prayed over al-Shafi'i's bier in Rajab 204. - Person
al-Sarifini al-Hafiz
c. 1185 CE · c. 581 AHThe Hanbali hafiz (d. 15 Jumada I 641, Damascus) — one of the great travelling memorizers: Baghdad, Isfahan,… - Person
Abu al-Faraj al-Zaz al-Sarkhasi, jurist of Marw
c. 1010 CE · c. 401 AHAbu al-Faraj 'al-Zaz' al-Sarkhasi Abd al-Rahman b. Ahmad — Marw's jurist, pupil of Qadi Husayn; Ibn… - Person
al-Saymari, Abu Abdallah al-Husayn ibn Ali
c. 962 CE · 351 AHThe Hanafi qadi of Baghdad — born 351, a jurist of fine expression and sound reasoning who judged al-Mada'in… - Person
al-Saymari al-Mu'tazili
Draft card for Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Umar al-Saymari the Mu'tazili, the tenth-century jurist, d. 927; the… - Person
al-Sayyid Ahmad al-Husayni al-Shirazi
Al-Sayyid Ahmad al-Shirazi — the Husayni 'alim who travelled from Shiraz through Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem and… - Person
al-Sayyid al-Himyari
The Alids' poet — his Husayn elegies include 'people of Radwa, what of one who weeps unseen'; his rawi… - Person
al-Sayyid al-Nassaba Husayn
c. 1373 CE · 774 AHAl-Sayyid Husayn (b. Salihiyya 774) — shaykh of Damascus's shaykhs and its genealogist, who 'claimed to have… - Person
al-Sayyida al-Mu'izziyya
Draft card for al-Sayyida al-Mu'izziyya, the tenth-century principal consort of the Fatimid caliph al-Mu'izz… - Person
al-Sayyida Nafisa
c. 762 CE · c. 145 AHNafisa bt. al-Hasan b. Zayd b. al-Hasan b. Ali b. Abi Talib — al-Sayyida Nafisa; a devout Alid woman who… - Person
al-Sha'bi
Amir ibn Sharahil al-Sha'bi, Kufa's jurist; entered Rayy with Qutayba ibn Muslim, who asked him what drink he… - Person
al-Shab al-Zarif
Draft card for Shams al-Din Muhammad al-Shab al-Zarif, the thirteenth-century poet of Damascus, d. 1289; the… - Person
Abu al-Hasan al-Shabash al-Basri
Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Mahmud al-Baghdadi, known as al-Shabash, who settled at Basra with his father and uncle… - Person
Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i
767 CE · 150 AH†Imam of the Shafi'i madhhab, died in al-Ma'mun's days; per al-Suyuti, al-Mutawakkil said 'my grief over… - Person
al-Shahijan
al-Shahijan; Marw's marzban sent him to Ibn Amir suing for peace, and Hatim ibn al-Nu'man went and made it. - Person
al-Shahrastani
1074 CE · 467 AHal-Shahrastani (467–548) — the Ash'ari theologian of Nihayat al-Iqdam and al-Milal wa-l-Nihal, the landmark… - Person
al-Qasim al-Shahrzuri
Abu Ahmad al-Qasim al-Shahrzuri — patriarch of the Shahrzuri house, the family that produced the qadis of… - Person
Al-Shalmaghani
Draft card for Al-Shalmaghani; the entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
al-Shammakh ibn Dirar
Al-Shammakh ibn Dirar al-Thumali — some say al-Taghlibi — the poet; he rode Sa'id ibn al-As's Azerbaijan raid… - Person
al-Shammari
Draft card for al-Shammari; the entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Taqi al-Din al-Shamni al-Qustantini
c. May 1399 CE · Ramadan 801 AHAl-Shamni (b. Alexandria Ramadan 801) — al-Suyuti's own shaykh, praised in the Bughya as 'imam of the… - Person
al-Shams al-Bukhari al-Maqdisi al-Hanbali
c. 1168 CE · Shawwal 564 AHal-Shams al-Bukhari — Ahmad b. Abd al-Wahid al-Maqdisi, brother of the hafiz al-Diya' and father of al-Fakhr… - Person
al-Shamunni
Draft card for Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Shamunni, the fifteenth-century engineer and muhaddith, d. 1467; the… - Person
Abu al-Faraj Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Shanbudhi al-Muqri'
c. 912 CE · 300 AHMuhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Ibrahim, Abu al-Faraj the reciter, known as Ghulam al-Shanbudhi, born in 300. He read… - Person
Al-A'lam al-Shantamari, Yusuf ibn Sulayman
1019 CE · 410 AHAn Andalusian scholar from Shantamariyya al-Gharb, nicknamed al-A'lam for a wide split in his upper lip. - Person
Abu Muhammad al-Shantarini al-Ishbili
The hafiz Abu Muhammad Abdallah ibn Ahmad al-Shantarini of Seville; transmitted the Sahih through Ibn Mansur… - Person
al-Shaqundi
Abu l-Walid al-Shaqundi, author of the famous epistle on al-Andalus's superiority over the farther shore —… - Person
al-Sha'rani
c. 1492 CE · c. 898 AHAl-Sha'rani — of Muhammad b. al-Hanafiyya's line; orphaned a child, he memorized the Qur'an by about seven… - Person
Abu'l-'Amud al-Shari
The Haruri rebel of Yemen and the Bawazij — captured by Sama's army, pardoned and released by al-Muntasir. - Person
Al-Sharif al-Jurjani, Ali ibn Muhammad
1340 CE · 740 AHA scholar of philosophy, logic, theology and rhetoric, born in Taju and known as al-Sharif al-Jurjani. - Person
al-Sharif al-Murtada
Naqib of the Talibids and head of Iraq's Shi'a — imam in kalam, poetry and rhetoric, pupil of al-Shaykh… - Person
al-Sharif al-Radi
Al-Sharif al-Murtada's brother, the poet and Talibid naqib, conventionally the compiler of the Nahj… - Person
al-Sharif Muhammad bin Nasir al-Hazmi
Draft card for al-Sharif Muhammad bin Nasir al-Hazmi; the entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
al-Sharishi
c. 1204 CE · 601 AHThe Andalusi Maliki of Sharish (Jerez, b. 601) — jurist, usuli and mufassir whose sharh of al-Hariri's… - Person
Abu Ali al-Sharmaqani the muqri'
A Quran-master of Nasa settled in Baghdad, keeper of the readings. In a year of famine he was seen gathering… - Person
al-Sharqi ibn al-Qutami
The third akhbari in Mas'udi's Siffin casualty dossier — the seventy-thousand tally alongside al-Haytham and… - Person
al-Shashi al-Mustazhiri
Shaykh of the Shafi'is and Nizamiyya teacher, pupil of Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi and Ibn al-Sabbagh; nicknamed… - Person
al-Shatibi
Al-Shatibi (d. 590) — the blind master of the qira'at; author of Hirz al-Amani wa-Wajh al-Tahani… - Person
al-Shatibi ibn Firruh
Draft card for Abu'l-Qasim ibn Firruh al-Shatibi, the twelfth-century Andalusi quran-reader author of Hirz… - Person
al-Shawkani
1759 CE · 1172 AH†Muhammad ibn Ali al-Shawkani (1759–1834 CE) — the Yemeni mujtahid jurist of Sana'a, author of the… - Person
al-Shaybaniyya bint Hani' ibn Qubaysa
'Ubayd Allah ibn 'Umar's wife — alone of his women she refused to arm him at Siffin, warning that every proud… - Person
al-Shayhi
Draft card for Shayhi Sinan, the fifteenth-century Ottoman poet and physician author of Khusraw u Shirin, d.… - Person
al-Shaykh al-Imad
c. 1148 CE · 543 AHAl-Shaykh al-Imad Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Abd al-Wahid al-Maqdisi al-Hanbali, brother of the hafiz Abd… - Person
al-Shaykh al-Mufid
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Nu'man al-Baghdadi, known as al-Shaykh al-Mufid, the leading… - Person
Al-Shayhi, Ali ibn Muhammad
1279 CE · 678 AHA Baghdadi scholar of jurisprudence and hadith in the eighth century AH. - Person
al-Shayma bint al-Harith al-Sa'diyya
A woman of Banu Sa'd ibn Bakr of Hawazin and foster-sister of the Prophet through nursing; taken among the… - Person
Al-Shibli
Abu Bakr Dulaf b. Jahdar — al-Shibli of Baghdad, companion of al-Junayd; once a governor who left the world,… - Person
al-Shifa' bint Abdullah
One of the first emigrants, she embraced Islam before the Hijra and gave her pledge; counted among the wise… - Person
al-Shihab al-Hijazi
c. August 1388 CE · Sha'ban 790 AHAl-Shihab al-Hijazi (b. Sha'ban 790) — 'singular poet of his age,' author of Rawd al-Adab, al-Qawa'id,… - Person
al-Shihab al-Qusi
c. June 1178 CE · Muharram 574 AHShafi'i ra'is and wakil of Syria's bayt al-mal (b. Qus 574, d. Damascus Rabi' I 653) — he endowed his own… - Person
al-Shihab al-Tusi
Al-Shihab al-Tusi Abu al-Fath Muhammad b. Mahmud, resident of Egypt and shaykh of the mutakallimin; he… - Person
al-Shinhaji al-Fishtali
1549 CE · 956 AHMoroccan writer and head of the chancery and official historiographer of the Sa'di sultan Ahmad al-Mansur… - Person
al-Shirazi
Draft card for Ibrahim ibn Ali al-Shirazi, the eleventh-century Shafi'i jurisconsult and Baghdad teacher… - Person
Al-Shurunbulali
Al-Hasan ibn Ammar ibn Ali al-Shurunbulali, a prolific Hanafi jurist of Shibra Bilula in Minufiyya, taken as… - Person
Abu al-Hasan al-Shushtari
Abu l-Hasan al-Shushtari, the Andalusi Sufi poet; settled at Bijaya, whose students and followers filled the… - Person
al-Sibt Jamal al-Din al-Tarabulsi
Grandson of the elder hafiz al-Silafi (d. 4 Shawwal 651) — with him Egypt's high-isnad chain finally broke;… - Person
Abu Tahir al-Silafi
The great hafiz Abu Tahir al-Silafi of Isfahan, musnid al-dunya and longest-lived of the huffaz; he heard his… - Person
Shihab al-Din al-Silawi
c. 1337 CE · c. 738 AHShihab al-Din al-Silawi (b. ~738) — the fine-voiced reciter who read the Sahih aloud repeatedly to shaykhs… - Person
al-Simt ibn al-Aswad al-Kindi
A Kindi commander of Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah in the Syrian conquests; Abu Ubayda set him over Hims after its… - Person
al-Shihab al-Sinaki
Katib of the Umayyad Mosque's building-works, then overseer of the mint — a deposit-box left by a pilgrim… - Person
Abu Sa'id al-Sirafi
Abu Sa'id al-Sirafi — the celebrated grammarian whose commentary on Sibawayh's Kitab revealed things no one… - Person
al-Suhayli
Al-Suhayli of Malaga, blind Maliki master — author of al-Rawd al-Unuf on Ibn Hisham's Sira and of the famous… - Person
Al-Sukkari
Al-Sukkari — the grammarian; author of al-Mukhtalif wa-l-Mu'talif, the book of proverbs and judgments, and… - Person
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik al-Karaji al-Sukraji
c. 1065 CE · 458 AHThe ascetic imam, shaykh of Karj, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik al-Karaji known as al-Sukraji; master of the… - Person
Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami
Draft card for Abu Abd al-Rahman Muhammad ibn al-Husayn al-Sulami of Nishapur, author of Tabaqat al-Sufiyya… - Person
al-Suli
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Suli, the chess-player historian of the Awraq on the Abbasids, d. 335h under… - Person
al-Sumayl ibn Hatim al-Kilabi
Chief of the Qaysi party in al-Andalus, one of Balj's elite; he drove Abu'l-Khattar's deposition, backed… - Person
Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti
c. 1445 CE · 849 AHJalal al-Din Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr al-Suyuti (849-911 AH); Egypt's prolific hadith imam, author among… - Person
Sulayman ibn Ahmad al-Tabarani
c. 873 CE · 260 AHAbu'l-Qasim Sulayman b. Ahmad al-Lakhmi al-Tabarani (260–360), musnad of the age and of the horizons — author… - Person
al-Fadl ibn al-Hasan al-Tabarsi
Draft card for Amin al-Islam al-Fadl ibn al-Hasan al-Tabarsi, the twelfth-century Khurasani exegete author of… - Person
Shams al-Din al-Tabbakh the Meccan sharif
c. October 1379 CE · Rajab 781 AHAl-Tabbakh (b. Mecca Rajab 781) — the sharif-muqri' who taught at both Harams, sat nearly thirty years on… - Person
al-Tabbani Jalal al-Din ibn Ahmad
Scholar of Cairo, named al-Tabbani after his residence outside the city; died 793 AH (1391 CE). - Person
Nasir al-Din al-Tablawi
Al-Tablawi — Egypt's encyclopedist and al-Sha'rani's companion of fifty years; licensed by Muhammad… - Person
Al-Tadmiri, Ahmad ibn Abd al-Jalil
From Tudmir, east of Cordoba in al-Andalus. - Person
al-Tadmuri Taj al-Din Ishaq ibn Ibrahim
Scholar included in the Maliki biographical dictionaries; died 833 AH (1430 CE). - Person
Abu Ja'far al-Tahawi
239 AHA Hanafi hadith scholar and jurist of Egypt from the tribe of Azd, said to have taken knowledge from about… - Person
Al-Tahir al-Khamiri
1899 CE · 1317 AHBorn in the Bab Suwayqa quarter of the old city of Tunis in 1899. - Person
al-Hafiz al-Tahir ibn al-Ahdal, Yemen's musnid
c. 1508 CE · 914 AHAl-Tahir b. al-Ahdal — b. 914 at al-Marawi'a, Ibn al-Dibba''s successor in hadith-riyasa at Zabid; after a… - Person
al-Tahir ibn Yahya al-'Alawi al-Husayni
The Husayni 'Alawi of Medina whose oral recension of the Abu Talib genealogy Mas'udi heard and preferred over… - Person
al-Ta'i' li-Llah Abd al-Karim ibn al-Muti'
Abbasid caliph [363–381], al-Mu'ti's son, hailed when his father suffered paralysis at Subuktakin's counsel —… - Person
Abu Abd Allah al-Tujibi al-Mughami, reciter of al-Andalus
Abu Abd Allah al-Tajibi al-Mughami — of Mughama in al-Andalus — the Toledan Muhammad b. Isa b. Farah;… - Person
al-Tajuri Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad
Scholar from Tajura near Tripoli in Libya, after which he is named; died 960 AH (1553 CE). - Person
al-Tala'fari Abu al-Makarim Muhammad ibn Yusuf
1196 CE · 593 AHShihab al-Din Abu al-Makarim Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Tala'fari, born in Mosul in 593 AH (1196 CE) and died 675… - Person
al-Tal'akbari
Draft card for al-Tal'akbari, the tenth-century muhaddith, d. 995; the biographical entry is not yet checked… - Person
Abu Umar al-Talamanki Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Ma'afiri
Abu Umar Ahmad al-Talamanke al-Ma'afiri of Cordoba — the city's master reciter and hadith scholar, expert in… - Person
Al-Tanasi, Muhammad ibn Abd Allah
1417 CE · 820 AHA memorizing scholar from Tlemcen, probably born in Madin. - Person
al-Tanbadhawi al-Bakri al-Siddiqi
c. 1466 CE · c. 870 AHZabid's riyasa of fatwa and teaching — 'the sun among his generation's stars', fierce for truth; Ibn Ziyad's… - Person
al-Tanukhi al-Mufaddal ibn Muhammad
1000 CE · 390 AHOf Ma'arrat al-Nu'man in Syria; came to Baghdad in 390 AH, studied law there, and died 442 AH (1050 CE). - Person
al-Tanukhi al-Qadi Abu al-Qasim Ali ibn al-Muhsin
975 CE · 365 AHJudge Abu al-Qasim Ali ibn al-Muhsin al-Tanukhi, companion and pupil of Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri; died 474 AH… - Person
Baha' al-Din al-Tanukhi al-Qadi
Baha al-Din al-Tanukhi — the Shafi'i judge and eloquent katib, father of Taqi al-Din Isma'il; appointed qadi… - Person
al-Taqi al-Bayyi', vizier to five sultans
c. 1223 CE · c. 620 AHThe great sahib — a merchant who, lending al-Mansur sixty thousand gratis, rose to the khizana and then… - Person
Qutb al-Din al-Tarithithi
1111 CE · 505 AHQutb al-Din al-Tarithithi (505–578) — Shafi'i who deputised for al-Juwayni at the Nishapur Nizamiyya, then… - Person
al-Tartushi
c. 1059 CE · 451 AHAbu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Walid ibn Muhammad ibn Khalaf al-Fihri al-Andalusi al-Tartushi, the Maliki jurist… - Person
Al-Tasuli, Ibrahim ibn Abd al-Rahman
A Maliki jurist of the Maghrib, known as Ibn Abi Yahya. - Person
Al-Tattai, Muhammad ibn Ibrahim
1451 CE · 855 AHA Maliki jurist, author of Tanwir al-Maqala on Maliki law. - Person
Shihab al-Din al-Tawashi al-Ash'ashi
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al-Tawwati Muhammad al-Bashir ibn Muhammad al-Tahir
Scholar of Bejaia origin raised in Tunis, named al-Tawwati after a pious man of Tuwat with whom he was… - Person
al-Tawzi Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Harun
Philologist whose biographical works record several writings, most of them lost; died 230 AH (844 CE). - Person
al-Tayyib al-Makhrama al-'Adani
c. 8 January 1466 CE · 12 Rabi' II 870 AHAden's mufti — b. Sunday eve 12 Rabi' II 870, 'the soundest mind, the brightest spark' of the city: 'I teach… - Person
al-Tha'alibi
961 CE · 350 AHal-Tha'alibi of Nishapur (350–429) — the great anthologist, author of Yatimat al-Dahr, Lata'if al-Ma'arif and… - Person
al-Thamanini Abu al-Qasim Umar ibn Thabit
Blind grammarian and man of letters from Thamanin, a small town in the Jazirat Ibn Umar area near Mosul; died… - Person
al-Thaqafi al-Jayyani Muhammad ibn al-Hasan
1174 CE · 570 AHPreacher, reader, hadith scholar and man of letters of Jaen in al-Andalus, who travelled through the southern… - Person
al-Thumami Abu al-Hasan Abd al-Aziz ibn al-Harith
929 CE · 317 AHOne of the leading Hanbali scholars of law, legal theory and inheritance, of the Tamim tribe; died 371 AH… - Person
Al-Tibi
Al-Husayn ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah, Sharaf al-Din al-Tibi, a scholar of hadith, exegesis and rhetoric (d.… - Person
al-Tiflisi Jamal al-Din Abu al-Fadl Habash ibn Ibrahim
Physician, astrologer, lexicographer and man of letters from Tiflis, who served the Seljuks in medicine and… - Person
al-Tujibi al-Sabti Abu al-Qasim ibn Yusuf
1267 CE · 666 AHScholar of Valencian origin, born in Ceuta in 666 AH (1267 CE) and raised there; died 730 AH (1329 CE). - Person
al-Tilimsani al-Sharif Muhammad ibn Ahmad
1310 CE · 710 AHImam of the Maghrib and a leading figure of the Maliki school, born in Tlemcen in 710 AH (1310 CE); died 771… - Person
Al-Tirmidhi, Muhammad ibn Isa
824 CE · 209 AHA hadith scholar from Tirmidh on the Oxus, author of the Jami' al-Sahih, known as Sunan al-Tirmidhi. - Person
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Abu Nasr al-Tiryaqi Abd al-Aziz b. Muhammad al-Harawi — rawi of (all but a last fragment of) the Tirmidhi… - Person
al-Tizini Muhammad ibn Muhammad
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al-Tughra'i, the vizier
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Abd Allah al-Tusi, khatib of Mosul
c. 1094 CE · 15 Safar 487 AHMajd al-Din Abu al-Fadl Abd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Qahir al-Tusi, khatib of Mosul; he was so… - Person
al-Sadr Sulayman al-Ubshithi
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Abu al-Abbas al-Udhri Ahmad ibn Umar
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Abu al-Baqa' al-Ukbari
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al-Ukuk
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Shams al-Din al-'Ulaymi
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Al-'Unqari
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Al-Uqlidisi, Ahmad ibn Ibrahim
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Al-Urjani
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al-Usayrim
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al-Wahrani
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al-Walid ibn al-Mughira
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Al-Walid ibn al-Walid ibn al-Mughira
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al-Walid ibn Hisham ibn al-Mughira
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al-Walid ibn Mu'awiya
Marwan's man on Damascus — he seized the Imam Ibrahim in al-Humayma's mosque; besieged by 'Abd Allah ibn 'Ali… - Person
al-Walid ibn Muslim
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al-Walid ibn Tarif al-Shari
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al-Walid ibn Uqba ibn Abi Mu'ayt
A maternal half-brother of Uthman ibn Affan, he embraced Islam on the day of the conquest; Ibn Abd al-Barr… - Person
al-Walid ibn 'Utba ibn Abi Sufyan
He led Mu'awiya II's funeral prayer hoping for the succession — and was stabbed dead at the second takbir… - Person
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The eleventh Umayyad caliph, who succeeded Hisham in 126 by his designation; Ahmad's Musnad carries the… - Person
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Al-Warrik
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Harun al-Wathiq bi'llah ibn al-Mu'tasim, ninth Abbasid caliph; in al-Baladhuri: certain officials had laid… - Person
al-Wathiq Abu Dabus
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al-Wathiq, Emir of Murcia
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al-Wathiq bi-Llah Ibrahim ibn al-Mustamsik
Pretender-caliph at Cairo [740–741]; passed over by his grandfather for profligacy, he sowed the sultan's… - Person
al-Wathiq bi-Llah Umar ibn Ibrahim
Cairo caliph [785–788] under Barquq's deposition of al-Mutawakkil; died Wednesday 19 Shawwal 788. - Person
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Abu Zakariya Yahya ibn Ali al-Yafrini — the jurist-grammarian who argued against Ibn Hubaysh; born 641,… - Person
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Al-Yasir ibn Rizam
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Muhammad ibn al-Abbas al-Yazidi
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Taqi al-Din al-Yildani
1172 CE · 568 AHThe hafiz of Yalda near Damascus (b. 568, d. 8 Rabi' I 655) — took up hadith late, heard Ibn Kulayb's… - Person
al-Zabba bint Amr
The queen who ruled from east Syria to the Euphrates on Rome's behalf from her seat at al-Mudhiq — she… - Person
al-Zafar al-Asadi
1098 CE · 491 AHal-Zafar al-Asadi of Merv (491–544) — the preacher whom al-Muqtafi favoured in Baghdad, envoy to Sultan… - Person
Al-Za'farani
771 CE · 154 AHA Baghdad imam — jurist, hadith scholar and master of eloquence — counted among the transmitters of… - Person
al-Zafir the Qadi
al-Zafir Muhammad b. Isma'il (d. 433) — the qadi who founded Abbadid Seville: when the Hammudid Yahya b. Ali… - Person
al-Zafir bi-Llah Isma'il ibn al-Hafiz
Twelfth Ubaydid caliph, succeeding his father in 544; killed in 549, his boy al-Fa'iz raised as Egypt's power… - Person
al-Zaghal Abu Abd Allah, sultan of Granada
Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Sa'd, known as al-Zaghal ('the Valiant'), brother of sultan Abu al-Hasan — he held… - Person
al-Zahi
930 CE · 318 AHAl-Zahi, Abu al-Qasim Ali b. Ishaq (318–362) — Baghdad's celebrated descriptive poet, a cloth-merchant of… - Person
al-Zahir bi-Amr Allah Muhammad ibn al-Nasir
Abbasid caliph [622–623], fifty-two at accession — 'who opens a shop after asr, what does he earn?' Ibn… - Person
al-Malik al-Zahir Dawud ibn Salah al-Din
Al-Malik al-Zahir Dawud (d. 632) — Salah al-Din's eleventh son, lord of al-Bira on the Byzantine marches near… - Person
al-Zahir li-I'zaz Din Allah Ali ibn al-Hakim
Ali ibn al-Hakim, seventh Ubaydid caliph as al-Zahir li-I'zaz Din Allah; his rule weakened — Aleppo and most… - Person
al-Malik al-Zahir Qansuh
Sultan between al-Nasir b. Qaytbay's killing and Jan Balat's coup — Jan Balat came from the Damascus… - Person
al-Malik al-Zahir Yahya ibn Isma'il, Rasulid
Al-Zahir Yahya (or 'Abd Allah), Rasulid king of Yemen from Rajab 830; his reign saw the kingdom's ruin as… - Person
Abu Ishaq al-Zajjaji
al-Mubarrad's grammarian pupil — among those al-Mas'udi names as collectors of the Prophet's utterances. - Person
al-Zaki al-Barzali
c. 1180 CE · c. 576 AHal-Zaki al-Barzali (d. Ramadan 636, Hama) — 'muhaddith al-Sham wa-mufiduhu', the Sevillan who began his rihla… - Person
al-Zaki ibn Rawaha
Al-Zaki b. Rawaha al-Mawsili (d. 622, or 623 per Abu Shama) — of the Rawaha house that endowed the Rawahiyya… - Person
الزمخشري
c. March 1075 CE · 17 Rajab 467 AHMahmud b. 'Umar al-Zamakhshari, the uncontested imam of tafsir, hadith, grammar and bayan — openly Mu'tazili,… - Person
Al-Zandawusti (al-Zandawisti)
Al-Zandawusti, a Bukharan Hanafi jurist and ascetic, who died around 400 AH by the book's estimate. He… - Person
الزركاني أبو علي الحافظ
c. 993 CE · 383 AHThe imam-hafiz Abu Ali al-Hasan al-Zarakani, called Alp Arslan — a trusted imam from whom al-Silafi gathered… - Person
Shams al-Din al-Zarkashi al-Baghdadi
Shams al-Din al-Zarkashi al-Baghdadi of Cairo — recitations-master who composed al-'Awatil al-Hawali: sixteen… - Person
al-Zarkashi al-Hanbali
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al-Zarnuji
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Abu'l-Hasan al-Zawzani
c. 977 CE · 366 AHShaykh of the Sufis of Baghdad, companion of Abu'l-Hasan al-Husri and transmitter from Abd al-Rahman… - Person
al-Zayn al-Hafizi, the physician
Physician to the lord of Ja'bar, then al-Nasir Yusuf's intimate — sent as envoy to the Tatars he went over to… - Person
al-Zayn Sha'ban al-Misri
al-Zayn Sha'ban b. Muhammad b. Dawud of Egypt — 'the imam in adab and its branches'; died 828. - Person
al-Zibriqan ibn Badr
A Tamimi notable and poet of Banu Bahdala of Sa'd who came among his people's chiefs to Medina in 9 AH and… - Person
al-Zubaydi
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al-Zubayr ibn Abd al-Muttalib
One of the ten sons of Abd al-Muttalib in al-Raheeq al-Makhtum's count, and an uncle of the Prophet; chapter… - Person
al-Zubayr ibn Abd al-Wahid al-Asadabadi
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Al-Zubayr ibn 'Adi
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الزبير بن أحمد البصري
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al-Zubayr ibn Bakkar
Quraysh's historian-genealogist — author of the Nasab Quraysh cited for Talha's parentage and his mother… - Person
al-Zughbi, the Syrian majdhub
Al-Zughbi — a great shaykh 'famous for majdhubiyya, rich in miracles and states'; the author's father kept… - Person
Ala al-Dawla al-Simnani
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Ala al-Dawla ibn Kakuya
Ala al-Dawla ibn Kakuya, Daylamite king of Isfahan; he gave Sultan Mahmud ibn Subuktigin allegiance and the… - Person
Alaettin Celebi
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Ala al-Din al-Bukhari (d. 1437)
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Ala al-Din al-Kasani
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Ala al-Din al-Samarqandi
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Ala al-Din al-Shirazi
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Ala al-Din Alam Shah
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Alaeddin Ali Esved
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Ala-ud-Din Bahman Shah
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Alaeddin Fenari
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Ala al-Din Humayun
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Ala al-Din al-Husayn al-Ghuri (Jahan-Suz)
Ala al-Din al-Husayn ibn al-Husayn, king of Ghor called Jahan-Suz the World-Burner; succeeding his martyred… - Person
Alauddin Khalji
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Ala-ud-Din Masud Shah
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Ala al-Din Muhammad III of Alamut
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Ala al-Din Sikandar Shah
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علاء الدين تكش خوارزم شاه
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Ala ibn Ziyad
Ala ibn Ziyad ibn Mutar ibn Shurayh, Abu Nasr al-Adawi of Basra, a Successor of the second generation. He… - Person
Alaa Hamed
Egyptian Islamic preacher known for his simplified educational lessons and courses on creed, jurisprudence,… - Person
Aladdin Imad Shah
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Alaeddin Pasha
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Alaeddin Tabrizi
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Alamgir II
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Alauddin al-Attar
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Alauddin Firuz Shah I
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Alauddin Husain Shah of Bengal
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Alauddin Khan
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Alawi bin Husain
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Alawi ibn Yaqub al-Jamal
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Alboury Ndiaye
c. 1848 CE · 1264 AHAlboury Ndiaye (c. 1848 – 1901), the last Buurba (king) of an independent Jolof in present-day Senegal, famed… - Person
Pope Alexander VI
Alexander VI, pope after Innocent VIII; al-Salabi relays that Prince Cem passed to him on Innocent's death… - Person
Alfonso XI of Castile
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Ali Adil Shah I
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Ali Ahmad Salus
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Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda
1879 CE · 1297 AHIranian lexicographer, linguist and satirical writer (1879-1956); author of the Loghat-nameh (Dehkhoda… - Person
Al-Sa'idi al-Adawi
Ali ibn Ahmad al-Adawi al-Sa'idi, a Maliki jurist and scholar of verification, born in Upper Egypt, who came… - Person
Ali al-Akbar ibn al-Husayn
Ali al-Akbar ibn al-Husayn ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib; Ibn Kathir counts him among Husayn's sons killed with him… - Person
Molla 'Ala' al-Din 'Ali al-'Arabi
An Aleppine who studied under Molla al-Kurani then served Khidr Beg, repetiteur at Edirne's Dar al-Hadith,… - Person
علي بن محمد البريدي
Abu'l-Husayn the Baridi; he rose in 330, routed the caliph and Ibn Ra'iq to Mosul, and Baghdad and the palace… - Person
Ali al-Bistami
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'Ali al-Dhuwayb
Qutb of the East per al-Sha'rani's dream — twenty years in Cairo then the countryside; he dressed sometimes… - Person
Ali al-Fahhad
Sanjar Shah's mamluk (d. 651) — a champion amir who, when his master was killed, left the world for worship;… - Person
Ali al-Fusayhi
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Ali Al-Habsi
30 December 1981 CE · 1402 AHOmani goalkeeper, born in 1981, and the first Omani footballer to build a career in Europe: Lyn in Norway,… - Person
'Ali al-Hadi
September 829 CE · 214 AHThe 'Alid raided at night on a slander and found alone in a hair-cloth house of sand and gravel chanting the… - Person
Ali al-Hadi, Nizari imam
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Ali al-Harawi, the Wanderer
Abu al-Hasan Ali b. Abi Bakr al-Harawi 'the Wanderer' — Islam's greatest traveller before Ibn Battuta: he… - Person
Ali Al-Hudhaify
22 May 1947 CE · 1366 AHSaudi reciter (born 1947), imam and khatib of the Prophet's Mosque since 1979 and professor at the Islamic… - Person
Habib Ali al-Jifri
16 April 1971 CE · 1391 AHYemeni scholar (born 16 April 1971 in Jeddah) of the Ba 'Alawi tradition, a student of Umar bin Hafiz in… - Person
Ali al-Karaki
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Sayyid Ali al-Mirghani
1873 CE · 1289 AHSudanese religious and political leader (1873–1968), head of the Khatmiyya Sufi order and of the Maraghna… - Person
'Ali al-Muttaqi al-Hindi
'Ali al-Muttaqi al-Hindi — a scholar of works and one of the righteous, on a great side of scrupulosity,… - Person
Ali al-Nabati al-Amili (Ibn Yunus)
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Ali al-Qari
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al-Qadi al-Akram al-Qifti
Aleppo's vizier 'the Generous Judge' (d. 646) — master of prose and verse, versed in language, law, hadith,… - Person
'Ali al-Qitali-zade, the poet-qadi
c. 1512 CE · 918 AHMolla 'Ali al-Qitali-zade — b. 918, 'one of the excellent poet-courtier qadis'; author of a tract on the… - Person
Ali al-Razi (Hanafi)
Ali al-Razi, a contemporary of Muhammad ibn Shuja', who knew the doctrine of 'our companions' (that is, the… - Person
Ali al-Rida
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Ali al-Shabramallisi
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Ali al-Uraydhi
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Ali Alaa al-Din al-Alusi
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Ali Bach Hamba
1876 CE · 1293 AHTunisian journalist and politician (1876–1918). Born in Tunis into a family of Turkish origin, he studied law… - Person
Ali Barid Shah I
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Ali bin Hussein al-Hashimi
1879 CE · 1296 AHAli bin Hussein al-Hashimi (born at Mecca in 1879 – died at Baghdad on 13 February 1935) was the eldest son… - Person
Ali bin Said of Zanzibar
1854 CE · 1270 AHAli bin Said al-Busaidi (1854–1893), fourth Sultan of Zanzibar of the Al Bu Said dynasty, reigned from 13… - Person
Ali Daei
21 March 1969 CE · 1389 AHIranian former footballer and manager (born 1969 in Ardabil). A striker who captained Iran and scored 108… - Person
Ali Dawah
British Muslim YouTuber and street preacher of Kurdish-Turkish background, known since 2013 for his debates… - Person
Ali Dinar
1856 CE · 1272 AHThe last sultan of Darfur of the Keira dynasty (died 1916): he took the throne in 1891, submitted for years… - Person
Ali Efendi Hibri
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Ali Erbaş
10 September 1961 CE · 1381 AHTurkish Islamic scholar specialising in the history of religions and a university professor, president of… - Person
Ali Farka Touré
31 October 1939 CE · 1358 AHMalian singer and guitarist, born in 1939 in the village of Kanau in the Timbuktu region and died at Bamako… - Person
Ali Fuat Cebesoy
23 September 1882 CE · 1299 AHTurkish general and politician, a military-college classmate of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and one of the first… - Person
Ali Ghayuri
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Ali Golzadeh Ghafouri
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Ali Gomaa
3 March 1952 CE · 1371 AHEgyptian scholar and jurist, the eighteenth Grand Mufti of Egypt (2003–2013). A Shafi'i specialist in Islamic… - Person
Ali-Hajji of Akusha
1847 CE · 1263 AH†Ali-Hajji of Akusha (1847–1930) was a Dagestani scholar and jurist from Akusha who became qadi of its… - Person
Ali Hamadani (Sufi saint and apostle of Kashmir, 1314–1385)
1314 CE · 714 AHAli Hamadani, a Sufi of a sayyid family of Hamadan and the apostle of Islam in Kashmir. He visited Kashmir… - Person
Ali Hassan Mwinyi
8 May 1925 CE · 1343 AHTanzanian politician (1925–2024) who worked as a teacher and head teacher in Zanzibar for about two decades,… - Person
Ali Haydar Arsebuk
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Ali ibn Abd al-Ghani al-Fihri
1029 CE · 420 AHA blind poet and reciter, born in al-Andalus, with the kunya Abu al-Hasan. - Person
Ali ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Suri
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Al-Tasuli, Ali ibn Abd al-Salam (Maliki jurist)
Ali ibn Abd al-Salam, Abu al-Hasan al-Tasuli, a Maliki jurist; the entry gives his death as 1258 AH. His… - Person
Ali ibn Abd al-Wahid al-Sijilmasi
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Ali ibn Abdallah al-Abbasi
Ali ibn Abdallah ibn al-Abbas; in al-Baladhuri, patron of the mawlas Mihlahil, Mujalid al-Sarawi and Maymun… - Person
'Ali ibn 'Abd Allah ibn al-'Abbas
Ibn Abbas's son and ancestor of the Abbasid caliphs — saved from the slave-oath at the Harra by his Kindi… - Person
Ali ibn Abi al-Najm al-Wasiti
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Nur al-Din al-Haythami
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علي بن أبي مقاتل
A mihna jurist who answered as Abu Hassan did — 'the Quran is God's speech, we hear and obey' — and… - Person
Ali ibn Abi Talib
c. 600 CECousin and son-in-law of the Prophet and the fourth caliph (r. 656–661 CE); the first Imam in Shia tradition. - Person
the blind 'Ali ibn Abi Talib
The blind poet whose elegy for siege-torn Baghdad — 'O Baghdad, house of kings, paradise on earth' — mourns… - Person
Ali ibn Abi Tarab ibn Fairuz
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Ali ibn Ahmad al-Asbahi
1247 CE · 644 AHA Yemeni jurist and hadith scholar from Ta'izz who excelled in Islamic jurisprudence, studied hadith, and was… - Person
Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Bakri
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Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Ma'sum
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Ali ibn Ahmad Mahimi
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Ali ibn Ajwad al-Jabri
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Ali ibn al-Arabi al-Saqat
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Ali ibn al-Hasan al-Dirabjirdi
Ali ibn al-Hasan al-Hilali of Darabjird near Nishapur — a major scholar whose mosque there was held blessed;… - Person
Ali ibn al-Hasan al-Zamayli
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Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Mujalad
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علي بن الجهم
The poet; he recited to al-Mutawakkil while rolling two pearls, won one, then composed 'in Sur man Ra'a an… - Person
علي بن الجوزي
Ali b. al-Jawzi — son of the great historian Ibn al-Jawzi, a copyist who transcribed much for wages and a… - Person
'Ali ibn al-Junayd al-Iskafi
Al-Mu'tasim's jester whose 'convey my regards to Sindan — I saw you before I saw him' reduced the caliph to… - Person
Ali ibn al-Mughira al-Athram
Abu'l-Hasan al-Athram — the warraq grammarian whom Isma'il b. Subayh famously locked in a house with Abu… - Person
Ali ibn al-Mugrab al-Uyuni
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Ali ibn al-Muhsin al-Tanukhi
Abu al-Qasim Ali b. al-Muhsin al-Tanukhi — of the famous Tanukhi house of qadis and adibs; father of Qadi Abu… - Person
Ali ibn Aybak, the Damascene poet
c. 1329 CE · c. 729 AH - Person
Ali ibn Babawayh al-Qummi
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علي بن بليق
An officer of Mu'nis; meeting the fleeing caliph he dismounted, kissed the ground and begged him to turn back… - Person
عماد الدولة علي بن بويه
Son of the poor fisherman Buya — who dreamed fire issued from him filling the world, read as his sons ruling… - Person
علي بن غانية
Ibn Ghaniya's son, of the Majorca-Menorca-Iviza islands in the western sea; after his father's death in 580… - Person
علي بن حمود الناصر لدين الله
First Hammudid caliph of Cordoba, bay'a'd the day Sulayman al-Musta'in fell; his eight months of justice —… - Person
'Ali ibn Harb
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'Ali ibn Haytham
The noted Imami mutakallim whose 'fruit of affinity, sign of two souls commingled' opened Yahya's symposium… - Person
Ali ibn Hisham al-Marwazi
al-Ma'mun's commander; in al-Baladhuri, sent against rebellious Qumm — killed its chief Yahya ibn Imran,… - Person
Ali ibn Husayn al-Kuti
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Ali ibn Ibrahim al-Qummi
Draft card for Ali ibn Ibrahim al-Qummi, the tenth-century exegete author of the Qummi Tafsir, d. 941; the… - Person
Ali ibn Isa al-Asturlabi
Ali ibn Isa the astrolabe-maker, one of the astrologers al-Mansur drew close as the first caliph to govern by… - Person
علي بن عيسى بن ماهان
Al-Amin's commander, given the mountain lands in 195; he marched with forty thousand to fight al-Ma'mun… - Person
Ali ibn Ishaq al-Zahi
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'Ali ibn Jabala al-'Akawwak (Abbasid poet, 776–828)
c. 776 CE · 160 AH'Ali ibn Jabala al-'Akawwak ('thick-set'), an Abbasid poet born at Baghdad in 160/776 of a Khurasani family… - Person
Ibn al-Madini
The traditionist Ibn al-Madini — dead at Samarra, Dhu'l-Hijja 234, aged seventy-two. - Person
Ali al-Tarabulusi
Ali ibn Khalil, Ala al-Din Abu al-Hasan al-Tarabulusi al-Hanafi: a jurist who held the judgeship in… - Person
Ali ibn Khasram
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Ali ibn Ma'bad ibn Shaddad
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Ali ibn Mahdi al-Himyari
Ali ibn Mahdi al-Himyari of al-Uthr on Zabid's coasts; raised in his father's piety, withdrawn in worship, he… - Person
Ali ibn Mahziar Ahvazi
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Ali ibn Mansur al-Azji
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Ali ibn Mansur al-Khattibi
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علي بن ميمون
Abu al-Hasan Ali b. Maymun, the Maghribi Sufi who succeeded Abu Madyan in his path, resident of Marrakesh,… - Person
Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Mazyad al-Asadi
Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Mazyad al-Asadi, chief of Banu Mazyad and founder of their fortune; seeking revenge for… - Person
Ali ibn Muhammad al-Ashmuni
c. 1435 CE · c. 838 AH†A Shafi'i jurist of Cairo who memorized al-Nawawi's Minhaj, al-Subki's Jam' al-Jawami' and Ibn Malik's… - Person
'Ali al-Himmani
The 'Alawi poet of Himman — elegist of Yahya ibn 'Umar who sat out the fighting. - Person
Ali ibn Muhammad al-Hindi
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Ali ibn Muhammad al-Manufi al-Shadhili
Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalaf, Nur al-Din, Abu al-Hasan, al-Manufi of Egypt, known as… - Person
Ali ibn Muhammad al-Masakini
1669 CE · 1080 AHA jurist and educator from Tunis, founder of a school at the end of the Husaynid period. - Person
'Ali ibn Muhammad al-Nawfali
Author of the Kitab al-Akhbar Mas'udi cites constantly for Alid and poetic reports — the one who judged… - Person
Ali ibn Muhammad al-Simnani
Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad, Abu al-Qasim, al-Halabi al-Hanafi al-Simnani, named after Saman, a town in Qumis… - Person
علي بن محمد الصليحي القائم باليمن
Ali b. Muhammad al-Sulayhi, founder of Yemen's Sulayhid state; groomed young by the da'i Amir b. Abdallah… - Person
Ali ibn Muhammad al-Tanukhi
891 CE · 278 AHFrom the Tanukh tribe and father of Abu Ali al-Muhassin al-Tanukhi. His father's name was Dawud ibn Ibrahim… - Person
Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Ali, Hamid al-Din al-Darir
Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Ali, Hamid al-Din al-Darir, from Ramish, a village in the lands of Bukhara, a Hanafi… - Person
Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Abi'l-Shawarib
A judge of the Banu Abi'l-Shawarib; in 283 he and Abu Khazim wrote that the residue of inheritance shares… - Person
Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik al-Maknasi (Ibn al-Qattan, Maliki hadith scholar)
A Maliki jurist and hadith memorizer of Meknes; judge at Sijilmasa; heard from Ibn al-Fakhkhar, Ibn… - Person
Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Bassam
The fearless satirist who lampooned even his own father and every vizier — al-Mu'tadid laughed off his 'cut… - Person
Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Ghanim al-Maqdisi
Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Khalil al-Khazraji, Nur al-Din, known as Ibn Ghanim al-Maqdisi by origin and of… - Person
Ali ibn Muhammad of Morocco
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Ali ibn Musa ibn Harun
Ali ibn Musa ibn Harun, Abu al-Hasan, known as Ibn Harun, a Maliki jurist, mufti and expert in inheritance.… - Person
Ali ibn Musa ibn Yazdad
Ali ibn Musa ibn Yazdad, from Qum, later of Nishapur, the leading Hanafi of his time, who wrote books… - Person
جمال الإسلام السلمي
Jamal al-Islam Ali ibn Muslim al-Sulami, mufti of Syria; pupil and standard-bearer of the shaykh Abu al-Qasim… - Person
Ali ibn Muslim al-Tusi
Abu'l-Hasan al-Tusi, settled at Baghdad — a transmitter whom al-Bukhari cites in the Sahih; his teachers… - Person
Ali ibn Qatin al-Jabri
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علي بن رباح اللخمي
The Basran Lakhmi tabi'i born in the year of Yarmuk who served Abd al-Aziz b. Marwan, gave away Umm al-Banin… - Person
Ali ibn Rabi'ah ibn Nadla al-Kufi (transmitter)
Ali ibn Rabi'ah ibn Nadla, Abu al-Mughira, of Kufa, of the clan of Bajila. He narrated from Ali ibn Abi… - Person
Ali ibn Rasul al-Turkmani
Ali ibn Rasul al-Turkmani, founder of the Rasulid state in Yemen; ustadh-dar of the Ayyubid al-Malik… - Person
'Ali ibn Ribab
A leading Rafidi scholar — brother and annual debate-partner of the Kharijite al-Yaman. - Person
Ali ibn Sulayman ibn Ali
Ali ibn Sulayman ibn Ali ibn Abdallah ibn al-Abbas; in al-Baladhuri: while over the Jazira and Qinnasrin he… - Person
علي بن طراد الزينبي
The great wazir Abu al-Qasim Ali ibn Tirad al-Zaynabi, minister to al-Mustarshid and al-Muqtafi; a stately,… - Person
Ibn al-Qazwini the ascetic (Ali ibn Umar al-Harbi)
c. October 970 CE · Muharram 360 AHBaghdad's celebrated ascetic — born the night al-Ajurri died (early Muharram 360), 'one of God's great… - Person
Ali ibn Umar al-Shadhili
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Ibn Abdus al-Harrani (Ali ibn Umar)
Ali ibn Umar ibn Ahmad ibn Abdus al-Harrani, Abu al-Hasan, a Hanbali jurist who heard hadith in Baghdad from… - Person
Ali ibn Umar ibn al-Qassar
Ali ibn Umar ibn Ahmad, Abu al-Hasan al-Baghdadi, known as Ibn al-Qassar, a Maliki jurist, usuli and hafiz.… - Person
Ali ibn Umar al-Idrisi
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Ali ibn Uthman al-Awsi
Ali ibn Uthman ibn Muhammad, Siraj al-Din al-Awsi al-Farghani, a scholar, man of letters and poet. He wrote a… - Person
Ali ibn Yadar
Ali ibn Yadar of Banu Badas, kin of the Hintati vizier Abu Muhammad ibn Yunus; he fled into the Sus in open… - Person
Ali ibn Yahya al-Armani
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Al-Jaziri (Ali ibn Yahya al-Sinhaji)
Ali ibn Yahya ibn al-Qasim al-Sinhaji, Abu al-Hasan, al-Jaziri, a Maliki jurist who settled in al-Jazira… - Person
'Ali ibn Yahya al-Munajjim
The Banu'l-Munajjim astrologer — al-Muntasir quietly sent his servant round with the twenty thousand he… - Person
Ali ibn Yahya al-Sufi
Draft card for Ali ibn Yahya al-Sufi, the fifteenth-century Ottoman calligrapher; the source entry is not yet… - Person
Ali ibn Yahya al-Sanhaji
1105 CE · 499 AHAli b. Yahya al-Sanhaji (b. Safar 499, al-Mahdiyya) — Zirid ruler of Ifriqiya; summoned from Sfax at his… - Person
'Ali ibn Yaqtin
Present at Masabadhan when the dream-voice recited the ruin verses — ten days later al-Mahdi was dead. - Person
Ali ibn Yunus
Ali b. Yunus al-Sadafi (d. 399) — Egypt's great astronomer; al-Aziz commissioned his Hakimi Zij, which Ibn… - Person
علي بن يوسف بن تاشفين
Ali ibn Yusuf, Almoravid emir; Ibn Tumart publicly rebuked him in the Marrakesh mosque — the… - Person
Ali ibn Zayd al-Alawi
An Alid who rose in Kufa in 255 AH together with Isa ibn Ja'far al-Alawi. Al-Mu'tazz sent Sa'id ibn Salih… - Person
Ali ibn Ziyad
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Ali Abdullah Jaber
27 August 1953 CE · 1372 AHSaudi reciter and scholar (1953–2005), official imam of Masjid al-Haram from 1981 to 1983 and Ramadan guest… - Person
Ali Javan
26 December 1926 CE · 1345 AHIranian-American physicist and inventor (1926–2016), born in Tehran and died in Los Angeles, who first… - Person
Ali Khademhosseini
30 October 1975 CE · 1395 AHAli Khademhosseini (born 30 October 1975) is an Iranian-born Canadian-American biomedical engineer. He took… - Person
Ali Khader Abbas al-Zind
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Ali Khamenei
19 April 1939 CE · 1358 AHAli Khamenei (1939–2026) was an Iranian Shia cleric and politician, president of Iran from 1981 to 1989 and… - Person
Ali Khan
7 July 1881 CE · 1298 AHIndian musician and Sufi teacher (1881–1958), born in Baroda and died in The Hague. He led the International… - Person
Ali Maâloul
1 January 1990 CE · 1410 AHTunisian footballer (born 1990 in Sfax), a left-back who began with CS Sfaxien, played for Egypt's Al Ahly… - Person
Ali Mabkhout
5 October 1990 CE · 1411 AHEmirati striker born in Abu Dhabi in 1990. He spent sixteen years with Al Jazira (2008–2024), scoring 218… - Person
Ali Mahdi Muhammad
1939 CE · 1357 AHSomali politician and businessman (1939–2021), a Mogadishu-based entrepreneur and United Somali Congress… - Person
Ali Maksum
1915 CE · 1333 AH†Draft card for Ali Maksum, the Indonesian shaykh and scholar; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Ali Mamlouk
19 February 1946 CE · 1365 AHSyrian intelligence officer, one of the founders of Air Force Intelligence, who headed the General Security… - Person
Ali Mitayev
1881 CE · 1298 AH†Ali Bamat-Gireyevich Mitayev (1881–1925) was a Chechen Sufi sheikh and political and military leader. He… - Person
Ali Mohammad Dastgheib Shirazi
1935 CE · 1354 AH†Draft card for Ali Mohammad Dastgheib Shirazi, the Iranian Shia marja'; his entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
علي مبارك
1823 CE · 1238 AH†Ali Mubarak Pasha (1823–1893 CE) — the self-made engineer-minister who founded Egypt's Dar al-Kutub and wrote… - Person
Ali Munsi
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Ali Murad Khan Zand
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Ali Pasha of Tepelena (of Yanya)
Ali Pasha of Tepelena, master of Yanya (Ioannina), son of the Tepelena notable Veli Bey; on Kurt Pasha's… - Person
Ali Qushji
The scholar Ali Qushji, among the greatest mathematicians and astronomers of his age; al-Salabi records that… - Person
Ali Rıza Pasha
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Ali Safi Golpaygani
1912 CE · 1330 AH†Draft card for Ali Safi Golpaygani, the Iranian Shia mujtahid; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Ali Shaheed Muhammad
11 August 1970 CE · 1390 AHAmerican DJ and record producer, born in Brooklyn, New York City, in 1970, a founding member of A Tribe… - Person
Ali Sirugani
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Ali Suavi
8 December 1839 CE · 1255 AHOttoman journalist, educator and religious reformer (1839-1878), a Young Ottoman who edited Muhbir in London,… - Person
Ali Uskudari
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Ali Yafie
1926 CE · 1344 AH†Draft card for Ali Yafie, the Indonesian mufti and thinker; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Ali Yusuf Kenadid
Ali Yusuf Kenadid (died at Mogadishu; see the death-date conflict in his data), second and last Sultan of… - Person
'Ali ibn al-Husayn, al-Sajjad
al-Sajjad, al-Husayn's surviving son — spared the slave-bay'a at the Harra; Musrif who cursed his fathers… - Person
Alija Izetbegović
8 August 1925 CE · 1344 AHBosnian politician, philosopher and author, born in 1925. He founded the Party of Democratic Action, led… - Person
Alikhan Bukeikhanov
5 March 1866 CE · 17 Shawwal 1282 AH†Kazakh statesman, journalist and scholar (5 March 1866 – 27 September 1937) who led the Alash party and… - Person
Alim ibn Ala
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Alimardan bey Topchubashov
4 May 1862 CE · 1278 AHAzerbaijani politician and lawyer (1862–1934). He led the Muslim faction in Russia's First State Duma (1906)… - Person
Alimirah Hanfare
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Alireza Abbasi
Draft card for Alireza Abbasi, the Safavid nasta'liq calligrapher of Shah Abbas's reign; his entry is not yet… - Person
Ali-Shir Nava'i
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Alivardi Khan
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Aliyah Umm Raiyaan
British Muslim author and charity founder. She converted to Islam in 1999 and in 2010 founded Solace UK, a… - Person
Alladiya Khan
10 August 1855 CE · 1271 AHIndian classical singer (1855–1946), born at Uniara in Jaipur State into a family of musicians. He founded… - Person
Allah Bux Soomro
1900 CE · 1318 AH†Allah Bux Muhammad Umar Soomro (1900–1943), a Sindhi politician of colonial India, founder of the Sind… - Person
Allahverdi Khan
Draft card for Allahverdi Khan the Georgian, Shah Abbas I's commander-in-chief who rebuilt the Safavid army… - Person
Allameh Abul Hasan Sharani
1902 CE · 1320 AH†Draft card for Abu al-Hasan al-Sharani, the translator and jurist in Qom; his entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Allan al-Shu'ubi
Allan al-Shu'ubi, a Persian-descended traditionist and genealogist, who copied in the House of Wisdom for… - Person
Almamy Suluku
1820 CE · 1236 AHAlmamy Suluku (c. 1820 – 1906), the Limba ruler of the Biriwa country in northern Sierra Leone and son of its… - Person
Almoez Ali
19 August 1996 CE · 1417 AHStriker born in Khartoum, Sudan, in 1996 who moved to Qatar as a child; he captains Al-Duhail and is Qatar's… - Person
Alnof Dinar
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Alois Musil
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ألب أرسلان عضد الدولة بن جغري بك
c. 1033 CE · c. 424 AHSecond Seljuk sultan, succeeding his uncle Tughrul in 455 with al-Qa'im's investiture; al-Dhahabi: the first… - Person
Alpha Blondy
1 January 1953 CE · 1372 AHIvorian reggae singer, born Seydou Koné at Dimbokro on 1 January 1953. He broke through with the album Jah… - Person
Alpha Condé
4 March 1938 CE · 1357 AHGuinean politician (born 1938) from Boké, an academic who spent decades in opposition to Guinea's successive… - Person
Alpha Oumar Konaré
2 February 1946 CE · 1365 AHMalian politician and academic (born 1946) from Kayes, a historian and archaeologist educated in Bamako,… - Person
Alpha Yaya Diallo
1830 CE · 1246 AHAlpha Yaya Diallo (1830 – 1912), ruler of Labé, one of the nine provinces of the Islamic Imamate of Futa… - Person
Alqama ibn Hasafa al-Ta'i
Of the tribe of Tayyi'; named in connection with his ally al-Harith ibn Sulayl and the proverb 'the free… - Person
Alqama ibn Marthad
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Alqama ibn Mujazziz al-Mudliji
A companion whom the Prophet sent in Rabi' al-Akhir 9 AH with three hundred men against Abyssinian raiders… - Person
علقمة بن قيس النخعي
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Alqama ibn Safwan
Alqama ibn Safwan al-Kinani, Marwan's maternal grandfather — waylaid at the wall of Harman by the half-man… - Person
Altaf Hussain Hali
1837 CE · 1253 AHUrdu poet and writer (1837–1914) of Panipat, associated with Sir Syed Ahmad Khan's Aligarh circle. He… - Person
Altuncuzade
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Alymbek Datka
1799 CE · 1214 AH†Alymbek Datka (1799–1862), born Alymbek Asan biy uulu, was a Kyrgyz statesman of the Alai in the Khanate of… - Person
Ama bint Khalid ibn Sa'id
Daughter of Khalid ibn Sa'id ibn al-As and Amina bint Khalf, born in the land of Abyssinia. - Person
Amadou Bamba
1853 CE · 1270 AHSenegalese Sufi sheikh (1853–1927) who founded the Mouride Brotherhood (Muridiyya) and the city of Touba,… - Person
Amadou dan Ténimoun
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Amadou Hampâté Bâ
1901 CE · 1319 AHMalian Fula writer and ethnographer, born at Bandiagara in 1901 in what was then French Sudan. As a boy he… - Person
Amanat (Sayyid Agha Hasan, Lucknow poet, 1815–1858)
1815 CE · 1231 AHAmanat, the poetical name of Sayyid Agha Hasan (1231–1275 AH, 1815–1858 CE), a poet of Muslim India in whom… - Person
Amani Abeid Karume
1 November 1948 CE · 1367 AHTanzanian politician (born 1948), the son of Abeid Karume, Zanzibar's first president. He worked as an… - Person
Amanullah Khan
1 June 1892 CE · 5 Dhu al-Qa'da 1309 AH†Emir of Afghanistan (1919–1926) and then its first king (1926–1929), third son of Emir Habibullah Khan. He… - Person
Amara Dunqas
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Amat al-Latif bint al-Nasih
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Amer al-Hamel Abu Sibaa
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Amir ibn al-Waqqas
A Companion of Banu Zuhra; he emigrated to Abyssinia and arrived in the two ships. - Person
Amid al-Dawla ibn Jahir
Amid al-Dawla Sharaf al-Din b. Ibn Jahir — deputy-vizier to his father Fakhr al-Dawla; when the father was… - Person
Amin Ahsan Islahi
1904 CE · 1322 AH†Indian, then Pakistani, scholar and exegete (1904–1997) of Bamhur in Azamgarh district, the leading student… - Person
Amin al-Dawla al-Samiri
Al-Salih Ayyub's vizier — a Samaritan of Baalbek converted and made his minister, physician and… - Person
Eminuddin Ebheri
Draft card for Eminuddin Ebheri, the Ottoman writer (astronomer and mathematician, d. 1333); the biographical… - Person
Amin al-Din Yaqut, the Mosul scribe
The Mosuli calligrapher and Ibn al-Athir's own friend — 'none in his time wrote near him, and none rendered… - Person
Amin al-Husseini
1897 CE · 1314 AHPalestinian Arab nationalist and Muslim leader (c. 1897–1974) who served as Grand Mufti of Jerusalem from… - Person
Amin al-Khuli
1895 CE · 1313 AHBorn in Sharshay, a village in the Minufiya province of Egypt. - Person
Amin ibn Muhammad al-Jundi
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Amina bint al-Majlisi
Draft card for Amina Begum bint Muhammad Taqi al-Majlisi, the seventeenth-century Safavid jurist; the… - Person
Amina bint Khalf
Wife of Khalid ibn Sa'id ibn al-As; she emigrated with him to Abyssinia and bore him Sa'id and Ama there. - Person
Amina bint Wahb
The Prophet's mother, of the Zuhra clan; she took her six-year-old son to Yathrib to visit his father's… - Person
Amina Cachalia
28 June 1930 CE · 1349 AHSouth African anti-apartheid activist, women's rights campaigner and politician, born in Vereeniging in 1930.… - Person
Amina Wadud
25 September 1952 CE · 1372 AHAmerican scholar of Islamic studies and Muslim theologian, born in Bethesda, Maryland in 1952 as Mary… - Person
Aminu Ibrahim Daurawa
1 January 1969 CE · 1388 AHLiving Nigerian scholar from Kano, born there in 1969 to Sheikh Ibrahim Muhammad Mai Tafsiri. He founded the… - Person
Aminu Tambuwal
10 January 1966 CE · 1385 AHNigerian lawyer and politician born in Tambuwal in 1966. He represented Tambuwal/Kebbe in the House of… - Person
عامر الشعبي
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Amir Badshah (Muhammad Amin ibn Mahmud al-Bukhari), exegete and usuli
Muhammad Amin ibn Mahmud al-Bukhari, known as Amir Badshah, an exegete and a scholar of usul al-fiqh; the… - Person
Amir Barid Shah I
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Emir Buhari
Draft card for Emir Buhari, the Ottoman writer (Naqshbandi shaykh, d. 1516); the biographical entry is not… - Person
Emir Celebi
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Amir b. 'Abd al-Qays al-'Anbari (ascetic of Basra)
Amir b. 'Abd al-Qays al-'Anbari, an ascetic of Basra whose way of life drew the attention of Humran b. Aban,… - Person
Amir ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr
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Amir ibn al-Adbat al-Ashja'i
A man of Ashja' who passed Ibn Abi Hadrad's detachment at Batn Idam on his camel with his goods and a skin of… - Person
Amir ibn al-Tufayl
Chief and horseman of Banu Amir ibn Sa'sa'a, remembered as the betrayer of the Bi'r Ma'una envoys; within the… - Person
Amir ibn Ali Shammakhi
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Amir ibn Fuhayra
Abu Bakr's freedman who grazed a gift flock over the cave of Thawr each evening to feed the fugitives and… - Person
'Amir ibn Isma'il al-Mudhhiji
The man who killed Marwan at Busir — stayed from the women's church by the servant sworn to behead them as… - Person
Amir ibn Judhayma
A pre-Islamic king of Himyar's line, killed by his own people; the proverb 'the dog sometimes eats its… - Person
al-Shaykh 'Amir ibn Muhammad, sultan of Yemen
Sultan of Yemen — tidings of his death arrived at Damascus together with Bayezid II's and the Meccan sharif… - Person
Amir ibn Rabi'a
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Amir ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas
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Amir Kabir
9 January 1807 CE · 1221 AHMirza Taghi Khan-e Farahani (9 January 1807 – 10 January 1852), known as Amir Kabir, chief minister of Naser… - Person
Amir Khan
8 December 1986 CE · 1407 AHBritish former professional boxer (born 1986 in Bolton, to a Pakistani Punjabi family). He won silver at the… - Person
Amir Khan (Pathan chief, founder of the state of Tonk, 1768–1834)
1768 CE · 1182 AH†Amir Khan, a Pathan predatory chief born at Sambhal in Rohilkhand, who began as a sihbandi soldier for… - Person
Amir Meenai
21 February 1828 CE · 1243 AHLucknow Urdu poet (1828–1900), linguist and lexicographer. Educated at Farangi Mahal, he served at Rampur as… - Person
Amir Mounir
22 August 1993 CE · 1414 AHEgyptian preacher and content creator, born in Cairo in 1993; he is a pharmacist holding a bachelor's degree… - Person
Amcazade Köprülü Hüseyin Pasha
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Ammar ibn Abi al-Khasib
Ammar ibn Abi al-Khasib; the builder who executed the congregational mosque of al-Mahdi's al-Muhammadiyya at… - Person
Ammar ibn Yasir
Son of Yasir and Sumayya, a client of Banu Makhzum; he was tortured with his parents and heard the Prophet… - Person
Amr al-Ghazzal
A singer named in anecdotes of Abu Sadaqa at Harun al-Rashid's court. - Person
Amr al-Rumi
Amr al-Rumi, al-Hadi's mawla; he administered Madinat Musa at Qazwin and the Rustamabadh endowment, succeeded… - Person
Amr ibn Abdullah al-Dibabi
A member of the Banu al-Harith ibn Ka'b delegation that came with Khalid ibn al-Walid in 10 AH; the editors,… - Person
Amr ibn Abi Salama
Amr ibn Abi Salama, Abu Hafs al-Tinnisi al-Dimashqi, a mawla of the Banu Hashim, who narrated from al-Awza'i… - Person
Amr ibn Adi ibn Nasr al-Lakhmi
The first Lakhmid king of al-Hira, appointed after Jadhima al-Abrash’s death in the reign of Shapur son of… - Person
Amr ibn al-Ahtam al-Tamimi
A poet of Banu Minqar of Tamim; he came in the Tamim delegation of 9 AH as its youngest member and was left… - Person
Amr ibn al-As
c. 573 CEA Meccan diplomat who opposed the Muslims until 629–630, then converted and became the commander who… - Person
Amr ibn al-Aswad Abu Iyad al-Anasi
Amr ibn al-Aswad Abu Iyad al-Anasi, also called al-Hamdani, from Damascus, a Successor. He narrated from Amr… - Person
عمرو بن الحارث أبو أمية
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Amr ibn al-Harith al-Jurhumi
The Jurhumite who, when Jurhum was driven from Mecca, carried off the Kaaba's two gazelles and the Black… - Person
Amr ibn al-Jamuh
A chief of the Ansar from Banu Salima, who kept a wooden idol in his house until he embraced Islam, after the… - Person
عمرو بن المنذر المحرق
Amr ibn al-Mundhir the Lakhmid, called al-Muharriq 'the burner' for burning ninety-nine men of Banu Darim at… - Person
Amr ibn al-Nu'man al-Bayadi
Khazraj commander on the day of Bu'ath — though Ibn Hazm makes their chief that day al-Nu'man's father… - Person
Amr ibn Ali al-Fallas
Draft card for Amr ibn Ali al-Fallas al-Basri, the ninth-century muhaddith among al-Bukhari's shaykhs, d.… - Person
Amr ibn Amir Muzayqiya
Amr ibn Amir, called Muzayqiya — last holder of the leadership over Qahtan's sons when the 'Arim flood… - Person
'Amr ibn 'Anbasa
The Companion reckoned third to accept Islam — after Abu Bakr and Bilal — in one of the 'first Muslim' views. - Person
عمرو بن بكر التميمي
A Tamimi Khariji of the Meccan pact; he took Amr ibn al-As for himself, but struck down another man leading… - Person
'Amr ibn Bilal al-Asadi
An Asadite who reconciled Abd al-Malik with 'Atika through a feigned blood-feud plea, rewarded a thousand… - Person
Amr ibn Dinar
666 CE · 46 AHOne of the senior Successors, and the shaykh of the Meccan sanctuary in his time; among the great… - Person
Amr ibn Hani' al-Absi
Amr ibn Hani' al-Absi; al-Hajjaj sent him with Damascenes against the Kurds who had ravaged in Ibn… - Person
Amr ibn Harith
A Qurashi youth; in al-Baladhuri he bought the two jewel baskets of Nihawand's spoils for the warriors'… - Person
Amr ibn Hazm
An Ansari, brother of Umara ibn Hazm; he took part in al-Khandaq and later campaigns, and the Prophet… - Person
عمرو بن هند
Amr ibn Hind al-Lakhmi, king of al-Hira, surnamed Mudarrat al-Hijara for the fierceness of his rule — his… - Person
Amr ibn Humam ibn al-Jamuh
The fourth of the Weepers, brother of Banu Salama; Ibn Ishaq lists him among those who begged the Prophet for… - Person
Amr ibn Hurayth al-Makhzumi
A Makhzumi of Kufa; in al-Baladhuri he built in its mosque, and Ziyad deputized him over Kufa when he went to… - Person
Amr ibn Jahm
Son of Jahm ibn Qays; he accompanied his father to Abyssinia and arrived with him in the two ships. - Person
'Amr ibn Jurmuz al-Tamimi
al-Zubayr's killer at Wadi'l-Siba' — 'lead me or I'll lead you' in prayer, then struck mid-salah; he brought… - Person
Amr ibn Kharija
A Companion whom Attab ibn Asid sent to the Prophet on an errand while he stood at Arafat in the Farewell… - Person
عمرو بن كلثوم
Amr ibn Kulthum of Taghlib, jahili poet and Mu'allaqa author, son of Layla bint Muhalhil and nephew of… - Person
Amr ibn Ma'dikarib
The famous poet and horseman of Zubayd; in Ibn Ishaq's account he came to the Prophet with the delegation of… - Person
Amr ibn Marzuq
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'Amr ibn Mas'ada
The wazir whose estate alone al-Ma'mun seized at his death in 217. - Person
Amr ibn Maymun al-Awdi
a witness of Umar's stabbing — his account: the two-pointed dagger, thirteen wounded six dead, the thrown… - Person
Amr ibn Muhammad ibn al-Qasim
Amr ibn Muhammad ibn al-Qasim; al-Hakam ibn Awana's trusted deputy — raiding from al-Mahfuza he built… - Person
Amr ibn Muslim al-Bahili
Amr ibn Muslim al-Bahili, Qutayba's brother; his governor of Sijistan under al-Walid — his demand for arrears… - Person
'Amr ibn Qami'a
A pre-Islamic Arab poet of the Bakr group, of the Kays ibn Tha'laba branch, who travelled to Byzantium with… - Person
Amr ibn Sa'id ibn al-As
A Companion of Banu Abd Shams; he emigrated to Abyssinia with his wife Fatima bint Safwan, arrived in the two… - Person
Amr ibn Salama al-Jarmi
Amr ibn Salama al-Jarmi, Abu Buraid, also called Abu Yazid of Basra, who met the Prophet and led his people… - Person
Amr ibn Salim al-Khuza'i
A man of Banu Ka'b of Khuza'a who stood before the Prophet in the Medina mosque and recited his famous plea… - Person
'Amr ibn Shu'ayb
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Amr ibn Shurahbil
Amr ibn Shurahbil, Abu Maysara al-Hamdani al-Kufi, a Successor. He narrated from Umar, Ali and Ibn Mas'ud… - Person
Amr ibn Suraqa
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عمرو بن عبيد أبو عثمان
Amr ibn Ubayd ibn Bab, mawla of Banu Tamim, Abu Uthman — shaykh of the Mu'tazila beside Wasil ibn Ata'; his… - Person
Amr ibn Uds
A pre-Islamic Arab; al-Nuwayri says he married Dakhtanus when old, and the proverb 'You wasted the milk in… - Person
Amr ibn Umayya
An emigrant of Banu Asad ibn Abd al-Uzza who died in the land of Abyssinia; not to be confused with Amr ibn… - Person
Amr ibn Umayya al-Damri
A prominent scout and courier Companion from Banu Damra; captured at Bi'r Ma'una and freed by Amir ibn… - Person
Amr ibn Utba the Ascetic
Amr ibn Utba the Ascetic; he campaigned with Utba ibn Farqad al-Sulami in Azerbaijan when its borderlands… - Person
Amr ibn Utba ibn Nawfal
Amr ibn Utba ibn Nawfal of Banu Zuhra, his mother Atika bint Abi Waqqas; per al-Kalbi, Sa'd's appointee over… - Person
Amr ibn Uthman al-Makki
Abu 'Abdallah al-Makki, the Sufi who heard Yunus ibn 'Abd al-A'la and al-Rabi' ibn Sulayman — when he… - Person
'Amr ibn 'Uthman ibn 'Affan
Uthman's son — one of the two envoys carrying Abd al-Malik's aman to Ibn al-Zubayr at Mecca, which Ibn… - Person
Amr ibn Uthman
Of Banu Taym ibn Murra; he emigrated to Abyssinia and was killed at al-Qadisiyya with Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas. - Person
Amr ibn Zurara ibn Udas
of Mudar's lands, learned the script from Bishr — he is called Amr the Scribe. - Person
Amr Khaled
5 September 1967 CE · 1387 AHEgyptian Muslim preacher and television presenter, born in Alexandria in 1967. He launched development,… - Person
Amr Moussa
3 October 1936 CE · 1355 AHAmr Moussa (born 3 October 1936) is an Egyptian diplomat and politician who served as Egypt's ambassador to… - Person
Umra bint al-Sa'di
Wife of Malik ibn Rabi'a, of Banu Amir ibn Lu'ayy; she emigrated with him to Abyssinia. - Person
Amrah bint Abd al-Rahman
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Amri
Draft card for Amri, the Ottoman court poet, d. 1524; the biographical entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Anas Action
Saudi content creator who publishes as 'Anas Action'; since 2016 his YouTube channel has carried long… - Person
Anas bint Abd al-Karim al-Lakhmi
Draft card for Anas bint Abd al-Karim al-Lakhmi, the female muhaddith; the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Anas ibn Abi Marthad al-Ghanawi
A companion of Ghaniy who volunteered to stand night watch over the Muslim camp on the eve of the battle of… - Person
Anas ibn al-Nadr al-Ansari
An Ansari Companion of the Khazraj, uncle of Anas ibn Malik the Prophet's servant. He missed the fighting at… - Person
Anas ibn Iyad
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Anas ibn Malik
The servant of the Prophet and one of the most prolific narrators from him; he was ten when the Prophet… - Person
Anas ibn Mu'adh
Draft card for Anas ibn Mu'adh al-Ansari, the seventh-century Companion; the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Anas ibn Zunaym
Anas ibn Zunaym; riding with Abu al-Aswad and Fil — he posed the bathhouse riddle 'two-thirds of Fil's bath:… - Person
Anas Jalhoum
Egyptian Quran reciter and imam, known for his moving recitations from the night and tarawih prayers, which… - Person
Anas Sarwar
14 March 1983 CE · 1403 AHScottish Labour politician, born in Glasgow in 1983 to Pakistani Muslim parents. He studied dentistry at the… - Person
André Carson
16 October 1974 CE · 1394 AHAmerican Democratic politician, born in Indianapolis in 1974, the grandson of his predecessor in Congress,… - Person
Andrea Doria
Andrea Doria — in al-Salabi's words, leader of the Christian fleet in the Mediterranean under Charles V; he… - Person
Enfi Hasan Aga
Draft card for Enfi Hasan Aga, the Ottoman writer (d. 1724); the biographical entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Anissa Meksen
29 April 1988 CE · 1408 AHFrench-Algerian kickboxer born in Nancy in 1988. She won the Glory Women's Super Bantamweight Championship… - Person
Anmar ibn Nizar
One of Nizar's sons; al-Nuwayri says he received the purse and the assembly in the inheritance story, and… - Person
Anousheh Ansari
12 September 1966 CE · 1386 AHIranian-American engineer and entrepreneur, born in Mashhad in 1966 and emigrated to the United States in… - Person
Ansar Burney
14 August 1956 CE · 1376 AHAnsar Burney (born 14 August 1956) is a Pakistani lawyer and human-rights activist from Karachi who, after… - Person
Ansu Fati
31 October 2002 CE · 1423 AHSpanish professional footballer (born 2002 in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, and raised in Seville). A left winger… - Person
'Antara al-'Absi
'Abs's celebrated slave-born knight-poet — counted by 'Amr ibn Ma'dikarib among the four men he would fear to… - Person
Anushirwan ibn Khalid
Sharaf al-Din Anushirwan b. Khalid al-Qashani (d. 532) — vizier of the caliph al-Mustarshid; al-Hariri… - Person
Anushtakin al-Dizbiri
Anushtakin al-Dizbiri, commander of the Fatimid caliph al-Zahir's armies to Syria; his authority reached… - Person
Anushtegin Gharchai
Draft card for Anushtegin Gharchai, the Seljuk mamluk governor of Khwarazm from whose line the later… - Person
Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar
15 May 1971 CE · 20 Rabi' I 1391 AH†Pakistani politician from Balochistan who served as the eighth and longest-serving caretaker prime minister… - Person
Anwar Sadat
25 December 1918 CE · 1337 AHEgyptian politician and military officer, the third president of Egypt from 1970 until his assassination in… - Person
Aparwiz, Marzban of Zaranj
Aparwiz, marzban of Zaranj; sent to seek aman, al-Rabi' seated him on a corpse and leaned on another, his… - Person
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
15 October 1931 CE · 1350 AHIndian aerospace scientist and the eleventh President of India (2002–2007), born in 1931 in Rameswaram into a… - Person
آق شمس الدين
1389 CE · 792 AHAq Shams al-Din (1389–1459) — Mehmed II's tutor and 'spiritual conqueror of Constantinople': a Damascene who… - Person
Aq Sunqur al-Hajib (Seljuk governor of Aleppo, d. 1094)
Aq Sunqur al-Hajib, a mamluk of Malik-shah who appointed him governor of Aleppo in 480/1087. He first… - Person
آق سنقر البرسقي
Aq Sunqur al-Bursuqi — atabeg of Mosul and crusade-fighter, assassinated by the Batinis in 1126 while at… - Person
Aqa Husayn al-Khwansari
Draft card for Aqa Husayn al-Khwansari, the seventeenth-century philosopher, d. 1687; the biographical entry… - Person
Aqa Mirak
Draft card for Aqa Mirak, the Safavid painter and calligrapher who worked beside Sultan Muhammad in Tahmasp's… - Person
Aqil ibn Abi Talib
Aqil ibn Abi Talib; one of Quraysh's tongues Umar called with Makhrama and Jubayr to write the people by… - Person
Akovalizade Ahmed Hatem
Draft card for Akovalizade Ahmed Hatem, the Ottoman writer (d. 1755); the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Qasim al-Dawla Aqsunqur
Qasim al-Dawla Aqsunqur, Malikshah's amir of Aleppo and ancestor of Nur al-Din al-Adil's line; after… - Person
Aqujili
Draft card for Aqujili, the seventeenth-century imam, muhaddith and jurist, d. 1669; the source entry is not… - Person
Arabaci Ali Pasha
Draft card for Arabaci Ali Pasha, the Ottoman grand vizier of 1691–1692 after the recovery of Belgrade, d.… - Person
Arash Ferdowsi
7 October 1985 CE · 1406 AHArash Ferdowsi (born 7 October 1985) is an American entrepreneur of Iranian descent, a co-founder of Dropbox.… - Person
Arbad ibn Humayra
Draft card for Arbad ibn Humayra, the seventh-century Companion; the biographical entry is not yet checked on… - Person
Arbad ibn Qays
A leader of Banu Amir, maternal half-brother of the poet Labid, who circled behind the Prophet and half-drew… - Person
Arda bint al-Harith
Arda bint al-Harith ibn Kallada, Utba ibn Ghazwan's wife; she goaded the men at the al-Furat city fight with… - Person
Arda Güler
25 February 2005 CE · 1426 AHTurkish professional footballer (born 2005 in Altındağ, Ankara). An attacking midfielder who broke through at… - Person
Aref Qazvini
1882 CE · 1300 AHIranian poet, lyricist and musician (1882-1934), full name Abolqasem Aref Qazvini, known as Iran's 'national… - Person
Arfaja al-Bariqi
Draft card for Arfaja ibn Harthama al-Bariqi, the seventh-century companion and commander who campaigned… - Person
Arghun Khan
Ilkhan — lord of Iraq, Khurasan and Azerbaijan after his uncle Ahmad Tekuder; died this year, said to be… - Person
Arif Jameel Mubarakpuri
1971 CE · 1391 AH†Draft card for Arif Jameel Mubarakpuri, the Deobandi writer at Darul Uloom Deoband; his entry is not yet… - Person
Armaghan Khan
4 April 2000 CE · 1420 AHAmerican content creator of Pakistani descent, known as Captain Halal, who became known from 2020 for short… - Person
Arshad Nadeem
2 January 1997 CE · 1417 AHPakistani javelin thrower, born in Mian Channu, Khanewal District, Punjab, in 1997. Raised in a poor family… - Person
أرسلان أرغون بن ألب أرسلان
Arslan Arghun b. Sultan Alp Arslan — holder of Marw, Balkh, Nishapur and Tirmidh; an overbearing stubborn… - Person
Arslan Khatun, daughter of al-Qa'im
Daughter of the caliph al-Qa'im: the most famous political bride of the age — demanded in marriage by the… - Person
Arslanghali
Draft card for Arslanghali, the seventeenth-century khan of the Qasim Khanate, d. 1627; the dynastic handbook… - Person
أرطغرل
Ertuğrul (d. 1299) — Osman's father: fled the Mongol invasion west with a hundred families and four hundred… - Person
Artuq ibn Aksak
Artuq ibn Aksak, a mamluk of Sultan Malikshah ibn Alp Arslan held in high esteem in their state; set over… - Person
Artuq b. Ali, lord of Mardin
The Artuqid lord of Mardin (killed 636) — ~35 just years, murdered by his own ghilman in league with his… - Person
Artur Beterbiev
21 January 1985 CE · 1405 AHRussian and Canadian professional boxer (born 1985 in Khasavyurt, Dagestan, of Chechen descent). A world… - Person
Aruna Asaf Ali
16 July 1909 CE · 1327 AHIndian educator, publisher and independence activist (1909–1996), born Aruna Ganguly into a Bengali Brahmin… - Person
Arwa al-Sulayhi
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Arwa bint Abd al-Muttalib
An aunt of the Prophet; she was married to Umayr ibn Wahb and bore Tulayb, then to Kalda ibn Abd Manaf and… - Person
Arwa bint Kurayz
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Aryat (Abraha’s predecessor in Yemen)
The commander of the seventy-thousand Abyssinian force which, armed with a Roman fleet, occupied Yemen in 525… - Person
أسد الدين شيركوه
Nur al-Din's amir; his expeditions of 562 and 564 beat Franks and Egyptians, won him the vizierate from… - Person
Asad al-Din Shirkuh II of Homs
1173 CE · 569 AHAsad al-Din Shirkuh II of Homs (b. 569, d. Tuesday 9 Rajab 637) — nephew of Saladin's uncle, holding… - Person
مجد الدين أسعد الميهني
c. 1069 CE · 461 AHThe scholar Majd al-Din As'ad ibn Abi al-Nasr al-Mayhani — of Mihna near Tus between Sarakhs and Abiward —… - Person
Asad al-Sunna
Egyptian hadith transmitter of the second century AH. - Person
Asad Allah Isfahani
Celebrated Persian sword-maker (shamshirsaz) of Isfahan in the time of Shah Abbas I. It is said that the… - Person
Asad ibn Abdallah al-Qasri
Brother of Khalid ibn Abdallah al-Qasri; in al-Baladhuri he founded the village called Suq Asad with its… - Person
As'ad ibn Ahmad al-Tarabulsi
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Asad ibn al-Furat
Asad b. al-Furat (d. Rajab 213) — the Maliki faqih who carried Ibn al-Qasim's teaching west and whose… - Person
أسعد بن المطران
Al-Muwaffaq As'ad b. al-Matran the physician, a Christian who embraced Islam; abundant in chivalry, fine of… - Person
Asad ibn Hibat Allah ibn al-Khizrani
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As'ad ibn Ya'fur
Lord of Kahlan castle and Yemen's mikhlafs in 332 AH, the dominant power there — dissuaded by Yahya ibn… - Person
As'ad ibn Zurara
A distinguished chief of the Banu al-Najjar clan of the Khazraj in Yathrib; one of the six pioneers who… - Person
Asadullah Kirmani
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Asaf Ali
11 May 1888 CE · 1305 AHIndian lawyer, independence activist and politician (1888–1953), India's first ambassador to the United… - Person
Asaf Jah I
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Asbagh ibn al-Faraj
Asbagh b. al-Faraj — the Maliki of Egypt whom Abd al-Malik b. al-Majishun ranked even with Ibn al-Qasim;… - Person
Asbat ibn Muhammad
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Aseel Hameem
6 October 1984 CE · 1405 AHIraqi singer born in Baghdad in 1984, the daughter of the musician Karim Hameem. She turned professional at… - Person
Asfar ibn Shiruya
The non-Muslim Daylamite who took Rayy and Qazvin, wrecked mosques, taxed every head a dinar, and was… - Person
Asghar Farhadi
7 May 1972 CE · 1392 AHIranian film director and screenwriter, born in Homayoon Shahr near Isfahan in 1972 and among the most… - Person
Asghar Gondvi
1884 CE · 1301 AHUrdu poet (1884–1936), born Asghar Husain at Gorakhpur and raised at Gonda, from which his pen name Gondvi… - Person
Ash'ab al-Tami'
631 CE · 9 AHAsh'ab al-Tami' (Shu'ayb b. Jubayr, b. 9 AH) — the Medinan figure proverbial for his appetite; a mawla who… - Person
A'sha Hamdan
A'sha Hamdan the poet; in Salm ibn Ziyad's army to Khujanda, defeated — his verses lamenting his horse and… - Person
Ash'ab ibn Jubayr
Ash'ab ibn Jubayr, among the best-known Medinese jesters in the anecdotes of wit, who sang well. Al-Nuwayri… - Person
أبو هانئ الأشعث بن عبد الملك الحمراني
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Ashinas al-Turki
al-Mu'tasim's mawla; in al-Baladhuri given Qasr al-Rashid at al-Qatul, then settled with his attached… - Person
Ashiq Mehmed
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Ashir ibn Muhammad al-Fasi
Ashir ibn Muhammad, Abu Muhammad al-Ansari al-Andalusi al-Fasi, a Maliki scholar with learning in the… - Person
Ashja' al-Sulami
The elegist whose 'a Barmakid blade struck down by a Hashimi blade' Mas'udi singled out among the mourning… - Person
Ashraf 'Ali Khan (Fighan)
c. 1727 CE · 1140 AHUrdu and Persian poet, foster-brother of Ahmad Shah of Delhi, born in Delhi about 1140 AH (1727); his… - Person
Ashraf Ali Thanwi
19 August 1863 CE · 1280 AHIndian Hanafi scholar of the Deobandi school and Chishti Sufi guide (1863–1943) of Thana Bhawan, known as… - Person
Ashraf Ghani
19 May 1949 CE · 21 Rajab 1368 AH†Afghan politician, anthropologist and economist, president of Afghanistan from 29 September 2014 until 15… - Person
Ashraf Hotaki
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al-Malik al-Ashraf Mumahhid al-Din Umar ibn Yusuf
Al-Malik al-Ashraf Mumahhid al-Din Umar ibn al-Muzaffar Yusuf, fourth Rasulid king of Yemen; succeeding his… - Person
Esrefzade Ahmed Ziyaeddin
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Ashras ibn Awf
Ashras ibn Awf of Shayban; the Persian defector walked him across Dujayl's stone weir up into Tustar and… - Person
Asid ibn al-Mutashammis
Asid ibn al-Mutashammis — or, some say, al-Ahnaf's nephew; left over Balkh after its sulh, he levied its… - Person
Asid ibn Zafir al-Sulami
Asid ibn Zafir al-Sulami, Abu Yazid; he guided Marwan ibn Muhammad into the Khazar land by way of Bab al-Lan,… - Person
Asif Ali Zardari
26 July 1955 CE · 7 Dhu al-Hijja 1374 AH†Pakistani politician (born 1955), the fourteenth president of Pakistan since March 2024 and previously its… - Person
Asik Pasha
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Asim al-Ahwal
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Asim (or Ibn Asim) al-Tamimi
Asim, or Ibn Asim, of Banu Tamim; the first to call Sijistan's people to the Kharijite view. - Person
Asim ibn Abdallah al-Hilali
Asim ibn Abdallah ibn Yazid al-Hilali; Hisham's governor of Khurasan after al-Junayd's death at Marw. - Person
Asim ibn Abi al-Najud
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Asim ibn Adi
Brother of Ma'n ibn Adi, of Banu al-Ajlan; Ibn Ishaq mentions him as a possible alternative to Ma'n in the… - Person
Asim ibn Murra
son of Murra ibn Ali al-Rudhayni; in al-Baladhuri, from whom Sisar was taken under al-Ma'mun, returning to… - Person
Asim ibn Qays ibn al-Salt al-Sulami
Asim ibn Qays ibn al-Salt al-Sulami; Abu Musa's governor of conquered Manadhir. - Person
Asim ibn Thabit
A prominent warrior and archer of the Aws who fought at Badr and Uhud; chosen as commander of the ten scouts… - Person
Asim ibn Umar
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عاصم بن عمر بن قتادة
Asim ibn Umar ibn Qatada al-Zafari — Medinan Ansari whose grandfather fought at Badr; Umar II ordered him to… - Person
Asim ibn Wahb ibn al-Barajim
A Basran poet born in Kufa who came to Samarra under al-Mutawakkil and received 30,000 dirhams for a praise… - Person
Asim Khan
A British Muslim scholar, author and lecturer known as Shaykh Asim Khan. He is the author of five books,… - Person
Asim Khwaja
Asim Ijaz Khwaja is a British-born Pakistani-American economist who serves as the Sumitomo-FASID Professor of… - Person
Muhammad ibn Mirza Mu'min Asir Isfahani
Persian poet of Isfahan, pupil of Fasihi Harawi and writing under the takhallus Asir. Unlike many… - Person
Asisat Oshoala
9 October 1994 CE · 1415 AHNigerian professional footballer, born in Ikorodu, Lagos, in 1994. A striker for Saudi club Al Hilal and the… - Person
Asiya, wife of Pharaoh
Pharaoh's wife who raised Musa — counted by the Prophet among the perfected women. - Person
Asiya al-Maqdisiyya
Asiya al-Maqdisiyya (d. 640) — the hafiz al-Diya' al-Maqdisi's sister and mother of al-Sayf b. al-Majd; her… - Person
Asma Afsaruddin
1958 CE · 1377 AHAmerican scholar of Islamic studies, born in 1958. She took her PhD at Johns Hopkins University in 1993,… - Person
Asma al-Assad
11 August 1975 CE · 1395 AHWife of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and first lady of Syria from their marriage in 2000 until the… - Person
Asma Al-Ruwaished
A Saudi preacher, writer and family and educational counsellor, supervisor of the Asiyah Foundation for… - Person
Asma Bawla
American Muslim podcast host. Since 2020 she has hosted the podcast Muslimah, which she describes as a space… - Person
Asma bint Abi Bakr
c. 595 CEAbu Bakr's elder daughter, who carried provisions to the two fugitives in the cave of Thawr and split her… - Person
Asma' bint Marthad
An Ansari woman of Banu Haritha; Abu Umar mentions her and says her hadith is not sound because Haram ibn… - Person
Asma' bint Marwan
A woman of Banu Umayya ibn Zayd married to Yazid ibn Zayd of Banu Khatma, with five grown sons; Ibn Ishaq… - Person
Asma' bint Umays
Companion, wife of Ja'far ibn Abi Talib. When Ja'far was killed at Mu'tah the Prophet visited her home, asked… - Person
Asma' bint Yazid ibn al-Sakan
A Companion of Banu Abd al-Ashhal, cousin of Mu'adh ibn Jabal, known by the kunya Umm Salama and called 'the… - Person
Asma Jahangir
27 January 1952 CE · 1371 AHAsma Jilani Jahangir (27 January 1952 – 11 February 2018) was a Pakistani human-rights lawyer and activist… - Person
Asmaa Saeed
An Egyptian mental-health consultant who runs the YouTube channel 'Nafs Mutma'inna Academy' (The Tranquil… - Person
Asmir Begović
20 June 1987 CE · 1407 AHBosnian professional footballer (goalkeeper), born in Trebinje in 1987, whose family fled the Bosnian War to… - Person
Assimi Goïta
9 November 1983 CE · 1404 AHMalian general and politician (born 1983) from Bamako who led the August 2020 coup that overthrew President… - Person
Esved Dervis Ali
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Aswad ibn Shayban
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عطاء الخراساني
c. 670 CE · 50 AH - Person
'Ata' Allah, Sultan Selim II's teacher
Molla 'Ata' Allah al-Konari — madrasa teacher at Iznik then Edirne, up the dar ladder to the eighty, then… - Person
عطاء بن أبي رباح
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Ata ibn al-Sa'ib al-Khashl
Ata ibn al-Sa'ib, Banu al-Layth's mawla, called al-Khashl; he ruined Balkh's Nawbahar in Qays ibn… - Person
Ata ibn al-Sa'ib
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'Ata' ibn Yasar
Maymuna's mawla, Abu Muhammad — died 103 at eighty-four. - Person
Ala al-Din Ata Malik al-Juwayni
Sahib-diwan of the Ilkhanate — he and his brother the vizier Shams al-Din held wealth and majesty 'past… - Person
Ateeq ibn Mohammed al-Saqli
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Atesbaz-i Veli
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Athea Iqbal
Educator and mentor, and the founder of Balanced Muslima, an Islamic education platform for Muslim women… - Person
Atif Efendi
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Atif Mian
28 June 1975 CE · 1395 AHAtif Rehman Mian (born 28 June 1975) is a Pakistani-American economist, professor of economics, public policy… - Person
Atifete Jahjaga
20 April 1975 CE · 1395 AHKosovo Albanian politician and police officer born in 1975 at Gjakova. She rose through the post-war Kosovo… - Person
Atik Sinan
Draft card for Atik Sinan, the fifteenth-century architect of the Fatih mosque complex, d. 1471; the source… - Person
Atika bint Abd al-Muttalib
An aunt of the Prophet and wife of Abu Umayya ibn al-Mughira, the father of Umm Salama, to whom she bore… - Person
عاتكة بنت مرة السلمية
Hashim ibn Abd Manaf's mother: Atika bint Murra of Banu Sulaym — one of the three Sulami 'Atikas among the… - Person
عاتكة بنت يخلد القرشية
Atika bint Yakhluḍ ibn al-Nadr ibn Kinana — the senior Qurashi 'Atika in the chain of the Prophet's… - Person
'Atika bint Yazid ibn Mu'awiya
Yazid's daughter and Abd al-Malik's dearest wife — reconciled by 'Amr ibn Bilal's feigned blood-plea, then… - Person
'Atika bint Zayd ibn 'Amr
Sa'id ibn Zayd's sister and al-Zubayr's wife — her elegy on Ibn Jurmuz's treachery: 'Had you roused him you'd… - Person
Atiku Abubakar
25 November 1946 CE · 1366 AHNigerian politician and businessman born in Jada in 1946. He worked in the Nigeria Customs Service for twenty… - Person
Atik Ali Pasa
Draft card for Atik Ali Pasa, the Ottoman writer (d. 1511); the biographical entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Atiya Fyzee
1 August 1877 CE · 1294 AHWriter, social reformer and patron of the arts from Bombay, described by the English article as the first… - Person
أتسز بن أوق الخوارزمي
Atsiz ibn Uwaq al-Khwarizmi — Alp Arslan's commander who took Ramla and Jerusalem from the Fatimids, though… - Person
Atsiz, Khwarazmshah
c. 1098 CE · c. 491 AH†Draft card for Ala al-Din Atsiz, the Khwarazmshah who made his realm independent of the Seljuks and warred… - Person
Atta-ur-Rahman
22 September 1942 CE · 1361 AHPakistani organic chemist born in Delhi in 1942, professor emeritus at the International Center for Chemical… - Person
Attab ibn Usayd
c. 610 CEA young Umayyad Qurashi companion whom the Prophet appointed over Mecca when he marched to Hunayn in Shawwal… - Person
Attahiru Jega
11 January 1957 CE · 1376 AHNigerian academic born in Jega in 1957, a political scientist who taught at Bayero University Kano and became… - Person
Atupele Muluzi
6 August 1978 CE · 1398 AHMalawian politician (born 1978), the son of President Bakili Muluzi. He was elected MP for Machinga North… - Person
Auf ibn al-Harith
Draft card for Auf ibn al-Harith al-Ansari, the Companion killed at Badr in 624; the biographical entry is… - Person
Aurangzeb (Alamgir I)
3 November 1618 CE · 1027 AHAurangzeb 'Alamgir, Abu al-Muzaffar Muhammad Muhyi al-Din, the third son of Shahjahan and Mumtaz Mahal, born… - Person
Awf ibn al-Harith (Ibn Afra')
He is Awf ibn Afra', brother of Mu'adh and Mu'awwidh, of Banu al-Najjar; he was at Badr and asked the Prophet… - Person
Awf ibn Malik al-Ashja'i
A Companion of Ashja'; he tells of himself that in the Dhat al-Salasil campaign, travelling with Abu Bakr and… - Person
Awhad al-Zaman Ibn Malikan
Awhad al-Zaman Abu al-Barakat Hibat Allah b. Ali b. Malikan — the celebrated philosopher-physician, author of… - Person
Awhadi (Rukn al-Din)
c. 1281 CE · c. 680 AH†Persian poet from Maragha in Adharbayjan, born about 680 AH (1281-2), who took his takhallus from his master… - Person
Awn ibn 'Abd Allah ibn 'Utba
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Awn ibn Jamda al-Makhzumi
Awn ibn Jamda ibn Hubayra al-Makhzumi; in Abu Mikhnaf's account Ali's man to Sijistan, killed by the Ta'i… - Person
Avni Omer Efendi
Draft card for Avni Omer Efendi, the Ottoman writer (jurist and statesman, d. 1659); the biographical entry… - Person
Aws ibn Hudhayfa al-Thaqafi
Aws ibn Hudhayfa al-Thaqafi, a Companion who came to the Prophet with the delegation of Thaqif from Banu… - Person
Aws ibn Khawli
a literate Ansari of the kamil who joined writing, archery and swimming. - Person
Aws ibn Tha'laba
Aws ibn Tha'laba ibn Ruqi of Taym Allah, a Khurasan notable who bore great charges there — Qasr Aws at Basra… - Person
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
13 November 1969 CE · 1389 AHSomali-born Dutch-American writer, activist and former politician, born in Mogadishu in 1969. She sought… - Person
A'yan, Mawla of Sa'd
Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas's mawla; in al-Baladhuri Kufa's Hammam A'yan is named for him — the man al-Hajjaj ibn… - Person
Ayas Aga
Draft card for Ayas Aga, the Ottoman writer (d. 1487); the biographical entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Ayas Mehmed Pasha
c. 1482 CE · c. 887 AH†Ayas Pasha, also known as Ayas Mehmed Pasha, an Albanian from the Himara region who was recruited through the… - Person
Ayaşlı İsmail Pasha
1620 CE · 1029 AH†Draft card for Ayaşlı İsmail Pasha, the Ottoman grand vizier; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Ayaz (Abu al-Najm)
Abu al-Najm Ayaz, the favourite slave of the Ghaznavid sultan Mahmud, a Turkoman by origin. He became a… - Person
Ayaz, lord of Hamadhan
Ayaz, lord of Hamadhan and atabeg of Malikshah son of Barkiyaruq, took part in the struggle between the… - Person
Ayaz İshaki
22 February 1878 CE · 19 Safar 1295 AH†Leading figure of the Tatar national movement (1878–1954): author, journalist, publisher and politician,… - Person
Ayman Hariri
16 May 1978 CE · 1398 AHLebanese businessman and technology entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of the social network Vero and former… - Person
Ayman ibn Ubayd
The son of Barakah (Umm Ayman, the Prophet's nursemaid) and half-brother of Usama ibn Zayd; an Ethiopian-Arab… - Person
عين القضاة الهمذاني
The jurist, scholar and litterateur Abu al-Ma'ali Abdallah ibn Muhammad al-Miyanji — of Miyana in Azerbaijan… - Person
Ayn al-Shams bint Ahmad
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Ayn Ali Efendi
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Aysha Harun
2 June 1995 CE · 1416 AHEthiopian-Canadian beauty and lifestyle creator. Born and raised in Toronto, she started her YouTube channel… - Person
Ayshi Mehmed Efendi
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Ayub Khan
14 May 1907 CE · 2 Rabi' II 1325 AH†Pakistani officer and politician (1907–1974), the first native-born commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Army… - Person
Eyuplu Hasan Pasa
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Ayyash ibn Abi Rabi'a
Nicknamed 'the man of the two spears', of Banu Makhzum and a cousin of Khalid ibn al-Walid; one of the… - Person
Ayyub (Job)
The prophet of patience: bathing unclothed when golden locusts rained on him, he answered his Lord 'yes, by… - Person
Ayyub al-Sakhtiyani
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Ayyub ibn Abi'l-Walid al-Darir
Abu Sulayman al-Darir, traditionist who transmitted from Abu Mu'awiya al-Darir and Ishaq al-Azraq; he taught… - Person
أيوب بن حبيب اللخمي
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Ayyub ibn Razah (Yutab)
Yutab — Job son of Razah — whom al-Mas'udi lists as second Yemenite king of Syria; after the Romans prevailed… - Person
Ayyub Khan (Afghanistan)
Ayyub Khan, the fourth son of Shir 'Ali, Amir of Afghanistan, governor of Herat and rival of 'Abd al-Rahman… - Person
Eyyubizade Mustafa
Draft card for Eyyubizade Mustafa, the Ottoman writer (poet, d. 1707); the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Eyyubzade Mehmed
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Azad Bilgrami
29 June 1704 CE · 1116 AHDraft card for Ghulam Ali Azad al-Bilgrami, the eighteenth-century scholar of Arabic, Persian and Urdu author… - Person
Azam Shah
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Azar (Abraham's father)
The commonly accepted name of Abraham's father in the Qur'an (6:74); probably a deformation of the Hebrew… - Person
Azeri Celebi
Draft card for Azeri Celebi, the sixteenth-century Ottoman qadi and poet, d. 1585; the source entry is not… - Person
Azfari (Muhammad Zahir al-Din Mirza)
Muhammad Zahir al-Din Mirza 'Ali Bakht Bahadur, known as Azfari, a descendant of Awrangzib and author of the… - Person
Azhar al-Samman
Al-Mansur's old Umayyad-era study-friend whose annual visits under ever-thinner pretexts ended with the… - Person
Azhar Idrus
12 February 1964 CE · 1383 AHMalaysian independent Islamic preacher, born in Kuala Terengganu in 1964. He is known for his relaxed,… - Person
Az'har Tabrizi
Draft card for Az'har Tabrizi, the Timurid calligrapher; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Al-Azhari, Muhammad ibn Ahmad
A lexicographer and man of letters from Herat, a Shafi'i. He studied jurisprudence first, then became known… - Person
Azim Premji
24 July 1945 CE · 1364 AHIndian businessman and philanthropist, born in Bombay in 1945 into a Muslim family. In 1966, aged 21, he took… - Person
Azim ud-Din I of Sulu
Draft card for Muhammad Azim ud-Din I, the nineteenth sultan of Sulu in the eighteenth century; the dynastic… - Person
Azim ud-Din II of Sulu
Draft card for Azim ud-Din II, sultan of the Sulu Sultanate in the eighteenth century; the biographical entry… - Person
Aziz Akhannouch
16 August 1961 CE · 1381 AHMoroccan businessman and politician of Amazigh origin, born at Tafraout in 1961. Head of the Akwa Group,… - Person
Aziz Sancar
8 September 1946 CE · 1365 AHTurkish-American biochemist, born in Savur, Mardin Province, in 1946 to a poor, uneducated family. He studied… - Person
Azizullah al-Majlisi
Draft card for Azizullah al-Majlisi, the jurist of the Majlisi family; the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Azjur al-Turki
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Azmzade Esad Pasa
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Azurda (Sadr al-Din Khan)
1789 CE · 1204 AHSadr al-Din Khan b. Lutf Allah, known as Azurda, sadr al-sudur of Delhi and authority on Urdu; gaoled after… - Person
Azzan bin Qais
Azzan bin Qais Al Busaidi (no birth year in any source – killed at Muttrah in January 1871), Imam of Oman… - Person
Ba Lobbo
Ba Lobbo, nephew of Seku Amadu, founder of the Massina Empire, and the empire's able general. Considered as… - Person
Baaba Maal
12 November 1953 CE · 1373 AHSenegalese singer, guitarist and composer, born at Podor on the Senegal River in 1953 (the sources divide… - Person
Bab Bashir
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Baba Beg (Ozbek chief)
Baba Beg, Ozbek chief of the Keneges family and prince of Shahrisabz until 1870; entered Russian service in… - Person
Baba Dhu'l-Nun
Baba Dhu'l-Nun, leader of the 1526 rising around Yozgat; al-Salabi calls it a 'Shi'i Rafidi' revolt that… - Person
Baba Ishak
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Baba Nakkas
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Baba Shah Esfahani
1500 CE · 905 AH†Draft card for Baba Shah Esfahani, the Safavid calligrapher; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Baba Tahir
Baba Tahir 'Uryan of Hamadan, a mystic who wrote quatrains (du-bayti) in a Persian dialect with Lur and… - Person
Babak al-Khurrami
Head of the Khurrami movement in Adharbayjan, who revolted from about 201/816-7 from al-Badhdh; al-Afshin… - Person
Babar Azam
15 October 1994 CE · 1415 AHPakistani international cricketer and former captain of the Pakistan national team in all three formats, born… - Person
Babur (Zahir al-Din Muhammad)
14 February 1483 CE · 6 Muharram 888 AHZahir al-Din Muhammad Babur, first Mughal ruler in India, born 6 Muharram 888/14 February 1483; after losing… - Person
Bad al-Kurdi (Husayn ibn Dushk)
Bad al-Kurdi, named Husayn ibn Dushk, kunyas Abu Abd Allah or Abu Shuja'; founder of Marwanid rule in Diyar… - Person
Abu al-Khayr Badal al-Tabrizi
c. 1155 CE · c. 550 AHThe Tabrizi hafiz (d. Jumada I 636, Aleppo) — shaykh of Irbil's dar al-hadith until the Tatars took the city… - Person
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
2 April 1902 CE · 1319 AHIndian Hindustani classical vocalist (1902–1968) of the Kasur Patiala Gharana, born at Kasur and trained by… - Person
Badhan (last Persian governor of Yemen)
The last Persian governor (marzban) of Sanaa; his conversion to Islam in 638 CE ended Persian rule over Yemen. - Person
بديع الزمان الهمذاني
Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani, inventor of the maqama — his letters are proverbial ('a guest's company palls… - Person
Badi' ibn al-Diya, qadi of Mecca
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Badis ibn al-Mansur
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Badlay ibn Sa'ad ad-Din
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Badou Zaki
2 April 1959 CE · 1378 AHMoroccan football coach and former goalkeeper (born 1959 in Sidi Kacem), named African Footballer of the Year… - Person
Badr al-Din al-Ayni
21 July 1361 CE · 762 AHBadr al-Din Mahmud b. Ahmad al-'Ayni, Hanafi scholar, chief Hanafi qadi and muhtasib of Cairo, and author of… - Person
Badr al-Din al-Ba'li
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Badr al-Din al-Ghazzi, shaykh al-Islam of Damascus
c. 12 June 1499 CE · 14 Dhu al-Qa'da 904 AHBadr al-Din al-Ghazzi — Damascus's shaykh al-Islam; given the khirqa and a full ijaza by Abu al-Fath al-Mizzi… - Person
Badr al-Din al-Kalastani, katib al-sirr
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Badr al-Din al-Karkhi
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Badr al-Din al-Sa'di, chief qadi of Egypt
c. 1431 CE · c. 835 AHBadr al-Din al-Sa'di (b. Cairo ~835) — 'shaykh al-Islam, the travelled 'allama': Ibn Hajar's hearer, Ibn… - Person
Badr al-Din al-Sinjari
Egypt's qadi al-qudat — a Baalbek judgeship before thirty, then al-Salih's purse at Sinjar and the Egyptian… - Person
بدر الدين الزركشي
Badr al-Din Muhammad ibn Abdallah al-Zarkashi al-Shafi'i, d. AH 794 — author of I'lam al-Sajid bi-Ahkam… - Person
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Badr al-Din b. Khasbak al-Subki
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بدر الدين لؤلؤ صاحب الموصل
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Sheikh Badr al-Din of Simavna
Sheikh Badr al-Din Mahmud ibn Isra'il, known as Ibn Qadi Simavna — son of the qadi, commander and conqueror… - Person
Badr al-Habashi al-Sawwabi
The great amir — forty years in office; the first to abolish the ten-dirham-per-camel levy on pilgrims,… - Person
Badr al-Jamali
Badr al-Jamali (d. 487) — Armenian mamluk risen to 'Amir al-Juyush'; al-Mustansir's saviour, arriving Cairo… - Person
Badr Al-Mashari
1973 CE · 1393 AHSaudi Islamic preacher and imam of the Hatin Mosque of the National Guard in Riyadh, born in Riyadh in 1973.… - Person
Badr al-Mu'tadidi
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Badr al-Utaybi
1972 CE · 1392 AHSaudi scholar and hadith specialist from Taif, born there in 1392 AH. He accompanied Sheikh Abd al-Aziz ibn… - Person
Badr Hari
8 December 1984 CE · 1405 AHDutch-Moroccan kickboxer born in Amsterdam in 1984. He won the K-1 Heavyweight Championship in 2007 and the… - Person
بدر بن حسنويه
Abu'l-Najm Badr ibn Hasanwayh; the son Adud al-Dawla singled out and strengthened among the brothers in 369… - Person
Taj al-Muluk Badran ibn Sadaqa
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Badre Alam Merathi
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Badreddin al-Hasani
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Badruddin Tyabji
10 October 1844 CE · 1260 AHIndian lawyer, activist and politician (1844–1906) of Bombay, the first Indian to practise as a barrister of… - Person
Bagher Khan
1870 CE · 1287 AHConstitutional-revolution commander of Tabriz (c. 1870–1916), a bricklayer who became chief luti of the… - Person
باغر التركي
One of the Turks who did for al-Mutawakkil; Wasif and Bugha killed him in 251, whereupon the Turks turned on… - Person
بهاء الدولة أبو نصر بن عضد الدولة
Abu Nasr ibn Adud al-Dawla; on Sharaf al-Dawla's death al-Ta'i' came condoling, then invested him — seven… - Person
Baha' al-Din al-'Amili (al-Bahai, 953–1030/1547–1621)
1547 CE · 953 AHBaha' al-Din al-'Amili, Muhammad b. Husayn, known as al-Bahai (953-1030 AH, 1547-1621 CE). From Jabal 'Amila… - Person
Baha' al-Din al-Ikhmimi
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Baha' al-Din al-Qifti, qadi of Isna
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Baha' al-Din al-Sinjari
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Baha al-Din ibn Hanna
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بهاء الدين قراقوش
Salah al-Din's amir, set over the building of Cairo's great wall in 572 — 29,300 Hashimi cubits round. - Person
Bahaa al-Din Zuhayr
1186 CE · 581 AHBahaa al-Din Zuhayr b. Muhammad (b. 581 Mecca, d. 656 Cairo) — poet and secretary in the service of the… - Person
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Bahadur Shah Zafar
24 October 1775 CE · 1189 AHThe twentieth and last Mughal emperor of India (1775–1862) and an Urdu poet. He succeeded in 1837 with… - Person
Bahaeddin Şakir
1874 CE · 1291 AHOttoman physician and Unionist organiser (1874–1922), a founder of forensic medicine in Turkey and head of… - Person
Baha'i Mehmed Efendi
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Bahira the monk
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باحثة البادية
1886 CE · 1303 AH†Malak Hifni Nasif, 'Bahithat al-Badiya' (1886–1918 CE) — 'the foremost accomplished Muslim woman of her age',… - Person
Behceti Seyyid Ibrahim
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Bahman ibn Isfandiyar
Bahman son of Isfandiyar of the Kayanians, founder of Sijistan's Karakir fire-temple. - Person
Bahmana, the Great of Abiward
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Bahmanyar
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Bahr al-Ulum
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بهرام جوبين
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Bahram Shah of Ghazna
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Bahraq of Yemen
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Bahzaj
One of the twelve men who built Masjid al-Dirar, according to Ibn Ishaq; his ascription: of Banu Dubay'a. - Person
Bai Bureh
15 February 1840 CE · 1255 AHBai Bureh (15 February 1840 – 24 August 1908), a Sierra Leonean ruler, military strategist and Muslim cleric… - Person
Bajir of Tayyi'
The dying Tayyi' soldier who greeted the lone palm between the field and al-'Udhayb — the tree under which… - Person
بجكم التركي
The Turk who ousted Ibn Ra'iq in 326, entered Baghdad and was titled amir al-umara over Baghdad and Khurasan;… - Person
Ba Kathir
1867 CE · 1283 AHScholar from the Ba Kathir family of Hadramawt, a family known for its learning and for mosques at Tarim and… - Person
Bakhraq, Muhammad ibn Umar
1465 CE · 869 AHA Shafi'i jurist from Yemen, known as Bakhraq. - Person
Bakht Khan
1797 CE · 1212 AHIndian military commander (1797–1859), a subedar in the Bengal Horse Artillery of the East India Company's… - Person
بختيار عز الدولة بن معز الدولة
Mu'izz al-Dawla's son, installed on his father's death in 356 and titled Izz al-Dawla by al-Muti'; in 362 he… - Person
Bakili Muluzi
17 March 1943 CE · 1362 AHMalawian politician (born 1943) who served as a minister and as secretary general of the Malawi Congress… - Person
Bakir ibn Humran al-Ahmari
Muslim ibn 'Aqil's killer — chosen by Ibn Ziyad to take his own vengeance for the two wounds, striking off… - Person
Bakjur
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بكار بن قتيبة
The qadi; when Ibn Tulun convened the judges to depose al-Muwaffaq all consented save Bakkar — 'you showed me… - Person
Bakr ibn Abd Allah al-Muzani
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Bakr ibn Muhammad al-Nasa'i (Abu Ahmad)
Bakr ibn Muhammad, Abu Ahmad al-Nasa'i al-Baghdadi. Abu Bakr al-Khallal records that Ahmad ibn Hanbal… - Person
بكر بن محمد بن ألياس
Samanid agent at Nishapur; Asfar attached himself to him and was sent against Jurjan, and when Bakr died… - Person
Bakr Subashi (Bakr Pasha)
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Bakri al-Sadafi
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Balakh ibn 'Uqba al-Azdi
Abu Hamza's Azdi partner in the Hijazi proclamation for Talib al-Haqq — killed at Wadi al-Qura. - Person
Bal'am ibn Ba'ura
Bal'am was one of the scholars of Bani Israel, as Sheikh Omar Abdelkafy mentions him. The Sheikh says that he… - Person
Bal'arab ibn Himyar al-Ya'rubi
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Baldirzade Mehmed Efendi
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بغدوين صاحب القدس
The Frankish king who took Jerusalem — a mighty, bold man who set out to seize Egypt, then turned back ill… - Person
Bali Efendi the Sot
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Balim Sultan
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بليق
Mu'nis al-Muzaffar's chief officer; seized with him in the fake-Qarmatian ruse of 321, then slaughtered — his… - Person
بلج بن بشر القشيري
Commander of the Syrian jund who crossed into al-Andalus in 124 after surviving Kulthum b. Iyad's defeat by… - Person
Balj ibn Nashba al-Samadi
Balj ibn Nashba al-Samadi, the watchman whose name stuck to Hammam Balj at Basra — he whom Ziyad called 'who… - Person
Ballaké Sissoko
1967 CE · 1387 AHMalian kora player and composer from a djeli (griot) family, born at Bamako in 1967. He took his father's… - Person
Balqasim al-Dakkali
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بلطه جي محمد باشا
Baltacı Mehmed Pasha — Ahmed III's grand vizier who lifted the Pruth encirclement of Tsar Peter and signed… - Person
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Baltaoglu
Baltaoglu, the Ottoman fleet commander at the siege of Constantinople in 857/1453; al-Salabi records Mehmed's… - Person
Banan al-'Awwad
The singer whose 'long was my covenant with the Imam Muhammad' played on al-Muntasir's six-month reign. - Person
Bandar Baleela
1975 CE · 1395 AHSaudi Qur'an reciter and imam and khatib of Masjid al-Haram in Mecca. Born in Mecca in 1975 (1395 AH), he… - Person
Bandirmali Hamit Efendi
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Bandun the Sughdi
Bandun the Sughdi, a king of Sughd; the Sughd mustered for him and Salm ibn Ziyad, crossing the river, killed… - Person
بني بن نفيس
A commander of Mu'nis al-Muzaffar in the 317 deposition; he opened a tomb of al-Muqtadir's father and carried… - Person
Bannis Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ahmad
1747 CE · 1160 AHScholar of Fez in Morocco, born 1160 AH (1747 CE) and died 1214 AH (1799 CE). - Person
بقي بن مخلد الأندلسي
Baqi ibn Makhlad al-Andalusi (d. 276), the famous traveller for hadith, student of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, author… - Person
Baki
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Baqir Banna
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Baqum
A carpenter, client of the Banu Umayya, to whom some reports attribute the Prophet's three-step tamarisk… - Person
Baraka bint Yasar
Freedwoman of Abu Sufyan ibn Harb, wife of Qays ibn Abdullah al-Asadi; she was a foster-nurse to Ubaydullah… - Person
Barakat ibn 'Ajlan, amir of Mecca
Barakat ibn 'Ajlan, sharif-amir of Mecca; died 859 under sixty. - Person
Baraq Hajib Qutlugh Khan
Baraq Hajib Qutlugh Khan; a Qara-Khitai commander in Khwarazmshah Muhammad's service who took Kirman in 619,… - Person
Bardawil the Frank
Bardawil the Frank (Baldwin I of Jerusalem, d. c. 511) — lord of Jerusalem, Acre and Jaffa who took them from… - Person
Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar
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Barham Salih
8 September 1960 CE · 1380 AHBarham Ahmed Salih (born 8 September 1960) is an Iraqi Kurdish politician, president of Iraq from 2018 to… - Person
Barjawan
Barjawan (d. 390) — al-Aziz's black eunuch who ruled Egypt, Syria and the Hijaz as al-Hakim's regent;… - Person
Barkatullah Bhopali
7 July 1854 CE · 1270 AHIndian revolutionary (1854–1927) from Bhopal. He worked in exile in England, America and Japan — where he was… - Person
Barkhya ibn Akhbya
The Judahite prophet commanded to send Bukhtanassar against 'the Arabs whose houses have no bolts' — the king… - Person
Barkiyaruq
c. 1081 CE · 474 AHRukn al-Din Abu al-Muzaffar Barkiyaruq b. Malikshah — Seljuk sultan for some twelve years; died 12 Sha'ban… - Person
السلطان بركياروق بن ملكشاه
Malikshah's son; he rose against his five-year-old brother Mahmud and was invested by al-Muqtadi as Rukn… - Person
Barmak ibn Abdallah al-Dabili
Barmak ibn Abdallah al-Dabili, of the shaykhs of Dabil; in al-Baladhuri: he is among the transmitters of the… - Person
السلطان الظاهر برقوق
First Circassian sultan (784), founder of the Burji line; he imprisoned and deposed caliph al-Mutawakkil,… - Person
Barra bint Abd al-Muttalib
One of the six daughters of Abd al-Muttalib in al-Raheeq al-Makhtum's count; an aunt of the Prophet. - Person
برة بنت عبد العزى القرشية
Amina's mother — the Prophet's maternal grandmother: Barra bint Abd al-Uzza ibn Abd al-Dar ibn Qusayy, a… - Person
السلطان الأشرف برسباي
Circassian sultan invested by the caliph in 825; ruled to Dhu'l-Hijja 841 when his son Yusuf al-Aziz… - Person
Barsuma
A singer named in anecdotes of Abu Sadaqa at Harun al-Rashid's court. - Person
Barukh ibn Nariya
Jeremiah's scribe — in whose scroll al-Mas'udi found a thirty-name chain from Ma'add back to Qaydar son of… - Person
Bashar ibn Musa
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Bashir ibn al-Khasasiyya
Bashir ibn Ma'bad, or as some say ibn Yazid ibn Ma'd ibn Dabab ibn Sab', known as Ibn al-Khasasiyya, a… - Person
Bashir ibn Sa'd
one of the literate Ansar when Islam came. - Person
Bashir ibn Ubaydallah ibn Abi Bakra
Bashir ibn Ubaydallah ibn Abi Bakra; he dug the Marghab canals at Basra by force, named it Marghab Marw,… - Person
Bashshar ibn Muslim al-Bahili
Bashshar ibn Muslim ibn Amr al-Bahili, Qutayba's brother; he gifted al-Hajjaj a horse that won him the race —… - Person
Basiri
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Bassirou Diomaye Faye
25 March 1980 CE · 1400 AHSenegalese politician (born 1980) from Ndiaganiao, a former tax inspector and general secretary of PASTEF who… - Person
Shams al-Din Batikin
Shams al-Din Abu al-Fada'il Batikin (d. 640, Baghdad) — Armenian mamluk of al-Nasir li-Din Allah's mother,… - Person
Batis the Patrikios
Amorium's great patrikios — crucified at Bab al-'Amma beside Babak and Mazyar, his post bending towards… - Person
Ptolemy
Ptolemy — author of the Almagest and the Geography whose 4,200 cities al-Mas'udi cites — first of the… - Person
Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
c. 1900 CE · c. 1318 AHTamil-speaking teacher and Sufi mystic from Sri Lanka (c. 1900 – 8 December 1986). He emerged in the early… - Person
باكباك
A Turkish amir; marching with Musa ibn Bugha to al-Sin after Musawwar, he got al-Muhtadi's letter to kill… - Person
Bayan ibn Saman al-Tamimi
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Bayazid al-Bistami
804 CE · 188 AHOne of the great figures of Islamic Sufism, whose influence was large on his contemporaries and later… - Person
بايزيد الأول الصاعقة
Bayezid I 'Yildirim' (r. 1389–1402 CE) — 'the Thunderbolt' who shuttled between the Balkan and Anatolian… - Person
بايزيد الثاني
Bayezid II (r. 886–918 AH) — the mild, fiqh-loving son of the Conqueror who refused his brother Cem's… - Person
Bayezid Halife
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Bayazid Khan Karrani
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al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baybars
c. 1223 CE · c. 620 AH†Qutuz's shalish at Ayn Jalut, who chased the Tatars past Aleppo; refused the promised city, he joined the… - Person
الملك المظفر بيبرس الجاشنكير
Mamluk sultan as al-Muzaffar, hailed on al-Nasir's self-deposition in 708 with the caliph's black robe and a… - Person
Baybars al-Mansuri Rukn al-Din
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Bayburtlu Kara İbrahim Pasha
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Bayezid ibn Sulayman al-'Uthmani
Prince Bayezid b. Sulayman — Shah Tahmasp killed him at the order of his own father Sultan Sulayman in 961. - Person
Bayezid Pasha
Bayezid Pasha, first vizier of Mehmed I — al-Sallabi credits him with commanding the second army against… - Person
Bayram al-Thani, Muhammad ibn Muhammad
1748 CE · 1162 AHA Tunisian scholar of the Bayram family, teacher of the younger Bayram and son of the elder Bayram. - Person
Bairam Khan
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Bayram, Muhammad ibn Muhammad
1786 CE · 1201 AHA Tunisian scholar of the Bayram family, son of Bayram al-Thani. - Person
Bayram Pasha
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Bayramzade Zekeriya Efendi
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Baysonqor
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Baz Bahadur
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Béchir Sfar
27 February 1856 CE · 1272 AHTunisian reformer and nationalist leader (1856–1917). In the first graduating class of Sadiki College, he… - Person
Bedri Mehmed Efendi
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Bega Begum
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Begum Hazrat Mahal
c. 1820 CE · 1235 AHIndian queen and regent (c. 1820–1879), second wife of Wajid Ali Shah, Nawab of Awadh, and mother of Birjis… - Person
Behbud Khan Javanshir
24 July 1878 CE · 1295 AHAzerbaijani engineer, politician and diplomat (1878–1921), a descendant of the founder of the Karabakh… - Person
Beji Caid Essebsi
29 November 1926 CE · 1345 AHMohamed Beji Caid Essebsi (1926–2019) was a Tunisian lawyer and politician whose career ran from Bourguiba's… - Person
Bekayi
Draft card for Bekayi, the Ottoman court poet, d. 1595; the biographical entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Bekir Çoban-zade
27 May 1893 CE · 11 Dhu al-Qa'da 1310 AH†Crimean Tatar poet and Turkologist, born at Qarasuvbazar in Crimea in 1893 and educated in Crimea, Istanbul… - Person
Belal Assaad
An Australian imam and preacher based in Melbourne, where he was born and worked for over two decades as a… - Person
Belal Muhammad
9 July 1988 CE · 1408 AHAmerican mixed martial artist of Palestinian descent (born 1988 in Chicago to Palestinian parents). Titan FC… - Person
Benazir Bhutto
21 June 1953 CE · 1372 AHPakistani politician and writer (1953–2007), the first woman elected to head the government of a… - Person
Benli Hasan Agha
Draft card for Benli Hasan Agha, the Ottoman writer and composer, d. 1662; the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Berdi Kerbabayev
3 March 1894 CE · 25 Sha'ban 1311 AH†Turkmen Soviet writer (1894–1974), a founder of Turkmen Soviet literature: editor of the newspaper… - Person
Berechiah Russo
Draft card for Berechiah (Barukh) Russo, the Donmeh leader of Ottoman Salonica, d. 1721; the biographical… - Person
Bergamali Ibrahim
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بركة خان
Berke Khan, khan of the Golden Horde — a Muslim who corresponded with Baybars and broke his cousin Hulagu in… - Person
Bernard Hopkins
15 January 1965 CE · 1384 AHAmerican former professional boxer (born 1965 in Philadelphia). He held the IBF middleweight title from 1995… - Person
Beyani
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Beyazizade Ahmed Efendi
Draft card for Kamal al-Din al-Bayadi (Beyazizade Ahmed Efendi), the seventeenth-century Ottoman jurist and… - Person
Bezcizade Mehmed Muhyiddin
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Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi
1858 CE · 1274 AHIranian writer and satirist (c. 1858/59-1921), author of the satire Ma'ayib al-Rijal (The Failings of Men),… - Person
Abdul-Qadir Bedil
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Bihishti Ahmed
Draft card for Bihishti Ahmed, the Ottoman poet and writer, d. 1512; the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Bihishti Ramazan Efendi
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Bihz ibn Asad
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Bijad ibn Uthman
One of the twelve men who built Masjid al-Dirar, according to Ibn Ishaq; his ascription: of Banu Dubay'a. - Person
Bilal ibn Abi al-Darda'
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Bilal ibn Abi Burda
Bilal ibn Abi Burda; he cut Nahr Ma'qil into Basra's Fayd where it had stood broken, dug the canal named for… - Person
Bilal ibn Mirdas
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Bilal ibn Rabah
c. 580 CEAn Abyssinian-born slave in Mecca, among the earliest converts; freed by Abu Bakr and remembered as the first… - Person
Bilal Philips
17 July 1947 CE · 1366 AHCanadian Islamic scholar and preacher born Dennis Bradley Philips in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1947; raised… - Person
Bilali Muhammad
c. 1770 CE · 1184 AHA Guinean Muslim scholar from Timbo in Fouta Djallon, enslaved as a teenager and held for ten years in the… - Person
Bil'arab ibn Sultan
Draft card for Bil'arab ibn Sultan al-Ya'rubi, the contended imam of Oman in the late seventeenth century, d.… - Person
Bilqis, Queen of Sheba
The queen of Sheba in the Islamic narrative; the Qur'an does not name her, while the historians name her… - Person
Bilquis Edhi
14 August 1947 CE · 1366 AHBilquis Bano Edhi (14 August 1947 – 15 April 2022) was a Pakistani nurse and philanthropist, born at Bantva,… - Person
Bingu wa Mutharika
24 February 1934 CE · 1352 AHMalawian economist and politician (1934–2012) who served in the civil services of Malawi and Zambia, at the… - Person
al-Nu'man ibn Bashir's daughter
al-Mukhtar's wife who refused the sword-point recantation — 'shall I follow Ibn Hind and abandon Ibn Abi… - Person
Bint Nizam al-Mulk
Bint Nizam al-Mulk (d. 470) — daughter of the great Seljuk vizier and wife of the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadi,… - Person
Samra ibn Jundub's daughter
al-Mukhtar's wife who recanted at the sword's edge — 'had you summoned me to unbelief with the sword I would… - Person
Börklüce Mustafa
Börklüce Mustafa — in al-Sallabi's account the best-known preacher and field commander of Sheikh Badr… - Person
Bishara al-Armani
Chancery katib and mawla of Shibl al-Dawla (d. 654) — famed for a fine, small hand; his descendants held the… - Person
Bishr al-Hafi
The celebrated barefoot ascetic of Merv — dead at Baghdad in 227. - Person
Bishr ibn Abd al-Malik
brother of Ukaydir the Christian lord of Dumat al-Jandal; learned the Arabic script at al-Hira and carried it… - Person
Bishr ibn al-Bara'
A noble Ansari Companion from Banu Salima of the Khazraj, son of al-Bara' ibn Ma'rur; Badri veteran who was… - Person
Bishr ibn al-Harith al-Sahmi
Of Banu Sahm; he emigrated to Abyssinia. Ibn Ishaq mentions after him a maternal half-brother of his from… - Person
Bishr ibn al-Husayn
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Bishr ibn al-Muhtafiz
Bishr ibn al-Muhtafiz; governor of Jundishapur — the 'Bishr' of Abu al-Mukhtar's satire. - Person
بشر بن المعتمر
Bishr ibn al-Mu'tamir — head of the Baghdad branch of the Mu'tazila in Ahmad Amin's stemma of the school. - Person
Bishr ibn al-Mu'tamir al-Daqqaq
Abu Ahmad al-Daqqaq of Wasit, resident of Samarra, who transmitted from Sufyan ibn 'Uyayna, Yazid ibn Harun… - Person
بشر بن الوليد الكندي
One of those examined by Ishaq ibn Ibrahim; he would say only 'God's speech'. Al-Ma'mun's reply: summon him —… - Person
Bishr ibn Dawud
Bishr ibn Dawud; the Sind governor who broke with al-Ma'mun, drawn out in aman by Ghassan ibn Abbad and… - Person
Bishr al-Marisi
The mutakallim Bishr al-Marisi — dead in 219. - Person
Bishr ibn Marwan
Abd al-Malik's brother, Kufa's governor — an adab-loving bon-vivant whose courtier expel his uncle Ruh by a… - Person
Bistam ibn Tarsi
dihqan of Babil and Khutarniyya; converted after the Sawad's conquest — Umar left his land in his hand and… - Person
B. J. Habibie
25 June 1936 CE · 1355 AHIndonesian aeronautical engineer and statesman, born at Parepare in South Sulawesi in 1936. He built… - Person
Blaise Diagne
13 October 1872 CE · 1289 AHSenegalese-French politician (13 October 1872 – 11 May 1934), born at Gorée, who sat as deputy for the Four… - Person
أبو عبد الله محمد آخر ملوك غرناطة
Abu Abdallah Muhammad (Boabdil), last Nasrid sultan of Granada — he surrendered the Alhambra on sixty-seven… - Person
Bokar Biro Barry
The last independent Almami of the Imamate of Futa Jallon in present-day Guinea (died 13 November 1896). Of… - Person
Bolevi Isa Efendi
Draft card for Bolevi Isa Efendi, the Ottoman writer, d. 1715; the biographical entry is not yet checked on… - Person
Bostan Celebi
Draft card for Bostan Celebi, the Ottoman writer (theologian and historian, d. 1570); the biographical entry… - Person
Bostanzade Yahya Efendi
Draft card for Bostanzade Yahya Efendi, the Ottoman scholar and writer, d. 1639; the biographical entry is… - Person
Boubaker El Akhzouri
1948 CE · 1367 AH†Draft card for Boubaker El Akhzouri, Tunisia's religious affairs minister and imam; his entry is not yet… - Person
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
14 November 1922 CE · 1341 AHBoutros Boutros-Ghali (14 November 1922 – 16 February 2016) was an Egyptian diplomat and academic born in… - Person
Boynuyarali Mehmed Pasha
Draft card for Boynuyarali Mehmed Pasha, the Ottoman grand vizier of 1656, d. 1665; the source entry is not… - Person
Bozoklu Mustafa Pasha
Draft card for Bozoklu Mustafa Pasha, the Ottoman grand vizier of 1693, d. 1698; the source entry is not yet… - Person
Brother Ali
30 July 1977 CE · 1397 AHAmerican rapper and producer, born Jason Douglas Newman in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1977 and raised in… - Person
Bu Yahya al-Ra'is
Appointed by Hasan b. Khayr al-Din in 965/1558 as commander of Badis; he ravaged the Spanish coast from… - Person
Buakaw Banchamek
8 May 1982 CE · 1402 AHThai Muay Thai fighter and kickboxer, born Sombat Banchamek in Surin province in 1982. He won the K-1 World… - Person
Budasaf
Budasaf — first to display the Sabian way, in al-Mas'udi's account: the Indian who crossed Sind, Sijistan,… - Person
Budayl ibn Tahfa al-Bajali
Budayl ibn Tahfa al-Bajali; sent from Uman against Daybul, his horse shied, the enemy ringed and killed him —… - Person
Budayl ibn Warqa' al-Khuza'i
A Khuza'i leader of the truce years: he sheltered the driven-in Khuza'a in his house, led their complaint… - Person
Bugha, mawla of al-Mu'tasim (Bugha the Elder)
Bugha, mawla of al-Mu'tasim bi'llah (the Elder); in al-Baladhuri from Bardha'a's people: while governor of… - Person
Bugha the Younger
The Turkish amir who tested Baghir's resolve three times — son, brother, heir — before the answer 'we begin… - Person
Bughra Khan al-Qarakhani
Bughra Khan of the Qarakhanid Turkic kings; drawn into the Samanid lands by Abu Ali ibn Simjur's tempting of… - Person
Buhurizade Itri
Draft card for Buhurizade Mustafa Efendi 'Itri', the eighteenth-century Ottoman composer and calligrapher of… - Person
Bujayr ibn Abi Bujayr
Draft card for Bujayr ibn Abi Bujayr, a figure of the early community; the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Bujayr ibn Bujra
A man of Tayy; Ibn Ishaq records that he spoke verses on the story of the wild cows that led to Ukaydir, in… - Person
Bujayr ibn Waraqa' al-Sura'i
Bujayr ibn Waraqa' al-Sura'i of Tamim; with the party that renounced Ibn Khazim at Abarshahr, he pursued and… - Person
Bujayr ibn Zuhayr
A poet of the Muzayna tribe and brother of the famous poet Ka'b ibn Zuhayr; he embraced Islam before his… - Person
بكير بن عبد الله بن الأشج
- Person
Bukayr ibn al-Akhnas al-Sadusi
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بكير بن ماهان
Bukayr ibn Mahan — reckoned the chief of the Abbasid propagandists in Iraq, alongside Maysara al-Abdi and Abu… - Person
Bukayr ibn Shaddad
Bukayr ibn Shaddad ibn Amir of Kinana, rider of the horse Atlal; he rode with Sa'id ibn al-As on the… - Person
Bukayr ibn Wishah
Bukayr ibn Wishah — some say Wisah; Ibn Khazim's shurta-chief who deposed him, seized arms and treasury, won… - Person
Nebuchadnezzar (Bukhtanasar)
The king of Babylon who attacked the Arabs at Dhat Irq, where the Arabs' commander was no Jurhumite; the… - Person
Bukhtishu ibn Jibril
A physician of the Bukhtishu medical family in the Abbasid period, close to the caliph al-Muhtadi. He was… - Person
Bukola Saraki
19 December 1962 CE · 1382 AHNigerian physician and politician born in London in 1962, son of the senator Olusola Saraki. He governed… - Person
Bülent Ersoy
9 June 1952 CE · 1371 AHTurkish singer of Turkish classical music and actress, born in Istanbul in 1952 as Bülent Erkoç. She… - Person
Bolevi Mustafa Efendi
Draft card for Bolevi Mustafa Efendi, the seventeenth-century Ottoman writer, d. 1675; the source entry is… - Person
Bulus the monk, al-Habis
The monk-scribe of the Mount Hilwan cave — said to have chanced on the Fatimid treasury; he relieved the poor… - Person
Buna al-Saghir
Buna al-Saghir, al-Mutawakkil's mawla; he fought the rebel Muhammad ibn al-Ba'ith, took him to Samarra, and… - Person
Bundu Khan
1880 CE · 1297 AHSarangi player (1880–1955), born at Delhi and trained by his uncle Mamman Khan; he served the court of Indore… - Person
Bunyamin Ayasi
Draft card for Bunyamin Ayasi, the Ottoman writer (poet, d. 1520); the biographical entry is not yet checked… - Person
Hippocrates
Hippocrates — per Mas'udi, love is two souls fused like water in water; its tremor, pallor and stammer run… - Person
بوران بنت الحسن بن سهل
زوجة المأمون، تزوجها سنة عشر بجهاز بلغ أربعين تكة مجوهرة وصناديق لآلئ ويواقيت ونثر أبوها صينية جوهراً بين يدي… - Person
Buran daughter of Khusraw Parviz
The Sasanian queen Buran, daughter of Khusraw Parviz — builder of the fire temple at Ustuniya near Baghdad. - Person
Buraq Hajib
Draft card for Buraq Hajib, the Khwarazmian commander who founded the Qutlugh-Khanid house of Kerman; his… - Person
Burayda ibn al-Husayb al-Aslami
Burayda ibn al-Husayb al-Aslami, Abu Abdallah; among the fifty thousand transplanted to Khurasan by al-Rabi'… - Person
Buraydah ibn al-Husayb
A Companion of Aslam; Ibn al-Sakan says he embraced Islam when the Prophet passed him on the Hijra at… - Person
Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil
Turkish astrophysicist. Educated at Bilkent University, Texas Tech University and the University of Minnesota… - Person
Burdurlu Mehmed Pasha
Draft card for Burdurlu Mehmed Pasha, the Ottoman grandee; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Burhan al-Din al-Abnasi
c. 1327 CE · 725 AH'Shaykh of the Egyptian lands' — the students' provider of Cairo whose Muqs zawiya fed and taught them;… - Person
برهان الدين البلخي
Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn al-Hasan al-Balkhi, the Hanafi preacher and ascetic called Burhan al-Din; he lectured at… - Person
Burhan al-Din al-Bijuri
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Burhan al-Din al-Hilli al-Muhaddith
The hafiz Burhan al-Din Abu Ishaq Ibrahim b. Muhammad b. Khalil al-Hilli, the traditionist; died 840. - Person
Burhan al-Din al-Jabari
Draft card for Burhan al-Din al-Jabari, the fourteenth-century jurist and qari, d. 1332; the biographical… - Person
Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani
Draft card for Burhan al-Din Ali ibn Abi Bakr al-Marghinani, the Samarqand Hanafi jurist author of al-Hidaya,… - Person
Burhan al-Din al-Nasafi
Draft card for Burhan al-Din al-Nasafi, the thirteenth-century Hanafi jurist author of Madarik al-Tanzil, d.… - Person
Burhan al-Din al-Qirati
Draft card for Burhan al-Din al-Qirati, the fourteenth-century poet, jurist and literary scholar, d. 1379;… - Person
al-Burhan al-Sinjari, qadi al-qudat
Qadi al-qudat of Egypt — al-Sa'id's vizier twice, struck by al-Shuja'i, finally qadi again and dead within… - Person
Burhan al-Din ibn al-Qayyim
Draft card for Burhan al-Din ibn al-Qayyim, the fourteenth-century jurist and grammarian, son of Ibn Qayyim… - Person
Burhan al-Din al-Hasib al-Nasib
The celibate mystic of Abu Ayyub — his father a sayyid of the 'Ajam and himself 'among the greatest saints';… - Person
Burhan al-Husayni, naqib of Damascus
Damascus's naqib al-ashraf — when an official sought to jail him, Sultan Qaytbay freed him, and his word was… - Person
Burhan al-Din Ibn Abi Sharif al-Maqdisi
between 1429 and 1430 CE · 833 AHShaykh mashayikh al-Islam, 'the recourse of elite and commoner' — b. Jerusalem 833; Egypt's chief qadi… - Person
Burhan al-Din ibn al-Mabit
A Cairo poet — his lines in praise of coffee survive in the Shadharat: 'O you who fault our coffee's… - Person
Burhan Imad Shah
1558 CE · 965 AH†Draft card for Burhan Imad Shah, the last Imad Shahi ruler of Berar; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Burhanuddin Rabbani
20 September 1940 CE · 18 Sha'ban 1359 AH†Afghan politician and professor of Islamic law who led the Jamiat-e Islami from 1972 and served as president… - Person
Burhanuddin Ulakan
Draft card for Burhanuddin Ulakan, the seventeenth-century Shattari shaykh of Pariaman who spread Islam in… - Person
Buri ibn Ayyub
1161 CE · 556 AHTaj al-Muluk Buri b. Ayyub — youngest of Salah al-Din's brothers; a prince of some refinement with a poetry… - Person
Burtuqiz
1681 CE · 1092 AHHanafi jurist from Zaghwan in Tunisia, versed in legal theory and known for glosses and verse. - Person
Dervish Pasha al-Busnawi
Draft card for Dervish Pasha al-Busnawi, the Ottoman commander and statesman of Bosniak origin, d. 1603; the… - Person
Busr ibn Said
Busr ibn Said al-Madani, a devout Successor (tabi'i) and mawla of Ibn al-Hadrami. He related from Abu… - Person
Busra bint Safwan
A Qurashi woman of Banu Asad, niece of Waraqa ibn Nawfal; al-Shafi'i said she had an early precedence and an… - Person
Busta Rhymes
20 May 1972 CE · 1392 AHAmerican rapper, producer and actor, born Trevor George Smith Jr. at Brooklyn, New York City, on 20 May 1972… - Person
بسطام بن قيس
Bustam ibn Qays 'dhu al-jadayn', Abu al-Sahba', sayyid of Banu Shayban: killed at the day of al-Shaqiqa… - Person
بطرس البستاني
1819 CE · 1234 AH†Butrus al-Bustani (d. 1883 CE) — author of the Muhit al-Muhit dictionary and founder of the Arabic… - Person
C. M. Muhammad Abu Bakr Musliyar
Draft card for C. M. Muhammad Abu Bakr Musliyar; the entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Cafer Seydamet Kırımer
1 September 1889 CE · 5 Muharram 1307 AH†Crimean Tatar politician and writer, a leader and ideologist of the Crimean Tatar national movement. Minister… - Person
Cahit Arf
24 October 1910 CE · 1328 AHTurkish mathematician (1910–1997), born in Thessaloniki and educated in Paris and Göttingen, where he took… - Person
Cakra Adiningrat VIII
Draft card for Cakra Adiningrat VIII; the entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Calakzade Mustafa Efendi
Draft card for Calakzade Mustafa Efendi, the Ottoman writer d. 1757; the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Candarli Halil Pasha the Younger
Candarli Halil Pasha the Younger, Mehmed II's vizier at the siege of Constantinople. Al-Salabi reports him… - Person
Çandarlı Ibrahim Pasha
Draft card for Çandarlı Ibrahim Pasha the Elder, Ottoman grand vizier under Murad II; his entry is not yet… - Person
Çandarlı Ibrahim Pasha the Younger
Draft card for Çandarlı Ibrahim Pasha the Younger, Ottoman grand vizier under Bayezid II; his entry is not… - Person
Candarli Kara Halil Hayreddin Pasha
Draft card for Candarli Kara Halil Hayreddin Pasha, remembered as the first grand vizier of the Ottoman state… - Person
Čarčacı Ali Pasha
Draft card for Čarčacı Ali Pasha, the Crimean statesman; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Veliyyuddin Carullah Efendi
Draft card for Veliyyuddin Carullah Efendi, the eighteenth-century Ottoman Hanafi jurist, d. 1738; the source… - Person
Catalcali Ali Efendi
Draft card for Catalcali Ali Efendi, the seventeenth-century Ottoman jurist, d. 1692; the source entry is not… - Person
Catalsakal Mustafa Efendi
Draft card for Catalsakal Mustafa Efendi, the Ottoman writer d. 1709; the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Cavusbasi Memis Pasha
Draft card for Cavusbasi Memis Pasha, the Ottoman diplomat and grandee who died in 1809; his entry is not yet… - Person
Çavuşzade Cemâleddin Efendi
Draft card for Çavuşzade Cemâleddin Efendi, an Ottoman Sheikh ul-Islam in the empire's last years; his entry… - Person
Celalzade Mustafa Celebi
Draft card for Celalzade Mustafa Celebi known as Koca Nisanci, the sixteenth-century Ottoman historian and… - Person
Celebi Ali
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Celebi Mustafa Pasa
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Çelebizade Şerif Hasan Paşa
Draft card for Çelebizade Şerif Hasan Pasha, the Ottoman vizier; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Cellou Dalein Diallo
3 February 1952 CE · 1371 AHGuinean economist and politician (born 1952) from Labé, a Fula who held a succession of ministerial posts in… - Person
Cemal Pasha
6 May 1872 CE · 1289 AHOttoman military commander and politician, one of the 'Three Pashas' of the Committee of Union and Progress.… - Person
Cenap Şahabettin
21 March 1870 CE · 1286 AHCenap Şahabettin (born at Bitola on 21 March 1870 – died at Istanbul on 12 February 1934) was an… - Person
Çerkes Mehmed Pasha
Draft card for Çerkes Mehmed Pasha, the Ottoman grand vizier who broke the peace with Safavid Iran; his entry… - Person
Cerrah Mehmed Pasha
Draft card for Cerrah Mehmed Pasha, the Ottoman grand vizier of 1598–1599 under Mehmed III, d. 1604; the… - Person
Chadli Bendjedid
14 April 1929 CE · 1347 AHChadli Bendjedid (1929–2012) was an Algerian officer and politician, a combatant of the war of independence… - Person
Chaghatay ibn Genghis Khan
Chaghatay ibn Genghis Khan, called Kaday among them; his father assigned him the realms from the Uyghur lands… - Person
جغري بك بن سلجوق
Tughrul Beg's brother, lord of Khurasan; after many wars he made peace with Ghazna's Ibrahim ibn Mas'ud in… - Person
Calak Ahmet Efendi
Draft card for Calak Ahmet Efendi, the Ottoman writer (d. 1711); the biographical entry is not yet checked on… - Person
Chand Bibi
Draft card for Chand Bibi, regent of Ahmadnagar who led its defence against Akbar, named from an open… - Person
Chanda Sahib
Draft card for Chanda Sahib, the Muslim nawab of the Carnatic in the eighteenth-century succession wars, d.… - Person
Qarla ibn Tabin
'Qarla ibn Tabin', the Frankish king whose 26-year reign fell in al-Hakam's days and whose sons' strife… - Person
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V — 'Sharl Kant' in al-Salabi — Holy Roman Emperor in Süleyman's reign; his great war with Francis I… - Person
Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman
25 December 1889 CE · 1307 AHPakistani politician (1889–1973) of Chunar, one of the top leaders of the All-India Muslim League who… - Person
Chaudhry Muhammad Ali
15 July 1905 CE · 13 Jumada I 1323 AH†Pakistani civil servant and politician (1905–1982), a builder of Pakistan's first civil bureaucracy and… - Person
Cheikh Anta Diop
29 December 1923 CE · 1342 AHSenegalese historian, physicist and anthropologist, born at Thieytou in 1923 into a Muslim family of the… - Person
Cheikh Bouamama
1833 CE · 1249 AHAlgerian resistance leader (birth year contested: 1833 or c. 1840 – 1908). Of the Awlad Sidi Shaykh of… - Person
Hamahullah bin Muhammad bin Umar
c. 1883 CE · 1300 AHMalian Sufi shaykh (c. 1883–1943), disciple of the Tijani shaykh Sidi Mohamed Lakhdar and his successor at… - Person
Chiragh Ali
1844 CE · 1260 AHIndian Muslim scholar (1844–1895) of the Aligarh circle, a colleague of Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan and a senior… - Person
Chokri El Ouaer
15 August 1966 CE · 1386 AHTunisian former footballer and football administrator (born 1966 in Tunis), a goalkeeper who spent nearly his… - Person
Cigalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha
Draft card for Cigalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha, the Ottoman admiral who took Naples and became kapudan pasha… - Person
Cinci Huseyin Efendi
Draft card for Cinci Huseyin Efendi, the seventeenth-century Ottoman physician and writer, d. 1648; the… - Person
Civizade Haci Mehmed Efendi
Draft card for Civizade Haci Mehmed Efendi, Ottoman shaykh al-Islam, d. 1587; the source entry is not yet… - Person
Civizade Muhyi al-Din Mehmed
Draft card for Civizade Muhyi al-Din Mehmed Efendi, the sixteenth-century Ottoman shaykh al-Islam, d. 1547;… - Person
Clara Muhammad
2 November 1899 CE · 1317 AHAmerican leader in the Nation of Islam (1899–1972), wife of its leader Elijah Muhammad. She introduced her… - Person
Qaludiya king of the Franks
First king in the Frankish regnal list Bishop Urmazd sent al-Hakam in 328 — 'a Magian whose wife Ghartala… - Person
Colette Khoury
1935 CE · 1354 AHSyrian novelist and poet (died 2026), granddaughter of prime minister Fares al-Khoury and daughter of the… - Person
Comlekcizade Receb Celebi
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the Count of Alcaudete
The Spanish governor of Oran. Al-Muzawwar Bu Ghannam's mediation letter reached him early Rabi' I 963/January… - Person
Conrad, Marquis of Montferrat
Conrad of Montferrat, lord of Tyre — 'the greatest of the Frankish devils' in Ibn al-Athir's phrase; killed… - Person
Constance of Sicily
Constance of Sicily (Umm al-Anbur) — daughter of William I; ruled Sicily after him and was mother of… - Person
Constantine XI Palaiologos
Constantine, the last Byzantine emperor, who led Constantinople's defence in person against Mehmed II in… - Person
Corlulu Ali Pasha
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Corlulu Zarifi
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Cumrun Vafa
1 August 1960 CE · 1380 AHCumrun Vafa (born 1 August 1960) is an Iranian-American theoretical physicist, Hollis Professor of… - Person
Da Pusheng
1874 CE · 1291 AH†Chinese Muslim scholar from Liuhe, Jiangsu (1874–1965), known by his religious name Nur Muhammad, an ahong… - Person
Dada Khalifa, mufti of Aleppo
Dada Khalifa — the tanner who became Aleppo's first Ottoman mufti and first teacher of the Khidr Pasha… - Person
Dagh Dehlvi
25 May 1831 CE · 1246 AHDelhi Urdu ghazal poet (1831–1905), born Nawab Mirza Khan and raised in the Red Fort, who took poetic counsel… - Person
دغفل بن المقرج الجراحي
The Jarrahid Tayyi emir who held Ramla under nominal Fatimid allegiance; fearing al-Aziz would adopt the… - Person
Dahir, King of Sind
Dahir, king of Sind; refusing to free the pirated women — 'pirates beyond my power' — he met Muhammad ibn… - Person
Dahiru Bauchi
29 June 1927 CE · 1346 AHNigerian Tijani scholar (1927-2025), among the most prominent shaykhs of the Tijaniyya in Nigeria. He… - Person
Dahki Mustafa Efendi
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Dahman
A singer of al-Walid's circle. - Person
Dakhilallah ibn Sulayman al-Ahsa'i
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Dakhtanus
A woman of pre-Islamic Arabia who figures in the story of her husband Amr ibn Uds, which became a proverb. - Person
Da'laj ibn Ahmad al-Sijistani
Da'laj b. Ahmad al-Sijistani — an Abbasid-era prince noted for generosity, who verified his ledger before… - Person
Dalgic Mehmed Aga
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Dalia Mogahed
1974 CE · 1394 AHAmerican researcher of Egyptian origin specialising in the study of Muslim communities, born in Cairo and… - Person
Daltaban Mustafa Pasha
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Damad Hasan Pasha
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Damadzade Feyzullah Efendi
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Damat Ibrahim Pasha
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Damat Melek Mehmet Pasha
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Damian of Tarsus
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Dan Marina
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Danesh Mazandarani
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Daniel Haqiqatjou
1985 CE · 1405 AH†American Muslim commentator, writer and debater, born in Houston, Texas, in 1985 or 1986 to Iranian parents.… - Person
Danishmend Gazi
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Daoud bin Haytham al-Tanukhi
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Dara Khosrowshahi
28 May 1969 CE · 1389 AHDara Khosrowshahi (born 28 May 1969 in Tehran) is an Iranian-American business executive whose family fled… - Person
Dara Shikoh
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Dervis Abdi-yi Mevlevi
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Dervis Ahmed
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Dervis Mehmet
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Dervis Semseddin
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Darya Imad Shah
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Datu Ali
Rajah of Buayan (1902–1905) and the last major Moro chieftain to resist American rule in Mindanao. Rajahmuda… - Person
Datu Uto
The 18th Sultan of Buayan in Mindanao (reigned 1875–1902), born Anwarud-din Uto. He built a coalition across… - Person
Datuk ri Tiro
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Da'ud ibn al-Adid
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Daud Khan Karrani
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Daud Khan Panni
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Dave Chappelle
24 August 1973 CE · 1393 AHAmerican stand-up comedian and actor, born in Washington, D.C. in 1973, who converted to Islam at seventeen.… - Person
داود ملك الكرج
The Georgian king David who had lately taken Tiflis; a just ruler over his people; d. 518. - Person
Davud-i Karsi
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Dawud (David)
Prophet of Banu Israel and Sulayman's father — the Prophet praised Abu Musa's recitation as 'a flute of the… - Person
Dawud al-Antaki
An Arab physician from Antioch, nicknamed al-Darir because he was blind. He lived in the tenth century AH.… - Person
Dawud al-Qarsi
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Dawud al-Qaysari — the Egypt-trained scholar to whom, in al-Sallabi's account, Sultan Orhan entrusted the… - Person
Dawud al-Ta'i
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داود الظاهري
c. 815 CE · c. 200 AHDawud ibn Ali al-Isbahani — Kufa-born (c. 200), Baghdad-bred (d. 270); a zealous Shafi'i who wrote… - Person
Dawud ibn Abi Hind
Dawud ibn Abi Hind of Basra; one of Sulayman ibn Ali's delegates to al-Mansur over al-Subaytiyya. - Person
Dawud ibn Ali
Dawud ibn Ali ibn Abdallah ibn al-Abbas; in al-Baladhuri he was granted all al-Sibayn when Umayyad wealth was… - Person
Dawud ibn Isa, amir of Mecca
Dawud ibn Isa — installed in Mecca's emirate by caliphal order when his brother Mukaththir was besieged in… - Person
Dawud ibn Yazid ibn Hatim
Dawud ibn Yazid ibn Hatim al-Muhallabi; the Sind thaghr after Umar ibn Hafs — the Kinda-mawla Abu al-Summa… - Person
Dawud Shah I Bahmani
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Dawud Walid
22 November 1971 CE · 1391 AHAn American imam, author and activist from Detroit, and the executive director of the Michigan chapter of the… - Person
Dawud Wharnsby
1972 CE · 1392 AH†The Canadian convert-musician behind Sound Vision's Islamic children's songs like 'A Whisper of Peace'. - Person
Daysim ibn Ibrahim al-Kurdi
Daysim ibn Ibrahim the Kurd; rival of al-Marzuban's house for Azerbaijan, invited in by its people to fight… - Person
Deddy Corbuzier
28 December 1976 CE · 1397 AHIndonesian television presenter and former magician turned mentalist, born in Jakarta. He became famous… - Person
Dede Congi
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Deli Abdullah Pasha
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Deli Birader
Draft card for Deli Birader, the Ottoman poet, d. 1535; the biographical entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Deli Fuad Pasha
1835 CE · 1251 AHFuad Pasha (1835 – 17 April 1931), known as Deli Fuad Pasha — 'Mad Fuad' — for his boldness and… - Person
Demba Ba
25 May 1985 CE · 1405 AHSenegalese retired footballer, born in Sèvres, France in 1985. A striker who played for Hoffenheim, West Ham… - Person
Demetrious Johnson
13 August 1986 CE · 1406 AHRetired American mixed martial artist (born 1986 in Madisonville, Kentucky, raised in Washington State). The… - Person
Demircikulu Yusuf Efendi
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Demis Hassabis
27 July 1976 CE · 1396 AHDemis Hassabis (born 27 July 1976 in London) is a British artificial-intelligence researcher and entrepreneur… - Person
Deni Arsanov
1851 CE · 1267 AH†Deni Arsanov (1851–1917) was a Chechen Sufi sheikh, founder of one of the largest Vainakh brotherhoods… - Person
Derviş Ali
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Dervish Mehmed Pasha
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Dervish Musa
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Dervish Omer Efendi
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Dervish Sadayi
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Devlet Bahçeli
1 January 1948 CE · 1367 AHTurkish politician and academic economist, chairman of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) since 1997 and… - Person
Devlet Hatun
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دغفل بن حنظلة الشيباني
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Dhakhirat al-Din ibn al-Qa'im
Son of the caliph al-Qa'im — circumcised in Sha'ban 440 and named on the minbars as heir apparent; he died in… - Person
Dhikwan ibn Abd Qays
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Dhimad al-Azdi
An Azdi physician and traditional healer from Azd Shanu'a who arrived in Mecca and offered to treat the… - Person
Dhu al-Bijadayn
Abdullah Dhu al-Bijadayn al-Muzani; he died on the Tabuk campaign and the Prophet himself buried him in his… - Person
Dhu al-Hajib Mardanshah
Persian commander sent against the Arabs at the Day of the Bridge; in al-Baladhuri Anushirwan had named him… - Person
Dhu'l-Janahayn
The Persian king-commander at Nahawand — al-Mughira's famous embassy to his throne, the spear-poked carpets… - Person
Dhu'l-Kala', king of Himyar
The crowned Himyarite king who came with a thousand slaves and brocade, saw Abu Bakr's rough cloak, cast off… - Person
Dhu al-Khuwaysira al-Tamimi
A man of Banu Tamim (identified as Hurqus ibn Zuhayr al-Sa'di) who brazenly challenged the Prophet during the… - Person
ذو النون المصري
The first in Egypt to discourse on the ordering of states and the stations of God's friends; Abd Allah ibn… - Person
Dhu al-Qarnayn
Sheikh Omar Abdelkafy cites Dhu al-Qarnayn in his teaching on empowerment, as one given the means who… - Person
Dhu al-Shamalayn
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Dhu'l-Thudiyya
The Kharijite foretold to fall among the Mariqi — Ali would not accept 'we found nothing', sent the whole… - Person
Dhu'l-Kifl
Dhu'l-Kifl, named in the Qur'an among the patient and among 'the righteous'; Ibn Kathir counts him among the… - Person
Dhu Nuwas (Yusuf Asʾar Yathʾar)
The last Himyarite king before the second Abyssinian occupation: a convert to Judaism who in October 523… - Person
دعبل الخزاعي
The Shi'ite poet; he lampooned al-Mu'tasim in his famous qasida — 'the Abbasid kings in the books are… - Person
Dihya al-Kalbi
A handsome and noble Companion from Banu Kalb; Gabriel frequently appeared in his likeness; chosen by the… - Person
Dik al-Jinn
778 CE · 161 AHDik al-Jinn (Abd al-Salam b. Raghaban, d. c. 235) — the celebrated Abbasid poet of Homs, a mawla of Tayyi'… - Person
Saliha Dilaşub Sultan
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Dilaver Pasha
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Dilf ibn Abi Dulaf
Abu Dulaf's nasibi son — disgraced by his father's confession and haunted by a dream of him naked amid ash,… - Person
Dimam ibn Malik al-Salmani
One of the Hamdan delegation who met the Prophet on his return from Tabuk with Malik ibn al-Namat Dhu… - Person
Dimam ibn Tha'laba
The envoy of Banu Sa'd ibn Bakr to the Prophet, whose story is in the two collections from Anas: a bedouin… - Person
Dina Aziz
Author, influencer and data analyst. She wrote the Ramadan Planner, a guided planner for reflection and… - Person
Dina Shihabi
21 September 1989 CE · 1410 AHSaudi Arabian actress working in the United States, born in Riyadh in 1989 and raised in Saudi Arabia, Beirut… - Person
Dinar
Nihawand's dihqan; in al-Baladhuri, spared by Simak ibn Ubayd after his eight companions fell, he asked to… - Person
Dirar ibn Abd al-Muttalib
One of the ten sons of Abd al-Muttalib in al-Raheeq al-Makhtum's count, and an uncle of the Prophet; chapter… - Person
ضرار بن عمرو
Dirar ibn Amr — a head of the Mu'tazila; al-Mas'udi names him with Thumama and al-Jahiz as holding the… - Person
Dirar ibn Damra
One of Ali's inner circle — compelled by Mu'awiya to describe him, he delivered the celebrated portrait:… - Person
Dirar ibn Muslim al-Bahili
Dirar ibn Muslim al-Bahili, Qutayba's brother; the only brother spared at his fall — Tamim gave him safety. - Person
Dirgham al-Lakhmi
Dirgham b. Sawar al-Lakhmi (d. 559) — al-Adid's vizier who broke Shawar and drove him to Syria; killed when… - Person
Divane Mehmed Celebi
Draft card for Divane Mehmed Celebi, the fifteenth-century Ottoman writer and poet, b. 1448; the source entry… - Person
Divitcizade Mehmed Efendi
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Diya al-Din al-Maqdisi
1174 CE · c. 5 Jumada II 569 AHMuhaddith al-Sham, shaykh al-sunna (b. 569, d. 643) — Ibn Rajab: he wrote from more than five hundred… - Person
Diya al-Din al-Muradi, al-Nawawi's shaykh
Al-Nawawi's own shaykh — whose testimony runs: 'my eyes never saw his like; brilliant in the knowledge of… - Person
Diya al-Din al-Qasim
1159 CE · 554 AHQadi Diya al-Din al-Qasim (554–599) — qadi of Damascus by his uncle's testament, then stepped aside for… - Person
Diya al-Din Ali
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DJ Khaled
26 November 1975 CE · 1395 AHAmerican DJ and record producer of Palestinian descent, born Khaled Mohammed Khaled in New Orleans in 1975.… - Person
Djamel Belmadi
25 March 1976 CE · 1396 AHAlgerian football manager and former player (born 1976 in Champigny-sur-Marne, France). A midfielder capped… - Person
Don António of Portugal
The Portuguese prince who could not resist the Spanish forces that swept through Portugal; Spain annexed his… - Person
Dost Mohammad Khan
23 December 1792 CE · 9 Jumada I 1207 AH†Founder of the Barakzai dynasty and Emir of Afghanistan (1826–1839, then 1843–1863). He united Kabul,… - Person
Dubaa bint Amir
A Companion of Banu Amir ibn Sa'sa'a who embraced Islam early at Mecca; remembered for crying out to her clan… - Person
Dubays ibn Sadaqa al-Mazyadidi
Dubays ibn Sadaqa ibn Mansur al-Mazyadidi; captured at his father's death in 501 AH, released by Sultan… - Person
Duhar ibn Dahir
Duhar ibn Dahir; he sallied against Muhammad ibn al-Qasim at al-Kiraj, was routed, fled — some say was killed… - Person
دختنوس بنت النعمان
Dukhtanus, the Lakhmid princess daughter of al-Nu'man ibn al-Mundhir, wife of Laqit ibn Zurara; hearing how… - Person
Dulayl ibn Muhammad al-Nahwi
Known as 'Wullad', a grammarian of real merit who transmitted the nahw and lugha books from al-Qa'nabi and… - Person
Dullah Omar
26 May 1934 CE · 1353 AHSouth African lawyer and politician from Cape Town who defended anti-apartheid activists, became democratic… - Person
Dumayra, client of Ali ibn Abi Talib
A client of Ali ibn Abi Talib; Ibn Hisham names him, with a brother of his, among those who went with Zayd… - Person
Dundar Bey
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Dunia Shuaib
American educator, lecturer and author in Islamically integrated psycho-spiritual education, and the founder… - Person
Duqaq ibn Tutush
Duqaq ibn Taj al-Dawla Tutush ibn Alp Arslan; he was in Damascus castle when his father fell in 488 AH,… - Person
Durayd ibn al-Simma
A legendary pre-Islamic knight, tribal champion and poet of Banu Jusham (Hawazin); an old, blind veteran… - Person
Durmuszade Ahmet Efendi
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Durra bint Abi Lahab
A cousin of the Prophet who embraced Islam and emigrated; reports with weak chains say women of Banu Zurayq… - Person
Dursun Bey
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Dursun Fakih
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Dust al-Abid
Abu Muhammad 'Dust' al-Abid — one of Baghdad's noted ascetics and transmitters; he died on Wednesday with six… - Person
Dust Muhammad Haravi
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Dwight Muhammad Qawi
5 January 1953 CE · 1372 AHAmerican boxer, born Dwight Braxton in Baltimore in 1953 and died in 2025. He learned boxing in Rahway State… - Person
Ebezade Mustafa Efendi
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Eboo Patel
1975 CE · 1395 AHAmerican Ismaili activist of Gujarati Indian heritage, born in 1975 in Mumbai, India, and raised in Glen… - Person
Ebrahim Desai
1963 CE · 1383 AH†Draft card for Ebrahim Desai, the South African Deobandi mufti and fatwa writer; his entry is not yet checked… - Person
Ebrahim Raisi
14 December 1960 CE · 1380 AHEbrahim Raisi (14 December 1960 – 19 May 2024) was an Iranian jurist and politician who served as president… - Person
Ebrahim Rasool
15 July 1962 CE · 1382 AHSouth African politician and diplomat from Cape Town who was the fifth premier of the Western Cape… - Person
Ebru Gündeş
12 October 1974 CE · 1394 AHTurkish pop-folk and arabesque singer, actress and television personality, born in Istanbul in 1974. Her… - Person
Ebubekir Ratib Efendi
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Ebülmeyamin Mustafa Efendi
Draft card for Ebülmeyamin Mustafa Efendi, the sixteenth-century Ottoman jurist and qadi, d. 1606; the source… - Person
Ebusaid Mehmed Efendi
Draft card for Ebusaid Mehmed Efendi, Ottoman shaykh al-Islam 1644–1654, d. 1662; the source entry is not yet… - Person
Ebüzziya Tevfik
17 February 1849 CE · 1265 AHOttoman writer, publisher and calligrapher (1849-1913), a Young Ottoman who ran the Matbaa-i Ebüzziya press… - Person
Eddie Mustafa Muhammad
30 April 1952 CE · 1371 AHAmerican former boxer and boxing trainer, born Edward Gregory in Brooklyn in 1952. He won two New York Golden… - Person
Eddie Redzovic
An American Muslim broadcaster based in Chicago, founder and host of The Deen Show, a long-running dawah talk… - Person
Edhem Pasha
1844 CE · 1260 AHEdhem Pasha (1844 – 17 December 1909), also known as Gazi Edhem Pasha, was an Ottoman field marshal who was… - Person
Edin Džeko
17 March 1986 CE · 1406 AHBosnian professional footballer, born in Sarajevo in 1986, whose childhood was spent under the city's siege.… - Person
Édouard Mendy
1 March 1992 CE · 1412 AHSenegalese professional goalkeeper (born 1992 in Montivilliers, France). Released by Cherbourg in 2014, he… - Person
Edward Said
1 November 1935 CE · 1354 AHPalestinian-American literary critic and public intellectual, born in Jerusalem in 1935 into a Protestant… - Person
Efdalzade Hamideddin Efendi
Draft card for Efdalzade Hamideddin Efendi, the Ottoman scholar and writer, d. 1503; the source entry is not… - Person
Eginli Numan Efendi
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Egridirli Haci Kemal
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Egrikapili Mehmed Rasim Efendi
1687 CE · 1098 AH†Draft card for Egrikapili Mehmed Rasim Efendi, the Ottoman calligrapher; his entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Ehteram-ul-Haq Thanvi
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Ehtisham ul Haq Thanvi
1915 CE · 1333 AH†Draft card for Ehtisham ul Haq Thanvi, the Pakistani scholar of the Thanvi family; his entry is not yet… - Person
Ekhtiyar Monshi Gonabadi
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ردريق القنبيطور
Rodrigo, called al-Qanbitur (el Campeador) and 'the tyrant' in the Muslim sources; raised by Yusuf ibn Hud of… - Person
El Hadj Malik Sy
1855 CE · 1271 AHSenegalese Tijani sheikh (1855–1922) who spread the Tijaniyya order through the Wolof country and built his… - Person
eL Seed
21 August 1981 CE · 1401 AHFrench-Tunisian calligraphy and graffiti artist, born in 1981 in Le Chesnay, near Paris, to a Tunisian… - Person
Elena Nikolova
Founder and creator of MuslimTravelGirl.com, a halal-travel blog helping Muslims plan holidays and DIY Umrah… - Person
Elif Sugan
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Elmas Mehmed Pasha
Draft card for Elmas Mehmed Pasha, the Ottoman grand vizier killed at Zenta in 1697; his entry is not yet… - Person
Elton Mayo
The physician Elton Mayo, as presented in Tareq al-Suwaidan's history of management: the first to argue that… - Person
Emily Ruete (Sayyida Salme)
30 August 1844 CE · 1260 AHSalme bint Said Sultan (30 August 1844 at Zanzibar – 29 February 1924 at Jena), known after her marriage as… - Person
Emin Barin
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Emin Hilmi Efendi
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Emine Erdoğan
21 February 1955 CE · 1374 AHTurkish social activist and First Lady of Turkey since 2014 as the wife of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.… - Person
Empedocles
Greek philosopher whose name passed into Arabic as Anbaduklis. The authentic Empedocles had little place in… - Person
Emre Can
12 January 1994 CE · 1414 AHGerman professional footballer (born 1994 in Frankfurt). A defensive midfielder who came through Bayern… - Person
Emrullah Emri
Draft card for Emrullah Emri, the Ottoman writer d. 1575; the biographical entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Enayet Khan
1894 CE · 1311 AHIndian sitar and surbahar player (1894–1938), born in the North-Western Provinces to a family of musicians,… - Person
Enis Mevlevi
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Enver Pasha
23 November 1881 CE · 1299 AHOttoman military commander and politician, the leading of the 'Three Pashas' of the Committee of Union and… - Person
Enveri
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Ercisli Emrah
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Eretna
Eretna, a Mongol commander and founder of the Eretnid state in Rum; holder of the shihna governorship of the… - Person
Eric Abidal
11 September 1979 CE · 1399 AHFrench retired footballer, born in Saint-Genis-Laval, France in 1979. A left-back and centre-back who played… - Person
Ermeni Süleyman Pasha
Süleyman Pasha, nicknamed 'the Armenian' and 'Koca' (the Great); a kinsman of İsmail Agha of Malatya whence… - Person
Ernesto Hoost
11 July 1965 CE · 1385 AHDutch retired kickboxer born in Heemskerk in 1965 to Surinamese parents. He won the K-1 World Grand Prix four… - Person
Ibrahim Haqqi al-Erzurumi
1703 CE · 1115 AHAn Ottoman scholar from Erzurum. He returned there after his father's death to complete his education, then… - Person
Eshrefzade Izzeddin Efendi
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Esrar Dede
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Essam El Hadary
15 January 1973 CE · 1392 AHEgyptian former professional goalkeeper and goalkeeping coach, born in Kafr El Battikh, Damietta in 1973 and… - Person
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Eyad Qunaibi
22 October 1975 CE · 1395 AHJordanian academic and preacher, born in al-Salmiya, Kuwait, in 1975 to a Jordanian family. A professor of… - Person
Fadala ibn Ubayd
A Companion of the Aws who embraced Islam early; he missed Badr but fought at Uhud and after, took part in… - Person
Fadala ibn Umayr al-Laythi
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Fadl al-Yamamiya
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الفضل بن الربيع
Abu'l-'Abbas al-Fadl ibn al-Rabi' — son of al-Mansur's and al-Mahdi's chamberlain, chamberlain of al-Rashid… - Person
Fadl ibn Salama al-Jahani
Fadl ibn Salama ibn Jarir ibn Munkhul, Abu Salama al-Jahani, from Bijaya, originally from Ilbira, a Maliki… - Person
Al-Fadl ibn Ziyad al-Qattan
Al-Fadl b. Ziyad al-Qattan — the companion closest to Ahmad ibn Hanbal and the most prolific transmitter of… - Person
Fahad Al-Kandari
28 June 1982 CE · 1402 AHKuwaiti Qur'an reciter and television presenter, born in Kuwait in 1982, and imam of the Grand Mosque in… - Person
Fahd Al-Shumaimri
1970 CE · 1390 AHSaudi businessman and writer, born in Makkah in 1390 AH (1970). He founded the Islamic-oriented Al-Majd… - Person
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
1921 CE · 1339 AH†Fifth King of Saudi Arabia (r. 1982–2005) and the eldest of the Sudairi Seven, the sons of King Abdulaziz by… - Person
Fahreddin Pasha
1868 CE · 1285 AHOttoman and Turkish officer, commander and governor of Medina from 1916 to 1919, who held the city through… - Person
Fairuz
20 November 1934 CE · 1353 AHLebanese singer and stage actress, born in Beirut as Nouhad Wadie Haddad. She is Lebanon's most revered voice… - Person
Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
14 April 1906 CE · 1324 AHThird King of Saudi Arabia (1906–1975), a son of King Abdulaziz by Tarfa bint Abdullah Al Sheikh. He was… - Person
Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi
8 June 1864 CE · 1281 AHFaisal bin Turki bin Said Al Busaidi (born in Bombay on 8 June 1864 – died at Muscat on 4 October 1913),… - Person
Faisal Edhi
Faisal Edhi is a Pakistani humanitarian, the son of Abdul Sattar Edhi and Bilquis Edhi, who worked in the… - Person
Faisal Husseini
17 July 1940 CE · 1359 AHFaisal Abdel Qader al-Husseini (17 July 1940 – 31 May 2001) was a Palestinian politician born in Baghdad, the… - Person
Faisal I of Iraq
20 May 1885 CE · 1302 AHFaisal I bin Hussein (20 May 1885 – 8 September 1933) was the third son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali and… - Person
Faisal II
2 May 1935 CE · 1354 AHFaisal II (2 May 1935 – 14 July 1958) was the last king of Iraq of the Hashemite dynasty. He acceded at the… - Person
Faiyaz Khan
8 February 1886 CE · 1303 AHIndian classical vocalist (1886–1950), the leading exponent of the Agra gharana of Hindustani music, born at… - Person
Faizi
Draft card for Abu al-Fayd Faydi ibn Mubarak al-Nagori, Akbar's poet laureate and brother of Abu'l-Fadl, d.… - Person
Faizunnesa Choudhurani
1834 CE · 1250 AHZamindar of Homnabad-Pashchimgaon in Comilla (1834–1903), a pioneer of female education in Bengal. In 1873… - Person
Fakhar ibn Ma'add
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Fakhita bint Qaraza
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Fakhitah bint Abi Hashim
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فخر الدولة بن ركن الدولة
Rukn al-Dawla's son, given Hamadhan and Dinawar in 365; he died in 387 — one of al-Dhahabi's nine kings dead… - Person
فخر الدولة بن جهير
c. 1003 CE · 393 AH - Person
Fakhr al-Din al-Azji
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Fakhr al-Din al-Irbili
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فخر الدين الرازي
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Fakhr al-Din al-Turayhi
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Fakhr al-Din ibn al-Shaykh
c. 1166 CE · c. 562 AHSon of shaykh al-shuyukh Sadr al-Din al-Juwayni — commander of the Ascalon conquest of 644, present at… - Person
Fakhr al-Din ibn 'Asakir
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Fakhr al-Din ibn Taymiyya
1157 CE · 552 AHFakhr al-Din Ibn Taymiyya (552–621) — Hanbali khatib and preacher of Harran, father of Taqi al-Din Ibn… - Person
Fakhr al-Din Qara Arslan
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Fakhr al-Muhaqqiqin al-Hilli
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Fakhr al-Mulk
Fakhr al-Mulk Abu Ghalib (d. 407) — of Wasit, a money-changer's son; ranked with Ibn al-Amid and the Sahib as… - Person
Fakhr al-Qudah Ibn al-Khabbab
Muqri' and overseer of the awqaf (d. 648) — sole transmitter from al-Ma'muni, so that Sahih Muslim lived on… - Person
Fakhr-i Jahan Khanum
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Fakhr-un-Nissa
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Fakiri
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Falah Mandkar
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Falgh ibn Yaghur (Peleg)
In al-Mas'udi's king list the first Yemenite ruler of Syria — followed by Yutab, that is Job son of Razah. - Person
Fanari Hasan Celebi
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Faqir of Ipi
1897 CE · 1315 AH†Pashtun tribal and religious leader of North Waziristan (c. 1897–1960), born Haji Mirza Ali Khan Wazir. After… - Person
Fakirullah
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Faraj al-Rukhkhaji
Faraj al-Rukhkhaji, Ziyad's son; a boy among Ma'n's Zabulistan captives — he told how wild-ass dust made Ma'n… - Person
الملك الناصر فرج بن برقوق
Barquq's son and heir (801), deposed in 808 for his brother Abd al-Aziz then restored the same year. - Person
Faraj ibn Qasim ibn Lubb
1310 CE · 710 AHA scholar of Granada and of al-Andalus in the eighth century AH. - Person
Faraj ibn Sulaym
Faraj ibn Sulaym the eunuch, among the great court servants and administrators of the Abbasid state; in… - Person
al-Farazdaq
Hammam ibn Ghalib the poet; in al-Baladhuri he praised al-Mubarak canal which Khalid ibn Abdallah al-Qasri… - Person
Fares al-Khoury
20 November 1877 CE · 1294 AHSyrian politician and statesman (1877–1962) and a founding father of the Syrian republic. He was finance… - Person
Farhaan Behardien
9 October 1983 CE · 1404 AHSouth African former international cricketer, born in Johannesburg in 1983. A right-handed all-rounder, he… - Person
Farhat Amin
British author, speaker and host of the Smart Muslima podcast. She grew up in London and was a… - Person
Farhat Hashmi
22 December 1957 CE · 1377 AHA Pakistani-Canadian Islamic scholar and preacher, born in Sargodha in 1957. She took her PhD in Islamic… - Person
Farid al-Ansari
1960 CE · 1379 AH†Draft card for Farid al-Ansari, the Moroccan scholar and preacher; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Farid al-Bahraini
A Bahraini Muslim researcher and debater who runs the Farid Responds YouTube channel, which answers… - Person
Farid al-Din 'Attar
1119 CE · 513 AH†Persian mystical poet, author of the Mantiq al-tayr, the Ilahi-nama, the Musibat-nama and the Ushturnama. His… - Person
Farida Zomorod
A Moroccan scholar of tafsir and Qur'anic sciences, professor at Dar al-Hadith al-Hassaniyya, University of… - Person
Faris al-Din Aqtay al-Musta'rib
The Salihi amir who held seven hundred mamluks — 'a sword without peer'; Shajar al-Durr and al-Mu'izz Izz… - Person
Faris ibn Bugha
Bugha the Younger's son — the false first target in the rehearsal of al-Mutawakkil's murder. - Person
Farouk El-Baz
2 January 1938 CE · 1356 AHEgyptian-American geologist and space scientist, born in Zagazig in 1938, who worked with NASA on the… - Person
Farouk of Egypt
11 February 1920 CE · 1338 AHKing of Egypt and the Sudan from 1936 to 1952, the tenth ruler of Egypt from the Muhammad Ali dynasty and its… - Person
Farqad al-Sabakhi
Farqad ibn Ya'qub al-Sabakhi, Abu Ya'qub of Basra, a weaver and Follower who narrated from Ibrahim al-Nakha'i… - Person
Farrukhsiyar
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Fartana
One of the two singing slave-girls of Abdullah ibn Khatal in Mecca who performed lampoons against the… - Person
Fartuun Adan
2 February 1969 CE · 1388 AHSomali social activist, born in 1969. She is executive director of the Elman Peace and Human Rights Centre in… - Person
Farwa ibn Amr al-Judhami
An Arab commander in Byzantine service governing the tribes around Ma'an in southern Syria, who embraced… - Person
Farwa ibn Musayk al-Muradi
A chief of Murad and poet; he came to the Prophet breaking with the kings of Kinda and embraced Islam, the… - Person
Farwah ibn Amr al-Ansari
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Fasih Ahmed Dede
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Fatali Khan Khoyski
7 December 1875 CE · 1292 AHAzerbaijani lawyer and statesman (1875–1920), deputy of the Second State Duma and the first chairman of the… - Person
Fateh Ali Khan Qizilbash
1862 CE · 1278 AH†Nawab Sir Fateh Ali Khan Qizilbash (1862–1923) was a Lahore landlord of the Punjab who succeeded his uncle in… - Person
Fatema Mernissi
27 September 1940 CE · 1359 AHMoroccan sociologist and writer, born at Fez in 1940 and raised in her paternal grandmother's harem. Educated… - Person
Fath'ali Hijab Shirazi
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Fathullah ibn Ulwan al-Kabi
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Fathullah Imad Shah
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Fatih Seferagic
1 March 1995 CE · 1415 AHBosnian-American Qur'an reciter and teacher born in Germany in 1995. Raised in the United States, he… - Person
Fatih Terim
4 September 1953 CE · 1372 AHTurkish football manager and former defender, born in Adana in 1953. After eleven years as a Galatasaray… - Person
Fatih Yağcı
A Turkish religious-media leader, the public face of the Sözler Köşkü Science and Culture Association and the… - Person
فاتك الرومي الإخشيدي
The Byzantine-born commander Fatik 'al-Maimun', freed for his generosity and courage, Kafur's fellow in… - Person
Fatik ibn Abi al-Jahl al-Asadi
The Banu Dabba man who killed al-Mutanabbi in the ambush near al-Nu'maniyya, 354. - Person
Fatima bint Muhammad
c. 605 CEThe youngest daughter of the Prophet and Khadija and wife of Ali ibn Abi Talib; mother of Hasan and Husayn… - Person
Fatima al-Fihri
c. 800 CE · c. 184 AH†Fatima al-Fihri. - Person
Fatima al-Naysaburiyya
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Fatima al-Samarqandi
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Fatima Barkatulla
British Islamic scholar ('alimah), author and podcaster, born in London. She studied Arabic and Islamic… - Person
Fatima bint Abbas al-Baghdadiyya
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Fatima bint Abd al-Malik
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Fatima bint al-Harith ibn Khalid
Daughter of al-Harith ibn Khalid and Rayta, born in the land of Abyssinia; she is the only one of Rayta's… - Person
Fatima bint al-Hasan al-Athram
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فاطمة بنت الحسين
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Fatima bint al-Kharshub
A woman of Banu Anmar in pre-Islamic times, mother of al-Rabi' ibn Ziyad; her words to her son became a… - Person
Fatima bint al-Khattab
Umar ibn al-Khattab's sister and Sa'id ibn Zayd's wife; among the earliest Muslims of the secret call, which… - Person
Fatima bint al-Mujallal
Wife of Hatib ibn al-Harith al-Jumahi; she emigrated to Abyssinia and arrived with her two sons in one of the… - Person
Fatima bint al-Qadir
Daughter of the caliph al-Qadir and sister of al-Qa'im; died in the plague year 448 — her bier and that of… - Person
Fatima bint Amr al-Makhzumiyya
Mother of Abdullah, the Prophet's father, and so his paternal grandmother; of Banu Makhzum, daughter of Amr… - Person
Fatima bint Asad
Mother of Ali ibn Abi Talib and his brothers; in the sounder report she emigrated and died in Medina, and the… - Person
Fatima bint Khalil, al-Qababi's Co-Transmitter
Fatima bint Khalil, the aged Hanbali musnida — co-transmitter with Zayn al-Din al-Qababi of most of his… - Person
Fatima bint Malik ibn Anas
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Fatima bint Mundhir
c. 668 CE · c. 48 AH†Draft card for Fatima bint Mundhir ibn al-Zubayr, the Medinan successor and hadith transmitter; her entry is… - Person
Fatima bint Musa (al-Ma'suma)
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Fatima bint Qays al-Fihriyya
A sister of al-Dahhak ibn Qays and one of the first emigrants, known for beauty and intelligence; divorced by… - Person
Fatima bint Quraymizan
c. 16 June 1473 CE · 4 Muharram 878 AHFatima bint Quraymizan — shaykha of both the 'Adiliyya and Dajajiyya khanqahs of Aleppo; b. 4 Muharram 878, a… - Person
فاطمة بنت سعد الأزدية
Mother of Qusayy ibn Kilab: Fatima bint Sa'd b. Sayl of the Azd Shanu'a, her mother a Khuza'i — one of the… - Person
Fatima bint Safwan
Wife of Amr ibn Sa'id ibn al-As, of Kinana; she emigrated with him to Abyssinia and died there. - Person
Fatima Jinnah
31 July 1893 CE · 1311 AHPakistani dental surgeon and politician (1893–1967), the younger sister of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and his… - Person
Fatima Meer
12 August 1928 CE · 1347 AHSouth African writer, sociologist and anti-apartheid activist, born in Durban in 1928. She was a founding… - Person
Umm al-Hasan Fatima al-Husayniyya
c. 1332 CE · c. 732 AHUmm al-Hasan Fatima al-Husayniyya of Aleppo, sister of the naqib al-ashraf (b. 732/733) — heard hadith on her… - Person
Fatimah bint al-Hasan
Draft card for Fatimah bint al-Hasan ibn Ali, of the Prophet's house in the seventh century; the biographical… - Person
Fatkin al-Turki
Fatkin al-Turki (d. 372) — mawla of the Buyid Mu'izz al-Dawla; seized Damascus and marched against the… - Person
Fatma Aliye Topuz
9 October 1862 CE · 1279 AHOttoman Turkish novelist and essayist (1862–1936), daughter of the historian and jurist Ahmed Cevdet Pasha,… - Person
Lalla Fatma N'Soumer
c. 1830 CE · 1246 AHAlgerian Kabyle resistance leader (c. 1830–1863). From Ouerdja in Kabylie, she led, alongside Cherif… - Person
Fatma Sultan, daughter of Murad II
Draft card for Fatma Khatun, the fifteenth-century Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Murad II; the source… - Person
Fawad Ahmed
10 March 1979 CE · 1399 AHAustralian former cricketer, a right-arm leg-spin bowler born in Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. He left… - Person
Fawzi al-Qawuqji
19 January 1890 CE · 1307 AHArab military officer (1890–1977) from Tripoli who served in the Ottoman, Syrian and Iraqi armies and… - Person
Fawzia Koofi
1975 CE · 1395 AHAfghan politician, women's rights activist and writer, born in 1975 in Badakhshan. She worked as a child… - Person
Fayd ibn al-Khidr al-Awlasi
Abu'l-Harith al-Awlasi, a singer in his youth until he fetched a pomegranate for a dying man on the roadside,… - Person
Fayez al-Sarraj
20 February 1960 CE · 1379 AHLibyan architect and politician, born at Tripoli in 1960. He chaired Libya's Presidential Council and headed… - Person
Faymiyun the monk
The ascetic and answered supplicant who entered Najran before the second Abyssinian occupation and called its… - Person
فيصل بن تركي
Faysal ibn Turki (d. 1865 CE) — the Saudi amir who made Riyadh the seat of the emirate: captured by Egyptian… - Person
Fayz Kashani
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Fayzulla Khodzhayev
1 June 1896 CE · 19 Dhu al-Hijja 1313 AH†Bukharan and Uzbek Soviet politician (1896–1938): a Jadid and Young Bukharan leader who became the first head… - Person
Fazal Rahman
A British dawah trainer, author of the Dawah Training manual and course published under the name 'Dawah Is… - Person
Fazel Darbandi
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أحمد كوبريللي
Fazıl Ahmed Köprülü (d. ~1676) — took Neuhausl, Austria's greatest fortress, in September 1663, and faced… - Person
Köprülü Fazıl Mustafa Pasha
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Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi
1797 CE · 1212 AHIndian scholar, philosopher and poet (1797–1861) of Khairabad, a mufti and theologian who studied hadith… - Person
Fazle Hasan Abed
27 April 1936 CE · 1355 AHFounder of BRAC (27 April 1936 – 20 December 2019). A former Shell Oil finance executive, he sold his London… - Person
Fazlollah Nouri
24 November 1843 CE · 1259 AHTwelver Shia jurist of Qajar Iran (1843–1909). He studied in the shrine cities of Iraq under Mirza Hasan… - Person
Fazlur Rahman Khan
3 April 1929 CE · 1347 AHBangladeshi-American structural engineer, born in Dhaka in 1929 and died in 1982, who invented the tubular… - Person
Fehim-i Kadim
Draft card for Fehim-i Kadim, the Ottoman poet and writer, d. 1647; the biographical entry is not yet checked… - Person
Fehmida Mirza
20 December 1956 CE · 1376 AHPakistani physician and politician born in Karachi in 1956. Elected to the National Assembly five times from… - Person
Fei-Fei Li
3 July 1976 CE · 1396 AHFei-Fei Li (born 3 July 1976) is a Chinese-American computer scientist, a professor at Stanford University… - Person
Fenarizade Muhyiddin Celebi
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Ferdi
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Ferhad Pasha
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Ferhat Abbas
24 August 1899 CE · 1317 AHAlgerian politician and writer (1899–1985). A pharmacist from Sétif, he founded the Democratic Union of the… - Person
Feridun Ahmed Bey
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Feryal Clark
6 January 1979 CE · 1399 AHBritish Labour Party politician, born in Malatya, Turkey, in 1979 to Kurdish parents, who moved to London at… - Person
Fevri
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Fevzi Çakmak
12 January 1876 CE · 1292 AHTurkish field marshal and statesman, with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk one of Turkey's only two marshals. He… - Person
Shaykh al-Islam Feyzullah Efendi
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Feza Gürsey
7 April 1921 CE · 1339 AHTurkish theoretical physicist (1921–1992), born in Istanbul and educated at Galatasaray, Istanbul University… - Person
Fil, Ziyad's Mawla
Fil, Ziyad's mawla and chamberlain, owner of Basra's second bathhouse; his hamlaaj-nag beside Abu al-Aswad's… - Person
Firaq Gorakhpuri
28 August 1896 CE · 1314 AHIndian Urdu poet and critic (1896–1982), whose birth name was Raghupati Sahay, of Gorakhpur. He taught… - Person
Firas ibn al-Nadr
Of Banu Abd al-Dar; Ibn Ishaq names him among the rest of the emigrants to Abyssinia. - Person
Pharaoh (Firawn)
Pharaoh as Sheikh Omar Abdelkafy mentions him in the series 'Al Fawzu Al Moubeen': his dream, which his… - Person
Firdevsi-i Rumi
Draft card for Firdevsi-i Rumi, the sixteenth-century Ottoman author of the Suleymannama, d. 1600; the source… - Person
Firouz Naderi
25 March 1946 CE · 1365 AHFirouz Michael Naderi (25 March 1946 – 9 June 2023) was an Iranian-American electrical engineer and NASA… - Person
Firoz Khan Noon
7 May 1893 CE · 1310 AHPakistani politician and writer (1893–1970), the seventh prime minister of Pakistan (December 1957 – October… - Person
Firuz son of Yazdgard III
son of the last Sasanian; in al-Baladhuri, fallen to the Turks who married him and kept him among them. - Person
Firuz Shah Tughluq
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Pythagoras
Famed in al-Mas'udi's survey as one who knew hidden sciences and kinds of revelation by the purity of his… - Person
Fitnat Hanim
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Francis I of France
Francis I, king of France in Süleyman's reign; taken prisoner at Pavia in 1525, his mother the regent and he… - Person
Francis Marrash
29 June 1836 CE · 1252 AHSyrian writer, poet and physician from Aleppo (1836–1874), a leading figure of the Nahda; author of Ghabat… - Person
Francisco de Almeida
Francisco de Almeida — 'Alunzu di Almida' in al-Salabi — commander of the Portuguese fleet beaten by Husayn… - Person
Franck Ribéry
7 April 1983 CE · 1403 AHFrench retired footballer, born in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France in 1983. A winger who spent twelve seasons at… - Person
Frédéric Kanouté
2 September 1977 CE · 1397 AHMalian retired footballer, born in France in 1977. A striker who starred for Sevilla, winning two consecutive… - Person
Frederick Barbarossa
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Frederick II
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Frederick Taylor
The American engineer Frederick Taylor, as presented by Tareq al-Suwaidan: in 1911 he published what is… - Person
French Montana
9 November 1984 CE · 1405 AHMoroccan-American rapper, born Karim Kharbouch in Casablanca in 1984, who immigrated with his family to New… - Person
Fuad I of Egypt
26 March 1868 CE · 1284 AHSultan of Egypt from 1917 to 1922 and then its first king, from 1922 to 1936; the youngest son of Khedive… - Person
Fuad Masum
1 July 1938 CE · 1357 AHMuhammad Fuad Masum (born 1 July 1938) is an Iraqi Kurdish politician, the second non-Arab president of the… - Person
Fudayl ibn Ali al-Jamali
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Fukayha bint Yasar
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Fukhta bint Qarita
The Kufan woman who darted out of her door at the takbir for al-Hasan's peace — 'bless you, commander, what… - Person
Furat ibn Hayyan
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Fuzuli
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Gabdulla Tukay
26 April 1886 CE · 22 Rajab 1303 AH†Tatar poet, critic and publisher (1886–1913), regarded as the founder of modern Tatar literature and of the… - Person
Gabriel Al Romaani
Romanian-born dawah speaker and teacher: born to a Christian family in Romania, he migrated to Canada in 1998… - Person
Galiaskar Kamal
6 January 1879 CE · 12 Muharram 1296 AH†Tatar playwright (1879–1933), regarded as the founder of modern Tatar drama and the father of the Tatar… - Person
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
15 January 1918 CE · 1336 AHGamal Abdel Nasser (15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970) was an Egyptian officer and politician who led the… - Person
Gamzat-bek
1789 CE · 1203 AH†Gamzat-bek (Hamzat Bek) ibn Iskandar-Bek (1789–1834) was the second Imam of Dagestan (1832–1834) and the… - Person
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Gazi Osman Pasha
1832 CE · 1248 AHOsman Nuri Pasha (1832 – 5 April 1900), known as Gazi Osman Pasha, was an Ottoman field marshal from Tokat… - Person
Gedik Ahmed Pasha
Gedik Ahmed Pasha, Ottoman grand vizier and admiral, born in Serbia and taken into Murad II's palace. He… - Person
جنكزخان قان التتار
Rising through his aunt's dead husband's kingdom, Genghis allied with Kashlukhan against the great Qan, broke… - Person
Gennadios II (Scholarios)
Gennadios, the patriarch the Christians of Constantinople elected after the conquest in al-Salabi's telling:… - Person
George Amiroutzes
George Amiroutzes, 'the Greek scholar' of al-Salabi's text: when Mehmed II came upon Ptolemy's Geography and… - Person
جرجي بن ميخائيل الأنطاكي
An Antioch Christian who migrated west, mastered the tongue and reckoning and was made Tamim b. al-Mu'izz's… - Person
George Sale
English orientalist and translator of the Qur'an. Zaqzuq reports that the preface to his English translation,… - Person
George Weah
1 October 1966 CE · 1386 AHLiberian retired footballer and 25th president of Liberia (2018–2024), born in Monrovia in 1966. The only… - Person
Geredeli Ishak
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Gervinho
27 May 1987 CE · 1407 AHIvorian retired footballer, born in Anyama, Ivory Coast in 1987. A forward who won the French league-and-cup… - Person
Ghada al-Samman
1942 CE · 1361 AH†Syrian writer, journalist and novelist born in Damascus in 1942 to a prominent Damascene family; she studied… - Person
غالب بن عبد الرحمن الناصر
Al-Hakam's mawla and lord of Medinaceli who helped Ibn Abi Amir kill al-Mughira and destroy al-Mushafi — and… - Person
Ghalib ibn Abd Allah al-Laythi
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A Companion of Kalb ibn Awf ibn Layth; the Prophet set him over a detachment against Banu al-Mulawwah at… - Person
Ghalib ibn Sa'sa'a
Ghalib b. Sa'sa'a al-Tamimi — al-Farazdaq's father and a chief of his people; his mother was al-Aqra' b.… - Person
Ghanim ibn Asakir al-Maqdisi
c. 1166 CE · 562 AHGhanim b. Asakir al-Maqdisi (562–632) — the hidden saint of Burin: settled at Jerusalem the year Salah al-Din… - Person
Ghannam al-Najdi
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Ghassan ibn Abbad
Ghassan ibn Abbad of Kufa's sawad; al-Ma'mun's man who drew Bishr ibn Dawud out in aman and left Musa ibn… - Person
غيلان الدمشقي
Head of the Qadariyya in Damascus; per al-Dhahabi, Ghaylan proclaimed qadar in Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz's… - Person
Ghaylan ibn Kharasha al-Dabbi
Ghaylan ibn Kharasha al-Dabbi; he ran Ibn Amir's digging of the Umm Abdallah Dajaja canal — the one Haritha… - Person
Ghaylan ibn Salama al-Thaqafi
travelled with Bishr's company to Ta'if and learned the script from them. - Person
Ghazala, Shabib's wife
Shabib the Kharijite's wife — a famed horsewoman who fulfilled her vow of two rak'as in Kufa's mosque… - Person
قازان بن أرغون بن أبغا بن هولاكو
King of the Tatars, Hulagu's great-grandson; his conversion in 694 rejoiced the people and spread Islam… - Person
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Ghazi Muhammad
1795 CE · 1209 AH†Ghazi Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Gimrawi (1795–1832), called Kazi-Mulla in Russian sources, was a Dagestani… - Person
Gazzi Ahmed Efendi
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Ghiyath al-Din Kaykhusraw I
Seljuk sultan of Rum — exiled by his brother, snubbed at Aleppo, pensioned and married into the patriciate at… - Person
Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad ibn Sam
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غياث بن إبراهيم
A hadith-transmitter to al-Mahdi who grafted 'or wing' onto Abu Hurayra's 'no wager save on hoof or… - Person
Ghulam Ghaus Hazarvi
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Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah
January 1879 CE · 1296 AHSir Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah (1879–1948), a Sindhi lawyer and politician, the first Premier of Sindh after… - Person
Ghulam Jilani Barq
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Ghulam Muhammad Tarzi
30 April 1830 CE · 7 Dhu al-Qa'da 1245 AH†Afghan sardar and poet of the Mohammadzai house of Kandahar (1830–1900), a son of Sardar Rahim Dil Khan. A… - Person
Ghulam Rasool Hazarvi
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Ghulam Rasul Alampuri
29 January 1849 CE · 1265 AHPunjabi poet (1849–1892) of Alampur in Hoshiarpur district, from a Gujjar family. He taught in village… - Person
Ghulam Rasul Balyawi
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أبو عمر غلام ثعلب اللغوي الزاهد
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahid, Abu Umar 'Ghulam Tha'lab', the philologist-ascetic who dictated thirty thousand… - Person
Ghunayya al-A'rabiyya
A Bedouin woman whose words to her son became a proverb after she took blood-money for his ear and lip. - Person
Ghurak, King of Sughd
Ghurak, king of Sughd; he summoned the Shash king's aid and was broken, then truced at two hundred and two… - Person
Ghusayb ibn Zamil al-Jabri
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Gilles Kepel
30 June 1955 CE · 1374 AHFrench political scientist and Arabist, born in 1955 in Paris, specialising in the contemporary Middle East… - Person
Gita Gopinath
8 December 1971 CE · 1391 AHGita Gopinath (born 8 December 1971) is an Indian-American economist who served as chief economist of the… - Person
Giovanni Giustiniani
Giustiniani, commander of Constantinople's defenders in the 857/1453 siege in al-Salabi's account; he fought… - Person
كندفري صاحب القدس الفرنجي
Godfrey (Godefroy), the Frankish leader whose host took Jerusalem in 491; besieging Acre in 494 he was struck… - Person
Gohar Sultan Begum
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Gökhan Saki
18 October 1983 CE · 1404 AHTurkish-Dutch kickboxer and mixed martial artist born in Schiedam in 1983 to Turkish parents from Kars. He… - Person
Granit Xhaka
27 September 1992 CE · 1413 AHSwiss professional footballer of Kosovar Albanian descent, born in Basel in 1992. A defensive midfielder who… - Person
البطريرك جريجوريوس
Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople — executed on Easter day 1821 after an Ottoman raid on the patriarchate… - Person
Gufti
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Gul Baba
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Gulam Shadi
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Gulbadan Begum
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Gulsehri
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Gulsheni Saruhani
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Güzelce Ali Pasha
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Ha Decheng
1888 CE · 1305 AH†Chinese Muslim scholar from Nanzheng, Shaanxi (1888–1943), known by his religious name Hilal al-Din, a… - Person
Hababa
The singing-girl procured by Yazid's grandmother to displace Salama — she summoned al-Ahwas's verse and… - Person
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حبان بن أبي جبلة
Mawla of Banu Abd al-Dar, a tabi'i of the Egyptian register who transmitted from Amr b. al-As, Ibn Abbas and… - Person
Habbar ibn Sufyan
Of Banu Makhzum; he emigrated to Abyssinia and was killed at Ajnadayn in Abu Bakr's caliphate. - Person
Habib Bourguiba
3 August 1903 CE · 1321 AHHabib Bourguiba (1903–2000) was the Tunisian politician who led the independence movement against France,… - Person
Habib ibn Abi Thabit
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Habib ibn al-Muhallab
Habib ibn al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra; Sulayman's Sind-war commander — received obedience on Mihran's shore and… - Person
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Habiba bint Ubaydullah
Daughter of Ubaydullah ibn Jahsh and Umm Habiba; her mother was called Umm Habiba after her. Her mother took… - Person
Habiba Da Silva
British beauty and modest-fashion creator based in Birmingham, known online as LifeLongPercussion from her… - Person
Habiba Sarabi
1956 CE · 1375 AHAfghan hematologist, politician and reformer, born in 1956. During the first Taliban rule she fled with her… - Person
Habibullah Khan
2 July 1872 CE · 25 Rabi' II 1289 AH†Emir of Afghanistan (1901–1919) of the Barakzai dynasty, eldest son of Emir Abdur Rahman Khan. A relatively… - Person
Habibullah Mehmaan Nawaaz
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Habibur Rahman Usmani
1860 CE · 1276 AH†Draft card for Habibur Rahman Usmani, the Deobandi hadith scholar; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Habil (Abel)
Adam's son who was killed. He was a herdsman; al-Tha'labi reports that his offering was accepted and that he… - Person
Habsha ibn Dahir
Habsha ibn Dahir; restored to Brahmanabadh after his father's death, he answered Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz's… - Person
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Hacı Halil Pasha
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Hadi al-Khidri
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Hafeez Jullundhri
14 January 1900 CE · 1317 AHPakistani poet (1900–1982) who wrote the lyrics of Pakistan's national anthem (the Qaumi Tarana) and of the… - Person
Hafez al-Assad
6 October 1930 CE · 1349 AHSyrian officer and politician from Qardaha (1930–2000), president of Syria from 1971 until his death. He rose… - Person
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Hafiz al-Din al-Nasafi
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Hafiz Ali Khan
1888 CE · 1305 AHIndian sarod player (1888–1972), born at Gwalior into the Bangash line of sarod players and trained under… - Person
Hafiz Ibrahim
24 February 1872 CE · 1288 AHEgyptian poet (1872–1932), dubbed 'Poet of the Nile' and 'Poet of the People' because his poetry voiced the… - Person
Hafiz Komur Efendi
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Hafiz Osman
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Hafiz Post
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Hafiz Rahmat Khan
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Hafiz 'Ubayd al-Abyurdi
Hafiz 'Ubayd al-Abyurdi — the 'allama of Abyurd in Khorasan; died 895. - Person
Hafizullah Amin
1 August 1929 CE · 26 Safar 1348 AH†Afghan communist politician, born at Paghman in 1929 and educated at Kabul and Columbia University. The… - Person
Hafs Abu Umar ibn Sulayman
709 CE · 90 AHWell-known transmitter of the reading of Asim ibn Abi al-Najud and one of the seven canonical readers, reader… - Person
Hafs ibn Ghiyath
735 CE · 117 AH†Draft card for Hafs ibn Ghiyath al-Nakha'i, the Abbasid qadi of Kufa and Baghdad and reliable hadith master;… - Person
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Hafsa bint Umar
c. 605 CEA wife of the Prophet and daughter of Umar ibn al-Khattab, remembered in Sunni tradition as the keeper of the… - Person
Hafsa bint Sirin
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Hafsa Sultan (valide sultan)
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Hafsah Adham
British spiritual confidence coach and public speaker, founder of the Awakened Hearts Academy and The… - Person
Haider al-Abadi
25 April 1952 CE · 1371 AHHaider Jawad Kadhim al-Abadi (born 25 April 1952) is an Iraqi politician who was prime minister of Iraq from… - Person
Haifaa al-Mansour
10 August 1974 CE · 1394 AHSaudi film director, born in Al Zulfi in 1974 and brought up in Al-Hasa. One of the first and best-known… - Person
Haifaa Younis
American board-certified obstetrician-gynaecologist of Iraqi roots, founder and chairman of the Jannah… - Person
Haitham al-Haddad
British Muslim scholar of Palestinian origin who grew up in Makkah; he took a PhD at SOAS, University of… - Person
Haitham bin Tariq
11 October 1955 CE · 1375 AHHaitham bin Tariq Al Said (born 11 October 1955) is the Sultan of Oman since 11 January 2020, succeeding his… - Person
Haitham Talaat
1981 CE · 1401 AHEgyptian physician, researcher and preacher known for his critique of atheism, born in 1981 in Upper Egypt.… - Person
Hajar (Hagar)
Wife of Ibrahim and mother of Ismail; tradition tells she was settled by Ibrahim with her infant son in the… - Person
Haci Ali
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Haji Maqsud Tabrizi
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Haji Misbach
c. 1876 CE · c. 1293 AH†Indonesian preacher and activist from Surakarta (c. 1876–1926), a batik trader educated in the pesantren who… - Person
Hacı Pasha
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Hajib ibn Malik al-Farghani
Abu'l-'Abbas the blind Farghani, who heard across Iraq, Syria and Egypt — Ibn Abi'l-Shawarib, Abu Hammam, Abu… - Person
Hajib ibn Zurara al-Tamimi
A chief of Tamim named in al-Raheeq al-Makhtum with Hani ibn Mas'ud and al-Samaw'al ibn Adiya as an example… - Person
Hacihasanzade Efendi
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Hajjaj ibn Amr ibn Ghaziyya al-Ansari
Hajjaj ibn Amr ibn Ghaziyya al-Ansari al-Mazini al-Madani, a Companion, though some count him among the… - Person
Hajjaj ibn Artah
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الحجاج بن هرمزقنة أبو جعفر القائد
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Hajjaj ibn Muhammad
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Hajjaj ibn Yusuf al-Thaqafi
Abu Ishaq 'Ibn al-Sha'ir' of Baghdad, son of the poet Yusuf who attended Iyas ibn Mu'awiya; a trustworthy,… - Person
Shaykh 'Abdallah 'Hajji Khalifa'
Hajji Khalifa of Kastamonu — the exoteric sciences mastered first, then Taj al-Din ibn Bakhshi's successor in… - Person
Hakam al-Wadi
A singer named in the section on Mutiy ibn Iyas. - Person
Hakan Çalhanoğlu
8 February 1994 CE · 1414 AHProfessional footballer (born 1994 in Mannheim, Germany) who plays as a midfielder for Inter Milan and… - Person
Hakeem Olajuwon
21 January 1963 CE · 1382 AHNigerian-American former basketball player, born in Lagos in 1963, who played 18 NBA seasons, mostly with the… - Person
Hakim Abdul Hameed
14 September 1908 CE · 1326 AHHakim Abdul Hameed (1908–1999) was an Indian physician of the Unani system of medicine, founder and chief… - Person
Hakim Ajmal Khan
11 February 1868 CE · 1284 AHIndian Unani physician of Delhi (1868–1927), from a family of physicians who had served the Mughal court,… - Person
Hakim Ghulam Nabi
Hakim Ghulam Nabi (d. 1916) was an Indian Unani physician of Lahore who wrote some forty medical books in… - Person
Hakim ibn Hizam
A nephew of Khadija and a leader of Quraysh; he fought at Badr with the polytheists and escaped, embraced… - Person
Hakim ibn Jabala al-Abdi
Hakim ibn Jabala al-Abdi; Abdallah ibn Amir's scout of the Indian frontier — his rhymed dismissal ('its water… - Person
Hakim Mehmed Efendi
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Hakim Nabina Ansari
1868 CE · 1285 AH†Hakim Abdul Wahhab Ansari (1868–1941), known as Hakim Nabina Ansari, was an Indian Unani physician blinded in… - Person
Hakim Muhammad Said
9 January 1920 CE · 1338 AHHakim Muhammad Said (9 January 1920 – 17 October 1998) was a Pakistani physician, researcher and… - Person
Hakim Ziyech
19 March 1993 CE · 1413 AHMoroccan professional footballer (born 1993 in Dronten, Netherlands, to Moroccan parents). A playmaker… - Person
Hala Samir
Egyptian Muslim preacher and media presenter and a family and educational counsellor, known to Arab audiences… - Person
Halaki
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Halal Chef
British content creator who has published under his channel name Halal Chef on YouTube since 2016, presenting… - Person
Halal Trainer
Canada-based Pokémon-card vendor and collector who publishes under his channel name Halal Trainer on YouTube,… - Person
Halide Edib Adıvar
11 June 1884 CE · 1301 AHTurkish novelist and writer (1884–1964), a leading figure of the Turkish literary revival and national… - Person
Halil Hamid Pasha
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Halim Celebi
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Halima al-Sa'diyya
c. 540 (approx.) CEA Bedouin woman of Banu Sa'd who nursed the infant Muhammad in the desert for several years, as was the… - Person
Halima bint al-Harith
A daughter of al-Harith ibn Abi Shamir al-Ghassani. Al-Nuwayri records that when her father went out to meet… - Person
Halimah Yacob
23 August 1954 CE · 1373 AHSingaporean politician and lawyer born in 1954 to a poor family, the daughter of an Indian-Muslim father and… - Person
Halime Sultan
Draft card for Halime Sultan, valide sultan in the reign of Mustafa I, named from an open reference… - Person
Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil
1866 CE · 1283 AHTurkish novelist and writer, born at Istanbul in 1866 and died there in 1945. He founded the newspaper Hizmet… - Person
Hamad al-Ansari
1924 CE · 1342 AH†Draft card for Hamad al-Ansari, the hadith scholar and teacher at the Prophet's Mosque; his entry is not yet… - Person
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
28 January 1950 CE · 1369 AHHamad bin Isa Al Khalifa (born 28 January 1950) is King of Bahrain since 2002, having been its Emir from… - Person
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
1 January 1952 CE · 1371 AHHamad bin Khalifa Al Thani (1 January 1952 – 12 July 2026) was Emir of Qatar from 1995 until his abdication… - Person
Hamad bin Thuwaini of Zanzibar
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Hamdallah Mustawfi
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Hamdan ibn Hamdun
Progenitor of the Hamdanids, besieged by al-Mu'tadid in his costly fortress al-Sawwara near 'Ayn al-Za'faran.… - Person
Hamdan Khoja
1715 CE · 1128 AHFrom a family of standing and learning with a political role in the Dey's state. He wrote on politics and… - Person
Hamdis al-Qattan
845 CE · 230 AHAhmad ibn Muhammad al-Ash'ari, Abu Ja'far, known as Hamdis al-Qattan — said to be of the progeny of Abu Musa… - Person
Hamdullah Hamdi
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Hamdullah Jan Dagai
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Hamdun al-Qassar
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Hamdun ibn 'Ammara al-Bazzar
Abu Ja'far al-Bazzar, a trustworthy traditionist whose laqab Hamdun ('the praiser') eclipsed his given name… - Person
Hamid Afandi, mufti of the Sultanic seat
Molla Hamid Afandi — Abu al-Su'ud's successor as mufti of the Sultanic seat; 'among the excellent men of… - Person
Hamid al-A'raj
Hamid ibn Qays al-A'raj, Abu Safwan, a client of the Banu Asad ibn Abd al-Uzza, reader of the people of… - Person
Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani
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Hamid Aytac
1891 CE · 1308 AH†Draft card for Hamid Aytac, the great calligrapher of the Turkish Republic; his entry is not yet checked on… - Person
حامد بن العباس
He farmed the Sawad and renewed the exactions; prices soared in Baghdad in 308, the mob rioted, burnt the… - Person
Hamid Karzai
24 December 1957 CE · 3 Jumada II 1377 AH†Afghan politician who led Afghanistan from December 2001 to September 2014 — chairman of the interim… - Person
Hamida al-Barbariyya
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Hamida Banu Begum
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Hamida Javanshir
19 January 1873 CE · 1289 AHAzerbaijani educator, activist and philanthropist (1873–1955), one of the first enlightened women of… - Person
Hamidi
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Hamidizade Celili
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Hamidizade Mustafa Efendi
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Hamiduddin Farahi
18 November 1863 CE · 1280 AHIndian scholar and exegete (1863–1930) of Phariha in Azamgarh district, originator of the theory of nazm, or… - Person
Hamka
17 February 1908 CE · 1326 AHIndonesian scholar, writer and journalist, born in 1908 and died in 1981; first chairman of the Indonesian… - Person
حماد عجرد
Hammad Ajrad — Persian-mawla poet and secretary in Mosul, famed (and, per Abu Nuwas's prison testimony,… - Person
حماد الدباس
The ascetic Hammad ibn Muslim al-Dabbas, shaykh of Shaykh Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani; raised at Baghdad, where he… - Person
Hammad al-Rawiya
The poetry transmitter — his version of Layla's tale ends with the white dove springing from Tawba's grave as… - Person
Hammad al-Turki
Al-Mansur's doorman and the eyewitness of the midnight kharita — the caliph himself rose to open the door. - Person
Hammad ibn Abi Hanifa
Hammad b. Abi Hanifa — the great imam's son, on his father's school; famous for insisting the deposits left… - Person
Hammad ibn Abi Sulayman
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Hammad ibn Buluggin
Hammad ibn Buluggin ibn Ziri al-Sanhaji, founder of the Hammadid state; his brother al-Mansur Buluggin… - Person
Hammad ibn Ishaq al-Azdi
c. 814 CE · 199 AHHammad ibn Ishaq al-Azdi — qadi of Baghdad, transmitter from al-Qa'nabi, described as trustworthy, eloquent,… - Person
Hammad ibn Salama
The Basran traditionist, dead in 160. - Person
Hammad ibn Usama
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Hammad ibn Zayd
717 CE · 98 AHA hadith scholar of Basra, described as among the most pious and reliable memorizers. He memorized four… - Person
Hammam ibn Hani' al-Abdi
al-Jurashi's commander; in al-Baladhuri, to whom most of al-Mafaza's people commended their estates — he held… - Person
Hammude Pasa
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Hamna bint Jahsh
Sister of Zaynab bint Jahsh, wife of Mus'ab ibn Umayr, who was killed at Uhud, and then of Talha ibn… - Person
Hamra bint Damra
An old woman of Tamim captured in Amr's revenge; her words 'Will no young man take an old woman's place?'… - Person
Hamoud bin Mohammed of Zanzibar
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Hamud ibn Rabi'an al-Jabri
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Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib
c. 568 CEAn uncle of the Prophet who became one of the fiercest early defenders of Islam; killed at Uhud and… - Person
Hamza al-Dabbi
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Hamza al-Hasan
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Hamza al-Nashiri
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Hamza Bali
Draft card for Hamza Bali Orlović, the sixteenth-century Bosnian Sufi leader, d. 1573; the biographical entry… - Person
Hamza Choudhury
1 October 1997 CE · 1418 AHEnglish midfielder of Bangladeshi and Grenadian descent (born 1997 in Loughborough) who came through the… - Person
Hamza El Din
10 July 1929 CE · 1348 AHEgyptian Nubian musician — oud and tar player, vocalist and composer — born in the village of Toshka in… - Person
Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi
6 March 1889 CE · 4 Rajab 1306 AH†Uzbek poet, playwright and composer (1889–1929), founder of modern Uzbek musical forms and Uzbek social… - Person
Hamza Hamid Paşa
1688 CE · 1099 AH†Draft card for Hamza Hamid Pasha, the Ottoman grand vizier; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Hamza ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr
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Hamza ibn Abd Allah ibn Umar
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Hamza ibn Abyadh
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Hamza ibn Ahmad al-Husayni
Hamza ibn Ahmad ibn 'Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-'Abbas al-Husayni of Damascus, a Shafi'i jurist, historian and… - Person
Hamza ibn Bay al-Hanafi
A Kufan poet of Banu Hanifa in the Umayyad period, who praised al-Muhallab and his sons and Aban ibn… - Person
Hamza ibn Turgut Aydini
Draft card for Hamza ibn Turgut Aydini, the Ottoman writer (orator, d. 1571); the biographical entry is not… - Person
Hamza Andreas Tzortzis
21 September 1980 CE · 1400 AHBritish Muslim speaker and researcher of Greek descent, born in 1980. He embraced Islam in 2002, became known… - Person
Hamza Yusuf
1958 CE · 1377 AH†American Muslim scholar born in 1958 as Mark Hanson in Washington State. He converted to Islam in 1977,… - Person
Hamzah al-Kufi
Draft card for Hamzah al-Zayyat al-Kufi, one of the seven canonical readers and Kufa's qari; his entry is not… - Person
Hanan Ashrawi
8 October 1946 CE · 1365 AHHanan Ashrawi (born 8 October 1946) is a Palestinian scholar and politician born in Nablus to Palestinian… - Person
Hanan Barakat
A Qur'an and tajweed teacher who runs a YouTube channel under her own name, dedicated to women, offering… - Person
Hanash ibn al-Mubashshir
A hadith-folk chief — brother and lifelong silent opponent of the Mu'tazilite Ja'far. - Person
Hanbal ibn Ishaq
Draft card for Hanbal ibn Ishaq ibn Hanbal, the ninth-century Baghdad muhaddith and cousin of Imam Ahmad, d.… - Person
Handan Valide Sultan
Handan Valide Sultan; mother of Sultan Ahmed I and consort of Sultan Mehmed III; she died 15 Rajab 1014/26… - Person
Hani ibn Hawdha al-Nakha'i
A man of the Nakha' listed by the book as Ali's governor of Kufa; the passage gives neither the dates of his… - Person
Hani ibn Masʾud al-Shaybani
The chief of Banu Shayban who kept al-Nuʾman’s family and deposit out of honor, refused to surrender them to… - Person
Hani Sidow
British-Somali beauty blogger and author known on Instagram as @hanihanns. She built her following with… - Person
حنش بن عبد الله الصنعاني
The great tabi'i of Kufa and Egypt whose tomb at Zaragoza the locals bless as that of one who entered… - Person
Hanzala ibn Abi Amir al-Ansari (the one washed by the angels)
An Ansari Companion of the Aws, son of Abu Amir the monk whom the Prophet called the reprobate. He was newly… - Person
Hanzala ibn Khalid, Abu Malik
Hanzala ibn Khalid al-Tamimi, Abu Malik of Qazwin; he worked till all of Dastaba — long split between Rayy… - Person
Hanzala ibn Malik
An old Arab man in pre-Islamic times; Jundala bint al-Harith was married to him while still a virgin, and the… - Person
Hanzala ibn Zayd
brother of Urwa ibn Zayd; in al-Baladhuri, left in command at Rayy while Urwa bore the victory news to Umar. - Person
Haqqani Mehmed Bey
Draft card for Haqqani Mehmed Bey, the Ottoman author of the Hilye, d. 1606; the biographical entry is not… - Person
Haram ibn Milhan
A senior Companion from Banu al-Najjar of the Khazraj, maternal uncle of Anas ibn Malik; entrusted with the… - Person
Harami ibn Abdullah
The sixth of the Weepers, brother of Banu Waqif; Ibn Ishaq lists him among those who begged the Prophet for… - Person
Harb ibn Abdallah al-Balkhi
in al-Baladhuri, head of Ja'far ibn al-Mansur's shurta at Mosul — Baghdad's Harbiyya quarter is named for him. - Person
Harb ibn Ismail ibn Khalaf al-Kirmani al-Hanzali
Harb ibn Ismail ibn Khalaf, Abu Muhammad (or Abu Abd Allah), al-Hanzali al-Kirmani, companion of Imam Ahmad.… - Person
Harb ibn Salm ibn Ziyad
Harb ibn Salm ibn Ziyad; he contested his canal with Abd al-A'la ibn Abdallah ibn Amir — and when the verdict… - Person
Harb ibn Umayya
The senior Umayyad whom Quraysh and Kinana chose to lead them in the Fijar war against Qays 'Aylan, for his… - Person
Harim ibn Hayyan al-Abdi
Harim ibn Hayyan al-Abdi; sent by Uthman to Qal'at Shabir — taken by force after siege and fighting, or, as… - Person
Harith al-Dhari
1941 CE · 1360 AH†Draft card for Harith al-Dhari, Secretary-General of the Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq; his entry is… - Person
الحارث بن شريح النقال
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al-Harith ibn Badr
A highway robber who repented before he was caught; Ali accepted the repentance and dropped the hadd of… - Person
حريث بن مسعود القرمطي
Qarmatian emir of the Wasit sawad; after Abu Tahir's raid ten thousand cryptic sympathisers declared… - Person
al-Harith ibn Sinbat
A Melkite Christian of Harran known to its Sabians — al-Mas'udi's informant on their animal sacrifices and… - Person
Harith ibn Suwayd al-Taymi
Harith ibn Suwayd, Abu Aisha al-Taymi al-Kufi, a trustworthy imam of high standing. He narrated from Ibn… - Person
Haritha ibn Qudama al-Sa'di
One of the Basran levy Ibn Abbas sent Ali for Nahrawan — ten thousand under him and al-Ahnaf ibn Qays in 38… - Person
حرملة بن يحيى
c. 783 CE · 166 AH - Person
Harqus ibn Zuhayr al-Sa'di
A leader of the rioters in Basra at the time of the Camel, one of the few to escape the killing of Uthman's… - Person
Harthama ibn Arfaja al-Bariqi
Harthama ibn Arfaja al-Bariqi — Ibn Durayd reverses the nasab; first to lay out Mosul's plots, settle Arabs… - Person
Harun (Aaron)
Musa's brother and deputy — the Prophet cited his standing to Musa for Ali, and met him in the Isra heavens. - Person
Harun al-Rashid
Harun ibn Muhammad al-Mahdi, fifth Abbasid caliph; in al-Baladhuri: as prince he led the summer raid of year… - Person
Harun al-Sari al-Bajali
Harun ibn Abd Allah al-Bajali, called al-Sari; the Kharijite leader whom the Jaziran Kharijites rallied to… - Person
Harun ibn Abdallah al-Zuhri
Abu Yahya al-Zuhri of Medina, descended of the line of 'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Awf — among the late hearers of… - Person
Harun ibn al-Munajjim
Harun b. al-Munajjim — Baghdadi man of letters, memoriser and transmitter of verse; author of Kitab al-Bari'… - Person
Harun ibn Gharib
Al-Muqtadir's general, broken by Asfar at the gate of Qazvin. - Person
Harun ibn Khumarawayh
Set up in place of his deposed brother Jaysh over Egypt in 283. - Person
Hasaka ibn Utab al-Habati
Hasaka ibn Utab al-Habati; after the Camel he and Imran ibn al-Fasil led Arab desperadoes into Sijistan —… - Person
Hasan Abu al-Sa'ud
Draft card for Hasan Abu al-Sa'ud; the entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Hasan Agha al-Tushi
Khayr al-Din Barbarossa's deputy over Algiers — 'wise, pious, of wide learning' in al-Salabi's phrase. He… - Person
الحسن الأعشم القرمطي
Al-Hasan al-A'sam the Qarmatian; he marched the Bahrayn host on Egypt in 363. To al-Mu'izz's letter urging… - Person
Hasan al-'Attar
c. 1766 CE · c. 1180 AH†Scholar of Maghribi origin, born in Cairo after 1180 AH (1766). He studied at al-Azhar, was one of the few… - Person
Hasan al-Husseini
23 August 1976 CE · 1396 AHBahraini scholar and preacher of Afghan origin, born in Mecca in 1976 and resident at Muharraq. A memoriser… - Person
Molla Hasan al-Samuni
In the service of Molla Khosrow he acquired 'all the sciences, root and branch, rational and legal'; teacher… - Person
الحسن بن علي العلوي الأطروش
The Alid al-Utrush; the Daylamites accepted Islam at his hand in 302, having been Magians. - Person
Hasan Ali
North London scholar and educator who founded Safar Academy in 1998 while imam of the London Islamic Cultural… - Person
Hasan Ali Khan Garrusi
Draft card for Hasan Ali Khan Garrusi Amir-e Nezam, the Qajar diplomat and calligrapher; his entry is not yet… - Person
Hasan 'Ali Shah (first Agha Khan)
The first holder of the title Agha Khan among the Nizari Ismaili Imams. After his father Khalil Allah was… - Person
Hasan Beg Rumlu
Draft card for Hasan Beg Rumlu, the Safavid historian and soldier author of Ahsan al-Tawarikh, d. 1577; the… - Person
Hasan bey Zardabi
28 June 1837 CE · 1253 AHAzerbaijani journalist, educator and enlightener (1837–1907), born Malikov. In 1875 he founded Akinchi (The… - Person
Hasan Celebi al-Fanari
Hasan Celebi al-Fanari — the Edirne teacher who travelled to Egypt just to read Mughni al-Labib on a Maghrebi… - Person
Hasan Corso
Named beylerbey of Algiers by sultanic order while the commander Yahya was already sailing on Oran to carry… - Person
Hasan Hukmi
Draft card for Hasan Hukmi, the Ottoman writer (d. 1638); the biographical entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Hasan-i Sabbah
Lord of Alamut and leader of the Isma'ili Batiniyya — Ibn al-'Imad calls him 'a scheming arch-trickster among… - Person
القاضي أبو محمد الحداد البصري
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الحسن بن الحافظ لدين الله
Al-Hasan ibn al-Hafiz li-Din Allah Abd al-Majid, the Ubaydid; his father's heir-apparent and vizier for three… - Person
Hasan ibn Ali
c. March 625 CE · c. Ramadan 3 AHElder grandson of the Prophet through Fatima and Ali; briefly caliph in 661 CE before abdicating in favor of… - Person
Hasan ibn Ali al-Habil al-Yamani
Draft card for Hasan ibn Ali ibn Jabir al-Habil al-Yamani, the seventeenth-century Yemeni poet, d. 1668; the… - Person
al-Hasan ibn Isa ibn al-Muqtadir
c. July 915 CE · Muharram 303 AHAn Abbasid prince who 'left the caliphate though able to take it, preferring al-Qahir billah' — born Muharram… - Person
Hasan b. Khayr al-Din Barbarossa
Khayr al-Din Barbarossa's son, of a noted Algerian family on his mother's side; the Porte's governor of… - Person
Hasan ibn Nuh al-Bahrugi
Draft card for Hasan ibn Nuh al-Bahrugi, the Bohra Ismaili scholar and historian, d. 1533; the biographical… - Person
al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba
al-Hasan ibn Qahtaba, a commander of the Khurasani armies; in al-Baladhuri: al-Mansur sent him raiding from… - Person
الحسن بن قتادة أمير مكة
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Hasan ibn 'Uman, lord of Hisn Kayfa
Hasan ibn 'Uman the Ayyubid, lord of Hisn Kayfa (Amid's fortress-city on the Tigris); died 859. - Person
Hasan ibn 'Umar al-Shatti
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الحسن بن عمران بن شاهين
Umran ibn Shahin's son and heir in the Batayih; when Adud al-Dawla sent the vizier al-Mutahhar to dam the… - Person
Hasan Can Celebi
Draft card for Hasan Can Celebi, the sixteenth-century Turkish illuminator, d. 1567; the source entry is not… - Person
Hasan Kafi Pruščak
Draft card for Hasan Kafi al-Aqhisari, the seventeenth-century Bosnian judge and author of Usul al-Hikam on… - Person
Hasan Kenzi
Draft card for Hasan Kenzi, the Ottoman writer d. 1714; the biographical entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Hasan Minhaj
23 September 1985 CE · 1406 AHAmerican comedian and actor of Indian origin, born in Davis, California, in 1985 to Muslim parents from… - Person
Hasan Pasha ibn Khayr al-Din
Draft card for Hasan Pasha son of Khayr al-Din Barbarossa, beylerbey of Algiers from 1544 who led its naval… - Person
Hasan Rami Pasha
1842 CE · 1258 AHOttoman admiral and naval minister under Abdul Hamid II. He is remembered for his blunt report to the Sultan… - Person
Hasan Rıza Efendi
1849 CE · 1265 AHOttoman calligrapher (1849–1920) famed for his Ayet Berkenar mushaf. He wrote nineteen mushafs whose printed… - Person
Hasan Sabri Ayvazov
6 May 1878 CE · 4 Jumada I 1295 AH†Crimean Tatar writer, literary critic and educator of Ismail Gasprinsky's circle: a contributor to… - Person
Hasan Uskudari
Draft card for Hasan Uskudari, the Ottoman writer, d. 1614; the biographical entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Hasan Veneziano
Ottoman governor of Algiers; he returned on his own initiative when word reached him of chaos among the… - Person
Hasana, Umm Shurahbil
Wife of Sufyan ibn Ma'mar al-Jumahi and mother of Junada and Jabir, and mother of Shurahbil ibn Hasana; she… - Person
Hasanbeyzade Ahmet Pasa
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Hasanuddin, Sultan of Gowa
Draft card for Sultan Hasanuddin, the sixteenth sultan of Gowa in Sulawesi who resisted the Dutch company… - Person
حسنويه الكردي
Hasanwayh the Barzikani Kurd, lord of Dinawar and its marches for some fifty years; a disciplined, charitable… - Person
Hashem Muhammad Ali al-Mashhadani
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Hashim al-Atassi
11 January 1875 CE · 1291 AHSyrian politician and statesman from Homs (1875–1960), nicknamed Abu al-Jumhuriyya (Father of the Republic);… - Person
Seyyid Hashim al-Bahrani
Draft card for Hashim ibn Sulayman al-Bahrani, the seventeenth-century Bahraini muhaddith author of… - Person
Makhdum Muhammad Hashim al-Thattvi
Draft card for Makhdum Muhammad Hashim al-Thattvi, the eighteenth-century jurist and Sufi of Sindh, d. 1746;… - Person
Hashim Amla
31 March 1983 CE · 1403 AHSouth African former cricketer and captain, born in Durban in 1983 to a Muslim family of Indian descent whose… - Person
Hasim Baba
Draft card for Hasim Baba, the Ottoman writer (founder of the Hashimiyya branch of the Jalwatiyya order, d.… - Person
Hashim
British street preacher and debater at Speakers' Corner in London's Hyde Park, and a co-founder and co-host… - Person
Hashim ibn Abd Manaf
Son of Abd Manaf who drew the siqaya and rifada in the division of offices and held them all his life; eponym… - Person
Hashim Jalilul Alam Aqamaddin
1825 CE · 1240 AH†The 25th Sultan of Brunei (1885–1906), son of Omar Ali Saifuddien II. Facing Charles Brooke's expansion from… - Person
Mirza Hashim Larijani
1899 CE · 1317 AH†Draft card for Mirza Hashim al-Amuli Larijani, the grand ayatollah and Mashhad marja of the early twentieth… - Person
Hashimi Emir Osman Efendi
Draft card for Hashimi Emir Osman Efendi, the Ottoman writer (d. 1595); the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Hasim Rahman
7 November 1972 CE · 1392 AHAmerican former professional boxer (born 1972 in Baltimore, Maryland). A two-time world heavyweight champion,… - Person
Hasimizade Abdullah Efendi
1670 CE · 1081 AH†Draft card for Hasimizade Abdullah Efendi, the Ottoman scholar and mufti of Constantinople; his entry is not… - Person
Hasrat Mohani
1875 CE · 1292 AHUrdu poet and Indian independence activist (1875–1951), born Syed Fazl-ul-Hasan, with the pen name Hasrat. He… - Person
Hassan al-Damistani
Draft card for Hassan al-Damistani; the entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Hassan al-Jabarti
Draft card for Hassan ibn Ibrahim al-Jabarti, the eighteenth-century mathematician, theologian and father of… - Person
Hassan al-Nabati
Mawla of Banu Dubba, owner of Basra's Hawd Hassan and eponym of Manarat Hassan in the Bata'ih; in… - Person
Hassan, brother of Ukaydir
Ukaydir's brother; he went out with him the night Khalid took him, and the Prophet's cavalry killed him,… - Person
Hassan El Fakiri
18 April 1977 CE · 1397 AHFormer Norwegian footballer of Moroccan origin (born 1977 in Temsamane, Morocco), capped eight times by… - Person
Hassan El Kettani
16 August 1972 CE · 1392 AHMoroccan Muslim scholar and jurist, born at Salé on 16 August 1972 into the scholarly Kettani family. He… - Person
Hassan I of Morocco
1836 CE · 1252 AHSultan of Morocco of the Alawi dynasty (reigned 1873–1894). Born at Fez, he succeeded his father Muhammad IV,… - Person
حسان بن النعمان
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Hassan ibn al-Nu'man al-Ghassani
Hassan ibn al-Nu'man al-Ghassani; appointed over Ifriqiya, he raided the Berbers' queen al-Kahina who routed… - Person
حسان بن كبشة الكندي
Hassan ibn Kabsha (Hassan ibn Mu'awiya ibn Hujr), a king of Kinda: drawn by Banu Amir into their revenge on… - Person
Hassan ibn Malik ibn Bahdal
Kalb's chief — alone of Islam's minbars Tiberias refused Ibn al-Zubayr's name, holding out for Khalid ibn… - Person
Hassan ibn Milla al-Dubaybi
Of the Dubayb, Rifa'a ibn Zayd's clan of Judham; he had accompanied Dihya al-Kalbi before the robbery and… - Person
Al-Hassan ibn al-Mufarrij al-Jarrahi
Al-Hassan b. al-Mufarrij b. al-Jarrah al-Ta'i, amir of the Banu Jarrah of Tayy in Palestine under al-Qadir:… - Person
Hassan ibn Thabit
The renowned 'Poet of the Prophet'; an Ansari chief of Banu al-Najjar who defended Islam and the Prophet with… - Person
Hassan II of Morocco
9 July 1929 CE · 1348 AHKing of Morocco from 1961 until his death in 1999. Born at Rabat in 1929, the eldest son of Mohammed V, he… - Person
Sayyid Hassan Modarres
1870 CE · 1287 AHIranian Twelver Shia cleric and parliamentarian (1870-1937) who led the Majlis opposition to Reza Shah,… - Person
Hassan Rouhani
12 November 1948 CE · 1368 AHHassan Rouhani (born 12 November 1948, birth name Hassan Fereydoun) is an Iranian cleric and politician who… - Person
Hassan Shamlou
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Hassan Shehata
19 June 1947 CE · 1366 AHEgyptian footballer and manager, born in Kafr El Dawwar, Beheira in 1947. A forward who played for Zamalek… - Person
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud
29 November 1955 CE · 1375 AHSomali politician (born 1955) from Jalalaqsi, an academic and civil-society figure who co-founded SIMAD… - Person
Hassan Taqizadeh
27 September 1878 CE · 1295 AHIranian statesman and scholar (1878–1970) from Tabriz: a sayyed's son trained as a mullah who became a… - Person
Hassan Turkmani
27 January 1935 CE · 1353 AHSyrian military officer and politician who served as minister of defence from 2004 to 2009 after a term as… - Person
Hassanein Muhammad Makhlouf
6 May 1890 CE · 1307 AHEgyptian Azhari scholar (1890–1990). Born in Cairo to a family from Bani Adi in Upper Egypt, he graduated… - Person
Hasyim Asy'ari
1871 CE · 1288 AH†Indonesian scholar and National Hero who founded Nahdlatul Ulama in 1926 and the Tebuireng pesantren in 1899,… - Person
Hatefi
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Hatib ibn Abi Balta'a
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Hatib ibn al-Harith
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Hatim al-Ta'i
The proverb of generosity — his grave at Baqqa above the wadi al-Khabil is flanked by eight stone maids with… - Person
Hatim ibn al-Layth al-Jawhari
Abu'l-Fadl al-Jawhari, traditionist who transmitted from Isma'il ibn Abi Uways; graded trustworthy and… - Person
Hatim ibn al-Nu'man al-Bahili
Hatim ibn al-Nu'man al-Bahili; sent to Marw he truced its marzban at a million two hundred thousand — or a… - Person
Hatim ibn Ismail
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Hatip Mehmed Efendi
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Hattab ibn al-Harith
Of Banu Jumah, brother of Hatib ibn al-Harith; he emigrated to Abyssinia with his wife Fukayha bint Yasar and… - Person
Hawa Abdi
17 May 1947 CE · 1366 AHSomali physician and human rights activist (17 May 1947 – 5 August 2020), one of Somalia's first female… - Person
Hawar Mulla Mohammed
1 June 1981 CE · 1401 AHKurdish Iraqi former professional footballer, a winger born in Mosul in 1981. He won 113 caps for Iraq… - Person
هوذة بن علي الحنفي
Hawdha ibn Ali of Banu Hanifa, lord of al-Yamama, surnamed dhu al-taj for the pearl-diadem Khusraw bound on… - Person
Hawwa' (Eve)
Adam's wife in al-Tha'labi's account, created from one of his ribs while he slept. The book reports that she… - Person
Hayali Bey
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Hayali-yi Evvel
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حياة بن قيس الحراني
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Hayatizade Mehmed Emin Efendi
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Hayatizade Mustafa Feyzi
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Haydar al-Amuli
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Haydar al-Araqt
An Arab poet remembered in anecdotes of miserliness for satirising his guests. Al-Abshihi reports that when… - Person
Haydar al-Sadr
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Haydar ibn Kawus (al-Afshin)
Haydar ibn Kawus, the famous al-Afshin; demeaned by his father's favored qahrman he killed him at the city… - Person
Burhan al-Din Haydara al-Shirazi al-Rumi
Burhan al-Din Haydara al-Shirazi, later of Rum; died 820. - Person
Haydarah ibn 'Umar al-Zandawardi
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Hayreti
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Haytham Tamim
Lebanese-born scholar based in London, founder and main teacher of the Utrujj Foundation and chairman of the… - Person
Hayyan ibn Husayn Abu al-Hayyaj al-Asadi
Hayyan ibn Husayn Abu al-Hayyaj al-Asadi of Kufa, a Successor. He related from Ali and Ammar, and his sons… - Person
Hayyan ibn Shurayh
Hayyan ibn Shurayh; Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz's governor over Egypt — his scribe al-Salt ibn Abi Asim read him… - Person
Hayyan, Masmala's Mawla
Hayyan, Masmala's mawla of Daylami captivity, Abu Ma'mar, among the noble and leading clients; Yazid sent him… - Person
Hazaa Al-Balushi
10 April 1995 CE · 1415 AHOmani Qur'an reciter born in Liwa in 1995. He memorised the Qur'an as a child, graduated in economics and… - Person
Hazem Shouman
10 December 1974 CE · 1394 AHEgyptian preacher and physician, born in Mansoura in 1974 and a graduate of Mansoura University's Faculty of… - Person
Haziq
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Hazrat Inayat Khan
5 July 1882 CE · 1299 AHIndian musician and Sufi teacher (1882–1927), born in Baroda and died in Delhi. A pioneer of the transmission… - Person
Hekimoğlu Ali Pasha
16 February 1699 CE · 1110 AHAli Pasha, nicknamed 'Hekimoğlu' (son of the physician), son of the palace chief physician Nuh Efendi; born… - Person
Henry Corbin
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Henry Ford
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Henry, Count of Champagne
The Count of Champagne — nephew of both the French and English kings — took Tyre after the Marquis's killing… - Person
Heraclius
c. 575 CEByzantine emperor (610–641) who reconquered Jerusalem from Persia and then watched the Muslim conquest of… - Person
Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha
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تيودور هرتزل
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Hezarpare Ahmed Pasha
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Hibat Allah ibn al-Akfani
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Hibat Allah ibn al-Barizi
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Hibat Allah ibn Makula, the vizier
Jalal al-Dawla's oft-reappointed vizier — a hafiz of the Qur'an versed in poetry and akhbar. Seized in Rabi'… - Person
أبو القاسم هبة الله بن سلامة المفسر الضرير
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Hibatullah ibn Kamil
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Hichem Ben Mahmoud
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Hidayatullah I of Banjar
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Hilal al-Ra'y (Hilal ibn Yahya)
Hilal ibn Yahya ibn Muslim al-Ra'y al-Basri, called al-Ra'y for the breadth of his learning and his abundant… - Person
Hilal ibn Ahwaz al-Mazini
Hilal ibn Ahwaz al-Mazini; Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik's grantee of the eight-thousand-jarib Marghab tract at… - Person
Hilal ibn al-Muhassin al-Sabi'
c. 969 CE · 359 AHThe last historian of the great Sabi' katib family — son of the historian al-Muhassin and nephew of Ghars… - Person
Hilal ibn Amir al-Muzani
Hilal ibn Amir ibn Amr al-Muzani of Kufa, a Companion who narrated from his father and from Rafi' ibn Amr… - Person
Hilal ibn Umayya al-Waqifi
One of the three who were left behind after Tabuk; of Banu Waqif. An old man, in his wife's words, and she… - Person
Hilmi Habbab
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Himas ibn Qays al-Dili
A warrior of Banu Bakr who prepared weapons before the Conquest boasting he would kill Muhammad's companions;… - Person
Hina Jilani
19 December 1953 CE · 1373 AHHina Jilani (born 19 December 1953) is a Pakistani Supreme Court lawyer and human-rights advocate from Lahore… - Person
Hind bint Utba
c. 575 CEDaughter of the Meccan elder Utba ibn Rabi'a and wife of Abu Sufyan: the sira's most vivid figure of Meccan… - Person
Hind ibn Abi Hala
Khadija's son by Abu Hala and the Prophet's stepson; he transmitted the most famous description of the… - Person
Hindushah ibn Sanjar al-Nakhjavani
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Hisalı Abdurrahman Çelebi
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هشام الدستوائي
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هشام الأول بن عبد الرحمن الداخل
c. 757 CE · Shawwal 139 AHSecond Umayyad emir of Córdoba (AH 172–180): when the astrologer al-Dabbi foretold an eight-year reign he… - Person
Hisham ibn Abi Hudhayfa
Of Banu Makhzum; Ibn Ishaq names him among the emigrants to Abyssinia. Ibn Abd al-Barr, cited in the editors'… - Person
Hisham ibn al-Hakam
The leading Rafidi mutakallim of corporealism and imamate doctrine — his Ibadi shop-partner sued for his… - Person
Hisham ibn al-Kalbi
The genealogist Ibn al-Kalbi — dead in 204, the year of al-Shafi'i's death. Tarikh Baghdad (#7386): a Kufan… - Person
Hisham ibn Amir al-Ansari
Hisham ibn Amir ibn Umayya ibn Zayd ibn al-Hasahas ibn Malik al-Ansari, a Companion. It is said that his name… - Person
Hisham ibn Amr al-Amiri
A prominent Qurayshi notable of Banu Amir ibn Lu'ayy who secretly supplied food to Banu Hashim during the… - Person
Hisham ibn Amr al-Fuwati
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Hisham ibn Amr al-Taghlibi
Hisham ibn Amr al-Taghlibi; al-Mansur's Sind governor — Multan retaken, Qandabil's mutaghalliba expelled,… - Person
Hisham ibn Hakam
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Hisham ibn Hakim ibn Hizam (Companion)
Hisham ibn Hakim ibn Hizam ibn Khuwaylid ibn Asad ibn Abd al-Uzza, Abu Umar, of Quraysh and the Banu Asad, a… - Person
هشام بن إسماعيل المخزومي
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Hisham ibn Mu'awiya al-Darir
Hisham b. Mu'awiya al-Darir (d. 209) — al-Kisa'i's companion and first systematizer; author of al-Hudud,… - Person
Hisham ibn Salim
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Hisham ibn Ubayd Allah al-Razi
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Hisham ibn Urwa
Abu al-Mundhir Hisham b. Urwa b. al-Zubayr b. al-Awwam — one of Medina's authoritative hadith transmitters,… - Person
Hisham ibn Yusuf al-San'ani
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هشام المؤيد بالله
The Umayyad caliph of al-Andalus acclaimed at nine years old; the hajib Ibn Abi Amir murdered his uncle… - Person
Hisham Kabbani
28 January 1945 CE · 1364 AHLebanese-American Sufi scholar and shaykh (28 January 1945 – 4 December 2024) of the Naqshbandi Haqqani order… - Person
Hisim Ali Celebi
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Hızır Bey
1407 CE · 810 AH†Draft card for Hızır Bey, the first qadi of Ottoman Istanbul; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Kurtoğlu Hızır Reis
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Hmida Ennaifer
1942 CE · 1361 AH†Draft card for Hmida Ennaifer, the Tunisian thinker and professor of Islamic civilization; his entry is not… - Person
Hoca Abdürrahim Efendi
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Hoca Dehhani
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Hoca İbrahim Paşa
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Hoca Sadeddin Efendi
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Hocazade Mehmed Efendi
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Hocazade Mehmed Enveri
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Hocazade Muslihuddin Efendi
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Hosai Mojaddidi
Teacher, spiritual counsellor and mental-health advocate in California. Born in Afghanistan, she moved to the… - Person
Hosni Mubarak
4 May 1928 CE · 1346 AHMuhammad Hosni Mubarak (4 May 1928 – 25 February 2020) was an Egyptian officer and politician who commanded… - Person
Houari Boumédiène
23 August 1932 CE · 1351 AHHouari Boumédiène (1932–1978) was an Algerian officer and politician, born Mohammed ben Brahim Boukharouba.… - Person
al-Hubab ibn al-Mundhir
A Khazraji Companion whose counsel at Badr — to occupy the nearest well, block the others and build a… - Person
Hubar ibn al-Aswad
A Qurashi of Banu Asad; Ibn Ishaq attributes to him the jostling of the Prophet's daughter Zaynab when her… - Person
Hubbi Hatun
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Huda Sha'arawi
23 June 1879 CE · 1296 AHEgyptian feminist and nationalist leader (1879–1947), founder of the Egyptian Feminist Union and its… - Person
Hudayr al-Kata'ib
Hudayr, called 'of the Squadrons', father of Usayd ibn Hudayr and the Aws commander on the day of Bu'ath;… - Person
Hudhayfa ibn al-Yaman
A prominent Companion known as the 'Keeper of the Prophet's Secrets'; at the climax of the Battle of the… - Person
حذيفة بن بدر الفزاري
Hudhayfa ibn Badr al-Fazari, chief of Fazara; Banu Abs killed him on the day of al-Haba'a — they set his… - Person
Hudhayfa ibn Mihsan
Commander of the conquest; in al-Baladhuri sent by al-Muthanna ibn Haritha with al-Nusayr to Tikrit after the… - Person
حجر بن الحارث الكندي
Hujr ibn al-Harith al-Kindi, eldest of al-Harith's sons and father of the poet Imru' al-Qays; placed over… - Person
هولاكو خان
The Tatar commander who took Baghdad in 656, had al-Musta'sim trampled to death, threw off al-Alqami's Alid… - Person
Hulayl ibn Hubshiyya
The Khuzaʾi ruler of Mecca who gave his daughter Hubba in marriage to Qusayy ibn Kilab; on his death the… - Person
Hululu al-Qarawi, Ahmad ibn Abd al-Rahman
1412 CE · 815 AHA Maliki jurist of Kairouan, known as Hululu al-Qarawi, of a family from Yazlitan. - Person
Humay bint Bahman
Humay daughter of Bahman — who converted the great Istakhr building into a fire-temple, whose flame's removal… - Person
حميد الطويل
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Humayd ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Himyari
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Humayri ibn Hilal
Humayri ibn Hilal ibn Ahwaz al-Mazini; he sued Bashir ibn Ubaydallah over the Marghab and lost, Amr ibn Yazid… - Person
Humayun Ahmed
13 November 1948 CE · 1368 AHBangladeshi novelist, dramatist and filmmaker (1948–2012), among the most popular Bengali-language writers of… - Person
Humayun ibn Babur
Sultan Humayun b. Babur, king of India — the cause of his death was a fall from a roof; the Persian… - Person
Humza Yousaf
7 April 1985 CE · 1405 AHScottish politician of the Scottish National Party, born in Glasgow in 1985 to immigrant parents of Pakistani… - Person
Hunayn ibn Ishaq
Al-Wathiq's physician — his lecture on the thirty-two teeth earned a book commission, and his answers on… - Person
Hunnad ibn al-Sari
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John Hunyadi
John Hunyadi — the Hungarian commander of the crusader host against Murad II; he crossed the Danube and… - Person
Hurayth ibn Jabir al-Ju'fi
One of Ali's men at Siffin — named in one report as the spearman who killed 'Ubayd Allah ibn 'Umar, with… - Person
Hurayth ibn Qutba al-Khuza'i
Hurayth ibn Qutba al-Khuza'i; with brother Thabit the real commanders of Musa's Tirmidh army via Tarkhun's… - Person
Husain Ahmad Madani
6 October 1879 CE · 1296 AHIndian hadith scholar (1879–1957) and independence activist. A graduate of Darul Uloom Deoband, he taught for… - Person
Husam al-Din al-Abiwardi
Husam al-Din al-Abiwardi of Abiward in Khurasan, later of Mecca — pupil of Sa'd al-Din al-Taftazani,… - Person
Husam al-Din al-Hadhabani
1196 CE · 592 AHThe Kurdish amir (b. Aleppo 592) — al-Salih Ayyub's intimate, his na'ib over Damascus then Egypt's sultanate;… - Person
Husameddin Bursevi
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Husam al-Din Chalabi
1225 CE · 622 AH†Draft card for Husam al-Din Chalabi, Rumi's disciple and successor who inspired the Mathnawi; his entry is… - Person
Husam al-Din Husayn Shah
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حسام الدين لؤلؤ الحاجب
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Husamzade Mustafa Efendi
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حسين الجسر
Husayn al-Jisr al-Tarabulsi (d. 1909 CE) — the Tripoli scholar whose al-Risala al-Hamidiyya defended the… - Person
حسين الكردي
Husayn al-Kurdi — commander of the Mamluk fleet sent by Qansuh al-Ghawri against the Portuguese: victor at… - Person
الحسين القلاس
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Husayn al-Ushari
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Husayn Asad al-Darani
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Husayn Bayqarah
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حسين باي التونسي
1778 CE · 1192 AH†Husayn Bey of Tunis (1778–1835 CE) — the Husaynid ruler who built a fleet and a native army, invested by the… - Person
Hossein Borujerdi
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Husayn Hotak
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Husayn ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Ahdal
c. 1378 CE · 779 AHThe historian Badr al-Din Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Husayn ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Ahdal al-Husayni, a scholar of… - Person
Husayn ibn Abd Allah Basalama
1881 CE · 1299 AHA scholar from Mecca, born there in 1299 AH, who memorized the Qur'an in one of its kuttab schools. - Person
Husayn ibn Abi al-Abbas al-Ajdabi
Maliki jurist, reciter and hadith transmitter of Qayrawan, originally from Ajdabiya in Libya, who studied… - Person
Husayn ibn Abi Sirwal
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Husayn ibn Ali
c. January 626 CE · c. Rabi' I 4 AHYounger grandson of the Prophet through Fatima and Ali; killed at Karbala in 680 CE after refusing allegiance… - Person
Husayn ibn Ali al-Ju'fi
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الحسين بن علي المروروذي
Samanid commander who took Sistan in 298, besieging al-Mu'addal ibn al-Layth into surrender and carrying him… - Person
Al-Tabari, author of al-Uda (Husayn ibn Ali)
Al-Husayn ibn Ali ibn al-Husayn, Abu Abd Allah, al-Tabari, a Shafi'i jurist who settled in Mecca and was its… - Person
Husayn ibn Ali al-Wafa'i
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al-Husayn ibn 'Ali, sahib Fakhkh
The Hasanid whose rising in al-Hadi's days ended at Fakhkh beside Mecca. - Person
Husayn ibn Fakhr al-Din al-Ma'ni
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Husayn ibn Siddiq al-Ahdal
1446 CE · 850 AHThe Yemeni scholar Husayn ibn Siddiq al-Ahdal, born at Bayat in 850 AH and died in 903 AH; he left manuscript… - Person
حسين بن يحيى الأنصاري
Husayn ibn Yahya al-Ansari — governor of Saragossa who joined the Paderborn conspiracy then repented and shut… - Person
al-Husayn ibn Yusuf al-Azdi
Abu Ya'la al-Azdi, brother of the qadi Abu 'Amr and himself qadi of the Jordan province; he died in Muharram… - Person
Husayn b. 'Ala' al-Dawla b. Uways
Husayn b. 'Ala' al-Dawla, grandson of Ahmad b. Uways the Jalayirid — Timur's captive at Samarqand, then lord… - Person
Husayn Nizam Shah I
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Husayn Nizam Shah II
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Husayn Nizam Shah III
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Husayn Shah Arghun
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Huseyin Tugi
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Huseyin Hezarfen
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Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha
September 1855 CE · 1272 AHOttoman statesman and administrator, twice Grand Vizier in 1909 and before that the reforming… - Person
Hüseyin Rauf Orbay
27 July 1881 CE · 1298 AHTurkish naval officer and statesman of Abkhaz origin who won fame as captain of the cruiser Hamidiye in the… - Person
Huseyn Efendi Qayibov
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Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy
8 September 1892 CE · 1310 AHBengali statesman (1892–1963), the last prime minister of undivided Bengal (1946–1947) and the fifth prime… - Person
Hushaim ibn Bashir
722 CE · 103 AH†Abu Mu'awiya al-Sulami, the Wasiti traditionist of Bukharan origin who settled at Baghdad; Malik, al-Thawri,… - Person
Hushaym ibn Bashir ibn al-Qasim al-Sulami al-Wasiti, Abu Mu'awiya
Hushaym ibn Bashir ibn al-Qasim ibn Dinar, Abu Mu'awiya, al-Sulami al-Wasiti, though some say he was of… - Person
Hussain Muhammad Ershad
1 February 1930 CE · 1348 AHBangladeshi military officer and politician (1 February 1930 – 14 July 2019) who seized power in a bloodless… - Person
Hussain Salafi
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Hussam al-Din al-Jarrahi
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Hussein Al-Sheikh
1964 CE · 1384 AHSaudi scholar and judge, imam and khatib of the Prophet's Mosque in Medina. A descendant of Muhammad ibn Abd… - Person
Hussein Arnous
1953 CE · 1372 AH†Syrian civil engineer and politician, prime minister of Syria from 11 June 2020 to 14 September 2024 under… - Person
Hussein bin Abdullah
28 June 1994 CE · 1415 AHHussein bin Abdullah (born 28 June 1994) is Crown Prince of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan since 2 July… - Person
Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi
c. 1853 CE · 1269 AHHussein bin Ali al-Hashimi (born at Istanbul in 1853 – died at Amman on 4 June 1931) was Sharif and Emir of… - Person
Hussein bin Talal
14 November 1935 CE · 1354 AHHussein bin Talal (14 November 1935 – 7 February 1999) was the third King of Jordan, reigning from 1952 until… - Person
Hussein Kamel of Egypt
21 November 1853 CE · 1270 AHSultan of Egypt from 19 December 1914 to 9 October 1917, the second son of Khedive Isma'il. Britain installed… - Person
Hussein Mwinyi
23 December 1966 CE · 1386 AHTanzanian politician and physician (born 1966), the son of former Tanzanian president Ali Hassan Mwinyi. He… - Person
Hussein Rushdi Pasha
1863 CE · 1280 AHEgyptian politician who was prime minister of Egypt four times between 1914 and 1919, under Abbas Hilmi II,… - Person
Huwaytib ibn Abd al-Uzza
A Meccan nobleman of Banu Amir ibn Lu'ayy who witnessed the Treaty of al-Hudaybiyya on Quraysh's side; he… - Person
Iajuddin Ahmed
1 February 1931 CE · 1349 AHBangladeshi soil scientist and statesman (1 February 1931 – 10 December 2012), a professor and department… - Person
Iblis
The adversary who whispered to Adam and Hawwa in the Garden. Al-Tha'labi reports that he refused to prostrate… - Person
Ibn 'A'isha al-Qurashi
al-Walid's Qurashi singer — made to repeat 'I saw maidens on slaughter-morn' through the Umayyad ancestors… - Person
ابن عبد البر
Abu 'Amr Ibn 'Abd al-Barr of Cordoba, imam of his age in hadith and athar — al-Baji said there was none like… - Person
Shams al-Din ibn Abd al-Hadi
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Ibn Abd al-Hakam
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Ibn Abd al-Haqq, the Hanbali
c. 1330 CE · c. 730 AHThe Hanbali transmitter who held unique riwayat — Ibn Hajar heard much on him and notes he was slow at… - Person
Ibn Abd al-Qawi Mardawi
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Ibn Abd al-Razzaq Efendi
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Ibn Abd al-Sami'
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Ibn Abd al-Zahir
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Ibn Abdallah ibn Umayr al-Laythi
Ibn Abdallah ibn Umayr al-Laythi, Ibn Amir's maternal half-brother; Qutayba's deputy over Sijistan on his… - Person
Ibn Abdus al-Jahshiyari
The historian whose annals of al-Muqtadir ran to thousands of folios. - Person
Ibn Abi al-Ahwas, al-Husayn ibn Abd al-Aziz
1206 CE · 603 AHA reciter, Qur'an commentator, hadith scholar and Arabic grammarian. Born in Jaen and settled in Granada;… - Person
عبد الكريم بن أبي العوجاء
Abd al-Karim ibn Abi al-Awja' — the most famous of the accused zindiqs, author (per al-Mas'udi) of works in… - Person
Ibn Abi al-Dam al-Hamawi
1187 CE · Jumada I 583 AHThe Shafi'i qadi-historian (b. Hama 583, d. Jumada II 642) — judge of Hamadan then of Hama; author of Sharh… - Person
Ibn Abi al-Hadid
1190 CE · 586 AHIzz al-Din Ibn Abi al-Hadid al-Mada'ini (586–655) — the Baghdad faqih-adib, immortal commentator on Nahj… - Person
تقي الدين ابن أبي الحجر الحراني
c. 1119 CE · 513 AHTaqi al-Din Ibn Abi al-Hijr Hamid ibn Mahmud of Harran — its shaykh, khatib, mudarris and mufti; b. 513, he… - Person
Ibn Abi al-Isba'
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Ibn Abi al-Isba, Zaki al-Din ibn Zafir
c. 1199 CE · 595 AHAn Egyptian writer and man of letters, raised in the schools of Egypt under the Ayyubids and part of the… - Person
Ibn Abi al-Izz al-Hanafi
731 AHThe Hanafi chief judge Sadr al-Din, commentator on the Tahawi creed, called a chief judge on the title page… - Person
Ibn Abi al-Khisal
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Ibn Abi al-Saadat of Mosul
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ابن أبي الشوارب
The judge brought with the witnesses when the Turks deposed al-Mu'tazz in 255. - Person
Ibn Abi al-Surur al-Bakri
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Burhan al-Din ibn Abi al-Wafa al-'Iraqi
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Ibn Abi Aqil al-Umani
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Ibn Abi Asim
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Ibn Abi Asrun
1099 CE · 492 AHSharaf al-Din Ibn Abi Asrun (492–585) — leading Shafi'i jurist of Mosul, Aleppo and Damascus under Nur… - Person
إبراهيم بن محمد بن أبي عون
A follower of al-Shalmaghani; ordered to slap him he kissed his beard and head instead, and was crucified and… - Person
Ibn Abi Bakkar al-Zubayr Abu Ubayd Allah
788 CE · 172 AHAbu Ubayd Allah al-Zubayr ibn Abi Bakr, known as Bakkar, of Medina, born there in 172 AH (788 CE) and taught… - Person
Ibn Abi Dhi'b
Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Rahman Abu'l-Harith, dead at Kufa in 159. - Person
Ibn Abi Hatim al-Razi
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Ibn Abi Jamra
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Ibn Abi Jumhur al-Ahsa'i
1434 CE · 837 AH†Draft card for Ibn Abi Jumhur al-Ahsa'i, the Akhbari Shi'i scholar of the early Safavid era; his entry is not… - Person
Ibn Abi l-Dunya
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Ibn Abi'l-Fawaris
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Ibn Abi Muqbil
Poet of the Umayyad period whose verses are preserved in the adab literature. - Person
Abdallah ibn Abi Najih
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Ibn Abi Nu'aym
The satirist whose 'a judge who sees the hadd for zina but none for liwat' earned him exile to Sind. - Person
Ibn Abi Shayba
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Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur
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Ibn Abi Tayyi
c. 1180 CE · c. 576 AH†Draft card for Ibn Abi Tayyi, the historian and grammarian of al-Fusul al-Fakhriyya; his entry is not yet… - Person
Ibn Abi Usama, al-Harith ibn Muhammad
802 CE · 186 AHA hadith scholar and transmitter of reports from Baghdad, well versed in the Qur'anic readings and described… - Person
Ibn Abi Usaybi'a, Ahmad ibn al-Qasim
A physician and historian of medicine from a Damascene family, author of ʿUyun al-Anba' fi Tabaqat al-Atibba'. - Person
Ibn Abi Yahya al-Aslami
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Ibn Abi Zamanayn
936 CE · 324 AH†Draft card for Ibn Abi Zamanayn, the Maliki exegete of Elvira; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani
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Ibn Abidin
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Ibn Absayn
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Ibn Adham, Ibrahim
Ascetic and hadith transmitter from Balkh, remembered among the early Sufi ascetics. - Person
Ibn 'Adwan al-Razini
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Ibn 'A'isha al-'Abbasi
The Imam Ibrahim's grandson — ridden to al-Mutbaq by night and killed by al-Ma'mun in 209, the first 'Abbasid… - Person
Shams al-Din ibn Aja of Aleppo
Ibn Aja — Aleppo's Hanafi qadi; died at Aleppo Jumada II 880 at sixty. - Person
Ibn Ajrum
1273 CE · 672 AHSanhaji jurist and grammarian of Fez, known for Arabic grammar and a reputation for asceticism. - Person
Ibn Ajurrum
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Ibn Akhi Rabi al-Sabbagh al-Kalabi
A scholar of Cordoba, client of the Umayyads, known as Ibn Akhi Rabi al-Sabbagh, who studied in al-Andalus. - Person
Ibn Akhi Sahib al-Shamil
Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahid, Abu Mansur ibn al-Sabbagh of Baghdad, nephew and son-in-law of Abu Nasr… - Person
Ibn al-Abbar
c. 1199 CE · c. 595 AHThe Valencian hafiz-adib (aged 63) — of the imams of hadith, a stylist in verse and prose; the lord of Tunis… - Person
Ibn al-Abbar al-Khuwalani
Abu Ja'far Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Khuwalani, 'Ibn al-Abbar' (d. 463, Seville) — celebrated poet of al-Mu'tadid… - Person
Ibn al-Abbar, Muhammad ibn Abd Allah
1199 CE · 595 AHA historian, hadith scholar, linguist and poet from Valencia (Balansiya) in eastern al-Andalus, author of… - Person
Ibn al-Abrash, Khalaf ibn Yusuf
An Andalusian grammarian and poet from Santarem (Shantarin), who died in Cordoba in 532 AH. - Person
Zayn al-Din Ibn al-Adami, the preacher
Ibn al-Adami of Hama — the celebrated preacher who settled in Cairo after the Timurid sack, held the khitaba… - Person
ابن الأفطس صاحب بطليوس
Abu Muhammad Abdallah b. Maslama al-Tajibi, Ibn al-Aftas, who seized Badajoz in the fitna of 461; his son… - Person
Ibn al-Aftas the Alid
The Alid who seized Mecca in 199 AH and led the Muzdalifa rites himself. - Person
أبو عبد الله ابن الأحمر سلطان الأندلس
The Muslim sultan of al-Andalus who in 663 beat the Franks and took back thirty-two towns, Seville and Murcia… - Person
Ibn al-Ahmar, Isma'il ibn Yusuf
c. 1324 CE · c. 724 AH†An Andalusian man of letters and historian of the Nasrid family in Granada. After leaving Granada with his… - Person
Ibn al-Ajami al-Hilli
The Hilli Shafi'i scholar — the Tatars tortured him for the money-hoard till he died, 24 Safar 658. - Person
Ibn al-Ajdabi, Ibrahim ibn Isma'il
A jurist from Tripoli in Libya, named after the town of Ajdabiya. The sources give only a brief biography,… - Person
ابن الأخضر الجنابذي
c. 1130 CE · 18 Jumada I 524 AH - Person
Ibn al-Akhram
864 CE · 250 AHHadith scholar of Nishapur in the fourth century AH. - Person
Ibn al-Amir al-Qurtubi (Ibrahim ibn Yahya)
Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Yahya ibn Ibrahim ibn Sa'id al-Qurtubi, known as Ibn al-Amir. Ibn Bashkuwal said of him… - Person
Mahmud ibn Ahmad Ibn al-Amshati
1412 CE · 815 AHThe Cairene Hanafi scholar Muzaffar al-Din Abu al-Thana Mahmud ibn Ahmad, known as Ibn al-Amshati, of… - Person
Abu Bakr ibn al-Anbari
885 CE · 271 AHAbu Bakr Ibn al-Anbari (271–328) — the Anbari grammarian called 'the allama of his age in adab'; author of… - Person
Ibn al-Anbari, Muhammad
Draft card for Muhammad ibn al-Qasim Abu Bakr al-Anbari, the tenth-century grammarian and philologist, d.… - Person
Ibn al-Andarzghar
Lord of Barusma; in al-Baladhuri he made peace with Abu Ubayd ibn Mas'ud at four dirhams per head on… - Person
ابن الأنماطي
c. 1174 CE · 570 AH - Person
Ibn al-A'rabi, Ahmad ibn Muhammad
861 CE · 246 AHA hadith scholar, memorizer, historian and ascetic Sufi from Basra, learned in hadith and biographical… - Person
Ibn al-A'rabi, Muhammad ibn Ziyad
767 CE · 150 AHA Kufan philologist. His father Ziyad was a Sindhi slave of Sulayman ibn Mujalid. - Person
Ibn al-Ardakhal
1181 CE · 577 AHIbn al-Ardakhal al-Mawsili (577–628) — the celebrated poet of Mosul, died at Mayyafariqin. - Person
Ibn al-Assar
c. 1114 CE · 508 AHIbn al-Assar (508–576) — Baghdad philologist of Ibn al-Shajari and Ibn al-Jawaliqi's line; keeper of… - Person
Ibn al-Athir al-Jazri
1149 CE · 544 AHThe hadith scholar and jurist Majd al-Din Abu al-Sa'adat al-Mubarak ibn Muhammad al-Jazari al-Shaybani, the… - Person
Ibn al-Athir Diya' al-Din
1162 CE · 558 AHThe man of letters Diya' al-Din Abu al-Fath Nasr Allah ibn Muhammad al-Jazari al-Shaybani, third of the Ibn… - Person
Ibn al-Athir Imad al-Din
c. 1245 CE · c. 643 AH†The historian Imad al-Din Isma'il ibn Ahmad ibn Sa'id al-Jazari al-Shaybani, of the Ibn al-Athir scholarly… - Person
Ibn al-Athir Izz al-Din
The historian and hadith scholar Izz al-Din Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Muhammad al-Jazari al-Shaybani; author of… - Person
Ibn al-Athir Najm al-Din
The chancery writer Najm al-Din Ahmad ibn Isma'il ibn Sa'id al-Jazari al-Shaybani, of the Ibn al-Athir… - Person
Ibn al-Ayni
Draft card for Ibn al-Ayni, the fifteenth-century Levantine jurist, exegete and linguist, d. 1488; the source… - Person
Ibn al-Azraq al-Gharnati (Muhammad ibn Ali)
Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Muhammad, Abu Abd Allah Shams al-Din al-Gharnati, a Maliki jurist and judge. He held the… - Person
Ibn al-Baddhukh, Umar ibn Ali
A Moroccan physician and pharmacist, expert in simple and compound drugs and their preparation, who also… - Person
Ibn al-Baghil Abu Jafar Ahmad ibn Qasim
Jurist, lexicographer and historian from Almeria in al-Andalus, of Murcian origin; died 750 AH (1349 CE). - Person
أبو عبد الله ابن البهلول القارئ
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Ibn al-Banna
A jurist, Qur'an reciter, hadith scholar and preacher of Baghdad; the book records that he wrote nearly five… - Person
Ibn al-Banna al-Marrakushi, Ahmad ibn Muhammad
1256 CE · 654 AHA scholar of Marrakesh in mathematics, arithmetic and astronomy, who wrote on the arithmetical sciences. - Person
أبو طالب ابن البقال الحنبلي
Abu Talib Ahmad b. Abdallah, 'Ibn al-Baqqal' — the eloquent Hanbali mufti of Baghdad whose circle sat at the… - Person
Ibn al-Barizi, qadi of Hama
c. 1184 CE · c. 580 AHHama's qadi (aged 89) — Ibn Asakir's pupil and mu'id at Damascus, Rawahiyya and Ma'arra teaching posts, then… - Person
Ibn al-Barraj, Abd al-Aziz ibn Nahrir
Judge of Tripoli in Syria under its emirs; known by the honorific Izz al-Mu'minin. - Person
Ibn al-Baytar
The Malagan physician-botanist (d. Sha'ban 646, Damascus) — author of the Mufradat materia medica; in him the… - Person
Ibn al-Bawwab
Ibn al-Bawwab, Abu al-Hasan Ali b. Hilal (d. 423) — the calligrapher without peer before or since: he refined… - Person
ابن البيطار
Ibn al-Baytar, the peerless physician and herbalist of Malaga, author of the Mufradat of simples — knowledge… - Person
Ibn al-Bitar Abu Muhammad Abd Allah ibn Ahmad
Scholar of plants, drugs and medicine from Malaga in al-Andalus; died 646 AH (1248 CE). - Person
Ibn al-Bitr Abu al-Khattab Nasr ibn Ahmad
1007 CE · 398 AHOf Baghdad, named after the Gharba quarter and known as al-Bazzaz; died 494 AH (1100 CE). - Person
Ibn al-Bitriq al-Hilli
Draft card for Ibn al-Bitriq al-Hilli, the Iraqi scholar and poet, author of al-Khasa'is, d. 1204; the… - Person
Ibn al-Dabbagh
1170 CE · 566 AHShaykh of al-Andalus in Arabic and the readings (b. 566) — pupil of Abu Bakr b. Saf and Abu Dharr b. Abi… - Person
Ibn al-Dabithi al-Wasiti
1163 CE · 558 AHIbn al-Dabithi (b. 558, d. 8 Rabi' II 637, Baghdad) — Wasit's historian: a Tarikh Wasit and a continuation to… - Person
Ibn al-Dahan
c. 1173 CE · 569 AHIbn al-Dahan (c. 569–616) — Baghdad's chief grammarian, later of Mosul; his 43-volume sharh of al-Idah… - Person
Ibn al-Dahan
Ibn al-Dahan al-Faridi (d. 590) — Baghdadi inheritance-law specialist and littérateur in Salah al-Din's… - Person
Ibn al-Dallaj
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Ibn al-Dayba
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Ibn al-Dayri
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Ibn al-Dubaythi
Ibn al-Dubaythi (d. 637) — the Shafi'i historian of Wasit; a famous hafiz of hadith, rijal and history;… - Person
Ibn al-Dughunna
A chief of al-Qara who gave Abu Bakr protection when he set out to emigrate to Abyssinia and brought him back… - Person
Ibn al-Fahham
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Ibn al-Fakhar al-Ansari
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Ibn al-Fakhkhar
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Umar ibn al-Fakhkhar, the eleventh-century scientist, muhaddith and jurist, d.… - Person
عبد الرحيم بن عبد الرحمن بن الفرس القحطاني
A scholar of al-Andalus known as al-Mihr who, after al-Mansur's death, emerged at Cazalla claiming the… - Person
Ibn al-Farfur al-Dimashqi
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Ibn al-Farid
c. 1170 CE · 566 AHUmar b. Ali Ibn al-Farid (566–632) — 'sultan of the lovers,' Egypt's supreme mystical poet; years of solitude… - Person
Salah al-Din Ibn al-Faras
Ibn al-Faras — Cairo's celebrated wit-poet who 'wore the dress of the Turks' sons' and began in Hanafi fiqh… - Person
ابن الفاؤوس الحنبلي
Ibn al-Fa'us Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn al-Mubarak, the Hanbali ascetic of the shoemakers; he preached on Fridays… - Person
Izz al-Din Ibn al-Furat
Ibn al-Furat — the travelled Hanbali-historian of Mecca and Medina, musnid of his age; heard the great… - Person
Shihab al-Din Ibn al-Furfur
c. December 1448 CE · Shawwal 852 AH'Seal of the world's dignitaries and sultan of jurists and chiefs' per al-Hamawi — b. mid-Shawwal 852,… - Person
Ibn al-Fuwati
Draft card for Abd al-Razzaq ibn Ahmad Ibn al-Fuwati, the fourteenth-century historian and astronomer author… - Person
Ibn al-Gharas
Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalil, Abu Yusr, known as Ibn al-Gharas, of Cairo. He memorised the… - Person
Ibn al-Ghariq
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Ibn al-Habbar
Yahya ibn Abd al-Malik al-Ghafiqi, Abu al-Hasan, called Ibn al-Habbar, an Andalusi of Murcia who came with… - Person
Ibn al-Habbariyya
Nizam al-Din Ibn al-Habbariyya (d. 504) — the Abbasid sharif poet of Baghdad; pensioned by Nizam al-Mulk yet… - Person
القاضي ابن الحداد المصري
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Ibn al-Ha'im al-Ishbili
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Ibn al-Haj al-Billifiqi
Draft card for Ibn al-Haj al-Billifiqi, the fourteenth-century Andalusi poet and mystic, d. 1372; the… - Person
ابن الحاجب
c. 1174 CE · c. Dhu al-Hijja 570 AHIbn al-Hajib, the Kurdish grammarian of Isnā in Upper Egypt — his father chamberlain to the amir Musak; he… - Person
Ibn al-Hajj al-Alani
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ابن الحاج التجيبي
Qadi al-jama'a Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Khalaf al-Tujibi of Cordoba, Maliki; transmitted from Abu… - Person
أبو عبد الله الحسين بن أحمد بن الحجاج الشاعر
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ابن الحلاوي
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Ibn al-Hashsha Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Muhammad
Physician who lived in Tunis in the first half of the seventh century AH; died 647 AH (1249 CE). - Person
Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen)
c. 965 CE · c. 354 AH†Arab mathematician and physicist whose Kitab al-Manazir is the principal optical work of the Islamic world.… - Person
al-Shihab ibn al-Hayyim 'al-Qa'im'
c. 1397 CE · 799 AHIbn al-Hayyim 'al-Qa'im' (b. 799) — 'the poet of his age': a large diwan 'all in the utmost beauty', singular… - Person
Ibn al-Himsi, Ahmad ibn Muhammad
1437 CE · 841 AHOf Homs origin, born and died there, with a share in the learning of his age. - Person
Ibn al-Humam
Draft card for Kamal al-Din Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahid al-Siwasi Ibn al-Humam, the fifteenth-century Hanafi… - Person
ابن الحرستاني
c. 1126 CE · 520 AH - Person
Ibn al-Husayn
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Ibn al-Husayri al-Bukhari
Ibn al-Husayri (d. Safar 636, Damascus) — the Bukharan who taught at the Nuriyya twenty-five years and ended… - Person
Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
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Ibn al-Jabbab Abu Amr Ahmad ibn Khalid
860 CE · 246 AHAbu Amr Ahmad ibn Khalid ibn Yazid ibn al-Jabbab, of Jaen origin, who settled in Cordoba; born 246 AH (860… - Person
Ibn al-Jamizi
The allama of the Shafi'is (d. 649) — known for exact research and verification, a teacher of the school. - Person
Ibn al-Jarud al-Naysaburi
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Ibn al-Jassas the jeweller
Abu Abdallah ibn al-Jassas (al-Hasas) the jeweller; arrested in Jumada I 302, sixteen million dinars in cash,… - Person
Ibn al-Jawzi
c. 1116 CE · c. 510 AHAbd al-Rahman ibn Ali ibn al-Jawzi, historian-preacher, author of the Abbasid-caliph history ending in… - Person
Shams al-Din Ibn al-Jazari
c. 26 December 1350 CE · 25 Ramadan 751 AHThe hafiz Ibn al-Jazari (b. Damascus 25 Ramadan 751) — 'reciter of the Islamic realms,' founder of the Dar… - Person
Ibn al-Jazari, Muhammad ibn Ibrahim
1259 CE · 658 AHOriginally from Jazirat Ibn Umar, one of the leading authorities on the readings and hadith of his time. - Person
Ibn al-Jazzar, Ahmad ibn Ibrahim
898 CE · 285 AHA physician from Kairouan, one of the leading physicians of his time, who wrote on medicine and drugs. - Person
Shihab al-Din ibn al-Ji'an
Ibn al-Ji'an — died Sha'ban 889 at forty. - Person
Ibn al-Jinbali
c. 1159 CE · 554 AHal-Nasih b. al-Hanbali, Ibn al-Jinbali (554–634) — Damascus's Hanbali preacher-in-chief after Muwaffaq al-Din… - Person
Ibn al-Ju'an Abu al-Baqa Muhammad ibn Yahya
Shafi'i judge of Damietta origin, known for learning and charity; died 902 AH (1496 CE). - Person
ابن الجبراني
c. 1166 CE · 561 AHIbn al-Jubrani — the Aleppine philologist of Jubran Qurastaya who held the east maqsura of Aleppo's Jami',… - Person
Ibn al-Karki the musnid
Egypt's musnid — heard under Jalal al-Din al-Bulqini, had Ibn Hajar's ijaza, and sat with the greats of his… - Person
Ibn al-Kashshab al-Baghdadi
1087 CE · 480 AH†Draft card for Abu Muhammad Abdallah ibn Muhammad known as Ibn al-Kashshab al-Baghdadi, the poet, philologist… - Person
أبو بكر بن الخاضبة مفيد بغداد
Abu Bakr Ibn al-Khadiba Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Abd al-Baqi, Baghdad's mufid-hafiz; transmitted from al-Khatib… - Person
Ibn al-Khalkhali Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Muzaffar
Shafi'i imam named after Khankhal, a village near Sultaniyya; died 745 AH (1344 CE). - Person
محمد بن سليمان بن الخناط القرطبي
Cordoban poet of humble origin — his father sold wheat — whom the Banu Dhi'l-Nun educated and who became the… - Person
ابن الخراط
Ibn al-Kharrat the Sevillian hafiz, author of al-Ahkam al-Kubra and al-Jam' bayn al-Sahihayn; he settled at… - Person
Ibn al-Kharrat al-Dawalibi
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أبو الحسن ابن الخشاب القارئ
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Ibn al-Khashshab, Abd Allah ibn Ahmad
1099 CE · 492 AHA Baghdad grammarian, about whom the sources record little. - Person
لسان الدين ابن الخطيب
Lisan al-Din Ibn al-Khatib, vizier and writer of Granada's Ibn al-Ahmar; he preached at the Alhambra… - Person
Molla Muhyi al-Din Ibn al-Khatib al-Rumi
Of the famous Rum mawali — his father Molla Taj al-Din, his teachers 'Ali al-Tusi and Khidr Beg; rose through… - Person
Ibn al-Khayr al-Azji
1158 CE · 553 AHHafiz and muqri' of Seville then Dumayra (b. 553, d. 17 Rabi' II 648) — deputy-qadi and overseer of the… - Person
Ibn al-Khayyat
Ibn al-Khayyat al-Dimashqi — katib-poet who toured the lands for patrons and showed his verse to Ibn Hayyus… - Person
Ibn al-Khazin al-Katib
Abu al-Fadl Ibn al-Khazin — Baghdad's peerless calligrapher-katib and poet, whose Maqamat copies still… - Person
Ibn al-Khurasani Abu al-Izz Muhammad ibn Muhammad
1100 CE · 494 AHGrammarian, prosodist, poet and writer; born 494 AH (1100 CE) and died 576 AH (1180 CE); sources record only… - Person
Shams al-Din Ibn al-Qiyal
The merchant who left trade for hadith — took it from Muwaffaq al-Din al-Misri and read widely on Nur al-Din… - Person
Ibn al-Labbad
Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Washshah, Abu Bakr of Qayrawan, known as Ibn al-Labbad, a Maliki jurist, Qur'an… - Person
Ibn al-Labbana
Ibn al-Labbana — the Andalusi poet of Denia; per al-Bayyasi's Khassa he reached Almoravid Marrakesh in Dhu… - Person
Ibn al-Lahham
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Ibn al-Latti
c. 1149 CE · 545 AHIbn al-Latti (545–635) — musnid of his age and the last living man to transmit al-Baghawi's hadith by a high… - Person
أبو القاسم ابن المغربي الوزير
Abu al-Qasim Husayn b. Ali, Ibn al-Maghribi the vizier — fled Egypt when al-Hakim killed his father, uncle… - Person
Ibn al-Mahamili
Draft card for Ibn al-Mahamili, the eleventh-century jurist, d. 1024; the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Shihab al-Din Ibn al-Majdi
c. 1366 CE · 767 AHIbn al-Majdi (b. Cairo 767) — jurist, calculator and astronomer who 'surpassed and uniquely held his age' in… - Person
Ibn al-Malahimi
1050 CE · 442 AH†Draft card for Ibn al-Malahimi, the Mu'tazili theologian and author of al-Mu'tamad; his entry is not yet… - Person
Shihab al-Din Ibn al-Mallah al-Ramli
between 1454 and 1455 CE · 859 AHRamla-born then Damascene (b. 859) — 'great share of learning, piety and purity of heart', imam in the… - Person
Ibn al-Manda'i al-Wasiti
1026 CE · 417 AHAbu al-Fath Ibn al-Manda'i of Wasit (417–605) — traditionist; the hafiz Abu Bakr al-Hazimi and other notables… - Person
ابن المنى
c. 1107 CE · c. 501 AHNasih al-Islam Abu al-Fath Nasr b. Futyan al-Nahrawani, faqih of Iraq and shaykh of the Hanbalis without… - Person
أبو عبد الله ابن المرابط قاضي المرية
Abu Abd Allah Ibn al-Marabit Muhammad b. Khalaf b. Sa'id al-Andalusi — qadi and scholar of Almeria;… - Person
Ibn al-Mawwaz
Draft card for Ibn al-Mawwaz, the ninth-century Maliki jurist of Egypt, d. 882; the biographical entry is not… - Person
Ibn al-Mazyar
Abu Ma'shar's pupil, author of the Muntakhab of the Kitab al-Uluf on the great buildings raised each… - Person
Ibn al-Mu'allim al-Qurashi
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Ibn al-Mu'allim al-Wasiti
Ibn al-Mu'allim al-Wasiti — the tender Wasiti lyric poet 'Najm al-Din' whose ghazal and praise verse the… - Person
Ibn al-Mudhhib
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Ibn al-Mufaddal al-Shibami
Draft card for Ibn al-Mufaddal al-Shibami, the seventeenth-century Yemeni historian and biographer, d. 1674;… - Person
Ibn al-Mughallis
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Ibn al-Mulaqqin
Draft card for Siraj al-Din Umar ibn Ali Ibn al-Mulaqqin al-Ansari, the fourteenth-century Shafi'i hadith… - Person
Kamal al-Din Ibn al-Munaqib
Ibn al-Munaqib — the Asyuti grammarian who trained a generation (Ibn Fahd of Mecca among his pupils); when… - Person
Ibn al-Munayyir
c. 1223 CE · 620 AHAlexandria's famous Maliki qadi (b. 620) — brilliant in fiqh, usul, dialectic, Arabic and rhetoric, with… - Person
Ibn al-Mundhir al-Naysaburi
855 CE · 241 AH†Draft card for Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Mundhir al-Naysaburi, the jurist and exegete of Kitab al-Ijma' and… - Person
Shams al-Din Ibn al-Muqaddam
Greatest of the Salahiyya amirs — given Saladin's leave after Jerusalem's fall to make Hajj from the Holy… - Person
Sharaf al-Din Ibn al-Muqaddisiyya
1177 CE · 573 AHThe Sfax-born Alexandrian Maliki (b. 573, d. Jumada I 654) — his uncle the hafiz Ibn al-Mufaddal brought him… - Person
Ibn al-Muqaffa'
Abdallah ibn al-Muqaffa'; the famed chancery secretary, Baladhuri's source for the Persian zamam, seals and… - Person
أبو القاسم علي بن المسلمة
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Ibn al-Mustawfi al-Irbili
1168 CE · 564 AHSharaf al-Din Ibn al-Mustawfi (d. 638) — the historian of Irbil; author of the four-volume Tarikh Irbil, a… - Person
Ibn al-Mutaqqina
Draft card for Ibn al-Mutaqqina, the twelfth-century Shafi'i scholar and poet, d. 1181; the biographical… - Person
Shihab al-Din Ibn al-Muwajjih
c. 1436 CE · c. 841 AHDamascus's last-word dignitary — 'his word carried, every wronged man sheltered with him', his table fed… - Person
Kamal al-Din ibn al-Nabih
Kamal al-Din Ibn al-Nabih al-Misri — katib and poet of al-Malik al-Ashraf Musa; the famous exchange where the… - Person
Ibn al-Nafis
c. 1210 CE · c. 607 AHShaykh of medicine in Egypt — 'nothing like him on earth, nor since Ibn Sina, and greater than him in… - Person
al-Imad Ibn al-Nahhas the Deaf
1177 CE · 572 AHThe deaf Ansari (b. 572, d. 22 Safar 654) — last transmitter from Ibn Abi Asrun; so deaf that people heard… - Person
Ibn al-Nahhas al-Dimashqi
Damascene Shafi'i who asked in the opening of his Mashari' al-Ashwaq for 'the highest rank of martyrdom' —… - Person
Ibn al-Nahhas, hujjat al-Arab
c. 1230 CE · c. 627 AH - Person
Ibn al-Najjar
1182 CE · 578 AHThe great hafiz (b. 578, d. 643) — author of the Tarikh Baghdad that continues al-Khatib's; al-Mustansir… - Person
Ibn al-Naqib, the Hanbali exegete
c. 1214 CE · 611 AH - Person
أبو الحسن بن النعمة البلنسي
Abu al-Hasan Ibn al-Ni'ma Ali ibn Abdallah al-Ansari of al-Andalus, then of Valencia, one of the notables; he… - Person
ابن القاضي
Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Maghribi al-Muqri — Ibn al-Qadi, resident in Egypt, author of Azhar… - Person
Ibn al-Qadwa
Majd al-Din Abd al-Majid ibn Umar, known as Ibn al-Qadwa — Karrami shaykh of the Haythamiyya branch, honoured… - Person
Ibn al-Qaysarani
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Tahir Ibn al-Qaysarani al-Maqdisi, the twelfth-century hadith scholar and… - Person
ابن القلانسي
Al-Umayd Ibn al-Qalanisi Abu Ya'la Hamza ibn Arshad al-Tamimi of Damascus, chancery man and author of the… - Person
Ibn al-Qarsali
A peasant who struck three dirhams digging a well in his orchard — he left farming for scholarship on the… - Person
Ibn al-Qatta' al-Siqilli
1041 CE · 433 AHIbn al-Qatta' al-Siqilli (433–505) — Sicilian philologist who left when the Franks neared conquest and… - Person
Shams al-Din Ibn al-Qattan al-Misri
c. 1330 CE · c. 730 AHShams al-Din Ibn al-Qattan (d. ~82) — son and brother of cotton-merchants who excelled instead in learning;… - Person
Ibn al-Qawba'
Draft card for Ibn al-Qawba', the fourteenth-century Maghribi jurist, poet and physician, d. 1338; the… - Person
Ibn al-Qawwas, musnid of the age
c. 1208 CE · c. 605 AH - Person
Ibn al-Qaysarani
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ابن القيسراني الشاعر
c. 1084 CE · 477 AHAbu Abdallah Ibn al-Qaysarani Muhammad ibn Nasr, the littérateur who bore poetry's banner in his age; b. Acre… - Person
Ibn al-Qirriyya
In al-Baladhuri, who quipped on Wasit's building: 'he built it in a land not his own and will leave it to… - Person
Ibn al-Qutiyya
Ibn al-Qutiyya (d. 367) — the Sevillan philologist of Cordoba, 'son of the Gothic woman' (his grandmother was… - Person
Ibn al-Raffa' of Hama
1190 CE · 586 AHHama's shaykh al-shuyukh (b. Damascus 586), 'of exceeding intelligence' — carried by his father the qadi on… - Person
أبو الحسين ابن الرفاء القارئ
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أبو منصور بن الرزاز
c. 1069 CE · 462 AHAbu Mansur Ibn al-Razzaz Sa'id ibn Muhammad, shaykh of the Shafi'is and mudarris of the Nizamiyya; he read… - Person
Ibn al-Rumiyya al-Ishbili
Ibn al-Rumiyya (d. 637) — the Sevillan Zahiri hafiz and botanist-apothecary, 'of the memorizers,' earning his… - Person
Taj al-Din ibn al-Sa'adat
1128 CE · 522 AHTaj al-Din Ibn al-Sa'adat, known as al-Muhdhabi (522–584) — the Shafi'i-Sufi adib whose five-volume… - Person
ابن الساعاتي
Ibn al-Sa'ati the exquisite poet, Baha' al-Din Ali b. Muhammad b. Rustam; Ibn Khallikan gives him a… - Person
Abu Nasr ibn al-Sabbagh
The Shafi'i jurist, author of al-Shamil: when Baghdad's Nizamiyya opened in 459 and its appointed teacher Abu… - Person
أبو الوليد ابن الصفار قاضي قرطبة
Abu al-Walid Yunus b. Abdallah b. Mughith, 'Ibn al-Saffar' — qadi of Cordoba who joined the judgeship to the… - Person
Ibn al-Sa'i
Draft card for Taj al-Din Ali ibn Anjab Ibn al-Sa'i, the thirteenth-century Baghdad historian and librarian,… - Person
أبو الفتح ابن الصائغ الحراني
c. 1114 CE · 508 AHImam Abu al-Fath Ibn al-Sa'igh Ahmad ibn Abi al-Wafa' of Baghdad, the Hanbali resident of Harran; b. 508, he… - Person
Ibn al-Salah
1181 CE · 577 AHThe hadith master Abu Amr ibn al-Salah; author of the dictation 'al-Ahadith al-Kulliyya', twenty-six… - Person
Abu 'l-Hasan 'Ali ibn al-Salar
Fatimid vizier of Artukid origin, who seized the vizierate in 544/1149 with the title al-Malik al-'Adil and… - Person
العادل ابن السلار
Al-Malik al-Adil Ali ibn al-Sallar, the Kurd turned Egyptian, wazir of the Fatimid al-Zafir; he swept in from… - Person
Ibn al-Sal'us, the vizier
The merchant-scribe vizier — Damascus's model muhtasib, then al-Ashraf's vizier in a procession 'the like… - Person
ابن السمعاني
c. 1142 CE · 537 AH - Person
Ibn al-Samdisi
Cairo deputy qadi whose house sheltered students; d. Monday 16 Jumada I 922. - Person
ابن السماك الواعظ
A preacher who asked al-Rashid, as he raised a cup of water: 'Had this sip been denied you, what would you… - Person
Ibn al-Sammak the preacher
c. 942 CE · 330 AH - Person
Ibn al-Samman of Damascus
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Ibn al-Sarraj
Abu Bakr Ibn al-Sarraj — the great Baghdadi grammarian, al-Mubarrad's pupil and teacher of al-Sirafi and… - Person
Ibn al-Sawwadi
1089 CE · 482 AHIbn al-Sawwadi al-Wasiti (482–556 or 551) — Wasit's katib-poet of a great house; al-Imad quoted him in the… - Person
أبو يعلى العبدي ابن الصواف شيخ مالكية العراق
Abu Ya'la al-Abdi Ahmad b. Muhammad of al-Hasan al-Basri's progeny, known as Ibn al-Sawwaf — shaykh of Iraq's… - Person
ابن الشجري
c. August 1058 CE · Ramadan 450 AHAbu al-Sa'adat Hibatullah ibn Ali Ibn al-Shajari, d. AH 572 — his Amali spans eight volumes in five branches… - Person
Ibn al-Shashi
Draft card for Ibn al-Shashi, the twelfth-century jurist and teacher, d. 1181; the biographical entry is not… - Person
ابن الشاطر
The Damascene muwaqqit-instrument maker who, finding no existing instrument — astrolabe, shakkaziyya or… - Person
Muhibb al-Din Ibn al-Shihna
c. 1348 CE · 749 AHMuhibb al-Din Ibn al-Shihna (b. 749), Hanafi chief qadi of Aleppo then Damascus — imprisoned by Barquq in 793… - Person
Shams al-Din ibn al-Shihna, Hanafi qadi of Egypt
Ibn al-Shihna — Egypt's Hanafi qadi, 'scion of the illustrious scholars' and a poet; died Muharram 890 at… - Person
ابن الشيرزجي
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Ibn al-Sikkit
Draft card for Ya'qub ibn Ishaq known as Ibn al-Sikkit, the Kufan grammarian and lexicographer of the ninth… - Person
Ibn al-Sitt
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Ibn al-Tabari
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Ibn al-Tabari al-Marwazi
Ahmad b. al-Husayn Abu Hamid al-Marwazi, known as Ibn al-Tabari (d. 377): son of a Hamadani father, he… - Person
Ibn al-Tabban al-Qayrawani
Abu Muhammad Abdallah b. Ishaq al-Qayrawani, called Ibn al-Tabban (d. 371) — shaykh of the Maghreb Malikis;… - Person
al-'Ala' ibn al-Taj al-Baghdadi
c. 1391 CE · 793 AHIbn al-Taj (b. Baghdad 793) — the musnid of Baghdad who heard in his youth from Abu Hurayra ibn al-Dhahabi,… - Person
Ibn al-Tayn, Abd al-Wahid ibn Umar
A scholar from Sfax in Tunisia, known as Ibn al-Tin. - Person
Amin al-Dawla Ibn al-Tilmidh
Amin al-Dawla Ibn al-Tilmidh (d. Safar 560, near age 100) — Baghdad's Christian physician-in-chief, head of… - Person
Ibn al-Tin
Abd al-Wahid ibn al-Tin, Abu Muhammad al-Safaqusi al-Maghribi al-Maliki, a jurist, hadith scholar and exegete… - Person
Ibn al-Tiqtaqa
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Ali Ibn al-Tiqtaqa, the Mosuli historian author of al-Fakhri in the late… - Person
Ibn al-Turkumani
Ala' al-Din Ali ibn Uthman al-Mardini, known as Ibn al-Turkumani, a Hanafi jurist from Egypt who held the… - Person
Ibn al-Ukhuwwa
Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Qurashi, known as Ibn al-Ukhuwwa, author of Maʿalim al-Qurba fi Ahkam… - Person
Jalal al-Din Ibn al-'Ulayf
c. 1341 CE · 742 AHJalal al-Din Ibn al-'Ulayf (b. 742 at Hali in Yemen) — Meccan poet described by the source as an extreme… - Person
Ibn al-Umayd
Abu al-Fadl Ibn al-Umayd (d. 359) — the celebrated katib of Rukn al-Dawla; nephew of Ibrahim b. Hilal al-Sabi… - Person
Ibn al-Ustadh, qadi of Aleppo
1214 CE · 611 AHQadi of Aleppo under the Nasiri and Zahiri regimes (b. 611) — Dhahabi: 'a grand, honoured figure, an… - Person
Ibn al-Walid al-Qumi
Draft card for Ibn al-Walid al-Qumi, the eleventh-century jurist, d. 1041; the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Ibn al-Wardi
Draft card for Zayn al-Din Umar ibn al-Muzaffar known as Ibn al-Wardi, the Shafi'i jurist and geographer of… - Person
Ibn al-Wazir
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Wazir, the fifteenth-century Zaydi jurist of Yemen, d. 1436; the… - Person
Ibn al-Witar al-Baghdadi
c. 1155 CE · c. 550 AHThe Baghdad Hanbali preacher Ibn al-Witar (d. 17 Jumada I 636, ~90) — witnessed before qadi Abd al-Razzaq b.… - Person
Ibn al-Yaqoub al-Makki
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Ibn al-Yasamin
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ابن الزاغوني
c. May 1063 CE · Jumada I 455 AHShaykh and preacher of the Hanbalis, Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Ubaydallah al-Zaghuni; b. Jumada I 455, read the… - Person
Ibn al-Zahir al-Irbili
Draft card for Ibn al-Zahir al-Irbili, the thirteenth-century Iraqi jurist and poet, d. 1278; the… - Person
Ibn al-Zahiri, the hafiz
c. 1229 CE · c. 626 AH - Person
Kamal al-Din Ibn al-Zamlakani
Qadi of Sarkhad and grandfather of the famous qadi al-Kamal Ibn al-Zamlakani (d. 651) — heard Ibn Asakir the… - Person
ابن الزقاق البلنسي
The celebrated Valencian poet Ali ibn Atiyya al-Lakhmi, known as Ibn al-Zaqqaq; a powerful poet of fine mould… - Person
Ibn Alawiyya al-Hamadhani
Abu Abdallah al-Husayn b. Ahmad al-Hamadhani, called Ibn Alawiyya (d. 370, Aleppo) — grammarian and… - Person
Ibn Amir al-Shami
Draft card for Abdallah ibn Amir al-Yahsibi, the reader of Damascus and its judge among the seven canonical… - Person
Ibn Amir Hajj
Draft card for Ibn Amir Hajj, the Levantine Hanafi jurist and writer, d. 1474; the biographical entry is not… - Person
أبو بكر ابن عمار الشاعر الوزير
Abu Bakr ibn Ammar, poet and wazir of al-Mu'tamid at Seville, also styled Dhu'l-Wizaratayn; present at the… - Person
Nur al-Din ibn Aqbaras
c. 1400 CE · 802 AHIbn Aqbaras (b. ~802) — sole nazir of Egypt's awqaf under Jaqmaq after Ibn al-Imad's dismissal; studied under… - Person
ابن عقيل شيخ الحنابلة
c. May 1040 CE · Jumada II 431 AHShaykh of the Hanbalis who washed the caliph al-Mustazhir's body in 512. - Person
Ibn Aqil, grammarian
Draft card for Baha al-Din Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Rahman Ibn Aqil, the fourteenth-century Egyptian grammarian,… - Person
محيي الدين ابن العربي
1165 CE · 560 AHThe 'Greatest Shaykh' Muhyi al-Din Ibn Arabi (b. Murcia 560, d. 22 Rabi' II 638, Damascus, buried at Qasiyun)… - Person
Shihab al-Din Ibn 'Arabshah
Ibn 'Arabshah — the Damascene Hanafi historian of Timur ('Aja'ib al-Maqdur), 'imam of his age in verse and… - Person
Ibn Arafa
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Muhammad Ibn Arafa al-Warghami, the fourteenth-century Maliki imam of Tunis… - Person
ابن أرفع رأس
Abu al-Hasan Ali b. Musa b. Khalaf al-Ansari, resident of Fez and its khatib, author of Shudhur al-Dhahab on… - Person
Ibn Arqam al-Numayri
Andalusi scholar and poet who travelled to Ceuta and took part in the affairs of his time. - Person
ابن عساكر
c. 1105 CE · c. 499 AHDamascus' muhaddith, author of the eighty-volume Tarikh Dimashq — Ibn Shuhba: 'the glory of the Shafi'is,… - Person
Ibn Asim al-Gharnati
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أبو يحيى ابن عاصم الغرناطي
Abu Yahya ibn Asim — Granadan ra'is, qadi, scholar, secretary and vizier, author of Jannat al-Rida… - Person
Ibn 'Askar of Málaga
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Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari
Taj al-Din Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari (d. 709 AH), the ascetic preacher, pupil of… - Person
Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari the usuli
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Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Kufi (Ibn A'tham)
The historian Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Kufi, known as Ibn A'tham, author of 'al-Futuh', which arranges Islamic… - Person
Ibn Atiyah al-Andalusi
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ابن عوف الزهري
Nadir al-Islam Abu al-Tahir Isma'il b. Makki Ibn Auf al-Zuhri al-Iskandarani the Maliki, shaykh of… - Person
Ibn 'Awad
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al-Burhan Ibn 'Awn the Hanafi
between 1432 and 1433 CE · 836 AHDamascus's Hanafi mufti (b. 836) — pupil of al-Sa'di and al-Bakri, audited al-Sakhawi, and 'drew from the… - Person
Ibn Aybak al-Dawadari
c. 1286 CE · c. 685 AHThe historian Abu Bakr ibn Abd Allah ibn Aybak al-Dawadari, author of the historical encyclopedia 'Kanz… - Person
Ibn Ayshun al-Harrani
The Harranian judge, a man of learning who died after 300; his long qasida on the Sabians' doctrines… - Person
Zayn al-Din Ibn 'Ayyash
c. October 1370 CE · Rabi' I 772 AHIbn 'Ayyash (b. Damascus Rabi' I 772) — Mecca's daily reciter of the ten qira'at at the Haram, equal to his… - Person
أبو القاسم عبد الصمد بن بابك الشاعر
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طاهر بن أحمد بن بابشاذ الجوهري النحوي
Abu al-Hasan Tahir b. Ahmad b. Babashadh — the Egyptian jeweler-grammarian who entered Baghdad a gem… - Person
Ibn Babshadh
Grammarian who taught grammar at the Amr ibn al-As mosque in Cairo and wrote a grammar commentary known to… - Person
Abd al-Qadir ibn Badran
A Damascene Hanbali scholar, author of al-Madkhal ila Madhhab al-Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal; he died in Damascus… - Person
ابن باجة
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Bajja of Zaragoza, a philosopher of Islam, also a fine poet and genealogist; author of… - Person
Ibn Bakr, Muhammad ibn Yahya
1276 CE · 674 AHA Maliki jurist from Malaga in al-Andalus, known as Ibn Bakr. - Person
Ibn Balban al-Hanbali
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Ibn Balban Ala al-Din Ali
1276 CE · 675 AHScholar known as al-Farisi, born 675 AH (1276 CE) and died 739 AH (1339 CE). - Person
ابن بقي الظاهري قاضي مراكش
Ibn Baqi — the Cordoban mawla of the Umayyads, qadi al-jama'a of Marrakesh, the last great Zahiri: musnid,… - Person
Ibn Baqi, Yahya ibn Ahmad
An Andalusian poet. The sources differ on the name of his father. - Person
Ibn Baqiyya
Ibn Baqiyya (d. 367) — Buyid vizier to Izz al-Dawla, famed for generosity (a monthly wax allowance of a… - Person
Ibn Baraka al-Umani
Abu Muhammad b. Baraka al-Umani, commonly called Ibn Baraka, an Ibadi author from the township of Bahla in… - Person
Ibn Bariq Abu Hafs
Andalusi physician of the fourth century AH who studied medicine in Qayrawan with Ibn al-Jazzar and returned… - Person
Ibn Barrajan, Abd al-Salam ibn Abd al-Rahman
An ascetic Sufi and theologian from the Maghrib, known for his preaching and for Sufism and kalam. - Person
Ibn Barri Abd Allah ibn Abi al-Wahsh
1106 CE · 499 AHEgyptian lexicographer and grammarian, born and died in Egypt; his father was a scribe. - Person
Ibn Barri Ali ibn Muhammad
c. 1261 CE · 660 AHMaghrebi reader, jurist, grammarian and writer from Taza who headed the chancery at Fez under the Marinid… - Person
Ibn Barzan, lord of Ramla and Nablus
Ibn Barzan, lord of Ramla and Nablus — the greatest of the Franks after their king; taken at the Ford of… - Person
Ibn Bashkuwal, Khalaf ibn Abd al-Malik
1101 CE · 494 AHAn Andalusian historian and hadith scholar, author of al-Silla, a biographical dictionary of al-Andalus'… - Person
Ibn Bassam al-Shantarini
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Ibn Batish al-Mawsili
c. June 1179 CE · Muharram 575 AHThe Mosul Shafi'i (b. 575, d. Aleppo Jumada II 655) — author of Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya and al-Mughni fi Gharib… - Person
Ibn Batta al-Ukbari, Ubayd Allah ibn Muhammad
917 CE · 304 AHBorn in Ukbara near Baghdad, a Hanbali jurist and hadith scholar. - Person
Ibn Battah al-Ukbari
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ابن بطال
Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Khalaf ibn Battal al-Maliki — the hafiz author of al-I'tisam fi'l-Hadith. - Person
Ibn Battuta, Muhammad ibn Abd Allah
1304 CE · 703 AHA Moroccan traveller from Tangier who visited many lands of the Islamic world and wrote his famous travelogue. - Person
Ibn Baz, Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd Allah
1912 CE · 1330 AHA Saudi scholar born in Riyadh in 1330 AH. He lost his sight during his early studies. - Person
Ibn Bazzaz
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Ibn Bibi
Draft card for Nasir al-Din al-Husayn ibn Muhammad known as Ibn Bibi, the historian of the Seljuks of Rum who… - Person
Ibn Bint al-A'azz
c. 1228 CE · 625 AHEgypt's chief qadi (appointed 678, gone by Ramadan 679 — 'or he removed himself'), then the Salihiyya chair;… - Person
Ibn Bint al-Aqsara'i
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Ibn Bint al-Iraqi
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Ibn Bint al-Maylaq
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Ibn Bint al-Shafi'i Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah
c. 815 CE · 200 AHIbn Bint al-Shafi'i, Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Shafi', a Shafi'i jurist of Baghdad; he studied… - Person
Nur al-Din Ibn Bisal
c. 1372 CE · 773 AHIbn Bisal of Alexandria (b. 773) — Ibn Hajar's own twenty-year companion in his dictation sessions ('he… - Person
Ibn Budayr
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أبو عبد الله الحسين بن أحمد بن بكير الصيرفي
c. 939 CE · 327 AH - Person
Ibn Bukayr Abu Abd Allah al-Husayn ibn Ahmad
938 CE · 327 AHBaghdadi hadith memorist known only from reports of his transmission and of his teachers; died 388 AH (998… - Person
أبو علي ابن بليمة القارئ
The Qayrawani muqri' Ibn Bulayma, author of Talkhis al-Ibarat fi'l-qira'at; d. Rajab 514 at Alexandria in his… - Person
Ibn Bulayman, the adib
c. 1199 CE · c. 596 AH - Person
Ibn Burayya al-Hashimi
'Abd Allah b. Isma'il b. Ibrahim b. 'Isa b. Abi Ja'far al-Mansur, Abu Ja'far al-Hashimi known as Ibn Burayya… - Person
أحمد بن بورد الأكبر
Abu Hafs Ibn Burd the Elder, the Amirid wazir who drafted Hisham's heir-designation deed for Sanjul in Rabi I… - Person
Ibn Dahhaq (Ibn al-Mar'a)
Draft card for Ibn Dahhaq known as Ibn al-Mar'a al-Andalusi, the thirteenth-century scholar and mystic, d.… - Person
ابن دقيق العيد
Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ali Ibn Daqiq al-Id, d. AH 702 — his Ilmam collected the legal hadiths' texts, and… - Person
Ibn Darbas
1180 CE · 576 AHThe blind Egyptian qadi (b. 576) — ijaza from al-Silafi, hearing from al-Busiri and Ibn Asakir; he taught,… - Person
Ibn Davud Qumi
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Ibn Dawud al-Hanbali
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Ibn Dawud al-Hilli
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Ibn Dawud al-Zahiri
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Ibn Dawwas
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Ibn Dihya
c. 1151 CE · c. 546 AHIbn Dihya (~546–633) — the roving Andalusi hafiz who claimed to have memorized Sahih Muslim entire; showered… - Person
Ibn Diraj the Tufayli
The most famous gatecrasher: outplayed Ibn al-Mudabbir's household at chess, backgammon, lute and tanbur,… - Person
Sarim al-Din Ibn Duqmaq
c. 1349 CE · c. 750 AHThe Cairene soldier-turned-historian Ibn Duqmaq (d. 809) — wrote nearly two hundred volumes: a great annals… - Person
Ibn Durayd
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Durayd — poet and philologist who died at Baghdad in 321 in al-Qahir's… - Person
ابن درستويه
Ibn Durustawayh — Baghdad grammarian who, like al-Mubarrad, prized and transmitted Kitab al-Ayn; the source… - Person
أبو عبد الله أحمد بن محمد بن دوست البزاز الحافظ
c. October 935 CE · Safar 323 AH - Person
Ibn-e-Insha
15 June 1927 CE · 1345 AHPakistani Urdu poet and writer (1927–1978), born Sher Muhammad Khan and known by his pen name Ibn-e-Insha. He… - Person
Ibn Fadl Allah al-Umari
1301 CE · 700 AHShihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Fadl Allah al-Umari (700–749 AH), head of the Mamluk chancery's correspondence bureau… - Person
Ibn Fahd Jar Allah Muhibb al-Din Muhammad
1486 CE · 891 AHJar Allah Ibn Fahd — b. Saturday eve 20 Rajab 891 at Mecca; he heard the Six Books and Qadi 'Iyad's Shifa'… - Person
Ibn Faraj
Draft card for Ibn Faraj, the historian and writer, d. 1602; the biographical entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Ibn Faris
Abu al-Husayn Ahmad b. Faris al-Razi — the great lexicographer and grammarian, author of Maqayis al-Lugha. - Person
Dhu'l-Sa'adatayn Ibn Fasatanjas
Abu Kalijar's vizier in Fars and then Baghdad (appointed at the 436 entry); a man of easy grace and fine… - Person
Ibn Funduq al-Bayhaqi
Draft card for Ali ibn Zayd Ibn Funduq al-Bayhaqi, the twelfth-century Khorasani historian and Shafi'i jurist… - Person
Ibn Furak
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Ibn Futays
Draft card for Ibn Futays, the eleventh-century Andalusi jurist, judge and historian, d. 1012; the… - Person
Ibn Ghanaim ibn al-Adim
The Aleppine qadi of the Ibn al-Adim house — 'one of the devout who act on their knowledge; if one said none… - Person
Ibn Ghazi al-Maknasi
Draft card for Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ghazi al-Maknasi, the sixteenth-century Fez mathematician and jurist… - Person
Ibn Habib al-Halabi
Draft card for Badr al-Din Hasan Ibn Habib al-Halabi, the fourteenth-century jurist, muhaddith and poet of… - Person
شيخ الإسلام ابن حجر العسقلاني
Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, author of Inba' al-Ghumr — Suyuti's source for events to 850 — who… - Person
Ibn Hajar al-Haytami
c. December 1503 CE · Rajab 909 AHIbn Hajar al-Haytami — b. Rajab 909 at Abu al-Haytham in Gharbiyya, orphaned young and fostered by Ibn Abi… - Person
Ibn Hajib al-Nu'man
c. 952 CE · 340 AH - Person
Shihab al-Din Ibn Hajji al-Hisbani
c. 1 February 1416 CE · 5 Dhu al-Hijja 818 AHThe deaf judge of Damascus, b. 5 Dhu'l-Hijja 818 — before his hearing went he had already listened to Ibn… - Person
Ibn Hakim al-Hanafi
Muhammad ibn As'ad ibn Muhammad ibn Nasr ibn Hakim, Abu al-Muzaffar al-Hakimi, known as Ibn Hakim, a Hanafi… - Person
Ibn Hamadush, Abd al-Razzaq ibn Muhammad
1695 CE · 1107 AHAn Algerian scholar known for his interest in the sciences, who left a well-known autobiography. - Person
Bahaa al-Din ibn Hamdun
1102 CE · 495 AHBahaa al-Din Ibn Hamdun (495–562) — Abbasid katib, head of the Mustanjidi chancery; author of the celebrated… - Person
Ibn Hamdun, Muhammad ibn al-Husayn
From a Baghdad literary family that was active in the third century AH and produced several notable writers. - Person
Ibn Hamid
The leading Hanbali scholar and teacher of his time, the master of the judge Abu Ya'la; he wrote al-Jami' fi… - Person
أبو عبد الله الحسن بن حامد الوراق الحنبلي
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Ibn Hammawayh, qadi of Damascus
Qadi al-Sham (Hanafi→Hanbali, 'mujtahid within the Sunni school') — judged a few months then dismissed; a… - Person
Ibn Hamza (al-Safarjalani)
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Ibn Hamza al-Tusi
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Ibn Hani' al-Andalusi
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Ibn Hanzaba
Abu al-Fadl Ja'far b. al-Fadl, 'Ibn Hanzaba' — last great vizier of the Ikhshidids; governed for Kafur then… - Person
Ibn Harbuwayh
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Ibn Hasnun
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Ibn Hawshab
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ابن حوط الله الأنصاري
Ibn Hawtallah al-Ansari al-Harithi — jurist, usuli, secretary, poet and preacher, qadi in turn of Seville,… - Person
Ibn Hayy al-Tujibi al-Hasan ibn Muhammad
Of the Tujib branch of Kinda, known as Ibn Hayy and called al-Qurtubi as a native of Cordoba; died 456 AH… - Person
Ibn Hayyan, Abu Marwan
987 CE · 377 AHAn Andalusian historian from Cordoba, author of al-Muqtabas on the history of al-Andalus. - Person
ابن حيان المؤرخ الأندلسي
Abu Marwan Ibn Hayyan, the Andalusi historian whose Muqtabis, Matin, book of the Amirid state and 'Great… - Person
Ibn Hayyus
1003 CE · 394 AHIbn Hayyus (394–473) — the great Aleppine poet 'al-Amir' of the Mirdasid court, famous for his ra'iyya… - Person
أبو محمد ابن حزم الأندلسي
c. 994 CE · 30 Ramadan 384 AHAbu Muhammad Ali b. Ahmad Ibn Hazm, the Zahiri imam of al-Andalus, author of Tawq al-Hamama and al-Fisal. - Person
Ibn Hibban al-Busti
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Hibban al-Busti, the hadith master author of Sahih Ibn Hibban, al-Thiqat and… - Person
Taqi al-Din Ibn Hijja al-Hamawi
c. 1375 CE · 777 AHTaqi al-Din Ibn Hijja of Hama (b. 777) — from silk-weaver to al-Mu'ayyad Shaykh's court poet and 'poet of the… - Person
Ibn Hindu
Draft card for Abu'l-Faraj Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Hindu, the eleventh-century physician and man of letters of… - Person
عبد الملك بن هشام
Abd al-Malik ibn Hisham — the redactor of Ibn Ishaq's Sira and author of Ansab Himyar. - Person
Ibn Hisham al-Ansari
Draft card for Jamal al-Din Abd Allah ibn Yusuf Ibn Hisham al-Ansari, the fourteenth-century Egyptian… - Person
ابن هبيرة وزير المقتفي
Al-Muqtafi's vizier; when Mas'ud's men overreached and open war was impossible, he and the caliph cursed him… - Person
Awn al-Din ibn Hubayra
Draft card for Awn al-Din Yahya ibn Muhammad ibn Hubayra, the twelfth-century Hanbali vizier of Baghdad… - Person
ابن حبيش الحافظ
Abd al-Rahman ibn Hubaysh al-Ansari of Almeria — 'the last of the huffaz in al-Andalus'; caught in the… - Person
محمد بن يوسف بن هود
Muhammad ibn Yusuf Ibn Hud al-Judhami, who rose against the Almohads and took most of al-Andalus; he… - Person
Ibn Hudhayl, Yahya ibn Ahmad
A physician and mathematician from Granada, linked to the Tujib tribe. - Person
Ibn Hurmuz
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Ibn Hurmuz al-A'raj al-Qari
Ibn Hurmuz al-A'raj al-Qari; he used to say 'the best of your coasts for ribat is Alexandria', and went out… - Person
Ibn Idhari al-Marrakushi
Draft card for Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Idhari al-Marrakushi, the historian of Morocco and al-Andalus author of… - Person
Ibn Idris al-Hilli
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Ibn Iyas
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Iyas al-Hanafi, the historian of late-Mamluk and early-Ottoman Egypt… - Person
Ibn Iyas, Muhammad ibn Ahmad
1448 CE · 852 AHThe leading historian of the last Mamluk period in Egypt and Syria and the early Ottoman period. A Hanafi. - Person
Ibn Iyaz Jamal al-Din
The Baghdad grammarian Jamal al-Din Abu Muhammad al-Husayn ibn Badr ibn Iyaz, who taught at the Mustansiriya… - Person
Ibn Jabir al-Andalusi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad
1298 CE · 698 AHAn Andalusian poet and scholar of Arabic from Almeria. - Person
Ibn Jama'a, Badr al-Din Muhammad ibn Ibrahim
1241 CE · 639 AHA Shafi'i jurist, hadith scholar and grammarian, among the leading scholars of Cairo and Damascus in his time. - Person
Majd al-Din ibn Jama'a
c. 1377 CE · 779 AHMajd al-Din ibn Jama'a (b. Jerusalem 779) — muezzin-khatib of Madrasa Tumaj, Shafi'i jurist-poet trained by… - Person
Ibn Jan
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Al-Janabadhi, Abd al-Aziz ibn Mahmud
1129 CE · 524 AHA hadith scholar and jurist of Baghdad, of the Janabadh family, known for learning in Baghdad. - Person
Ibn Jawn al-Saksaki
'Ammar ibn Yasir's co-killer at Siffin with Abu'l-'Adiyya — dismissed from the spoils-claim by 'Abd Allah ibn… - Person
Ibn Jazla
Abu Ali Yahya b. Isa b. Jazla of Asyut — physician who converted from Christianity and wrote a refutation of… - Person
أبو الفتح عثمان بن جني الموصلي النحوي
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Ibn Jirjis
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Ibn Jubayr, Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Kinani
c. 1145 CE · 539 AHAn Andalusian traveller from Valencia and Granada who made the Hajj and wrote the travelogue known by his… - Person
محمد بن جزي الكلبي
The Granadan chancery writer who served Abu Yusuf then Abu Inan — and it was his pen that set down and… - Person
ابن كج
Ibn Kajj the Shafi'i of Dinawar, combining scholarly and worldly eminence; when Sanji told him 'the name is… - Person
Ibn Kamal Pasha
Ibn Kamal Pasha — 'the unique, verifying polymath'; his grandfather an Ottoman amir, he began in the army… - Person
Shams al-Din Ibn Kamil al-Mansuri
Ibn Kamil — Mansura's independent qadi, Ibn Hajar's own hajj companion of 824 ('we talked fiqh on the road');… - Person
Ibn Kannan
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Ibn Kathir
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Ibn Kathir al-Makki
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أبو إسحاق ابن خفاجة
Al-Andalus's celebrated nature poet who, asked by Abu'l-Arab how he fared at eighty-one, answered in his… - Person
Ibn Khafaja, Ibrahim ibn Abi al-Fath
1058 CE · 450 AHAn Andalusian poet from Jazirat Shuqr, known for his nature description. - Person
Ibn Khafif al-Shirazi
Abu Abdallah Muhammad b. Khafif al-Shirazi (d. 8 Ramadan 371) — shaykh of Fars, Shafi'i faqih and Sufi… - Person
Ibn Khalawayh
Draft card for al-Husayn ibn Ahmad Ibn Khalawayh, the tenth-century grammarian of Aleppo and Baghdad author… - Person
Ibn Khaldun
1332 CE · 732 AHAbd al-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami, author of the Muqaddima and the Kitab al-'Ibar (d. 808 AH). - Person
Ibn Khalil al-Dimashqi Abu al-Hajjaj Yusuf
1160 CE · 555 AHShams al-Din Abu al-Hajjaj Yusuf ibn Khalil of Damascus and later Aleppo; born 555 AH (1160 CE) and died 648… - Person
Taqi al-Din Ibn Khalil al-Hadari
Aleppo's preacher 'who stirred hearts by argument, not imitation' — students of al-Kafiyaji, he campaigned… - Person
Ibn Khallad al-Basri
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ابن خلكان
c. 1211 CE · c. 608 AHIbn Khallikan, chief qadi of Damascus and author of Wafayat al-A'yan — born at Irbil 608, trained under Kamal… - Person
Ibn Khaqan, al-Fath ibn Muhammad al-Qaysi
1087 CE · 480 AHA man of letters from Seville, author of Qala'id al-Iqyan and Matmah al-Anfus. - Person
أبو الحسن ابن خروف الأديب
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Ibn Khatib Darayya
Draft card for Ibn Khatib Darayya, the fifteenth-century literary scholar and jurist, d. 1407; the source… - Person
Ibn Khatib Sarmin, of Aleppo
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Ibn Khayr al-Ishbili
1108 CE · 502 AHAn Andalusian scholar from Seville, a client of Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Ya'mur, and a hadith transmitter… - Person
Ibn Khumayr, Ali ibn Ahmad
An Umayyad scholar from Ceuta, known as Ibn Khumayr. - Person
Ibn Khumays, al-Husayn ibn Nasr
1073 CE · 466 AHA hadith scholar and jurist from Mosul, of the Juhayna tribe, born in 466 AH and died in 552 AH. - Person
Ibn Khurradadhbih, Ubayd Allah ibn Abd Allah
820 CE · 205 AHA historian and geographer of encyclopaedic learning, author of al-Masalik wa-l-Mamalik. - Person
محمد بن إسحاق بن خزيمة النيسابوري
The imam of Nishapur in hadith; he rebuked a student for writing from al-Tabari under Hanbali pressure, then… - Person
Ibn Khuzayma, Muhammad ibn Ishaq
838 CE · 223 AHImam of the imams and hadith scholar of Nishapur, author of the Sahih known as Sahih Ibn Khuzayma. - Person
ابن كليب
c. September 1106 CE · Safar 500 AHIbn Kulayb, musnid of Iraq — Abu al-Faraj Abd al-Mun'im b. Abd al-Wahhab b. Sa'd al-Harrani then Baghdadi,… - Person
Ibn Labbal al-Sharishi
Draft card for Ibn Labbal al-Sharishi, the twelfth-century Andalusi scholar and poet, d. 1188; the… - Person
Ibn Ma'n al-Yamani
497 AHMuhammad ibn Sa'id ibn Ma'n al-Qurayzi al-Lahji al-Yamani, known as Ibn Ma'n. A Shafi'i jurist and hadith… - Person
Ibn Mahrayazd
Draft card for Ibn Mahrayazd, the eleventh-century Persian jurist, exegete and man of letters, d. 1067; the… - Person
Ibn Majah
The muhaddith of Qazvin, author of the Sunan counted by later scholars as the sixth of the six books; he… - Person
قاضي القضاة ابن ما كولا الحسين بن علي العجلي
c. 978 CE · 368 AHChief qadi Abu Abdallah 'Ibn Makula' al-Husayn b. Ali al-Ijli al-Jarbadhaqani, Shafi'i, of the Abu Dulaf… - Person
Ibn Malik al-Hamawi
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ابن مالك النحوي
Jamal al-Din Muhammad ibn Abdallah al-Ta'i al-Jayyani, known as Ibn Malik the grammarian, d. AH 672 — author… - Person
أبو بكر ابن منده
The Isfahani hafiz Abu Bakr ibn Manda — author of the first of the four books of Companion names, exhausted… - Person
al-Abdi ibn Manda
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أبو عبد الله محمد بن إسحاق بن منده الحافظ الأصبهاني
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أبو بكر ابن منجويه الأصبهاني
Abu Bakr Ahmad b. Manjuwayh of Isfahan — the hafiz resident at Nishapur, 'the most retentive man ever seen'… - Person
Ibn Manzur
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Mukarram ibn Manzur al-Ansari al-Ifriqi, the lexicographer author of Lisan… - Person
ابن مردنيش صاحب شرق الأندلس
Ibn Mardanish (Muhammad ibn Sa'd), king of eastern al-Andalus in the Almoravid collapse — he fought Abd… - Person
أحمد بن موسى بن مردويه أبو بكر الحافظ الأصبهاني
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Ibn Marzuq al-Hafid
Draft card for Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Ahmad Ibn Marzuq al-Hafid, the fourteenth-century jurist of Tlemcen… - Person
Ibn Masdi al-Gharnati
The Granadan hafiz — Ibn Nasir al-Din: 'a wide-travelled hafiz-allama of discernment; Shi'ism was bruited of… - Person
Ibn Mattawayh
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Ibn Mawdud al-Mawsili
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Ibn Mazayyan
Draft card for Yahya ibn Ibrahim ibn Mazayyan, the ninth-century muhaddith and jurist, d. 873; the… - Person
Ibn Mishad
Dinawar's ascetic elder, slaughtered after being struck with his own mushaf. - Person
Ibn Misk al-Sakhawi
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Ibn Miskawayh
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Ibn Mu'adh al-Jayyani, Muhammad
989 CE · 379 AHA mathematician and astronomer from an Andalusian family, named after Jaen. - Person
Burhan al-Din ibn Muflih
Burhan al-Din ibn Muflih — 'shaykh al-Islam, master of scholars and rulers, blessing of the age,' Damascus's… - Person
Ibn Muhaysin
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhaysin al-Sahmi, Abu Yahya, reader of Mecca after Ibn Kathir and its… - Person
Ibn Muhriz
One of the singers carried to al-Walid's court. - Person
Ibn Mujahid
Draft card for Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Musa ibn Mujahid, the Baghdad reader who canonized the seven recitations in… - Person
Abu Abd Allah ibn Mujahid al-Ta'i
Draft card for Abu Abd Allah ibn Mujahid al-Ta'i, the theologian, d. 980; the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
ابن منير الطرابلسي
c. 1080 CE · 473 AHIbn Munir of Tripoli, the poet; raised in Tripoli's markets, he came to Damascus and settled — a Shi'i of… - Person
عبد الرحمن بن مقانا الأشبوني القيسي
Abu Zayd Abd al-Rahman b. Muqana al-Ishbuni, a frontier poet whose nuniyya to the veiled Hammudid at Malaga… - Person
ابن معطي الزواوي صاحب الألفية
c. 1168 CE · 564 AHZayn al-Din Ibn Mu'ti al-Zawawi — the Hanafi grammarian of the Zawawa tribe who taught Arabic at Cairo and… - Person
Ibn Nabbata al-Fariqi
Abu Yahya Ibn Nabbata al-Fariqi (d. 374, before forty) — 'preacher of preachers', Sayf al-Dawla's khatib at… - Person
Ibn Nama al-Hilli
Draft card for Najm al-Din ibn Nama al-Hilli, the thirteenth-century scholar, b. 1205; the biographical entry… - Person
Ibn Naqiya
1019 CE · 410 AHIbn Naqiya (d. 485) — Baghdad man of letters, poet, philologist and epistolographer of the Harim quarter;… - Person
Ibn Naqta
Mu'in al-Din Ibn Naqta (d. 629) — the Baghdadi hadith traveller and hafiz; journeyed through Khurasan, the… - Person
Shams al-Din Ibn Nasir al-Din al-Dimashqi
c. August 1375 CE · Muharram 777 AHIbn Nasir al-Din (b. Damascus mid-Muharram 777), 'hafiz of Syria without rival' — pupil of Ibn al-Muhibb and… - Person
ابن ناصر الحافظ
c. 1074 CE · 467 AHThe trustworthy hafiz Abu al-Fadl Ibn Nasir Muhammad ibn Nasir al-Sulami of Baghdad, muhaddith of Iraq; b.… - Person
Muhibb al-Din Ibn Nasr Allah al-Hanbali
c. 16 April 1364 CE · 17 Rajab 765 AHIbn Nasr Allah (b. Baghdad 17 Rajab 765) — shaykh al-Islam, mufti of Egypt and head of the Hanbalis after Ibn… - Person
Ibn Ni'ma, musnid al-Sham
1179 CE · 575 AHMusnid al-Sham (b. 575) — the hand that wrote out Ibn Asakir's Tarikh Dimashq twice, al-Mughni several times,… - Person
جمال الدين ابن نباتة المصري
Jamal al-Din Ibn Nubata al-Misri, the celebrated secretary of chancery; his insha' includes the waqf… - Person
Ibn Nujaym
Ibn Nujaym — 'the sea, the savant, unique of his age, seal of the verifiers and muftis'; pupil of Qasim b.… - Person
Ibn Nun al-Khwarazmi 'al-Mu'id'
c. 1329 CE · c. 730 AHIbn Nun 'al-Mu'id' — forty-plus years Mecca's mujawir, imam of the Hanafi maqam and assistant teacher at the… - Person
Ibn Qadi al-Jabal
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Kamal al-Din 'ibn qadi Nablus'
c. 1431 CE · c. 835 AHKamal al-Din 'ibn qadi Nablus' (b. ~835) — third-generation Ja'fari chief qadi: Nablus deputy for his father,… - Person
ابن قاضي شهبة
Qadi Taqi al-Din Abu Bakr ibn Ahmad, known as Ibn Qadi Shuhba al-Dimashqi, d. AH 851 — author of al-I'lam… - Person
Zayn al-Din al-Qadiri al-Salihi
c. 1381 CE · 782 AHZayn al-Din al-Qadiri (b. 782) — 'shaykh of the path and sign of the Truth,' the Salihiyya ascetic whose… - Person
Ibn Qani' al-Baghwi
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Ibn Qatral
Qadi of qadis (d. Marrakesh, Rabi' I 652, aged 88) — taken captive when the Franks seized Amid in 609, he… - Person
Ibn Qays al-Ruqayyat
The poet on Yazid — 'the world and Salama the priest's girl have seduced him leaving no wit or soul' — and on… - Person
ابن قيم الجوزية
Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya al-Hanbali al-Dimashqi, d. AH 751 — author of… - Person
Taqi al-Din ibn Qindas al-Ba'li
c. 1370 CE · 772 AHIbn Qindas (b. Ba'li village 772) — the Hanbali qurra'-linguist who studied under both Ibn Muflihs and Ibn… - Person
Ibn Qubba al-Razi
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Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi
c. 1146 CE · 541 AHA Hanbali jurist of the Maqdisi family, titled Muwaffaq al-Din, author of Lum'at al-I'tiqad on the creed of… - Person
Ibn Qulawayh
Draft card for Ja'far ibn Muhammad Ibn Qulawayh al-Qummi, the tenth-century jurist and historian of Qum… - Person
Ibn Quri'a
Qadi Abu Bakr Ibn Quri'a of Baghdad (d. 367) — the wit-jurist attached to the vizier al-Muhallabi; famous for… - Person
Ibn Qurqul al-Hamawi
Author of Matali' al-Anwar, whose book 'rivalled Qadi Iyad's Mashariq'; he prayed the Friday prayer in the… - Person
Ibn Qutayba
Abdallah ibn Muslim ibn Qutayba — accused by al-Mas'udi of stripping Abu Hanifa al-Dinawari's astronomical… - Person
أبو بكر ابن قزمان
The Cordoban zajal master Abu Bakr Ibn Quzman; Ibn al-Khatib judged him the art's miraculous sign and its… - Person
Ibn Rahmah al-Huwayzi
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Ibn Ra'iq
Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Ra'iq — the first amir al-umara'; took de facto control of the caliphate under al-Radi,… - Person
Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali
c. 1335 CE · Rabi' I 736 AHThe Hanbali hadith master and jurist Zayn al-Din Abu al-Faraj Abd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad, known as Ibn Rajab… - Person
Ibn Rashiq al-Maghribi
Draft card for Ibn Rashiq al-Maghribi, the fourteenth-century scribe, d. 1349; the biographical entry is not… - Person
Ibn Rashiq al-Qayrawani
c. 1000 CE · 390 AHIbn Rashiq al-Qayrawani — master of ornate prose and author of al-Umda on the virtues of poetry; al-Qadi… - Person
ابن رواحة الشافعي
Ibn Rawaha — born in Sicily in 560 while his parents were captives — heard his father's recitations at… - Person
Izz al-Din Ibn Rawaha
1164 CE · 560 AHThe Shafi'i (b. 560 in Sicily — born while his parents were prisoners of war; d. 8 Jumada II 646 at 85) — his… - Person
Ibn Razin al-Tujibi
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ابن الرومي
Ali ibn al-Abbas, the poet; he praised al-Mu'tadid — 'as your kingship was founded by Abu'l-Abbas, so by… - Person
Ibn Rushayd al-Sabti
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ابن رشد الحفيد
1126 CE · c. 520 AHAbu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd of Cordoba — Averroes to the Latins; he devoted himself to… - Person
ابن رشد الجد
Abu al-Walid Ibn Rushd 'al-Jadd' — Cordoba's chief Maliki qadi, high-chained hadith vessel and author; lived… - Person
Shihab al-Din Ibn Ruslan
c. 1372 CE · 773 AHIbn Ruslan (b. Ramla 773) — the Jerusalem saint-jurist author of the Zubd rhymed Shafi'i manual (composed,… - Person
Shams al-Din ibn Ruslan al-Bulqini
Ibn Ruslan al-Bulqini — Cairo's Shafi'i qadi, of the Bulqini scholar house; died at Cairo 890 near seventy. - Person
Ibn Ruzgan, Muhammad ibn Muhammad
1299 CE · 699 AHA Shafi'i born and raised in Baalbek, who lived in the eighth century AH. - Person
ابن سبعين
The celebrated Andalusi philosopher-sufi; his brother Abu Talib spoke for Ibn Hud before the pope at Rome,… - Person
Ibn Sabiq al-Siqilli
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ابن صافي ملك النحاة
Malik al-Nuhat Abu al-Nizar al-Hasan ibn Safi of Baghdad — 'king of grammarians', a title he gave himself and… - Person
Abu al-Asbagh Isa ibn Sahl
1022 CE · 413 AHThe Maliki jurist and judge Abu al-Asbagh Isa ibn Sahl al-Asadi of Cordoba, known for his responsa on new… - Person
أبو الحسن علي بن موسى بن سعيد المغربي
c. February 1214 CE · Ramadan 610 AHAuthor of al-Mughrib fi hula al-Maghrib and its eastern companion; born Tuesday 22 Ramadan 610 into the… - Person
Ibn Sakra
Ibn Sakra (d. 385) — the Baghdadi satirist-poet, a descendant of Ali b. al-Mahdi the Abbasid; al-Tha'alibi… - Person
ابن سلام الزكي محمد بن الحسن
c. 1211 CE · c. 609 AHIbn Salam — Muhammad b. al-Hasan of Damascus, a precise and wakeful muhaddith who, despite his youth, had… - Person
Ibn Salim al-Aswani
Draft card for Ibn Salim al-Aswani, the tenth-century Egyptian envoy and author of Akhbar al-Nuba; the… - Person
Ibn Sam'un
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Ibn Sana' al-Dawla
1194 CE · 590 AHDamascus's qadi al-qudat (b. 590) — first mudarris of the Nasiriyya, al-Dimyati dedicated a mu'jam to him;… - Person
ابن سناء الملك
Ibn Sana' al-Mulk, the qadi Abu al-Qasim Hibatallah, son of the qadi al-Rashid — Egyptian man of letters with… - Person
Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud
15 January 1876 CE · 1292 AHAbdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman bin Faisal Al Saud, known as Ibn Saud and by his kunya Abu Turki (born at Riyadh… - Person
Ibn Sayyid al-Nas the Elder
1201 CE · 597 AHThe Sevillian khatib-hafiz (b. 597, d. Tunis Rajab 659) — 'with him the knowledge of hadith in the Maghreb… - Person
Ibn Shabib
Draft card for Ibn Shabib; the entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
بهاء الدين ابن شداد
c. 1145 CE · c. 539 AHBaha' al-Din Ibn Shaddad, qadi of Aleppo and Saladin's biographer — born at Mosul in Ramadan 539, raised by… - Person
أبو عامر ابن شهيد الأشجعي القرطبي
Abu Amir Ahmad b. Abd al-Malik b. Shahid al-Ashja'i al-Qurtubi — standard-bearer of eloquence and poetry in… - Person
Abu Hafs Ibn Shahin
c. October 909 CE · Safar 297 AH'Umar b. 'Uthman Abu Hafs the preacher, known as Ibn Shahin (297–385), muhaddith of eastern Baghdad: he first… - Person
Ibn Shahrashub
Draft card for Rashid al-Din Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Shahrashub al-Mazandarani, the twelfth-century Imami hadith… - Person
Ibn Shakir al-Kutubi
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Shakir al-Kutubi, the fourteenth-century Damascus historian author of Fawat… - Person
ابن شنبوذ القارئ
The Qur'an-reader whose famous affair came in 323: forced to repent the shadh readings before the vizier Ibn… - Person
Ibn Shaqla
A Hanbali jurist and legal theorist who died in 369 AH; Ibn Badran's book lists him in this way among the… - Person
ابن شاس
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ابن شيث القرشي وزير المعظم
Ibn Shayth al-Qurashi — in whom excellence, chivalry, generosity and futuwwa met; al-Qadi al-Fadil himself… - Person
Ibn Shihab al-Ukbari
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'Abd Allah Ibn al-Shishiri
A Persian-lands scholar who excelled in Arabic and the rational sciences, then entered Anatolia on Selim's… - Person
Ibn Shu'ayb al-Siqilli
1194 CE · 590 AHThe Sicilian muqri'-adib transplanted to Damascus (b. 590) — al-Sakhawi's companion, master of the readings;… - Person
Ibn Shu'ba al-Harrani
Draft card for al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Shu'ba al-Harrani, the 4th-century Shi'i scholar and author of Tuhaf… - Person
Ibn Shubruma
c. 691 CE · 72 AHAbdallah ibn Shubruma, Kufa's qadi; 'were I governor of Basra I would seize their wealth — Umar granted there… - Person
Ibn Shufayn al-Abbasi
c. 1154 CE · c. 549 AHIbn Shufayn (d. Rajab 640 at 91) — the Abbasid sharif who ended as musnid of Iraq, licensed by Ibn al-Zaghuni… - Person
ابن سيده المرسي
Ibn Sida (Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Ahmad) — the blind imam of Arabic and letters at Murcia, attached to… - Person
ابن سيده المرسي علي بن إسماعيل
Abu al-Hasan Ibn Sidah Ali b. Isma'il of Murcia — the blind son of a blind father and the era's foremost… - Person
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
c. 980 CE · c. 370 AHPersian polymath (c. 980–1037) whose Canon of Medicine and Book of Healing shaped medicine and philosophy… - Person
'Ali ibn Sudun
c. 1382 CE · 784 AH'Ali ibn Sudun (b. Damascus 784) — the celebrated jester who 'first brought the shadow-play (khayal al-zill)… - Person
Ibn Sura
Abu al-Futuh Nasir b. Ali b. Khalaf al-Ansari, 'Ibn Sura' (d. 607) — Cairo's celebrated book auctioneer; his… - Person
Ibn Suraqa
Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad, Abu Bakr al-Ansari al-Shatibi al-Misri (d. 662 AH), a hadith scholar,… - Person
Ibn Surayj
One of the singers al-Walid first imported to court — the song that enraptured him is ascribed to Ibn Surayj… - Person
ابن سوار مقرئ العراق
Ibn Suwar, Abu Tahir Ahmad b. Ali b. Ubayd Allah — muqri' of Iraq and author of al-Mustanir on the readings;… - Person
Ibn Tabarzad
c. 1122 CE · 516 AHMuwaffaq al-Din Ibn Tabarzad (516–607) — Baghdad's long-lived muhaddith of Dar al-Qazz; his… - Person
Ibn Tabataba
Sharif Ibn Tabataba — naqib of the Talibids in Egypt and one of its grandees; a poet of zuhd and ghazal… - Person
Ibn Taghribirdi, Yusuf
1409 CE · 812 AHA Mamluk-era Hanafi historian in Egypt, author of al-Nujum al-Zahira — the amir Tughri Birdi's son, raised by… - Person
Ibn Tahman
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Ibn Tarik al-Faras
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ابن طيفور الطبيب
Al-Muntasir's physician; the Turks slipped him thirty thousand dinars in the caliph's illness — he counselled… - Person
Ibn Taymiyya
661 AHThe Hanbali jurist and theologian titled Shaykh al-Islam Taqi al-Din, of Harran and Damascus, author of… - Person
Ibn Tayy al-Faqani
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Ibn Thabit the blind qari'
Al-Husayn b. 'Ali b. Thabit Abu 'Abd Allah the qari' (d. 378), blind from birth: he attended Ibn al-Anbari's… - Person
Ibn Thabit al-Zamzami
A Zamzam water-bearer of the Haram, born to scholars — he gathered al-Suyuti's works until he owned them, and… - Person
ابن الطفيل
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Tufayl, the Andalusi philosopher and author of the printed treatise… - Person
Shams al-Din Ibn Tulun
c. 1475 CE · c. 880 AHIbn Tulun the historian of Damascus — b. about 880 in the upper Sahm of the Salihiyya, trained by his uncle… - Person
Ibn Tumart
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Tumart, the preacher who claimed the Mahdi title and raised the Almohad call in… - Person
Ibn Tunart
1085 CE · 478 AH†Draft card for Ibn Tunart, the Mahdi of the Almohad call and founder of the movement; his entry is not yet… - Person
Ibn Ulayyah
729 CE · 111 AH†Draft card for Ismail ibn Ibrahim ibn Ulayyah, the Basran hadith master; his entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Ibn Unayn
1154 CE · 549 AHIbn Unayn (549–630) — Damascus's unrivalled satirist ('the foremost poet of his age'), exiled by Salah al-Din… - Person
أبو عبد الله ابن عتبة الجذعمي المالكي
Abu Abdallah Muhammad b. Utba al-Judhami — Cordoba's Maliki mufti, scholar, muhaddith and ascetic; died Safar… - Person
Muslih al-Din Mustafa 'ibn Wafa'
Ibn Wafa — the reclusive Constantinople Sufi, master of 'ilm al-wafq, eloquent preacher who 'preferred the… - Person
Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ahmad ibn Wahban
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يوسف بن وهرة الهمذاني
c. 1048 CE · c. 440 AH - Person
Ibn Waki' al-Tinnisi
Ibn Waki' al-Tinnisi — born at Tinnis of Baghdadi stock; al-Tha'alibi called him the unsurpassed poet-scholar… - Person
Ibn Wakil al-Aqlishi
Draft card for Ibn Wakil al-Aqlishi, the twelfth-century Andalusian scholar, linguist and Sufi, d. 1154; the… - Person
Ibn Wasil, qadi and historian of Hama
Hama's qadi-historian — so absorbed in the rational sciences that he forgot his company and his own state;… - Person
Ibn Wathiq, shaykh al-qurra'
1171 CE · 567 AHShaykh al-qurra' (b. 567, d. Alexandria Rabi' II 654) — read the seven qira'at at Ghaza on Shurayh's pupils,… - Person
ابن يعيش
Muwaffaq al-Din Ibn Ya'ish the grammarian, Mosuli by origin, Aleppan by birth — who rode to Baghdad for Ibn… - Person
Ibn Yamin al-Basri
The poet whose Samsama ode won the sword itself plus a basket of dinars from al-Hadi. - Person
Ibn Yunus al-Hanbali
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Ibn Zabala
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Ibn Zafar al-Siqilli
Hujjat al-Din Ibn Zafar al-Siqilli (d. c. 570) — the Sicilian adib; author of Sulwan al-Muta' fi Udwan… - Person
Abu al-Mawahib ibn Zaghdan
c. 1417 CE · 820 AHIbn Zaghdan (b. Tunis 820) — the Maliki Sufi 'treasure of the gnostics': took hadith from Ibn Hajar, tasawwuf… - Person
Ibn Zakri al-Tilimsani
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Ibn Zarqun
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أبو الوليد ابن زيدون
Abu'l-Walid Ibn Zaydun, the Cordoban poet whose famous odes mourn Wallada — she answered his defection to her… - Person
Ibn Zilaq
Draft card for Ibn Zilaq, the thirteenth-century Iraqi poet, d. 1262; the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Ibn Ziyad al-Nisaburi
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ابن زبادة
Qiwam al-Din Ibn Zubada Yahya b. Sa'id, of Wasit then Baghdad; master of the diwan al-insha' and end of the… - Person
Ibn Zubraj al-Utabi
1091 CE · 484 AHIbn Zubraj al-Utabi (484–555) — Baghdadi grammarian, adib and celebrated calligrapher whose hand was prized;… - Person
Shams al-Din Ibn Zuhayr al-Ramli
c. March 1450 CE · Rabi' I 854 AHDamascus's last shaykh al-iqra' — b. Ramla Rabi' I 854, memorized the Minhaj, the Alfiyya, both Shatibiyyas… - Person
Burhan al-Din ibn Zuhayra, 'alim of the Hijaz
Ibn Zuhayra — 'the scholar of the Hijaz', of the Meccan Zuhayra ulama house; died Friday night 6 Dhu'l-Qa'da… - Person
ابن زهر الحفيد
c. 1113 CE · 507 AHAbu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Zuhr of Seville, among the foremost physicians and men of letters in… - Person
ابن زهرة الحسيني
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Ibn Zunbul
Draft card for Ibn Zunbul, the sixteenth-century Egyptian author and astrologer, d. 1572; the biographical… - Person
Nasir al-Din ibn Zurayq al-Salihi
c. February 1410 CE · Shawwal 812 AHIbn Zurayq (b. Salihiyya Shawwal 812) — of the Abu 'Umar line, 'the grey-haired handsome one on the salaf's… - Person
Ibrahim (Abraham)
The patriarch of the Adnani Arabs in the sira’s telling: emigrant from Ur of the Chaldeans to Harran and then… - Person
Ibrahim Abdul Ghani al-Droubi
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Ibrahim Adil Shah II
Draft card for Ibrahim Adil Shah II, the Adil Shahi sultan of Bijapur and poet-musician author of the Kitab-i… - Person
Ibrahim Shah Afshar
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Ibrahim al-'Ajami of the takiyya
The Tabrizi Sufi of the 'Umar Rawsani line — at Bab Zuwayla's madrasa he interpreted the Qur'an and taught… - Person
Ibrahim al-Alusi
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Ibrahim al-Amidi
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Ibrahim al-Barmawi
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Ibrahim al-Biqa'i the Sufi
c. July 1479 CE · Rabi' I 885 AHThe speed-reader mystic — read all of Sahih al-Bukhari on al-Badr al-Ghazzi in six days and Sahih Muslim in… - Person
Ibrahim al-Dajwi, the grammarian
c. 1322 CE · c. 722 AH - Person
Ibrahim al-Damiri, the Maliki chief qadi
Cairo's Maliki chief qadi — he had preached forcibly before Sultan al-Ghuri one Monday night in Ramadan, then… - Person
إبراهيم الدسوقي
Ibrahim al-Dasuqi, shaykh of the Burhami khirqa — the hagiographers credit him with all tongues, the speech… - Person
Ibrahim al-Fazari the astrologer
Ibrahim al-Fazari, astrologer of al-Mansur and author of a verse composition on the stars, beside Nawbakht… - Person
Ibrahim al-Ghafiqi al-Ishbili
A Qur'an reader and grammarian from Seville who memorized the Qur'an with its readings in Ceuta, after his… - Person
Ibrahim al-Ghalayini
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Ibrahim al-Halabi
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al-Harbi (Ibrahim)
Author of Gharib al-Hadith and Dala'il al-Nubuwwa, and one of those who transmitted Imam Ahmad's school from… - Person
Ibrahim al-Imam
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Ibrahim al-Jazri
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Ibrahim al-Khawwas
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Ibrahim al-Kurani
1616 CE · 1025 AH†Draft card for Ibrahim al-Kurani, the great Medinan Shafi'i and shaykh of the Haramayn; his entry is not yet… - Person
Ibrahim al-Majdhub Abu Lahaf
The majdhub of the Citadel's Red Tower — twenty years there, then he sent word to al-Ghuri: 'leave the… - Person
Ibrahim al-Mawsili
The singer who narrated Miskin's triumph over the assembled masters at al-Rashid's contest. - Person
Ibrahim al-Musawi al-Zanjani
1925 CE · 1343 AH†Draft card for Ibrahim al-Musawi al-Zanjani, the Iranian ayatollah and scholar; his entry is not yet checked… - Person
Ibrahim al-Nakha'i
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Ibrahim al-Sakkuni
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Ibrahim al-Sakran
1976 CE · 1396 AH†Draft card for Ibrahim al-Sakran, the Saudi legal researcher; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Ibrahim ibn Uthman al-Samannudi
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Ibrahim al-Sarayi
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Ibrahim al-Shadhili al-Misri
Al-Ghuri's trusted shaykh — 'fed people abundantly from the unseen', formed in the Baytiyya way under Abu… - Person
Ibrahim al-Tarabulusi (Burhan al-Din, Hanafi jurist)
Ibrahim ibn Musa ibn Abi Bakr, Burhan al-Din al-Tarabulusi, a Hanafi jurist. Born in Tripoli of the Levant,… - Person
Ibrahim al-Thaqafi
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Ibrahim al-Wa'ili
Ibrahim ibn Abd Allah al-Wa'ili al-Najdi, a Hanbali jurist of Najdi origin who settled in the Hijaz, where… - Person
Ibrahim al-Yaziji
2 March 1847 CE · 1263 AHLebanese philologist, writer and journalist (1847–1906), son of the poet Nasif al-Yaziji and a leading figure… - Person
Shaykh Ibrahim al-Zayyat the ecstatic
c. 1378 CE · 780 AHIbrahim al-Zayyat (b. Cairo ~780) — the majdhub of Bulaq who chastised its womenfolk and cemetery-visitors… - Person
Ibrahim Babangida
17 August 1941 CE · 1360 AHNigerian general and politician (born 1941) from Minna who ruled Nigeria as military president from the coup… - Person
Ibrahim Balyawi
1887 CE · 1304 AH†Draft card for Ibrahim Balyawi, the Indian Barelvi scholar; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Ibrahim Bej
Draft card for Ibrahim Bej, the Ottoman statesman and diplomat of Polish descent, d. 1571; the source entry… - Person
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta
29 January 1945 CE · 1364 AHMalian politician (1945–2022) from Koutiala, prime minister of Mali (1994–2000) and president of the National… - Person
Ibrahim Edhem Pasha
1818 CE · 1233 AHIbrahim Edhem Pasha (born on Chios in 1818 or 1819 – died at Istanbul in March 1893) was an Ottoman statesman… - Person
Ibrahim Efendi
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Ibrahim of Ghazna
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Ibrahim Hamdi Efendi
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Ibrahim Hanano
1869 CE · 1286 AHSyrian national leader of Kurdish origin (1869–1935), a former Ottoman municipal official who led the revolt… - Person
Ibrahim Hindy
Canadian imam and scholar in Mississauga, Ontario: imam of Dar Al-Tawheed Islamic Centre, Religious Director… - Person
Ibrahim Hooper
Spokesman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its National Communications Director since… - Person
Ibrahim I of Shirvan
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إبراهيم الأول
Ibrahim I (r. 1640–1648) — opened the long Cretan war against Venice in 1645 by seizing Venetian goods and… - Person
Ibrahim ibn Abd al-Jalil al-Tabrizi
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Ibrahim ibn Abd al-Wahhab al-Zanjani (Shafi'i jurist)
Ibrahim ibn Abd al-Wahhab ibn Abi al-Ma'ali, Izz al-Din al-Zanjani, a Shafi'i jurist and Sufi, alive in 655… - Person
Ibrahim ibn Abd Allah al-Harawi
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Ibrahim ibn 'Abd Rabbih the Sufi
Ibn 'Abd Rabbih — the Sufi of Jami' al-Zahid's khalwa 'counted among the felicitous': once ate a whole ox… - Person
Ibrahim ibn Abdallah al-Hasani
Ibrahim ibn Abdallah ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib, brother of Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya;… - Person
Ibrahim ibn Abdullah
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Ibrahim ibn Abi 'Abla
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Ibrahim ibn Abi al-Wafa
Son of 'Ala' al-Din Ibn Abi al-Wafa — his own father's entry calls him 'my son the mujtahid, devout ascetic… - Person
Ibrahim ibn Abi Talib
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Ibrahim ibn 'Adi
The man who carried the wounded prince al-Walid into the paper-store during the al-Ashdaq melee. - Person
Ibrahim ibn al-Abbas al-Samiri
Ibrahim ibn al-Abbas, or Ibn Abi al-Abbas, Abu Ishaq al-Samiri of Kufa. He related from Shurayk the judge,… - Person
Ibrahim ibn al-'Abbas al-Suli
The poet whose 'I weary of all but a sweet teller of tales' Mas'udi judged the best verse on talk that never… - Person
Ibrahim ibn al-Ashtar
Led a rising alongside al-Mukhtar ibn Abi Ubayd. After Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad's death he brought Ibn Ziyad's… - Person
Ibrahim ibn al-Mudabbir
The scholar whose blind hatred of Abu Tammam was exposed when he praised the same verses unattributed. - Person
Ibrahim Ibn al-Qalqashandi
c. 1426 CE · c. 831 AHThe last transmitter of Ibn Hajar's generation — a travelling hafiz who heard al-Bulqini, al-Damiri and… - Person
إبراهيم بن الوليد بن عبد الملك
Abu Ishaq, sworn in after his brother Yazid al-Naqis died — some say designated, others not; per Burd ibn… - Person
al-Ahdab, Ibrahim ibn Ali
1826 CE · 1242 AHMan of letters, poet and jurist from Tripoli in Syria, who left a large body of books and treatises. - Person
Ibrahim ibn Ali al-'Umari al-Mawsili
Abu Ishaq al-'Umari of Mosul, a trustworthy transmitter heard by Ibn Sa'id, al-Najjad and al-Khaldi. - Person
Ibrahim ibn Ayyash al-Basri
Draft card for Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Ayyash al-Basri, the scholar, d. 996; the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Ibrahim ibn Ghumlas
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Ibrahim ibn Hamdan al-Taghlibi
Draft card for Ibrahim ibn Hamdan al-Taghlibi, the tenth-century Hamdanid commander, d. 921; the source entry… - Person
Ibrahim ibn Hani' al-Naysaburi
Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Hani' of Nishapur — the traditionist in whose house Ahmad ibn Hanbal hid during the… - Person
Ibrahim ibn Hasan ibn Ishaq al-Tunisi, Abu Ishaq
Ibrahim ibn Hasan ibn Ishaq al-Tunisi, Abu Ishaq, a Maliki jurist and usuli, excellent and devout. He studied… - Person
Ibrahim ibn Hilal al-Sabi'
Ibrahim b. Hilal al-Sabi' al-Harrani — the celebrated letter-writer and poet; chancery secretary at Baghdad… - Person
Ibrahim ibn Hilal al-Sijilmasi
1414 CE · 817 AH†Draft card for Ibrahim ibn Hilal al-Sijilmasi, the Moroccan Maliki jurist; his entry is not yet checked on… - Person
Ibrahim ibn Husayn al-Biri
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Ibrahim ibn Ilyas, Samanid
Draft card for Ibrahim ibn Ilyas al-Samani, the tenth-century Samanid amir who contested Nasr ibn Ahmad in… - Person
Ibrahim ibn 'Isa al-Muradi
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Ibrahim ibn Jadid
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Ibrahim ibn Khalid al-Shafi'i
Al-Shafi'i who combined learning with asceticism; Abu Bakr al-Isma'ili was among his pupils. - Person
Ibrahim ibn Makhrama al-Kindi
The courtier who timed his petitions to al-Saffah's meal-hour, when the caliph was most open-faced. - Person
Ibrahim b. Mubarakshah al-Is'irdi
Ibrahim b. Mubarakshah al-Is'irdi, the celebrated merchant-khawaja who founded the madrasa at the White… - Person
Ibrahim ibn Muflih, shaykh of the Hanbalis
c. 1347 CE · 749 AHShaykh of the Hanbalis — last to leave Damascus in Timur's fitna, he debated Abd al-Jabbar the Mu'tazili… - Person
Burhan al-Din Ibn Muflih, the mufti
Damascus's Hanbali mufti — Ibn al-Shihna: 'a master of learning in Iraq, prolific in it'; d. Sunday 16… - Person
Ibrahim ibn Muhammad
The Prophet's son by Maria the Copt; he died an infant in Medina in Shawwal 10 AH (January 632 CE). - Person
Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-A'lam al-Batalyusi
The Andalusi littérateur, philologist and Qur'an reciter Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-A'lam… - Person
the Imam Ibrahim
Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn 'Ali, the Abbasid da'wa's imam — trapped by Marwan's returned courier, seized… - Person
Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Qati'i
Abu'l-Qasim al-Qati'i of the 'Isa ibn 'Ali quarter on Baghdad's west side, a wakeful and trustworthy… - Person
Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Tazi
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Ibrahim ibn Munad al-Atfawi
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Ibrahim ibn Musa ibn Ja'far
The first Talibi to lead the hajj — by force in 202 AH, slaying worshippers in the Haram. - Person
إبراهيم بن نوبخت
Ibrahim ibn Nawbakht — early Shi'i mutakallim, author of the rare Kitab al-Yaqut which reads like Mu'tazili… - Person
Ibrahim ibn Qasim al-Uqbani
Ibrahim ibn Qasim ibn Sa'id ibn Muhammad, Abu Salim al-Uqbani al-Tilimsani, a Maliki jurist, judge, mufti and… - Person
Ibrahim ibn Sa'd al-Zuhri
727 CE · 109 AH†Draft card for Ibrahim ibn Sa'd al-Zuhri, the Medinan hadith scholar and al-Bukhari's authority; his entry is… - Person
Ibrahim ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas
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Ibrahim ibn Salama
One of the Khurasan da'is; in al-Baladhuri al-Khawarnaq was granted him under the blessed dawla — grandfather… - Person
Ibrahim ibn Sayyaba
A known wit; the book gives his anecdotes with the blind poet Bashshar and with his host in Nishapur. - Person
Amirzada Ibrahim b. Shah Rukh
Amirzada Ibrahim b. Shah Rukh the Timurid, lord of Shiraz who had also held Basra — 'a man of culture with a… - Person
Ibrahim b. Sulayman al-Azhari
Ibrahim b. Sulayman al-Azhari al-Hanafi, jurist and author of the Risala Mukhtara fi manahi 'l-ziyara and… - Person
Ibrahim ibn Sulayman ibn Ali
Draft card for Ibrahim ibn Sulayman ibn Ali, the eighteenth-century jurist, d. 1728; the biographical entry… - Person
Ibrahim ibn Thabit ibn Qurra
Ibrahim b. Thabit b. Qurra — Harranian physician who reached his father's rank; treated the poet Abu al-Sari… - Person
Ibrahim ibn Uyayna
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Ibrahim ibn Yahya al-Ansari al-Mursi
1278 CE · 677 AHThe grammarian, reciter and physician Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Yahya al-Ansari al-Mursi, from Murcia and active… - Person
Ibrahim ibn Ya'qub al-Juzajani
Draft card for Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Ya'qub al-Juzajani, the ninth-century muhaddith author of the work on… - Person
Ibrahim ibn Yazid al-Taymi
Ibrahim ibn Yazid ibn Sharik al-Taymi, Abu Asma, of Kufa, a Successor. He transmitted from Anas ibn Malik,… - Person
Ibrahim ibn Yusuf al-Makiyani
Ibrahim ibn Yusuf ibn Maymun, Abu Ishaq al-Bahili, known as al-Makiyani, the scholar of Balkh in his time and… - Person
al-Abyari, Ibrahim Isma'il
1902 CE · 1320 AHEgyptian editor and author, born in Tanta, who edited works of adab and the classical heritage. - Person
Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar
15 September 1897 CE · 17 Rabi' II 1315 AH†Pakistani lawyer and politician (1897–1960), a Bombay Muslim League leader who served as trade minister in… - Person
Ibrahim, khatib of the Mountain
1209 CE · 606 AHThe ascetic khatib of the Salihiyya mountain (b. 606) — 'an imam in knowledge and deed, an enjoiner of right,… - Person
Ibrahim Lodi
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Ibrahim Malik Bayu
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Ibrahim Mirza
Draft card for Ibrahim Mirza, the Safavid prince-poet and calligrapher who patronized Mashhad's atelier… - Person
Ibrahim Muteferrika
Draft card for Ibrahim Muteferrika, the Hungarian-born convert who founded the first Ottoman Arabic-letter… - Person
Ibrahim Niass
8 November 1900 CE · 1318 AHSenegalese scholar and Sufi shaykh (1900-1975), bearer of the Tijani Fayda ('flood') and founder of Medina… - Person
Ibrahim Njoya
c. 1860 CE · 1276 AHThe seventeenth Sultan of Bamum in western Cameroon (reigned 1886/87–1933), inventor of the Bamum script and… - Person
Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha
Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha, grand vizier under Süleyman the Magnificent; al-Salabi records that when Qalender… - Person
إبراهيم باشا المصري
Ibrahim Pasha, Muhammad Ali's son — crushed the Morea revolt taking Navarino and Athens, then conquered Syria… - Person
Ibrahim Quli Qutb Shah
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İbrahim Şinasi
5 August 1826 CE · 1242 AHİbrahim Şinasi (born in Istanbul on 5 August 1826 – died there on 13 September 1871) was a pioneering Ottoman… - Person
Ibrahim Sultan, Timurid
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Ibrahim Tennuri
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Ibrahim Zarrin-Qalam
1905 CE · 1323 AH†Draft card for Ibrahim Zarrin-Qalam, the Iranian master calligrapher and diplomat; his entry is not yet… - Person
Ibtihaj Muhammad
4 December 1985 CE · 1406 AHAmerican sabre fencer, author and entrepreneur, born in New Jersey in 1985. She won World Championship team… - Person
Idi Amin
30 May 1928 CE · 1346 AHUgandan military officer (1928–2003) who became the third president of Uganda in the coup of 25 January 1971… - Person
Idrees Abkar
1975 CE · 1395 AHYemeni Qur'an reciter holding Emirati nationality, born in Jeddah in 1395 AH / 1975 CE. He memorised the… - Person
Idris Bitlisi
Draft card for Idris ibn Husam al-Din Ali al-Bitlisi, the Kurdish-Ottoman historian author of Hasht Bihisht… - Person
Idris ibn 'Abd Allah
The Hasanid refugee to the Maghreb — answered by the people, poisoned by al-Mansur's agent, succeeded by his… - Person
Idris ibn Husam al-Din al-'Ajami
The Persian panegyrist-secretary of the 'Ajami amirs' diwan who fled Ardabil's fitna to Rum — Bayezid… - Person
Idris ibn Idris
Idris II — the son who held his poisoned father's Moroccan realm until the land itself was called 'the… - Person
إدريس بن يحيى الحمودي
The Hammudid claimant at Malaga who received panegyric from behind a curtain until Ibn Muqana's nuniyya moved… - Person
إدريس بن يعقوب المأمون الموحدي
Idris b. Ya'qub al-Ma'mun — acclaimed in al-Andalus then master of Marrakesh, a warrior of fierce awe and… - Person
Idris of Libya
12 March 1889 CE · 1306 AHKing of Libya (1889–1983). Born at Jaghbub, he succeeded his cousin Ahmed Sharif as head of the Senussi order… - Person
Idris Shah I of Perak
19 June 1849 CE · 28 Rajab 1265 AH†Sultan of Perak (1849–1916), the 28th sultan, who reigned from 1887 after the death of his father-in-law… - Person
Iffet Rafeeq
British scholar and teacher, born and raised in the UK of South Asian heritage and now residing in Cape Town.… - Person
Iftikhar al-Dawla
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Ignaz Goldziher
Hungarian-born Jewish orientalist. Zaqzuq calls him the undisputed leader of Islamic studies in Europe, says… - Person
Ijaz Ahmad Azmi
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Ikhtiyar al-Din Abu al-Mudjahid Kadir Khan
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Ikrima al-Barbari
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Ikrima ibn Abi Jahl
c. 585 CESon of Abu Jahl: a leader of the Meccan opposition who was pardoned at the conquest of Mecca, became a… - Person
'Ikrima, Ibn 'Abbas's mawla
Ibn 'Abbas's mawla and his sparring partner on the bound son — dead in 105, the same day as Kathir 'Azza. - Person
Il-Arslan, Khwarazmshah
Draft card for Il-Arslan ibn Atsiz, the Khwarazmshah who reached into Transoxiana and subdued the Saffarid… - Person
إيلغازي بن أرتق
Najm al-Din Ilghazi the Artuqid, lord of Mardin then Aleppo — a brave raiding horseman of open hand; he died… - Person
علباء بن الحارث
Ilba' ibn al-Harith al-Asadi al-Kahili, leader of Banu Asad's rising against Hujr; he speared Hujr to avenge… - Person
Ilhan Omar
4 October 1982 CE · 1402 AHAmerican Democratic politician, born in Mogadishu in 1982. Her family fled the Somali Civil War, spent four… - Person
Ilig Khan Sulayman al-Qarakhani
Ilig Khan Sulayman, Bughra Khan's brother, laqab Shihab al-Dawla; he secured the Turkestan kingship after his… - Person
Abu Mansur Ilisa' ibn Abi al-Qasim
Abu Mansur Ilisa' ibn Abi al-Qasim Samku ibn Maslan ibn Abi Yazul, amir of the Wasulids at Sijilmasa; raised… - Person
Iljas Mirahori
Draft card for Iljas Bey Mirahori, the fifteenth-century Ottoman Albanian commander; the source entry is not… - Person
İlkay Gündoğan
24 October 1990 CE · 1411 AHGerman professional footballer (born 1990 in Gelsenkirchen to Turkish parents). A midfielder who won the… - Person
Ilm al-Din al-Sakhawi
Draft card for Ilm al-Din Ali ibn Muhammad al-Sakhawi, the thirteenth-century jurist and grammarian, d. 1245;… - Person
'Ilm al-Din al-Bulqini
c. 1412 CE · 815 AH'Ilm al-Din al-Bulqini (b. 815) — 'shaykh al-Islam, bearer of the Shafi'i banner of his age'; grandson of… - Person
Ilwad Elman
22 December 1989 CE · 1410 AHSomali-Canadian social activist, born in Mogadishu. She returned from Canada to Somalia in 2010 and works… - Person
Ilyas al-Qarmani, physician of Damascus
Ilyas al-Qarmani — Damascus physician 'imam of his age'; versified the materia medica as 'Nazrat al-A'yan fi… - Person
Ilyas ibn Asad al-Samani
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Ilyas ibn Jami' al-Irbili
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Ilyas ibn Mudar
Quraysh's forebear whose sons by Khindif — 'Amr, 'Amir and 'Umayr, better known as Mudrika, Tabikha and… - Person
Imad al-Dawla al-Daylami
Draft card for Ali ibn Buya, 'Imad al-Dawla', founder of the Buyid dynasty who took Shiraz and Fars while his… - Person
Imad al-Din al-Isfahani
1125 CE · 519 AHImad al-Din al-Isfahani (519–597) — katib of Nur al-Din and Salah al-Din; author of al-Barq al-Shami, al-Fath… - Person
Imad al-Din al-Katib al-Isfahani
1125 CE · 519 AHImad al-Din al-Katib al-Isfahani (b. 519) — Salah al-Din's chancellor, author of al-Barq al-Shami and al-Fath… - Person
Imad al-Din Ibn al-Shaykh al-Juwayni
c. 1185 CE · c. 581 AHImad al-Din Ibn al-Shaykh (killed Jumada I 636, aged 55) — mashyakhat al-shuyukh of Egypt and Hussayn-mashhad… - Person
Imad al-Din Idris al-Hamzi
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عماد الدين زنكي
Zangi the atabak of Mosul and Aleppo — named for fostering the sultan Mahmud's son Farrukhshah — a brave… - Person
عماد الدين زنكي الثاني
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Imaduddin Uthman al-Bantani
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Imam Ahmad Gran
Imam Ahmad Gran of Harar — Shadharat records his seizure of Harar from the Abyssinian lands, his irresistible… - Person
إمام الحرمين الجويني
Shaykh of the Shafi'is — driven from Khurasan when the vizier al-Kunduri obtained Alp Arslan's licence to… - Person
Imam Birgivi
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Imam Dervish Ali
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Imam Mehmed Efendi
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Imam-Quli Khan
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Imam Shamil
26 June 1797 CE · 1212 AHThird Imam of the Caucasian Imamate and leader of the Chechen and Dagestani resistance to the Russian Empire… - Person
Imamzade Halil Pasha
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Imran, father of Maryam
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Imran ibn al-Fasil al-Burjumi
Imran ibn al-Fasil al-Burjumi; rode with Hasaka ibn Utab's desperadoes into Sijistan after the Camel — the… - Person
Imran ibn al-Husayn
Imran ibn al-Husayn Abu Nujayd al-Khuza'i, Companion; Umar sent him with Abu Musa to Basra among the Ansar… - Person
Imran ibn Amir the kahin
Muzayqiya's brother the kahin, who routed the Azd's sons after Marib — Khuza'a to Batn Marr, Aws and Khazraj… - Person
Imran ibn Amr Muzayqiya
Chief and elder of al-Azd on whose counsel the tribe left Yemen in al-Raheeq al-Makhtum's account; they… - Person
'Imran ibn Hittan al-Raqqashi
The Kharijite poet whose praise of Ibn Muljim's blow ('a pious man's strike, seeking only the Throne-Lord's… - Person
Imran ibn Husayn
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Imran ibn Mansur
1990 CE · 1410 AH†British dawah preacher from London known as Dawah Man. He built his YouTube channel — launched as Naseeha… - Person
Imran ibn Musa al-Barmaki
Imran ibn Musa ibn Yahya ibn Khalid al-Barmaki; he built the city al-Bayda in the Buqan lands under… - Person
Imran ibn Muslim al-Qasir
Imran ibn Muslim, Abu Bakr al-Minqari al-Basri al-Qasir, who saw Anas and narrated from Abu Raja al-Utaridi,… - Person
Imran ibn Talha
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Imran ibn Uyayna
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Imran Khan
5 October 1952 CE · 1372 AHPakistani former cricketer, philanthropist and politician who served as the 19th prime minister of Pakistan,… - Person
امرؤ القيس بن حجر
Imru' al-Qays ibn Hujr al-Kindi, the most celebrated of the jahili poets and author of a Mu'allaqa: banished… - Person
Imtiaz Sooliman
7 March 1962 CE · 1381 AHSouth African physician and philanthropist who founded Gift of the Givers (Waqful Waqifin) in… - Person
Iñaki Williams
15 June 1994 CE · 1415 AHProfessional footballer (born 1994 in Bilbao to Ghanaian parents). A forward who has spent his entire senior… - Person
ينال أخو طغرل بك
Tughrul Beg's brother; al-Basasiri tempted him with his brother's office — Tughrul fought him, prevailed and… - Person
Inal Khan, lord of Utrar
Inal Khan, maternal uncle's son of Sultan Muhammad Khwarazmshah and lord of Utrar; when merchants from… - Person
Inan al-Natifiyya
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Inanc Bey
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Inayatullah of Banjar
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Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi
25 August 1888 CE · 1305 AHIndian, later Pakistani, mathematician and political theorist (1888–1963). He read mathematics at Christ's… - Person
Incili Cavus
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Ingrid Mattson
24 August 1963 CE · 1383 AHCanadian scholar of Islamic studies and interfaith activist, born in 1963, who converted to Islam in 1987… - Person
Pope Innocent VIII
Innocent VIII, pope in Bayezid II's reign; al-Salabi records that the Knights of St John at Rhodes — having… - Person
Inzamam-ul-Haq
3 March 1970 CE · 1389 AHPakistani former cricketer, former captain of the Pakistan national team and later its chief selector, born… - Person
Iqbal al-Shirabi
The amir-patron (d. 653) — a madrasa and mosque at Wasit, a Baghdad madrasa on Suq al-Sultan, and at Mecca… - Person
Iqra Khalid
20 November 1986 CE · 1407 AHPakistani-Canadian lawyer and Liberal politician who has represented Mississauga—Erin Mills in Canada's House… - Person
Iraj Mirza
October 1874 CE · 1291 AHQajar prince and Persian poet (1874-1926), titled Jalal-ol-Mamalek; a pioneer of colloquial Persian verse… - Person
Irbad ibn Sariya al-Fazari
The seventh of the Weepers, of Fazara; Ibn Ishaq lists him among those who begged the Prophet for mounts on… - Person
al-Irbili, Abu al-Fadl
1179 CE · 575 AHShafi'i jurist of Mosul who studied the religious sciences in the Zengid period. - Person
al-Irbili, Abu al-Ma'ali
1287 CE · 686 AHScholar of Mosul in the eighth century AH, active in religious learning and letters. - Person
Isa al-Yunini, Sallab al-Ajwal
The companion-ascetic of Abdallah al-Yunini (d. Dhu al-Qa'da 654) — so sharp-tempered they called him Sallab… - Person
Isa Ali Pantami
20 October 1972 CE · 1392 AHNigerian scholar and politician born in Gombe in 1972. He lectured at Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University and… - Person
Isa Yusuf Alptekin
1901 CE · 1319 AH†Uyghur politician who served China's Nationalist government (1932–1949) while opposing both East Turkestan… - Person
İsa Çelebi
İsa Çelebi, son of Bayezid I — escaped the Ankara defeat of 804/1402, went to Bursa and proclaimed himself… - Person
Isa ibn Aban
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Isa ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Jazuli
A Maghribi jurist of Berber origin. His name means the owner of good fortune in Berber. - Person
Isa ibn Abdallah al-Tayalisi
193 AHAbu Musa 'Raghath' al-Tayalisi, b. 193, counted among the huffaz — al-Daraqutni graded him trustworthy; he… - Person
Isa ibn al-Mahdi
Isa ibn al-Mahdi ibn al-Khayzuran; in al-Baladhuri in the Turkic women's ward, eponym of Baghdad's Isabadh… - Person
Isa ibn al-Shaykh al-Shaybani
The Shaybani amir who escorted seventy-six Talibids from Egypt to Samarra and was appointed over Palestine. - Person
Isa ibn Ali ibn Abdallah ibn al-Abbas
Isa ibn Ali ibn Abdallah ibn al-Abbas; in al-Baladhuri from al-Waqidi: he was at Mar'ash — having led that… - Person
'Isa ibn Da'b
The Hijazi polymath al-Hadi alone honoured with a cushion — 'I never tired of you for a day or a night'. - Person
Isa ibn Dinar al-Qurtubi
Isa ibn Dinar ibn Waqid, also given as Ibn Wahb, Abu Muhammad al-Qurtubi, a Maliki jurist, the leading jurist… - Person
Isa ibn Idris
son of Idris ibn Ma'qil al-Ijli; in al-Baladhuri, who settled and mastered al-Karaj, built its fortress —… - Person
Isa ibn Ja'far al-Abbasi
Isa ibn Ja'far ibn al-Mansur; Harun al-Rashid's Basra governor, ordered to fold the dar al-imara into the… - Person
Isa ibn Lahia al-Misri
The Egyptian author of al-Hala'ib wa-al-Jala'ib, recording every horse-race run in Jahiliyya and Islam, and… - Person
Isa ibn Malik al-Uqayli
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Isa ibn Maryam (Jesus)
Prophet of Banu Israel, son of Maryam: one of the three who spoke in the cradle, untouched by Satan's prick… - Person
Isa ibn Maskin
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Isa ibn Muhanna, malik al-arab
Lord of Al Fadl and 'king of the Arabs' — highest station at the sultan's court, honoured into Sunqur… - Person
Isa ibn Musa
Isa ibn Musa al-Abbasi; in al-Baladhuri he campaigned against Ibrahim ibn Abdallah al-Hasani while Abu… - Person
عيسى بن موسى القرمطي
Qarmatian leader at Ayn al-Tamr who camped outside Kufa, levied the kharaj and displaced the caliphal agents… - Person
Isa ibn Talha al-Taymi
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Isa ibn Umar al-Hamdani
Isa ibn Umar, Abu Umar al-Hamdani al-Kufi, a client of Banu Asad and a Qur'an reader. He took the readings by… - Person
Isa ibn Yazid al-Aswad
Isa ibn Yazid al-Aswad, of the Arab mawali and Kharijite leaders; some forty chiefs of the Miknasa rallied to… - Person
'Isa ibn Zayd
The Zaydi Alid who marched out of Basra with Ibrahim to the death at Bakhamra. - Person
'Isa Pasha, na'ib of Damascus
The scholar-amir of Damascus — a madrasa man first (to the Eight Colleges), then muwaqqi' of the imperial… - Person
إسحاق مبعوث شارلمان
Isaac — the Jewish interpreter of Charlemagne's 797 embassy to al-Rashid who alone survived the three-year… - Person
Isabel of Granada
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Ishaq ibn Haywa al-Hadrami
The volunteer who led the mounted trampling of al-Husayn's body on 'Amr ibn Sa'd's order. - Person
Ishaq ibn Muslim al-Uqayli
Ishaq ibn Muslim al-Uqayli; he and his brothers rode in Sa'id ibn Amr al-Harashi's vanguard to Armenia, and… - Person
Ishak Bey
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Ishak Pasha
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Ishaq (Isaac)
Son of Ibrahim, father of Ya'qub — named in Bukhari's prophetic chain. - Person
Ishaq al-Ilthi
Ishaq al-Ilthi (d. 634) — the ascetic Hanbali of Ilth near Ukbara whom contemporaries called 'shaykh of Iraq'… - Person
Ishaq al-Mawsili
The great singer whose night-session visitor — a spirit who fixed the lute and sang 'give me drink' —… - Person
إسحاق بن إسماعيل النوبختي
The man who had proposed al-Qahir's caliphate; al-Qahir killed him — dropped headfirst into a well that was… - Person
Ishaq ibn al-Furat
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Ishaq ibn Ali al-Murabiti
Ishaq ibn Ali ibn Yusuf ibn Tashfin, the last Almoravid king; acclaimed after his brother Tashfin's death, he… - Person
Ishaq ibn Ayyub al-Anbari
The commander who raced to join al-Mu'tadid's army at the siege of al-Sawwara. - Person
Ishaq b. Dawud, King of Abyssinia
Ishaq b. Dawud b. Sayf Ar'ad, king of Abyssinia — twenty-one years on the throne, died Dhu al-Qa'da 833; his… - Person
Ishaq ibn Hanbal
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Abu Ya'qub Ishaq ibn Hassan al-Khuraymi
An Arab poet of the early Abbasid court, a client of the Banu Khuraym, who probably died under al-Ma'mun… - Person
Ishaq ibn Ibrahim al-Saffar
Abu Ya'qub al-Saffar, transmitter from 'Abd al-Wahhab and al-Waqidi, described as an exacting, trustworthy… - Person
Ishaq ibn Ibrahim al-Taymi
Abu Ya'qub al-Taymi, traditionist of Rayy, student of Isma'il ibn 'Ulayya and Waki' ibn al-Jarrah; a… - Person
Ishaq ibn Ibrahim ibn Hani'
Abu Ya'qub of Nishapur, a particular companion of Ahmad ibn Hanbal who sheltered him during his concealment… - Person
Abu Ibrahim al-Tujibi
c. 870 CE · 257 AHA jurist who studied with Wahb ibn Isa, Ibn Abi Tamam and Ibn Lubaba, and who narrated and was heard by… - Person
Ishaq ibn Ibrahim ibn Mus'ab
al-Mutawakkil's Sawad agent; in al-Baladhuri he annexed the Taff springs to his charge, farmed their tithe,… - Person
Ishaq ibn Isma'il the Samanid
Nasr ibn Ahmad's uncle; on the first of Muharram 302 Nasr's letter arrived reporting he had met his uncle in… - Person
إسحاق بن كنداج
Al-Muwaffaq's commander; in 269 he rode from Nisibis, caught al-Mu'tamid between Mosul and Haditha, returned… - Person
Ishaq ibn Mansur al-Kawsaj
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Ishaq ibn Rahwayh
c. 778 CE · 161 AHThe Khurasani imam Ibn Rahwayh — dead in 238; among the hadith imams who travelled the garrison cities… - Person
Ishak Hocasi
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Ishrat Husain
1941 CE · 1360 AHIshrat Husain (born 1941) is a Pakistani economist, banker and civil servant, born at Agra, who moved with… - Person
Iskandar al-Barudi
1856 CE · 1273 AHA Lebanese physician, man of letters, journalist and educator, who worked in teaching and in the judiciary. - Person
Skanderbeg (Gjergj Kastrioti)
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Parameswara (Iskandar Shah) of Malacca
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Islam Makhachev
27 October 1991 CE · 1412 AHRussian professional mixed martial artist (born 1991 in Makhachkala, Dagestan, an ethnic Lak). The 2016 world… - Person
Islam Slimani
18 June 1988 CE · 1408 AHAlgerian football striker (born 1988 in Algiers), Algeria's all-time top scorer with 46 goals in over a… - Person
Islam Sobhi
1998 CE · 1419 AH†Egyptian Quran reciter born in 1998, known to audiences through recitations published on his official YouTube… - Person
Ismaël Bennacer
1 December 1997 CE · 1418 AHAlgerian professional footballer (born 1997 in Arles, France, to a Moroccan father and an Algerian mother). A… - Person
إسماعيل بن الجواليقي
c. November 1118 CE · Sha'ban 512 AHIsma'il ibn al-Jawaliqi, the adab-man son of the adab-man Abu al-Mansur, Hanbali; b. Sha'ban 512, read Qur'an… - Person
Ismaël Lô
30 August 1956 CE · 1376 AHSenegalese singer, songwriter and actor, born at Dogondoutchi, Niger, on 30 August 1956 to a Senegalese… - Person
Ismail (Ishmael)
Son of Ibrahim and Hajar, settled as an infant with his mother at Mecca where Zamzam sprang; he married into… - Person
Ismail Adil Shah
Draft card for Ismail Adil Shah, the sultan of Bijapur from 1510 to 1534; the dynastic handbook entry is not… - Person
Isma'il al-Hadrami
Hadramawt's qutb — 'exemplar of the two companies' (al-Munawi): sharh al-Muhadhdhab and mukhtasar of Sahih… - Person
Ismail ibn Abd al-Haqq al-Himsi al-Hijazi
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Ismail al-Isfahani
1065 CE · 457 AH†Draft card for Ismail al-Isfahani, the scholar and hadith man; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Isma'il al-Jara'i
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Isma'il al-Khatbi the chronicler
c. July 882 CE · Muharram 269 AHIsma'il b. Isma'il b. Banan Abu 'Umar al-Khatbi (269–350), Baghdad's muhaddith-chronicler: trustworthy,… - Person
Isma'il al-Kurani
The ascetic exemplar of Kuran near Isfarayin — a shaykh of great standing whom people travelled to visit; he… - Person
Isma'il al-Nabulsi, mufti of Damascus
c. 1530 CE · 937 AHBadr al-Din Isma'il al-Nabulsi — Damascus's mufti and teacher at the Zahiriyya; orphaned, teaching at… - Person
Ismail al-Saffak al-Ukhaydhiri
Ismail ibn Yusuf ibn Ibrahim ibn Musa al-Jawn the Alid, called al-Saffak ('the shedder of blood'); he rose… - Person
Isma'il al-Sahir
al-Sayyid al-Himyari's transmitter — attested that the poet died professing the Kaysani doctrine. - Person
قوام السنة إسماعيل التيمي
c. 1064 CE · 457 AHThe great hafiz Qawam al-Sunna Abu al-Qasim Ismail ibn Muhammad al-Taymi al-Talhi of Isfahan; Abu Musa… - Person
Ismail Ankaravi
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Ismail Beg
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Ismail Belig
Draft card for Ismail Belig, the Ottoman writer and poet, d. 1729; the biographical entry is not yet checked… - Person
Ismail Bey al-Kabir
Draft card for Ismail Bey al-Kabir, the eighteenth-century Mamluk beylerbey of Egypt, d. 1791; the source… - Person
Ismail Gasprinsky
20 March 1851 CE · 1267 AHCrimean Tatar educator, publisher and politician (1851–1914), founder of the newspaper Terciman and of the… - Person
Ismail of Ghazni
Draft card for Ismail ibn Sabuktigin, the short-reigning emir of Ghazna in 997 deposed by his brother Mahmud;… - Person
Ismail Hakki Altunbezer
1873 CE · 1290 AH†Draft card for Ismail Hakki Altunbezer, the Ottoman calligrapher of thuluth and diwani; his entry is not yet… - Person
Ismail Hakki Bursevi
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Ismail Hossain Siraji
13 July 1880 CE · 1297 AHBengali writer, poet and orator (1880–1931) of Sirajganj, a key author of the Bengali Muslim reawakening. He… - Person
Ismail I (Shah Ismail Safavi)
Shah Ismail, founder of the Safavid state; al-Salabi traces the Safavids to Shaykh Safi al-Din al-Ardabili… - Person
Ismail Samani In 280 news came of his raid into the Turk lands — killing many, taking their king's city and some ten thousand captives, a thousand dirhams falling to each Muslim horseman; in 285 al-Mu'tadid's patent to Amr ibn al-Layth named his son Ahmad deposed {cite:muntazam-ibn-al-jawzi p. 142-143, 294}.
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Ismail ibn Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi
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Ismail ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Karima, al-Suddi
Ismail ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Karima, Abu Muhammad, al-Suddi, named after the portico of the Kufa mosque,… - Person
Isma'il ibn 'Abdallah al-Salihi
The God-intoxicated saint of the Salihiyya — 'his brain dried up from overmuch recitation of the Qur'an in… - Person
Isma'il ibn Abi Khalid
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Ismail ibn Ahmad al-Qadi
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Ismail ibn al-Sharif
Draft card for Mawlay Ismail ibn al-Sharif, the Alawi sultan of Morocco who made Meknes his royal seat, named… - Person
Isma'il ibn Ayyash
Isma'il ibn Ayyash al-Ansi of Hims, the hadith-master of second-century Syria; in al-Baladhuri: Abd al-Malik… - Person
Isma'il ibn Bulbul
Al-Muwaffaq's vizier, tortured to death under al-Mu'tadid in a 120-ratl iron shackle with a dead man's head… - Person
Isma'il ibn Hammad
The qadi who first greeted al-Mu'tadid as caliph on the morning of al-Mu'tamid's sudden death. - Person
Ismail bin Haydar al-Sadr
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Ismail ibn Ibrahim al-Bukhari
Draft card for Ismail ibn Ibrahim al-Bukhari, the muhaddith and father of Imam al-Bukhari, d. 810; the… - Person
Isma'il ibn Ibrahim al-Tarjumani
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Ismail ibn Ibrahim ibn Abd al-Samad
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Isma'il ibn Ja'far al-Sadiq
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Isma'il ibn Ja'far al-Ansari
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Ismail ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Hadi al-Ajluni, al-Jarrahi
Ismail ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Hadi ibn Abd al-Ghani, Abu al-Fida, a Shafi'i known as al-Ajluni or al-Jarrahi… - Person
Ismail ibn Musa Menk
27 June 1975 CE · 18 Jumada II 1395 AH†Zimbabwean Muslim preacher and scholar, known as Mufti Menk, born in 1975 in Salisbury (now Harare). He is… - Person
إسماعيل بن مسلم المكي
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Isma'il ibn Qabiha
Al-Mu'tazz's full brother, named heir in place of the dead al-Mu'ayyad. - Person
Isma'il ibn Sa'id al-Jubayri
Isma'il ibn Sa'id ibn 'Ubayd Allah ibn Jubayr ibn Hayya al-Thaqafi al-Jubayri of Basra, a transmitter of… - Person
Ismail ibn Said al-Shalinji
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Isma'il b. Sawdakin al-Nuri
The Hanafi Sufi (d. Safar 646) — companion of Muhyi al-Din Ibn Arabi, with speech and verse of his own. - Person
Ismail ibn Ubayd Allah ibn Abi al-Muhajir
Draft card for Ismail ibn Ubayd Allah ibn Abi al-Muhajir, the Umayyads' governor of Ifriqiya; his entry is… - Person
Isma'il ibn Yahya al-Taymi
Al-Shafi'i's companion al-Taymi — an adept jurist, trustworthy in hadith, a man of worship and merit who kept… - Person
Isma'il ibn Ya'qub al-Tanukhi
252 AHAbu'l-Hasan al-Tanukhi of Anbar, b. 252, a Quran-hafiz and master of Yemeni genealogies, copious and… - Person
Ismail II
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Ismail Mahallati
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Ismail Matar
7 April 1983 CE · 1403 AHEmirati former forward born in Abu Dhabi in 1983. He won the Golden Ball at the 2003 FIFA World Youth… - Person
Ismail Qemali
16 January 1844 CE · 1259 AHAlbanian politician and statesman (1844–1919), founder of modern Albania, remembered as 'Father of the… - Person
Ismail Shirvani
1782 CE · 1196 AH†Draft card for Ismail Shirvani, the Naqshbandi-Khalidi shaykh of the Caucasus; his entry is not yet checked… - Person
Ismail Zuhdu
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Ismat al-Din Khatun
Ismat al-Din Khatun, daughter of the amir Mu'in al-Din Anar, wife of Nur al-Din and then of Salah al-Din;… - Person
Ismet Mehmed Efendi
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Ismoil Faqirulloh
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Ispirizade Ahmed Efendi
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Israel Adesanya
22 July 1989 CE · 1409 AHNigerian-New Zealander mixed martial artist and former kickboxer (born 1989 in Lagos, raised in Rotorua).… - Person
Isra'il ibn Yunus
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Israr Ahmed
26 April 1932 CE · 1350 AHPakistani Islamic scholar and orator, born in Hisar in 1932 and died in Lahore in 2010. A physician trained… - Person
Ivan III of Moscow
Ivan III, duke of Muscovy; al-Salabi dates to his reign the first Russian ambassador's arrival at Islambul in… - Person
Ivaz Efendi
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Ivaz Mehmed Pasha
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İvazzade Halil Pasha
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Iyad ibn Nizar
One of Nizar's sons; al-Nuwayri says he received the old female servant and the piebald horses and livestock. - Person
Iyad ibn Zuhayr
Of Banu al-Harith ibn Fihr; he emigrated to Abyssinia — the third of the three men Ibn Ishaq names from Banu… - Person
Iyas ibn Mu'adh
A young Awsite lad from Yathrib who came to Mecca in an alliance-seeking delegation before the battle of… - Person
Iyas ibn Mu'awiya al-Muzani
Iyas b. Mu'awiya al-Muzani — the Basran proverbial for acumen, appointed qadi of Basra by Umar b. Abd al-Aziz. - Person
Iyas ibn Qabisa al-Taʾi
The Tayyi governor Khosrow set over al-Hira after imprisoning al-Nuʾman; ordered to extract the deposit from… - Person
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam
19 December 1882 CE · 1300 AHSyrian-born Muslim preacher and resistance leader (1882–1935) who fought the French in Syria and organised… - Person
عز الدين عبد الهادي الحنبلي
Izz al-Din Abd al-Hadi b. Sharaf al-Islam the Hanbali; jurist, preacher, brave, beautiful-voiced in the… - Person
Izz al-Din al-Maqdisi
1205 CE · 602 AHThe Maqdisi hafiz (b. 602) — Ibn Tabarzad, al-Kindi, Baghdad's Fath b. Abd al-Salam, then Egypt; Ibn Qudama's… - Person
عز الدين أيبك التركماني الملك المعز
Shajar al-Durr's deputy then Egypt's sultan as al-Mu'izz from 648 — first behind the boy al-Ashraf, alone… - Person
Izz al-Din Aybak of Sarkhad
Izz al-Din Aybak of Sarkhad (d. 646) — Ayyubid amir; died in custody at Cairo; Ibn Khallikan attended his… - Person
Izz al-Din Farrukhshah
Izz al-Din Abu Sa'id Farrukhshah, al-Malik al-Mansur (d. 578 Damascus) — Salah al-Din's nephew and his deputy… - Person
الشيخ عز الدين بن عبد السلام
The sultan of scholars; Damascus's khatib who stripped the gilded banners for plain black-on-white and cut… - Person
Izz al-Din ibn al-Sa'igh
c. 1230 CE · 628 AHDamascus's chief qadi — dismissed for Ibn Khallikan in 677, reinstated 680, then dragged through a… - Person
Izz al-Din ibn 'Awad, qadi al-qudat
c. 1233 CE · c. 630 AH - Person
Izz al-Din ibn Jama'a
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عز الدين مسعود بن مودود
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Izzet Ali Pasha
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Izzeti Mehmed Efendi
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Izzi Suleyman Efendi
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Ja'far ibn Abd al-Wahid
Ja'far b. Abd al-Wahid (d. ~258) — Abbasid-line qadi whom al-Ma'mun appointed over Egypt for three days in… - Person
Ja'far ibn Thiqat al-Dawla
Taj al-Dawla Ja'far — son of the Kalbid emir of Sicily; poet-prince remembered for the two youths in red and… - Person
Ja'afar Mahmud Adam
12 February 1960 CE · 1379 AHNigerian scholar (1960–2007) from Daura who studied at the Islamic University of Madinah. A member of the… - Person
Shams al-Din al-Ja'fari al-Tabrizi, qadi of Damascus
Qadi al-qudat Shams al-Din al-Ja'fari — sadr of Tabriz who rose through the Ottoman madrasas to the Eight;… - Person
Jabala ibn al-Ayham
The last Ghassanid king: after the Yarmuk defeat his dynasty’s role as Rome’s Arab wardens ended, and he… - Person
Jabalah ibn Suhaym
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Jabbar ibn Sakhr al-Ansari
An Ansari whom the Prophet sent with Amr ibn Umayya al-Damri to Mecca to kill Abu Sufyan ibn Harb; it was he… - Person
Jabbar ibn Salma
One of the three chiefs of the Banu Amir delegation to the Prophet in 9 AH with Amir ibn al-Tufayl and Arbad… - Person
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
29 June 1926 CE · 1344 AHJaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (29 June 1926 – 15 January 2006) was the thirteenth Emir of Kuwait from 31… - Person
Jaber bin Mubarak Al-Sabah
1860 CE · 1276 AHJaber bin Mubarak Al-Sabah, known as Jaber II (born in 1860 – died at Kuwait on 5 February 1917), was the… - Person
Jabir ibn Abdullah
A Companion of the Ansar, son of Abdullah ibn Amr ibn Haram and one of the great transmitters of hadith; he… - Person
Jabir ibn Abdullah ibn Ri'ab
One of the six who were at the first al-Aqaba and, according to Musa ibn Uqba and Abu al-Aswad from Urwa,… - Person
Jabir ibn Samura
A Companion of Banu Sawa'a, ally of Banu Zuhra, whose mother Khalida was the sister of Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas;… - Person
Jabir ibn Sufyan
Son of Sufyan ibn Ma'mar and Hasana; he emigrated with them to Abyssinia and died in Umar's caliphate. - Person
Jabir ibn Umayr al-Ansari
Jabir ibn Umayr al-Ansari al-Madani, a companion. He narrated from the Prophet on the excellence of archery,… - Person
Jabir ibn Yazid al-Ju'fi
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Jabir ibn Zayd al-Azdi
The Azd's Basran mawla, Abu'l-Sha'tha', among the scholars who died under Yazid II. - Person
Jabr ibn Abi Ubayd
Son of Abu Ubayd ibn Mas'ud al-Thaqafi; in al-Baladhuri he took the banner at the Day of the Bridge after his… - Person
Jack Welch
Jack Welch, head of General Electric, as Tareq al-Suwaidan presents him: author of the 20/70/10 rule dividing… - Person
Jackie Aina
4 August 1987 CE · 1407 AHNigerian-American beauty creator and entrepreneur, born in Los Angeles in 1987, who launched her YouTube… - Person
Jad al-Haqq ibn Ali Jad al-Haqq
1917 CE · 1335 AHJurist of legal theory and judge, forty-second Grand Imam of al-Azhar; born in Dakahlia province in 1335 AH… - Person
جعدة بنت الأشعث بن قيس
A wife of al-Hasan ibn Ali; in the account given, Yazid ibn Mu'awiya suborned her to poison him with a… - Person
Ja'da ibn Hubayra al-Makhzumi
Ja'da ibn Hubayra ibn Abi Wahb al-Makhzumi, son of Umm Hani' bint Abi Talib; sent by Ali to breached… - Person
Jadhima al-Abrash
The Arab warden appointed by Ardashir over al-Hira and the desert Arabs of Iraq and the Jazira — the Persian… - Person
Ja'far al-Faryabi
Abu Bakr 'al-Qurayabi', qadi of Dinawar, who toured the lands east and west after the leading scholars —… - Person
Ja'far al-Khatti
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Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-Sadiq
Abu 'Abd Allah Ja'far al-Sadiq, the Alid imam — through him Mas'udi transmits Ali's long death-morning… - Person
Shaykh Jafar al-Tustari
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Ja'far ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Hakam al-Ansari
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Ja'far ibn Abi Talib
c. 590 CEA brother of Ali who led the Muslim emigration to Abyssinia and answered the Negus for his people; killed at… - Person
أبو الفضل جعفر بن الفرات ابن حزابة الوزير
c. April 921 CE · Dhu al-Hijja 308 AH - Person
Ja'far ibn al-Mubashshir
A Mu'tazilite scholar-ascetic whose brother Hanash led the hadith-folk against him — they swore mutual… - Person
Ja'far ibn Ali al-Hadi
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جعفر بن علي بن حمدون
Lord of Msila and leader of the Zanata party who contested al-Hakam's accession; Ibn Abi Amir used him… - Person
Ja'far ibn Burqan
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Ja'far ibn Dinar al-Khayyat
Commander of the left wing at Amorium, 223. - Person
Ja'far ibn Fallah al-Kutami
Ja'far b. Fallah al-Kutami — al-Mu'izz's commander sent by Jawhar to Syria; took Ramla in 358 and Damascus in… - Person
جعفر بن حرب
Ja'far ibn Harb held the sultan's great offices at near-vizierial rank; riding in a grand procession he heard… - Person
Ja'far ibn Idris al-Kattani
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Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-Mawsili
Named with Ibn Durayd, al-Zajjaji and Naftawayh among the collectors of the Prophet's utterances. - Person
Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-Thaqafi
Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-Thaqafi, who transmitted from his father, 'Abbad ibn al-'Awwam, Ibn 'Uyayna and… - Person
Ja'far ibn Muhammad Mustaghfiri
961 CE · 350 AH†Draft card for Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-Mustaghfiri of Nishapur, the hadith memorizer and author; his entry is… - Person
Ja'far ibn Mukram al-Duri
Abu'l-Fadl al-Duri the merchant, trustworthy transmitter from Abu 'Amir al-'Aqdi, Ruh ibn 'Ubada and Abu… - Person
Ja'far ibn Shakir al-Sa'igh
Abu Muhammad al-Sa'igh, the devout, exacting traditionist of 'Affan, Qabisa and Abu Nu'aym — most people's… - Person
Ja'far ibn Shu'ayb al-Shashi
Al-Shashi of Tashkent, who heard Yahya ibn Aktham and others, came to Baghdad on hajj and transmitted there;… - Person
جعفر بن عثمان المصحفي
Al-Hakam's hajib who aided Ibn Abi Amir's first coup, purged the palace's eight hundred Slav guards for him,… - Person
جعفر بن ورقاء الشيباني
Governor of Kufa and the pilgrim road; marching ahead of the hajj caravan with a thousand Shaybanis he fought… - Person
Ja'far Khan Zand
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Jafar Tabrizi
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Jafari Tabar
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Cafer Bey
Draft card for Cafer Bey, the Ottoman writer (grand admiral, d. 1520); the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Jafna ibn Amr
The Azdi who went to al-Sham in the Azd migration and settled there with his sons; the forefather of the… - Person
Jahan Shah the Qara Qoyunlu
Jahan Shah b. Qara Yusuf, Qara Qoyunlu 'lord of the two Iraqs'; died 872. - Person
Jahanara Shahnawaz
7 April 1896 CE · 1313 AHPakistani politician and activist of Lahore (1896–1979), the daughter of Sir Muhammad Shafi; among the first… - Person
Jahandar Shah
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Jahangir
Draft card for Jahangir, fourth Mughal emperor, named from an open reference description (Wikidata); his… - Person
Cahidi Ahmed Efendi
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Jahm ibn Qays
A Companion of Banu Abd al-Dar; he emigrated to Abyssinia with his wife and two children and arrived in the… - Person
Jahm ibn Safwan
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Jahm ibn Zahr al-Ju'fi
Jahm ibn Zahr al-Ju'fi, Yazid ibn al-Muhallab's champion; he retook breached Jurjan, then led the hide-ladder… - Person
Jahwar ibn Marrar al-Ijli
Jahwar ibn Marrar al-Ijli — Ibn Durayd reads al-Marrar; he presented Umar ibn al-Ala' the Rayy butcher to… - Person
جهور بن مرّار العجلي
Jahwar ibn Marrar al-Ijli — the Abbasid commander who crushed Sunbadh's rising between Hamadhan and Rayy, 137… - Person
جهور بن محمد بن جهور أبو الحزم
The Jahwarid vizier who had served under the Amirids and then held Cordoba without exceeding the title of… - Person
Ja'it Muhammad al-Aziz ibn Yusuf
1886 CE · 1303 AHScholar from Tunis, born there in 1303 AH (1886 CE) and educated at the Zaytuna mosque; died 1389 AH (1970… - Person
Jakaya Kikwete
7 October 1950 CE · 1369 AHTanzanian politician (born 1950) who was the fourth president of Tanzania from 21 December 2005 to 5 November… - Person
جاكير الزاهد
Jakir the ascetic exemplar, one of Iraq's shaykhs — Muhammad b. Dashm the Kurdish Hanbali; he had disciples,… - Person
جلال الدولة أبو طاهر بن بهاء الدولة
Jalal al-Dawla Abu Tahir, son of Baha' al-Dawla — succeeded at Basra when Sultan Sharaf al-Dawla died in 416,… - Person
Jalal al-Din Ahsan
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Akbar the Great
1542 CE · 949 AH†Akbar the Great. - Person
Jalal al-Din al-Bulqini (Abd al-Rahman ibn Umar)
Abd al-Rahman ibn Umar ibn Ruslan ibn Nusayr ibn Salih, Jalal al-Din, Abu al-Fadl and Abu al-Yaman, a Shafi'i… - Person
Jalal al-Din Davani
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Jalal al-Din ibn Shams al-Din al-Khwarazmi al-Karlani
Jalal al-Din ibn Shams al-Din al-Khwarazmi al-Karlani, a Hanafi jurist and learned scholar, who studied with… - Person
Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli
Draft card for Jalal al-Din Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Mahalli, the Egyptian Shafi'i jurist and co-author of the… - Person
Jalal al-Din al-Qazwini
Draft card for Jalal al-Din Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Qazwini al-Khatib, the fourteenth-century… - Person
جلال الدين حسن صاحب ألموت
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Jalal al-Din al-Hilli al-Taftazani
c. 1399 CE · 801 AHJalal al-Din al-Hilli (b. ~801 at Hilla) — 'the diamond-boring critic,' Baghdad's shaykh al-Islam at the… - Person
Jalal al-Din ibn Hibatullah
Draft card for Jalal al-Din ibn Hibatullah, the sixteenth-century Levantine jurist and judge, d. 1510; the… - Person
Jalal al-Din ibn Matruh
c. 1186 CE · 582 AHJalal al-Din Yahya b. Abd al-Azim Ibn Matruh — of Asyut via Qus; served al-Malik al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub… - Person
Jalal al-Din ibn Tokhtamysh
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جلال الدين منكبرتي بن خوارزم شاه
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Jalal al-Din Rumi
1207 CE · 603 AH†Jalal al-Din Rumi. - Person
Jalal al-Din Taheri
1926 CE · 1344 AH†Draft card for Jalal al-Din Taheri, the Iranian ayatollah and imam of Isfahan; his entry is not yet checked… - Person
Jalal al-Din Ubaydallah ibn Yunus
Al-Nasir's vizier, sent at the head of the caliphal host to aid Qizil — broken at Daya Marj in Rabi' I 584,… - Person
Celal Amasi
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Jalal Talabani
1933 CE · 1352 AH†Jalal Talabani (1933 – 3 October 2017) was an Iraqi Kurdish politician, founder and leader of the Patriotic… - Person
Jalaluddin al-Hanafi
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Celalzade Muhyiddin Amasi
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Celalzade Salih Celebi
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Jalil Mammadguluzadeh
22 February 1869 CE · 1285 AHAzerbaijani satirist, writer and teacher (1869–1932; his birth year is disputed), founder and editor of the… - Person
Jalinus
The Persian commander at the Bridge battle where the Muslims, their bridge cut, were routed. - Person
Jalloul Jeribi
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Jam, king of Persia
King Jam — first, say the Persian chroniclers, to exalt fire and call men to honour it as the likeness of the… - Person
Jamaat Ali Shah
1834 CE · 1250 AHPakistani scholar and Sufi (1834–1951) of Alipur Sayyidan in Sialkot, of the Naqshbandi order. He presided… - Person
جمال الدين الأفغاني
1838 CE · 1254 AH†Jamal al-Din al-Afghani (1838–1897 CE) — al-Zirikli's 'philosopher of Islam in his age', co-founder with his… - Person
Jamal al-Din al-Ghaznawi
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Jamal al-Din al-Hasiri
1151 CE · 546 AH†Draft card for Jamal al-Din al-Hasiri, the Hanafi jurist of Damascus; his entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Jamal al-Din al-Masri
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Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi
Draft card for Jamal al-Din Yusuf ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Mizzi, the Shafi'i hadith master of Damascus author of… - Person
جمال الدين القاسمي
1866 CE · 1283 AH†Jamal al-Din al-Qasimi (1866–1914 CE) — the Damascene reformist scholar tried over the alleged 'Jamali… - Person
Jamal al-Din al-Sakuni, the Maliki
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Jamal al-Din al-Zaylai
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Jamal al-Din ibn al-Husam
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جمال الدين ابن فضلان
c. 1121 CE · 515 AHJamal al-Din Abu al-Qasim Yahya b. Ali Ibn Fadlan, scholar of Baghdad and shaykh of its Shafi'is; b. 515,… - Person
Jamal al-Din Ibn Jarir al-Raqqi
The Raqqan wazir (d. Jumada II 636, Damascus) — served al-Malik al-Ashraf then al-Salih Isma'il. - Person
Jamal al-Din Ibn Matruh
c. June 1196 CE · c. 8 Rajab 592 AHThe secretary-poet (b. Asyut 592, d. early Sha'ban 649, Muqattam) — al-Kamil's then al-Salih's man, treasurer… - Person
Jamal al-Din ibn Yaghmur, na'ib of Aleppo
c. 1214 CE · 611 AHAl-Zahir's man, na'ib of Aleppo — 'brave and daring', passed through the days of destruction; his Aleppo… - Person
Jamal al-Din Ishaq al-Karamani
Draft card for Jamal al-Din Ishaq al-Karamani, the Ottoman writer, d. 1527; the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Jamal al-Din al-Sarsari
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Cemaleddin Ussaki
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Sayyid Jamal al-Din Va'iz
1862 CE · 1279 AHIranian constitutional preacher and writer (1862–1908) from Hamadan who settled in Isfahan and became… - Person
Jamal al-Khalwati (Cemal Halveti)
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Jamal Hamdan
1928 CE · 1347 AHAn Egyptian geographer born in Gharyat Anay, a village in the Qalyubiyya district. - Person
Jamal al-Din Ibn Ruslan al-Buwaydi
between 1447 and 1448 CE · 851 AHOf Buwayda village outside Damascus (b. 851) — companion-in-study to Taqi al-Din al-Balatinsi, from whom Musa… - Person
Cemali
Draft card for Cemali, the Ottoman writer (poet, d. 1481); the biographical entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Jamalul Kiram II
27 March 1868 CE · 1284 AHThe last sultan of Sulu to hold sovereignty (reigned 1894–1915, titular until his death), born Amirul Kiram.… - Person
Jami, Abd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad
1414 CE · 817 AHThe Persian poet and Sufi of Jam — Sa'd al-Din Kashghari's disciple and Khwaja 'Ubaydallah Ahrar's companion,… - Person
Jamil Buthayna
Jamil ibn 'Abd Allah al-'Udhri — his Buthayna lines on souls conjoined before creation cited for the… - Person
Jamil ibn Busbuhri
dihqan of the two Fallujas and al-Nahrayn; converted after the Sawad's conquest — Umar left his land in his… - Person
Jamil ibn Darraj
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Jamil ibn Ka'b al-Tha'labi
A chief of Rabi'a and Ali's partisan — spared at the block by Mu'awiya, who admired his curse-prayer and… - Person
Jamil ibn Suhayb
The Faluja dihqan consulted by al-Hajjaj's new officer — four counsels: keep your door unguarded, sit long… - Person
Jamilur Reza Choudhury
15 November 1943 CE · 1362 AHBangladeshi civil engineer and academic, born in Sylhet in 1943 and died in Dhaka in 2020. A professor of… - Person
Jamsheed Quli Qutb Shah
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Jamwana ibn al-Harith
Jamwana ibn al-Harith, of Banu Amir ibn Sa'sa'a; in al-Baladhuri: Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz made him governor of… - Person
al-Malik al-Ashraf Jan Balat
Qaytbay's mamluk, taught by him Qur'an and reckoning; grand dawadar under al-Nasir, governor of Aleppo six… - Person
Janabi Mustafa Efendi
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Janada al-Marwazi
Janada b. Muhammad al-Marwazi (d. 399) — philologist without peer in his generation; member of the Dar al-Ilm… - Person
Janbirdi al-Ghazali
The Circassian commander who defected at Marj Dabiq — kafil of Hama then Damascus under al-Ghuri, he had… - Person
Janibeg ibn Uzbek Khan
Janibeg ibn Uzbek Khan, king of the northern Dasht after his father; he pushed the armies back to Khurasan… - Person
Sultan al-Zahir Jaqmaq
Tenth Circassian sultan (842-857): took power after the three-month reign of Barsbay's son, campaigned vainly… - Person
جرير بن عطية
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Jarir ibn Yazid al-Bajali
The arch-schemer sent to turn Abu Muslim back from Khurasan — his Iblis-like persistence delivered the rebel… - Person
Jariya ibn Amir
One of the twelve men who built Masjid al-Dirar, according to Ibn Ishaq; his ascription: Ibn Ishaq does not… - Person
Jariya ibn Qudama al-Sa'di
Al-Sa'di of Tamim, Ali's commander — sent with four thousand men after Busr's raiders, chased him out of the… - Person
جاركس الصلاحي
Jarkas — also read Jarkas — the great amir Fakhr al-Din al-Salahi; al-Adil gave him Banyas and the Shaqif and… - Person
جساس بن مرة
Jasas ibn Murra of Banu Shayban: when his aunt al-Basus cried shame over her guest's wounded camel he knew… - Person
Jassem al-Tawirjawi
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Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani
c. 1825 CE · 1240 AHJassim bin Mohammed bin Thani (born circa 1825 at Fuwayrit – died at Lusail on 17 July 1913), the second… - Person
Mohammad Javad Zarif
7 January 1960 CE · 1379 AHMohammad Javad Zarif (born 7 January 1960) is an Iranian diplomat and academic: ambassador to the United… - Person
Javed Ahmad Ghamidi
18 April 1951 CE · 1370 AHPakistani scholar and philosopher, born in Punjab in 1951. A student of Amin Ahsan Islahi, he founded the… - Person
Jawad ibn Sa'd al-Kazimi
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Jawad Murtada
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Jawed Karim
28 October 1979 CE · 1399 AHJawed Karim (born 28 October 1979) is a German and American software engineer and internet entrepreneur of… - Person
جوهر القائد مولى المعز
Al-Mu'izz's mawla; with a hundred thousand horse he took Egypt in 358, laid out Cairo on its present site,… - Person
Jayrun ibn Sa'd ibn 'Ad
The 'Adite who settled Damascus, raised its marble-columned buildings and named them Iram dhat al-'imad — his… - Person
Jayyash ibn Najah
Jayyash ibn Najah, kunya Ibn al-Qattay; he fled with his brother Sa'id to Dahlak island to study Qur'an and… - Person
Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha
Hasan Pasha, 'Gazi' and 'Palabıyık' (of the wide moustache); slave of a Gelibolu merchant, janissary in… - Person
Jean de la Forêt
Jean de la Forêt, secretary to King Francis I; al-Salabi records the king sent him in 941/1535 to Sultan… - Person
Jehane Noujaim
17 May 1974 CE · 1394 AHAmerican documentary film director of Egyptian origin, born in Washington, D.C. in 1974 and raised in Kuwait… - Person
Prince Cem (Jem Sultan)
Prince Cem, son of Mehmed II: proclaimed sultan at Bursa on his father's death, he offered his brother… - Person
Jenish Sultan
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Jibril ibn al-Fadl al-Samarqandi
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Jibril ibn Bukhtishu ibn Jirjis
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Jibril ibn Umar
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Jibril Tawfiq Salih
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Jigar Moradabadi
6 April 1890 CE · 1307 AHIndian Urdu ghazal poet (1890–1960), born Ali Sikandar in Moradabad. He was a mentor to Majrooh Sultanpuri… - Person
Jiha Dinar al-Shihabi
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Cildeki
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Jinan Yousef
Writer and teacher specialising in the names of Allah. A law graduate of the London School of Economics and… - Person
Cinani
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Jiwi-zade, mufti of the Sultanic seat
Jiwi-zade — 'best of the Ottoman qadis, most upright and chaste of conduct'; Damascus's qadi 977, then Egypt,… - Person
Cizyedarzade Ahmed Bahaeddin
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João III of Portugal
King of Portugal in Khayr al-Din's day. On news of the Ottoman fleet's arrival off North Africa in 941/1534… - Person
Jochi (Tushi) ibn Genghis Khan
Jochi ibn Genghis Khan, his eldest son; his father assigned him the realms from Filak to Bulgar — the Dasht-i… - Person
Josh Malihabadi
5 December 1898 CE · 1316 AHUrdu poet (1898–1982), born Shabbir Hasan Khan in Malihabad and known as Shayar-e-Inqalab ('Poet of the… - Person
Jubayr ibn Mut'im
A leader of Quraysh and a genealogist; he came to the Prophet to ransom the Badr captives and heard him… - Person
Jubayr ibn Nufayr
Jubayr ibn Nufayr al-Hadrami, Abu Abd al-Rahman, a Successor who lived in the time of the Prophet without… - Person
Judar Pasha
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جديع الكرماني
Juday' al-Kirmani — leader of the Yamani-Rabi'a bloc in revolutionary Khurasan, ally then victim of Abu… - Person
Jufayna al-Ibadi
a Christian of al-Hira, Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas's freedman — killed with his two sons by Ubaydallah ibn Umar over… - Person
Juha (Abu al-Ghusn)
The Arab Juha, Abu al-Ghusn, a jester proverbial for foolishness and heedlessness. The editor records that… - Person
يوليان صاحب سبتة
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Jumay' ibn Hadir al-Baji
Jumay' ibn Hadir al-Baji; set as qadi over Samarqand's claim that Qutayba planted Muslims on treachery — he… - Person
al-Azdi, Abu Usama
Philologist and grammarian of Herat, who died around 399 AH. - Person
Junada ibn Sufyan
Son of Sufyan ibn Ma'mar and Hasana; he emigrated with them to Abyssinia and died in Umar's caliphate. - Person
Junaid Jamshed
3 September 1964 CE · 1384 AHPakistani singer and preacher (1964–2016) who rose to fame as lead vocalist of Vital Signs and its patriotic… - Person
Syed Junaid Qadri
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Junayd of Aydin
Junayd, last ruler of the Aydın-oghlu (808-828 AH), defeated by Murad II and executed with his family in 829… - Person
Jundab ibn Makith al-Juhani
A Companion of Juhayna who was in Ghalib ibn Abdullah's detachment against Banu al-Mulawwah and narrates it;… - Person
Jundala bint al-Harith
A woman of the Arabs, wife of Hanzala ibn Malik; on a rainy night a man violated her and she said 'I was… - Person
جندب بن عوف الثقفي
Jundub ibn Awf, chief of Thaqif's Banu Malik moiety: seizing on the Ahlaf's pasture war with Banu Nasr he… - Person
Jundub ibn Zuhayr al-Azdi
The Azdi witness who stormed the drunken governor with Abu Zaynab, took his seal from his hand, and bore… - Person
Cununi Ahmed Dede
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جردك
Jurdik, one of the great amirs of the Nurid and Salahid states; he witnessed every conquest — it was he who… - Person
Jurji Zaydan
14 December 1861 CE · 1278 AHLebanese novelist, journalist, editor and teacher (1861–1914) who settled in Cairo, founded the magazine… - Person
Juwayriya bint al-Harith
A Mother of the Believers, daughter of the chief of Banu al-Mustaliq; she fell among the captives at… - Person
Juzz ibn Mu'awiya
Juzz ibn Mu'awiya, al-Ahnaf's uncle; governor of Surraq — the 'Juzz' of Abu al-Mukhtar's denunciation. - Person
Ka'b ibn Asad
The paramount leader of the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza in Medina; bound by treaty to the Prophet, he… - Person
Ka'b ibn Malik al-Ansari
One of the three chief poets of the Prophet from the Ansar (Banu Salama of Khazraj); he witnessed the Second… - Person
Ka'b al-Ahbar
a Yemeni Jewish scholar converted under Abu Bakr or Umar; told Umar 'I find you in the Torah killed a martyr'… - Person
Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf
c. 585 CEA poet of Banu Nadir — Jewish on his father's side, Arab on his mother's — whose verses mourned the Meccan… - Person
Ka'b ibn Ju'ayl
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Ka'b ibn Mama
Of the Iyad tribe in pre-Islamic times, known for good neighbourliness so that his name became a proverb: 'a… - Person
Ka'b ibn Suwar
Umar's judge of Basra; understood the praising wife's true complaint and ruled her a day of four days and a… - Person
Ka'b ibn Ujra
An ally of the Ansar from Bali of Quda'a (al-Waqidi claimed he was an Ansari and Ibn Sa'd rejected it); he… - Person
Ka'b ibn Zuhayr
The famous poet, son of the poet Zuhayr ibn Abi Sulma, a known Companion; he satirised the Prophet, who… - Person
Kabiru Gombe
1 June 1969 CE · 1389 AHNigerian scholar and preacher born at Yamaltu/Deba in Gombe State. He began in the youth first-aid group of… - Person
Kabsha bint Ka'b ibn Malik
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The Kabul Shah
The Kabul Shah, king of Kabul; he mustered and expelled every Muslim in Kabul, whereupon Rutbil overran… - Person
Kadi Burhaneddin Anevi
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Kadi Mahmud Efendi
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Kadizade Mehmed
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Kadri Pasha
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Kadri of Pergamon
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كافور الإخشيدي
Ustad Kafur, the Ikhshid's mamluk and successor in Egypt; on his death order broke down, the troops' pay ran… - Person
Kafur al-Suri
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Kafzade Faizi
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كاهن عسفان الخزاعي
The Khuza'i soothsayer of Usfan, grandfather of Amr ibn al-Hamiq; judge in the Hashim–Umayya munafara, his… - Person
Kais Saied
22 February 1958 CE · 1377 AHKais Saied (born 1958) is a Tunisian constitutional jurist and politician who taught constitutional law at… - Person
كاكة بن جندر
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Kelami-yi Rumi
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Kalamn king of Madyan
King of Madyan in Shu'ayb's day — one of the six kings whose names al-Mas'udi gives the abjad letters; the… - Person
Kalaylikoz Ali Pasha
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Kalidou Koulibaly
20 June 1991 CE · 1411 AHSenegalese professional footballer (born 1991 in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France). A centre-back who rose… - Person
Kallie Knoetze
24 April 1953 CE · 1372 AHSouth African heavyweight boxer and actor, born Nikolaas Jacobus Knoetze in 1953. He was rated the world's… - Person
Kemal Ahmed Dede
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Kamal al-Din al-Damiri
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Kamal al-Din al-Ghazzi
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Kamal al-Din al-Jini
c. October 1394 CE · Dhu al-Hijja 796 AHAl-Jini (b. Hama Dhu'l-Hijja 796) — katib al-sirr of Egypt and 'singular among the notables,' Damascus's… - Person
كمال الدين أبو المناقب الخضيري
Kamal al-Din al-Khudhayri of Asyut — master of fiqh, usul, qira'at, reckoning, grammar, rhetoric and logic,… - Person
Kamal al-Din al-Tadifi
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Kamal al-Din ibn Abi Sharif
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كمال الدين ابن العديم
The historian-envoy who came to Egypt begging aid against the Tatars in 657, prompting Qutuz's council. - Person
Kamal al-Din Ibn Talha
1186 CE · 582 AHThe wandering mufti and author of al-Iqd al-Farid (b. 582, d. Rajab 652 Aleppo) — in 648 his patent as vizier… - Person
Kamal al-Din ibn Yunus
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Kamal al-Din Ibn Yunus
1156 CE · 551 AHKamal al-Din Ibn Yunus (b. 551, d. 14 Sha'ban 639, Mosul) — the polymath said to master fourteen sciences,… - Person
Kamal al-Din al-Nabulsi, khatib of Jerusalem
Jerusalem's khatib — 'of the jurist-transmitters'. - Person
Kamal El-Mekki
An American dawah trainer and AlMaghrib Institute instructor dubbed the 'Black Belt of Dawah', best known for… - Person
Kamal Hossain
20 April 1937 CE · 9 Safar 1356 AH†Bangladeshi jurist and politician (born 20 April 1937 at Calcutta), a principal drafter of Bangladesh's 1972… - Person
Kemal Ummi
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Kamandar bint Narsi
Kamandar bint Narsi, cousin of al-Nushajan and lady of the Nahr al-Mar'a palace; she provisioned Abu Musa… - Person
Kamaru Usman
11 May 1987 CE · 1407 AHNigerian-American mixed martial artist and former freestyle wrestler (born 1987 in Auchi, Nigeria, emigrating… - Person
Kamel al-Baba
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Kami Efendi (Edirneli Mehmed)
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Kamil ibn Talha
762 CE · 145 AH†Draft card for Kamil ibn Talha, the third-century hadith scholar; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Kamil ibn Thabit al-Suri
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Kamil ibn Ziyad
Ali's trusted companion to whom the famous counsel was addressed: 'O Kamil, defend the believer — his back is… - Person
Mehmed Kâmil Pasha
1833 CE · 1248 AHOttoman statesman of Turkish Cypriot origin who served four times as Grand Vizier between 1885 and 1913,… - Person
Kamran Mirza
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Kanazbak, Marzban of Tus
Kanazbak, marzban of Tus; he came to Ibn Amir and compounded Tus at six hundred thousand dirhams. - Person
Kanijeli Siyavush Pasha
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Kanz al-Dawla
Kanz, lord of the far Said — rose in early 570 drawing locals, Sudanese and Arabs, killed the brother of the… - Person
Kara Ahmed Pasha
Kara Ahmed Pasha, Ottoman grand vizier under Sulayman I, of Albanian origin and educated in the palace. He… - Person
Kara Davud
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Kara Davud Pasha
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Kara Fazli
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Kara Mehmed Pasha
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Kara Memi
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Kara Murat Pasha
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Kara Musa Pasha
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قره مصطفى باشا
Kara Mustafa Pasha — Mehmed IV's grand vizier who ended the women's interference in the sultanate and crushed… - Person
Karacaoglan
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Karaeng Bisai
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Karamani Mehmed Pasha
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Karamanli Ayni
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Karamanli Nizami
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Karamat Husain
1854 CE · 1270 AHIndian judge and education reformer (1854–1917). He taught law at the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College,… - Person
Karaoglan Mustafa Efendi
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
16 April 1947 CE · 1366 AHAmerican former basketball player (born 1947 in New York City), born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr. A center… - Person
Karim al-Din al-Ja'bari
The celebrated muqri' — author of the famous sharh on al-Shatibi's Shatibiyya; came to Damascus in 932 where… - Person
Karim Benzema
19 December 1987 CE · 1408 AHFrench professional footballer, born in Lyon in 1987. A striker who broke through at Lyon, then spent… - Person
Karim Ismail
Egyptian trainer and lecturer in mental health and awareness-building, founder of the Mental Health Hub… - Person
Karim Khan Kermani
1810 CE · 1225 AH†Draft card for Karim Khan Kermani, the Shaykhi community's leader in Kerman; his entry is not yet checked on… - Person
Kareem Salama
1978 CE · 1398 AH†The Muslim American country singer from Oklahoma, blending Americana with Sufi verse. - Person
Karima al-Marwaziyya
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Karima bint al-Haqbaq
Musnidat al-Sham (d. Jumada II 641) — the Qurashi-Zubayri woman transmitter known as bint al-Haqbaq; licensed… - Person
Karima bint al-Miqdad
she could write, per al-Waqidi's family chain through her niece. - Person
كريمة بنت أحمد المروزية أم الكرام
Karima bint Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Hatim, 'Umm al-Kiram' — the Marwazi long-resident of Mecca who transmitted… - Person
Ala al-Dawla Karsasf ibn Qaramard al-Kakuyi
Ala al-Dawla Karsasf ibn Qaramard ibn Kakuya, lord of Yazd of the Daylamite Kakuyids; son-in-law of the… - Person
Kashshaf al-Din Tarjumani
1877 CE · 1294 AH†Draft card for Kashshaf al-Din Tarjumani, the Tatar scholar and educator; his entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Kasman Singodimedjo
25 February 1904 CE · 1321 AHIndonesian politician and lawyer from Central Java (1904–1982): first chairman of the Central Indonesian… - Person
Kathir 'Azza
The poet whose death shared the day with 'Ikrima's — 'a great jurist and a great poet in one day'. - Person
كثير بن مرة الحضرمي
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Kathir ibn Shihab al-Harithi
Fighter in Sa'd's army; in al-Baladhuri he charged the Jalinus after the crossing of al-Sirat and speared him… - Person
Katibzade Mehmed Refi
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Abdallah Katila al-Harbi
c. 1208 CE · 605 AH'Last of Iraq's shaykhs' — the Sufi Hanbali whose teachers ran Majd al-Din Ibn Taymiyya at Harran, Ibn Abi… - Person
Kavanoz Ahmed Pasha
Draft card for Kavanoz Ahmed Pasha, the eighteenth-century Ottoman vizier and beylerbey, d. 1795; the source… - Person
Kawus, King of Ushrusana
Kawus, king of Ushrusana; he bought peace through al-Fadl ibn Sahl, broke it, lost his qahrman to son… - Person
Kayikci Kul Mustafa
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كيكاوس الأول
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Kaykhusraw
King Kaykhusraw, builder of the Kawsaja fire-temple. - Person
Kayqubad I
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Kayserili Mehmed Agha
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Kaysunizade
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Kayumars of Delhi
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Kayumarth ibn Umaym
Son of Umaym through whom al-Mas'udi derives the Persians in the earlier genealogy debate. - Person
Kazabadi
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Kazi-Magomed
1833 CE · 1249 AH†Kazi-Magomed (1833–1902), also written Gazi-Muhammad, was the second son of Imam Shamil, named for his… - Person
Kazi Nazrul Islam
24 May 1899 CE · 1317 AHBengali poet, writer and musician (1899–1976), titled the 'Rebel Poet' after his 1922 poem 'Bidrohi' (The… - Person
Kazi Zafarullah
April 1947 CE · 1366 AHBangladeshi industrialist and politician, born in April 1947. A presidium member of the Awami League and a… - Person
Kazim Jawad al-Arada
1928 CE · c. 1347 AHAn Iraqi poet, writer and translator, born in Nasiriyya in southern Iraq. - Person
Kâzım Karabekir
23 July 1882 CE · 1299 AHTurkish general and politician, commander of the Eastern Front in the Turkish War of Independence, who retook… - Person
Keçecizade Fuad Pasha
1814 CE · 1229 AHMehmed Fuad Pasha (born in Istanbul in 1814 – died at Nice in France in February 1869) was an Ottoman… - Person
Keith Ellison
4 August 1963 CE · 1383 AHAmerican lawyer and Democratic-Farmer-Labor politician, born in Detroit in 1963, raised Catholic and… - Person
Kemal Reis
Kemal Reis, the Ottoman admiral; al-Salabi records that Bayezid II — answering the Andalusian Muslims' appeal… - Person
Kemankeş Kara Ali Pasha
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Kemenkes Kara Mustafa Pasha
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Kenia Os
15 July 1999 CE · 1420 AHMexican singer and social-media personality, born in Mazatlán in 1999 as Kenia Guadalupe Flores Osuna. She… - Person
Kenneth Blanchard
Kenneth Blanchard, author of The One Minute Manager, under whom Tareq al-Suwaidan studied and whom he… - Person
Kerbogha, lord of Mosul
Kerbogha, a Seljuk amir and lord of Mosul; he held it after Aqsunqur and Bozan when Tutush seized them at… - Person
Keshfi Mehmed Celebi
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Kesteli
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Kevkeb Dervish Mehmed
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Khabbab ibn al-Aratt
One of the first band of the secret call in Mecca; he was later among the vulnerable Muslims tortured for… - Person
Khabbab, mawla of Utba
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Khabib Nurmagomedov
20 September 1988 CE · 1409 AHRussian former mixed martial artist of Avar Dagestani origin, born in the village of Sildi in 1988. He held… - Person
Khadija bint Khuwaylid
c. 555 CEA wealthy Meccan merchant who was the Prophet Muhammad's first wife and, in tradition, the first person to… - Person
خديجة بنت أحمد النهروانية
Khadija bint Ahmad ibn al-Husayn al-Nahrawani; she transmitted from Abu Abdallah al-Nu'ali and was a… - Person
Khadijeh Begum, Aq Qoyunlu
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Khafaf ibn Ima'
Khafaf ibn Ima', son of Rahdah, of the Banu Ghifar, their chief. He and his father were Companions; he was at… - Person
Khalaf al-Ahmar
733 CE · 115 AHPhilologist and transmitter of Basra, known for memorising and transmitting Arabic poetry. - Person
Khalaf ibn Hisham
767 CE · 150 AHOne of the ten canonical reciters of the Qur'an, from Baghdad. The sources agree that his readings are… - Person
Ibn Fathun (Khalaf ibn Sulayman)
Khalaf ibn Sulayman ibn Khalaf ibn Muhammad ibn Fathun, Abu al-Qasim, of Orihuela in al-Andalus, a Maliki… - Person
Khalid al-Juhaim
A Qur'an reciter whose YouTube channel (@Dr_Aljuhaim) publishes his recorded recitations, among them complete… - Person
Khaled Al-Rashed
1970 CE · 1390 AHSaudi preacher and imam-khateeb in al-Khobar, born in 1970 (1390 AH). He became known for his sermon 'Ya… - Person
Khaleda Zia
15 August 1946 CE · 1365 AHBangladeshi politician (15 August 1946 – 30 December 2025), the widow of President Ziaur Rahman and the first… - Person
Khalf al-Ayyubi, lord of Hisn Kayfa
Khalf ibn Ahmad al-Ayyubi — 'the last of the Banu Ayyub to rule Hisn Kayfa'; died 866. - Person
Khalf ibn Rabi'a al-Misrami
Abu Sulayman al-Misrami, who transmitted from his father and Ibn Wahb and was a master of Egyptian reports;… - Person
Khalfan Ibrahim
18 February 1988 CE · 1408 AHRetired Qatari winger born in Doha in 1988. He won the 2006 Asian Player of the Year award, the first Qatari… - Person
Khalid al-Azhari
Egyptian grammarian who studied Arabic with the scholars of his time in Egypt. - Person
Khalid Al-Jaleel
1963 CE · c. 1382 AHSaudi Qur'an reciter born in Riyadh in 1963. He holds certificates in mastery of the ten Qur'anic readings… - Person
Khalid Al-Musleh
1965 CE · 1385 AHKhalid ibn Abdullah Al-Musleh (born 1385 AH / 1965 CE) is a Saudi scholar and professor of fiqh at the… - Person
Khalid al-Shatir, called Ibn Marquli
Khalid al-Shatir, known as Ibn Marquli; of the Bukharan stock Ubaydallah ibn Ziyad settled at Basra and… - Person
Khalid bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
13 February 1913 CE · 1331 AHFourth King of Saudi Arabia (1913–1982), a son of King Abdulaziz by Al Jawhara bint Musaed Al Saud. He… - Person
Khalid Hussain Qasmi
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Khalid ibn Abdallah al-Qasri
Khalid ibn Abdallah ibn Asad ibn Kurz al-Qasri; in al-Baladhuri he built his mother — a Christian — a church… - Person
Khalid ibn Abi Imran
A Tunisian jurist of the Tujib tribe, with the kunya Abu Umar, and one of the Successors in Ifriqiya. - Person
Khalid ibn al-Harith ibn Ghallab
Khalid ibn al-Harith ibn Ghallab of Banu Dahman; keeper of Isfahan's treasury — the 'Ibn Ghallab' of Abu… - Person
Khalid ibn al-Mu'ammar al-Dhuhli
Khalid ibn al-Mu'ammar al-Dhuhli; he led Ibn Amir's foot on the day Istakhr fell by storm. Mu'awiya made him… - Person
Khalid ibn al-Walid
c. 585 CEThe great commander on both sides of the early wars: the cavalry leader who turned the day at Uhud for the… - Person
خالد بن برمك
Khalid ibn Barmak — founder of the Barmakid viziers' fortunes, holder of the kharaj and army diwans under… - Person
Khalid ibn Ja'far al-Kilabi
al-Nu'man ibn al-Mundhir's boon-companion whose intercession admitted al-Nabigha to the court — himself… - Person
Khalid ibn Khudash
Khalid b. Khudash al-Muhallabi (d. 223) — Basran traditionist resident in Baghdad, mawla of the Muhallabids;… - Person
Khalid ibn Ma'dan ibn Abi Karib al-Kala'i
Khalid ibn Ma'dan ibn Abi Karib, Abu Abd Allah al-Kala'i, a trustworthy Successor who met about seventy of… - Person
Khalid ibn Safwan
The Arabs' orator at al-Saffah's court who answered the Qahtanite boast: 'a folk among whom is only a tanner… - Person
Khalid ibn Sa'id ibn al-As
A Companion of Banu Abd Shams; he emigrated to Abyssinia with his wife and two children, arrived in the two… - Person
Khalid ibn Sinan al-'Absi
The prophet of Banu 'Abs in the interval between Jesus and Muhammad — his curse cut the 'anqa's line, and his… - Person
Khalid ibn Sufyan ibn Nubayh al-Hudhali
A man of Hudhayl who was gathering men at Nakhla or Urana to attack the Prophet; the Prophet sent Abdullah… - Person
Khalid ibn Uqba ibn Abi Mu'ayt
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Khalid ibn Urfuta al-Udhri
Banu Zuhra's deputy in Sa'd's army at al-Qadisiyya; left over the camp at Qasr al-Mudhayyib, then sent with… - Person
Khalid ibn Yazid al-Katib
Khalid ibn Yazid al-Tamimi Abu'l-Haytham — dean of the diwan al-jaysh secretaries at Baghdad, poet and wit,… - Person
Khalid ibn Yazid al-Muhallabi
Khalid ibn Yazid ibn al-Muhallab; his father sent him with his uncle Abu Uyayna against the Ispahbadh, who… - Person
Khalid ibn Yazid al-Shaybani
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Khalid ibn Zayd al-Muzani
Khalid ibn Zayd al-Muzani; he lost an eye at al-Sus and narrates its siege — the hundred-man aman and the… - Person
Khalid Latif
18 October 1982 CE · 1402 AHAn American imam and university chaplain, born in Edison, New Jersey in 1982. He was New York University's… - Person
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
7 September 1948 CE · 1367 AHSecond President of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Abu Dhabi (2004–2022), the eldest son of Zayed bin… - Person
Khalifa ibn Ruqasa
Khalifa ibn Ruqasa of Fes's covenant Jews; steward of Prince Yusuf ibn Ya'qub's household who rose by… - Person
Khalifa Sultan
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Khalifah bin Said of Zanzibar
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Khalifezade Tahir Efendi
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Khalil Ahmad al-Saharanpuri
1852 CE · 1268 AH†Draft card for Khalil Ahmad al-Saharanpuri, the Deobandi hadith master and author of Badhl al-Majhud; his… - Person
Ghars al-Din Khalil al-Faradisi
The Hanbali of Bab al-Faradis — after Qur'an he read the Muharrar to Majd al-Din Ibn Taymiyya and attached… - Person
خليل عامل القيروان
The Fatimid governor of Qayrawan who disdained Abu Yazid's hundred thousand until the city broke; dragged… - Person
Khalil Al-Qari
1938 CE · 1357 AH†Draft card for Khalil al-Qari, the Pakistani reciter and transmissions scholar; his entry is not yet checked… - Person
Khalil ibn As'ad al-Saddiqi
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Khalil ibn Harun al-Sanhaji
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Abu al-Safa Salah al-Din Khalil al-Aqfahsi
1362 CE · 763 AHThe Egyptian Shafi'i jurist Abu al-Safa Salah al-Din Khalil ibn Muhammad al-Aqfahsi, placed in the… - Person
Khalil Sakakini
23 January 1878 CE · 1295 AHPalestinian teacher, writer and poet from Jerusalem (1878–1953), a pioneer of modern education in the Arab… - Person
Khalili
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Khalilullah Butshikan
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Khalilur Rahman Qasmi
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Khallaf Abd al-Wahhab ibn Abd al-Wahid
1888 CE · 1305 AHJurist of legal theory, preacher and legal scholar, born in Kafr al-Zayyat in Gharbiyya in 1305 AH (1888 CE)… - Person
Khamzat Chimaev
1 May 1994 CE · 1414 AHRussian-Emirati mixed martial artist and freestyle wrestler of Chechen origin (born 1994 in Gvardeyskoye,… - Person
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
6 February 1890 CE · 1307 AHPashtun leader and nonviolent activist (1890–1988) from Utmanzai in Hashtnagar, known as Bacha Khan and the… - Person
Khan Amirzadeh Khan
15 November 1918 CE · 1337 AHPakistani Pashtun lawyer and politician (1918–1977) of Bakhshali in Mardan. A Khudai Khidmatgar member from… - Person
Khan Bahadur Khan Rohilla
1823 CE · 1238 AHIndian Rohilla leader (1823–1860), grandson of Hafiz Rahmat Khan, the regent of Rohilkhand. During the Indian… - Person
Khan Jahan I
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Khanum Sultan Begum
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Kharash ibn al-Simma
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Kharija ibn Hudhafa
Kharija ibn Hudhafa; Umar's letter to Amr set him in sharaf al-ata' for his courage. - Person
Kharija ibn Hudhafa al-Adawi
Kharija ibn Hudhafa al-Adawi; he rode in al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam's reinforcement to Egypt, and after… - Person
Kharija ibn Zayd ibn Thabit
Among the jurists of Medina in the second generation; with Talha ibn Abd Allah ibn Awf he was consulted in… - Person
Kharisha ibn Mas'ud
Kharisha ibn Mas'ud of Tamim then Shaqira; with Ibn al-Ash'ath he fortified in the Fasa castle that bears his… - Person
Kharrzad ibn Bas
Kharrzad ibn Bas; he defied al-Hajjaj, fortified his castle at Ayadhaj, then slipped the siege for Abd… - Person
Khas Mahal
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Khatib-i Ayasofya
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Hatib Osmani
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Khatib-zada al-Rumi
Born in Kastamonu, known by the title Khatib-zada. - Person
Hatiboglu
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Hatibzade Muhyiddin Efendi
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Khatibzade Muhyiddin Mehmed
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Khattan ibn Munqidh
Khattan ibn Munqidh, the Yemeni strongman who overshadowed Aden's governor — won down from his fort by… - Person
The Khatun of Bukhara
The Khatun, queen of Bukhara; her Turkish levies routed by Ubaydallah ibn Ziyad, she truced at a million and… - Person
Khawaja Ahrar
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Khawaja Khan Muhammad
1920 CE · 1338 AH†Draft card for Khawaja Khan Muhammad, the Pakistani scholar; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Khawaja Nazimuddin
19 July 1894 CE · 1312 AHPakistani statesman (1894–1964) of the Nawabs of Dhaka, Pakistan's second governor-general (1948–1951) and… - Person
Khawaja-zada
Khawaja-zada — the merchant's son paid one dirham a day for choosing scholarship over trade, Khidr Beg's… - Person
Khawat ibn Jubayr
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Khawla al-Hanafiyya
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Khawla bint Manzur
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Khawla bint Tha'laba
An Ansari Companion who complained to the Prophet of her husband Aws ibn al-Samit's zihar and laid out her… - Person
خولي بن يزيد الأصبحي
A Himyarite said to have finished al-Husayn at Karbala and borne his head to Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad, boasting… - Person
Hayali-yi Gulseni
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Khayr al-Din al-Mar'ashi
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Khayr al-Din al-Ramli
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Khayr al-Din al-Tunisi
1822 CE · 1238 AHA Tunisian and Ottoman statesman, born in the Circassian lands. He led the Tunisian government and wrote on… - Person
خير الدين بربروسة
Khayr al-Din Barbarossa (d. 1546) — son of a Turkish settler of Lesbos and an Andalusi mother; corsair-amir… - Person
Khayr al-Din Khidr Atufi
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Khayr al-Din al-Talsami al-Safari
Khayr al-Din al-Talsami — sixth-generation descendant of an 'Ajami who fled Genghis Khan into Kastamonu;… - Person
Amir Khayr Bak
Circassian grand amir whose defection mid-battle broke al-Ghawri's army at Marj Dabiq in 922, per Shadharat.… - Person
Khayra bint Damra al-Qushayriyya
Khayra bint Damra al-Qushayriyya, al-Muhallab's wife and Abu Uyayna's mother — hers were Khayrakān and… - Person
خيران الصقلبي
Al-Mansur's Slav client set over al-Nasir's fortress at Almeria, which then bore his name. - Person
Khaythama ibn Sulayman al-Atrabulusi
864 CE · 250 AHThe traditionist and hafiz Abu al-Hasan Khaythama ibn Sulayman al-Qurashi of Tripoli in Syria, a leading… - Person
Abu Ziyad Khayyar ibn Salama
Khayyar ibn Salama, Abu Ziyad, counted among the Syrians; he narrated from Aisha and was narrated from by… - Person
Khazim ibn Khuzayma al-Tamimi
Khazim ibn Khuzayma al-Tamimi, al-Mansur's commander; sent with Rawh ibn Hatim against breaching Tabaristan —… - Person
Khazrun ibn Fulful al-Maghrawi
Khazrun ibn Fulful of the Maghrawa kings; as Zanata's star rose in the Maghreb in allegiance to al-Hakam… - Person
Khenjer Bek
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Khidas ibn Bishr
A poet of the Mujashi' branch of Tamim, with the kunyas Abu Malik and Abu Yazid. His son Malik was also a… - Person
خداش البلخي
Khidash al-Balkhi — one of the Khurasani propagandists, destroyed by his own extremism according to Taqqush's… - Person
Khudham ibn Khalid
One of the twelve men who built Masjid al-Dirar, according to Ibn Ishaq; his ascription: of Banu Ubayd ibn… - Person
Hizir Aga
Draft card for Hizir Aga, the Ottoman writer (d. 1774); the biographical entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Khindif bint Hilwan
Ilyas's wife whose hurrying after her family — 'Where are you scurrying, khundaf?' — earned her the byname by… - Person
Khirash ibn Umayya al-Ka'bi
A warrior of Banu Ka'b of Khuza'a who, following the conquest of Mecca, ambushed and killed Ibn al-Anwa'… - Person
Khizar Hayat Tiwana
7 August 1900 CE · 1318 AHMalik Sir Khizar Hayat Tiwana (1900–1975) was a Punjabi statesman, landowner and army officer, the last… - Person
Khizr Khan
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Khola Hasan
British writer and broadcaster, and Office Director and Counsellor at the Islamic Shariah Council in London.… - Person
Khosrow II
c. 570 CEThe last great Sasanian shah (590–628), whose armies took Jerusalem and reached Constantinople's walls before… - Person
Khosrow Khan, Safavid
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خبيب بن عبد الله بن الزبير
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Khubayb ibn Adi
A devout Companion from the Aws who fought at Badr and was captured at al-Raji'; sold to the Meccans who… - Person
Khubayb ibn Issaf
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خدابنده ملك التتار
Tatar king who proclaimed Rafd in his realm — the khutba confined to Ali, his sons and ahl al-bayt — till his… - Person
Khudayj ibn Salama
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Shaikh Khudoydod Vali
Draft card for Shaikh Khudoydod Vali, the sixteenth-century Central Asian preacher, murshid and poet, d.… - Person
Khulayd ibn Abdallah al-Hanafi
Khulayd ibn Abdallah al-Hanafi; in one account he, not Aws ibn Tha'laba, led the army sent against Herat. - Person
خمارويه بن أحمد بن طولون
Ahmad ibn Tulun's son, who held his father's provinces after his death in 270; al-Muwaffaq appointed his own… - Person
Khunais ibn Hudhaifa
Draft card for Khunays ibn Hudhafa al-Sahmi, a Companion of Badr and of the Ridwan pledge, d. 632; the… - Person
Khunays ibn Khalid al-Khuza'i
A Khuza'i Companion (kunya Abu Sakhr, allied to Banu Munqidh) in Khalid ibn al-Walid's cavalry; he took an… - Person
Hürrem Sultan (Roxelana)
Draft card for Hürrem Sultan, consort of Suleiman the Magnificent, named from an open reference description… - Person
Khurrazad
Khurrazad, brother of Khwarizm's king; he opposed and overbore him till the king bought Qutayba's aid with… - Person
Khurrazad, Brother of Rustam
Persian commander at Jalula; entrenched with dependents at Khaniqin under an oath not to flee, routed by the… - Person
Khurshidbanu Natavan
6 August 1832 CE · 1248 AHAzerbaijani poet and philanthropist (1832–1897), daughter and sole heir of Mehdigulu Khan, the last khan of… - Person
Khurzad ibn Mahibandadh
Persian commander garrisoned at Qasr Sabur — known in al-Baladhuri's day as Qasr Isa ibn Ali — who came out… - Person
السلطان الظاهر خشقدم
Circassian sultan invested by the caliph in 865; he confined the caliph to the citadel on Janim's approach… - Person
Nasir al-Din Khusrau Khan
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Khusrau Mirza
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خسروشاه الغزنوي
Khusrawshah, king of Ghazna after his father Bahramshah, of Sabuktigin's line; a just ruler and good shepherd… - Person
Khuwayla bint Hakim al-Sulamiyya
An early Muslim woman from Banu Sulaym, wife of Uthman ibn Maz'un; she accompanied the Muslim camp during the… - Person
Khuzayma ibn Aws
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Khuzayma ibn Jahm
Son of Jahm ibn Qays; he accompanied his father to Abyssinia and arrived with him in the two ships. - Person
Khuzayma ibn Khazim
Khuzayma ibn Khazim; an Abbasid governor of Armenia after Rawh ibn Hatim al-Muhallabi and before Yazid ibn… - Person
Khuzayma ibn Thabit
the two-testimonies Companion; with him alone Zayd found the two closing verses of Bara'a when gathering the… - Person
Khvajeh Ali Safavi
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Badr al-Din Khwaharzada
1166 CE · 562 AHNephew of Shams al-A'imma al-Kurdari — read fiqh on his uncle, taught at the Balbisiyya in Damascus; Ibn… - Person
Khwaja Abdul Ghani
30 July 1813 CE · 1228 AHSecond Nawab of Dhaka (1813–1896) and the first of his family to hold the title as hereditary, recognised by… - Person
Khwaja Ghulam Farid
25 November 1845 CE · 1261 AHSaraiki Sufi poet of the Punjab (1845–1901), born at Chachran in Bahawalpur State, died there and buried at… - Person
Khwaja Hasan Nizami
26 December 1878 CE · 1296 AHIndian Sufi and Urdu writer (1878–1955), born in Delhi at the shrine of Nizamuddin Auliya and died there. A… - Person
Khwaja Salimullah
7 June 1871 CE · 1288 AHFourth Nawab of Dhaka (1871–1915), grandson of Khwaja Abdul Ghani and son of Khwaja Ahsanullah. He hosted the… - Person
Ki Bagus Hadikusumo
24 November 1890 CE · 1308 AHIndonesian scholar and politician (1890–1954) from a Yogyakarta court-official family, educated in the… - Person
Kıbrıslı Mehmed Emin Pasha
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Kifah Abu Hanoud
Jordanian academic and researcher in Islamic studies specialising in tafsir (Qur'an exegesis): assistant… - Person
Kifayatullah Dehlvi
1875 CE · 1292 AHIndian scholar (1875–1952) regarded as the Grand Mufti of India. A graduate of Darul Uloom Deoband, he taught… - Person
Kilab ibn Hamza al-Aqili
Abu l-Hindam, transmitter of the ten race-course placings and their etymologies. - Person
Kılıç Ali Pasha
Ottoman kapudan pasha; once the state was settled in Tunis he set his sights on annexing Morocco and was… - Person
Kinalizade Ali Celebi
Draft card for Ali Celebi Kinalizade, the sixteenth-century Ottoman jurist and writer of Isparta, d. 1571;… - Person
Kinana ibn Bishr al-Tujibi
One of the two named killers of Uthman — his staff-blow to the forehead alongside Sa'd ibn Humran's sword-cut. - Person
Kirmasti
Draft card for Kirmasti, the Ottoman scholar, d. 1514; the biographical entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Kitbugha Noyan
Hulagu's lieutenant over Syria — installed in Damascus's citadel, took Baalbek and Nablus, held al-Nasir in… - Person
الملك العادل كتبغا المنصوري
Mamluk sultan as al-Adil, raised in 694 on al-Nasir Muhammad's first deposition. - Person
Kiya Buzurg-Ummid
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Kizil Ahmed Bey
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K'naan
1 February 1978 CE · 1398 AHSomali-Canadian rapper, singer-songwriter and filmmaker, born in Mogadishu in 1978, who fled the civil war… - Person
Koca Davud Pasha
Koca Davud Pasha, Ottoman grand vizier for fifteen years under Bayezid II, whose mosque and hospital still… - Person
Koca Derviş Mehmed Pasha
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Koca Huseyin
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Koca Mehmed Nizamüddin Pasha
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Koca Ragıp Pasha
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Koca Yusuf Pasha
Yusuf Pasha, 'Koca Yusuf'; a Georgian freedman of the harbour reis Hacı Hasan, a coffee-seller in Kasımpaşa… - Person
Koci Bey
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Kogacizade Mehmed Efendi
Draft card for Kogacizade Mehmed Efendi, the Ottoman writer d. 1617; the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Kohan Dil Khan
1792 CE · 1206 AH†Barakzai sardar of Kandahar (1830–1839 and 1842–1855), one of the 'Dil brothers' who ruled the Principality… - Person
Kolo Touré
19 March 1981 CE · 1401 AHIvorian retired footballer and coach, born in Bouaké, Ivory Coast in 1981. A defender who was part of… - Person
محمد كوبريللي
Köprülü Mehmed Pasha (d. 1661) — founder of the Köprülü vizier dynasty that answered Europe's Holy League;… - Person
Kör Yusuf Ziyaüddin Pasha
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Korra The Taymi
Young debater and religious speaker of Sudanese heritage who publishes as Korra The Taymi, known for filmed… - Person
Kose Mihal
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Kose Mustafa Pasha
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Kösem Sultan
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Kosendilli Alaeddin Ali
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Kosta Khetagurov
15 October 1859 CE · 18 Rabi' I 1276 AH†Kosta Khetagurov (1859–1906), born Konstantin Levanovich Khetagurov, was an Ossetian poet regarded as the… - Person
Ku'ayba bint Sa'd
An Aslami Companion among the women nurses who tended the wounded Muslims after the Battle of Uhud; she… - Person
Kucek Mustafa Dede Efendi
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Kuchli Khan, king of the Tatars
Kuchli Khan, king of a Tatar nation settled between China and Turkestan; long at war with the Khita, he… - Person
Kuchum Khan
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Kucuk Ahmed Pasha
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Kucuk Imam Mehmed Efendi
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Kucuk Muezzin Mehmed Efendi
Draft card for Kucuk Muezzin Mehmed Efendi, the Ottoman writer d. 1717; the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Kuda Kala Kamanafa'anu
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Kudama al-Sijilli
Kudama al-Sijilli, an Arab poet of the first/seventh-eighth century who died after 105/724, famous for his… - Person
كوخان القراخطائي
Kukhan the Qara-Khitai, king of the Turks of Transoxiana; in 536 he crushed Sultan Sanjar with three hundred… - Person
Kul Mesud
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Kul Nesimi
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Kulab ibn Rabi'a al-Qaysi
A man of Qays in pre-Islamic times, described as foolish; he tied a bull calf to race with, and the proverb… - Person
كليب بن ربيعة
Kulayb (Wa'il) ibn Rabi'a of Taghlib — 'little whelp' for the puppy he would beat and leave howling to mark… - Person
Kuloglu Mustafa
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Kulthum al-'Attabi
The Raqqa litterateur whose 'zakat of rank is spending it on the needy' won him al-Ma'mun's majlis — and… - Person
Kulthum ibn al-Hidm
The Ansari of Banu Amr ibn Awf who hosted the Prophet at Quba — the better-attested report, though Sa'd ibn… - Person
كلثوم بن عياض القشيري
Arab commander defeated by the Berbers at the Malwiya; the Syrian survivors under Balj b. Bishr crossed into… - Person
Kumayl ibn Ziyad al-Nakha'i
Kumayl ibn Ziyad al-Nakha'i, one of Ali's close companions; Ali took him by the hand into the open desert and… - Person
Kunta-Haji Kishiev
between 1800 and 1830 CEKunta-Haji Kishiev (birth year contested — the reference literature gives only the range 1800–1830 — died… - Person
Kurd Efendi
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Kurmanjan Datka
22 May 1811 CE · 28 Rabi' II 1226 AH†Kurmanjan Datka (1811–1907), born Kurmanjan Mamatbay kyzy, was ruler of the Alai Kyrgyz from 1862 to 1876… - Person
Kursuncuzade Ahmet Efendi
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King Cyrus
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Kurz ibn Jabir al-Fihri
A Companion from Banu Muharib ibn Fihr; in the conquest of Mecca he rode in Khalid ibn al-Walid's cavalry,… - Person
كسيلة بن لمزم الأوربي
Kusayla ibn Lamzam, chief of the Awraba Berbers at the conquest; after submitting he rallied the Berbers,… - Person
Kushajim
Abu l-Fath Mahmud b. al-Husayn the Sindhi — the literatus who lampooned his own beloved nard. - Person
Kushyar ibn Labban al-Jili
969 CE · 360 AHAn astronomer and mathematician, named after Gilan in northern Iran. - Person
Kutayfat ibn al-Afdal
Fatimid vizier, son of al-Afdal, who took the vizierate in 524/1130 after the death of al-Amir and called… - Person
Kutub Osman Efendi
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Kwame Nkrumah
21 September 1909 CE · 1327 AHGhanaian politician (1909–1972) from Nkroful in the Gold Coast who led the Convention People's Party to… - Person
Leali Ahmed Celebi
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Lababa bint Awfa al-Jarashi
Lababa bint Awfa al-Jarashi; granted leave for two Basra bathhouses — one among the Qaba' folk, one in Banu… - Person
Labiba Ahmad
1870 CE · 1287 AHEgyptian Islamic activist, philanthropist, traveller and writer (c. 1870–1951), born Labiba Ahmad Abd al-Nabi… - Person
Labid ibn Rabi'a
A celebrated poet who lived in both eras, of the Banu Kilab; he composed in the pre-Islamic period for a long… - Person
Lady Amin (Nusrat al-Amin)
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Lahiq ibn Humayd (Abu Yajlaz)
Lahiq ibn Humayd, called Abu Yajlaz; Waki' ibn Hassan's appointee on Marw, accepted and well-received. - Person
Laila Ali
30 December 1977 CE · 1398 AHAmerican retired professional boxer and television personality, born in Miami Beach in 1977, the daughter of… - Person
الملك المنصور لاجين
Usurper-sultan of 696–698, robed and deeded by the caliph, killed in Jumada II — al-Nasir restored. - Person
Lakhdar Belloumi
29 December 1958 CE · 1378 AHAlgerian retired footballer, born in Mascara in 1958, widely considered the greatest Algerian player of all… - Person
Lala Mehmed Pasha
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Lala Şahin Pasha
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Lalezari
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Lalla Essaydi
1956 CE · 1375 AHMoroccan photographer, born as Lalla Assia Essaydi in Marrakesh in 1956. She has lived in Morocco, Saudi… - Person
Lamekani Huseyin Efendi
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Lamia al-Hariri
Syrian diplomat who served as her country's chargée d'affaires in Cyprus. She defected from Bashar al-Assad's… - Person
Lamii Celebi
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Lamine Diack
7 June 1933 CE · 1352 AHSenegalese athlete, sports administrator and politician (1933–2021) from Dakar; president of the IAAF from… - Person
Lansana Conté
30 November 1934 CE · 1353 AHGuinean general and politician (1934–2008) from Moussayah Loumbaya near Dubréka, a member of the Susu people,… - Person
لقيط بن زرارة
Laqit ibn Zurara Abu Hanzhala, chief of Banu Darim; at Sha'b Jabala he rode the first caparisoned horse in… - Person
Lassana Diarra
10 March 1985 CE · 1405 AHFrench retired footballer of Malian descent, born in Paris in 1985. A defensive midfielder who played for Le… - Person
Lat Dior
1842 CE · 1258 AHLat Dior (Lat Jor Ngoné Latir Jop, 1842 – 26 October 1886), damel (king) of Cayor, the Wolof state in… - Person
Latifi
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Layla al-Akhyaliyya
the poetess; in al-Baladhuri via al-Mada'ini, she came to al-Hajjaj who honored her, and asked a letter to… - Person
Layla bint Abi Hathma
Of Banu Adi ibn Ka'b; Ibn Ishaq names her among the women emigrants to Abyssinia. - Person
Layla bint al-Khatim
From Banu Zafar of the Aws, added by Abu Ali al-Jayyani as a supplement to al-Isti'ab; reports say she… - Person
Layla bint Qanif al-Thaqafiyya
Layla bint Qanif al-Thaqafiyya, a Companion who was among the women who washed Umm Kulthum, daughter of the… - Person
Layth ibn Abi Sulaym
The Kufan mawla of 'Anbasa ibn Abi Sufyan, dead in 158. - Person
al-Layth ibn Sa'd
al-Layth ibn Sa'd al-Fahmi of Egypt, the jurist and hadith-master of second-century Egypt; in al-Baladhuri:… - Person
Laz Ahmed Pasha
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Leena Snoubar
American modest-fashion and lifestyle creator based in Texas, behind the With Love, Leena blog and YouTube… - Person
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Leo of Tripoli
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Léopold Sédar Senghor
9 October 1906 CE · 1324 AHSenegalese Catholic poet and statesman, born at Joal in 1906. He co-founded the idea of négritude and became… - Person
Leyla Saz
1850 CE · 1266 AHTurkish composer, poet and writer, born at Istanbul in 1850 and died there in 1936. Daughter of Hekim İsmail… - Person
Liamine Zéroual
3 July 1941 CE · 1360 AHLiamine Zéroual (1941–2026) was an Algerian officer and politician, a veteran of the war of independence. He… - Person
Liaquat Ali Khan
1 October 1895 CE · 1313 AHPakistani statesman (1895–1951) of Karnal, the first prime minister of Pakistan (1947–1951) and Muhammad Ali… - Person
Linda Sarsour
1980 CE · 1400 AHAmerican political activist of Palestinian descent, born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1980, the eldest of seven… - Person
Lobna Mulla
American Muslim speaker and community educator in Southern California. She earned a bachelor's degree in… - Person
Louis IX of France
Louis, king of the Franks, called in their tongue «roi de France»; the Muslims carried him captive from… - Person
Lupe Fiasco
1982 CE · 1402 AH†The Muslim Chicago rapper of 'Food & Liquor', outspoken about Islam in his music and interviews. - Person
Luqman al-Akbar
Luqman son of 'Ad — builder of Saba's dam — who lived, in the saying, the vultures' span, the proverbial… - Person
Luqman ibn Amir al-Wasabi
Luqman ibn Amir, Abu Amir al-Wasabi, from Wasab, a clan of Himyar, of Homs, a trustworthy Successor who… - Person
Lut (Lot)
Ibrahim's nephew: 'may God have mercy on Lut — he sheltered at a mighty pillar'. - Person
Lutfallah al-Maysi al-Amili
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Lutfi Pasha
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Lutfullah al-Arzurumi
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Lutfullah al-Tawqani
Molla Lutfi of Tokat — Mehmed II's keeper of the royal library, set by Bayezid to Murad's madrasa then one of… - Person
Ma al-'Aynayn
10 February 1831 CE · 1246 AHMauritanian Qadiri Sufi sheikh (1831–1910) who succeeded his father Muhammad Fadil, founder of the Fadiliyya… - Person
Ma Anliang
1855 CE · 1271 AH†A Chinese Muslim general (1855–1918), the eldest son of Ma Zhan'ao, born with the name Ma Qiwu. As a youth he… - Person
Ma Bufang
1903 CE · 1321 AH†A Hui Muslim warlord (1903–1975), son of Ma Qi, founder of the Ninghai Army, who ruled Qinghai (1938–1949)… - Person
Ma Fulu
1854 CE · 1270 AH†A Chinese Muslim general (1854–1900), son of General Ma Qianling and brother of Ma Fuxiang. He took the… - Person
Ma Fuxiang
4 February 1876 CE · 1293 AHA Hui Muslim scholar, general and politician (1876–1932), son of Ma Qianling, brother of Ma Fulu and father… - Person
Ma Fuxing
1864 CE · 1281 AH†A Hui Muslim military commander (1864–1924) from Yunnan who served in his youth among the Kansu Braves, then… - Person
Ma Hongkui
14 March 1892 CE · 1309 AHA Hui Muslim general (1892–1970), the son of Ma Fuxiang and nephew of Ma Fulu, who inherited his father's… - Person
Ma Hualong
c. 1810 CE · c. 1225 AH†The fifth shaykh of the Jahriyya, a Naqshbandi Sufi menhuan (order) in northwest China, from about 1849 to… - Person
Muhammad Ma Jian
6 June 1906 CE · 1324 AHHui Chinese Muslim scholar and translator from Shadian, Yunnan (1906–1978). He studied under Hu Songshan and… - Person
Ma Linyi
1864 CE · 1281 AH†Chinese Muslim educator and politician from Baoqing, Hunan (1864–1938), a Hui scholar of Islam. He took… - Person
Ma Mingxin
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Ma Mu'an
c. 1611 CE · c. 1020 AH†Draft card for Ma Mu'an, the Chinese Muslim calligrapher and scholar; his entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Ma Shaowu
c. 1874 CE · c. 1291 AH†A Hui Muslim military commander (1874–1937) from Yunnan, a descendant of Ma Mingxin, founder of the Jahriyya,… - Person
Ma Zhan'ao
1830 CE · 1245 AH†A Chinese Muslim general of Hezhou (1830–1886), an ahong in his youth of the Huasi menhuan of the Khufiyya… - Person
Ma'add ibn 'Adnan
The Adnani forefather at whom the Prophet bade genealogy stop — above him the copies diverge, in Ibn Hisham's… - Person
Ma'n ibn Yazid ibn al-Akhnas (Companion)
Ma'n ibn Yazid ibn al-Akhnas al-Sulami, Abu Yazid, a Companion from the clan of Banu Malik ibn Khafaf. He… - Person
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya
28 November 1941 CE · 1360 AHMauritanian military officer and politician (born 1941) from Atar who served as Prime Minister of Mauritania… - Person
Ma'ruf al-Shibi, qutb of Shabwa
c. 10 September 1488 CE · 11 Ramadan 893 AHMa'ruf al-Shibi — Shabwa's qutb b. Friday eve 11 Ramadan 893; when Sultan Badr al-Kathiri ordered him exiled… - Person
Maaz Aslam
A Pakistani youth who initiated — with the Indonesian Erfian Asafat — the FreeQuranEducation YouTube channel,… - Person
Maba Diakhou Bâ
1809 CE · 1224 AHSenegambian marabout and Almami (1809 – 18 July 1867), a Quran teacher of the Rip (Badibu) of Denianke… - Person
Ma'bad the singer
Medina's singer — his rendering of al-Ahwas's 'life is only what delights' for Hababa melted Yazid's resolve. - Person
Ma'bad ibn Abi Ma'bad al-Khuza'i
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Ma'bad ibn Ka'b ibn Malik
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معبد بن زرارة التميمي
Abu'l-Dabab Ma'bad ibn Zurara, chief of Banu Darim, who sheltered al-Harith ibn Zalim after Khalid's murder;… - Person
Macky Sall
11 December 1961 CE · 1381 AHSenegalese politician (born 1961) from Fatick; mayor of Fatick, prime minister of Senegal (2004–2007) and… - Person
Madani El Glaoui
1860 CE · 1276 AHMoroccan Makhzen caid (1860–1918) of the Glaoui family of Telouet in the High Atlas. Appointed khalifa over… - Person
Madhkur of Banu Udhra
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Madlaj ibn Amr al-Sulami
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Madyan al-Qusuni
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Maghlatay ibn Qalij
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Shams al-Din al-Tunisi 'Maghwash'
Maghwash — qadi 'askar of Tunis, honoured by Sulayman at Constantinople where even the qadi 'askars studied… - Person
Magtymguly Pyragy
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Mahabat Khan
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Mahak
Mahak, the dahqan of Istakhr; he truced Ibn Amir for its folk in 28h — they broke, killed his agent, and were… - Person
Mahamadou Diarra
18 May 1981 CE · 1401 AHMalian retired footballer, born in Bamako in 1981. A defensive midfielder who won league titles in France… - Person
Mahathir Mohamad
10 July 1925 CE · 1343 AHMalaysian politician, physician and author, born in Alor Setar, Kedah, in 1925. He was Malaysia's fourth… - Person
Mahbub ul Haq
24 February 1934 CE · 1352 AHMahbub ul Haq (24 February 1934 – 16 July 1998) was a Pakistani economist and international development… - Person
محبوبة وصيفة المتوكل
Al-Mutawakkil's concubine — poet, scholar of all sciences, lute-player; after his murder she passed to Bugha… - Person
Mahdi ibn Hafs
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Mahdi Puya
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Maher al-Muaiqly
7 January 1969 CE · 1388 AHImam and preacher of the Grand Mosque of Mecca and a Qur'an reciter known for his voice and precise… - Person
Maher Arar
15 September 1970 CE · 1390 AHSyrian-born Canadian computer engineer who was detained in New York in 2002, deported to Syria, imprisoned… - Person
Maher Zain
16 July 1981 CE · 1401 AHLebanese-Swedish nasheed and R&B singer, born in Tripoli, Lebanon in 1981. Raised in Sweden, he worked as a… - Person
Mahershala Ali
16 February 1974 CE · 1394 AHAmerican actor, born in Oakland in 1974 as Mahershalalhashbaz Gilmore. He is the first Muslim actor to win an… - Person
Mahfi Ramazan Efendi
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Mahfiruz Hatice Sultan
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Mahmiyya ibn al-Jazu'
A Companion of Zubayd, ally of Banu Sahm; he emigrated to Abyssinia and arrived in the two ships, and the… - Person
Mahmood Zuhdi Abdul Majid
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Mahmoud Abbas
15 November 1935 CE · 1354 AHMahmoud Abbas (born 15 November 1935), known by his kunya Abu Mazen, is a Palestinian politician born in… - Person
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf
9 March 1969 CE · 1388 AHAmerican former basketball player, born in Gulfport, Mississippi in 1969 as Christopher Wayne Jackson. He… - Person
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
28 October 1956 CE · 1376 AHMahmoud Ahmadinejad (born 28 October 1956, birth name Mahmoud Sabbaghian) is an Iranian politician and… - Person
Mahmoud al-Attar
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Mahmoud Ali al-Falahi
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Mahmoud Belkhodja
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Mahmoud El Khatib
30 October 1954 CE · 1374 AHEgyptian retired professional footballer and football administrator, born in Qarqirah, El Senbellawein,… - Person
Mahmoud Jibril
28 May 1952 CE · 1371 AHLibyan politician (1952–2020), a strategic-planning specialist trained at Cairo and Pittsburgh. He headed… - Person
Mahmoud Khalil al-Hussary
17 September 1917 CE · 1335 AHEgyptian Qur'an reciter and scholar of the recitations (1917–1980), born at Shubra al-Namla near Tanta. The… - Person
Author of al-Matali (Mahmud ibn Ali al-Daqqauqi)
Mahmud ibn Ali ibn Mahmud ibn Muqbil ibn Sulayman ibn Dawud al-Daqqauqi, then al-Baghdadi, Taqi al-Din, Abu… - Person
Mahmud al-Himyari of Mirbat
From boat-hirer to lord of the Dhofar coast — Mahmud al-Himyari served as vizier to Mirbat's ruler, inherited… - Person
Mahmud al-Marghinani
1156 CE · 551 AHMahmud ibn Ahmad ibn Abd al-Aziz ibn Umar ibn Maza al-Marghinani al-Bukhari, Burhan al-Din — a Hanafi jurist… - Person
محمود النعال
c. 1129 CE · 523 AHNasir al-Din Mahmud b. Uthman al-Na'al, Baghdadi Hanbali jurist, preacher and ascetic; b. 523, memorized the… - Person
Mahmud al-Warraq
Owner of a slave-girl that al-Mu'tasim wanted for 7,000 dinars; he refused to sell, and after his death she… - Person
Mahmud Begada
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Mahmud of Ghazna
c. 971 CE · 10 Muharram 361 AHYamin al-Dawla wa-Amin al-Milla — Sultan Mahmud ibn Sabuktigin of Ghazna, bearer of the caliph al-Qadir's… - Person
Mahmud Hasan Deobandi
1851 CE · 1268 AHIndian Muslim scholar (1851–1920) known as Shaykh al-Hind. He was the first student enrolled at Darul Uloom… - Person
Mahmud Hüdayi
Draft card for Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi, the seventeenth-century shaykh of the Celveti order at Üsküdar, d. 1628;… - Person
محمود الأول
Mahmud I (r. 1143–1168/1730–1754) — brought in the first European military adviser (the Comte de Bonneval),… - Person
Mahmud ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Isfahani
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Mahmud ibn Ahmad al-Zanjani
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محمود بن بوري
Mahmud ibn Buri ibn Tughtigin, Burid amir of Damascus; his own mamluks killed him in Shawwal 533 and his… - Person
Mahmud ibn Ghaylan
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Mahmud ibn Muhammad Shirvani
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Mahmud ibn Nasr al-Mirdasi
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Mahmud ibn Sulayman al-Kafawi
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Mahmud ibn Umar al-Timbukti
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محمود الثاني
Mahmud II (r. from 1223/1808) — destroyed the Janissary corps outright, then was free to rebuild his army on… - Person
Mahmud Qabadu
1814 CE · 1229 AH†Draft card for Mahmud Qabadu, the Tunisian minister and thinker of the Ottoman era; his entry is not yet… - Person
Mahmud Pasha Angelović
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Mahmud Safa Bak
Commander of the Ottoman garrison at Tlemcen; he held out against Muhammad al-Shaykh's army, which had… - Person
محمود سامي البارودي
1839 CE · 1255 AH†Mahmud Sami al-Barudi (1839–1904 CE) — the premier who rode with the Urabi revolt, was exiled to Ceylon for… - Person
Mahmud Shah, Bahmani
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Mahmud Shaltut
Former Grand Imam of al-Azhar (d. 1383 AH / 1963 CE), born in Munyat Mansur in Beheira; he held the Grand… - Person
Mahmud Shevket Pasha
1856 CE · 1272 AHOttoman field marshal and statesman, the strongman of the years after the 1909 counter-coup, and Grand Vizier… - Person
Mahmud Shukri al-Alusi
1856 CE · 1273 AHThe Baghdadi scholar Mahmud Shukri ibn Abd Allah al-Alusi, of a Baghdad family of scholars; he devoted… - Person
Mahmud Tarzi
23 August 1865 CE · 30 Rabi' I 1282 AH†Afghan statesman, thinker and journalist (1865–1933), the father of Afghan journalism. Exiled with his family… - Person
Mahmudkhodja Behbudiy
20 January 1875 CE · 12 Dhu al-Hijja 1291 AH†Mahmudkhodja Behbudiy (1875–1919) was an Uzbek writer and publisher, a leader of Jadidism in Russian… - Person
Mahmut Muhiti
1887 CE · 1304 AH†Uyghur military commander from Turpan who led Khoja Niyaz's forces in the Kumul Rebellion, held the Kashgar… - Person
Mahraz ibn Ziyad
Mahraz b. Ziyad — Arab amir of Ifriqiya who sheltered the last Zirid al-Hasan b. Ali after the Norman fall of… - Person
Mahuwayh
Marw's marzban; in al-Baladhuri, who honored the fleeing Yazdgard, then — ordered to account — incited Nizak… - Person
Mahwiya, Marzban of Marw
Mahwiya, marzban of Marw; he came to Ali at Kufa and carried back the caliph's letters to the dahqans,… - Person
Mai Safoora Qadiriyya
Draft card for Mai Safoora Qadiriyya (Punjabi Qadiri mystic, b. 1742); the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Maimun Zubair
1928 CE · 1346 AH†Draft card for Maimun Zubair, the shaykh of Sarang pesantren in Indonesia; his entry is not yet checked on… - Person
Majbar al-Saqli
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مجد الدولة رستم بن فخر الدولة
Fakhr al-Dawla's four-year-old son, installed over Rayy on his father's death in 387 and titled Majd al-Dawla… - Person
Majd al-Din al-Baghdadi
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Majd al-Din Isma'il al-Barmawi
c. 1350 CE · c. 750 AHMajd al-Din Isma'il al-Barmawi (b. ~750) — khatib at Cairo's Amr mosque, learned in fiqh and the arts and a… - Person
Majd al-Din al-Kinani, qadi of Egypt
c. August 1327 CE · 7 Sha'ban 728 AHEgypt's Hanafi chief qadi with a bound volume of verse — al-Maqrizi's own teacher: 'I kept his company years… - Person
Majd al-Din ibn Daqiq al-Id
c. 1191 CE · c. 587 AHShaykh of the Sa'id, resident of Qus — 'a joiner of the disciplines, described by godliness, magnified in… - Person
Majd al-Din Ibn Taymiyya
c. 1194 CE · c. 590 AHShaykh al-islam of Harran (b. ~590, d. Eid al-Fitr) — grandfather of Taqi al-Din Ibn Taymiyya, who told… - Person
مجد الدين الكلاثي
Majd al-Din Tahir b. Nasrallah b. Juhayl al-Kulathi of Hilla, Shafi'i and faridi, teacher at Salah al-Din's… - Person
Madjdud ibn Masud
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Majed Abdullah
11 January 1959 CE · 1378 AHSaudi Arabian former professional footballer (striker), born in Jeddah in 1959 to a family of Sudanese… - Person
Majid al-Sadiqi
Draft card for Majid al-Sadiqi, the poet, muhaddith and jurist, d. 1618; the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Majid bin Said
1834 CE · 1250 AHMajid bin Said al-Busaidi (c. 1834–1870), first Sultan of Zanzibar. Born on Unguja, Zanzibar, a son of Said… - Person
Majid Majidi
17 April 1959 CE · 1378 AHIranian filmmaker, producer and screenwriter, born in 1959 and brought up in Tehran. He began as an actor,… - Person
Majit Gafuri
20 July 1880 CE · 12 Sha'ban 1297 AH†Bashkir and Tatar poet and writer (1880–1934), a leader of the democratic trend in Tatar literature and a… - Person
Majnun of Banu 'Amir
Qays ibn al-Mulawwah met alive in the 'Amir wastes — 'I am the better poet' he said, then recited his Layla… - Person
Majza'a ibn Thawr al-Sadusi
Majza'a ibn Thawr al-Sadusi; he held Abu Musa's left wing at Tustar. - Person
ماكان بن كاكي الديلمي
Daylamite commander of Tabaristan; Asfar had been his man before estrangement, his brother Abu'l-Hasan was… - Person
Makhrama ibn Nawfal
Makhrama ibn Nawfal; of Quraysh's genealogists summoned with Aqil and Jubayr to write the diwan. - Person
Makhul al-Dimashqi
Abu Abdallah Makhul al-Shami — the Kabul-born mawla who became Syria's leading jurist: 'al-Hasan [al-Basri]… - Person
Makki al-Masirjisi
Makki al-Masirjisi (d. 603) — Mosul's blind qari' and grammarian, praised by Ibn al-Mustawfi as 'the proof of… - Person
Makki ibn Abi Talib
966 CE · 355 AHMakki b. Abi Talib (355–437) — the Qayrawani-Cordoban master qari'; went to Egypt at thirteen, completed the… - Person
Malala Yousafzai
12 July 1997 CE · 1418 AHPakistani girls'-education activist and film and television producer, the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in… - Person
Malalai of Maiwand
1861 CE · 1277 AH†National folk heroine of Afghanistan, said to have rallied Afghan fighters at the Battle of Maiwand on 27… - Person
Malaz Majanni
An Australian Muslim media producer based in Sydney, founder and chief executive of OnePath Network, a… - Person
Malcolm X
1925 CE · 1343 AH†Malcolm X. - Person
Malek Deylami
c. 1518 CE · c. 924 AH†Draft card for Malek Deylami, the Safavid calligrapher; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Malik Ahmad Nizam Shah I
Draft card for Malik Ahmad Nizam Shah I, the founder of the Ahmadnagar Sultanate in the Deccan, d. 1509; the… - Person
Malik al-Ashtar al-Nakha'i
Malik ibn al-Harith al-Ashtar al-Nakha'i, companion and commander of Ali; in al-Baladhuri's disputed account… - Person
Malik al-Muhaddithin, hadith master of Gujarat
c. 1507 CE · 913 AHMalik al-Muhaddithin of Gujarat — 'firmly rooted in hadith,' teacher and mufti, a follower of the Mahdawi… - Person
Malik ibn Abbad al-Hadrami
A trader of Banu al-Hadrami under the protection pact of Banu al-Aswad ibn Razn; Khuza'a killed him on their… - Person
Malik ibn Abdallah al-Khath'ami (Malik al-Sawa'if)
Malik ibn Abdallah al-Khath'ami, called Malik al-Sawa'if ('of the summer expeditions'), of the people of… - Person
Malik ibn Abi Amir al-Asbahi
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مالك بن العجلان
Malik ibn al-Ajlan al-Khazraji: when his sister confessed she must enter al-Fityawn's chamber before her… - Person
Malik ibn al-Dukhshum
Brother of Banu Salim ibn Awf; the Prophet summoned him with Ma'n ibn Adi — or his brother Asim — and they… - Person
Malik ibn al-Haytham
Abu Muslim's man who saw through Jarir's mission — 'do not go back' — overridden by the caliph's envoy. - Person
Malik ibn al-Mundhir ibn al-Jarud
Malik ibn al-Mundhir ibn al-Jarud al-Abdi; Basra's police chief under Khalid al-Qasri — the letter told him… - Person
Malik ibn al-Namat al-Hamdani, Dhu al-Mish'ar
The envoy of Hamdan who met the Prophet on his return from Tabuk, chanted rajaz before the company, then… - Person
Malik ibn Anas
c. 711 CE · 93 AHImam of Medina and author of the Muwatta; born in Medina, he studied with its scholars and taught there until… - Person
Malik ibn Awf al-Nasri
c. 580 CEThe young commander of Hawazin who fielded the tribal confederation against the Muslims at Hunayn — and… - Person
Malik ibn Aws
Draft card for Malik ibn Aws ibn al-Hadathan, the eighth-century muhaddith of Basra, d. 710; the biographical… - Person
Malik ibn Ayfa' al-Hamdani
One of the Hamdan delegation who met the Prophet on his return from Tabuk with Malik ibn al-Namat Dhu… - Person
Malik ibn Fahm
First king of al-Hira in al-Mas'udi's account — the Azdi who split from the Jafnids' march to Syria and ruled… - Person
Malik ibn Harim al-Hamdani
Leader of Hamdan on the Day of al-Radm against Murad according to Ibn Hisham, against Ibn Ishaq who names… - Person
Malik ibn Hubayra al-Sakuni
Draft card for Malik ibn Hubayra al-Sakuni, the Companion and first-century commander, d. 685; the… - Person
Malik ibn Mighwal
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Malik ibn Murra al-Rahawi
The envoy of Himyar's kings to the Prophet with news of their Islam, sent by Zur'a Dhu Yazan, who met the… - Person
Malik ibn Rabi'a
A Companion of Banu Amir ibn Lu'ayy; he emigrated to Abyssinia with his wife Umra and arrived in the two… - Person
Malik ibn Sinan
An Ansari of Banu Khudra ibn 'Awf of Banu al-Harith ibn al-Khazraj, grandfather of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri; he… - Person
Malik ibn Uqbun
A Sabian of Harran who rendered the Syriac inscription on their assembly-house at Jiran — Plato's 'know… - Person
Malik ibn Zaflah
Commander of the Arab allies of Heraclius at Mu'tah, from Bali of Irash. Killed by Qutba ibn Qatada al-Udhri.… - Person
Malika Fadil ben Salvador
Draft card for Malika Fadil ben Salvador, the fourteenth-century Andalusi navigator and fighter; the… - Person
السلطان ملكشاه جلال الدولة بن ألب أرسلان
Third Seljuk sultan, succeeding Alp Arslan in 465; Nizam al-Mulk governed as 'atabeg' — the first to bear the… - Person
Malik al-Salih of Samudra
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Malkoc-beg
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Mallu Adil Shah
Draft card for Mallu Adil Shah, the sixteenth-century sultan of Bijapur, d. 1534; the dynastic handbook entry… - Person
Mamadou Lamine Drame
c. 1840 CE · 1256 AHAl-Hajj Mamadou Lamine Drame (Mahmadu Lamine, Muhammad al-Amin; born between 1835 and 1840, died 9 December… - Person
Mamadou Racine Sy
c. 1838 CE · 1254 AHToucouleur officer of the Senegalese tirailleurs (died 24 February 1902), the first Black African to reach… - Person
Mamady Doumbouya
5 December 1984 CE · 1405 AHGuinean general and politician from the Kankan Region, of Mandinka origin, who served in the French Foreign… - Person
Ma'mar ibn Abdullah ibn Nadla
A Companion of Banu Adi ibn Ka'b; he emigrated to Abyssinia and arrived in the two ships. - Person
Ma'mar ibn al-Harith al-Sahmi
Of Banu Sahm; he emigrated to Abyssinia. Ibn Ishaq mentions him without recording his fate. - Person
Mamay, master of the Dasht
Mamay, the Tatar amir who subdued the Qipchaq Dasht from its outskirts, held the districts of Haji Cherkes in… - Person
Memi Can Efendi
Draft card for Memi Can Efendi, the Ottoman writer (sixteenth-seventeenth century); the biographical entry is… - Person
Mammed Amin Rasulzade
31 January 1884 CE · 1301 AHAzerbaijani politician and journalist (1884–1955), founder of the Musavat movement and chairman of the… - Person
Mamurjon Boyto'rayev
1993 CE · 1413 AH†Uzbek professional chef from Namangan, owner of the HALAL FOOD channel on YouTube, where he presents dishes… - Person
Ma'n ibn Adi
Brother of Banu al-Ajlan; the Prophet charged him with Malik ibn al-Dukhshum to demolish and burn Masjid… - Person
Ma'n ibn Za'ida al-Shaybani
Ma'n ibn Za'ida al-Shaybani; al-Mansur's governor of Sijistan — angered by Rutbil's doubled gift-tribute he… - Person
Manaf Tlass
1964 CE · 1384 AH†Syrian Republican Guard brigadier general and son of former defence minister Mustafa Tlass. A member of… - Person
Manal Chinutay
London-based modest-fashion, beauty and lifestyle creator known online as Chinutay A. Her YouTube channel… - Person
Mangli
Master of Hamadan, Isfahan and Rayy — he took the Jibal by killing his own master Ayatghamish; al-Nasir's… - Person
Manjuf ibn Thawr al-Sadusi
Manjuf ibn Thawr al-Sadusi; he retook Thuban for Abu Musa after its people's breach — al-Rabi' ibn Ziyad had… - Person
Manjutakin
Draft card for Manjutakin, the Turkish Fatimid general who campaigned in Syria around 1007; the source entry… - Person
Mankubars al-Falaqi
Amir Rukn al-Din Mankubars al-Falaqi (d. 631) — mamluk of al-Adil's brother Fakhr al-Din; a devout man… - Person
Manla-zada al-Samarqandi
A Samarqandi Shafi'i imam and muqri' of high isnad — four men between him and al-Shatibi; travelled Arabia,… - Person
Mansa Musa
c. 1280 CE · c. 679 AH†The most famous and greatest of Mali's kings, who reigned about a quarter of a century and made the hajj in… - Person
Mansa Sulayman
Mansa Sulayman ibn Abi Bakr, brother of Mansa Musa and his successor after Mansa Magha; he ruled Mali for… - Person
Mansour Al Salmi
7 June 1983 CE · 1403 AHSaudi preacher and Quran reciter, born in Jeddah in 1983. He serves as an imam in Jeddah and teaches Islamic… - Person
Mansur ad-Din of Adal
Draft card for Mansur ad-Din of Adal; the entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Mansur Ahmed
British street preacher and debater at Speakers' Corner in London's Hyde Park, and a co-founder and co-host… - Person
منصور الديلمي
Commander of the pilgrim caravan of 317; the pilgrims under him met Abu Tahir at Mecca on the day of Tarwiya,… - Person
Mansur al-Namri
The poet whose 'world a bride with them, today in mourning' joined the Barmakid elegy-roll. - Person
Mansur ibn Abi Muzahim
Draft card for Mansur ibn Abi Muzahim of Kufa, a hadith transmitter; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Mansur ibn al-Mu'tamir
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Mansur ibn Alwan al-Saydawi
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Mansur ibn Ilyas
Draft card for Mansur ibn Ilyas, the fifteenth-century Persian physician author of Tashrih-i Badan-i Insan,… - Person
منصور بن إسماعيل التميمي
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Mansur ibn Jamwana al-Amiri
Mansur ibn Jamwana ibn al-Harith al-Amiri of Qays, namesake of Hisn Mansur; in al-Baladhuri: he undertook the… - Person
Mansur ibn Jawhur al-Kalbi
Mansur ibn Jawhur al-Kalbi; he killed Abu Muslim's Sind agent Mughallis and routed his army — then Musa ibn… - Person
Mansur ibn Nuh
Mansur b. Nuh (d. 365) — Samanid amir to whom al-Razi dedicated his medical compendium al-Mansuri; the… - Person
منصور بن قراتكين
Samanid commander; sent by Nuh ibn Nasr he took Rayy from Rukn al-Dawla's lieutenant in 340 and pushed Buyid… - Person
Mansur ibn Zadhan
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Mansur II, Samanid emir
Draft card for Abu al-Harith Mansur ibn Nuh, penultimate Samanid emir enthroned in 997 and deposed and… - Person
al-Malik al-Mansur Umar ibn Ali ibn Rasul
Al-Malik al-Mansur Umar ibn Ali ibn Rasul, second Rasulid king of Yemen; succeeding his father in 629 AH,… - Person
Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos
Manuel II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor through the reigns of Mehmed I and Murad II — in al-Sallabi's… - Person
Manuel the Roman
Manuel the Roman, the eunuch; Constantine son of Heraclius sent him with three hundred ships laden with… - Person
Manyasoglu Mahmud
Draft card for Manyasoglu Mahmud, the fifteenth-century Ottoman jurist and writer, d. 1451; the source entry… - Person
Manzoor Nomani
15 December 1905 CE · 1323 AHIndian scholar (1905–1997) of Sambhal, the Deobandi hadith scholar of Maariful Hadith. He graduated from… - Person
Ma'qil ibn al-Mundhir
Draft card for Ma'qil ibn al-Mundhir, a figure of the early community; the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Ma'qil ibn Qays al-Riyahi
Ali's commander who demanded ten-for-one odds against the Khirit rebels — 'an equal number will surely stand… - Person
Ma'qil ibn Yasar
In al-Baladhuri, who related Umar's consultation of al-Hurmuzan and who witnessed Nihawand — he found… - Person
Maqsudul Alam
14 December 1954 CE · 1374 AHBangladeshi life scientist, born in Madaripur in 1954 and died in Honolulu in 2014. A professor at the… - Person
Mardanshah ibn Zadhanfarrukh
Son of al-Hajjaj's Persian scribe; in al-Baladhuri he challenged Salih ibn Abd al-Rahman's Arabization: 'what… - Person
مرداويج بن زيار الجيلي
Founder of the Ziyarid power in Tabaristan and Jurjan; summoned from Gilan by Asfar ibn Shirawayh who made… - Person
مرداويج بن زياد الديلمي
The Daylamite warlord whose men took Isfahan in 322; among his captains was Ali ibn Buya, who broke away and… - Person
Marhab of Khaybar
The formidable warrior-chieftain of the Jewish community of Khaybar; renowned for his strength and poetry;… - Person
Mar'i al-Karmi
Draft card for Mar'i ibn Yusuf al-Karmi, the seventeenth-century Hanbali jurist author of Dalil al-Talib, d.… - Person
Mari Jata (Sundiata Keita)
Founder of the Mali Empire and the greatest of the western Sudanese kings; in their tongue jata means lion… - Person
Maria al-Qibtiyya
A woman sent to the Prophet in 7 AH by al-Muqawqis, the ruler of Alexandria, together with her sister Sirin;… - Person
Princess Maria (as printed)
A princess named in a horseman's boast in the Juha anecdotes as a cousin of the prince of Serbia; the name is… - Person
Marida bint Shabib
Draft card for Marida the Turk, mother of the caliph al-Mu'tasim in the ninth century; the source entry is… - Person
Mariya dhat al-qirtayn
The Kindite mother of the Ghassanid king al-Harith ibn Tha'laba — famed in the poets' verse, and ancestress… - Person
Amir Marjan al-Zafiri
Aden's amir who built the dome over al-'Aydarus and lies buried with him in it — per Ba Haruq, 'counted among… - Person
Marjana, Mother of Ubaydallah ibn Ziyad
Marjana, Ubaydallah ibn Ziyad's mother, whom Shirawayh the Aswari married and for whom he built the… - Person
Merkezzade Ahmed Efendi
Draft card for Merkezzade Ahmed Efendi, the Ottoman writer (poet and cleric, d. 1556); the biographical entry… - Person
Marouane Chamakh
10 January 1984 CE · 1404 AHMoroccan former footballer (born 1984 in Tonneins, France), a forward who won the French league title with… - Person
مرثد بن عبد الله اليزني
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Marun al-Naqqash
9 February 1817 CE · 1232 AHLebanese merchant and playwright (1817–1855). Born at Sidon and raised in Beirut, he worked as chief clerk of… - Person
Marwan al-Asfar
Marwan al-Asfar, Abu Khalaf of Basra; some say his name was Marwan ibn Khaqan, and some say there were two… - Person
Marwan the Younger
Marwan al-Asghar Abu al-Samt — last of the Banu Abi Hafsa line of poets; al-Mubarrad ranked them with… - Person
مروان بن أبي الجنوب
The poet, rewarded by al-Mutawakkil with a hundred and twenty thousand and fifty robes for one ode — 'I… - Person
Marwan ibn Abi Hafsa
The panegyrist bought by Ma'n for a hundred thousand — barred as a hypocrite until his 'son of the Prophet's… - Person
Marwan ibn al-Hakam
Marwan ibn al-Hakam ibn Abi al-As ibn Umayya; he rode in Abdallah ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Sarh's reinforced army to… - Person
Maryam bint Imran (Mary)
Mother of Isa, counted by the Prophet among the perfected women with Asiya, and exempted with her son from… - Person
Maryam Amir
American educator, lecturer and hafiza, creator of Qariah, the free app gathering women Quran reciters from… - Person
Maryam Lemu
29 January 1973 CE · 1392 AHNigerian speaker and seminar facilitator, born in 1973 to Sheikh Ahmed Lemu and his British wife Bridget… - Person
Maryam Mirzakhani
12 May 1977 CE · 1397 AHMaryam Mirzakhani (12 May 1977 – 14 July 2017) was an Iranian mathematician, the first woman and first… - Person
Maryam Monsef
7 November 1984 CE · 1405 AHAfghan-Canadian politician born in Mashhad, Iran, who represented Peterborough—Kawartha in Canada's House of… - Person
Maryana Marrash
August 1848 CE · 1264 AHSyrian writer and poet from Aleppo (1848–1919), a figure of the Nahda; the first Syrian woman to publish a… - Person
المرزبان بن محمد السلاري
The Sallarid amir of Azerbaijan; after the Rus sack of Barda'a in 332 he mustered thirty thousand, ground… - Person
Marzuq Abu al-Khasib
Marzuq Abu al-Khasib, Khazim ibn Khuzayma's mawla and namesake of Kufa's Qasr al-Khasib; for al-Mansur he… - Person
Mas Mansoer
25 June 1896 CE · 1314 AHIndonesian scholar and religious leader (1896–1946) who studied in Mecca and at al-Azhar, chaired… - Person
Mas'ada ibn Hakama ibn Malik ibn Hudhayfa ibn Badr al-Fazari
Of the Banu Badr of Fazara; Qays ibn al-Musahhar al-Ya'muri killed him in Zayd ibn Haritha's second raid on… - Person
ماسرجويه
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Maslama al-Majriti
Draft card for Maslama ibn Ahmad al-Majriti of Cordoba, the tenth-century mathematician, astronomer and… - Person
Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik
Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan the Umayyad; in al-Baladhuri: the Baghras lands were his and he endowed… - Person
مسلمة بن هشام بن عبد الملك
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Maslama ibn Mukhallad al-Ansari
Maslama ibn Mukhallad al-Ansari; Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan dismissed Mu'awiya ibn Khudayj and gave him Egypt… - Person
Masmala ibn Hubayra
Masmala ibn Hubayra ibn Shabal of Tha'laba ibn Shayban ibn Tha'laba ibn Ukaba; Mu'awiya made him governor of… - Person
Masoud Pezeshkian
29 September 1954 CE · 1374 AHMasoud Pezeshkian (born 29 September 1954) is an Iranian politician and physician — a cardiac surgeon, former… - Person
Masruq ibn al-Ajda'
One of the senior Successors (tabi'un), who transmitted hadith and was known for the Qur'anic readings.… - Person
Mastoureh Ardalan
1805 CE · 1220 AHKurdish poet and historian (1805-1847/48), known by her pen name Mastoureh; author of the Chronicle of the… - Person
Mas'ud I of Rum
Draft card for Rukn al-Din Mas'ud I, sultan of Rum who fixed the capital at Konya, named from an open… - Person
Mas'ud ibn al-Aswad ibn Haritha
Companion of Quraysh, from Banu Adi ibn Ka'b; martyred at Mu'tah in Jumada I, year 8 AH. - Person
Mas'ud ibn Haritha
Brother of al-Muthanna ibn Haritha al-Shaybani; killed at the Day of Mihran, prompting al-Muthanna's saying… - Person
السلطان مسعود بن محمود الغزنوي
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السلطان مسعود بن محمد بن ملكشاه
Iraqi Seljuk sultan; he fought his nephew Dawud to a shared sultanate with khutba at Baghdad, then warred on… - Person
مسعود بن معتب الثقفي
Mas'ud ibn Mu'tib of Thaqif's Ahlaf moiety, sent to Medina to seek the Ansar's alliance against Banu Malik;… - Person
Mas'ud ibn Zammam al-Balat
Mas'ud ibn Zammam 'al-Balat', a leading amir of the Nafusa mountains in revolt against the Almohad Abd… - Person
السلطان علاء الدولة مسعود الغزنوي
The Ghaznavid sultan Ala' al-Dawla Mas'ud, lord of Ghazna and India; d. Shawwal 508, succeeded by his son… - Person
Mesut Kurtis
1981 CE · 1401 AH†The Macedonian-Turkish vocalist of 'Burdu Al-'Ala' — a pioneer of multilingual European nasheed. - Person
Matrakci Nasuh
Draft card for Nasuh al-Silahi, 'Matrakci', the Ottoman polymath noted for mathematics, the game of matrak… - Person
Matta ibn Yunus
Abu Bishr Matta b. Yunus (d. under al-Radi) — the Nestorian logician of Baghdad; taught Aristotle's Organon… - Person
Matthew Saad Muhammad
16 June 1954 CE · 1373 AHAmerican professional boxer, born in Philadelphia in 1954 as Maxwell Antonio Loach and died there in 2014.… - Person
Maulana Ghulam Ullah Khan
1905 CE · 1323 AH†Draft card for Maulana Ghulam Ullah Khan, the Deobandi scholar in Peshawar; his entry is not yet checked on… - Person
Maulana Jamshed Ali Khan
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Maulana Kabir
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Maulana Muhammad, Sultan of Banten
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Maulana Mujahid al-Husseini
1920 CE · 1338 AH†Draft card for Maulana Mujahid al-Husseini, the Pakistani scholar and politician; his entry is not yet… - Person
Maulana Nizamul Haq Thanvi
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Maulana Qazi Shamsuddin
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Maulana Shamsul Haq Afghani
1901 CE · 1319 AH†Draft card for Maulana Shamsul Haq Afghani, the Pashtun scholar and politician; his entry is not yet checked… - Person
Mawand, Rutbil's Deputy
Mawand, Rutbil's deputy; granted aman by Ma'n to be borne to the Commander of the Faithful — sent to Baghdad… - Person
مودود صاحب الموصل
Lord of Mosul; in 507 he brought an army against the Frankish king of Jerusalem, then was stabbed by a Batini… - Person
Mawdud ibn Mas'ud al-Ghaznawi
Sultan of Ghazna after his uncle Muhammad ibn Mahmud: when his father Mas'ud died in 433 and Muhammad was… - Person
Mawlay Bu Bakr al-Idrisi al-Rashidi
The Idrisi sharif al-Rashidi whom the Sufi murabitun proposed to rule Fez in the Ottoman sultan's name in… - Person
May Calamawy
28 October 1986 CE · 1407 AHEgyptian-Palestinian actress, born in Bahrain in 1986 to an Egyptian father and a Palestinian-Jordanian… - Person
May Ziade
11 February 1886 CE · 1303 AHLebanese-Palestinian poet, essayist and translator (1886–1941), born Marie Elias Ziadeh in Nazareth, who… - Person
Maymun Abu Bishr
mawla of Ali ibn Abdallah; in al-Baladhuri granted a qati'a near Bustan al-Qass by Bab al-Sham — the Taqat… - Person
Maymun al-Jurjumani
Maymun al-Jurjumani; in al-Baladhuri: he had been a Byzantine slave of the sons of Umm al-Hakam, Mu'awiya's… - Person
Maymun ibn Mihran
Maymun ibn Mihran of the Jazira and al-Raqqa, a jurist of the Followers and judge of the Jazira in the… - Person
Maymun ibn Sayah
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Maymuna bint al-Harith
A Mother of the Believers and sister of Umm al-Fadl Lubaba; she was named Barra and the Prophet called her… - Person
Maysara
Khadija's servant who accompanied Muhammad on her trade trip to Syria and reported back the honesty and noble… - Person
ميسرة العبدي
Maysara al-Abdi — mawla of Ali ibn Abdallah ibn Abbas and one of the three organisers of the Abbasid da'wa in… - Person
Maysara ibn Masruq al-Absi
Maysara ibn Masruq al-Absi, raiding commander of Abu Ubayda; in al-Baladhuri: some hold he was the first to… - Person
Maysha' bint Zadhuya
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ميسون بنت بجدل الكلبية
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مزاحم مولى عمر بن عبد العزيز
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Mazyar ibn Qarin
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Mbark Boussoufa
15 August 1984 CE · 1404 AHRetired Moroccan attacking midfielder (born 1984 in Amsterdam), named Belgian Footballer of the Year three… - Person
Meali
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13 November 1847 CE · 1263 AHBengali novelist, playwright and essayist (1847–1912) of Kushtia, a pioneer among nineteenth-century Bengali… - Person
Megawati Sukarnoputri
23 January 1947 CE · 1366 AHIndonesian politician born in 1947, the eldest daughter of founding president Sukarno. She led the Indonesian… - Person
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Mehdi Taremi
18 July 1992 CE · 1413 AHIranian professional footballer (born 1992 in Bushehr). A striker who twice finished as the Iranian league's… - Person
Meher Ali Shah
14 April 1859 CE · 1275 AHPunjabi scholar, Sufi and poet (1859–1937), born at Golra Sharif and died there. He took bay'ah with Khawaja… - Person
Mehmed 'Ata Bey
1856 CE · 1272 AH†Ottoman scholar, journalist and public official (1856-1919). After the revolution of 1908 he joined the… - Person
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Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha
5 March 1815 CE · 1230 AHMehmed Emin Âli Pasha (born in Istanbul on 5 March 1815 – died there on 7 September 1871) was an Ottoman… - Person
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c. 1432 CE · 835 AHMehmed the Conqueror, seventh of the Ottoman kings — sultan for thirty-one years from 856, 'the greatest of… - Person
محمد الثالث
c. 1566 CE · 974 AHMehmed III (r. 1003–1012/1595–1603) — the last Ottoman sultan to take the field in person, reviving the… - Person
محمد الرابع
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1873 CE · 1290 AH†A Turkish poet and man of letters, born in Istanbul in 1873 and died in 1936. - Person
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11 June 1960 CE · 1379 AHTurkish-American physician, television presenter and government official, born in Cleveland in 1960 to… - Person
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Mengu-Timur, king of the Dasht
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Messali Hadj
16 May 1898 CE · 1315 AHAlgerian nationalist politician (1898–1974), often called the father of Algerian nationalism. He founded the… - Person
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Mesut Özil
15 October 1988 CE · 1409 AHGerman former professional footballer, born in Gelsenkirchen in 1988 to Turkish immigrant parents. An… - Person
Mezzomorto Hüseyin Pasha
Hüseyin Pasha, nicknamed 'Mezzomorto' (half-dead in Italian); one of the sea-beys, captain of galleons then… - Person
M'hamed el-Khattabi
1892 CE · 1309 AHRiffian military leader (1892–1967), the younger brother of Abd el-Krim. He studied mine engineering in… - Person
M'hammed Bayram
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Mian Iftikharuddin
8 April 1907 CE · 1325 AHPakistani politician and newspaper founder (1907–1962) of Lahore's Mian family of Baghbanpura, custodians of… - Person
Mian Muhammad Bakhsh
c. 1830 CE · 1246 AHPunjabi Sufi poet (c. 1830 – 1907) of Khari Sharif in Azad Kashmir. He took bay'ah with Ghulam Muhammad in… - Person
Mian Muhammad Shafi
10 March 1869 CE · 1285 AHLahore barrister and politician (10 March 1869 – 7 January 1932), a founding member of the All-India Muslim… - Person
Michael Milo
Canadian children's-media producer based in Edmonton. He is the founder and CEO of Muslim Kids TV, a… - Person
Mid'am, the Prophet's freedman
The Prophet's servant Mid'am — shot dead by an arrow at Wadi'l-Qura, the combat for which al-Waqidi counts… - Person
مدحت باشا
Midhat Pasha — author of the 1876 Ottoman constitution, the first borrowed Western constitution in the… - Person
Midlaj ibn Amr al-Sulami
Midlaj ibn Amr al-Sulami, confederate of Banu Abd Shams and a man of companionship; in al-Baladhuri from… - Person
Mido
23 February 1983 CE · 1403 AHEgyptian football manager and former striker, born in Cairo in 1983 and known universally as Mido. A Zamalek… - Person
مهارش بن المجلي العقيلي
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Mihlahil ibn Safwan
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Mihran ibn Mihrbandadh al-Hamadhani
Persian commander sent by Buran bint Kisra against the Muslims in twelve thousand; killed at al-Buwayb in… - Person
Mihrimah Sultan
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Mihyar al-Daylami
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Mika'il (Michael)
The angel named in the Qur'an alongside Jibril; the commentators say he descends with mercy, rain and… - Person
Mike Tyson
30 June 1966 CE · 1386 AHAmerican former professional boxer (born 1966 in Brooklyn, New York City). He became the youngest heavyweight… - Person
البطريرك ميخائيل، بطريرك الإسكندرية
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Milos Mendel
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Mimar Mehmet Tahir
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Mindful Muslimah
Educator and marriage coach who works entirely under this public name. She is the founder of the Muslim… - Person
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Miqyas ibn Subaba
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Mir Ali Heravi
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Mir Fendereski
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Mir Hazar Khan Khoso
30 September 1929 CE · 27 Rabi' II 1348 AH†Pakistani jurist (1929–2021), caretaker prime minister of Pakistan from March to June 2013 to conduct the… - Person
Mir Khwand
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Mirak Naqqash
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Miralem Pjanić
2 April 1990 CE · 1410 AHBosnian former professional footballer, born in Tuzla in 1990 and raised in Luxembourg after his family fled… - Person
Miran Shah
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Mirdas ibn Abi Amir
Father of al-Abbas ibn Mirdas — counted by al-Mas'udi among the men the jinn killed. - Person
Mirdas ibn Nahik
An ally of Banu Murra from al-Huraqa of Juhayna; killed by Usama ibn Zayd and an Ansari in Ghalib ibn… - Person
Mirjaqip Dulatuli
25 November 1885 CE · 17 Safar 1303 AH†Mirjaqip Dulatuli (1885–1935) was a Kazakh poet and writer and a leader of the Alash Orda government, author… - Person
Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev
13 July 1892 CE · 1309 AHTatar Bolshevik theorist (1892–1940), the architect of Muslim 'national communism'. He chaired the Central… - Person
Mirza Abdul Wahhab
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1817 CE · 1232 AH†Draft card for Mirza Abu Turab Akhundzade, the Tajik religious scholar and author; his entry is not yet… - Person
Mirza Alakbar Sabir
30 May 1862 CE · 1278 AHAzerbaijani satirical poet (1862–1911), born Tahirzadeh. Writing in Molla Nasreddin and other Caucasus… - Person
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12 July 1812 CE · 1227 AHIranian Azerbaijani playwright, philosopher and literary critic (1812–1878), founder of Azerbaijani… - Person
Mirza Fath 'Ali Akhund-zada (dramatist, 1812–1878)
1812 CE · 1227 AH†Mirza Fath 'Ali Akhund-zada, the first writer of original plays in a Turkish idiom (Azerbaijani). Born at… - Person
Mirza Ghalib
27 December 1797 CE · 1212 AHThe pre-eminent Urdu and Persian poet of the late Mughal age (1797–1869). Born in Agra, he settled in Delhi… - Person
Mirza Ghazi Beg
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Mirza Husayn Khan Moshir al-Dowleh
19 November 1828 CE · 1244 AHQajar statesman (1828-1881), titled Moshir al-Dowleh and later Sepahsalar; ambassador to Istanbul and Grand… - Person
Mirza Jahangir Khan
1870 CE · 1287 AHIranian writer and journalist (c. 1870 or 1875–1908) from Shiraz, founder and editor of the progressive… - Person
Mirza Kalich Beg
4 October 1853 CE · 1270 AHSindhi scholar and man of letters (1853–1929) of Hyderabad, Sindh, who served thirty years in the British… - Person
Mirza Kuchik Khan
12 October 1880 CE · 1297 AHIranian revolutionary (1880–1921) from Rasht in Gilan, seminary-trained in youth, who founded the Jangal… - Person
Mirza Mahmud Husayni Zanjani
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Mirza Malkam Khan
1833 CE · 1248 AHIranian modernist writer, diplomat and publicist (1833–1908) of New Julfa, educated in Paris, who taught at… - Person
Mirza Mustafa Efendi
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Mirza Muhammad Rafi Sauda
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Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
27 September 1940 CE · 1359 AHMishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (born 27 September 1940) is Emir of Kuwait since 16 December 2023,… - Person
Mishari Al-Kharraz
1985 CE · 1405 AHKuwaiti preacher born in 1985, an imam and khatib at Kuwait's Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, known… - Person
Mishary Rashid Alafasy
5 September 1976 CE · 1396 AHKuwaiti Quran reciter, imam of the Grand Mosque of Kuwait, preacher and nasheed artist, born in 1976. He… - Person
Miskin al-Madani
The tailor-slave who bought the jar-girl's tune for four dirhams and a shaved head — and sang it before… - Person
Mistah ibn Uthatha
An early Muhajir Companion and Badri veteran from Banu al-Muttalib, maternal cousin of Abu Bakr who provided… - Person
Mizancı Murad
1854 CE · 1270 AHOttoman journalist, historian and politician (1854-1917) from Dagestan, known for his newspaper Mizan (from… - Person
Mo Farah
23 March 1983 CE · 1403 AHBritish long-distance runner of Somali origin, born in 1983. He won the 5,000 m and 10,000 m gold medals at… - Person
Modibo Adama
1786 CE · 1200 AHFulani scholar (1786–1847) who received from Usman dan Fodio the flag of jihad for Fombina, 'the southlands',… - Person
Modibo Keïta
4 June 1915 CE · 1333 AHMalian politician (1915–1977) from Bamako who began as a teacher, co-founded the Sudanese Union, became prime… - Person
Moeen Ali
18 June 1987 CE · 1407 AHEnglish cricketer, born in Birmingham in 1987 of Kashmiri and English descent. A left-handed batting,… - Person
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed
11 March 1962 CE · 1381 AHSomali politician (born 1962) from Mogadishu, known as Farmajo, educated at the University at Buffalo and… - Person
Mohamed Aboutrika
7 November 1978 CE · 1398 AHEgyptian retired professional footballer, born in Nahia, Giza in 1978. An attacking midfielder and second… - Person
Mohamed Ahmed Soubra
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Mohamed Ali Mowleed
Imam and teacher of Alfurqan Islamic Centre in Manchester, England, whose lessons and sermons form the core… - Person
Mohamed Bachir El Ibrahimi
13 June 1889 CE · 1306 AHAlgerian scholar and man of letters (1889–1965). Educated in Medina and Damascus, he was Abdelhamid Ben… - Person
Mohamed Ben Brika
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Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
11 March 1961 CE · 1380 AHThird President of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Abu Dhabi since 2022, the third son of Zayed bin… - Person
Mohamed Chedly Ennaifer
1911 CE · 1329 AH†Draft card for Mohamed Chedly Ennaifer, rector of the Ez-Zitouna Mosque and Tunisian scholar; his entry is… - Person
Mohamed Djait
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Mohamed El Hacen Ould Dedew
31 October 1963 CE · 1383 AHMauritanian Muslim scholar, author and poet. Born in Boutilimit on 31 October 1963 and raised in a scholarly… - Person
Mohamed El Hedi Belkadhi
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Mohamed El-Sawy
Egyptian preacher known for the sermons and moving story-sermons he publishes on his YouTube channel and… - Person
Mohamed Elghaleez
Egyptian preacher known for his direct preaching style addressed to young people in Egyptian colloquial… - Person
Mohamed Habib Belkhodja
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Mohamed Hassan
8 April 1962 CE · 1381 AHEgyptian Muslim preacher, born in the village of Damouh in Dakahlia Governorate in 1962. He memorised the… - Person
Mohamed Hoblos
An Australian preacher of Lebanese origin living in Sydney, known for passionate, emotional talks and… - Person
Mohamed Hussein Yaqoub
1956 CE · 1375 AHEgyptian Salafi preacher, born at Al-Mu'tamadiya in Imbaba, Giza Governorate, in 1956. He memorised the… - Person
Mohamed Khair al-Shaal
1970 CE · 1390 AHSyrian dentist, preacher and writer, born in the al-Salihiyya district of Damascus in 1970. He combines a… - Person
Mohamed Khalil al-Qari
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Mohamed Khalil Sadiq Trabelsi
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Mohamed Morsi
8 August 1951 CE · 1370 AHMohamed Morsi (1951–2019) was an Egyptian engineer, university professor and Muslim Brotherhood politician… - Person
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
20 December 1956 CE · 1376 AHMauritanian military officer and politician (born 1956) from Akjoujt, a leading figure in the 2005 coup that… - Person
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani
31 December 1956 CE · 1376 AHMauritanian general and politician (born 1956), chief of staff of the armed forces for a decade and defence… - Person
Mohamed Salah
15 June 1992 CE · 1412 AHEgyptian professional footballer, born in Nagrig, Gharbia, in 1992, who began at Al-Mokawloon, starred for… - Person
Mohamed Salah Ben Mrad
1881 CE · 1298 AH†Draft card for Mohamed Salah Ben Mrad, the Hanafi shaykh al-Islam of Tunisia; his entry is not yet checked on… - Person
Mohamed Shaheen El-Taeb
Egyptian researcher in religions, doctrines and contemporary intellectual schools, and the presenter of the… - Person
Mohamed Taieb Bayram
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Mohamed Taieb Ennaifer
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Mohammad Abdul Hamid
1 January 1944 CE · 1362 AHBangladeshi politician and lawyer (born 1 January 1944), a lifelong Awami League figure elected to parliament… - Person
Mohammad al-Mohaisany
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Mohammad Ali Araki
1895 CE · 1312 AH†Draft card for Mohammad Ali Araki, the Iranian marja' of Qom; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Mohammad Ali Mohammad Khan
4 June 1878 CE · 1295 AHRaja of Mahmudabad in Oudh (4 June 1878 – 23 March 1931), among the largest landholders and a noted… - Person
Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar
21 June 1872 CE · 1289 AHSixth shah of Qajar Iran (reigned 3 January 1907 – 16 July 1909), son of Mozaffar ad-Din Shah and, through… - Person
Mohammad Amir Ahmad Khan
5 November 1914 CE · 1332 AHRaja of Mahmudabad (5 November 1914 – 14 October 1973), politician, writer and poet. He inherited his father… - Person
Mohammad Ayub Khan
1857 CE · 1273 AH†Barakzai prince, briefly Emir of Afghanistan (12 October 1879 – 31 May 1880), remembered as the Victor of… - Person
Mohammad Baqer Shirazi
1931 CE · 1350 AH†Draft card for Mohammad Baqer Shirazi, the Basran marja' of his age; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Mohammad Hassan Ahmadi Faqih
1949 CE · 1368 AH†Draft card for Mohammad Hassan Ahmadi Faqih, the Qom marja' and pupil of al-Kalbaykani; his entry is not yet… - Person
Mohammad Hesam Heravi
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Mohammad Javad Safi Golpaygani
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Mohammad Khatami
14 October 1943 CE · 1362 AHMohammad Khatami (born 14 October 1943) is an Iranian cleric and reformist philosopher who served as… - Person
Mohammad Khiabani
1880 CE · 1297 AHShia cleric and constitutionalist politician of Tabriz (1880–1920) who qualified for ijtihad, led prayers at… - Person
Mohammad Mosaddegh
16 June 1882 CE · 1299 AHMohammad Mosaddegh (1882–1967) was an Iranian lawyer and politician, prime minister of Iran from 1951 to… - Person
Mohammad Nabi
1 January 1985 CE · 1405 AHAfghan cricketer and former captain of the Afghanistan national team, born in Logar in 1985. An all-rounder… - Person
Mohammad Reza Emami
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Mohammad-Reza Golpaygani
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Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
26 October 1919 CE · 1338 AHMohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980) was the last shah of Iran, reigning from 1941 until the Iranian Revolution… - Person
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Mohammad-Taqi Bahar
10 December 1886 CE · 1304 AHIranian poet, scholar, journalist and politician (1886-1951), titled Malek osh-Sho'ara ('king of poets'); a… - Person
Mohammad Yaqub Khan
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Mohammed Al-Bashar Al-Rashidi
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Mohammed bin Hamad al-Bandanji
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Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
15 July 1949 CE · 1368 AHRuler of Dubai and Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates since 2006, the third son of… - Person
Mohammed bin Salman
31 August 1985 CE · 1405 AHCrown Prince of Saudi Arabia since 21 June 2017 and Prime Minister since 27 September 2022; the son of King… - Person
Mohammad Daoud Khan
18 July 1909 CE · 1 Rajab 1327 AH†Afghan military officer and politician of the Musahiban royal family, born at Kabul in 1909. He was prime… - Person
Mohammed Hijab
5 October 1991 CE · 1412 AHBritish Islamic preacher and YouTuber of Egyptian origin, born in London in 1991. He is known for public… - Person
Mohammed Rateb al-Nabulsi
29 January 1938 CE · 1356 AHSyrian preacher and writer, born in Damascus in 1938. He taught at Damascus University for about thirty… - Person
Mohammed Shahabuddin
10 December 1949 CE · 1369 AHBangladeshi jurist and politician (born 10 December 1949) who served as a district and sessions judge and as… - Person
Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani
4 March 1970 CE · 1390 AHMohammed Shia' Sabbar al-Sudani (born 4 March 1970) is an Iraqi politician who was prime minister of Iraq… - Person
Mohammed V of Morocco
10 August 1909 CE · 1327 AHRuler of Morocco from 1927 to 1961, as sultan and then as the first king of independent Morocco. Born at Fes… - Person
Mohammed VI of Morocco
21 August 1963 CE · 1383 AHKing of Morocco since 23 July 1999. Born at Rabat in 1963, the son of Hassan II, whom he succeeded on the… - Person
Mohamoud Ali Shire
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Mohiuddin Mahdi
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Mohyeddin Haeri Shirazi
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Mohammed al-Mokhtar Soussi
1900 CE · 1318 AH†Draft card for Mohammed al-Mokhtar Soussi, the Moroccan scholar, historian of Sous and statesman; his entry… - Person
Moktar Ould Daddah
25 December 1924 CE · 1343 AHMauritanian politician (1924–2003) from a marabout family of Boutilimit, the first Mauritanian to hold a… - Person
Molana Abdul Hafeez Makki
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Molla Arif Ali
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Molla Bistan, qadi 'askar of Rumeli and Anatolia
Molla Bistan — one of the few to hold the qadi-'askar office of both Rumeli and Anatolia (~11 months, the two… - Person
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Molla Fenari
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Molla Muhyi al-Din
Molla Muhyi al-Din Muhammad, a scholar of Mehmed II's reign; when the viziers' intercession failed for the… - Person
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Molla Sinan al-Din — Khidr Beg's brilliant, doubt-prone son (his father struck him with a plate when he… - Person
Molla Yegan
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Syeda Momena Khatun
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Momin Khan Momin
1800 CE · 1215 AHUrdu poet and hakim (Unani physician) of late Mughal Delhi (1800–1852). Born in Delhi to a family of Kashmiri… - Person
Mona Elghdban
Egyptian writer and lecturer in 'energy science' and self-development, known through her YouTube channel, her… - Person
Mona Eltahawy
1 August 1967 CE · 1387 AHEgyptian-American journalist and feminist writer, born in 1967 in Port Said. She worked as a Reuters… - Person
Moncef Marzouki
7 July 1945 CE · 1364 AHMohamed Moncef Marzouki (born 1945) is a Tunisian physician, human-rights activist and politician who headed… - Person
Monia Mazigh
10 July 1970 CE · 1390 AHTunisian-born Canadian academic and author, the wife of Maher Arar, who campaigned publicly for his release… - Person
Monke Khan ibn Tolui
Monke ibn Tolui ibn Genghis Khan, the Great Khan; ruling after Ogedei he set Chaghatay's sons under their… - Person
Montek Singh Ahluwalia
24 November 1943 CE · 1362 AHMontek Singh Ahluwalia (born 24 November 1943) is an Indian economist and civil servant who served as deputy… - Person
W. Montgomery Watt
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Moses Cordovero
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Moshood Abiola
24 August 1937 CE · 1356 AHNigerian businessman, publisher and politician (1937–1998) from Abeokuta who built a business empire and the… - Person
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Mostafa al-Adawi
1954 CE · 1374 AHEgyptian hadith scholar and preacher, born in the village of Minya Samannud, Dakahlia, in 1954. He graduated… - Person
Mostafa Arrid
The author of the YouTube channel 'Ishraqat Nafsiyya' (Psychological Illuminations), a psychological-guidance… - Person
Mostafa El-Sayed
8 May 1933 CE · 1352 AHEgyptian-American physical chemist, born in 1933, author of the spectroscopic 'El-Sayed rule' that bears his… - Person
Mostafa Khomeini
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Moussa Traoré
25 September 1936 CE · 1355 AHMalian officer and politician (1936–2020) from Kayes who led the 1968 coup that overthrew Modibo Keïta and… - Person
Moutasem Al-Hameedi
Islamic lecturer and author. He studied under prominent students of al-Albani, served as imam and lecturer at… - Person
Mowlana Maruf Baghdadi
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Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar
23 March 1853 CE · 1269 AHFifth shah of Qajar Iran (reigned 1 May 1896 – January 1907), son and successor of Naser al-Din Shah. After… - Person
Mu'adh al-Harra
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Mu'adh ibn al-Harith
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Mu'adh ibn Amr ibn al-Jamuh
A young Khazraji who, with Mu'awwidh ibn Afra, struck down Abu Jahl at Badr; the Prophet judged that both had… - Person
Muadh ibn Anas al-Juhani
Muadh ibn Anas al-Juhani al-Ansari, a Companion who fought with the Prophet and settled in Egypt. He narrated… - Person
Mu'adh ibn Jabal
c. 603 CEA young Ansari convert of the pledges of Aqaba, remembered as the most learned of the community in what is… - Person
Mu'adha al-Adawiyya
Mu'adha al-Adawiyya, the Basran ascetic; her husband Sila ibn Ashyam Abu al-Sahba' al-Adawi fell with Yazid… - Person
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Muammar Gaddafi
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معمر بن عباد
Mu'ammar ibn Abbad al-Sulami — a leading man of the Basra branch of the Mu'tazila. - Person
معمر بن راشد
Mu'ammar ibn Rashid — Basran second-tier sira/maghazi author, d. 150. - Person
مؤنس الخادم الملقب بالمظفر
The eunuch 'al-Muzaffar'; he deposed al-Muqtadir in 317 and hailed al-Qahir, saw him restored within days,… - Person
Mu'arraj al-Sadusi
Mu'arraj al-Sadusi (d. 204) — Basran grammarian, pupil of al-Khalil b. Ahmad; author of al-Anwa', Jamahir… - Person
Mu'tib ibn Qushayr
One of the twelve men who built Masjid al-Dirar, according to Ibn Ishaq; his ascription: of Banu Dubay'a ibn… - Person
أبو عبيد الله معاوية الأشعري
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Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan
A Qurashi of the Umayyad clan, born five years before the mission on the best-known account; he accompanied… - Person
Mu'awiya ibn al-Muhallab
Mu'awiya ibn al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra; carried bound to Iraq with Muhammad ibn al-Qasim on Sulayman's recall. - Person
Mu'awiya ibn Amr al-Mawsili
Mu'awiya ibn Amr al-Mawsili al-Ta'i; he settled Tarir in Azerbaijan, built and housed his sons who raised… - Person
معاوية بن هشام بن عبد الملك
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Mu'awiya ibn Khudayj al-Kindi
Mu'awiya ibn Khudayj al-Kindi, then al-Sukuni; Amr ibn al-As sent him to Umar ibn al-Khattab bearing the… - Person
Mu'awiya ibn Salih
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Mu'awiya ibn Sa'sa'a
Mu'awiya ibn Sa'sa'a ibn Mu'awiya, al-Ahnaf ibn Qays's cousin's son; he backed Humayri in the Marghab feud —… - Person
معاوية بن يزيد بن معاوية
43 AHThird Umayyad caliph, succeeded by his father's testament in Rabi' I 64 — a righteous youth whose forty-day… - Person
Mu'awwaz ibn Amr ibn al-Jamuh
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Mu'awwid 'Awad Ibrahim
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Mu'awwidh ibn Afra
A young Khazraji — known by his mother's name Afra — who with Mu'adh ibn Amr ibn al-Jamuh struck Abu Jahl at… - Person
Mu'ayqib ibn Abi Fatima
Mu'ayqib ibn Abi Fatima, Umar's scribe; he wrote the letter to al-Mughira granting Abu Abdallah Nafi's Basra… - Person
al-Malik al-Mu'ayyad Ahmad ibn Inal
Al-Mu'ayyad Ahmad ibn Inal — proclaimed sultan by his abdicating father al-Ashraf Inal on Wed 14 Jumada I… - Person
al-Malik al-Mu'ayyad Dawud ibn Yusuf
Al-Malik al-Mu'ayyad Dawud ibn al-Muzaffar Yusuf, fifth Rasulid king of Yemen; freed from confinement and… - Person
al-Mu'ayyad ibn al-Qalansi
Ra'is of Damascus, of the Qalansi chronicler-house — heard Ibn Tabarzad, transmitted in Egypt and Damascus;… - Person
مؤيد الدولة بن ركن الدولة
Rukn al-Dawla's son, given Rayy and Isfahan in the division of 365; died 373. - Person
Mu'ayyid al-Din Ibn al-Qassab
Ibn al-Qassab, al-Nasir's deputy-vizier — who had earlier administered Khuzistan and mapped its weakness —… - Person
Mu'ayyid al-Mulk Abu Bakr ibn Nizam al-Mulk
Son of the vizier Nizam al-Mulk: came to Baghdad in 468 for his marriage to the sultan's daughter and took up… - Person
Mubarak Ahmad Khan
1958 CE · 1377 AH†Bangladeshi scientist recognised by Scopus as a leading researcher on jute. Long associated with the… - Person
Mubarak bin Sabah Al-Sabah
c. 1837 CE · 1253 AHMubarak bin Sabah Al-Sabah, called Mubarak the Great and the Lion of the Peninsula (his birth year is… - Person
Mubarak Shah, Sayyid sultan of Delhi
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Mubarakah Ibrahim
American Muslim health and fitness expert in New Haven, Connecticut, and founder of the Fit Muslimah movement… - Person
Mubariz al-Din Muhammad ibn al-Muzaffar
Mubariz al-Din Muhammad ibn al-Muzaffar al-Yazdi, the true founder of Muzaffarid kingship; he took Kirman and… - Person
Mudad ibn Amr al-Jurhumi
Chief of Jurhum in the story of Ismail; he gave Ismail his daughter after Ismail divorced his first wife, and… - Person
Mudar ibn Nizar
One of Nizar's sons, from whom a branch of the northern Arabs is traced; al-Nuwayri tells the story of his… - Person
Mudrik ibn al-Muhallab
Mudrik ibn al-Muhallab; his brother Yazid, given Iraq by Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik, made him governor of… - Person
Mudrika ibn Ilyas
The 'Amr of Ilyas called Mudrika — Khindif's son and Kinana's forebear in the Prophet's line. - Person
Mudzafar Shah I of Kedah
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Mufti Abdul Razzaq
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Mufti Barkatulla
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Mufti Ghulam Sarwar Lahori
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1958 CE · 1377 AH†Draft card for Mufti Muhammad Naeem, the founder of Jamia Binoria in Karachi; his entry is not yet checked on… - Person
Muftizade Ahmed Efendi
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Mughallis al-Abdi
Mughallis al-Abdi; Abu Muslim's man on the Sind frontier at the da'wa's dawn — he took the Tukharistan road. - Person
مغيث الرومي
Al-Walid's mawla, sent by Tariq with seven hundred horse to Cordoba; by the fig-tree breach in the wall he… - Person
مهذب الدولة أبو الحسن علي بن نصر صاحب البطائح
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Muhallim ibn Jaththama al-Laythi
Of Banu Layth; in Ibn Abi Hadrad's detachment to Idam he killed Amir ibn al-Adbat al-Ashja'i after the man… - Person
Muhamed Seid Serdarevic
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Muhammad
c. 570 CEThe Prophet of Islam (c. 570–632 CE), through whom Muslims believe the Qur'an was revealed, and the founder… - Person
Muhammad Abd al-Daim al-Jundi
Secretary-General of the Islamic Research Academy of al-Azhar. He wrote the preface to the 2025 edition of… - Person
Muhammad Abd al-Rahman al-Marzuqi
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Muhammad Abduh
Egyptian reformer of the late 19th and early 20th century. Arslan, who studied under him in Beirut during… - Person
Muhammad Abu al-Layth Khayrabadi
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Muhammad Abu al-Su'ud al-Hanafi
Muhammad Abu al-Su'ud ibn al-Sayyid Ali, a Hanafi jurist. His works include Fath Allah al-Mu'in, a commentary… - Person
Muhammad Abu Khubzah
1932 CE · 1351 AH†Draft card for Muhammad Abu Khubzah, the Moroccan hadith scholar; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Muhammad Abu Zahra
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Muhammad Adil Shah of Bijapur
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Muhammad Ahmad
12 August 1844 CE · 1260 AHSudanese religious and political leader (1844–1885) and a sheikh of the Sammaniyya Sufi order. In 1881 he… - Person
Muhammad Ahmad Rayan al-Haydarabadi
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Muhammad Ajmal Raza Qadri
Pakistani preacher based in Gujranwala, Punjab, founder of Tehreek-e-Islahe Muashra (Movement for the Reform… - Person
Muhammad Akbar, Mughal
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Muhammad al-Amin al-Mithqab
1875 CE · 1292 AHA Mauritanian scholar and teacher from a learned family. - Person
Muhammad al-Amin al-Shinqiti
1875 CE · 1292 AHA Mauritanian scholar from a learned family, known for his teaching and learning in the Shinqit region. - Person
Muhammad al-Bahi
1905 CE · 1323 AH†Muhammad al-Bahi (1905-1982), Azhari scholar and thinker, first director of al-Azhar University after the… - Person
Muhammad al-Bakri al-Siddiqi, 'the greatest teacher'
Shaykh Muhammad al-Bakri al-Siddiqi — 'the greatest teacher, shaykh of his age unchallenged,' son and… - Person
Muhammad al-Baqir ibn Ali ibn al-Husayn
A Medinan Successor jurist listed by Shirazi in the second generation; Mus'ab al-Zubayri says he died in 114… - Person
Muhammad al-Bashir al-Khawja
1869 CE · 1286 AHA Tunisian historian of encyclopaedic learning. - Person
Muhammad al-Burtuqali
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Muhammad al-Faqih al-Yunini
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Muhammad al-Ghazali
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Al-Hajwi
Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Hajwi al-Tha'alibi al-Zaynabi, a Maliki of Fez. He studied in Fez under his father… - Person
Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamawi
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Al-Hattab
Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Ru'ayni, known as al-Hattab, a Maliki jurist among the Sufi… - Person
Muhammad al-Jazuli al-Sumlali
From the mountains of Sus in the Maghrib, author of the widely read Dala'il al-Khayrat on blessings upon the… - Person
Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Jurbadhaqani
933 CE · 321 AHA philologist, man of letters and Shafi'i jurist, born in Jurbadhaqan. - Person
Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khalili al-Tabrizi
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Muhammad al-Khidr Husayn
A Tunisian scholar who became Shaykh of al-Azhar and wrote on jurisprudence, legal theory, history and… - Person
Muhammad al-Maghili
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محمد المهدي السنوسي
1843 CE · 1259 AH†Muhammad al-Mahdi al-Sanusi (1843–c. 1902 CE) — second leader of the Sanusiyya, under whom its zawiyas… - Person
Muhammad al-Mahruq
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Muhammad al-Mannuni
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Muhammad al-Mukhtar al-Shinqiti
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Muhammad al-Mukhtar al-Shinqiti
1942 CE · 1361 AH†Draft card for Muhammad al-Mukhtar al-Shinqiti, the jurist and Council of Senior Scholars member; his entry… - Person
محمد النفس الزكية
Muhammad ibn Abdallah ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan ibn Ali, al-Nafs al-Zakiyya; he and his brother Ibrahim rose… - Person
Muhammad al-Nafzawi
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Muhammad al-Naqib
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Muhammad al-Nasharti
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محمد الناصر بن المنصور الموحدي
The Almohad caliph Muhammad al-Nasir b. al-Mansur; fought Ibn Ghaniya in Ifriqiya, received Mahdiyya 603,… - Person
محمد الرِّقوطي
Muhammad al-Riquti of Murcia, among the most learned Andalusis in the ancient sciences — logic, geometry,… - Person
Al-Ruhuni
Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Yusuf al-Ruhuni of Morocco, a Maliki jurist and theologian who was the reference for… - Person
Muhammad al-Sadr
Draft card for Muhammad Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr, the Iraqi Twelver marja' assassinated in 1999; his entry is… - Person
Muhammad al-Sa'idi al-Jardi
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Muhammad al-Samaluti
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Muhammad al-Samarqandi al-Husayni, the five-language munshi
Shihab al-Din Muhammad al-Samarqandi al-Husayni — munshi who wrote and composed in Arabic, Turkish, Persian,… - Person
Muhammad al-Shadhili Khuznadar
1881 CE · 1299 AHA Tunisian poet from the suburbs of Tunis, known as al-Sha'ir. - Person
Kamal al-Din al-Shamakhi al-Baku'i
A Shirvani initiatic chain in a craftsman's shop — after Shah Isma'il's fitna he came to Cairo showing no… - Person
Abu Abdallah Muhammad al-Shatibi
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Muhammad al-Shaykh al-Mamun
1566 CE · 973 AH†Draft card for Muhammad al-Shaykh al-Mamun, the Saadian sultan of Fez; his entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Muhammad al-Shaykh al-Sa'di
The Sa'di sharif, ruler of Fas, who ended Wattasid rule with some twenty thousand Ottoman-backed mujahidun,… - Person
Muhammad al-Shubrawi
Muhammad al-Shubrawi — 'much-studied and masterful in composition' per Ibn Hajar; died at the close of 814. - Person
Muhammad al-Tafilalti
A Moroccan mufti from Tafilalt, a Maliki who later followed the Hanafi school. - Person
Muhammad al-Tahir ibn Ashur
1879 CE · 1296 AHTunisian scholar, exegete and jurist (1879–1973). Educated at the Zaytuna, where he taught all his life and… - Person
Muhammad al-Tardi ibn Sawda
1707 CE · 1118 AHA jurist from a family of scholars in Fez, who was also a hadith scholar and a Sufi. - Person
Muhammad al-Tatwani
A jurist, historian and journalist from Tetouan, of Andalusian descent. - Person
Muhammad al-Yaqoubi
7 May 1963 CE · 1382 AHSyrian Islamic scholar, born in Damascus on 7 May 1963. Trained by his father Ibrahim al-Yaqoubi, an imam of… - Person
Shaykh al-Islam al-Yunini
1177 CE · 572 AHThe great Hanbali hafiz of Baalbek (b. 572, d. night of 19 Ramadan 657) — raised by Abdallah 'Lion of Syria',… - Person
Muhammad Ali
17 January 1942 CE · 1360 AHAmerican boxer and activist, born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1942. He won the… - Person
Muhammad Ali al-Hammami
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Muhammad Ali al-Sayis
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Muhammad ibn Ali al-Tahanawi, al-Faruqi
Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Muhammad Hamid ibn Muhammad Sabir al-Faruqi al-Tahanawi, from India, a Hanafi, a… - Person
Muhammad Ali Ba'alawi
c. 1764 CE · c. 1177 AH†Draft card for Muhammad ibn Ali Ba'alawi, the Hadhrami scholar; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Mohammad Ali Bogra
19 October 1909 CE · 1327 AHPakistani politician and diplomat (1909–1963) of the Backergunge nawab family, the third prime minister of… - Person
Muhammad Ali Jalandhari
1895 CE · 1312 AH†Draft card for Muhammad Ali Jalandhari, the Ahl-i Hadith leader of North India; his entry is not yet checked… - Person
Muhammad Ali Jauhar
10 December 1878 CE · 1295 AHIndian politician, journalist and poet (1878–1931), a co-founder of the All-India Muslim League and of Jamia… - Person
Muhammed Ali
British Muslim dawah speaker known by his channel name The Muslim Lantern. He debates and talks with… - Person
Muhammad Ali Mirza
4 October 1977 CE · 1397 AHPakistani Islamic scholar, lecturer and mechanical engineer, born in 1977 in Jhelum, Punjab. He lectures on… - Person
Muhammad Ali of Brunei
Draft card for Muhammad Ali, sultan of Brunei in the early seventeenth century, d. 1660; the dynastic… - Person
محمد علي باشا
c. 1769 CE · c. 1183 AH†Muhammad Ali Pasha (d. 1265 AH/1849 CE) — the Albanian-born founder of Egypt's Muhammad Ali dynasty: the Nile… - Person
Muhammad Ali (Youth Club)
Pakistani teacher, trainer and motivational speaker associated with Youth Club in Lahore, whose YouTube… - Person
Muhammad Aliuddin
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Muhammad Ameen Palanpuri
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Muhammad Amin al-Astarabadi
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Muhammad Amin Khan Turani
Draft card for Muhammad Amin Khan Turani, the eighteenth-century grand vizier of the Mughal Empire, d. 1721;… - Person
Muhammad Arabzade
Draft card for Muhammad Arabzade, the Ottoman judge and jurist, d. 1562; the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Muhammad Ardabili
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Ali al-Ardabili, the seventeenth-century scholar author of Jami' al-Ruwat, d.… - Person
Muhammad 'Ashik ibn 'Uthman ibn Bayezid
c. 1555 CE · 964 AHTurkish cosmographer born about 964 AH (1555) at Trabzon. He took part in 'Uthman Pasha's campaign in the… - Person
Muhammad Ashraf al-Azimabadi
An Indian traditionist of the Siddiqi family, author of Awn al-Mabud, a commentary on the Sunan of Abu Dawud.… - Person
Muhammad ibn Yusuf Atfiyash
Muhammad ibn Yusuf ibn 'Isa ibn Salih Atfiyash, called Qutb al-A'imma, an Ibadi scholar of Beni Isguen (Banu… - Person
Muhammad Auwal Albani Zaria
1960 CE · 1379 AH†Draft card for Muhammad Auwal Albani Zaria, the Nigerian scholar and mufassir; his entry is not yet checked… - Person
Muhammad 'Awwamah
1940 CE · 1359 AH†Draft card for Muhammad 'Awwamah, the contemporary Aleppan hadith scholar and commentator of the Muwatta; his… - Person
Muhammad Ayyub
October 1952 CE · 1372 AHSaudi reciter and scholar of Rohingya (Arakan) origin (1952–2016), born in Mecca, imam of the Prophet's… - Person
Muhammad Bakhit Mutii
1854 CE · 1270 AH†Draft card for Muhammad Bakhit Mutii, the mufti of Egypt; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Muhammad Baqir al-Bihbahani
Draft card for Muhammad Baqir al-Bihbahani, known as al-Wahid al-Bihbahani, the eighteenth-century marja' who… - Person
Muhammad Baqir al-Istahbanati
Draft card for Muhammad Baqir al-Istahbanati, the mathematician and jurist; the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Muhammad Baqir al-Majlisi
Draft card for Muhammad Baqir al-Majlisi, the Imami scholar and shaykh al-islam of late Safavid Iran author… - Person
Muhammad Baqir al-Sabzawari
Draft card for Muhammad Baqir al-Sabzawari, the seventeenth-century jurist, d. 1679; the biographical entry… - Person
Muhammad Bazmool
Saudi scholar from Makkah, professor in the Department of the Book and the Sunna at the College of Da'wa and… - Person
Muhammad ben Ali al-Siti
Draft card for Muhammad ben Ali ibn Sulayman al-Siti, the Maghribi scholar; his entry is not yet checked on… - Person
Molla Muhammad Bik
Bayezid's mamluk who left the amirate for scholarship — served Ibn Kamal Pasha as his repetitor; after a bout… - Person
Muhammad bin Abdurrahman Assegaf
17 April 1972 CE · 1392 AHSaudi preacher of Yemeni Hadrami origin, born in Seiyun in 1972 and raised in Jeddah. A researcher in the… - Person
Muhammad Bin Shams El-Din
1988 CE · 1408 AHSyrian preacher resident in Germany, owner of a widely followed YouTube channel and founder of the Talib… - Person
Muhammed Demirtasi
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Muhammad Effendi al-Budayri
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محمد فريد
1867 CE · 1284 AH†Muhammad Farid (1867–1919 CE) — Mustafa Kamil's successor as leader of Egypt's National Party and historian… - Person
Muhammad Farid Wajdi
Muhammad Farid Wajdi, former editor-in-chief of the al-Azhar magazine and a writer who answered scientific… - Person
Muhammad Hadi Assegaf
2012 CE · 1433 AH†Indonesian singer of shalawat and religious songs who began performing as a six-year-old in 2018 and became… - Person
Muhammad Hamid al-Maraghi
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Muhammad Hamidullah
Draft card for Muhammad Hamidullah, the Indian polymath who translated al-Bukhari into French and wrote on… - Person
Muhammad Hanif Gangohi
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Muhammad Hayat al-Sindi
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Muhammad Hijazi al-Wa'iz
Draft card for Muhammad Hijazi al-Wa'iz, the Egyptian exegete and muhaddith, d. 1625; the biographical entry… - Person
Muhammad Husain Azad
5 May 1830 CE · 1245 AHUrdu writer and poet (1830–1910) of Delhi who settled in Lahore after his father, the journalist Moulvi… - Person
Muhammad Husayn Haykal
20 August 1888 CE · 1305 AHEgyptian writer, journalist and politician (1888–1956), author of Zaynab (1914), regarded by many critics as… - Person
Muhammad Husayn Kashmiri
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Muhammad Husayn Kaziruni
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محمد الأول بن عبد الرحمن
c. 823 CE · c. 207 AHSixth Umayyad emir of Córdoba (AH 238–273): he ambushed Toledo and its Galician-Pamplonan allies at Wadi… - Person
محمد بن يوسف بن نصر بن الأحمر
Founder of the Nasrid house: of Arjuna's military families near Cordoba, counted to Sa'd b. Ubada of the… - Person
محمد الأول جلبي
1379 CE · 781 AHMehmed I (1379–1421 CE) — the youngest of Bayezid's sons, who fell back on Amasya after Ankara and beat his… - Person
Muhammad I, Khwarazmshah
Draft card for Qutb al-Din Muhammad ibn Anushtegin, founder of the later Khwarazmshah line who made Khwarazm… - Person
القاضي محمد بن إسماعيل بن عباد
Abu al-Qasim Muhammad b. Isma'il b. Abbad — the qadi who founded the Abbadid state; the Sevillans leapt on… - Person
Muhammad b. Abd al-Hadi al-Maqdisi
The last to transmit by ijaza from the musnida Shahda — a devout elder killed by the Tatars at Sawiya near… - Person
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Hadi al-Sindi
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Abd al-Hadi al-Sindi, the eighteenth-century jurist and linguist of Medina, d.… - Person
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Hamid al-Usmandi
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Muhammad ibn Abd al-Haqq al-Marini
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Haqq al-Marini, nicknamed Abu Darba ('father of the blow'); succeeding his brother Uthman… - Person
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Kabir al-Kettani
1873 CE · 1290 AH†Draft card for Muhammad ibn Abd al-Kabir al-Kettani, the Moroccan Sufi scholar and leader; his entry is not… - Person
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Karim
The Almohad army-commander at Mahdiyya — feared by every Arab of Ifriqiya — who rebelled over the Banu Awf… - Person
محمد بن عبد الملك الزيات
Al-Mu'tasim's vizier; he elegized him joining condolence and congratulation — 'go, for a fine keeper you were… - Person
محمد بن عبد الملك بن سعيد
The great Almohad wazir of Granada, born 514, who saw the Prophet's letter to Heraclius still honoured at… - Person
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Alqami
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Alqami, the sixteenth-century Egyptian jurist, d. 1561; the… - Person
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Iji
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Iji, the Persian jurist and exegete, d. 1500; the biographical… - Person
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr
Muhammad b. Abd al-Rahman b. Abi Bakr — ancestor of the Al Abi 'Atiq branch; when Abu Bakr's descendants vied… - Person
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Layla
c. 693 CE · 74 AH - Person
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Nawfal
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Nawfal, the eighth-century muhaddith, d. 750; the biographical… - Person
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Thawban
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Thawban al-Qurashi al-Amiri. He transmitted from Abu Hurayra, Abu Sa'id,… - Person
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Salam al-Hawwari
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Abd al-Salam al-Hawwari, the thirteenth-fourteenth century Maliki jurist; the… - Person
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, the Najdi preacher at whose hand the Wahhabi call arose, named… - Person
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahid al-Mallahi
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahid al-Mallahi, the Andalusian scholar and poet, b. 1154; the… - Person
Muhammad ibn Abd Allah Bulayhid
1892 CE · 1310 AHA Saudi scholar born in 1310 AH from the Bulayhid family of Najd, recorded in modern biographical sources. - Person
محمد بن عبد الله بن عبد الحكم
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Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Barqi
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Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Muthanna
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Ibn al-Wakil (Muhammad ibn Abd Allah, d. 738 AH)
Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Umar ibn Makki ibn Abd al-Samad, Abu Abd Allah al-Umawi al-Dimashqi, known as Ibn… - Person
محمد بن عبد الله بن طاهر
The amir of Baghdad; al-Mu'tazz gave him the royal khil'a and girded him with two swords, then deposed him. - Person
Muhammad ibn Abdallah al-Tamirtashi
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Abdallah al-Tamirtashi, the sixteenth-century jurist, d. 1596; the source entry… - Person
Abu Bakr al-Zaqqaq
Abu Bakr al-Zaqqaq, one of the Sufi shaykhs; Ibn al-Sammak and Abu 'Amr transmitted from him. - Person
Muhammad ibn Abdallah ibn Khazim
Muhammad ibn Abdallah ibn Khazim al-Sulami; made over Herat by his father, he was killed in Tamim's rising —… - Person
Muhammad ibn Abi'l-Azhar
The littérateur who baited Ibn al-Mudabbir and Ibn al-A'rabi into praising then damning unattributed Abu… - Person
محمد بن أبي الليث
Egypt's chief qadi; in 237 al-Mutawakkil ordered his beard shaved, his beating and a donkey-parade — 'and… - Person
Muhammad ibn Abi al-Qasim Ibn al-Anbari
884 CE · 271 AHThe philologist, grammarian and transmitter of poetry Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abi al-Qasim ibn Bashshar… - Person
محمد بن أبي بكر الصديق
10 AHSon of Abu Bakr, born on the Farewell Pilgrimage as the Prophet set out from al-Juhfa for Mecca and named for… - Person
Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr al-Baghdadi
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr al-Baghdadi, the thirteenth-century Shafi'i preacher and jurist, d.… - Person
Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr al-Bakri
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Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr al-Shilli
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr al-Shilli, the Yemeni scholar and Sufi, d. 1682; the biographical entry… - Person
Muhammad ibn Abi Hudhayfa
Born in the land of Abyssinia to his father Abu Hudhayfa; Ibn Ishaq names him among 'their children in… - Person
Muhammad ibn Abi l-Saj
The Sajid of Azerbaijan whose death in 288 split his following between brother Yusuf and son Bawdar. - Person
Muhammad ibn Adam Al-Kawthari
1976 CE · 1396 AH†British jurist and mufti from Leicester, founder and Chief Mufti of Darul Ifta Leicester and a teacher at… - Person
Muhammad ibn Ahmad Aknasus
1776 CE · 1190 AH†The Sufi preacher Muhammad ibn Ahmad Aknasus, a figure of the Tijani order in the Sus region of Morocco; the… - Person
Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Ahsa'i
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Ahsa'i, the Ahsa'i Hanafi jurist, d. 1672; the biographical entry is not… - Person
Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Andarshi al-Balansi
The jurist and physician Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Andarshi al-Balansi, who died at Tunis in 674 AH… - Person
Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Ashmawi
Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Yahya ibn Hijazi al-Ashmawi al-Azhari. He studied fiqh under Shaykh Abd al-Diwi and… - Person
Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Dayruti
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Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Dibaji
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Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khu'i
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khu'i, the thirteenth-century muhaddith, qadi and jurist, d. 1294; the… - Person
Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Manhaji al-Asyuti
Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Abd al-Khaliq, Shams al-Din, al-Asyuti then al-Qahiri, a Shafi'i jurist and… - Person
Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Rahuni (Maliki jurist)
Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Yusuf, Abu Abdallah al-Rahuni of Morocco, a Maliki jurist and theologian… - Person
Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Utbi
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Utbi, the ninth-century Andalusi jurist, d. 869; the biographical entry… - Person
Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn al-Walid al-Karkhi
Abu Ali Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn al-Walid al-Karkhi, the shaykh of the Mu'tazila. He… - Person
Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Hafs
877 CE · 263 AH†Draft card for Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Hafs, the third-century hadith scholar; his entry is not yet checked on… - Person
Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Isa
The Shaybanid who held Amad against al-Mu'tadid's siege in 286 until forced down on terms. - Person
Muhammad ibn Ahmad Ulaysh, Abu Abd Allah
Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad Ulaysh, Abu Abd Allah, from Tripoli in the West, born and died in Cairo. The… - Person
Muhammad ibn Ajud al-Jabri
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Ajud al-Jabri, of the Jabrid governors of al-Ahsa and Bahrain, d. 1511; the… - Person
Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath al-Khuza'i
Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath al-Khuza'i; Abu al-Abbas gave him Ifriqiya — he repaired Qayrawan's city and mosque —… - Person
Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath al-Kindi
Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath ibn Qays al-Kindi; Ubaydallah ibn Ziyad's governor of Tabaristan — he treated and… - Person
Abu Bakr ibn al-Fadl (Muhammad ibn al-Fadl al-Fadli)
Muhammad ibn al-Fadl, Abu Bakr al-Fadli al-Kamari, from Kamar near Bukhara, a jurist and mufti. He learned… - Person
Muhammad al-Jarjara'i
Al-Mutawakkil's first wazir, dismissed for 'Ubaydallah ibn Yahya. - Person
Muhammad ibn al-Fadl al-Kammari
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Fadl al-Kammari. He studied fiqh under the master Abu Muhammad Abd Allah ibn… - Person
Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyya
Ali's son by a Hanifa woman — the dying caliph commended him to honour his brothers and charged them 'he is… - Person
Muhammad ibn al-Harith al-Khushani
An Andalusian historian of Kairouan, named al-Khushani. - Person
محمد بن الحسن بن جعفر العلوي
Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Ja'far the Talibid; he and his brother Ali stormed Medina in Safar 271, killing… - Person
Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Asbahani
Abu Ja'far al-Asbahani, settled at Baghdad and transmitted there from Bakr ibn Bakkar and others — a… - Person
Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Saffar
Draft card for Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Saffar, the ninth-century muhaddith, d. 902; the… - Person
Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Shaybani
Abu Hanifa's great disciple and qadi — dead at Rayy in 189 travelling with al-Rashid. - Person
Muhammad ibn al-Jayyib al-'Alami (Moroccan poet, d. 1134/1721–23)
Muhammad ibn al-Jayyib al-'Alami, a Moroccan poet and man of letters of the 'Alamiyyun sharifs, born and… - Person
محمد بن المكتفي
Al-Muktafi's son; asked to take the caliphate when al-Muqtadir was killed, he declined — 'my uncle is… - Person
Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir
Draft card for Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir al-Qurashi, the eighth-century Medinan Successor, d. 747; the… - Person
Abu al-Darda' Muhammad ibn al-Musayyib al-Uqayli
Abu al-Darda' Muhammad ibn al-Musayyib ibn Rafi' ibn Muqallad, amir of Banu Uqayl and founder of their rule… - Person
Muhammad ibn al-Qasim al-Thaqafi
Muhammad ibn al-Qasim al-Thaqafi, conqueror of Sind in al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik's caliphate; in… - Person
Muhammad ibn al-Qasim al-'Alawi
The devout 'Alid of Kufa who fled al-Mu'tasim to Khurasan — captured by 'Abdallah ibn Tahir, then either… - Person
Muhammad ibn al-Uqbani
Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Qasim ibn Sa'id, Abu Abd Allah al-Uqbani al-Tilimsani: a jurist of Tlemcen who held… - Person
محمد بن الوليد الزبيدي
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Muhammad ibn al-Wathiq
An Abbasid prince, son of al-Wathiq. When al-Mu'tazz was brought before the court, Muhammad ibn al-Wathiq… - Person
Muhammad ibn al-Wazir al-Hafiz
Damascene poet whose rice-panegyric graced al-Mustakfi's table. - Person
Muhammad b. Abdallah al-Yunini
1205 CE · 602 AHSon of 'Lion of Syria' Abdallah al-Yunini (b. 602, d. Rajab 651) — succeeded his father at Baalbek in… - Person
Muhammad ibn Ali al-Abbasi
Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abdallah ibn al-Abbas, head of the da'wa; in al-Baladhuri he renamed Ali's mawla Yahya… - Person
Muhammad ibn Ali al-Abdi
The Khurasani chronicler whom al-Qahir forced at spearpoint to describe every Abbasid caliph's character. - Person
Muhammad ibn Ali al-Ansari al-Jayyani
1098 CE · 492 AHThe traditionist, Qur'an commentator and reader Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ali al-Ansari al-Jayyani, born at Jaen… - Person
Muhammad ibn Ali al-Azafi
Muhammad ibn Ali al-Azafi, master of Ceuta when Sultan Abu al-Hasan took it; the sultan gave him command of… - Person
Muhammad ibn Ali al-Hadi
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Ali al-Hadi, the son of Imam Ali al-Hadi buried near Samarra; his entry is not… - Person
Muhammad al-Jawad
Ali al-Rida's son — dead Dhu'l-Hijja 219 aged twenty-five, buried by his grandfather Musa at the Quraysh… - Person
محمد بن علي الخراساني
Summoned before al-Qahir with the spear laid before him, he answered the caliph's question on the characters… - Person
Muhammad ibn Ali al-Nasafi
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محمد بن علي السنوسي
c. 1787 CE · c. 1201 AH†Muhammad ibn Ali al-Sanusi (d. 1275 AH/1859 CE) — founder of the Sanusiyya order: Mostaganem, Fez, Mecca's… - Person
Muhammad ibn Ali al-Suri the muhaddith
The muhaddith al-Suri — a latecomer to hadith who became its most zealous collector (eighty lines to a… - Person
Muhammad ibn Ali al-Zamlakani
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Ali al-Zamlakani, the jurist and qadi of the Damascene Zamlakani family; the… - Person
Muhammad ibn Arraq (Ibn 'Iraq al-Sufi)
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Arraq, the Levantine Sufi and writer d. 1526; the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Muhammad ibn Aslam al-Tusi
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Aslam al-Tusi, the ninth-century imam and muhaddith, d. 856; the biographical… - Person
Muhammad ibn Azhar ad-Din
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Muhammad ibn Bakhtiyar Khalji
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Bakhtiyar Khalji, the Ghurid commander who took Bengal and Nalanda, named from an… - Person
محمد بن بشر
A Baghdad claimant to divinity (rububiyya), seized with a band of followers in Sha'ban 298. - Person
جمال الدين محمد بن بوري
Jamal al-Din Muhammad ibn Buri, Burid amir of Damascus; he took the amirate after his brother Mahmud's murder… - Person
Muhammad ibn Dawud al-Asbahani
Abu Bakr al-Asbahani, author of Kitab al-Zahra — scholar, belletrist, jurist, debater and eloquent poet; the… - Person
Muhammad ibn Dawud al-Saydalani
A Shafii jurist and traditionist of Marw, called al-Saydalani after the perfume trade and also al-Dawudi… - Person
Muhammad ibn Dawud al-Zahiri
Draft card for Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Dawud al-Zahiri, son of the Zahiri school's founder who taught his… - Person
محمد بن داود بن الجراح
A Jarrahid vizier of Baghdad, one of the chiefs of the 296 deposition of al-Muqtadir; Ibn al-Mu'tazz made him… - Person
Muhammad ibn Falah
1400 CE · 802 AH†Draft card for Muhammad ibn Falah, founder of the Musha'sha' state in Arabistan; his entry is not yet checked… - Person
Muhammad ibn Fattuh al-Humaydi
Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Abi Nasr Fattuh ibn Abd Allah al-Azdi al-Humaydi al-Andalusi al-Mayurqi, known as… - Person
Muhammad ibn Hajj al-Tilimsani
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Hajj al-Tilimsani, the eighth-century-AH Maghrebi scholar; his entry is not yet… - Person
Muhammad ibn Hamid al-Bukhari
Muhammad ibn Hamid ibn Ali, Abu Bakr al-Bukhari, a Hanafi jurist. He heard from al-Haytham ibn Kulayb… - Person
Muhammad ibn Hamud ibn Rabi'an
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Hamud ibn Rabi'an, a chief of the Arabian Peninsula; the biographical entry is… - Person
Muhammad ibn Hamza al-Molla
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Muhammad ibn Hamza Aydini
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Hamza Aydini, the Ottoman writer (mufti and theologian, d. 1706); the… - Person
Muhammad ibn Harun al-Namari
Muhammad ibn Harun ibn Dhar' al-Namari; al-Hajjaj's Makran governor — in his day the king of Jazirat al-Yaqut… - Person
Muhammad ibn Harun al-Ruyani
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Muhammad ibn Hatib
Son of Hatib ibn al-Harith and Fatima bint al-Mujallal; he arrived with his mother and brother in one of the… - Person
Muhammad ibn Hazim al-Bahili
The poet of the Buran wedding's double-edged epigram — 'you have triumphed, but by the basest of men' — which… - Person
محمد بن هشام المهدي
Muhammad ibn Hisham ibn Abd al-Jabbar, an Umayyad of Cordoba who seized the city in 399 as 'al-Mahdi', hid… - Person
Muhammad ibn Humayd al-Tusi
The amir of Tus whose drinking-party ended when his page and singer drowned themselves for love in the Tigris. - Person
Muhammad ibn Husayn al-Zaghuli
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Abu Hamza al-Sufi al-Baghdadi
Abu Hamza the Sufi of Baghdad, dean of the Sufi shaykhs, preacher at the Rusafa then the Medina mosques,… - Person
Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Ali
Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Ali al-Hashimi; in al-Baladhuri: sent to Malatya in year 141 at the… - Person
Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Imadi
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Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Mutatabbib
Personal physician to the Ottoman sultan Ahmad I, who ascended the throne in 1603. - Person
Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Nu'mani
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Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Sahuli
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Sahuli, the Yemeni scholar and poet, d. 1698; the biographical entry… - Person
Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Mus'ab
Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Mus'ab; al-Mu'tasim sent him with the court's joined troops against Mazyar beside… - Person
Abu Hatim al-Handhali al-Razi
Abu Hatim al-Handhali of Rayy, counted among the imam-huffaz who knew hadith-defects and the science of jarh… - Person
Muhammad ibn Idris II
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Muhammad ibn Isa Al Khalifa
1876 CE · 1293 AHA prince and poet of the Al Khalifa family of Bahrain. - Person
Muhammad ibn Ishaq al-Fakihi
c. 839 CE · c. 224 AH†Draft card for Muhammad ibn Ishaq al-Fakihi, the historian of Mecca and author of its annals; his entry is… - Person
Muhammad ibn Ishaq al-Saghani
790 CE · 174 AH†Draft card for Muhammad ibn Ishaq al-Saghani, the third-century hadith scholar; his entry is not yet checked… - Person
Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Amir al-San'ani
1099 AHMuhammad ibn Ismail ibn Salah al-Kahlani then al-San'ani, known as al-Amir, a mujtahid titled al-Mu'ayyad… - Person
Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Wana'i
Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Ismail ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad. He took up learning, studied under Shaykh Shams… - Person
محمد بن إياس الأزدي
Father of Abu Zakariya Yazid ibn Muhammad, author of the Tarikh al-Mawsil; a virtuous man, he died in 298. - Person
Muhammad ibn Jabir al-Marwazi
Muhammad ibn Jabir ibn Hammad, Abu Abd Allah al-Marwazi, a memorizer and jurist, who heard from Hudba ibn… - Person
Muhammad ibn Ja'far ibn Yahya
The Alid fugitive to lower Tahert — 'just and upright' among his followers, dead by poison in the Maghreb. - Person
Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (Imami)
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari the Imami, the fourteenth-century jurist; the biographical entry… - Person
Muhammad ibn Ka'b al-Qurazi
Muhammad ibn Ka'b ibn Hayyan ibn Sulaym, Abu Hamza and Abu Abd Allah al-Qurazi, of Medina: a Successor and… - Person
Ibn al-Murabit (Muhammad ibn Khalaf)
Muhammad ibn Khalaf ibn Sa'id ibn Wahb, Abu Abd Allah, of al-Mariyya in al-Andalus, known as Ibn al-Murabit,… - Person
Muhammad ibn Khalifa al-Nabhani
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Muhammad ibn Khalil Qabaqibi
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Muhammad ibn Khalil al-Qawuqji
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Khalil al-Qawuqji, the khatib and scholar of Tripoli; his entry is not yet… - Person
Muhammad ibn Khazrun
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Khazrun, the emir of the Taifa of Arcos, d. c. 1100; the biographical entry is… - Person
Al-Asrushani (Muhammad ibn Mahmud, Hanafi jurist)
Muhammad ibn Mahmud ibn Husayn, Abu al-Fath Majd al-Din al-Asrushani, from Asrushana east of Samarqand, a… - Person
Muhammad ibn Mahmud al-Shirwani
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Mahmud al-Shirwani, the Ottoman physician and writer, d. 1451; the biographical… - Person
Muhammad ibn Mahran
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Muhammad ibn Makki al-Amili
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Makki al-Amili known as al-Shahid al-Awwal, the fourteenth-century jurist of… - Person
السلطان محمد بن ملكشاه غياث الدنيا والدين
Malikshah's son; he beat his brother Barkyaruq and was invested Ghiyath al-Dunya wa'l-Din with khutba at… - Person
Muhammad ibn Marwan
Muhammad ibn Marwan ibn al-Hakam; he governed Mosul, the Jazira, Armenia and Azerbaijan for his father… - Person
Muhammad ibn Maslama
A Companion of the Aws who embraced Islam early at the hands of Mus'ab ibn Umayr and was paired by the… - Person
Muhammad ibn Mas'ud al-Ayyashi
Muhammad b. Mas'ud al-'Ayyashi, a Shi'i writer from Samarkand in the third/ninth century, credited with more… - Person
Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Mukhtar al-Shanqiti
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Muhammad ibn Muhammad Makhluf
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Muhammad ibn Mulla Mir al-Husayni
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Muhammad ibn Musa al-Balasaghuni
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Musa al-Balasaghuni, the twelfth-century Hanafi jurist, d. 1112; the biographical… - Person
al-Wasiti (Ibn al-Farghani)
Abu Bakr al-Wasiti of Farghana, among the earliest companions of al-Junayd, resident of Marw; his own… - Person
Muhammad ibn Musa ibn Hafs ibn Umar ibn al-Ala'
Muhammad ibn Musa ibn Hafs ibn Umar ibn al-Ala'; with Mazyar ibn Qarin he conquered the Shirwin mountains —… - Person
Muhammad ibn Mus'ab al-Thaqafi
Muhammad ibn Mus'ab ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Thaqafi; sent on Sadusan he took the samaniyya-brokered aman —… - Person
Muhammad ibn Musafir al-Tarumi
Muhammad ibn Musafir, a Daylamite magnate and master of al-Tarum castle; he married into the Kurdish chiefs… - Person
Muhammad ibn Mustafa al-Bakri
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Muhammad ibn Mustafa Bayram
1840 CE · 1256 AHA Tunisian scholar of the Bayram family who lived through the early French period. - Person
Muhammad ibn Mustafa al-Wani
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محمد بن نافع الخزاعي
He examined the Black Stone while it lay uprooted: the blackness only at its head, the rest white, its length… - Person
Muhammad ibn Najah
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Muhammad ibn Najm al-Din al-Salehi
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Muhammad ibn Nasir al-Ghafiri
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Nasir al-Ghafiri, the early-eighteenth-century Ya'rubid sultan of Oman; his entry… - Person
محمد بن نصر المروزي
c. 818 CE · 202 AH - Person
Muhammad ibn Nasr ibn Bassam
Abu Ja'far the munificent — his Armenian-plastered dome, giraffe-necked brazier and thousand-apple ewers;… - Person
Muhammad ibn Nuh al-Jundisaburi al-Madrub
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Nuh al-Jundisaburi al-Madrub, the third-century hadith scholar; his entry is not… - Person
محمد بن نوح العجلي
One of the hadith men who refused, with Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Sajjada and al-Qawariri, to affirm the Quran… - Person
Muhammad ibn Nusayr
Muhammad ibn Nusayr al-Namiri, eponym of the Nusayriyya; al-Shahrastani transmits from al-Nawbakhti that he… - Person
Muhammad ibn Qasim al-Ghazzi
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Qasim al-Ghazzi, the sixteenth-century Shafi'i jurist author of Fath al-Qarib, d.… - Person
Muhammad ibn Qasim al-Qassar al-Fasi (Maliki jurist of Fez)
A Maliki jurist and traditionist of Fez, known as al-Qassar; the Shajara al-Nur al-Zakiya calls him the mufti… - Person
Muhammad ibn Qasim ibn al-Rassas
Muhammad ibn Qasim, Abu Abd Allah al-Ansari al-Tilimsani then al-Tunisi al-Maghribi, a Maliki, known as Ibn… - Person
Muhammad ibn Rabi'a al-Awsaji
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محمد بن رائق
Amir of Wasit; in 324 he prevailed over the state — the vizierate lapsed, the money flowed to him, al-Radi… - Person
محمد بن سعد كاتب الواقدي
كاتب الواقدي وصاحب الطبقات، أشخصه المأمون سنة ثمان عشرة ضمن السبعة الأوائل للمحنة بخلق القرآن فأجاب ورد من… - Person
Jamal al-Din Muhammad b. Sa'd al-Din, King of Abyssinia's Muslims
Jamal al-Din Muhammad b. Sa'd al-Din, king of the Muslims of Abyssinia — multitudes of Abyssinians entered… - Person
Muhammad ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, the hadith scholar and son of the conqueror of Iraq; his… - Person
Muhammad ibn Safwan al-Ansari
Muhammad ibn Safwan, Abu Marhab, al-Ansari, a Companion. Some give the name as Safwan ibn Muhammad; al-Tabari… - Person
Muhammad ibn Sa'id al-Ru'ayni
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Sa'id al-Ru'ayni, the Moroccan jurist and literary scholar, d. 1376; the… - Person
Muhammad b. Salih Reis
Beylerbey of Algiers after Hasan b. Khayr al-Din, from Dhu'l-Hijja 974/June 1567; his term met plague,… - Person
Muhammad ibn Salim al-Hanafi
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Salim al-Hanafi, the eighteenth-century Grand Imam of al-Azhar, b. 1688; the… - Person
Muhammad ibn Saud
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Saud, emir of Diriyah, founder of the first Saudi state and ally of the Wahhabi… - Person
al-Qadi al-Judhu'i
Abu 'Abdallah 'al-Judhu'i', the Ansari qadi and traditionist; when al-Mu'tamid summoned the judges and… - Person
Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Marwarudhi (Ibn Shammas)
Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Hamid ibn Na'im ibn Shammas al-Marwarudhi, who died in 282 AH as the book gives. He… - Person
Muhammad ibn Shihab al-Zuhri
The scholar who read out Sulayman's sealed succession at Marj Dabiq — 'do you accept whom the Commander named… - Person
Muhammad ibn Shuja al-Thalji
Muhammad ibn Shuja al-Thalji, Abu Abd Allah, a Baghdadi Hanafi, a companion of al-Hasan ibn Ziyad, the… - Person
Muhammad ibn Sinan al-Ujli
Muhammad ibn Sinan al-Ujli of Banu Ujul's Kufan clients; one of the eighty al-Hajjaj posted to the Daylam… - Person
Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Abbasi
Muhammad ibn Sulayman ibn Ali al-Abbasi; in his Basra governorship al-Mahdi bought into the mosque the houses… - Person
Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Katib
Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Katib, from Diyar Mudar of al-Raqqa; Ahmad ibn Tulun's own protege in Egypt until… - Person
Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Kurdi
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Kurdi al-Madani, the eighteenth-century jurist and teacher, d. 1780;… - Person
Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Tunkabuni
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Muhammad ibn Suri
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Suri, the king of Ghur acclaimed by its mountaineers until his death at Ghaznavid… - Person
Muhammad ibn Talha al-Sajjad
Talha's son 'the Worshipful' — killed beside his father at the Camel, Ali pausing to say 'his filial piety… - Person
Ibn Tamim al-Harrani
A Hanbali jurist from Harran who studied under Majd al-Din Ibn Taymiyya, Abu al-Faraj Ibn Abi al-Fahm and… - Person
محمد بن طغج الإخشيد
Son of Tughj, lord of Egypt titled al-Ikhshid; he came to al-Muttaqi at Raqqa as the truce with Tuzun ripened… - Person
Muhammad ibn Tughluq
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Tughluq, the eighteenth sultan of Delhi and second of the Tughluq house, famed… - Person
محمد بن تومرت المهدي
Muhammad ibn Tumart of Hargha, the Mahdi of the Almohads; after travels to the Mashriq — where he was said to… - Person
Muhammad ibn Umar al-Kashi
854 CE · 240 AH†Draft card for Muhammad ibn Umar al-Kashi, the fourth-century scholar; his entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Muhammad ibn Umar al-Tunisi
1790 CE · 1204 AHA Tunisian traveller and scholar whose family was spread between Egypt and the Maghrib. - Person
محمد بن أم شيبان الهاشمي القاضي
Abu'l-Hasan the Hashimite; al-Muti' invested him with the judgeship in 363 after refusals, on his own… - Person
Muhammad ibn Waddah al-Qurtubi
815 CE · 199 AH†Draft card for Muhammad ibn Waddah al-Qurtubi, the Andalusi jurist and hadith scholar author of the Kitab… - Person
Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Dhuhli
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Dhuhli al-Nisaburi, the ninth-century muhaddith among al-Bukhari's… - Person
Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Habban
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Habban, the muhaddith and mufti; his entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
محمد بن ياقوت
Baghdad commander sent against Mu'nis in 320 whose men deserted; he talked the despairing caliph out of… - Person
Muhammad ibn Yazid ibn Muslama
The Umayyad prince of Hisn Muslama, sole Arab said to have described the ten race-course ranks in verse. - Person
Abu Umar Muhammad ibn Yusuf ibn Ya'qub
Son of the qadi Yusuf ibn Ya'qub; invested on 14 Rabi' I 284 with the judgeship of Madinat Ja'far in place of… - Person
Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Alawi
The Alid who ruled Mecca after his brother until Abu l-Saj al-Ashrusi drove him out. - Person
Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Isbiri
Draft card for Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Isbiri, the Ottoman-Syrian jurist and exegete, d. 1780; the biographical… - Person
محمد بن زياد الأعرابي
A linguist; asked about 'Banat Tariq' in Hind bint Utba's verse he found no such ancestor — al-Ma'mun… - Person
Muhammad Ibrahim al-Maydani al-Darir, Hanafi jurist of Nishapur
Muhammad ibn Ibrahim, Abu Bakr, the blind al-Maydani (from Maydan in Nishapur). al-Dhahabi calls him one of… - Person
Muhammad II of Ifriqiya
Draft card for Abu al-Gharaniq Muhammad ibn Ahmad, the Aghlabid emir of Ifriqiya from 864 to 875; the… - Person
Muhammad al-Mutawakkil 'ala-llah al-Sa'di
Son of Abdallah al-Ghalib; he succeeded his father harbouring ill for his uncles Abd al-Malik and Ahmad… - Person
Muhammad III ibn al-Mamun
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Muhammad III of Morocco
Draft card for Muhammad III, the Marinid sultan of Morocco who made peace with Castile from 1372 to 1374; his… - Person
Muhammad III al-Mustakfi
Draft card for Muhammad III al-Mustakfi bi-llah, Umayyad caliph of Cordoba 1024–1025 in the Andalusi fitna,… - Person
Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi
c. 1885 CE · 1303 AHIndian scholar (1885–1944) of Kandhla, a scholar of the Deobandi movement and the founder of the Tablighi… - Person
Muhammad Iqbal
1877 CE · 1294 AH†Muhammad Iqbal. - Person
Muhammad Islam Qasmi
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Muhammad IV al-Mutawakkil, Hafsid
Draft card for Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Mutawakkil, the Hafsid caliph from 1494 to 1526 in the dynasty's… - Person
Muhammad IV of Granada
Draft card for Abu Abdallah Muhammad IV ibn Yusuf, Nasrid sultan of Granada from 1325 assassinated in 1333;… - Person
Muhammad Jabir Qasmi
1943 CE · 1362 AH†Draft card for Muhammad Jabir Qasmi, the Indian Deobandi scholar; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Muhammad Ja'far al-Bahbahani
Draft card for Muhammad Ja'far al-Bahbahani, the thirteenth-century scholar, d. 1259; the biographical entry… - Person
Muhammad Ja'far Sabzevari
Draft card for Muhammad Ja'far Sabzevari, the eighteenth-century scholar, d. 1722; the biographical entry is… - Person
Muhammad Jahangir Khan
Draft card for Muhammad Jahangir Khan, the sixteenth-century Sufi saint; the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Muhammad Jalal
Presenter of The Thinking Muslim podcast, an English-language programme of long-form interviews on Muslim… - Person
Muhammad Jamalul Alam II
1889 CE · 1306 AH†The 26th Sultan of Brunei (1906–1924), son of Hashim Jalilul Alam Aqamaddin. He came to the throne aged… - Person
Muhammad Juki
Draft card for Qutb al-Din Muhammad Juki, the fifteenth-century Timurid prince, son of Shah Rukh and patron… - Person
Muhammad Khan Ustajlu
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Muhammad Kholil al-Bangkalani
1834 CE · 1250 AH†Draft card for Kyai Kholil Bangkalan, the venerated scholar of Madura and teacher of Nahdlatul Ulama… - Person
خوارزم شاه علاء الدين محمد
The Khwarazmshah who ruled Khurasan and Transoxiana, cut the Abbasid khutba and marched on Baghdad till… - Person
Muhammad Kibrit al-Madani
Draft card for Muhammad Kibrit al-Madani, the seventeenth-century Hejazi Sufi, writer, traveller and poet, d.… - Person
Muhammad Kurd Ali
1876 CE · 1293 AHSyrian historian, man of letters and journalist (1876–1953), founder of the Academy of the Arabic Language in… - Person
Muhammad Luthfi Ali Yahya
1947 CE · 1366 AH†Draft card for Habib Muhammad Luthfi Ali Yahya, head of Indonesia's Ahlussunnah wal Jama'ah council; his… - Person
Muhammad Mahdi al-Naraqi
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Muhammad Mahdi Bahr al-Ulum
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Muhammad Makki Hijazi
Draft card for Muhammad Makki Hijazi; the entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Muhammad Malik Kandhalvi
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Muhammad Mayyara
Draft card for Muhammad Mayyara, the seventeenth-century Moroccan jurist author of al-Durr al-Thamin, d.… - Person
Muhammad Mirza Shaykh the Timurid
Muhammad Mirza Shaykh, Timur's cousin and lord of Fars — 'much given to justice and beneficence'; his brother… - Person
Muhammad Mu'min al-Jaza'iri
Draft card for Muhammad Mu'min al-Jaza'iri, the Safavid writer and poet, d. 1717; the biographical entry is… - Person
Muhammad Munir
1895 CE · 1312 AH†Muhammad Munir (1895–1979) was a Pakistani judge, the second Chief Justice of Pakistan (1954–1960), whose… - Person
Muhammad al-Muntasir II, Hafsid
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Muhammad Murad al-Bukhari
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Muhammad Musa al-Mudhahhib
Draft card for Muhammad Musa al-Mudhahhib, the Persian illuminator and scribe active c. 1517–1518; the… - Person
Muhammad Mustafa al-Maraghi
9 March 1881 CE · 1298 AHEgyptian scholar and judge (1881–1945) who served twice as Grand Imam (Sheikh) of al-Azhar (1928–1929 and… - Person
Muhammad Mutawalli al-Sha'rawi
15 April 1911 CE · 1329 AHEgyptian Qur'an commentator and religious scholar, famed for his televised reflections (khawatir) on the… - Person
Muhammad Naim Yasin
Draft card for Muhammad Naim Yasin; the entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Muhammad Nurbakhsh Qahistani
1392 CE · 794 AH†Draft card for Muhammad Nurbakhsh Qahistani, the founder of the Nurbakhshiyya; his entry is not yet checked… - Person
Muhammad Nuri al-Kilani
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Muhammad Qadri
Draft card for Muhammad Qadri; the entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Muhammad Qasim al-Kasti
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Muhammad Qutb
Draft card for Muhammad Qutb, the Egyptian Islamic thinker, Sayyid Qutb's brother, who taught in Saudi… - Person
Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad, Radi al-Din al-Sarakhsi
Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad, Radi al-Din and Burhan al-Islam al-Sarakhsi, a Hanafi jurist and usuli, a… - Person
Muhammad Rafi al-Jilani
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Muhammad Raghib al-Tabbakh
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Muhammad Ridha Kashif al-Ghita
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Muhammad Rifat
9 May 1882 CE · 1299 AHEgyptian Qur'an reciter (1882–1950), born in Cairo's al-Maghreblin quarter and blinded in early childhood. He… - Person
Muhammad Rumfa
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Muhammad Sadiq al-Ardistani
Draft card for Muhammad Sadiq al-Ardistani, the eighteenth-century Safavid philosopher of Iran, d. 1721; the… - Person
Muhammad Sahib al-Madarik
Draft card for Muhammad Sahib al-Madarik, the eleventh-century jurist author of al-Madarik, d. 1009; the… - Person
Muhammad Sajid Khujnawari
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Muhammad Salah
An Egyptian scholar and television presenter, the religious supervisor of Huda TV and presenter of its live… - Person
Muhammad Saleemullah Khan
1921 CE · 1339 AH†Draft card for Muhammad Saleemullah Khan, the Pakistani Deobandi scholar; his entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Muhammad Salih Al-Munajjid
13 June 1961 CE · 1380 AHMuhammad Salih Al-Munajjid (born 1961) is a Syrian-born Islamic scholar and preacher of Palestinian family,… - Person
Muhammad Salih Qaftan
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Muhammad Sarfaraz Khan Safdar
1914 CE · 1332 AH†Draft card for Muhammad Sarfaraz Khan Safdar, the Pakistani Deobandi scholar; his entry is not yet checked on… - Person
Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi
28 October 1928 CE · 1347 AHEgyptian scholar, Grand Mufti of Egypt (1986–1996) and then Grand Imam of al-Azhar from 1996 until his death… - Person
Muhammad Shafee Okarvi
2 February 1930 CE · 1348 AHPakistani scholar and orator (1930–1984) of Khem Karan in Punjab, who migrated to Okara in 1947 and settled… - Person
Muhammad Shafi' al-Astarabadi
Draft card for Muhammad Shafi' al-Astarabadi, the Persian scholar and littérateur, d. 1694; the biographical… - Person
Muhammad Shafi Usmani
Draft card for Muhammad Shafi Usmani, the Deobandi mufti who founded Darul Uloom Karachi and wrote Ma'ariful… - Person
Muhammad Shah of Brunei
Draft card for Muhammad Shah, remembered as the first Muslim sultan of Brunei in the fourteenth century; the… - Person
Muhammad Shah I, Bahmani
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Muhammad Shah II Bahmani
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Muhammad Siddiq al-Minshawi
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Muhammad Taqi Amini
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al-Sultan al-Salih Muhammad Tatar
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Muhammad Tawfiq al-Bakri
1870 CE · 1287 AHAn Egyptian scholar and writer from the Bakri al-Siddiqi family, who compiled a dictionary of printed works. - Person
Tewfik Pasha
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السلطان وحيد الدين (محمد السادس)
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Muhammad Wa'il al-Hanbali
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Muhammad Yameen Qasmi
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Muhammad Yunus
28 June 1940 CE · 1359 AHBangladeshi economist and banker, born near Chittagong in 1940. He founded Grameen Bank in 1983, pioneering… - Person
Muhammad Yusuf Kandhlawi
20 March 1917 CE · 1335 AHIndian scholar (1917–1965) of Kandhla, the son of Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi, founder of the Tablighi Jamaat,… - Person
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Muhammad Zafrullah Khan
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Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi
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Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
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Muhammadu Attahiru I
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Muhammadu Buhari
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Muhanna ibn Sultan, Ya'rubi
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1886 CE · 1303 AHAn encyclopaedic writer, journalist, historian, political activist and social theorist. - Person
Muhibb al-Din al-Tabari, shaykh of the haram
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31 December 1954 CE · 1374 AHTurkish politician, founder and leader of the Great Unity Party (BBP) and a member of the Turkish parliament,… - Person
Muhyi al-Din al-Barda'i of Rum
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Mu'in al-Din Ibn al-Juwayni
c. 1187 CE · c. 583 AHSon of shaykh al-shuyukh Sadr al-Din al-Juwayni (d. Ramadan 643) — the commander the lord of Egypt set over… - Person
al-Mu'in ibn Tulwa
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أحمد بن بويه معز الدولة
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Mujahid al-Din Qaymaz — the governing hand of Nur al-Din's house: appointed to Mosul's citadel in Dhu… - Person
Mujalid ibn Mas'ud al-Sulami
Mujalid ibn Mas'ud al-Sulami, Mujashi's brother; with him he taunted al-Aswad ibn Sari' over laying out and… - Person
Mujalli ibn Jumay ibn Naja
Mujalli ibn Jumay ibn Naja, Abu al-Ma'ali al-Qurashi al-Makhzumi, of Arsuf origin and Egyptian residence. He… - Person
Mujammi' ibn Jariya
One of the twelve men who built Masjid al-Dirar, according to Ibn Ishaq; his ascription: son of Jariya ibn… - Person
Mujashi' ibn Wardan ibn 'Alqama
The third accomplice posted at the mosque's door — Qatam bound their heads with silk from her i'tikaf lodge;… - Person
مجير الدين العليمي
Qadi Mujir al-Din al-Ulaymi al-Hanbali, d. AH 927 — author of al-Uns al-Jalil, the classic history of… - Person
Mujir al-Din Tashtakin
The Iraqi Hajj's amir — insisting the Syrian caravan could not depart Arafat before his, he rode out with his… - Person
Mujir al-Din Ya'qub b. al-Adil
Al-Adil's son, styled al-Malik al-Mu'izz (d. Dhu al-Qa'da 654) — buried beside his father. - Person
Mujja'a ibn Si'r al-Tamimi
Mujja'a ibn Si'r al-Tamimi; al-Hajjaj's frontier man after the Allafis — raided and opened parts of Qandabil,… - Person
Mukaththir ibn Isa, amir of Mecca
Amir of Mecca — deposed by the caliph's order for building a castle on Abu Qubays; besieged in it by the Hajj… - Person
Mukhallad ibn Yazid
Mukhallad ibn Yazid ibn al-Muhallab; his father left him over Khurasan when he marched on Jurjan and again… - Person
Mukhashin ibn Humayyir
Of Ashja', an ally of Banu Salama; he was in the party that mocked the Tabuk army then made their excuses.… - Person
Mukhayriq
A Jewish scholar said to be from Banu al-Nadir, or Banu Qaynuqa according to others; in al-Waqidi's account… - Person
Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari
25 December 1880 CE · 1298 AHIndian physician and nationalist leader (1880–1936), trained at Madras and in London and Edinburgh, where he… - Person
Mukhtar al-Kunti
1729 CE · 1141 AHSidi al-Mukhtar ibn Ahmad al-Kunti (1729–1811), known as al-Shaykh al-Kabir, leading scholar of the Qadiriyya… - Person
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Mukhtar ibn Mahmud al-Zahidi (Najm al-Din, Hanafi jurist)
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Mukram ibn al-Farz
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ملبد بن حرملة الشيباني
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Mulay Ahmad, Hafsid
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Mulla Hasan al-Bazzaz
1845 CE · 1261 AHOne of the best-known poets of Mosul, who studied with several of its scholars. - Person
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Mumtaz Daultana
20 February 1916 CE · 1334 AHPakistani politician (1916–1995), the son of Ahmad Yar Khan Daultana and the second chief minister of West… - Person
Mona Haydar
1988 CE · 1408 AH†The Syrian-American poet-rapper of 'Hijabi' (2017) — a prominent Muslim feminist voice in American music. - Person
Munawwar Qari Abdurashidkhanov
1878 CE · 1295 AH†Munawwar Qari Abdurashidkhanov (1878–1931) was an Uzbek educator and writer, a leader of Jadidism in… - Person
al-Mundhir ibn al-Jarud al-Abdi
Al-Mundhir ibn al-Jarud al-Abdi; he spoke to Mu'awiya about digging the Tharr canal, so the letter went to… - Person
منذر بن سعيد البلوطي
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Mundil ibn Ali
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Munir al-Baalbaki
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Munir Derman
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Munir El Haddadi
1 September 1995 CE · 1416 AHMorocco international footballer (born 1995 in El Escorial, Spain, to a Moroccan father and a mother from… - Person
Munira
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Münşi
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Al-Mundhir al-Balluti
886 CE · 273 AHQadi al-jama'a of Cordoba under al-Nasir; when the caliph's mania for building al-Zahra' kept him from three… - Person
Mukhlis al-Dawla al-Kinani
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Muqatil ibn Atiyya
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مراد الأول
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مراد الثاني
Murad II (r. 824–855/1421–1451 CE) — crushed his uncle Mustafa's Byzantine-backed revolt, stormed… - Person
مراد الثالث
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Murad Reis of Algiers
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مراد الخامس
1840 CE · 25 Rajab 1256 AHMurad V (r. 1293/1876) — sultan for ninety-three days: cultured, Francophile and constitutionalist, he broke… - Person
Muradi
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Murara ibn al-Rabi al-Amri
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Murra ibn Ali al-Rudhayni
Murra ibn Ali al-Rudhayni al-Ijli; in al-Baladhuri set over Sisar in al-Rashid's last days — Uthman al-Awdi… - Person
Murra, Abu Bakr's Mawla
Murra, mawla of Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr — a freedman of standing; he asked Aisha to write Ziyad and open… - Person
Murrah al-Hamadhani
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Murtala Muhammed
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Mus'ab al-Khushani
1139 CE · 535 AHAbu Dharr al-Khushani Mus'ab b. Muhammad b. Mas'ud al-Jiyani, grammarian, philologist and Maliki jurist, also… - Person
Musa
The prophet of Banu Israel: the fleeing-stone vindication, the al-Khidr journey at length, and his Isra… - Person
Musa al-Azmi
Kuwaiti researcher in the Prophetic biography (Seerah), author of 'Al-Lu'lu' al-Maknun fi Sirat al-Nabi… - Person
Musa al-Hajjawi
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Musa al-Husayni
1853 CE · 1269 AHPalestinian politician (1853–1934), an Ottoman governor and mayor of Jerusalem (1918–1920) who chaired the… - Person
Musa al-Musawi
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Musa Bigiev
1875 CE · 1292 AHTatar theologian, philosopher and publicist (died 1949), one of the leading and most controversial thinkers… - Person
Musa ibn Abd al-Malik
Musa b. Abd al-Malik al-Isbahani (d. Shawwal 246) — chief of the kharaj divan under several caliphs, eloquent… - Person
Musa ibn 'Abd Allah
The Fakhkh survivor whose ordeal-oath against his traducer was answered within three days — leprosy,… - Person
Musa ibn Abdallah ibn Khazim
Musa ibn Abdallah ibn Khazim al-Sulami; sheltered with his men by Tirmidh's king after his father's death, he… - Person
Musa ibn Abi al-Afiya
Musa ibn Abi al-Afiya al-Miknasi, the greatest king of his branch; first an Idrisid client holding Tahert and… - Person
موسى بن أبي الجارود
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Musa ibn al-Harith ibn Khalid
Son of al-Harith ibn Khalid and Rayta bint al-Harith, born in the land of Abyssinia; he died on the road. - Person
Musa ibn al-Hasan 'al-Jalajili'
Abu'l-Sari the Ansari 'al-Jalajili' — so dubbed when al-Qa'nabi, pleased by his voice leading tarawih, said… - Person
Musa ibn Ali al-Harfush
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Musa ibn Anas ibn Malik
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Musa Çelebi
Musa Çelebi, son of Bayezid I — captured with his father at Ankara in 804/1402, then released by Timur… - Person
Musa ibn Bugha
al-Mu'tazz's Jibal agent; in al-Baladhuri, sent against Qumm amid the Tabaristan Talibi war — took it by… - Person
Musa ibn Faris al-Mutawakkil
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Musa ibn Harun
214 AHAbu 'Imran, b. 214 — 'son of the handsome one' — who heard Ibn Hanbal and Ibn Ma'in and was the imam and sign… - Person
Musa ibn Isa al-Qaddumi
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Musa ibn Ishaq al-Ansari
An Ansari judge. Al-Mas'udi reports that he died in al-Muqtadir's reign in 297 AH, was buried on the east… - Person
Musa ibn Ja'far
The imprisoned Musa al-Kazim freed by al-Rashid's nightmare — the Abyssinian with the spear at his bed. - Person
Musa ibn Ka'b
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أبو عمران موسى بن محمد بن سعيد
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Musa ibn Ulayy al-Lakhmi
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موسى بن عقبة
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Musa ibn Yahya al-Barmaki
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مسدد بن مسرهد
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Musafir al-Qassab, one al-Dahhak al-Khariji had empowered at al-Bab, who gave him Armenia and Adharbayjan; he… - Person
Musallama ibn Aslam
The Badri counsellor Umar paired with Abu 'Ubayda — who warned that cutting the Euphrates bridge behind them… - Person
Mulla Musannifak
c. 1401 CE · 803 AHMusannifak (b. 803, of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi's line) — the deaf Ottoman polymath: Mehmed II granted him 80… - Person
Musawir al-Shari
Musawir al-Shari, a Kharijite leader who rose at Mosul and defeated its people under the governor Uqba ibn… - Person
مساور
A rebel; Musa ibn Bugha and Bayakbak's expedition against him at al-Sin became the occasion for al-Muhtadi's… - Person
Musaylima
c. 580 CEChief and religious claimant of Banu Hanifa in Yamama who preached a parallel prophecy to Muhammad's and… - Person
Musharrif al-Dawla
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Mushay'il the Armenian
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Musleh Khan
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Muslih al-Din al-Sururi
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Muslim Al-Waeli
22 June 1999 CE · 1420 AHIraqi Husayni radud (eulogist) and munshid from Dhi Qar governorate, born in 1999 in Suq al-Shuyukh. He began… - Person
Muslim ibn Abi Bakra
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مسلم بن قريش شرف الدولة
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Muslim ibn Sa'id
Muslim ibn Sa'id; Umar ibn Hubayra's governor, truced by al-Afshin on six thousand heads and his fortress —… - Person
Muslim ibn 'Uqba al-Murri al-Musrif
Yazid's commander who 'shocked' Medina — its people forced to swear as slaves, the Prophet's 'Tayba' renamed… - Person
Muslim ibn Yasar
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Muslim
10 December 1981 CE · 1402 AHMoroccan rapper from Tangier, born in 1981, regarded as a pioneer of Moroccan and Maghreb rap. He founded the… - Person
Muslim, the mushaf-bearer
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Musqala ibn 'Utban
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Mustafa Abdul Jalil
6 November 1952 CE · 1372 AHLibyan judge and politician from Bayda, born in 1952. He was Gaddafi's secretary of the General People's… - Person
Mustafa Agha
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Mustafa Agha (Kizlar Agha)
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Mustafa Agha (mimarbaşı)
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Mustafa Akyol
20 February 1972 CE · 1392 AHTurkish writer and journalist, born in 1972. He studied international relations and history at Boğaziçi… - Person
Mustafa al-Bakri
1688 CE · 1099 AHA Sufi scholar of Damascus, a member of the Khalwati order and one of the scholars of the Bakri al-Siddiqi… - Person
Mustafa al-Ghalayini
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Mustafa Al-Kadhimi
5 July 1967 CE · 1387 AHMustafa Abdul Latif Mishatat al-Gharibawi, known as Mustafa Al-Kadhimi (born 5 July 1967), is an independent… - Person
Mustafa ibn Sa'd ibn Abduh al-Ruhaybani al-Suyuti
Mustafa ibn Sa'd ibn Abduh, called al-Suyuti, and al-Ruhaybani by birth, mufti of the Hanbalis in Damascus, a… - Person
Mustafa al-Zarqa
1904 CE · 1322 AHSyrian jurist and legal scholar (1904–1999), born in Aleppo into a scholarly family. He taught civil law and… - Person
Mustafa Ali of Gallipoli
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Mustafa Anber Agha
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Mustafa Benhamza
17 July 1949 CE · 1368 AHMoroccan Muslim scholar and jurist, born at Oujda on 21 Ramadan 1368 (17 July 1949). He studied under the… - Person
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Mustafa Dede
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Mustafa Denizli
10 November 1949 CE · 1369 AHTurkish football manager and former forward, born in İzmir in 1949. He spent seventeen seasons as a player… - Person
Mustafa Devati
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Mustafa Gaibi
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Mustafa Halim Özyazıcı
1898 CE · 1316 AH†Draft card for Mustafa Halim Özyazıcı, the late-Ottoman calligrapher; his entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Mustafa Hamsho
10 October 1953 CE · 1373 AHSyrian former professional boxer, born in Latakia in 1953. He competed from 1975 to 1989 with a record of 44… - Person
Mustafa Hilmi
1904 CE · 1322 AHOne of the pioneers of philosophical studies in Egypt and the Arab world. - Person
Mustafa I
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Mustafa ibn al-Husayn al-Tifrishi
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Mustafa ibn Ali al-Muwaqqit
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Prince Mustafa, son of Bayezid I
Prince Mustafa, son of Bayezid I — presumed killed at Ankara in 804, he reappeared under his nephew Murad II… - Person
Mustafa ibn Fathallah al-Hamawi
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Mustafa ibn Kamal al-Din al-Bakri
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Mustafa ibn Umar Kyari
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Mustafa ibn Yusuf al-Karmi
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مصطفى الثاني
c. 1664 CE · 1074 AHMustafa II (r. 1106–1115/1694–1703) — the sultan of Karlowitz: Hungary and Transylvania lost, the tributary… - Person
مصطفى الثالث
Mustafa III (r. 1171–1187/1757–1773) — a mujahid sultan who beat the Russians several times yet foresaw the… - Person
Mustafa Ismail
17 June 1905 CE · 1323 AHEgyptian Qur'an reciter (1905–1978), born in the village of Mit Gazal in Gharbia. He mastered the maqamat and… - Person
مصطفى كمال أتاتورك
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — Ottoman officer turned leader of the Turkish resistance who drove the Greeks from… - Person
مصطفى كامل
1874 CE · 1291 AH†Mustafa Kamil (1874–1908 CE) — founder of Egypt's National Party and its daily al-Liwa' (1899), who spent his… - Person
Mustafa Khan Shefta
1809 CE · 1224 AHDelhi Urdu poet and critic (1809–1869) of a Bangash Pathan landowning family. He was Mirza Ghalib's friend… - Person
Mustafa Kutahi
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Mustafa Naima
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Mustafa Pruscak
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Mustafa Raqim
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Mustafa Sadiq al-Rafi'i
January 1880 CE · 1297 AHEgyptian poet and prose writer (1880-1937), born at Bahtim in al-Qalyubiyya and resident at Tanta. He lost… - Person
Mustafa Sami Bey
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Mustafa Shokay
25 December 1890 CE · 13 Jumada I 1308 AH†Mustafa Shokay (1890–1941) was a Kazakh politician who headed the Turkestan Autonomy (the Kokand government)… - Person
Mustafa Şükrü Efendi
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Mustafa Sidqi
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Mustafa Suleyman
August 1984 CE · 1404 AHMustafa Suleyman (born August 1984 in London) is a British artificial-intelligence entrepreneur of Syrian… - Person
Mustafa Tabrizi
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Mustafa Tlass
11 May 1932 CE · 1351 AHSyrian officer and politician who served as minister of defence from 1972 to 2004 under Hafez al-Assad and… - Person
Mustain Billah of Banjar
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Mustakimzade Sulayman Sadeddin
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Mustapha Hadji
16 November 1971 CE · 1391 AHMoroccan former footballer and coach (born 1971 in Ifrane Atlas-Saghir), a midfielder named African… - Person
al-Mustawrid al-Ijli
Converted to Islam and then apostatised; Ali killed him and burned the body. The book suggests Ali feared his… - Person
Mu'tamin al-Khilafa
The eunuch who ruled al-Adid's palace — his letters inviting the Franks into Egypt were found sewn into a… - Person
Mu'tamir ibn Sulayman
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Mutar al-Warraq
Mutar ibn Tahman, Abu Raja al-Khurasani, who settled in Basra; a learned worker who wrote out Qur'an copies… - Person
Mutarrif al-Jurjani
Asfar's vizier who devised the universal one-dinar poll tax that yielded millions. - Person
Mutarrif ibn 'Abd Allah
His letter to the caliph — 'this world is a house of punishment; be in it like one tending his wound, bearing… - Person
Mutarrif ibn al-Mughira
Al-Mughira's son whose report of Mu'awiya's 'his brother of Hashim is cried out five times a day' was blamed… - Person
Mutarrif ibn al-Shikhkhir
Mutarrif b. al-Shikhkhir (d. 87 or later) — the Basran ascetic-faqih whose father had Companionship;… - Person
Mutarrif ibn Mazin
Mutarrif b. Mazin al-San'ani (d. 191 per al-Baqi b. Qani') — qadi of San'a', transmitter from Ma'mar and Ibn… - Person
Mutarrif ibn Saydan al-Bahili
Mutarrif ibn Saydan al-Bahili of Banu Jana'a; Mus'ab's Basra police chief — he executed the highwayman… - Person
al-Mutawakkil Ahmad ibn al-Husayn "al-Mu'ti"
Ahmad ibn al-Husayn al-Rassi, a Zaydi imam who rose against the Rasulids, called al-Mu'ti; proclaimed in 645… - Person
Mutaz Essa Barshim
24 June 1991 CE · 1411 AHQatari high jumper of Sudanese origin, born in Doha in 1991 and a graduate of the Aspire Academy. He is the… - Person
Mütercim Rüşdü Pasha
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مطيع بن إياس
Muti' ibn Iyas — Persian-mawla poet among the famed accused zindiqs, sympathetic to Manichaean and Daysanite… - Person
Mut'im ibn Adi
c. 555 CEA chief of Banu Nawfal who never became a Muslim — yet tore up the boycott document against Banu Hashim and… - Person
Mutiy ibn Iyas al-Kinani
A witty Kufan poet with a reputation for heresy in the anecdotes; he moved between patrons, including… - Person
Mutlaq Al-Jaser
Kuwaiti researcher and preacher and associate professor of comparative fiqh and Sharia politics at the… - Person
Muwaffaq al-Din ibn Abi al-Hadid
1194 CE · 590 AHMuwaffaq al-Din Ahmad Ibn Abi al-Hadid (590–656) — brother and continuator of the great commentator; author… - Person
Muwarriq al-Ijli
Muwarriq ibn Mushmarij, Abu al-Mu'tamir al-Ijli, a Follower imam said to be Basran or Kufan. He narrated from… - Person
Muzabbad
A well-known dissolute wit; the book records his drinking anecdotes and his jokes with governors. - Person
Muzaffar al-Din Kökburi
Muzaffar al-Din Kökburi — lord of Irbil from boyhood under Saladin's gift (Harran and Edessa surrendered for… - Person
Muzaffar Shah, lord of Gujarat
Gujarat's sultan — 'just, learned, a lover of scholars', a fine calligrapher who copied mushafs with his own… - Person
al-Malik al-Muzaffar Shams al-Din Yusuf ibn Umar
Al-Malik al-Muzaffar Shams al-Din Yusuf ibn Umar, third Rasulid king of Yemen; taking power after his… - Person
Muzahim ibn Khaqan
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Muzna, Marwan's widow
The last Umayyad caliph's widow who came to al-Khayzuran in borrowed rags — lodged among the Hashimi women… - Person
Naazim Richardson
26 November 1965 CE · 1385 AHAmerican boxing trainer from Philadelphia (1965–2020). He trained Bernard Hopkins and Shane Mosley, and is… - Person
Nabil Elaraby
15 March 1935 CE · 1353 AHNabil Elaraby (15 March 1935 – 26 August 2024) was an Egyptian diplomat and jurist who studied law in Cairo… - Person
Nabil Takriti
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Nabit (Nebaioth) ibn Ismail
In al-Raheeq al-Makhtum's account the eldest of Ismail's sons by the daughter of Mudad al-Jurhumi; ancestor… - Person
Nabtal ibn al-Harith
One of the twelve men who built Masjid al-Dirar, according to Ibn Ishaq; his ascription: of Banu Dubay'a. - Person
Nader Engheta
8 October 1955 CE · 1375 AHNader Engheta (born 8 October 1955) is an Iranian-American scientist and electrical engineer, a professor at… - Person
Nadia Emara
Egyptian Islamic preacher, specialist in women's fiqh and television presenter; she holds a doctorate in… - Person
Nadine Labaki
18 February 1974 CE · 1394 AHLebanese film director and actress, born in Baabdat in 1974. She directed and starred in Caramel (2007),… - Person
Nader Shah (Afshar)
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Nadir
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النضر بن شميل
The Mazini linguist; he corrected the caliph's slip sadad for sidad — 'al-Ma'mun: God disfigure the… - Person
Nafata of Gobir
1800 CE · 1215 AH†Draft card for Nafata, king of Gobir in Hausaland before Uthman dan Fodio's jihad; his entry is not yet… - Person
Nafi' ibn 'Abd al-Malik
'Amir ibn Isma'il's cousin — credited in a variant report with Marwan's killing at Busir. - Person
Nafi' ibn al-Azraq
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Nafi' ibn al-Harith al-Thaqafi
Nafi' ibn al-Harith al-Thaqafi; he carried Utba's letter telling Umar al-Ubulla was the port of Bahrain,… - Person
Nafi' ibn Umar al-Jumahi
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Nafi' mawla Ibn Umar
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Nafis al-Din al-Alawi
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Nafisa bint Munya
Khadija's confidante to whom she disclosed her wish to marry Muhammad; Nafisa broached the matter with him,… - Person
Naftawayh
the grammarian, author of a two-volume caliph history ending in al-Qahir's days. - Person
Naguib Mahfouz
11 December 1911 CE · 1329 AHEgyptian novelist, born in Cairo in 1911 and died there in 2006. He worked as a civil servant alongside his… - Person
Naheed Nenshi
2 February 1972 CE · 1391 AHCanadian politician who served three terms as mayor of Calgary (2010–2021), the first Muslim to lead a major… - Person
Na'ib ibn Ziyad al-Wasiti
Na'ib ibn Ziyad al-Wasiti; he ran al-Shu'aybiyya for Ali ibn al-Rashid — a son's Tigris house at Wasit bears… - Person
Naielah Ackbarali
Founder and CEO of Muslima Coaching, an Islamic coaching and counselling service, since 2015. Born in… - Person
Na'ila bint Qurays ibn Waki'
al-Ashdaq's wife — her omen-warning at the doorstep ('I adjure you, do not go') answered by 'even asleep you… - Person
Naili
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Naili Abdullah Pasha
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Naim Frashëri
25 May 1846 CE · 1262 AHAlbanian poet (1846–1900), regarded as the national poet of Albania and the foremost literary voice of its… - Person
Na'ima B. Robert
British author of multicultural literature and founding editor of SISTERS Magazine for Muslim women. Born in… - Person
al-Najashi al-Harithi, the poet
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Najeh Bakirat
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Najib al-Dawla
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Najib al-Din Abd al-Latif
The Hanbali of mighty standing at the sultan's court — 'fierce in denouncing the wrong', teacher and… - Person
نجيب الحداد
1867 CE · 1284 AH†Najib al-Haddad (1867–1899 CE) — the Beiruti journalist who spent a decade at Cairo's al-Ahram translating… - Person
Najib Baladi
1907 CE · 1324 AHOne of the first cohort at the Egyptian University and a pioneer of contemporary Arab philosophical thought. - Person
Najib al-Din ibn al-Awd
c. 1194 CE · c. 590 AHThe Hilli mutakallim — 'shaykh of the Shi'a and their scholar' in this Sunni source's words; slapped at… - Person
Najm al-A'imma al-Bari'i
Najm al-A'imma al-Bari'i: a learned jurist and preacher, whose title Bari' (excelling) is given to one who… - Person
Najm al-Din Akhundzada
Afghan Sufi pir of Hadda in Nangarhar (died 1902), disciple and deputy of the Akhund of Swat, 'Abd al-Ghafur,… - Person
Najm al-Din al-Dihlawi
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Najm al-Din al-Ghazzi
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Najm al-Din al-Katibi al-Qazwini
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Najm al-Din al-Kubra
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نجم الدين النهري
Najm al-Din Abd al-Mun'im al-Nahri of Harran, Hanbali jurist-preacher; travelled to Baghdad in his youth in… - Person
Najm al-Din al-Rab'i
Egypt's katib-'adl — brilliant in fiqh, Arabic, arithmetic and geometry, teaching and giving fatwa while 'no… - Person
Najm al-Din al-Tufi
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Najm al-Din al-Wa'ied
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نجم الدين أيوب
Saladin's father; the historians agree his family were Rawadiyya Kurds of Hadhbani from Dvin on Azerbaijan's… - Person
نجم الدين ابن الحباز
c. 1162 CE · 29 Rabi' I 557 AH - Person
Najm al-Din Ibn Hamdan
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Najm al-Din ibn Shabib
c. 1206 CE · 603 AHThe Harrani Hanbali jurist — last rawi of al-Rahawi, Majd al-Din Ibn Taymiyya's debating companion until the… - Person
نجم الدين أيلغازي بن أرتق
The Artuqid amir Najm al-Din Ilghazi, lord of Mardin after his brother Sukman — both former amirs of Tutush;… - Person
al-Malik al-Mas'ud Najm al-Din Khidr
Al-Malik al-Mas'ud Najm al-Din Khidr — son of Baybars installed at Karak by his father's mamluks; held the… - Person
Najm al-Din Razi
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Najmuddin Hotsinsky
1859 CE · 1275 AH†Najmuddin Hotsinsky (1859–1925), an Avar scholar from the village of Gotsob in Dagestan, became Mufti of the… - Person
Namık Kemal
21 December 1840 CE · 1256 AHOttoman writer, poet, journalist and reformer, born at Tekirdağ in 1840 and died on Chios in 1888. A leading… - Person
Nana Asma'u
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Nariman Narimanov
14 April 1870 CE · 1287 AHAzerbaijani writer, physician, Bolshevik revolutionary and statesman (1870–1925), a pioneer of modern… - Person
Naseem Hamed
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Naser al-Din Shah Qajar
16 July 1831 CE · 1247 AHFourth shah of Qajar Iran (reigned 5 September 1848 – 1 May 1896), the third-longest-reigning monarch in… - Person
Nashat Akram
12 September 1984 CE · 1404 AHIraqi playmaker, born in 1984 in Hillah and nicknamed 'the Maestro'. A leading figure in the Iraq side that… - Person
Nashwan al-Himyari
A Yemeni scholar of Dhu Marath, descended from a king of Yemen, and a writer on language in his time. - Person
الأمير نسيب أرسلان
1867 CE · 1284 AH†Amir Nasib Arslan (1867–1927 CE) — the Beiruti poet-journalist of al-Mufid who broke with the Unionists for… - Person
Nasib bey Yusifbeyli
5 July 1881 CE · 1298 AHAzerbaijani publicist and statesman (1881–1920), founder of the Party of Turkic Federalists that merged into… - Person
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Nasim al-Din al-Tabrizi
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الحسن بن عبد الله بن حمدان ناصر الدولة
The Hamdanid titled Nasir al-Dawla by the caliph when Ibn Ra'iq was assassinated at Takrit in 330; he fought… - Person
Nasir al-Din al-Laqani
Muhammad ibn Hasan al-Laqani, Nasir al-Din, Abu Abd Allah, of Egypt, a Maliki jurist and usuli. After his… - Person
Nasir al-Din al-Qaymuri
Commander of the armies — founder of the madrasa east of the Umayyad Mosque whose quarter is still called… - Person
نصير الدين الطوسي
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Nasir al-Din ibn Mahdi al-Alawi
Vizier of the caliph al-Nasir li-Din Allah — died 617; the caliph prayed over him at the Palace Mosque with… - Person
Nasir al-Din Ja'far ibn Ya'qub
Nasir al-Din Ja'far b. Ya'qub al-Hamadani — Imad al-Din Zangi's deputy at Mosul; he strengthened its walls… - Person
ناصر الدين محمد بن شيركوه
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Nasir al-Mutarrizi
c. 1143 CE · 538 AHAbu al-Fath Nasir b. Abd al-Sayyid al-Mutarrizi of Khwarazm — Hanafi jurist, grammarian and adib; author of… - Person
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نصر الحاجب
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Nasr al-Maqdisi
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Nasr ibn Abd al-Razzaq al-Jili
c. 1167 CE · c. 563 AHNasr b. Abd al-Razzaq al-Jili (~563–633) — Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani's grandson and qadi al-qudat of Egypt under… - Person
Nasr ibn Ahmad
The Samanid amir of Transoxiana, succeeded at his death in 289 by his brother Isma'il. - Person
Nasr ibn Ahmad al-Khubzaruzzi
Nasr b. Ahmad al-Khubzaruzzi — the illiterate rice-bread baker of Basra whose ghazal drew crowds to his shop;… - Person
نصر بن العطار الحراني
Nasr ibn Mansur of Harran, known as Ibn al-Attar; a great merchant of much wealth, a Qur'an-reciter who… - Person
Nasr ibn Ali ibn Muhammad, Abu Abd Allah al-Shirazi, known as Ibn Abi Maryam
Nasr ibn Ali ibn Muhammad, Abu Abd Allah al-Shirazi al-Farisi al-Fasawi, known as Ibn Abi Maryam, preacher,… - Person
نصر بن منصور المقري
c. August 1107 CE · 13 Jumada I 501 AHAbu al-Murahhil Nasr b. Mansur al-Muqri the Hanbali poet; b. Tuesday 13 Jumada II 501 at al-Rafiqa near… - Person
القاضي الأعز نصر الله الأزهري
Qadi al-A'azz Abu al-Fath Nasrallah ibn Abdallah al-Azhari of Alexandria; scholar-poet who accompanied… - Person
Nasrallah ibn Qalaqis
c. 1137 CE · 532 AHNasrallah b. Qalaqis — the Alexandrian poet who praised the Zuray'id governor of Aden, then drowned with all… - Person
Nasreddin Hoca
Sheikh Nasreddin Hoca, a Turk from Anatolia, born in Seyitgazi and died in Akşehir. The Turks attribute many… - Person
Nasrullah Khan
1874 CE · 1291 AH†Shahzada (crown prince) of Afghanistan, second son of Emir Abdur Rahman Khan, and Emir for one week, 21–28… - Person
Nasser Al-Qatami
1980 CE · 1400 AHSaudi Qur'an reciter and author, imam and khatib of the Abdullah ibn Nasser Al-Muhaini Mosque in Riyadh. He… - Person
Nasser Hussain
28 March 1968 CE · 1387 AHEnglish former cricketer and commentator, born in Madras, India, in 1968 into a Muslim family, whose family… - Person
Nastura the monk
The monk who from his cell saw the cloud shade the Prophet on Khadija's Syria venture with Maysara and… - Person
Nasuh Pasha
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Navaid Aziz
A Canadian imam and lecturer based in Calgary. Raised in Montreal, he studied at the Islamic University of… - Person
Nawab Mohammad Ismail Khan
August 1884 CE · 1301 AHIndian Muslim politician of Meerut (August 1884 – 28 June 1958), a leading figure of the All-India Muslim… - Person
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
25 June 1937 CE · 1356 AHNawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (25 June 1937 – 16 December 2023) was Emir of Kuwait from 29 September 2020… - Person
Nawal Al-Eid
1977 CE · 1397 AHA Saudi professor of the Sunnah and its sciences at Princess Nourah University in Riyadh, and a preacher… - Person
Nawal El Saadawi
27 October 1931 CE · 1350 AHEgyptian physician, psychiatrist and feminist writer, born at Kafr Tahla in 1931. In some forty books — among… - Person
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Nawaz Sharif
25 December 1949 CE · 1369 AHPakistani politician and businessman, three times prime minister of Pakistan (1990–1993, 1997–1999,… - Person
Nawbakht the astrologer
Nawbakht the Magian, al-Mansur's astrologer who converted to Islam at his hands and fathered the Nawbakhti… - Person
Nawfal ibn Mu'awiya al-Dili
Chief of Banu al-Dil of Banu Bakr in the truce years; he led the night attack on Khuza'a at al-Watir seeking… - Person
Naw'i Efendi
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Nayef Al-Sahfi
Saudi preacher known for short, humorous dawah clips aimed at young people on social media, among them the… - Person
Nayef bin Mamdouh Al Saud
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Na'il ibn Dhi al-Hurra al-Himyari
Na'il ibn Dhi al-Hurra al-Himyari — the manuscript reads 'Bab'; on Rubay'i ibn al-Kas's vanguard to Sijistan,… - Person
Nazim Al-Haqqani
21 April 1922 CE · 1340 AHTurkish Cypriot Sufi leader (1922–2014), Grand Shaykh of the Haqqani branch of the Naqshbandi order. Born in… - Person
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Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi
6 December 1830 CE · 1246 AHUrdu novelist and writer (1830–1912) of Bijnor, regarded as the first novelist of Urdu literature for… - Person
Nazir Ayyad
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Nazira Ibrahim Efendi
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Princess Nazli Fazl
1853 CE · 1269 AHEgyptian princess of the Muhammad Ali dynasty (1853–1913), daughter of Prince Mustafa Fazl Pasha. From the… - Person
Nazmizade Murtaza Efendi
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نازوك صاحب الشرطة
Chief of police of Baghdad under al-Muqtadir; he fetched the hidden al-Muhsin ibn al-Furat and joined Mu'nis… - Person
Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
26 May 1904 CE · 1322 AHTurkish poet, novelist and playwright (1904–1983), a leading ideologue of the Islamist current in modern… - Person
Necmettin Erbakan
29 October 1926 CE · 1345 AHTurkish engineer and politician, founder of the Millî Görüş (National Outlook) movement and of a series of… - Person
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the Negus of Aksum
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Nematollah Salehi Najafabadi
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Nergis Mavalvala
1968 CE · 1388 AH†Pakistani-American astrophysicist, born in Lahore in 1968 and raised in Karachi. She holds the Curtis and… - Person
Nergisi
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Neveen Mokhtar
An Egyptian Islamic preacher and a female preacher (wa'iza) at the Ministry of Awqaf, known for her… - Person
Nevesinli Salih Pasha
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Nevsehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha
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Nezim Frakulla
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N'Golo Kanté
29 March 1991 CE · 1411 AHFrench professional footballer, born in Paris in 1991 to Malian parents. A defensive midfielder regarded as… - Person
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
13 June 1954 CE · 1373 AHNigerian-American economist born in Ogwashi-Uku in 1954. She spent twenty-five years at the World Bank,… - Person
Nia Amroun
Modest-fashion influencer who posts hijab and abaya styling in a minimalist, monotone aesthetic under the… - Person
Nicholas Said
c. 1836 CE · 1252 AHA Kanuri traveller and author born Mohammed Ali ben Said in Kukawa in the Bornu Empire about 1836, the son of… - Person
Nicolas Anelka
14 March 1979 CE · 1399 AHFrench retired footballer and manager, born in Le Chesnay, France in 1979. A forward who began at Paris… - Person
Nigâr Hanım
1856 CE · 1272 AHOttoman poet, born at Istanbul and died there in 1918, daughter of Macar Osman Pasha, a nobleman of Hungarian… - Person
Niksari Hasan Pasa
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Nilüfer Hatun
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Ni'mah al-Khaqani
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Shihab al-Din Ni'mat Allah al-Jarihi
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Nisanci Ahmed Pasha
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Nisancizade Muhyiddin Mehmed
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Nishatunnisa Mohani
1884 CE · 1301 AHIndian journalist and independence activist (1884–1937), wife of Hasrat Mohani. Educated at home, she was… - Person
Niyazi Misri
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Nizak
Nizak, lord of Badghis or the Juzjan; he campaigned with Qutayba at Baykand in 87h — then Qutayba killed and… - Person
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lord of the Turks; in al-Baladhuri, who hosted Yazdgard a month, then asked his daughter — answered 'you are… - Person
Nizam al-Din Ahmad III
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Nizam al-Din al-Baqish
Al-Baqish, Ilghazi's mamluk and the virtuous regent of Mardin — pious, just, he raised the child Yuluq Arslan… - Person
نظام الملك وزير ألب أرسلان
c. April 1018 CE · Dhu al-Qa'da 408 AHAlp Arslan's vizier; he ended his predecessor Amid al-Mulk's Ash'ari-cursing, championed the Shafi'is,… - Person
Nizam al-Mulk Mas'ud ibn Ali
Mas'ud ibn Ali, vizier of the Khwarazmshah Ala al-Din Takish — assassinated by the Ismailis in Jumada II 593;… - Person
Nizamuddin Ahmed Pasha
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نزار بن المستنصر صاحب الدعوة النزارية
Nizar b. al-Mustansir — al-Musta'li's brother to whom the Nizari da'wa of Alamut is traced; he fled to… - Person
Nizar ibn Ma'add
Son of Ma'add and father of the Adnanite tribes — Iyad, Anmar, Rabi'a and Mudar — whose allegorical death-bed… - Person
Nizar Qabbani
21 March 1923 CE · 1341 AHSyrian poet and diplomat (1923–1998), regarded as Syria's national poet and one of the most celebrated… - Person
Niznam Yusuf Celebi
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Nogai Khan
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Noha Alshugairi
American licensed marriage and family therapist and the practitioner behind Sakina Counseling, a private… - Person
Noman al-Alusi
1836 CE · 1252 AH†Draft card for Noman al-Alusi, the son of Ruh al-Ma'ani's author and Baghdad's scholar; his entry is not yet… - Person
Noman Çelebicihan
1885 CE · 1302 AH†Crimean Tatar politician, writer and poet, the first chairman of the Directory (national government) of the… - Person
Noor Inayat Khan
1 January 1914 CE · 1332 AHBritish-Indian writer and agent of the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War (1914–1944), born… - Person
Nordin Amrabat
31 March 1987 CE · 1407 AHMoroccan professional footballer (born 1987 in Naarden, Netherlands, to Moroccan-Riffian parents). A winger… - Person
Nouman Ali Khan
1978 CE · 1398 AH†American Muslim speaker of Pakistani descent, born in East Berlin in 1978. He founded the Bayyinah Institute… - Person
Nour Eddin Taleb
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Nour El Sherbini
1 November 1995 CE · 1416 AHEgyptian professional squash player, born in Alexandria in 1995. She took up the game at six, became the… - Person
Noureddin Shirazi
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Noureddine Naybet
10 February 1970 CE · 1389 AHMoroccan former footballer (born 1970 in Casablanca), a centre-back who won the Spanish league and cup with… - Person
Nourhan El-Sheikh
An Egyptian preacher and media presenter specialising in presenting the Prophetic biography (Sira); she runs… - Person
Noussair Mazraoui
14 November 1997 CE · 1418 AHMoroccan professional footballer (born 1997 in Leiderdorp, Netherlands, to Moroccan parents from Tétouan). A… - Person
Nu'aym ibn Abd Kulal
One of the kings of Himyar who wrote to the Prophet announcing their Islam on his return from Tabuk, and to… - Person
Nu'aym ibn Abdullah (al-Nahham)
A Qurashi of Banu Adi nicknamed al-Nahham because the Prophet said he entered Paradise and heard a nahma… - Person
Nu'aym ibn Mas'ud
A shrewd chieftain of Banu Ashja' of Ghatafan who converted to Islam secretly during the siege of the Trench;… - Person
Nu'aym ibn Yazid al-Tamimi
One of the men of the Banu Tamim delegation to the Prophet in 9 AH, named by Ibn Ishaq without further… - Person
Nuaymi
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Nufay' Abu Bakra
Nufay' Abu Bakra; one of 'the two Nafi's' named in Abu al-Mukhtar's satire, with his brother Nafi' ibn… - Person
Nuh (Noah)
The first messenger to the people of the earth in Bukhari's long intercession hadith — the first prophet… - Person
Nuh Ha Mim Keller
1954 CE · 1373 AHAmerican Muslim scholar and translator (born 1954) living in Amman. Born to a German American family in the… - Person
Abu Ismat
Nuh ibn Abi Maryam Yazid ibn Abi Ju'una, called al-Jami', either because he was the first to gather the fiqh… - Person
Nuh ibn Asad
Nuh ibn Asad; last conqueror of the breached Kasan and Urusht of Farghana, under al-Mansur — some say… - Person
Nuh ibn Mustafa
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Nuhu Ribadu
21 November 1960 CE · 1380 AHNigerian lawyer, retired police officer and politician born in Yola in 1960. He was the founding chairman of… - Person
Nu'man al-A'dhami
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al-Nu'man ibn al-Ajlan al-Ansari
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Nur al-Dawla Shahanshah ibn Ayyub
Nur al-Dawla Shahanshah b. Ayyub (k. 543) — Salah al-Din's eldest brother; father of the princes of Baalbek… - Person
Nur al-Din al-Sabuni
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Nur al-Din Arslan Shah
Nur al-Din Arslan Shah (d. 607) — Zangid ruler of Mosul, the only Shafi'i in his house and builder of its… - Person
Nur al-Din Itr
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Nur al-Din Mahmud ibn Zangi
c. December 1117 CE · Shawwal 511 AHLord of Aleppo then Syria; he relieved Damascus from the Frankish siege in 543 with his brother Ghazi and… - Person
Nur al-Din Muhammad ibn Sultan Jaqmaq
c. October 1413 CE · Rajab 816 AHNur al-Din Muhammad — Sultan Jaqmaq's scholar son (b. Rajab 816), pupil of Ibn al-Dayri and al-Kafiyaji, 'a… - Person
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Nur Jahan
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Nur Muhammad Taraki
14 July 1917 CE · 25 Ramadan 1335 AH†Afghan communist politician, writer and journalist, born in 1917 at Nawa in Ghazni Province to a Pashtun… - Person
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Abdurrahman Nurettin Pasha
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Nuri al-Said
December 1888 CE · 1306 AHNuri al-Said (December 1888 – 15 July 1958) was an Iraqi politician who dominated political life in Hashemite… - Person
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
26 January 1959 CE · 1378 AHTurkish film director and photographer, born in Istanbul in 1959. He began as an engineer and photographer,… - Person
Nuri Killigil
1889 CE · 1306 AHOttoman general, the half-brother of the Minister of War Enver Pasha. He organised Special Organization… - Person
Nuri Şahin
5 September 1988 CE · 1409 AHTurkish-German football manager and former midfielder, born in Lüdenscheid, Germany, in 1988 to Turkish… - Person
Nuriddin Khaliqnazar
1968 CE · 1388 AH†Uzbek religious scholar, born in 1968 in Asaka, Andijan region. He has been Grand Mufti of Uzbekistan and… - Person
Nurjan Mirahmadi
A Naqshbandi Sufi teacher based in Vancouver, Canada, founder of the Sufi Meditation Center (2007) and of the… - Person
Nuruddin ar-Raniri
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Nusayb the Poet
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Nusayba bint Ka'b (Umm Umara)
c. 590 CEAn Ansari woman of Medina who pledged at Aqaba and fought at Uhud shielding the Prophet with sword and shield… - Person
al-Nushajan ibn Jasnasima
Al-Nushajan ibn Jasnasima — Tabari reads Anushajan; lord of the Nahr al-Mar'a palace who treated its… - Person
Lady Abdullah Haroon
1886 CE · 1303 AH†Nusrat Abdullah Haroon (1886–1966), real name Nusrat Khanum, a Sindhi social and political activist born in… - Person
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
1948 CE · 1367 AH†The greatest qawwali singer of the 20th century, who carried Sufi devotional song to world stages. - Person
Nusratullo Maksum
1 July 1881 CE · 3 Sha'ban 1298 AH†Tajik Soviet politician (1881–1937): the first Prime Minister of the Tajik SSR, in 1925–1926, and the Tajik… - Person
Obaidullah Sindhi
10 March 1872 CE · 1289 AHIndian scholar and political activist (1872–1944). Born at Sialkot in a Sikh family as Buta Singh Uppal, he… - Person
Ogedei ibn Genghis Khan
Ogedei ibn Genghis Khan; his father made him heir and he sat on the throne as Great Khan, removing to… - Person
Ohrili Huseyin Pasha
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Omar Abd al-Kafi
1 May 1951 CE · 1370 AHEgyptian Muslim preacher, born in the village of Talla in Minya Governorate in 1951. He is known for… - Person
Omar Abdulrahman
20 September 1991 CE · 1412 AHEmirati former attacking midfielder born in Riyadh in 1991 to Yemeni parents. He was the Asian Footballer of… - Person
Omar Abedeen Qasmi Madani
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Omar al-Muqbil
1972 CE · 1392 AH†Draft card for Omar al-Muqbil, the Saudi preacher and author; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Omar Al Somah
23 March 1989 CE · 1409 AHSyrian striker born in Deir ez-Zor in 1989. He finished as the Saudi Pro League's top scorer in three… - Person
Omar Alghabra
24 October 1969 CE · 1389 AHSaudi-born Syrian-Canadian engineer and Liberal politician who represented the Mississauga ridings in… - Person
Omar Ali Saifuddien II
3 February 1799 CE · 27 Sha'ban 1213 AH†The 23rd Sultan of Brunei (reigned 1828–1852), son of Muhammad Jamalul Alam I. A minor when his father died… - Person
Omar Elabdellaoui
5 December 1991 CE · 1412 AHNorwegian professional footballer (born 1991 in Oslo, of Moroccan descent). A right-back who came through… - Person
Omar ibn Said
c. 1770 CE · 1183 AHA Fula Muslim scholar from Futa Toro in Senegal who spent twenty-five years in Islamic study before being… - Person
Omar Khadr
19 September 1986 CE · 1407 AHCanadian captured in Afghanistan in 2002 at the age of fifteen and held at Guantanamo for ten years; he… - Person
Omar Khribin
15 January 1994 CE · 1414 AHSyrian forward born in Damascus in 1994. He was the first Syrian to win the Asian Footballer of the Year… - Person
Omar Mukhtar
20 August 1858 CE · 1275 AHLibyan Qur'an teacher and sheikh of the Senussi order, born in 1858, who led the resistance of Cyrenaica… - Person
Omar Suleiman
3 June 1986 CE · 1406 AHAmerican imam of Palestinian descent, born in New Orleans in 1986. He founded the Yaqeen Institute for… - Person
Omar M. Yaghi
9 February 1965 CE · 1384 AHJordanian-American chemist of Palestinian origin, born in Amman in 1965 to a refugee family from al-Masmiya,… - Person
Omaya Zein
Modest-fashion and beauty creator whose YouTube channel built a large audience with hijab and turban… - Person
Omer al-Hiti
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Omer Faik Efendi
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Omer Fuadi
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Omer Nishani
5 February 1887 CE · 1304 AHAlbanian physician and politician (1887–1954). He studied medicine in Istanbul and practised in Vienna,… - Person
Omer Rusdi
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Ömer Rüştü Pasha
1843 CE · 1259 AHÖmer Rüşdü Pasha (1843 – 23 July 1922) was an Ottoman field marshal from Kütahya who served in the army for… - Person
Ömer Seyfettin
11 March 1884 CE · 1301 AHTurkish writer, officer and teacher, born at Gönen in 1884 and died of diabetes at Istanbul in 1920, aged… - Person
Omer Pasha Vrioni II
1839 CE · 1254 AHOttoman-Albanian landowner and politician (1839–1928) of the Vrioni family of Berat, Fier and Myzeqe. His… - Person
Onn Jaafar
12 February 1895 CE · 16 Sha'ban 1312 AH†Malayan politician (1895–1962) who founded the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) in 1946 and led the… - Person
Ons Jabeur
28 August 1994 CE · 1415 AHTunisian professional tennis player, born in Ksar Hellal in 1994. She reached a career-high singles ranking… - Person
Orhan Pamuk
7 June 1952 CE · 1371 AHTurkish novelist, born in Istanbul in 1952. He left architecture studies to write full-time and built his… - Person
The Orthodox Muslim
Debater and preacher known by his channel name The Orthodox Muslim and by the name Libyano, who livestreams… - Person
Oruç Beg, historian
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Osman Aga of Temesvar
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Osman Ahmed, Sultan of Geledi
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Osman Hamdi Bey
30 December 1842 CE · 1258 AHOttoman painter, archaeologist and museum director, born in Istanbul in 1842 and died there in 1910. Son of… - Person
Osman Hulusi Efendi
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Osman Nuhu Sharubutu
23 April 1919 CE · 1337 AHLiving Ghanaian scholar, National Chief Imam of Ghana since 1993. Born at Accra and taught at Kumasi by… - Person
Osman Pasha the Bosniak
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Othman al-Khamis
26 May 1962 CE · 1381 AHKuwaiti scholar and hadith specialist, born in Kuwait in 1962. He became known from the late 1990s for… - Person
Otman Baba
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Oumou Sangaré
25 February 1968 CE · 1387 AHMalian singer of the Wassoulou region, born at Bamako in 1968 to a singer mother; she sang in the streets as… - Person
Ousmane Sembène
1 January 1923 CE · 1341 AHSenegalese writer and film director, born at Ziguinchor in 1923. He worked as a fisherman, a mechanic, a… - Person
Ousmane Sonko
15 July 1974 CE · 1394 AHSenegalese politician (born 1974) from Thiès, a former tax inspector dismissed after whistleblowing on tax… - Person
Ozdemiroglu Osman Pasha
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Özlem Türeci
6 March 1967 CE · 1386 AHTurkish-German physician and immunologist, born in Siegen in 1967 to Turkish immigrant parents, who… - Person
Pan Zhiwan
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Papiss Cissé
3 June 1985 CE · 1405 AHSenegalese retired footballer, born in Dakar, Senegal in 1985. A forward who scored 22 goals for SC Freiburg… - Person
Pardis Sabeti
25 December 1975 CE · 1395 AHPardis Christine Sabeti (born 25 December 1975) is an Iranian-American computational biologist, medical… - Person
Parvin E'tesami
16 March 1907 CE · 1325 AHIranian poet (1907-1941), born Rakhshandeh E'tesami; author of a Divan of 209 compositions and 5,606… - Person
Paul Pogba
15 March 1993 CE · 1413 AHFrench professional footballer, born in Lagny-sur-Marne in 1993 to Guinean parents. A central midfielder who… - Person
Paul Williams
British Muslim writer and interviewer, founder and creator of the Blogging Theology YouTube channel and… - Person
İbrahim Peçevi
İbrahim Efendi of Pečuj, known as Peçevi; finance-service trained, he served in the army's accounts, became… - Person
Pervez Hoodbhoy
11 July 1950 CE · 1369 AHPakistani nuclear physicist and author, born in Karachi in 1950. He taught physics at Quaid-e-Azam University… - Person
Pervez Musharraf
11 August 1943 CE · 1362 AHPakistani general and politician who ruled Pakistan from the 1999 coup until his resignation in 2008, as… - Person
Peshteli Hisali
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Petrelali Molla Bey
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Prince Philip (Philip II of Spain)
Prince of Spain, son of Emperor Charles V; to him the Count of Alcaudete, governor of Oran, forwarded his… - Person
Pierre Omidyar
21 June 1967 CE · 1387 AHPierre Morad Omidyar (born Parviz Morad Omidyar, 21 June 1967) is a French-born Iranian-American billionaire,… - Person
Pir Baha al-Din al-Erzincani
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Pir Mehmet Üskübi
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Pir Muhammad ibn Jahangir
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Pir Muhammad ibn Umar Shaikh
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Pir Pagaro
1910 CE · 1328 AH†Sibghatullah Shah Rashdi II (1910–1943), the sixth Pir Pagaro, hereditary spiritual leader of the Hur… - Person
Piri Reis, Ahmad ibn Muhyi al-Din
A navigation scholar and admiral of the Egyptian and Ottoman fleets, and a pioneer of nautical cartography. - Person
Pir Yahya Sufi
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Zia Inayat Khan
1971 CE · 1391 AHScholar and teacher of Sufism (born 1971) in Novato, California. A son of Vilayat Inayat Khan and grandson of… - Person
Piri Mehmed Pasha
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Piri Mehmet Pasha (Ramadanid)
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Pirizade Ibrahim
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Pirizade Mehmet Sahib Efendi
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Piruz, Dahqan of al-Ahwaz
Piruz, dahqan of Suq al-Ahwaz; he fought al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba, truced on money, broke, and Abu Musa took the… - Person
Piyale Pasha
Ottoman fleet commander; he attacked Djerba in Ramadan 967/May 1560 and achieved his aims against Spain —… - Person
Porphyry (Furfuris)
The philosopher Porphyry, author of the Isagoge — the gateway to logic, a book known by his name; al-Mas'udi… - Person
Prince Sabahaddin
13 February 1879 CE · 1296 AHPrince Mehmed Sabahaddin (born in Istanbul on 13 February 1879 – died at Neuchâtel, Switzerland, on 30 June… - Person
Prithviraj, king of Hind
The king of Hind at Ajmer — identified in modern histories as Prithviraj Chauhan — who had routed Shihab… - Person
Prizrenli Shemi
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Q-Tip
10 April 1970 CE · 1390 AHAmerican rapper and record producer, born Jonathan William Davis in Manhattan, New York City, in 1970, the… - Person
قبيحة أم المعتز
Al-Mu'tazz's Byzantine umm-walad; she refused him money to buy the Turks and 'barked her soul', so they… - Person
Qabil (Cain)
One of Adam's two sons in al-Tha'labi's account. He killed his brother Habil after Habil's offering was… - Person
Qabisa ibn al-Mukhariq
Qabisa ibn al-Mukhariq ibn Abd Allah ibn Shaddad ibn Mu'awiya, Abu Bishr al-Hilali of Basra. He came to the… - Person
Qabisa ibn Dhu'ayb al-Khuza'i
One of the four Medinan jurists named by Abu al-Zinad, with Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab, Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan… - Person
Qaboos bin Said
18 November 1940 CE · 1359 AHSultan of Oman from 23 July 1970 until his death in 2020, the longest-serving leader in the Middle East and… - Person
Qabuli
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Qabus ibn al-Mundhir
A brother of Amr ibn al-Mundhir, one of the rulers of al-Hira in pre-Islamic times; he was a young man fond… - Person
Qadhi Muhammad Hussain Jaunpuri
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Qadi Abd al-Jabbar
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Qadi Abd al-Wahhab
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Izz al-Din, 'Qadi of the Realms'
c. 1369 CE · 770 AH'Qadi of the Realms' (b. Baghdad 770) — the only man to hold the judgeships of Baghdad, Jerusalem (first… - Person
Kazasker Mehmet Emin Efendi
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Qadi Husayn al-Marwarrudhi
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Qadi Khan
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Kadim Aski
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Qadri Efendi
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السلطان المنصور سيف الدين قلاوون
Atabeg to the boy Salamish then sultan as al-Mansur from 679; he broke the Tatar host of 680, took Tripoli by… - Person
Qalender Çelebi
Qalender Çelebi, leader of the rising in Konya and Maraş under Süleyman; al-Salabi puts thirty thousand… - Person
Qalun
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Qambar
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Qamruddin Ahmad Gorakhpuri
1938 CE · 1357 AH†Draft card for Qamruddin Ahmad Gorakhpuri, the Deobandi hadith master of Darul Uloom Deoband; his entry is… - Person
Sultan Qansuh al-Ghawri
Last Circassian Mamluk sultan — Shadharat records his extortion and the abolished-inheritance policy, then… - Person
Qara Sinan
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Qara Ughli, qadi of Damascus
The freedman of Ibrahim al-Amasi who became qadi of Damascus in 940 — a lover of Sufis and scholars who… - Person
Qara Ya'qub al-Nukdi al-Rumi
c. 1408 CE · 809 AHQara Ya'qub of Nigde in the Qaramanid lands (b. 709) — sharh al-Masabih and hashiya on al-Hidaya; hajj 819,… - Person
Qara Yusuf
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Karabas Veli
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Qarachaqay Khan
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Karaca Ahmed
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Qaraza ibn Ka'b al-Ansari
Qaraza ibn Ka'b al-Ansari, Abu Muslim; the last conqueror of Rayy after its repeated breaches, under Abu… - Person
Qarib ibn al-Aswad
A leader of the Ahlaf faction of Thaqif who commanded their contingent at the Battle of Hunayn; upon the… - Person
Qarun
Qarun as Sheikh Omar Abdelkafy mentions him in the series 'Al Naba Al Safi': a man who credited his wealth to… - Person
Qarwash ibn al-Muqallad al-Uqayli
Uqaylid amir of Mosul — invested by al-Qadir in 396 with the laqab Mu'tamid al-Dawla, then sole ruler of… - Person
Qasim al-Qaysi
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Qasim Amin
1 December 1863 CE · 1280 AHEgyptian jurist and writer (1863–1908), a founder of the Egyptian national movement and of Cairo University.… - Person
Molla Qasim al-Baghdadi al-Kirmani
Nephew of the poet Molla Shaykhi, in the service of Molla 'Abd al-Karim; teacher at Amasya, then the Abu… - Person
Qasim Effendi al-Mufti
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Qasim ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Shat
Qasim ibn Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn al-Shat, Abu Muhammad and Abu al-Qasim, of the Ansar, from Seville, a… - Person
al-Qasim ibn al-Abbas
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قاسم بن أصبغ
Qasim b. Asbagh of Cordoba, who reached Iraq in 276 days after Abu Dawud's death and wrote a sunan on his… - Person
Qasim ibn Husayn al-Khwarizmi
1160 CE · 555 AH†Draft card for Majd al-Din al-Khwarizmi, the grammarian and philologist; his entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Qasim ibn Isa ibn Naji
Qasim ibn Isa ibn Naji, Abu al-Fadl al-Tanukhi al-Qayrawani (d. 837 AH), a Maliki jurist and hafiz who… - Person
Qasim ibn Qutlubugha
c. 1400 CE · c. 802 AHQasim ibn Qutlubugha (b. ~802 Cairo) — the Hanafi mufannin: Takhrij Ahadith al-Ikhtiyar, rijal of Sharh… - Person
al-Qasim ibn Sulayman, Ziyad's Mawla
Al-Qasim ibn Sulayman, Ziyad's mawla; the drained Qasiyya tract he took by a forged letter, claiming Yazid… - Person
Qassam al-Harithi
Qassam al-Harithi — a shepherd from Balghina on Jabal Sanbar who rose to lead the young men of Damascus until… - Person
Qasym Khan
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قتادة بن إدريس العلوي أمير مكة
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قطام
A Khariji woman whom Abd al-Rahman ibn Muljim loved and married, giving her as dower three thousand dirhams,… - Person
Qatari ibn al-Fuja'a
Qatari ibn al-Fuja'a; among the ashraf who rode with Ibn Samura to Kabul — later the Kharijite chieftain. - Person
Qatin ibn Ali al-Jabri
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Qatn ibn Qabisa al-Hilali
Qatn ibn Qabisa ibn Mukhariq al-Hilali; al-Hajjaj's governor of Fars and Kirman — at the uncrossable river he… - Person
قطر الندى بنت خمارويه
Khumarawayh's daughter, married to al-Mu'tadid in 282 with a trousseau of four thousand jewelled girdles and… - Person
Qavam ibn Muhammad Shirazi
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Qawam al-Din al-Kaki
Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Sinjari al-Khujandi, known as Qawam al-Din al-Kaki: a Hanafi jurist and… - Person
Qawwam al-Sunna, Isma'il ibn Muhammad
1064 CE · 457 AHFrom Isfahan and descended from Talha ibn Ubayd Allah. He was learned in tafsir, hadith, jurisprudence, the… - Person
Qaydar (Kedar) ibn Ismail
Ismail's second son in al-Raheeq al-Makhtum's list; his descendants remained in Mecca until Adnan and his son… - Person
Qays ibn Abbad
A Successor of Basra from the clan of Dabi'a ibn Qays; he transmitted from Umar, Ali and Sad ibn Abi Waqqas,… - Person
Qays ibn Abdullah al-Asadi
A man of Banu Asad ibn Khuzayma; he emigrated to Abyssinia with his wife Baraka bint Yasar. Ibn Ishaq… - Person
Qays ibn Abi Hazim
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Qays ibn Abi Sa'sa'a
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Qays ibn al-Harith al-Kindi
A Successor from Kinda, who transmitted from Abu al-Darda, Ubada ibn al-Samit, Abu Said al-Khudri and Abu Abd… - Person
Qays ibn al-Harith al-Tamimi
One of the men of the Banu Tamim delegation to the Prophet in 9 AH, named by Ibn Ishaq without further… - Person
Qays ibn al-Haytham al-Sulami
Qays ibn al-Haytham al-Sulami; made governor of Naysabur at its conquest. - Person
Qays ibn al-Husayn Dhu al-Ghussa
A member of the Banu al-Harith ibn Ka'b delegation that came with Khalid ibn al-Walid in 10 AH; the Prophet… - Person
قيس بن الخطيم
Qays ibn al-Khatim of the Ansar, the jahili-early Islamic poet of Aws and Khazraj; he traded verse with… - Person
Qays ibn al-Musahhar al-Ya'muri
A Companion and poet of Banu Ya'mar; he killed Mas'ada ibn Hakama al-Fazari in Zayd ibn Haritha's second raid… - Person
Qays ibn Asim
A chief of Banu Minqar of Tamim famed for forbearance; he came in the Tamim delegation of 9 AH, belittled the… - Person
Qays ibn Asim al-Sulami
Qays ibn Asim al-Sulami; he killed Sulayman ibn Marthad in the war for Khurasan's governorship and took his… - Person
Qays ibn Hudhafa
Of Banu Sahm; he emigrated to Abyssinia. Ibn Ishaq mentions him without describing his fate. - Person
Qays ibn Makshuh al-Muradi
Qays ibn Hubayra ibn al-Makshuh al-Muradi; sent by Abu Ubayda at Umar's order reinforcing Sa'd in seven… - Person
Qays ibn Mas'ud al-Shaybani
Qays ibn Mas'ud al-Shaybani; Kisra's warden of the Taff, maker of al-Manjashaniyya six miles from Basra, his… - Person
Qays ibn Zuhayr
An Arab leader in pre-Islamic times known as Qays al-Ra'y; he gave up leadership, lived in asceticism and… - Person
السلطان الأشرف قايتباي
between 1422 and 1423 CE · 826 AHCircassian sultan invested by the caliph — ruling 'with a boldness no king had shown since al-Nasir… - Person
Qaytbay ibn Muhammad ibn Barakat, sharif of Mecca
Sharif sultan of Mecca — news of his death reached Damascus on the selfsame day as Bayezid II's and Yemen's… - Person
Qazi Mazhar Hussain
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Qazi Mian Muhammad Amjad
1860 CE · 1276 AH†Draft card for Qazi Mian Muhammad Amjad, the Indian scholar and jurist; his entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Qazi Sa'id Qumi
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Qazzaz Hasan Celebi
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Qilij Arslan I ibn Sulayman
Qilij Arslan ibn Sulayman ibn Qutulmush, Seljuk sultan of Rum; succeeding his father over Konya, Aqsaray and… - Person
Kilij Arslan II
Draft card for Izz al-Din Kilij Arslan II, the sultan of Rum who defeated Manuel I at Myriokephalon, named… - Person
Kiliccizade Ishak Celebi
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Qirwash ibn al-Muqallad al-Uqayli
Mu'tamad al-Dawla — the Uqaylid amir seated by al-Qadir in 396 who ruled Mosul, Kufa and the Euphrates; the… - Person
Qizil Arslan
Qizil Arslan b. Ildegiz the atabeg, king of Azerbaijan, Arran, Hamadan, Isfahan and Rayy after his brother… - Person
Qolşärif
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Qubadh, Partisan king
A king among the Partisan kings defeated by Tubba' Abu Karib in Iraq — expressly not the Sasanian Qubadh ibn… - Person
Qubilai Khan ibn Tolui
Qubilai ibn Tolui ibn Genghis Khan; his brother Monke sent him with their brother Hulagu against the land of… - Person
Quda'a al-Asadi
The Asadi poet who swore and broke with Ibn al-Zubayr — 'Ibn Muti' called me to allegiance, kneeling to a… - Person
Qudama ibn al-Ajlan al-Ansari
An Ansari the book lists as Ali's governor of Bahrain. The passage gives neither the dates of his office nor… - Person
Qudama ibn Ja'far
888 CE · 275 AHWriter and literary critic whose grandfather, a Christian, converted to Islam; his father was a scribe; died… - Person
Qudama ibn Mazun
One of the earliest Muslims of the secret call; al-Raheeq al-Makhtum names him as a brother of Uthman ibn… - Person
Qudsia Begum
1801 CE · 1215 AHFirst of the women rulers of Bhopal in central India: she married Nazar Mohammad Khan in 1817, succeeded him… - Person
Kudumzen Dervis Ali
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Quhyar ibn Qarin
Quhyar ibn Qarin, Mazyar's brother; nursing his slights he secretly served al-Hasan ibn al-Husayn and… - Person
Qunbul, the Rawi of Ibn Kathir
Qunbul — Muhammad b. Abd al-Rahman b. Muhammad al-Makki al-Makhzumi (d. 191, aged 96) — one of the two… - Person
Qurayba al-Sughra bint Abi Umayya
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Quraysh ibn Badran al-Uqayli
Succeeding Qirwash in 444, the Uqaylid amir of Mosul who fought the Ghuzz in the Jazira and stood against… - Person
Qurra ibn Habban al-Bahili
Qurra ibn Habban al-Bahili; Basra's Qantarat Qurra bears his name, an old canal beside it. - Person
Qurt ibn Jammakh al-Abdi
Fighter in the Iraq conquests; in al-Baladhuri he fenced at the Day of Mihran till his sword bent, and was… - Person
Qusayy ibn Kilab
The Qahtani-raised Qurashi who returned to Mecca, married Hulayl’s daughter Hubba, took the custody of the… - Person
Quss ibn Sa'ida al-Iyadi
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Qutayba ibn Sa'id
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Qutb al-Din al-Qastallani of Mecca
c. 1217 CE · 614 AHThe Meccan imam — 'shelter of the fuqara''; wrote against the Ibn Sab'in way, 'beginning with al-Hallaj and… - Person
Qutb al-Din al-Rawandi
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قطب الدين أيبك
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Qutb al-Din Ilghazi of Mardin
The Artuqid lord of Mardin — died 580 leaving the child Husam al-Din Yuluq Arslan, whom his own mamluk Nizam… - Person
Qutb al-Din Mawdud of Mosul
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Qutb al-Din Sanjar
Al-Nasir's mamluk and governor of Khuzistan — his covert rebellion ended in surrender at Shiraz's… - Person
Qutbu'd-Din Shah, Sultan of Kashmir
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Qutb al-Dinzade Izniki
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Qutb al-Din ibn Sultan
c. 24 November 1465 CE · 12 Rabi' I 870 AHShaykh al-Islam, mufti of Syria — b. eve of 12 Rabi' I 870; Egypt's qadi under al-Ghuri as Ibn al-Shihna's… - Person
Qutb Shah, sultan of Golconda
Qutb Shah b. Qasim Shah — sultan of Golconda; he killed his father the sultan at Tarjalandar (per the… - Person
Qutba ibn Amir ibn Hadida
A Khazraji companion — one of the six Ansar who first met the Prophet at al-Aqaba and among its twelve… - Person
Qutba ibn Qatada al-Udhri
Companion from Banu Udhra who commanded the right wing at Mu'tah. He charged and killed Malik ibn Zaflah,… - Person
Qutham ibn al-Abbas
al-Abbas's son who went down into the Prophet's grave with Ali, his brother al-Fadl and Shuqran. - Person
Qutlugh Khatun
Qutlugh Khatun, widow of Qutb al-Din Muhammad of the Qutlugh khans; she ruled Kirman from 655 to 681 under… - Person
قتلمش بن إسرائيل بن سلجوق
Shihab al-Dawla Qutlumush b. Arslan Isra'il b. Saljuq, Tughril Beg's cousin; held castles and fortresses in… - Person
Qutrub
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السلطان المظفر سيف الدين قطز المعزي
Aybak's mamluk and his boy's atabeg; when the Tatars stood at Amid and Ibn al-Adim begged aid, he seized the… - Person
Raad Al-Kurdi
16 April 1991 CE · 1411 AHKurdish Iraqi Quran reciter and hafiz, born in Kirkuk in 1991. He became imam of the Imam al-Shafi'i Mosque… - Person
Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan
13 February 1905 CE · 1322 AHPakistani stateswoman and economist (1905–1990), the wife of Liaquat Ali Khan and Pakistan's first First Lady… - Person
رباح مولى مغيث
Mughith's slave who infiltrated the church-holdout's garden; captured and scrubbed raw by men who had never… - Person
Rabah ibn Ajla
The 'arraf of al-Yamama, judged alongside the 'arraf of Najd in the famous verse — one of the augurs… - Person
Rabah ibn Murra
Hassan's guide against Jadis and brother of Zarqa' al-Yamama — he warned the king of her far sight and… - Person
Rabah Madjer
15 December 1958 CE · 1378 AHAlgerian retired footballer, born in Hussein Dey, Algiers in 1958. A striker who reached stardom with Porto… - Person
al-Rabi' ibn Khalid
Swore before al-Hajjaj's minbar never to pray behind him and to join any who fought him — he fell at Dayr… - Person
Rabi' ibn Nahshal
Rabi' ibn Nahshal; he wrote Ibn Amir's writ to Herat's great in the Herat-Badghis-Bushanj sulh, sealed by Ibn… - Person
Rabi'a al-Ra'y
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Rabi'a ibn Rufay' (Ibn al-Dughunna)
A warrior of Banu Sulaym (known as Ibn al-Dughunna) who caught up with the aged Durayd ibn al-Simma at Awtas… - Person
Rabi'a ibn Umayya ibn Khalaf
Qurashi Companion with a powerful voice who stood at Arafat relaying the Prophet's Farewell Sermon phrase by… - Person
Rabi'a Khatun bint Ayyub
Rabi'a Khatun bint Ayyub (d. 643) — sister of Salah al-Din and widow of Muzaffar al-Din Kokburi of Irbil;… - Person
Rabi'a ibn Nizar
One of Nizar's sons; al-Nuwayri tells how, in the dispute over their father's inheritance, he received the… - Person
Rabih az-Zubayr
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Rached Ghannouchi
22 June 1941 CE · 1360 AHRached Ghannouchi (born 1941) is a Tunisian politician and thinker, co-founder of the Ennahda Movement and… - Person
Rachida Lammini
Moroccan teacher and preacher known as Ustadha Rachida Lammini, who gives short religious lessons in Moroccan… - Person
Raden Asnawi
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Raden Patah
1455 CE · 859 AH†Draft card for Raden Patah, founder and first sultan of Demak; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Radi al-Din al-Jili
Radi al-Din Abu Dawud Sulayman b. al-Muzaffar al-Jili (d. 631) — Shafi'i mufti of Baghdad's Nizamiyya, author… - Person
Radi al-Din al-Astarabadhi
A grammarian who was a Shi'i, according to the entry's judgement; author of a celebrated commentary on Ibn… - Person
رضي الدين الإربلي
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Radi al-Din al-Musawi al-Makki
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Radi al-Din al-Sarkhasi
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Radi al-Din al-Tabari
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Radi al-Din ibn al-Khayyat
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Radwan al-Junawi
1505 CE · 912 AHA memorizer and transmitter of hadith in Fez, one of the scholars of the Maghrib in the tenth century AH. - Person
Rafael Aghayev
4 March 1985 CE · 1405 AHAzerbaijani karateka, born in Sumgait in 1985. A five-time world champion and eleven-time European champion… - Person
Rafeeq Salafi
Malayalam-language dawah speaker who publishes his speeches through his official YouTube channel, known for… - Person
Rafi Ahmed Kidwai
18 February 1894 CE · 1311 AHIndian politician (1894–1954) from Barabanki district. Educated at the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College, he… - Person
Rafi ibn al-Mala
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Rafi' ibn Harthama
The Khurasani amir killed by Amr b. al-Layth; his head was displayed at Baghdad in 284. Ibn al-Jawzi: he… - Person
Rafi' ibn Khadij
A Companion of the Aws; presented to the Prophet at Badr he was judged too young, then allowed at Uhud and… - Person
Rafi' ibn Malik ibn al-Ajlan
An Ansari of Banu Zurayq, he was at al-Aqaba and one of the naqibs, and Sa'd ibn Abd al-Hamid said he was the… - Person
Rafi ud-Darajat
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Rafi-ush-Shan
Draft card for Rafi-ush-Shan Bahadur, the Mughal prince and father of three short-reigned emperors, d. 1712;… - Person
Ragheb Al-Sergani
28 February 1964 CE · 1383 AHEgyptian preacher and historian, and professor of urology at Cairo University's Faculty of Medicine, born in… - Person
Raghib al-Nashashibi
1881 CE · 1298 AHPalestinian politician (1881–1951) who served as mayor of Jerusalem from 1920 to 1935 and led the National… - Person
Raghib mawla al-Muwaffaq
A client of Abu Ahmad al-Muwaffaq; in 285 he led a naval raid that took many Byzantine ships, beheaded three… - Person
Raghuram Rajan
3 February 1963 CE · 1382 AHRaghuram Govind Rajan (born 3 February 1963) is an Indian economist who served as chief economist of the… - Person
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
1974 CE · 1394 AH†Nusrat's nephew and heir of modern qawwali — one of South Asia's most-streamed voices. - Person
Rahmah el Yunusiyah
26 October 1900 CE · 1318 AHIndonesian educator from Padang Panjang (1900–1969): in 1923 she founded Diniyah Putri, Indonesia's first… - Person
Rahman Baba
Draft card for Abd al-Rahman 'Rahman Baba', the Pashtun Sufi poet of the celebrated Diwan, d. 1706; the… - Person
Rahmatullah Kairanawi
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Rahmatullah of Banjar
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Rahmatullah Mir Qasmi
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Rahmi
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Raja Ali Khan of Khandesh
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Raja Chulan
1 July 1869 CE · 21 Rabi' I 1286 AH†Perak prince and administrator in British Malaya (1869–1933), second son of Sultan Abdullah Muhammad Shah II.… - Person
رجاء بن حيْوة الكندي
Counsellor of Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik, who advised him to settle the succession on Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz… - Person
Raja Pervaiz Ashraf
26 December 1950 CE · 17 Rabi' I 1370 AH†Pakistani politician (born 1950), prime minister of Pakistan from June 2012 to March 2013, minister for water… - Person
Raja Zia ul Haq
Pakistani youth preacher, chief executive and ameer of Youth Club Pakistan, a non-profit youth organisation… - Person
Rajab al-Bursi
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Rajab Subhi Dib
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Rajih al-Hilli
1175 CE · 570 AHSharaf al-Din Rajih b. Isma'il al-Asadi al-Hilli (570–627) — one of the most famous poets of his age; died at… - Person
Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti
1894 CE · 1311 AHA prominent Muslim scholar: a legal theorist, jurist, reformer, philologist and editor, born in Damascus into… - Person
Ramazan ibn Ismail
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Rami Mehmed Pasha
Draft card for Rami Mehmed Pasha, the Ottoman grand vizier and Karlowitz negotiator of 1699, d. 1706; the… - Person
Rami Nashashibi
1972 CE · 1392 AHPalestinian-American activist and sociologist, born in 1972 in Amman, Jordan, to Palestinian parents. In… - Person
Ramiz
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Ramla bint Abi Awf
Of Banu Sahm, wife of al-Muttalib ibn Azhar al-Zuhri; she emigrated to Abyssinia and bore her son Abdullah… - Person
Ramy Bensebaini
16 April 1995 CE · 1415 AHAlgerian professional footballer (born 1995 in Constantine). A defender who came through the Paradou academy… - Person
Ramy Youssef
26 March 1991 CE · 1411 AHAmerican stand-up comedian, actor and writer of Egyptian origin, born in Queens, New York, in 1991. He… - Person
Rana Dajani
1964 CE · 1383 AHJordanian molecular biologist and professor at the Hashemite University, specialising in the genetics of… - Person
Rania Al-Abdullah
31 August 1970 CE · 1390 AHRania Al-Abdullah (born 31 August 1970) is Queen of Jordan as the wife of King Abdullah II since 1999. Born… - Person
Rania Awaad
Egyptian-American psychiatrist at Stanford University, where she is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and… - Person
Rashid Ahmad Gangohi
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Rashid al-Din Sinan
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Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum
11 June 1912 CE · 1330 AHRuler of Dubai (1958–1990), a founding father of the United Arab Emirates, its first Vice President… - Person
Rashid ibn Amr al-Judaydi
Rashid ibn Amr al-Judaydi of Azd; Ziyad's frontier man — victorious at Qiqan, killed raiding al-Mayd. - Person
Rashid ibn Hafs al-Zuhri
Rashid ibn Hafs ibn Umar ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf al-Zuhri. Ibn Hibban counted him among the trustworthy;… - Person
Rashid Khan
20 September 1998 CE · 1419 AHAfghan cricketer and captain of the Afghanistan national team in Twenty20 Internationals, born in Nangarhar… - Person
Mustafa Reşid Pasha
13 March 1800 CE · 1214 AHMustafa Reşid Pasha (born in Istanbul on 13 March 1800 – died there on 7 January 1858) was an Ottoman… - Person
Muhammad Rashid Rida
Scholar and journalist of the Islamic reform movement, a disciple of Muhammad Abduh and author of a… - Person
Rashida Tlaib
24 July 1976 CE · 1396 AHAmerican lawyer and Democratic politician, born in Detroit in 1976, the eldest of fourteen children of… - Person
Rasuna Said
14 September 1910 CE · 1328 AHMinangkabau orator and Indonesian nationalist activist (1910–1965): trained at the Diniyah Putri and Sumatera… - Person
رَطية بنت كعب
Ratiya bint Ka'b of Quraysh, an ancestress through Asad ibn Abd al-Uzza; tradition identifies her as the… - Person
Ratu Biru of Patani
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Ratu Ungu of Patani
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Rayhana bint Zayd
A captive of Banu Qurayza or Banu al-Nadir; the reports differ on whether the Prophet freed and married her… - Person
Raynald de Châtillon
Raynald (Arnat), lord of Kerak — whom Ibn al-Athir calls the most hostile of the Franks; in 577 he planned an… - Person
Rayta bint al-Harith ibn Jubayla
Wife of al-Harith ibn Khalid; she emigrated to Abyssinia and died. The book's context differs on where she… - Person
Rayta bint Munabbih
Draft card for Rayta bint Munabbih, wife of Amr ibn al-As, a woman of the early community; the biographical… - Person
Rayta bint 'Ubayd Allah
Al-Saffah's mother — 'Abd al-Malik's widow (by her his son al-Hajjaj), remarried to Muhammad ibn 'Ali… - Person
Rayta bint Ziyad
Rayta bint Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan; she took leave to build a Basra bathhouse in the permission-wave after… - Person
Razaq Allah ibn Abd al-Wahhab al-Tamimi
1010 CE · 401 AHA Hanbali jurist and historian of Baghdad, whose biography is recorded in works including those of Ibn… - Person
رزين بن معاوية العبدري
Abu al-Hasan Razin ibn Mu'awiya al-Abdari of Zaragoza, author of the Tajrid al-Sihah; he transmitted… - Person
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
26 February 1954 CE · 1373 AHTurkish politician, president of Turkey since 2014, previously prime minister from 2003 to 2014 and mayor of… - Person
Refet Bele
1881 CE · 1298 AHTurkish military commander and statesman. He served in the Ottoman army in Palestine, became one of the… - Person
Revani
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Reza Talabani
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Reza Zanjani
1902 CE · 1320 AH†Draft card for Reza Zanjani, the ayatollah and preacher against the Shah; his entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Ri'ab al-Shanni
One of al-Mas'udi's unitarian warners of the intermission alongside Quss ibn Sa'ida and Bahira. - Person
Riad al-Asaad
2 February 1961 CE · 1380 AHFormer Syrian Air Force colonel who defected in July 2011, founded the Free Syrian Army and led it in its… - Person
Riad Ouarzazi
A Moroccan-born dawah speaker and teacher based in Toronto, Canada. Born in Casablanca, he took Islamic… - Person
Riazuddin
10 November 1930 CE · 1349 AHPakistani theoretical physicist, born in Ludhiana in 1930 and died in Islamabad in 2013. A pupil of Abdus… - Person
Rib'i ibn Amir al-Tamimi
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Rico Verhoeven
10 April 1989 CE · 1409 AHDutch kickboxer, professional boxer and mixed martial artist born in Bergen op Zoom in 1989. He was Glory's… - Person
Reza Abbasi
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Rida Sadr
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Rizai Mahmud Baba Efendi
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Riddick Bowe
10 August 1967 CE · 1387 AHAmerican former heavyweight boxer, born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1967. He won the Olympic silver medal in… - Person
Ridwan al-Falaki
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Ridwan al-'Ilj, Abd al-Malik's chamberlain
Sultan Abd al-Malik's chamberlain; he and Ahmad al-Mansur alone knew of his master's death on the day of Wadi… - Person
Ridwan, Commander of the Catalan Company at Granada
Ridwan, mawla of Granada's sultan Abu al-Hajjaj and commander of his Christian Catalan troops; he held the… - Person
Ridwan ibn Tutush
Ridwan ibn Taj al-Dawla Tutush ibn Alp Arslan; his father had commended him to his men before battle, and… - Person
رفاعة الطهطاوي
1801 CE · 1216 AH†Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (1801–1873 CE) — 'one of the pillars of Egypt's modern renaissance'; al-Azhar scholar sent… - Person
Rifa'a ibn Amr ibn Zayd
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Rifa'a ibn Malik al-Zuraqi
Rifa'a ibn Malik ibn al-Ajlan al-Ansari al-Zuraqi, Abu Mu'adh, a Companion who witnessed the second pledge at… - Person
Rifa'a ibn Qays al-Jushami
A man of name and rank in Banu Jusham ibn Mu'awiya who camped at al-Ghaba with a large clan of his people,… - Person
Rifa'a ibn Shaddad al-Bajali
The fifth Penitent chief encamped at Nukhayla in 65 AH. - Person
Rifa'a ibn Zayd al-Judhami
Of Judham, of the Dubayb; he came to the Prophet during the Hudaybiyya truce before Khaybar, gave him a slave… - Person
Rifa'ah ibn Rafi'
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Riyad Mahrez
21 February 1991 CE · 1411 AHAlgerian professional footballer, born in Clichy, France, in 1991. A right winger who rose through Quimper… - Person
Riyasat Ali Zafar Bijnori
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Riyazi
Draft card for Riyazi Mehmed Efendi, the seventeenth-century Ottoman poet and bibliographer, d. 1644; the… - Person
Riz Ahmed
1 December 1982 CE · 1403 AHBritish actor and rapper of Pakistani origin, born in Wembley, London, in 1982. He was the first Muslim and… - Person
Rizaeddin bin Fakhraddin
13 January 1859 CE · 1275 AHTatar and Bashkir scholar and publicist (1859–1936), one of the most productive authors of the Jadid… - Person
أبو محمد التميمي شيخ حنابلة بغداد
Rizq Allah b. Abd al-Wahhab al-Tamimi, Abu Muhammad — shaykh of Baghdad's Hanbalis, master of fiqh, usul,… - Person
Rizwana Hasan
15 January 1968 CE · 1387 AHBangladeshi environmental lawyer, born in Habiganj on 15 January 1968. As chief executive of the Bangladesh… - Person
Robert of Ketton
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لذريق
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Rodtang Jitmuangnon
23 July 1997 CE · 1418 AHThai Muay Thai fighter, born Tinnakorn Srisawat in Phatthalung in 1997. Known as The Iron Man, he held the… - Person
رجار صاحب صقلية
Lord of Sicily (Roger II); his fleets took Mahdiyya in 543 under George of Antioch and he imposed the jarī… - Person
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
9 December 1880 CE · 1298 AHBengali writer, educator and social reformer (1880–1932), a pioneer of women's liberation in Bengal. Barred… - Person
Roxana Moslehi
Roxana Moslehi is an Iranian-born genetic epidemiologist, raised in Canada and an associate professor of… - Person
Roza Otunbayeva
23 August 1950 CE · 1369 AHKyrgyz politician and diplomat born in 1950 at Frunze. A philosophy lecturer who became her country's first… - Person
Rubay'i ibn al-Kas al-Anbari
Rubay'i ibn al-Kas al-Anbari; sent by Ali through Ibn Abbas with four thousand to Sijistan — al-Husayn ibn… - Person
Rudhmir king of the Jalaliqa
King of the Jalaliqa (Galicians) in 332 — the battle of Samura in Shawwal 327 cost the Muslims of al-Nasir's… - Person
Rufay' Abu al-Aliya al-Riyahi
Rufay' Abu al-Aliya al-Riyahi, a Riyah woman's mawla; he crossed the river with Sa'id ibn Uthman's army —… - Person
Rufayda al-Aslamiyya
An Ansari Companion of Banu Aslam remembered for her medical tent pitched in the Prophet's mosque; the… - Person
Ruh ibn Hatim al-Muhallabi
A military commander named in an anecdote of Abu Dulama, who was pressed into a campaign under him against… - Person
Ruh ibn Zanba' al-Judhami
The Syrian-army Judhami who mounted the Prophet's own minbar at Medina to answer its taunts — 'we called you… - Person
Ruhi al-Khalidi
1864 CE · 1280 AHBorn in Jerusalem, where his schooling moved between Jerusalem and Nablus. - Person
Ruhi Celebi
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Ruhollah Khatami
1906 CE · 1324 AH†Draft card for Ruhollah Khatami, the ayatollah and father of president Mohammad Khatami; his entry is not yet… - Person
Ruhollah Khomeini
17 May 1900 CE · 1318 AHRuhollah Khomeini (1900/1902–1989) was an Iranian Shia cleric and politician, the leader of the Iranian… - Person
الحسن بن بويه ركن الدولة
Hasan ibn Buya, brother of Imad and Mu'izz al-Dawla, titled Rukn al-Dawla when the three laqabs went on the… - Person
Rukn al-Din al-Amidi al-Samarkandi (Hanafi lawyer, d. 615/1218)
Rukn al-Din Abu Hamid Muhammad b. Muhammad al-Samarkandi al-Amidi, a Hanafi lawyer famous for dialectics,… - Person
Rukn-e-Alam
Draft card for Shaykh Rukn al-Din Abu'l-Fath, the fourteenth-century Suhrawardi saint of Multan, d. 1335; the… - Person
Rum Mehmed Pasha
Rum Mehmed Pasha, a vizier of Mehmed II; al-Salabi records that when the Karamanid emirate was annexed and… - Person
Rumaliza
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الرميكية اعتماد
I'timad, known as al-Rumaykiyya — the washerwoman who capped al-Mu'tamid's verse on the wind-rippled river… - Person
Rumzi
American content creator and dawah educator of Palestinian origin, based in California. He runs the YouTube… - Person
Ruqayya al-Kubra bint Ali
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Ruqayya bint Muhammad
A daughter of the Prophet and wife of Uthman ibn Affan; she emigrated with him to Abyssinia and then to… - Person
Ruqsana Begum
15 October 1983 CE · 1404 AHBritish kickboxer and boxer born in London in 1983 to a family of Bangladeshi origin. She trained in secret… - Person
Rushanara Ali
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Ruth Pfau
9 September 1929 CE · 1348 AHRuth Katherina Martha Pfau (9 September 1929 – 10 August 2017) was a German–Pakistani physician and Roman… - Person
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5 July 1969 CE · 1389 AHAmerican rapper and producer, born Robert Fitzgerald Diggs in the Brownsville neighbourhood of Brooklyn on 5… - Person
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7 August 1967 CE · 1387 AHSaudi reciter and imam from Dammam (born 1967). He completed his memorisation of the Qur'an in 1990 and… - Person
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Saad al-Shathri
c. 1967 CE · 1387 AHSaudi scholar of usul al-fiqh, born in Riyadh in 1387 AH, son of the royal advisor Nasir al-Shathri. He… - Person
Sa'id ibn Abi Burda
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Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas
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Sa'd ibn Mas'ud al-Thaqafi
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Saad Zaghloul
1 July 1859 CE · 1275 AHEgyptian national leader and leader of the 1919 revolution. He studied at al-Azhar and the law school, worked… - Person
Saadat Hasan Manto
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Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
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Sabit Alaeddin Užičanin
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Sabria Mills
American behavioral therapist, coach and public speaker, and the founder and host of The DOPE Muslim Woman… - Person
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Amir Sabuktigin (d. 387) — founder of the Ghaznavid house; rose as Alptigin's chamberlain under the Samanids,… - Person
Sabuq Qara Khan
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The vizier Abu Nasr Sabur ibn Ardashir; in 382 he bought and rebuilt a Karkh house as the Dar al-Ilm, endowed… - Person
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سعد الدين ابن الشيخ محيي الدين
c. September 1221 CE · c. Ramadan 618 AHIbn Arabi's son Sa'd al-Din Muhammad — born at Malatya in Ramadan 618, a hadith-hearer and poet with a famous… - Person
Sa'd al-Din b. Hamuwayh
The Sufi of the Juwayni house (d. 650) — accompanied his uncle shaykh al-islam Ibn Hamuwayh to Egypt in Fakhr… - Person
Sa'd al-Din, king of Abyssinia
King of Abyssinia — succeeded his brother Nur al-Din and walked his path in jihad till martyred in 805. - Person
سعد الملك أبو نصر ابن ماكولا صاحب الإكمال
c. August 1030 CE · Sha'ban 421 AHSa'd al-Malik Abu Nasr Ibn Makula, the great hafiz of the Abu Dulaf al-Ijli line — author of al-Ikmal on… - Person
Sa'd ibn 'Abd Allah al-Qummi
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Sa'd ibn al-Dayl
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Sad ibn al-Rabi al-Ansari
An Ansari Companion of the Khazraj. On the day of Uhud the Prophet sent Zayd ibn Thabit to search for him… - Person
Sa'd ibn Amr ibn Haram al-Ansari
Sa'd ibn Amr ibn Haram al-Ansari; in al-Baladhuri: Ammar ibn Yasir — then Umar's governor of Kufa — sent him… - Person
Sa'd ibn Dakla, Atabeg of Shiraz
The Salghurid Atabeg of Fars — sheltered the fugitive mamluk Sanjar 'honouring him and standing up for him',… - Person
Sa'd ibn Hudhayfa
Hudhayfa's other martyred son at Siffin — their father died days after the sickbed sermon and bay'a that sent… - Person
Sa'd ibn Humran al-Muradi
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Sa'd ibn Ibrahim al-Zuhri
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Sa'd ibn Khaythama
An Ansari of the Aws, one of the twelve naqibs on the night of al-Aqaba and the naqib of Banu Amr ibn Awf;… - Person
Sa'd ibn Malik al-Khudri
c. 612 CEA Companion of the Prophet from the Ansar, of the Khudra clan, who transmitted hadith. - Person
Sa'd ibn Mu'adh
Chief of the Aws and standard-bearer of the Ansar at Badr, where he pledged the Ansar's full support in the… - Person
Sa'd ibn Ubada
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Sa'd ibn Zayd al-Ashhali
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Sadaqa ibn Ali
Sadaqa ibn Ali ibn Sadaqa ibn Dinar, the Azd's mawla; he ravaged Azerbaijan with al-Wajna' ibn al-Rawwad,… - Person
Sadaqa ibn Mansur al-Mazyadidi, King of the Arabs
Sadaqa ibn Mansur ibn Dubays ibn Ali ibn Mazyad al-Asadi, amir of Banu Mazyad and builder of al-Hilla in… - Person
Saddam Hussein
28 April 1937 CE · 1356 AHIraqi politician and military figure (1937–2006), president of Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow in 2003. He… - Person
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Sa'di Chalabi
Sa'di Chalabi — Kastamonu-born, trained in Constantinople to al-Samuni's service; Mahmud Pasha madrasa, then… - Person
Sadi-yi Cem
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Sadid al-Din al-Kashghari
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Sadif bint Humas
An Arab diviner named by al-Mas'udi among the kahins marked by bodily deformity. - Person
Sadio Mané
10 April 1992 CE · 1412 AHSenegalese professional footballer, born in Bambali, in the Sédhiou region, in 1992. A winger for Saudi club… - Person
Mohammad Sadiq Gangohi
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Sadiq Khan
8 October 1970 CE · 1390 AHBritish Labour Party politician, born in Tooting, London, in 1970 into a working-class Pakistani immigrant… - Person
Sadiq Khan Zand
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Sadir Palwan
1798 CE · 1213 AH†Uyghur folk hero and poet of Ghulja (the Ili region), one of the leaders of the 1864 Uyghur uprising in the… - Person
Sadr al-Din al-Dashtaki
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Sadr al-Din al-Hamuwi, shaykh al-shuyukh
Shaykh al-shuyukh — Dhahabi's eyewitness visitor in 695 who reported that the Mongol khan Ghazan took Islam… - Person
Sadr al-Din al-Khujandi
Ra'is of Isfahan's Shafi'is — 'second only to the governor over all its people' — who hated the Khwarazmian… - Person
Sadr al-Din al-Shu'aybi
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Sadr al-Din ibn al-Kassar
c. 1229 CE · 626 AH - Person
Sadr al-Din ibn al-Wazzan
Muhammad ibn al-Wazzan, head of the Shafi'is of Rayy and highly placed with the Khwarazmshah Takish — killed… - Person
Sadr al-Din ibn Hamuwayh al-Juwayni
Sadr al-Din ibn Hamuwayh — Shaykh al-Shuyukh of Egypt and Syria, 'an excellent faqih and a righteous Sufi of… - Person
Sadr al-Shari'a al-Asghar
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Sadreddinzade al-Shirwani
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Sadreddinzade Sadik Mehmed Efendi
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Sadri Maksudi Arsal
23 July 1878 CE · 1295 AHTatar jurist, politician and scholar (1878–1957), born at Taşsu near Kazan and died at Istanbul. He sat for… - Person
Sadriddin Ayni
27 April 1878 CE · 24 Rabi' II 1295 AH†Tajik writer, poet and historian (1878–1954) from the Bukhara emirate village of Saktare: a Jadid enlightener… - Person
Sadullah Enveri
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Sa'dun ibn Muhammad Al Humayd
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Saeb Erekat
28 April 1955 CE · 1374 AHSaeb Erekat (28 April 1955 – 10 November 2020) was a Palestinian politician and diplomat born in Abu Dis and… - Person
Saeed Ahmad Palanpuri
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Saeed Al-Owairan
19 August 1967 CE · 1387 AHSaudi Arabian former professional footballer (attacking midfielder and forward), born in Riyadh in 1967, who… - Person
Sa'id ibn Muzahim al-Umawi (transmitter, client of Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz)
Sa'id ibn Muzahim ibn Abi Muzahim al-Umawi, a client of Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz. He narrated from his father,… - Person
Safa' al-Din Isa al-Bandanijy
1788 CE · 1203 AHA Sufi scholar of Baghdad from the Qadiri and Naqshbandi orders, named after Bandanijin. - Person
Hatim al-Ta'i's daughter (Saffana)
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Safi al-Din al-Hilli
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1246 CE · 644 AH†Draft card for Safi al-Din al-Hindi, the polymath of the Kashf al-Haqa'iq gloss; his entry is not yet checked… - Person
Safi al-Din al-Urmawi
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Shaykh Safi al-Din al-Ardabili
c. 1252 CE · 650 AHShaykh Safi al-Din al-Ardabili (650–735/1252–1334), great ancestor of Shah Ismail; al-Salabi records the… - Person
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Safiqoli Khan Undiladze
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Safiyya bint Abd al-Muttalib
An aunt of the Prophet, mother of al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam and full sister of Hamza; she embraced Islam and… - Person
Safiyya bint Huyayy
c. 610 CEA woman of the Jewish tribe Banu Nadir who was taken captive at Khaybar, then freed and married to the… - Person
Safiyya bint Shayba
Whether she was a Companion is disputed, and the view that she never saw the Prophet is called the most… - Person
Safwan ibn al-Mu'attal
A righteous Companion and veteran warrior from Banu Sulaym assigned to travel behind the army to collect… - Person
Safwan ibn Hudhayfa
Hudhayfa ibn al-Yaman's son — borne with his brother Sa'd to Siffin on their dying father's command 'strive… - Person
Safwan ibn Umayya
A leader of Quraysh from Banu Jumah; his father was killed at Badr as a disbeliever; he fled on the day Mecca… - Person
Sahama ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Asamm
Sahama ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Asamm al-Ghudani, al-Hajjaj's muezzin, who fought with Yazid; the Basra house… - Person
الصاحب بن عباد
The Sahib Ibn Abbad, Buyid wazir and keeper of the famous library — who judged Sayf al-Dawla's thousand… - Person
Muzaffar al-Din Uthman, lord of Sahyun
Lord of Sahyun castle for thirty-three years after his father — 'resolute, commanding, awe-inspiring'; he… - Person
Sahibzada Abdul Qaiyum
12 December 1863 CE · 1280 AHPashtun educationist and politician (1863–1937) of Topi in Swabi. He rose through the British Indian… - Person
سهل بن هارون
Sahl ibn Harun — keeper of the Bayt al-Hikma under al-Ma'mun, charged with the hoard of Greek philosophical… - Person
Sahla bint Suhayl
Of Banu Amir ibn Lu'ayy; Ibn Ishaq names her among the women emigrants to Abyssinia. - Person
Sahnun ibn Said al-Tanukhi
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Said Ahmed Mougne M'Kou
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Sa'id al-Abd Allah
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Sa'id al-Andalusi
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Sa'id al-Dawla, Hamdanid
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سعيد الحاجب
Appointed to kill al-Musta'in after Ahmad ibn Tulun refused to slay caliphs' sons — he slaughtered him on 3… - Person
Sa'id ibn Amr ibn Aswad al-Harashi
Sa'id ibn Amr ibn Aswad al-Harashi, an amir of the marches; Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik sent him at the head of… - Person
Sa'id ibn Abi Sa'id al-Jannabi
Abu'l-Qasim Sa'id b. Abi Sa'id al-Jannabi (d. 361), the Qarmatian ruler at Hajar: he died Jumada II 361 and… - Person
Said al-Kamali
21 May 1972 CE · 1392 AHMoroccan jurist, hadith scholar, preacher and university professor, born in Rabat in 1972. He teaches at… - Person
Sa'id al-Mufti
26 June 1898 CE · 1316 AHSa'id al-Mufti (26 June 1898 – 25 March 1989) was a Jordanian politician and diplomat of Circassian origin,… - Person
al-Said al-Mu'tadid, Almohad caliph
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Said Ali bin Said Omar
1852 CE · 1268 AH†Draft card for Said Ali bin Said Omar, the last sultan of Bambao in Grande Comore; his entry is not yet… - Person
Said bin Misfer
1944 CE · 1364 AHSaudi Islamic preacher born in Abha in 1364 AH (1944). He earned a doctorate in aqida from Umm al-Qura… - Person
Said bin Sultan
5 June 1791 CE · 1205 AHSaid bin Sultan al-Busaidi (1791–1856), fifth ruler of the Al Bu Said dynasty and Sultan of Muscat, Oman and… - Person
Said Gabiev
28 May 1882 CE · 10 Rajab 1299 AH†Said Ibragimovich Gabiev (1882–1963) was a Lak poet, writer, enlightener and revolutionary, one of the… - Person
Said Halim Pasha
19 February 1864 CE · 1280 AHOttoman statesman and Islamist thinker (1864–1921), a grandson of Muhammad Ali Pasha of Egypt. He was Grand… - Person
Sa'id Hassan Sammour
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Sa'id ibn Abd al-Aziz 'Hudhayfa'
Sa'id ibn Abd al-Aziz, nicknamed 'Hudhayfa' when a dahqan mocked his saffron robe and combed hair; Maslama's… - Person
سعيد بن عبد العزيز التنوخي
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Sa'id ibn Abd al-Malik (al-Khayr)
Sa'id ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, called Sa'id al-Khayr, who displayed piety; in al-Baladhuri: the site of… - Person
Sa'd ibn Abd Qays
Of Banu al-Harith ibn Fihr; he emigrated to Abyssinia — the second of the three men Ibn Ishaq names from Banu… - Person
Sa'id ibn Abi Aruba
Sa'id ibn Abi Aruba — Abu Aruba's name being Mihran; one of the Basran delegation to al-Mansur bearing the… - Person
سعيد بن أحمد الباهلي
Sa'id ibn Ahmad al-Bahili, headman of the Bahila band who coveted the Batayih after the Zanj quit it; haled… - Person
Sa'id ibn al-As ibn Sa'id ibn al-As ibn Umayya
Sa'id ibn al-As ibn Sa'id ibn al-As ibn Umayya; in al-Baladhuri: he was Uthman ibn Affan's governor of Kufa,… - Person
Sa'id ibn al-As Abu Uhayha
Father of Khalid, Amr and Aban; he died at al-Zurayba in the direction of al-Ta'if over property of his, and… - Person
Sa'id ibn al-Harith al-Sahmi
Of Banu Sahm; he emigrated to Abyssinia and was killed in the year of the Yarmuk in Umar's caliphate. - Person
Said ibn al-Mubarak
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Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab
Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab; among the greatest Meccan-Medinan Followers — 'Abd al-Malik first struck engraved… - Person
Sa'id ibn Amir ibn Hudhaym al-Jumahi
Sa'id ibn Amir ibn Hudhaym al-Jumahi the Qurashite, a Companion of the Messenger of God and commander under… - Person
Sa'id ibn Amr al-Jarashi
Sa'id ibn Amr al-Jarashi; over Khurasan he disavowed his katib's solecisms — 'the amir is innocent of this… - Person
Said ibn Amr ibn al-Ashwa
Said ibn Amr ibn al-Ashwa al-Hamdani al-Kufi, a judge. He transmitted from Shurayh ibn Hani', al-Sha'bi, Abu… - Person
Sa'id ibn Amr al-Tamimi
Of Banu Tamim, maternal half-brother of Bishr ibn al-Harith al-Sahmi; he emigrated to Abyssinia and was… - Person
Sa'id ibn Aslam ibn Zur'a al-Kilabi
Sa'id ibn Aslam ibn Zur'a al-Kilabi; al-Hajjaj's man on the Makran frontier — killed in the Allafi brothers'… - Person
Said ibn Aws Abu Zayd al-Ansari
740 CE · 122 AHThe philologist, grammarian and transmitter Abu Zayd Said ibn Aws ibn Thabit al-Ansari, who studied language,… - Person
سعيد بن حكم القرشي أمير منورقة
Abu Uthman Sa'id ibn Hakam al-Qurashi — 'the generous, the just, the learned'; after Majorca's fall he rose… - Person
سعيد بن حمدان
A Hamdanid sent by al-Muqtadir with Safi al-Basri in great horse toward Samarra against Mu'nis's advance in… - Person
Sa'id ibn Hamza al-Nili
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Said ibn Harun al-Ashnandani
A grammarian and philologist from Baghdad, one of the imams of the Arabic language and its transmitters, who… - Person
Sa'id ibn Humayd
The katib whose tale-bearing broke al-Fath ibn Khaqan — lampooned as 'the zindiq who reviles the Prophet's… - Person
Sa'id ibn Iyas al-Jariri
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Sa'id ibn Khalid ibn Sa'id
Son of Khalid ibn Sa'id ibn al-As and Amina bint Khalf, born in the land of Abyssinia. - Person
صاعد بن مخلد
The Abbasid wazir in Baghdad titled Dhu'l-Wizaratayn whose style Ibn Shuhayd emulated as the first so called… - Person
Sa'id ibn Mansur
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Said ibn Sa'd ibn Ubada al-Ansari
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Sa'id ibn Sa'id ibn al-As
An early Muslim of Banu Umayya, brother of Khalid ibn Sa'id and Amr ibn Sa'id; he migrated to Abyssinia and… - Person
Sa'id al-Hajib
The chamberlain who flogged the deposed caliph, sat on his chest and took his head to al-Mu'tazz — 'if it is… - Person
Said ibn Salim al-Qaddah, Abu Uthman
Said ibn Salim al-Qaddah, Abu Uthman, from Khurasan or, it is said, Kufa, who settled in Mecca. He… - Person
Sa'id ibn Saria al-Khuza'i
Sa'id ibn Saria al-Khuza'i; Ali appointed him to Azerbaijan, then al-Ash'ath ibn Qays al-Kindi. - Person
Sa'id ibn Uthman ibn Affan
Sa'id ibn Uthman ibn Affan; Mu'awiya's governor of Khurasan — first to cross the river with his whole army.… - Person
Sa'id ibn Uthman ibn al-Sakan
Sa'id ibn Uthman ibn Sa'id ibn al-Sakan, Abu Ali, from Baghdad, who settled in Egypt and died there; one of… - Person
Said ibn Yahya al-Umawi
The traditionist and jurist Abu Uthman Said ibn Yahya ibn Said ibn Aban al-Umawi, of Kufan origin who settled… - Person
Sa'id ibn Zayd
One of the earliest converts of the secret call; he and his wife Fatima bint al-Khattab, Umar's sister,… - Person
Said Nursi
1877 CE · 1294 AHKurdish scholar from Ottoman Turkey, born in 1877 and died in 1960; author of the Risale-i Nur, a Qur'anic… - Person
Saidi Omar bin Saidi Houssein
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Saidi Abdallah bin Salim
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Saidullah of Banjar
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Saif ibn Sultan al-Ya'rubi
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Saif ibn Sultan II al-Ya'rubi
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Saifuddin Kitchlew
15 January 1888 CE · 1305 AHIndian barrister and independence activist (1888–1963) from Amritsar, educated at Cambridge and in Germany.… - Person
Sajah bint al-Harith
c. 590 CEA woman of Tamim by her father and Taghib by her mother who claimed prophecy in rhymed speech, marched an… - Person
Sajid Umar
A British judge, educator and author, born in Leicester and brought up in Harare, Zimbabwe, which he… - Person
S. S. Sajideen Katki
1939 CE · 1358 AH†Draft card for S. S. Sajideen Katki, the Indian Islamic scholar of Odisha; his entry is not yet checked on… - Person
سجادة
A hadith man known as Sajjada; he refused in the creation-of-the-Quran mihna and was shackled before… - Person
Saken Seifullin
15 October 1894 CE · 14 Rabi' II 1312 AH†Kazakh poet, writer and statesman (1894–1938), founder of modern Kazakh literature and first head of the… - Person
سكينة بنت الحسين
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Sakkut al-Barghawati
Sakkut the Barghawati hajib; a slave of the shaykh Haddad of the Hammudid mawali, bought from Barghawata… - Person
Sal Khan
11 October 1976 CE · 1396 AHAmerican educator of Bengali origin, born in 1976 in Metairie, Louisiana. He began in 2004 by tutoring his… - Person
Salah Al-Budair
7 January 1970 CE · 1389 AHSaudi imam and judge (born 1970 in Hofuf), imam and khatib of the Prophet's Mosque since 1998 and guest imam… - Person
Salah al-Din al-Ala'i
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Salah al-Din al-Irbili
Salah al-Din al-Irbili — a cupper at the Begteginid court of Irbil who emigrated to Syria in 603, served the… - Person
Salah al-Din al-Usaqi
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Salah al-Din ibn Yusuf al-Kahhal
A physician from the last generation of Arab physicians, raised in Aleppo. - Person
Saladin (Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub)
between 1137 and 1138 CE · c. 532 AHSultan of Egypt and Syria and founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, born at Tikrit in 1137 or 1138 and died at… - Person
Salah Bukhatir
Qur'an reciter and preacher native to the United Arab Emirates. He serves as imam of the Sheikh Saoud Al… - Person
Salah Ennaifer
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Salahi Efendi
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Salam al-Tayfuri
Sulayman ibn Qayrat's partner in Sisar's pastures; in al-Baladhuri, of Tayfur — Abu Ja'far al-Mansur's mawla… - Person
سلامة حاجب القاهر
Al-Qahir's chamberlain; al-Suli says the caliph was reckless, blood-shedding, ill-mannered and wine-addicted… - Person
Salama al-Qass
The singing-girl bought from Suhayl for three thousand dinars who ruled Yazid's heart — 'the world and Salama… - Person
Salama al-Sahmi
Salama al-Sahmi, an Arab poet of the second half of the first/seventh century, of the tribe of Sahm, a branch… - Person
سلامة الطولوني
Made chamberlain by al-Qahir after Mu'nis's fall in 321. - Person
Salama ibn al-Akwa'
A famed Companion celebrated as the swiftest runner and premier foot-archer among the Muslims; hero of the… - Person
سلمة بن الحارث الكندي
Salama ibn al-Harith al-Kindi, youngest of al-Harith's sons: set over Taghlib, expelled by them, then taken… - Person
Salama ibn al-Mayla' al-Juhani
A warrior of Juhayna who was killed in Khalid ibn al-Walid's cavalry during the entry into Mecca on the day… - Person
Salama ibn Amr al-Dabbi
Salama ibn Amr ibn Dirar al-Dabbi — some say al-Bara' ibn Azib; Hudhayfa sent him over the Rayy army after… - Person
Salama ibn Aslam
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Salama Moussa
4 February 1887 CE · 1304 AHEgyptian journalist, writer and thinker (1887-1958), a pioneer of socialism in Egypt and an avowed secularist… - Person
Selami Ali Efendi
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Saleh al-Ali
1883 CE · 1300 AHSyrian sheikh and military leader (1883–1950), an Alawite notable of the coastal mountains who led the revolt… - Person
Saleh Al-Fawzan
28 September 1935 CE · 1354 AHSaudi scholar and jurist, born at Al-Shamasiyah in Al-Qassim Province in 1935; he has been Grand Mufti of… - Person
Saleh Al-Maghamsi
17 November 1963 CE · 1383 AHSaudi scholar, preacher and Qur'an exegete, born in 1963 in the Medina region. He studied Arabic language and… - Person
Saleh Al-Osaimi
1971 CE · 1391 AHSaudi hadith scholar and musnid (master of transmission chains), born in Riyadh in 1391 AH / 1971. He… - Person
Saleh Al-Sadlan
24 January 1941 CE · 1359 AHAbu Ghanim Salih ibn Ghanim Al-Sadlan (1359–1439 AH / 1941–2017 CE) was a Saudi scholar and professor of… - Person
Salem Al-Dawsari
19 August 1991 CE · 1412 AHSaudi Arabian professional footballer (left winger), born in Jeddah in 1991 to a family from Al-Aflaj, who… - Person
Salif Keita
25 August 1949 CE · 1368 AHMalian singer-songwriter, born in the village of Djoliba in 1949, of the Keita royal family that traces its… - Person
Salif Keïta
6 December 1946 CE · 1366 AHMalian footballer (1946–2023), born and died in Bamako. A striker who began with Real Bamako and Stade… - Person
Salih
Thamud's prophet — the Prophet passed their dwellings at al-Hijr on the Tabuk road and forbade entering them… - Person
Salih al-Buhuti
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Salih al-Marri
Abu Bishr Salih b. Bashir, 'al-Marri' (d. 186) — Basran ascetic preacher (qass) who admonished al-Mahdi at… - Person
Salih al-Uthman al-Qadi
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Salih ibn Abd al-Aziz Al Uthaymin
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صالح بن عبد القدوس البصري
Denounced to al-Mahdi for zandaqa; he professed repentance and was released, then recalled — 'the old man… - Person
Salih ibn Abd al-Rahman
Salih ibn Abd al-Rahman, mawla of Banu Tamim — his father among Sijistan's captives; in al-Baladhuri he wrote… - Person
Salih ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal
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Salih ibn al-Mansur
in al-Baladhuri, eponym of Baghdad's Salihiyya quarter. - Person
Salih ibn Ali
Salih ibn Ali ibn Abdullah ibn al-Abbas, prince of the Abbasid da'wa and its first governor over Syria; in… - Person
صالح بن كيسان
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صالح بن مدرك
Tayyi''s amir; he and his tribe fell on the Iraqi caravan in 289 and took loot worth a million mithqals from… - Person
Salih ibn Mahdi al-Maqbali
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Salih ibn Mansur al-Himyari
Salih ibn Mansur al-Himyari, ancestor of the kings of Nekour; through him the Ghumara embraced Islam under… - Person
صالح بن مرداس أسد الدولة الكلابي
Salih b. Mirdas, Asad al-Dawla al-Kilabi — a desert-Arab amir who seized Aleppo from al-Murtada b. al-Jarrah,… - Person
Salih ibn Mudrik al-Ta'i
A Tayyi' chief who fell on the pilgrim caravan of 285 at al-Ajfar, seizing mounts, goods and captives — said… - Person
Salih al-Hariri
Al-Muntasir's drinking-companion whose decades-old love for Qayna's freedwoman was fulfilled with a hunched… - Person
Salih ibn Muhammad al-Shirazi
Abu'l-Fadl al-Shirazi of East Baghdad, trustworthy transmitter from 'Affan and 'Ali ibn al-Ja'd — and a… - Person
Salih ibn Muslim al-Bahili
Salih ibn Muslim al-Bahili, Qutayba's brother; left beyond the river he took Kasan, Urusht, Sakhr and… - Person
Salih ibn Nasr al-Kinani al-Mutawwi'i
Salih ibn Nasr al-Kinani, called Salih al-Mutawwi'i; leader of the mutatawwi'a volunteers in Sistan who… - Person
Salih ibn Nasrallah
Draft card for Salih ibn Nasrallah, the Ottoman writer (physician, d. 1669); the biographical entry is not… - Person
Salih ibn Salim al-Khawlani
Salih ibn Salim al-Khawlani, a freedman of his tribe, known as Abu Muhammad, a Maliki scholar who knew the… - Person
Salih ibn Sayf al-Jabri
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صالح بن طريف
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Salih ibn Ubada al-Hamdani
Salih ibn Ubada al-Hamdani; he held Mosul's ribat-post in Utba ibn Farqad's conquest days. - Person
Salih Pasha al-Makki
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Salih Reis
Beylerbey of Algiers from Safar 960/January 1552. Internally he sought complete unity of all Algeria, the… - Person
Saliha Sultan
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Salik ibn al-Salaka
A pre-Islamic vagrant poet of the Arabs; the proverb 'Farting, and you on top?' is attributed to him after a… - Person
Salil ibn Yazid
Salil ibn Yazid ibn Malik of Tayy; the only man hit when the Muslims forded the Tigris to al-Mada'in at the… - Person
Salim al-Bishri
1832 CE · 1248 AHEgyptian Azhari scholar (1832–1917). Born at Mahallat Bishr in Beheira and educated at al-Azhar, he served… - Person
Salim al-Mawsuti
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Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah
1864 CE · 1281 AHSalim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah (born in 1864 – died at Kuwait City on 23 February 1921) was the ninth ruler of… - Person
Salim al-Naqqash
Lebanese writer and journalist (died 1884). Born in Beirut, he moved to Alexandria in 1876 and with his… - Person
Salim al-Sanhuri
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Salim al-Suddi
Umar's intimate who greeted his caliphate with 'it pleased me for the people and grieved me for you — I fear… - Person
Salim al-Tumi
Salim al-Tumi — ruler of Algiers whose power rested on Spanish backing, in al-Salabi's account; he besieged… - Person
Salim Chishti
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Salim I of Anjouan
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Salim ibn Abd Allah ibn Umar
A jurist of Medina; Rabi'a says the fatwa passed after Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab to al-Qasim and Salim, as… - Person
Salim ibn Ayyub al-Razi
Draft card for Salim ibn Ayyub al-Razi, the eleventh-century jurist, d. 1055; the biographical entry is not… - Person
Salim ibn Fadl Ba'afdal
A scholar from Tarim in Hadramawt, descended from Sa'd al-Ashira. He died in 581 AH. - Person
Salim ibn Qasim, amir of Medina
The Husaynid amir of Medina — defeated Qatada of Mecca at Dhu al-Hulayfa after praying at the Prophet's tomb,… - Person
Salim ibn Qutayba
Counselled al-Mansur on Abu Muslim with the verse against a partner-god — 'a hearing ear, indeed'. - Person
Salim ibn Umayr
The first of the seven Weepers, of Banu Amr ibn Awf in Ibn Ishaq's context; Ibn Ishaq lists him among those… - Person
Salim ibn Wabisa al-Asadi
Salim ibn Wabisa ibn Mabad al-Asadi al-Raqqi, an emir and hadith scholar counted among the Successors by the… - Person
Salim Ismail
17 May 1965 CE · 1385 AHSalim Ismail (born 17 May 1965 in Hyderabad, India) is an Indian-born Canadian technology entrepreneur and… - Person
Salim Kassam
A British media figure, co-founder and former chief editor of The Muslim Vibe, the grassroots digital media… - Person
Salim, freed slave of Abu Hudhayfa
One of the earliest Muslims; a woman of the Ansar freed him and he attached himself to Abu Hudhayfa, who… - Person
Salim
Draft card for Salim, the Ottoman writer (poet, d. 1743); the biographical entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Salima Mazari
1980 CE · 1400 AHAfghan politician, born in Iran in 1980 to a refugee family that had fled the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.… - Person
Salimou ben Mwé Fani
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Salit ibn Amr
Of Banu Amir ibn Lu'ayy; he emigrated to Abyssinia. Ibn Ishaq describes him as the Messenger of God's envoy… - Person
Salit ibn Atta al-Hanafi
Salit ibn Atta al-Hanafi; Waki' ibn Hassan's courier bearing Qutayba's head to Sulayman. - Person
Salit ibn Qays al-Ansari
Salit ibn Qays ibn Amr al-Ansari; sent by Umar with Abu Ubayd to Iraq with the saying 'but for the haste in… - Person
سليان النهرواني اللغوي
Saliyan b. Abd Allah al-Nahrawani, the grammarian-lexicographer — author of the ten-volume al-Qanun… - Person
Seljuk ibn Duqaq
Draft card for Seljuk ibn Duqaq, the ancestor after whom the Seljuk state is named, named from an open… - Person
Sallam al-Khasir
The poet of 'the seas of bounty ebbed after the Barmakids'. وعدّه ابن النديم في الشعراء الذين يظهرون الإسلام… - Person
Sallam al-Tarjuman
Sallam the Interpreter — fluent in thirty tongues, and the only man al-Wathiq judged fit when a dream… - Person
Sallam ibn Abi al-Huqayq (Abu Rafi')
A wealthy Jewish merchant of Banu al-Nadir settled in Khaybar; one of the primary instigators and financiers… - Person
Sallam ibn Ziyad
Salm ibn Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan; Mu'awiya's and Yazid's governor of Khurasan and namesake of Basra's Nahr Salm… - Person
Sallar al-Daylami
Draft card for Sallar al-Daylami, the eleventh-century scholar, d. 1001; the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Salm ibn Ahwaz al-Mazini
Nasr ibn Sayyar's commander who killed Yahya ibn Zayd at 'Arghuna and took his head to al-Walid — Abu Muslim… - Person
Salm, master of the House of Wisdom
Salm, master of the House of Wisdom under al-Ma'mun; Ibn al-Nadim names him among the embassy the caliph sent… - Person
Salma al-Qabila
A Companion, wife of Abu Rafi' the Prophet's freedman; she was the household midwife who delivered Fatima's… - Person
Salma bint Attab
A woman poet of Tamim who spoke two verses on the day of Uyayna ibn Hisn's raid on Banu al-Anbar, lamenting… - Person
Salma bint Hafsa
al-Muthanna's widow married to Sa'd — who freed Abu Mahjan on his oath, lent him al-Balqa', and told Sa'd the… - Person
Salma Lakhani
c. 1951 CE · 1370 AHUgandan-born Canadian businesswoman and community advocate installed in 2020 as lieutenant governor of… - Person
Salma Umm al-Khayr
Draft card for Salma bint Sakhr ibn Amir Umm al-Khayr, the mother of Abu Bakr; the biographical entry is not… - Person
Salman al-Farisi
c. 568 CEA Persian seeker who passed through Zoroastrianism and Christianity before reaching Muhammad; freed from… - Person
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
31 December 1935 CE · 1354 AHSeventh King of Saudi Arabia, reigning since 23 January 2015; a son of King Abdulaziz and Hassa bint Ahmed Al… - Person
Salman ibn Mujalid
A courtier of al-Mansur who confirmed a debt, with Abu al-Jahm, in an anecdote of Abu Dulama. - Person
Salman ibn Rabi'a al-Bahili
Salman ibn Rabi'a al-Bahili; in al-Baladhuri: it is said he was in Abu Ubayda's army with Abu Umama al-Suddi… - Person
Salman Rushdie
19 June 1947 CE · 1366 AHSalman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British novelist, author of Midnight's Children (1981),… - Person
Sam Mirza
Draft card for Sam Mirza, the Safavid prince-poet author of the Tuhfa-ye Sami; his entry is not yet checked… - Person
Saman Khuda
Draft card for Saman Khuda, the eponymous forebear of the Samanid dynasty that rose in Khurasan and… - Person
Samar Asamoah
British podcast host and author who embraced Islam at 19; of African Caribbean heritage and born and raised… - Person
Samar Mubarakmand
17 September 1942 CE · 1361 AHPakistani nuclear physicist born in Rawalpindi in 1942. At the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission he headed… - Person
السمح بن مالك الخولاني
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Sami Al-Jaber
11 December 1972 CE · 1392 AHSaudi Arabian former professional footballer (forward) and later manager, born in Riyadh in 1972. He spent… - Person
Sami Efendi
13 March 1838 CE · 1253 AHOttoman calligrapher (1838–1912), the last great master of jali ta'liq and jali thuluth. He gave the sultan's… - Person
Sami Frashëri
1 June 1850 CE · 1266 AHAlbanian-Ottoman writer and lexicographer (1850–1904), known in Turkish sources as Şemseddin Sami, one of the… - Person
Sami Khedira
4 April 1987 CE · 1407 AHGerman former professional footballer of Tunisian descent, born in Stuttgart in 1987. A central midfielder… - Person
Sami Said
1979 CE · 1399 AHEritrean-born Swedish writer and novelist, born in Keren in 1979. His family fled the war in his childhood… - Person
Sami Yusuf
1980 CE · 1400 AH†The British-Azerbaijani singer whose album Al-Mu'allim (2003) sold millions — the best-known modern Islamic… - Person
Samia Suluhu Hassan
27 January 1960 CE · 1379 AHTanzanian politician (born 1960) from Zanzibar who has been the sixth president of Tanzania since 19 March… - Person
Samir Mustafa
1976 CE · c. 1396 AHEgyptian preacher and sermon-giver from Helwan, south of Cairo, born in about 1976. He became known for his… - Person
Samira ibn al-Ja'd al-Shaybani
al-Hajjaj's Shaybani boon-companion won over by Qatari ibn al-Fuja'a's verse — he answered with his own lines… - Person
Samori Ture
c. 1830 CE · 1246 AHFounder of the Wassoulou Empire in West Africa (c. 1830–1900) and its ruler with the title Almamy (imam). He… - Person
صمصام الدولة بن عضد الدولة
Adud al-Dawla's son, invested by al-Ta'i' in 372 as Shams al-Milla with seven robes and the two standards;… - Person
Samuel Fyzee-Rahamin
19 December 1880 CE · 1298 AHIndian, later Pakistani, painter and writer (1880–1964), one of the founders of modern Indian painting. Born… - Person
Samura ibn Jundab
A Companion of Fazara and ally of the Ansar; the Prophet sent him back as a boy and then allowed him to go… - Person
San' Allah al-Halabi
Draft card for San' Allah al-Halabi, the Hanafi jurist, muhaddith and literary scholar, d. 1708; the… - Person
Sana Saleh
Canadian content creator in Toronto who makes comic and explanatory videos about Islam with her husband Will… - Person
Sanad ibn Anan
Sanad ibn Anan ibn Ibrahim al-Azdi, Abu Ali, a teacher of al-Tartushi and of Abu Tahir al-Salafi, an ascetic… - Person
Sana'i
Draft card for Sana'i of Ghazna, the Sufi poet of the Hadiqat al-Haqiqa, named from an open reference… - Person
Sanaullah Amritsari
12 June 1868 CE · 1285 AHIndian, later Pakistani, scholar, debater, writer and journalist (1868–1948) of Amritsar in Punjab, and a… - Person
Sanbadh
Sanbadh, who rose at Rayy in the first days of the Abbasid state; Umar ibn al-Ala' the butcher fought him… - Person
Sani Abacha
20 September 1943 CE · 1362 AHNigerian officer (1943–1998) born in Kano to Kanuri parents who became Nigeria's military ruler by a palace… - Person
Sani Hasan Uskudari
Draft card for Sani Hasan Uskudari, the Ottoman writer, d. 1732; the biographical entry is not yet checked on… - Person
Sania Mirza
15 November 1986 CE · 1407 AHIndian former professional tennis player, born in Mumbai in 1986 and raised in Hyderabad. A former doubles… - Person
السلطان سنجر بن ملكشاه
c. 1085 CE · c. 479 AHThe senior Seljuk sultan who ordered his nephew Mas'ud to restore the captive caliph al-Mustarshid, citing… - Person
Sanjar al-Jawli
Draft card for Sanjar al-Jawli, the fourteenth-century Mamluk emir of Gaza, d. 1345; the source entry is not… - Person
سنجر شاه صاحب الجزيرة العمرية
Al-Malik Sanjar Shah b. Ghazi b. Mawdud b. Atabeg Zangi, lord of Jazirat Ibn Umar; his son Ghazi killed him… - Person
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi
31 July 1961 CE · 1381 AHNigerian banker and economist born in Kano in 1961, of a Fulani ruling family and grandson of Emir Muhammadu… - Person
Sakizli Sadik Mehmed Efendi
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Saqr bin Khalid Al Qasimi
Saqr bin Khalid Al Qasimi (no birth date is given by any source read – died in 1914) was ruler of Sharjah of… - Person
Sarah
Ibrahim's wife; Pharaoh plotted against her and God turned his plot back, and recognising her closeness to… - Person
Sara, mawla of Banu Abd al-Muttalib
A freedwoman attached to a family of Banu Abd al-Muttalib. In this edition she is named both as one of two… - Person
Sarban Ahmed
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Sardar Azmoun
1 January 1995 CE · 1415 AHIranian professional footballer (born 1995 in Gonbad-e Kavus). A striker of Turkmen origin who became Iran's… - Person
سري السقطي
The ascetic, shaykh of al-Junayd, died in al-Mu'tazz's days. - Person
Sari Mehmed Pasha
Draft card for Defterdar Sari Mehmed Pasha, the eighteenth-century Ottoman treasurer and author of counsel… - Person
Sari Saltuk
Draft card for Sari Saltuk, the thirteenth-century warrior-dervish of the Balkans to whom deeds and shrines… - Person
Sari Suleyman Pasha
Draft card for Sari Suleyman Pasha, the Ottoman grand vizier succeeding Kara Mustafa after the Vienna siege… - Person
Sarica Kemal
Draft card for Sarica Kemal, the fifteenth-century Ottoman poet; the biographical entry is not yet checked on… - Person
Sarigorez Nureddin Efendi
Draft card for Sarigorez Nureddin Efendi, the Ottoman writer (d. 1522); the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Sarim al-Din Ibrahim b. al-Mu'ayyad
c. 1400 CE · c. 802 AHSarim al-Din Ibrahim, al-Mu'ayyad Shaykh's son by the Circassian Turuz — 'brave, comely, munificent, with… - Person
Sariya al-Rifa'i
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Sarjun ibn Mansur
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Sati al-Husri
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Satih the soothsayer
The celebrated Arab diviner Satih — of the marked-bodied kahins in al-Mas'udi's roster. - Person
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Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
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Sawab al-Adili
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Sawad ibn Ghaziyya
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Sawda bint Zam'a
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Sawra ibn al-Hurr al-Hanzali
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Sayf al-Din al-Amidi
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Sayf al-Din al-Baktmari
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Sayf al-Din al-Mashtub
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Sayf al-Din Aqtay al-Musta'rib
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سيف الدين غازي بن زنكي
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Sayf al-Din Ibn Qudama
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Sayf al-Din Ibn Taymiyya
1185 CE · 2 Safar 581 AHSayf al-Din Abd al-Ghani b. Fakhr al-Din Ibn Taymiyya (b. Safar 581, d. 7 Muharram 639, Harran) — succeeded… - Person
Sayf al-Islam Tughrakin
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Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan (Maʾdikarib)
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Sayyid Ahmad Barelwi (militant reformer of India, 1786–1831)
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22 June 1994 CE · 1415 AHIvorian footballer, born in Ris-Orangis, France in 1994. A striker who played for Utrecht, Eintracht… - Person
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The Ottoman sultan whom Suyuti's student calls the ninth century's calamity — killer of his brothers, breaker… - Person
سليم الثاني
c. 1524 CE · c. 930 AH†Selim II (r. 974–982/1566–1574) — succeeded Sulayman; his reign ran on Grand Vizier Sokollu Mehmed Pasha's… - Person
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Semmy Schilt
27 October 1973 CE · 1393 AHDutch retired kickboxer, karateka and mixed martial artist born in Rotterdam in 1973. He won the K-1 World… - Person
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Şenol Güneş
1 June 1952 CE · 1371 AHTurkish football manager and former goalkeeper, born in Trabzon in 1952. He played for Trabzonspor for twelve… - Person
Şerafeddin Mağmumi
1860 CE · 1276 AHOttoman physician and writer (1860–1931, both dates debated) whom the articles name among the founders of the… - Person
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Serigne Abdou Ahad Mbacké
1914 CE · 1332 AHSenegalese scholar (1914-1989), son of Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba and third caliph-general of the Mourides from… - Person
Serigne Babacar Sy
1885 CE · 1302 AHSenegalese scholar (1885-1957), son of El Hadj Malick Sy and his first khalifa-general over the Tijaniyya in… - Person
Serigne Fallou Mbacké
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11 July 1932 CE · 1351 AHLiving Senegalese scholar, grandson of Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba, founder of the Mourides, and son of Serigne… - Person
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22 September 1915 CE · 1333 AHSenegalese scholar (1915-2007), the last surviving son of Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba and fifth caliph of the… - Person
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Seydou Keita
16 January 1980 CE · 1400 AHMalian retired footballer, born in Bamako in 1980. A midfielder who played in France for Marseille, Lorient… - Person
Seyed Hossein Nasr
7 April 1933 CE · 1351 AHIranian philosopher and scholar of Islamic studies, born in Tehran in 1933. He studied physics at MIT and… - Person
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Shabana Mahmood
17 September 1980 CE · 1400 AHBritish Labour Party politician and barrister, born in Birmingham in 1980 to parents of Pakistani origin, who… - Person
شباشي الحاجب أبو طاهر المشطب
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Shabib ibn Ray'i al-Tamimi
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Shabib ibn Shayba
Abu Ma'mar Shabib b. Shayba of Basra — celebrated preacher and orator with famous eloquence; attached to… - Person
Shabir Ally
c. 1953 CE · c. 1372 AH†Guyanese-Canadian preacher and debater, born in Guyana around 1953 and moved to Canada in 1978. He is… - Person
Shaddad ibn Abdullah al-Qanani
A member of the Banu al-Harith ibn Ka'b delegation that came with Khalid ibn al-Walid to the Prophet in 10… - Person
Shaddad ibn Aws
A Companion of Banu al-Najjar and nephew of Hassan ibn Thabit; Ubada ibn al-Samit described him as one given… - Person
شاذي بن مروان
Saladin's grandfather, of the Rawadiyya Kurds at Dvin, who brought his sons Shirkuh and Ayyub to Baghdad and… - Person
Shadhi ibn Muhammad ibn Ayyub
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Shady Alsuleiman
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Sefik Mehmed Efendi
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شغب أم المقتدر
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Shah Abd al-Aziz al-Dihlawi
1746 CE · 1159 AHIndian theologian, eldest son of Shah Wali Allah al-Dihlawi. He was born in Delhi in 1159/1746 and died there… - Person
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1 April 1926 CE · 1344 AHPakistani scholar and politician (1926–2003) of Meerut, the son of Muhammad Abdul Aleem Siddiqi and the… - Person
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29 April 1779 CE · 1193 AHIndian revivalist scholar (1779–1831), grandson of Shah Waliullah Dehlvi and nephew of Shah Abdul Aziz, and… - Person
Shah Jahan Begum of Bhopal
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Shah Muhammad Sulaiman
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Shah Rukh ibn Timur
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2 November 1965 CE · 1385 AHIndian actor and producer, born in New Delhi in 1965 and known as 'King Khan'. He is among the most famous… - Person
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4 November 1785 CE · 1 Muharram 1200 AH†Shah of the Afghan Durrani Empire in two reigns (1803–1809 and 1839–1842), a son of Timur Shah Durrani of the… - Person
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Shahabuddin Ahmed
1 February 1930 CE · 1348 AHBangladeshi jurist and statesman (1 February 1930 – 19 March 2022), chief justice of Bangladesh from 1990 to… - Person
Shahak the Khadim
The khadim who identified Sa'id al-Hajib for the doomed al-Musta'in and carried the Prophet's mantle to… - Person
Shahd Batal
Sudanese-American content creator based in Los Angeles. She began on YouTube with natural-hair tutorials,… - Person
Shahda bint al-Ibri
Fakhr al-Nisa' Shahda bt. Ahmad al-Ibri (d. c. 574, aged over 90) — Baghdad's celebrated woman calligrapher… - Person
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi
27 December 1958 CE · 17 Jumada II 1378 AH†Pakistani politician and businessman (born 1958), prime minister of Pakistan from August 2017 to May 2018,… - Person
Shahin al-Jarkasi
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Shahrak, Marzban of Fars
Shahrak, marzban and governor of Fars — the gravest threat of the Arabs' coming; he mustered the great host… - Person
Shahriyar of Sijistan
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Shahzia Sikander
6 March 1969 CE · 1388 AHPakistani-American visual artist, born in Lahore in 1969. She revived the Indo-Persian miniature painting… - Person
Shaikhzada Babich
14 January 1895 CE · 17 Rajab 1312 AH†Bashkir poet (1895–1919), a classic author of Bashkir national literature. Born at Asyanovo, son of the… - Person
Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah
22 July 1915 CE · 1333 AHPakistani politician, diplomat and author (1915–2000) of the Suhrawardy family of Calcutta, a niece of Huseyn… - Person
شجر الدر سلطانة مصر
The wife of al-Malik al-Salih Ayyub and mother of Khalil. She concealed his death in 647 AH until Turanshah… - Person
Shakib Arslan
25 December 1869 CE · 1286 AHLebanese writer, poet, historian and politician (1869–1946), an emir of the Arslan family nicknamed Amir… - Person
Shakir ibn Mustafa al-Umari
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Shamail Nadwi
7 June 1998 CE · 1419 AHIndian Islamic scholar, mufti and author, born in Srinagar in 1998 and raised in Kolkata, and a graduate of… - Person
Shamardal ibn Shurayk
A poet of the Yarbu' clan, associated with the Kharijites and the poetry of heroic valour. - Person
Semdanizade Suleyman Efendi
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Shamim al-Hilli
Muhadhdhab al-Din 'Shamim' al-Hilli (d. 601, Mosul) — Hilla's sharp-tongued poet; his Lamsa in ten chapters… - Person
Shams al-A'imma al-Awjandi
Mahmud ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Awjandi, the qadi, a Hanafi jurist bearing the titles Shams al-A'imma and Shaykh… - Person
Shams al-A'imma al-Sarakhsi
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Shams al-Dawla Turanshah ibn Ayyub
Saladin's elder brother — destroyed the Sudanese remnant at Giza in 564, probed Nubia in 568 (taking Ibrim's… - Person
Shams al-Din Ahmad al-Aflaki
A follower of the Mawlawiyya order and disciple of Djalal al-'Arif, grandson of Djalal al-Din Rumi. At Djalal… - Person
Shams al-Din al-Asfahani
c. 1219 CE · 616 AHThe usuli-mutakallim — driven from Isfahan by the conquest to Baghdad, then Rum to Athir al-Din al-Abhari,… - Person
Shams al-Din al-Dawudi al-Maqdisi
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Shams al-Din al-Kalabadhi
c. 1247 CE · c. 644 AH - Person
Shams al-Din al-Khalili
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Shams al-Din al-Kirmani
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Shams al-Din al-Kufi
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Shams al-Din al-Laqani
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Shams al-Din al-Ramli
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Shams al-Din al-Samarqandi
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Shams al-Din al-Shami
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Shams al-Din al-Sumatrani
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Shams al-Din al-Tata'i
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الأمير شمس الدين أقوش صاحب حلب
Aleppo's amir, who raised his own Abbasid caliph — 'al-Hakim bi-amr Allah' — with khutba and coin while Cairo… - Person
Shams al-Din Dawud Shah II
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Shams al-Din ibn Abi Umar
c. October 1200 CE · Shawwal 597 AHThe Hanbali colossus (b. 597, d. end-Rabi' II 682) — sharh al-Muqni' in ten heavy volumes, usul from… - Person
Shams al-Din ibn al-Mawsili
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Shams al-Din Ibn Jama'a al-Kinani
c. November 1429 CE · Safar 833 AHThird-generation Jerusalem chief qadi, b. Safar 833 — licensed to give fatwa by Taqi al-Din Ibn Qadi Shuhba,… - Person
Shams al-Din ibn Muhammad, Sultan of Adal
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Shams al-Din Ibn Nuh
Mudarris of the Rawahiyya (d. Rabi' II 654) — the greatest and most madrasa-learned of Ibn al-Salah's pupils. - Person
Shams al-Din Eldiguz
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Shams al-Din Ildiguz
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Shams al-Din Ilyas Shah
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Shams al-Din Muhammad, Nizari imam
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شمس الملوك إسماعيل بن بوري بن طغتكين
Shams al-Muluk Abu al-Fath Ismail ibn Taj al-Muluk Buri ibn Tughtigin; ruled Damascus after his father —… - Person
Shams ibn Uthman
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Shams Tabrizi
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Shamsi
A London-based preacher and debater known for his encounters at Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park, and the… - Person
Shamsi Asadullayev
1840 CE · 1256 AHAzerbaijani oil baron and philanthropist (1840–1913), a farmer's son from Amirjan who became a leading… - Person
Shaqiq al-Balkhi
Shaqiq b. Ibrahim al-Balkhi — the Khurasanian shaykh of tawakkul and teacher of Ibrahim b. Adham; a… - Person
Shaqroun al-Wajdiji al-Tilimsani
1503 CE · 908 AH†Draft card for Shaqroun al-Wajdiji al-Tilimsani, the Algerian scholar and historian; his entry is not yet… - Person
شرف الدولة بن ركن الدولة
Rukn al-Dawla's son; he beat and blinded his brother Samsam al-Dawla in 376, took Baghdad, was invested and… - Person
Sharaf al-Din Abu Nasr al-Kashani
Treasurer and army-inspector of the Saljuq sultan Muhammad ibn Malikshah, later vizier to the caliph… - Person
Sharaf al-Din al-Ansari
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Sharaf al-Din al-Maqdisi al-Salihi
1209 CE · 605 AHThe Salihi Hanbali jurist (b. 605) — al-Muwaffaq's pupil, mufti and Jawziyya mudarris; Abu Shama: 'a good… - Person
Sharaf al-Din al-Tusi
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Sharaf al-Din ibn al-Rahbi
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Sharaf al-Din ibn Man'a
c. 1179 CE · 575 AHSharaf al-Din Ibn Man'a (575–622) — Irbil-born Shafi'i of the Banu Man'a scholarly house; abridged the Ihya'… - Person
Sharaf al-Din al-Manawi
c. 1396 CE · 798 AHSharaf al-Din al-Manawi (b. 798) — chief qadi of Egypt, 'last of the Shafi'i scholars and verifiers,'… - Person
Sharaf al-Din Qaraqush
Qaraqush, mamluk of Taqi al-Din Umar ibn Ayyub (Saladin's nephew) — led a Turkish corps out of Egypt to the… - Person
Sharaf al-Din Suhrawardi
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Sharaf al-Din ibn Ni'ma, khatib of khatibs
c. 1225 CE · 622 AH - Person
Sharaf Ya'qub ibn Muhammad, commander of the Syrian hajj
The Mosuli commander of the Syrian pilgrimage of 620 — when the Arabs massed to cut the road he bought them… - Person
al-Sharbi al-Miknasi, Medina's shaykh al-qurra'
Al-Sharbi al-Miknasi — shaykh al-qurra' of Medina, a Maliki polymath: Minhaj al-Wusul and Majma' al-Salik in… - Person
Shareef Abdur-Rahim
11 December 1976 CE · 1396 AHAmerican former basketball player and executive, born in Marietta, Georgia in 1976. He played twelve seasons… - Person
Shurahbil ibn Hasana
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الشريف أبو جعفر
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بركات بن محمد
Barakat ibn Muhammad, Sharif of Mecca — on hearing of the Mamluk defeat he submitted to Selim I and handed… - Person
Sharif Hasan Deobandi
1920 CE · 1338 AH†Draft card for Sharif Hasan Deobandi, the Shaikh al-Hadith of Darul Uloom Deoband; his entry is not yet… - Person
Sharif Kabungsuwan
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Serif Mehmed Efendi
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Sharif Sharifov
11 November 1988 CE · 1409 AHRussian-Azerbaijani freestyle wrestler, born in Gunukh, Dagestan, in 1988. Olympic champion at London 2012… - Person
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed
25 July 1964 CE · 1384 AHSomali politician (born 1964) from near Mahaday, who studied law and Islamic Shariah in Sudan and Libya and… - Person
Sharik ibn Abd Allah
95 AHSharik ibn Abd Allah al-Nakha'i, qadi of Kufa — born at Bukhara in 95 to a family whose grandfather had… - Person
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
12 November 1978 CE · 1398 AHPakistani-Canadian journalist and documentary filmmaker, born in Karachi in 1978. She is known for films that… - Person
Sharra'a ibn Zayd
The wit summoned by al-Walid — 'water is my mule's and donkey's share; wine is my soul's twin' — whose praise… - Person
Sestari Murad Aga
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Shaukat Ali
10 March 1873 CE · 1290 AHIndian politician (1873–1938), a leader of the Khilafat movement and the elder brother of Muhammad Ali… - Person
Shaukat Aziz
6 March 1949 CE · 7 Jumada I 1368 AH†Pakistani banker and politician (born 1949), prime minister of Pakistan from August 2004 to November 2007 and… - Person
شاور صاحب مصر
Egypt's vizier who twice bought rescue — the Franks through Damietta in 562, then burnt al-Fustat before… - Person
Shawki Allam
12 August 1961 CE · 1381 AHEgyptian jurist (born 12 August 1961 in Beheira Governorate), professor of jurisprudence at Al-Azhar… - Person
Shayba ibn Uthman al-Hajabi
A hereditary custodian of the Kaaba from Banu Abd al-Dar who joined the march to Hunayn intending to… - Person
شيبان الحروري
Shayban al-Haruri — the Haruri Khariji chief whom Abu Muslim used against the Umayyads and then eliminated. - Person
Shaydhala
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Shaykh Ahmad Qomi
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al-Shaykh al-Saduq (Ibn Babawayh)
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al-Shaykh al-Tusi
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Shaykh Bedreddin Simavi
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Shaykh Ghalib
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Seyh Haci Halife
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Shaykh Hamdullah
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Shaykh Himmet Efendi
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Shaykh al-'Aydarus, 'the second 'Aydarus' of Tarim
c. 1513 CE · 919 AHShaykh b. 'Abd Allah al-'Aydarus — Tarim's 'shaykh of his age by the gnosis of his time,' the Ba 'Alawi of… - Person
Sheikh Ibrahim Efendi
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Shaykh Jafar
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Shaykh Junayd
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Shaykh Mahmud Zarin-qalam
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Shaykh Midin, khalifa of al-Ashmuni
Shaykh Midin — descendant of Abu Madyan's line, the Ashmuni zahid who reached the opening in three days where… - Person
Shaykh Mohammad Sabzevari
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Shaykh Muslih al-Din
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Shaykh Nizam Burhanpuri
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Shaykh Sulayman Qunduzi
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Shaykh Wajih al-Din Gopamawi
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Seyhizade
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Shaylama ibn Sahl
Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Sahl, known as Shaylama — a companion of the Zanj leader to his last days who then… - Person
Shazia Ahmad
Islamic teacher based in Mississauga, Canada. She lived in Damascus, Syria for two years studying aqidah,… - Person
Shehbaz Sharif
23 September 1951 CE · 22 Dhu al-Hijja 1370 AH†Pakistani politician and businessman (born 1951), prime minister of Pakistan since March 2024 and previously… - Person
Shehu Shagari
25 February 1925 CE · 1343 AHNigerian politician (1925–2018) from the town of Shagari in Sokoto State who worked as a teacher, sat in the… - Person
Shaykh Edebali
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Sheikh Hasina
28 September 1947 CE · 1366 AHBangladeshi politician, born on 28 September 1947 at Tungipara, a daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the… - Person
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
17 March 1920 CE · 1338 AHBangladeshi politician (17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975), the founder of Bangladesh and its first president.… - Person
Sheikh Mustafa
1836 CE · 1252 AH†Draft card for Sheikh Mustafa of Beruwala, the renewer and scholar of Ceylon's Muslims; his entry is not yet… - Person
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor
27 July 1972 CE · 1392 AHMalaysian physician and astronaut, born in Kuala Lumpur in 1972 to Malay parents of distant Egyptian roots,… - Person
Sheikh Zaynudin
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Shek Shamim Ahmed
A British Muslim video producer, the sole creator of the Islamic Guidance YouTube channel, which he started… - Person
Sekerzade Seyyid Mehmed
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Sher Afghan Quli Khan
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Sher Ali Khan
1825 CE · 1240 AH†Emir of Afghanistan twice (1863–1866 and 1868–1879), a son of Dost Mohammad Khan, founder of the Barakzai… - Person
Sheref Khan Bedlisi
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Sherif Abdel Azim
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Sherif Mostafa
Egyptian Quran reciter, known for his murattal recitations in the riwaya of Hafs 'an 'Asim, spread through… - Person
Shervin Pishevar
24 March 1974 CE · 1394 AHShervin Kordary Pishevar (born 24 March 1974 in Tehran) is an Iranian-American entrepreneur, venture… - Person
Sheykh Mohammad Bandduz Tabrizi
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Shibl al-Dawla Nasr ibn Salih al-Mirdasi
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Shibl ibn Ma'bad al-Bajali
Shibl ibn Ma'bad ibn Ubayd al-Bajali; one of the four witnesses against al-Mughira — flogged by Umar he cried… - Person
Shibli Nomani
3 June 1857 CE · 1273 AHIndian Muslim scholar, historian and poet (1857–1914): professor of Arabic and Persian at Aligarh for sixteen… - Person
Shifa'i Isfahani
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Shihab al-Din Ahmad b. Hilal al-Halabi
Shihab al-Din Ahmad b. Hilal of Aleppo — pupil of Ibn al-Kharrat and the Sufi Shams al-Din al-Bilali who then… - Person
Shihab al-Din Ahmad Ibn Muflih
c. 1353 CE · 754 AHShihab al-Din Ahmad Ibn Muflih (b. 754) of Ramin then Damascus's Salihiyya — Hanbali brother of shaykh Taqi… - Person
al-Shihab al-'Abir
c. July 1231 CE · 13 Sha'ban 628 AHThe Nablus Hanbali — 'none matched his mark in dream-interpretation'; his great work on it is al-Badr… - Person
Shihab al-Din al-'Abbadi, the Hanafi
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Shihab al-Din al-Azazi
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al-Shihab al-Khafaji (Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn 'Umar)
Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn 'Umar, Abu al-'Abbas al-Khafaji of Cairo, a Hanafi judge, and a prolific author on… - Person
Shihab al-Din al-Kuni
Yusuf b. Isma'il al-Kuni al-Halabi — the Aleppine poet Ibn Khallikan knew personally from 633 till his death;… - Person
Shihab al-Din al-Milkawi
Damascus's keenest qadi — 'none in the town took the sciences properly but him' (al-Zuhri), an Ibn… - Person
Shihab al-Din al-Qalyubi
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Shihab al-Din al-Ramli
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Shihab al-Din al-Sivasi
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Shihab al-Din al-Suhrawardi
c. 1155 CE · 549 AHYahya b. Habash b. Amirak — Suhrawardi al-Maqtul, the master of illuminationist hikma and student of Majd… - Person
Shihab al-Din al-Ghuri
Muhammad ibn Sam al-Ghuri, lord of Ghazna and part of Khurasan — Ibn al-Athir praises his courage, constant… - Person
Shihab al-Din ibn al-Najjar
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Shihab al-Din ibn Taymiyya
c. 1229 CE · 627 AHSon of Sayf al-Din, father of Taqi al-Din — shaykh, khatib and hakim of his town after his father, then the… - Person
Shihab al-Din Umar Khalji
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Shihab al-Din ibn 'Abd al-Haqq al-Sunbati
The Azhar's greatest preacher — son of the Meccan mujawir 'Abd al-Haqq, he preached in the Haram in his… - Person
Shihab al-Din Ibn al-'Ulayf
The second Ibn al-'Ulayf — a smooth versifier 'on every theme' who 'took his share of fortune's cream'; a… - Person
Shihab al-Din al-Turki al-Tarabulsi
Imam of Tripoli's mosque — a man of piety who 'recited the whole Qur'an every day and night in two rak'as';… - Person
Shiqq the soothsayer
The famous half-formed diviner of the Arabs, named by al-Mas'udi among the marked-bodied kahins beside Satih,… - Person
Sher Shah Suri
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Shirawayh al-Aswari
Shirawayh the Aswari; he married Marjana, mother of Ubaydallah ibn Ziyad, and built her a palace of many… - Person
Shirin Ebadi
21 June 1947 CE · 1366 AHIranian lawyer, former judge and human rights defender, born in Hamadan in 1947. She was one of Iran's first… - Person
Shirin Neshat
26 March 1957 CE · 1376 AHIranian photographer, visual artist and filmmaker living in New York, born in Qazvin in 1957 and brought up… - Person
Shirinsho Shotemur
1 December 1899 CE · 27 Rajab 1317 AH†Tajik Soviet politician (1899–1937) and one of the founders of Soviet Tajikistan: a Communist Party official… - Person
Şirvanlı Ahmet Hamdi Efendi
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Sive Ahmet Celebi
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Shoaib Akhtar
13 August 1975 CE · 1395 AHPakistani former cricketer and commentator, born in Rawalpindi in 1975. A right-arm fast bowler nicknamed the… - Person
Shoaib Hussain
Content creator known as The Sunnah Guy. After a period of doubt in his late teens he returned to religious… - Person
Shohreh Aghdashloo
11 May 1952 CE · 1371 AHIranian-American actress, born in Tehran in 1952 as Shohreh Vaziri-Tabar. She began on the Iranian stage and… - Person
Shoqan Walikhanov
November 1835 CE · Rajab 1251 AH†Kazakh scholar, ethnographer, historian and traveller (November 1835 – 10 April 1865), the first Kazakh… - Person
Shu'ayb
The prophet of Madyan, son-in-law-by-marriage to Moses, whose people expelling him drew the canopy of fire in… - Person
Shu'ayb ibn al-Layth ibn Sa'd
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Shu'ayb ibn Harb
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Shu'ayb ibn Harb al-Mada'ini
Abu Salih Shu'ayb b. Harb al-Mada'ini (d. 199 Mecca) — Khurasani ascetic-transmitter of Shu'ba, Sufyan… - Person
Shu'ayb ibn Mihdam
The prophet sent to Banu Hudura — distinct from Shu'ayb of Madyan by centuries; they killed him after his… - Person
Shu'ba ibn al-Hajjaj
Abu Bustam the mawla of Banu Shaqra of Azd, dead in 160. - Person
Shuja al-Khwarazmi
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Shuja ibn Wahb al-Asadi
An early Muhajir Companion from Banu Asad ibn Khuzayma who migrated to Abyssinia and fought at Badr and Uhud;… - Person
Shuja-ud-Din Muhammad Khan
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Shuja' umm al-Mutawakkil
Al-Mutawakkil's mother — dead Rabi' II 247, her son murdered six months later. - Person
Shukri al-Quwatli
21 October 1891 CE · 1309 AHSyrian politician and statesman, born in Damascus in 1891 to a mercantile family. He worked for Syria's… - Person
Shuqran, the Prophet's freedman
The Prophet's freedman who went down into the grave with Ali and the two sons of al-Abbas at the burial. - Person
Shurahah
A woman who confessed to zina before Ali while pregnant; her husband was away in Syria. Ali ordered her… - Person
شرحبيل بن الحارث الكندي
Shurahbil ibn al-Harith al-Kindi, set by his father over Bakr ibn Wa'il and their allies; after al-Harith's… - Person
Shurahbil ibn al-Simt al-Kindi
Arab horseman at the Day of Mihran; in al-Baladhuri he fought well that day. - Person
Shurahbil ibn Dhi'l-Kala' al-Himyari
A Himyari commander of Ibn Ziyad's vanguard at 'Ayn al-Warda. - Person
Shurahbil ibn Hasana
Brother of Junada and Jabir through their mother Hasana; Ibn Ishaq names him with the family of Sufyan ibn… - Person
شرحبيل بن سعد
Shurahbil ibn Sa'd — a Medinan mawla of the Ansar and one of the four foundation-writers of the maghazi genre. - Person
شريح القاضي
The famous judge of Kufa; when Ali pleaded against a Jew over a coat of mail he ruled for the Jew, holding a… - Person
شريح بن الأحوص
Son of al-Ahwas ibn Ja'far; he speared Laqit ibn Zurara down the ravine at Sha'b Jabala — though some give… - Person
Shurayh ibn Amir
Shurayh ibn Amir of Sa'd ibn Bakr ibn Hawazin; Khalid left him over conquered al-Khurayba — a Persian… - Person
Shurayh ibn Hafi' al-Muradi
in al-Baladhuri, who went to Mu'awiya on Kathir ibn Shihab's account when imprisoned and flogged at Damascus,… - Person
Shurayh ibn Hani' al-Harithi
Shurayh ibn Hani' al-Harithi; when Ubaydallah ibn Abi Bakra truced Rutbil for five hundred thousand and three… - Person
Shurayk ibn Abd Allah al-Nakha'i
c. 714 CE · 95 AH - Person
Shurayk ibn al-A'war al-Harithi
Shurayk ibn al-A'war al-Harithi — Shurayk ibn al-Harith; Ibn Ziyad's governor of Kirman, who gave Yazid ibn… - Person
Shuways al-Adawi
Shuways al-Adawi; he relates marching with al-Ubulla's amir to its conquest, then crossing to al-Furat whose… - Person
Siad Barre
c. 1919 CE · 1338 AHSomali military officer and politician (c. 1919–1995) who led the 1969 military coup and ruled Somalia from… - Person
Siba' ibn Urfuta
Ibn Hisham records, from al-Darawardi from his father, that the Prophet put him in charge of Medina when he… - Person
سبط الخياط
c. 1071 CE · 464 AHSibt al-Khiyat, Abu Muhammad Abdallah ibn Ali of Baghdad — shaykh of Iraq's Qur'an readers, Hanbali jurist… - Person
سبط ابن الجوزي
Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi, preacher and historian; in 606 he sat in Damascus's mosque exhorting to jihad — women cut… - Person
Taj al-Din, Grandson of Ibn al-Shahid
c. 1396 CE · c. 798 AHTaj al-Din, 'the Imam, the exemplar' per al-Buqa'i — could expound any book read to him offhand; solitary,… - Person
Muhammad Siddiq Hasan Khan al-Qannawji
Muhammad Siddiq Khan ibn Hasan ibn Ali, Abu al-Tayyib, of the Husayni family, al-Bukhari, al-Qannawji, a… - Person
Sidi Amar Cherif
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Sidi Boushaki
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Sidi al-Hawari
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Sidi ibn al-Mukhtar al-Abyiri
c. 1760 CE · c. 1173 AH†A Mauritanian scholar from a learned family, born near Btalmit. He studied the Qur'an, grammar, rhetoric,… - Person
Sidi M'hamed Bou Qobrine
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Sidya Touré
15 August 1945 CE · 1364 AHGuinean politician (1945–2026) born at Dimbokro, a treasury inspector and former exile in Côte d'Ivoire whom… - Person
Sikandar Adil Shah
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Sikandar Begum
10 September 1817 CE · 1232 AHBegum of Bhopal in central India: regent for her daughter Shah Jahan Begum from 1844, recognised as nawab in… - Person
Sikandar Hayat Khan
5 June 1892 CE · 1309 AHKhan Bahadur Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan (1892–1942) was a Punjabi politician and statesman, the first Premier of… - Person
Sikandar Lodi
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Sikandar Shah of Bengal
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Sikandar Shah Suri
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Sila ibn Ashyam Abu al-Sahba' al-Adawi
Sila ibn Ashyam Abu al-Sahba' al-Adawi, husband of the ascetic Mu'adha al-Adawiyya; martyred with Yazid ibn… - Person
Sila ibn Zufar al-Absi
Sila ibn Zufar al-Absi; in al-Baladhuri: he was with Hudhayfa ibn al-Yaman al-Absi in Armenia, and Uthman ibn… - Person
Turanji-zade Silahdar Ali Pasha
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Silahdar Cihangirli Mehmed Pasha
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Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha
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Silahdar Damat Mehmet Pasha
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Silahdar Findiklili Mehmed Aga
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Silahdar Seyyid Mehmed Pasha
1735 CE · 1148 AH†Draft card for Silahdar Seyyid Mehmed Pasha, the Ottoman grand vizier; his entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Silahtar Süleyman Pasha
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Silkan ibn Salama
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سيما مقدم الحجرية
Commander of the Hujariyya; at his word to al-Radi the deposed al-Qahir, who refused to abdicate, was blinded… - Person
سيماء الساجي
Chief of the Sajiyya regiment of Baghdad; warned that al-Qahir meant to kill him, he armed the Sajiyya and… - Person
Sima Samar
3 February 1957 CE · 1376 AHAfghan physician and human rights advocate, born on 3 February 1957 in Jaghori, Ghazni province, who took her… - Person
Simak ibn Harb
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Simak ibn Takhrama al-Asadi
Simak ibn Takhrama ibn Humayn al-Asadi of Banu al-Halik; in al-Baladhuri Kufa's Simak mosque is named for him… - Person
Simak ibn Ubayd al-Absi
In al-Baladhuri, at Nihawand he chased a Persian and his eight riders, killing each as he turned until the… - Person
سيمجور الدواتي
Samanid commander and father of the Simjurid house that governed Khurasan for the Samanids; he marched in the… - Person
Simkeshzade Feyzi
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Sinanüddin Fakih Yusuf Pasha
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Sinan Efendi
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Sinan ibn Abi Sinan
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Sinan ibn Anas al-Nakha'i
The spearman who finished and beheaded al-Husayn at the Taff — the body bore thirty-three spear-wounds and… - Person
Sinan ibn Salama ibn al-Muhabbiq al-Hudhali
Sinan ibn Salama ibn al-Muhabbiq al-Hudhali; pious commander, first to bind troops with divorce-oaths — took… - Person
Koca Sinan Pasha
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Sinan Pasha, Ottoman admiral
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Sinan, chief of the Syrian Ismailis
Sinan, master of the Syrian Assassins in Saladin's day — offered ten thousand dinars for the Marquis of Tyre… - Person
Sanjar al-Khayyat Alam al-Din
Senior Mamluk emir Alam al-Din Sanjar al-Khayyat, governor of Cairo; died 695 AH (1296 CE), although the… - Person
Sinnimar
The builder who raised al-Khawarnaq and al-Sadir for al-Nu'man ibn Imri' al-Qays over twenty years; when the… - Person
Sipahizade Mehmed
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Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan (educational reformer, 1817–1898)
17 October 1817 CE · 1232 AHSir Sayyid Ahmad Khan, educational reformer and founder of modern Islamic thought in India (1817–1898). Born… - Person
Siraj al-Din al-Bulqini
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Siraj al-Din al-Fayyumi of Aleppo
c. 1339 CE · c. 740 AHAleppo's faradi teacher — murdered at Khan Ghabaghib on the road to Cairo, exactly where his son the… - Person
Siraj al-Din al-Ghaznawi
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Siraj al-Din al-Makhzumi
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Siraj al-Din al-Sajawandi
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Siraj al-Din al-Urmawi
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Siraj al-Din al-Ushi
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Siraj al-Din al-Warraq
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Siraj al-Din, Qadi of the Two Sanctuaries
c. May 1397 CE · Sha'ban 799 AHSiraj al-Din 'Abd al-Latif (b. Mecca Sha'ban 799) — the sharif first to hold the judgeship of BOTH… - Person
Siraj ud-Daulah
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Siraj Wahhaj
11 March 1950 CE · 1369 AHAfrican-American imam, born Jeffrey Kearse in Brooklyn, New York, on 11 March 1950. He joined the Nation of… - Person
Siti Walidah
3 January 1872 CE · 1288 AHIndonesian women's emancipation figure (1872–1946), better known as Nyai Ahmad Dahlan: wife of Muhammadiyah's… - Person
Sitt al-Mulk
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Sitt al-Qudat, Ibn Kathir's niece
c. 1320 CE · c. 720 AH - Person
Sitt al-Sham bint Ayyub
Sitt al-Sham (Zumurrud Khatun) bint Ayyub (d. 616) — Salah al-Din's sister, wife of Nasir al-Din b. Shirkuh… - Person
Sitt al-Wuzara' al-Tanukhiyya
c. 1227 CE · c. 624 AH†Draft card for Sitt al-Wuzara' al-Tanukhiyya, the Druze princess of the Tanukh house; her entry is not yet… - Person
Siyah al-Uswari
Siyah al-Uswari, of Ziyad's circle; granted leave for a Basra bathhouse. - Person
Siyahi Ahmed Efendi
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Siyawush ibn Kayka'us
Siyawush son of Kayka'us the mighty, builder of the Kanjadha fire-temple during his eastern sojourn toward… - Person
SM Sultan
10 August 1923 CE · 1341 AHBengali painter (1923–1994), full name Sheikh Mohammed Sultan. Born at Machimdia, Narail, to a poor mason's… - Person
Sofu Mehmed Pasha
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Sofyan Amrabat
21 August 1996 CE · 1417 AHMoroccan professional footballer (born 1996 in Huizen, Netherlands). A defensive midfielder who came through… - Person
محمد باشا الصوقللي
Sokollu Mehmed Pasha (d. ~1579) — the grand vizier who effectively reigned under Selim II: the 1567 Austrian… - Person
Sokolluzade Lala Mehmed Pasha
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Solakzade Mehmed
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Somuncu Baba
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Soraya Tarzi
24 November 1899 CE · 20 Rajab 1317 AH†Queen of Afghanistan as consort of King Amanullah Khan, and daughter of the thinker and statesman Mahmud… - Person
Stephen Covey
Stephen Covey as Tareq al-Suwaidan presents him: the trainer from whom he learnt the critique of annual award… - Person
Stephen III of Moldavia
Stephen, lord of Moldavia (Bogdan); al-Salabi recounts his ambush of Mehmed II's army in the Balkans — hidden… - Person
Strongilah
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Suad Saleh
1945 CE · 1364 AHEgyptian professor of comparative fiqh at Al-Azhar University and television preacher, born in 1945. She… - Person
Subay' Dhu al-Khimar
Leader of Banu Malik of Thaqif alongside his brother Ahmar at the Battle of Hunayn; his clan bore the brunt… - Person
Subayt the Dahqan
Subayt, a Basra dahqan; his reedbed fell in the tract al-Mansur took for al-Subaytiyya — short-paid and… - Person
Subboor Ahmad
A British dawah speaker and writer, and the chief executive officer of iERA, whose annual report for… - Person
Subhi Alshaik
An Australian Muslim media producer based in Sydney, founder and lead producer of One 4 Kids, the studio… - Person
Subhi Mehmed Efendi
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Subhizade Feyzi
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Sobicevi
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سبكري الصفاري
A Saffarid commander whose army, exhausted crossing the desert to Sistan in 298, was taken wholesale by the… - Person
سبكتكين حاجب عز الدولة
Izz al-Dawla's chamberlain; when al-Muti' suffered paralysis and heavy speech in 363 he proposed the… - Person
Sucudi Celebi
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Sudayy ibn Ajlan al-Bahili
641 CE · 21 AHA Companion from Qays Aylan, of the Bahila clan. The sources agree on his tribal affiliation but differ on… - Person
Sudi Bosnevi
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Sufi Abu Taleb
27 January 1925 CE · 1343 AHEgyptian legal scholar and politician (1925–2008), born at Tamiya in Faiyum Governorate. He graduated from… - Person
Bali Efendi al-Sufyali
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سفيان الثوري
c. 715 CE · 96 AHImam of Kufa in hadith, who compiled in the first age of codification and counted the caliphs as five — Abu… - Person
Sufyan ibn al-Abrad al-Kalbi
Abd al-Malik's Kalbite commander sent with Syrian armies to rescue al-Hajjaj from Shabib — routed him, killed… - Person
Sufyan ibn Ma'mar
Of Banu Jumah; he emigrated to Abyssinia with his two sons Junada and Jabir and his wife Hasana, and died in… - Person
Sufyan ibn Umayya ibn Abd Shams
a Qurashi who learned his letters then the script from Bishr ibn Abd al-Malik at Mecca. - Person
Sufyan ibn Uyayna
Sufyan ibn Uyayna of Mecca, jurist and hadith-master of second-century Hijaz; in al-Baladhuri: Abd al-Malik… - Person
Sufyan ibn Waki'
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Suhaib Webb
29 June 1972 CE · 1392 AHAmerican imam and preacher, born in Oklahoma in 1972 as William Webb to a Christian family. He converted to… - Person
Suhail Ahmad Nadwi
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Suhayb ibn Sinan al-Rumi
An early Muslim of the persecuted in Mecca who later recalled that when Umar embraced Islam 'Islam appeared,… - Person
Suhayl ibn Amr
c. 570 CEQuraysh's orator and spokesman — the diplomat who faced Muhammad across the table at Hudaybiyya — who… - Person
Suhayl ibn Bayda
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Suhaym ibn al-Muhajir
Suhaym ibn al-Muhajir, an agent of Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan; in al-Baladhuri: when the Byzantine cavalry came… - Person
Suhaym ibn Wathil
Suhaym b. Wathil al-Riyahi — chief of Banu Riyah, al-Farazdaq's grandfather-in-rivalry; the famous… - Person
Suhaym, Utba's Mawla
Suhaym, Utba ibn Farqad's mawla; he carried the two khabis baskets to Umar, who tasted them and sent back his… - Person
Sukman al-Qutbi
Sukman al-Qutbi; founder of the Akhlat state of the Shahs of Armenia in 493 — the strongest of Seljuk… - Person
Sukman ibn Artuq
Sukman ibn Artuq ibn Aksak; he and his brother Abu al-Ghazi held al-Ruha and Saruj after their father's death… - Person
Shukrullah al-Khalwati
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سيكتكين الحاجب
Mu'izz al-Dawla's chamberlain; sent with a great host of Turks, Daylamites and Arabs to shield Iraq from the… - Person
Sul al-Turki
Sul al-Turki, the king the Turks named after seizing Jurjan's wall; he met Yazid ibn al-Muhallab on the… - Person
Sulaiman al-Boustani
22 May 1856 CE · 1272 AHLebanese writer, poet and statesman (1856–1925), a nephew of Butrus al-Bustani. He taught, wrote for al-Jinan… - Person
Sulaiman Moola
South African Islamic scholar and lecturer: he memorised the Qur'an at fourteen, then studied the sacred… - Person
Sulaiman Nadvi
22 November 1884 CE · 1302 AHIndian, then Pakistani, scholar and historian (1884–1953) of Desna in Bihar, among the foremost pupils of… - Person
Sulayk al-Manaqib
One of the Arabs' famous slave-born fighters — named by 'Amr with 'Antara as the two he alone would fear to… - Person
Sulayman (Solomon)
Son of Dawud who swore to father a hundred fighting sons and forgot 'God willing' — a lesson the Prophet… - Person
Sulayman al-Baruni
c. 1870 CE · 1287 AHLibyan Ibadi scholar, poet and statesman (c. 1870–1940). From the Jabal Nafusa, he studied at the Zitouna,… - Person
Al-Bujayrimi
Sulayman ibn Muhammad ibn Umar al-Bujayrimi, a Shafi'i jurist from Bujayram, a village in Gharbiyya in Egypt.… - Person
Sulayman al-Mahri
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Sulayman al-Mahuzi
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سليمان المستعين الأندلسي
Sulayman al-Musta'in, the Umayyad claimant who led the Berbers against Cordoba, took it at the close of the… - Person
سليمان المستعين بالله الأموي
Sulayman ibn al-Hakam, the Umayyad hailed as al-Musta'in then al-Zahir, who marched on Cordoba with Christian… - Person
سليمان القانوني
c. 1494 CE · c. 900 AHSüleyman the Magnificent (r. 1520–1566 CE) — the longest-reigning sultan: four early revolts suppressed,… - Person
Sulayman al-Ruhayli
October 1966 CE · 1386 AHSaudi scholar and professor of usul al-fiqh at the Islamic University of Madinah, imam and khateeb of Quba… - Person
Sulayman ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Thaani
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Sulayman al-Utaybi al-Hanafi
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Sulayman Baqirghani
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Süleyman Çelebi (prince)
Süleyman Çelebi, eldest of Bayezid I's five sons — escaped the Ankara disaster of 804/1402, reached Edirne… - Person
Sulayman Fayiq
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Sulayman I of Tlemcen
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Suleiman I of Persia
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Sulayman ibn Abd al-Wahhab
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Sulayman ibn Abdallah ibn Tahir
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Sulayman ibn Addu
Successor of Abd Allah ibn Yasin at the head of the Almoravids after his martyrdom in 450 AH in the… - Person
Sulayman ibn al-Mughira
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Sulayman ibn Ali of Najd
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Sulayman ibn Hamdan
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Sulayman ibn Harb
c. 757 CE · 140 AHAbu Ayyub Sulayman b. Harb al-Basri (140–224) — Shu'ba's generation; transmitter for al-Qattan and Ibn… - Person
Sulayman ibn Hisham
Hisham's son — in his drinking-companion's tale he dreamt the crowned khanjar-man in Damascus mosque chanting… - Person
سليمان بن كثير الخزاعي
Sulayman ibn Kathir al-Khuza'i — the naqib of naqibs who proclaimed the revolution on 25 Ramadan 129 AH,… - Person
Sulayman ibn Marthad
Sulayman ibn Marthad of Banu Sa'd of the Mura'id of Rabi'a; he contested Salm's covenant for Ibn Khazim,… - Person
Sulayman al-Hawwat
1747 CE · 1160 AHFrom a noble family of Fez, one of the scholars of the Maghrib in the thirteenth century AH. - Person
Sulayman ibn Muharish al-Uqayli
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Sulayman ibn Musa al-Ashdaq
Sulayman ibn Musa al-Ashdaq, Abu Ayyub — also called Abu Hisham and Abu Rabi' — a great imam and the mufti of… - Person
Sulayman ibn Qayrat
al-Mahdi's mawla, owner of Sahrat Qayrat at Madinat al-Salam; in al-Baladhuri keeper of the caliph's meadows… - Person
سليمان بن قتلمش السلجوقي
The Seljuk lord of Qonya and Aqsaray who took Antioch from the Romans in 477 after three hundred and nineteen… - Person
Sulayman ibn Qutta
The elegist of the Taff's slain — 'the Hashimi killed there humbled Quraysh's necks; the very earth fell sick… - Person
Sulayman ibn Rabi'a al-Bahili
Umar's era horse-breeding judge who proved a mare thoroughbred by her drinking posture. - Person
Sulayman ibn Sa'd al-Khushani
Sulayman ibn Sa'd; in al-Baladhuri: Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan ordered him in year 81 to transfer Syria's diwan… - Person
Sulayman ibn Surad
A Companion of Khuza'a, said to have been named Yasar before the Prophet changed it; he fought at Siffin with… - Person
Sulayman ibn Tarkhan al-Taymi
666 CE · 46 AHA hadith scholar of Basra who narrated from the Companion Anas ibn Malik and a number of Successors. - Person
Sulayman ibn 'Ubayd
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Sulayman ibn Umar al-Ahdal
1725 CE · 1137 AHThe Yemeni traditionist Abu al-Mahasin Sulayman ibn Umar al-Ahdal al-Zabidi, born at Zabid in 1137 AH and… - Person
Sulayman ibn Wahb
A leading secretary of the Abbasid administration; he was made vizier to al-Mu'tamid on 6 Dhu'l-Hijja 263… - Person
سليمان بن يقظان الأعرابي الكلبي
Sulayman ibn Yaqzan 'al-A'rabi' al-Kalbi — governor of Barcelona and Girona who met Charlemagne at Paderborn… - Person
Sulayman ibn Yasar
Maymuna's mawla and 'Ata' ibn Yasar's brother — died at Medina in 107 or 108, aged seventy-three. - Person
سليمان الثاني
c. 1642 CE · 1052 AHSulayman II (r. 1099–1102/1687–1691) — reign of retreat: Belgrade lost to Austria, Dalmatia and Greece to… - Person
Suleiman Pasha, son of Orhan
Prince Suleiman, son and heir of Orhan — in al-Sallabi's telling he led the first Ottoman crossing of the… - Person
سليمان باشا الخادم
Sulayman Pasha al-Khadim — governor of Egypt under Sulayman the Magnificent who led the 1538 Ottoman… - Person
Suleiman II, Sultan of Rum
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Sulayman Shikoh
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Sulayman Sulayman Khamis
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Sulayt ibn Qays
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Qadi Taj al-Din Yahya
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تاج الدين الدز
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23 July 1925 CE · 1343 AHBangladeshi politician (23 July 1925 – 3 November 1975), the first prime minister of Bangladesh. He drafted… - Person
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Tamam ibn Ghalib
An Andalusian philologist from Cordoba and Murcia. His nisba al-Tayyani may suggest a seller of tayyani cloth. - Person
Tamam ibn Muhammad al-'Abbasi
c. 882 CE · 269 AHTamam b. Muhammad b. Sulayman Abu Bakr al-Hashimi (269–350) of the 'Abbasid house; he transmitted from 'Abd… - Person
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Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani
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c. 1031 CE · 422 AHThe Zirid sultan of Ifriqiya — fifty-six years on the throne after his father al-Mu'izz b. Badis; a patron of… - Person
Tamim ibn Asad al-Khuza'i
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Tammam ibn al-Abbas
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Tantawi Jawhari
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Taqi al-Din al-Balatinsi
c. 27 August 1447 CE · 10 Rajab 851 AHShaykh mashayikh al-Islam of Damascus — b. Friday 10 Rajab 851, of 'a house of piety and learning' per his… - Person
Taqi al-Din al-Fasi
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Taqi al-Din al-Futuhi, author of al-Muntaha
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Taqi al-Din al-Wasiti, Syria's blessing
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c. August 1206 CE · Sha'ban 603 AHHama's shaykh al-islam — fatwa at eighteen, Ibn al-Salah's companion, driven to Egypt by Hulagu; as qadi… - Person
Taqi al-Din Shabib, poet-oculist
c. 1218 CE · c. 615 AH - Person
تقي الدين عمر بن شاهنشاه
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Taqi al-Din Ibn Qadi 'Ajlun
c. January 1438 CE · Sha'ban 841 AHShaykh al-Islam of Damascus — b. Sha'ban 841, 'the most juridical of his age', riyasa of the Shafi'is 'not in… - Person
al-Taqi Ibn Zurayq
between 1433 and 1434 CE · 837 AHDamascene Shafi'i (b. 837) — first to sit teaching at the Jawlaq madrasa upon its completion, held the zawiya… - Person
Tarafa ibn al-Abd
A pre-Islamic poet, one of the Mu'allaqat poets; al-Nuwayri records his story with al-Mutalammis and the… - Person
Tarak Dhiab
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طريف بن مالك
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Tarifa the diviner
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Tarik Elyounoussi
23 February 1988 CE · 1408 AHNorwegian footballer, born in Al Hoceima, Morocco in 1988. A forward and winger who played for Fredrikstad… - Person
Tariq Al-Suwaidan
15 November 1953 CE · 1373 AHKuwaiti researcher, author, preacher and historian, and a trainer in management and leadership, born in… - Person
Tariq Ali
21 October 1943 CE · 1362 AHTariq Ali (born 21 October 1943) is a Pakistani-British writer, historian and political activist. Born in… - Person
Tariq Ramadan
26 August 1962 CE · 1382 AHSwiss philosopher and writer born in Geneva in 1962 to an Egyptian family, a grandson of Hassan al-Banna,… - Person
Tarkhun, King of Samarqand
Tarkhun, king of Samarqand; he honored Musa ibn Abdallah ibn Khazim until one of Musa's men killed a… - Person
Tarmashirin, khan of Transoxiana
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Tashfin ibn Ali
Tashfin ibn Ali ibn Yusuf ibn Tashfin, the last vigorous Almoravid amir; he fought Abd al-Mu'min and the… - Person
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Pakistani theoretical physicist and writer, the first Pakistani woman to work in string theory. Educated at… - Person
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Tavasi Hasan Agha
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Tavukcubashi Damadi Mustafa Efendi
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Tawakkol Karman
7 February 1979 CE · 1399 AHYemeni journalist, politician and human rights activist, born in Taiz Governorate in 1979. She co-founded… - Person
Tawba al-'Anbari
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Tawba ibn al-Humayyir
Layla al-Akhiliyya's beloved — the poet whose grave she was sworn to greet; in Hammad al-Rawiya's telling a… - Person
Tawfiq al-Dajani
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Tawfiq al-Hakim
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Tawus ibn Kaysan
Yemen's jurist — his one-line counsel to the new caliph: 'if you want all your work to be good, employ the… - Person
Tayeb el-Oqbi
1890 CE · 1307 AHAlgerian scholar and journalist (about 1890–1961). Born at Sidi Okba, he studied in Medina and Mecca, where… - Person
Taymur Ahmad ibn Isma'il
1871 CE · 1288 AHFigure of the Arab cultural renaissance in modern Egypt, from a Kurdish family settled in Egypt; born in… - Person
Tayyar Mehmed Pasha
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Sultan Ahmad Tekuder
c. 1246 CE · c. 644 AHHulagu's son — the first Muslim Ilkhan (the name Ahmad, Islam since boyhood through his companion Shaykh Abd… - Person
Temerrud Ali Pasha
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Tenimoun dan Selimane
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Tevfik Efendi
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Tevfik Fikret
24 December 1867 CE · 1284 AHTevfik Fikret (born in Istanbul on 24 December 1867 – died there on 19 August 1915), the pen name of Mehmed… - Person
ثعلب
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Thabit al-Bunani
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Thabit ibn al-Jidh'
An Ansari veteran of the Second Pledge of al-Aqaba from Banu Salama (Khazraj); he fought at Badr, Uhud, and… - Person
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Thabit ibn Aqram
Companion from the Ansar, of Banu al-Majlan. After the three commanders fell at Mu'tah he picked up the… - Person
Thabit ibn Dhi al-Hirra al-Himyari
Thabit ibn Dhi al-Hirra al-Himyari; in al-Mada'ini's telling, the conqueror of Qal'at Dhi al-Rifaq. - Person
Thabit ibn Nu'aym al-Judhami
Thabit ibn Nu'aym al-Judhami; he rose against Marwan ibn Muhammad when word of al-Walid ibn Yazid's killing… - Person
Thabit ibn Qays ibn Shammas
The orator of the Ansar; when the Prophet arrived in Medina he spoke, saying 'We will protect you as we… - Person
Thabit ibn Qurra
The Harranian Sabian scholar — al-Mas'udi places him at Antioch's ancient temple in 289, when al-Mu'tadid… - Person
Thabit ibn Qutba al-Khuza'i
Thabit ibn Qutba al-Khuza'i; he and brother Hurayth held real command of Musa's army through Tarkhun's aid —… - Person
ثابت بن سنان بن ثابت بن قرة
The Sabian son of Sinan ibn Thabit ibn Qurra, author of the well-known history; he died in Dhu'l-Qa'da 365. - Person
Thabit Qutna
Thabit 'Qutna' — the Khurasani warrior-poet of Yazid b. al-Muhallab's staff, nicknamed for the cotton in his… - Person
Tha'laba ibn Amr Muzayqiya
Eldest son of 'Amr ibn 'Amir Muzayqiya and ancestor of the Aws and Khazraj; on Razin's account quoted by… - Person
Tha'laba ibn Amr al-Azdi
The Azdi who turned toward the Hijaz in the Azd migration, lived between al-Tha'labiyya and Dhu Qar, then… - Person
Tha'laba ibn Hatib
One of the twelve men who built Masjid al-Dirar, according to Ibn Ishaq; his ascription: of Banu Umayya ibn… - Person
ثعلبة بن سلامة الجذامي
Governor of al-Andalus after Balj's death; two years of justice until Yamani partisanship ruined his rule —… - Person
معز الدولة ثمال بن صالح الكلابي صاحب حلب
Mu'izz al-Dawla Thamal b. Salih al-Kilabi, the Mirdasid lord of Aleppo; he and the Byzantine king met at… - Person
Thami El Glaoui
1879 CE · 1296 AHPasha of Marrakesh (1879 – 23 January 1956), the last and most famous of the great caids of the Atlas. He… - Person
ثوابة بن سلامة الجذامي
Governor of al-Andalus by Abd al-Rahman b. Habib's writ in Rajab 129; al-Sumayl ran his affairs and the two… - Person
Thawban, freedman of the Prophet
A well-known Companion said to be of the Hakam ibn Sa'd of Himyar, or from the Sarat; the Prophet bought and… - Person
Thawr ibn Yazid
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The Byzantine emperor whose sack of Zibatra provoked al-Mu'tasim's march — routed by al-Afshin and shielded… - Person
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Thiqa al-Dawla ibn al-Anbari
1082 CE · 475 AHAbu al-Hasan Ali b. Muhammad, Thiqa al-Dawla Ibn al-Anbari (475–549) — al-Muqtafi's intimate and Shahda… - Person
Thom J. Défilet
Entrepreneur and convert to Islam who became known through his channel 'Thom J. Défilet – Halal Business',… - Person
Thumama al-Ufi
A poet in an anecdote in which a woman asks his trade and he answers with verses about heroes in battle. - Person
Thumama ibn Ashras
Al-Ma'mun's mutakallim boon-companion who dared tell Yahya ibn Aktham the Companions had all erred. - Person
Thumama ibn Uthal
A leader of Banu Hanifa in al-Yamama; he was captured and tied to a pillar of the mosque, then released and… - Person
ثمل القهرمانة
The queen-mother's stewardess; when command fell to the harem for the caliph's weakness, she sat for the… - Person
Thuwayba
The freedwoman of Abu Lahab who first suckled the Prophet after his mother, with the milk of her son Masruh;… - Person
Tifli Ahmed Celebi
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Muhammad Tim Humble
A Newcastle-based British teacher of hadith, dawah speaker and practitioner of ruqyah. He accepted Islam at… - Person
تمرلنك
The conqueror whose rise began in 773 — of peasant stock, a thief and road-cutter who rose through the… - Person
al-Zahir Timurbugha
Timurbugha — the fifteenth Circassian king: a bowyer-sultan who 'made the finest bows with his own hands and… - Person
Tippu Tip
1837 CE · 1253 AHZanzibari ivory and slave trader and explorer of Arab-Omani descent who built a trading state in the eastern… - Person
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Tiryaki Hacı Mehmed Paşa
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Oemar Said Tjokroaminoto
16 August 1882 CE · 1299 AHIndonesian nationalist (1882–1934) who left the Dutch East Indies civil service to co-found and long chair… - Person
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Togolok Moldo
10 June 1860 CE · 21 Dhu al-Qa'da 1276 AH†Togolok Moldo (1860–1942), born Bayymbet Abdyrahman uulu, was a Kyrgyz poet, akyn and manaschi who performed… - Person
Togrul Asgarov
17 September 1992 CE · 1413 AHAzerbaijani freestyle wrestler, born in Ganja in 1992. Olympic champion at London 2012 (60 kg) and silver… - Person
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1853 CE · 1269 AH†Leader of the 1915 Kelantan rebellion against the British administration (1853–1915), born Hassan bin Mat… - Person
Tok Kenali
c. 1868 CE · c. 1285 AH†Kelantan scholar (c. 1868–1933), born Muhammad Yusuf bin Ahmad and known as Tok Kenali. He studied at Kota… - Person
Toktogul Satylganov
25 October 1864 CE · 24 Jumada I 1281 AH†Toktogul Satylganov (1864–1933) was a Kyrgyz akyn, poet and composer from the Ketmen-Töbö valley who was… - Person
Tom Facchine
1989 CE · 1409 AH†American imam and scholar. He accepted Islam in 2010 while a student at Vassar College, then studied at the… - Person
Topal Recep Pasha
Recep Pasha, nicknamed 'Topal' (the Lame); a Bosnian raised in the bostancı corps to bostancıbaşı, then… - Person
Tophaneli Mahmud Nuri
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Toqtamish ibn Burdbik, lord of Saray
Toqtamish ibn Burdbik of the Jochids, holder of the throne at Saray; he secured the Dasht kingship after… - Person
Toumani Diabaté
10 August 1965 CE · 1385 AHMalian kora player and composer (10 August 1965 – 19 July 2024), from a long patrilineal line of kora players… - Person
Tuban As'ad Abu Karib
The Himyarite king through whom Judaism entered Yemen: he went to fight at Yathrib, adopted Judaism there and… - Person
أفريقيس بن قيس الحميري
The Tubba' Afriqis ibn Qays ibn Sayfi al-Himyari, who raided Ifriqiya and named it; hearing the Amaliq's… - Person
Tuda-Mengu ibn Mengu-Timur
Tuda-Mengu ibn Mengu-Timur, king of the northern Dasht after his father in 681 AH; he sat five years on their… - Person
تدمير علج تدمير
The Gothic lord of Tudmir — the district named for him, whose capital was Orihuela; when his people were… - Person
al-Tufayl ibn Amr al-Dawsi
A noble chief and renowned poet of the Daws tribe who arrived in Mecca around the eleventh year of… - Person
طغج
Amir of Damascus; he fought Ibn Zakrawayh the Qarmatian more than once in 289 when he sought the city, then… - Person
Tughlugh Timur Khan
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Tughluq Khan
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Tughri Birdi al-Zahiri
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شهاب الدين طغرل أتابك حلب
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طغرل بك
c. 993 CE · c. 383 AH†Tughril Beg, first Saljuq king, of the tent-folk of the Bukhara marches; he took Iraq, suppressed the Rafida… - Person
السلطان طغرل الثالث بن أرسلان
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طغرل شاه بن أرسلان آخر سلاجقة العراق
Last of the Seljuk kings, dying in 590 — twenty-two of them over a hundred and sixty years, says al-Dhahabi. - Person
Zahir al-Din Tughtakin the Atabeg
Tughtakin the Atabeg, laqab Zahir al-Din, a mamluk of Taj al-Dawla Tutush; on Duqaq's death in 497 AH he took… - Person
Tughtekin of Damascus
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ظهير الدين طغتكين أتابك
The atabeg Zahir al-Din Tughtigin — once an amir of the Saljuq Tutush at Damascus, married to Duqaq's mother,… - Person
تجيبة الوهبانية
Tujayba al-Wahbaniyya Umm Attab; the last person alive transmitting the samâ' of Turad and al-Nu'ali; d.… - Person
Tulayha ibn Khuwaylid
c. 590 CEWar-chief of Banu Asad who claimed prophecy at the Prophet's death, was broken by Khalid at Buzakha, fled to… - Person
al-Malik al-'Adil Tuman Bay I
A leading mamluk of Qaytbay; seized power in Syria, then was acclaimed sultan after Jan Balat's deposition,… - Person
Sultan Tuman Bay II
Last Mamluk sultan, nephew of Qansuh al-Ghawri — raised in Egypt after Marj Dabiq, fought Selim a while, then… - Person
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Turahanoglu Omer Bey
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Turangzai Haji Saheb
1858 CE · 1274 AH†Fazal Wahid (1858–1937), Pashtun scholar and education campaigner of Turangzai in Charsadda district. A… - Person
توران شاه الملك المعظم بن الملك الصالح
Al-Salih's son, fetched to rule Egypt — his father's ghilman killed him in Muharram 648; the Bahriyya mamluks… - Person
Turar Ryskulov
26 December 1894 CE · 27 Jumada II 1312 AH†Kazakh Soviet politician (1894–1938): he chaired the Central Executive Committee and then the Council of… - Person
Turgut Özal
13 October 1927 CE · 1346 AHTurkish politician and engineer, the eighth president of Turkey from 1989 until his death in office in 1993,… - Person
Dragut (Turgut Reis)
Governor of Tripoli and Djerba; pressed by rebels at home, he persuaded Piyale Pasha in 967/1560 to turn… - Person
Turhan Sultan
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تركان زوجة ملكشاه
Malikshah's wife; on his death she hid it, secretly had the amirs swear to her five-year-old Mahmud, and… - Person
Turki bin Said
1832 CE · 1248 AHTurki bin Said bin Sultan Al Busaidi (born at Muscat in 1832 – died there on 4 June 1888) was Sultan of… - Person
Tursun Beg
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تاج الدولة تتش
Taj al-Dawla Tutush — Malikshah's brother, given Seljuk Syria in 1077 and founder of the Damascus Seljuk… - Person
Tuways
One of al-Walid's court singers when the appetite for music seized high and low. - Person
توزون أمير الأمراء
He entered Baghdad from Wasit in Ramadan and was made amir al-umara by al-Muttaqi; estranged, he swore mighty… - Person
Ubada ibn al-Samit
A senior Companion and chieftain of Banu Awf of the Khazraj; he witnessed both Pledges of Aqaba, narrated the… - Person
Ubaidullah Anwar
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عبيد الله الخطيبي
Chief qadi of Isfahan; murdered by the Batiniyya at Hamadan in 502. - Person
عبيد الله المهدي
Forefather of the Ubaydid caliphs of Egypt; his da'wa appeared in Yemen in 270 and held till 278, when he… - Person
Ubayd Allah ibn Abd Allah ibn Umar
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عبيد الله بن الحسن الصنبري
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Ubayd Allah ibn al-Husayn al-Jallab
A Basran Maliki jurist. - Person
Ubayd Allah ibn Jibril
A physician, researcher and historian of medicine, knowledgeable about the Christian communities and their… - Person
Ubayd Allah ibn Ka'b ibn Malik
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Ibn Ma'ruf the chief qadi
Ibn Ma'ruf, chief qadi of Baghdad in al-Ta'i''s later years: appointed to the chief qadiship in Sha'ban 360… - Person
'Ubayd ibn Abi'l-Mukhariq
al-Hajjaj's officer over Faluja who sought the dihqan Jamil ibn Suhayb's counsel before taking office. - Person
Ubayd ibn al-Abras
A pre-Islamic poet. Al-Nuwayri records 'the day of Ubayd' as a proverb for an unlucky day on which no one who… - Person
Ubayd ibn Ayyub al-'Anbari
The poet Abu al-Mutrib whose verses al-Mas'udi cites for the ghul and sa'la — the desert's sworn companion… - Person
الراعي النميري
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Ubayd ibn Jabr
Ubayd ibn Jabr, Abu Ja'far al-Ghifari, a client of the Ghifar and Egyptian, a Successor. He narrated from his… - Person
Ubayd ibn Shariya
The Jurhumi traditionist whose audiences with Mu'awiya produced the famous lore-book — circulating widely in… - Person
عبيد بن شرية
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Ubayda ibn al-Harith
A Hashimi Muhajir, the eldest of the three Muslim duelists at Badr; he exchanged two blows with Utba ibn… - Person
عبيدة بن عمرو السلماني
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Ubaydallah ibn al-Abbas
A son of al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, brother of Abdallah, Qutham and Tammam. The book lists him as Ali's… - Person
Ubaydallah ibn Abdallah ibn Tahir
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'Ubayd Allah ibn 'Abd Allah ibn 'Utba
One of the great scholars — al-Zuhri: 'I thought I had attained some knowledge until I sat with 'Ubayd Allah… - Person
Ubaydallah ibn Abi Bakra
Ubaydallah ibn Abi Bakra; Ziyad's governor of Sijistan after al-Rabi's dismissal — at Barzan he granted… - Person
Ubaydallah ibn Ahmad, Sahib al-Ard
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Ubaydallah ibn al-Mahdi
Ubaydallah ibn al-Mahdi al-Abbasi; al-Rashid's grantee of the Ahwaz musarra'a lands — a doubt arose, men… - Person
'Ubayd Allah ibn 'Ali
Ali's son by Layla bint Mas'ud al-Nahshali — killed with al-Mukhtar's company in Mus'ab's massacre at Kufa. - Person
Ubaydallah ibn Jarir al-'Utaki
Al-'Utaki of Basra, transmitting from Musaddad, heard by Ibn Abi'l-Dunya; his own verses on fate survive. He… - Person
Ubaydallah ibn Khurdadhbih
Al-Mu'tamid's boon-companion and author of al-Masalik wa-l-Mamalik, who narrated to him the oud's origin in… - Person
Ubayd Allah ibn Ma'mar al-Qurashi
Ubayd Allah ibn Ma'mar ibn Uthman ibn Amr al-Qurashi al-Taymi. Ibn Abd al-Barr says that whoever claims he… - Person
Ubaydallah ibn Ma'tar al-Taymi
Ubaydallah ibn Ma'tar al-Taymi; Ibn Amir's vanguard to Istakhr — met at Bramjard, killed and buried in… - Person
Ubaydallah ibn Muslim al-Bahili
Ubaydallah ibn Muslim al-Bahili, Qutayba's brother; made over Khwarizm when its restored king was slain by… - Person
Ubaydallah ibn Nabhan
Ubaydallah ibn Nabhan; al-Hajjaj's commander sent on Daybul for the pirated women — killed. - Person
Ubaydallah ibn Umar
Ubaydallah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab; suspecting Hurmuzan of counselling Abu Lu'lu'a over his father's murder,… - Person
Ubaydallah ibn Yahya ibn Khaqan
Al-Mu'tamid's vizier, of the Khaqanid bureaucratic house; on his death in 263 al-Hasan ibn Makhlad was made… - Person
Ubaydallah ibn Ziyad ibn Zubyan
Ubaydallah ibn Ziyad ibn Zubyan of Taym Allah; avenged his brother al-Nabi by stabbing Mutarrif ibn Saydan… - Person
Ubaydullah ibn Jahsh
Of Banu Asad ibn Khuzayma, ally of Banu Umayya; he emigrated to Abyssinia with his wife Umm Habiba. Ibn Ishaq… - Person
Ubayy ibn Ka'b
The 'master of the reciters' among the Ansar, present at the second pledge of al-Aqaba, at Badr and in all… - Person
Ucuncu Dervis Ali
Draft card for Ucuncu Dervis Ali, the Ottoman writer (calligrapher, d. 1786); the biographical entry is not… - Person
Udhayna ibn al-Sumayda'
The Amalekite set by Rome over east Syria, the west and the Jazira — the 'Udhayna' of al-A'sha's famous line… - Person
Udhra bint Shahanshah
Udhra bint Shahanshah b. Ayyub (d. 593) — Salah al-Din's niece, founder of Damascus's Udhrawiyya madrasa. - Person
Uğur Şahin
19 September 1965 CE · 1385 AHTurkish-German immunologist and professor of oncology, born in İskenderun in 1965 and brought to Germany as a… - Person
أحيحة بن الجلاح
Uhayha ibn al-Julah of Aws, sayyid of Banu Juhjuba and reckoned among the mightiest men of Yathrib before… - Person
Ujayf ibn Anbasa
Ujayf ibn Anbasa, a Khurasani; al-Mu'tasim's commander against the Zutt brigands of the batiha — given… - Person
Ukaydir ibn Abd al-Malik
King of Dumat al-Jandal, of Kinda and a Christian, according to Ibn Ishaq; Khalid ibn al-Walid captured him,… - Person
Ulba ibn Zayd
The second of the Weepers, brother of Banu Haritha; Ibn Ishaq lists him among those who begged the Prophet… - Person
Öljaitü (Muhammad Khudabanda)
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Ullubay Buynaksky
8 September 1890 CE · 23 Muharram 1308 AH†Ullubay Daniyalovich Buynaksky (1890–1919) was a Dagestani Bolshevik revolutionary of Kumyk noble descent. He… - Person
Ulu Arif Celebi
Draft card for Ulu Arif Celebi, the fourteenth-century Mevlevi shaykh and grandson of Rumi, d. 1320; the… - Person
ألوغ بك
Ulugh Beg, son of Shah Rukh and grandson of Timur, sovereign of Samarqand for over thirty years — unique in… - Person
Umair ibn al-Ahmar al-Yashkuri
Umair ibn al-Ahmar al-Yashkuri; Ibn Samura's deputy at Zaranj, expelled by its people who shut the gates —… - Person
Umama al-Muzayriyya
A woman who spoke two verses on the killing of Abu Afak, addressing him: that he gave the lie to God's… - Person
Umama bint Abi al-As
A granddaughter of the Prophet through his daughter Zaynab, whom he used to carry on his shoulder in prayer;… - Person
Umar al-Fayyumi, Aleppo's army qadi
The faradi master and Burda commentator — murdered at Khan Ghabaghib outside Damascus on the road to Egypt;… - Person
Umar al-Mahjub
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Umar al-Mihdhar
Draft card for Umar al-Mihdhar, the fifteenth-century Hadhrami scholar, d. 1430; the biographical entry is… - Person
Umar al-Nasafi
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Al-Rajraji (Umar ibn Muhammad)
Umar ibn Muhammad, Abu Ali and Abu Hafs, al-Rajraji al-Fasi, a Maliki jurist. Ibn Ghazi called him a… - Person
Shihab al-Din Umar al-Suhrawardi
c. 1144 CE · 539 AHShihab al-Din Umar al-Suhrawardi (539–632) — shaykh al-shuyukh of Baghdad and author of Awarif al-Ma'arif,… - Person
Omar Ali Saifuddin I
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Umar Aqta
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Umar bin Hafiz
27 May 1963 CE · 1383 AHYemeni teacher (born 27 May 1963 in Tarim, Hadhramaut) of the Ba 'Alawi tradition, founder of Dar al-Mustafa… - Person
Omer Dede Sikkini
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Umar Din, Sultan of Adal
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Umar Hayat Khan Tiwana
5 October 1874 CE · 1291 AHMajor General Nawab Sir Umar Hayat Khan Tiwana (1874–1944) was a Punjabi soldier and landowner, among the… - Person
Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, al-Sadr al-Shahid
Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz ibn Umar ibn Mazza, Abu Muhammad, Husam al-Din, the Hanafi known as al-Sadr al-Shahid, a… - Person
Umar ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Attas
Draft card for Umar ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Attas, of the Hadhrami Al-Attas house, d. 1661; the biographical… - Person
Umar ibn Abi Salama
Umar ibn Abi Salama, the Prophet's step-son; given four thousand he was defended by Umar — 'I favor his… - Person
Umar ibn Ahmad al-Nasha'i (Izz al-Din)
Izz al-Din Abu Hafs Umar ibn Ahmad ibn Ahmad ibn Mahdi al-Mudliji al-Nasha'i al-Misri, a Shafi'i jurist.… - Person
Umar ibn al-Ala'
Umar ibn al-Ala', a butcher of Rayy; he gathered a company and fought Sanbadh on his rising — brave work —… - Person
Umar ibn al-Ash'ath al-Taymi
Named after his grandfather Laja, not his father al-Ash'ath. - Person
Umar ibn al-Khattab
c. 584 CESecond caliph (634–644); under his rule the early community conquered Syria, Egypt and much of the Sasanian… - Person
al-Ashraf Umar ibn al-Muzaffar, al-Ghassani
A Yemeni ruler of the Rasulid line who wrote on the astrolabe, veterinary medicine and simple drugs, drawing… - Person
Umar ibn Faraj al-Rukhji
In al-Baladhuri, under whom Nahr al-Maymun's mouth was redirected in al-Wathiq's days. - Person
أبو الفتح عمر بن حمويه الجويني
Shaykh al-shuyukh Abu al-Fath Umar ibn Ali ibn Hamuwayh al-Juwayni, the Sufi; he transmitted from his… - Person
Umar ibn Hubayra
Umar ibn Hubayra al-Fazari; Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik's governor of Iraq — ordered to survey the grants and… - Person
Umar ibn Husayn al-Khiraqi
Abu'l-Qasim al-Khiraqi, the Hanbali jurist whose Mukhtasar became one of the school's two foundational… - Person
Abu'l-Adhan the Hafiz
Abu Bakr the hafiz known as Abu'l-Adhan, trustworthy transmitter heard by Ibn Qani' and Ibn al-Munadi; he… - Person
Abu Hafs Umar ibn Ibrahim al-Ansari al-Awsi
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Umar ibn Marthad
Umar ibn Marthad; Sulayman's remnant rallied to him at Talaqan — Ibn Khazim marched, fought, and killed him. - Person
Umar ibn Muhammad al-Farghani
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عمر بن سعد بن أبي وقاص
Son of Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas; Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad sent him in command of four thousand against al-Husayn with… - Person
Umar ibn Shabba al-Numayri
173 AHAbu Zayd al-Numayri — 'Shabba' was his mother's lullaby-word, not his name (which was Zayd) — b. 173, a… - Person
Umar ibn Ubaydallah ibn Ma'mar al-Taymi
Umar ibn Ubaydallah ibn Ma'mar al-Taymi; of the ashraf with Ibn Samura at Kabul's conquest — sent with… - Person
Umar ibn Yazid al-Asadi
An Asadi poet remembered in anecdotes of miserliness. Al-Abshihi records that he suffered from colic and was… - Person
Umar Khalji
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Umar Khayyam
1048 CE · 439 AHA mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and poet. Little is known of his life. - Person
Umar Shaikh Mirza I
Draft card for Umar Shaikh Mirza ibn Timur's line — the Timurid ruler of Fergana and father of Babur, founder… - Person
Umar Valu
London-based artist and sound producer, creator of Halal Beats (since 2020), who makes songs and soundtracks… - Person
Umara al-Yamani
The Yemeni poet at Saladin's Cairo — his praise of Yemen fired Turanshah's appetite for the 569 conquest ('I… - Person
Umara ibn al-Walid
A young Quraysh man whom the notables offered to Abu Talib as an adopted son in exchange for handing over his… - Person
Umara ibn Hazm
An Aqaba Companion who fought at Badr; he was with the Prophet when his she-camel strayed, and he drove Zayd… - Person
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
16 August 1951 CE · 1370 AHNigerian politician (1951–2010) from Katsina who studied chemistry at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, worked… - Person
Umaym ibn Lawdh
Descendant of Aram who marched to Persia — whence al-Mas'udi derives the Persians from his son Kayumarth,… - Person
Umayma bint Abd al-Muttalib
An aunt of the Prophet, married before Islam to Hujayr ibn Ri'ab al-Asadi (as printed in this edition),… - Person
Umayr ibn Abi Waqqas
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Umayr ibn Adi al-Khatmi
The first of Banu Khatma to accept Islam, called 'the Reciter'; he heard the Prophet say 'is there no one to… - Person
Umayr ibn al-Habab al-Sulami
Umayr ibn al-Habab al-Sulami; in al-Baladhuri: he raided the fortress of Kamkh with Safwan ibn al-Mu'attal in… - Person
Umayr ibn al-Humam
A Khazraji Companion who, hearing the Prophet's call to a paradise wide as the heavens at Badr, threw away… - Person
'Umayr ibn Dabi' al-Burjumi
A Kufan elder who had broken one of Uthman's ribs after his death — identified to al-Hajjaj at the levy and… - Person
Umayr ibn Wahb al-Jumahi
Umayr ibn Wahb al-Jumahi; he rode in al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam's reinforcement to Egypt, and after al-Fustat's… - Person
Umayr ibn Wahb al-Jumahi (of Tabuk)
Umayr ibn Wahb of Banu Jumah; Ibn Ishaq mentions him in Abu Khaythama's Tabuk report — met on the road… - Person
Umayra ibn Malik al-Kharifi
One of the Hamdan delegation who met the Prophet on his return from Tabuk with Malik ibn al-Namat Dhu… - Person
أمية بن عبد شمس
Umayya ibn Abd Shams, eponym of the Banu Umayya; wealthy, he tried and failed to match Hashim's feeding of… - Person
Umayya ibn Abdallah ibn Khalid ibn Asid
Umayya ibn Abdallah ibn Khalid ibn Asid ibn Abi al-As; Abd al-Malik's governor of Khurasan — he sent his son… - Person
Umayya ibn Abi al-Salt
The Thaqafi poet — his grandfather (some say himself) having praised Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan beneath Ghumdan's… - Person
Umayya ibn Ishaq
Brother of the Umayyad vizier Ahmad ibn Ishaq whom al-Nasir executed; holding Shantarin he defected to king… - Person
Umayya ibn Khalaf
c. 570 CEA headman of the clan of Jumah remembered above all as the owner who tortured Bilal — one of the named… - Person
Umm Abdallah bint Yazid al-Kalbiyya
Umm Abdallah bint Yazid al-Kalbiyya, wife of Habib ibn Maslama al-Fihri; in al-Baladhuri: on the night of the… - Person
Umm al-Ala' al-Ansariyya
An Ansari Companion among those who pledged; she narrated in the two collections the story of Uthman ibn… - Person
أم البهاء فاطمة
Umm al-Baha' Fatima, musnida of Isfahan; she heard Bukhari under al-Ayyar — her samā' is famous — and died in… - Person
Umm al-Banin
Draft card for Umm al-Banin Fatima bint Hizam al-Kilabiyya, wife of Ali ibn Abi Talib and mother of al-Abbas… - Person
Umm al-Banin bint 'Abd al-'Aziz
al-Walid's cousin — scandalised by his lounging with al-Hajjaj; his counsel to keep women from secrets… - Person
Umm al-Darda al-Sughra
Draft card for Hujayma Umm al-Darda al-Sughra, the jurist and hadith transmitter of Damascus in the… - Person
Umm al-Fadl Lubaba bint al-Harith
The wife of al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib and mother of Abdullah ibn Abbas, sister of the Mother of the… - Person
أم الخير فاطمة
Umm al-Khayr Fatima bint Ali the muqri'a; she transmitted Sahih Muslim and its Gharib over a long lifetime of… - Person
Umm al-Mundhir Salma bint Qays
Salma bint Qays ibn Amr, Umm al-Mundhir al-Ansariyya, better known by her kunya, sister of Sulayt ibn Qays… - Person
Umm al-Sharif
The aunt of Amad's defender whose counsel-letter and verses so pleased al-Mu'tadid he hoped her intercession… - Person
Umm al-Wahid
Umm al-Wahid, daughter of the qadi Abu Abdallah al-Hamili (d. 377) — she memorised Qur'an, fiqh, grammar and… - Person
Umm Amr bint Jundub
Draft card for Umm Amr bint Jundub, a figure of the early community; the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
أم عاصم زوجة لذريق
Roderic's widow, who had surrendered on terms and stayed on her faith under the jizya until the amir Abd… - Person
Umm Atiyya al-Ansariyya
An Ansari Companion named Nusayba, who joined seven campaigns with the Prophet looking after the fighters'… - Person
Umm Ayman (Baraka bint Tha'laba)
c. 560 (approx.) CEAn Abyssinian freedwoman of the Prophet's family who cared for him as a child and again after his mother's… - Person
Umm Ayyub al-Ansariyya
Draft card for Umm Ayyub al-Ansariyya, a woman of the Ansar in the early community; the biographical entry is… - Person
Umm Ghurab
Talha, known as Umm Ghurab, narrated from Nubata, from Uthman ibn Affan, and from Uqayla and Salama bint… - Person
أم حبيب بنت أسد
Umm Habib bint Asad ibn Abd al-Uzza ibn Qusayy — a Qurashi ancestress of Amina through Barra. - Person
Umm Habiba Ramlah bint Abi Sufyan
A daughter of Abu Sufyan ibn Harb and a wife of the Prophet — one of the Mothers of the Believers. When her… - Person
Umm Hakim al-Bayda bint Abd al-Muttalib
One of the six daughters of Abd al-Muttalib in al-Raheeq al-Makhtum's count, known as al-Bayda; an aunt of… - Person
Umm Hani' bint Abi Talib
A cousin of the Prophet, named Fakhita (also given as Fatima or Hind); wife of Hubayra ibn Amr al-Makhzumi,… - Person
Umm Haram bint Milhan
Maternal aunt of Anas ibn Malik, whom the Prophet used to visit at Quba; in her hadith he saw people of his… - Person
Umm Harmala bint Abd al-Aswad
Wife of Jahm ibn Qays; she emigrated with him to Abyssinia and died there. - Person
Umm Hisham bint Haritha
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Umm Jamal ud-Din
Australian scholar and teacher based in Sydney who embraced Islam in 1989 and spent more than twenty-five… - Person
Umm Jamil
c. 565 CEWife of Abu Lahab and sister of Abu Sufyan; remembered in the sources for harassing the Prophet — the… - Person
Umm Jamil bint Yahjan
Umm Jamil bint Yahjan ibn al-Afqam of Banu Hilal, wife of the Thaqafi al-Hajjaj ibn Utayk; al-Mughira the… - Person
Umm Kulthum
31 December 1898 CE · 1316 AHEgyptian singer and film actress (1898–1975), known as Kawkab al-Sharq ('Star of the East'), 'the Voice of… - Person
Umm Kulthum bint Abi Bakr
Umm Kulthum bint Abi Bakr al-Siddiq — her mother was the Ansari woman Zayda bint Kharija; married Talha b.… - Person
Umm Kulthum bint Ali
A daughter of Ali ibn Abi Talib and Fatima, the Prophet's daughter, born in the Prophet's lifetime; Ibn Hajar… - Person
Umm Kulthum bint Muhammad
A daughter of the Prophet, married to Uthman ibn Affan after her sister Ruqayya's death in Rabi' al-Awwal 3… - Person
Umm Kulthum bint Suhayl
Of Banu Amir ibn Lu'ayy; Ibn Ishaq names her among the women emigrants to Abyssinia. - Person
Umm Kulthum bint Uqba
An Umayyad Companion who embraced Islam early and gave her pledge; she emigrated to Medina alone during the… - Person
Umm Kurzan
A Bajila woman; in al-Baladhuri she told Jarir when her people returned the Sawad quarter 'my father died and… - Person
Umm Ma'bad al-Khuza'iyya
A Khuza'a woman of a tent on the road between Mecca and Medina, who fed the Prophet and his companion during… - Person
Umm Ma'bad
A Khuza'ite woman whose wayside tent the Hijra party passed; in a lean year she let the Prophet milk her… - Person
Umm Mubashshir bint al-Bara' ibn Ma'rur
An Ansari woman, daughter of al-Bara' ibn Ma'rur; Jabir ibn Abdullah narrated from her the hadith that none… - Person
Umm Muhammad bint Abdallah al-Thaqafiyya
Umm Muhammad bint Abdallah ibn Uthman ibn Abi al-As al-Thaqafi, Salm ibn Ziyad's wife; she crossed the river… - Person
Umm Muni' (Asma bint Amr)
A Sulami Companion, mother of Mu'adh ibn Jabal; she was the second woman at the second pledge of Aqaba… - Person
Umm Musa, the mother of Musa
Umm Musa, the mother of Musa, as Sheikh Omar Abdelkafy presents her in the series 'Al Fawzu Al Moubeen': her… - Person
أم موسى الهاشمية
Palace stewardess (qahramana) of al-Muqtadir's household from 298, carrying messages between caliph, mother… - Person
Umm Musa al-Qahramana
Draft card for Umm Musa al-Qahramana, a figure of the early community; the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Umm Qays bint Mihsan
A sister of Ukkasha ibn Mihsan, she embraced Islam early at Mecca, gave her pledge and emigrated; she… - Person
Umm Qirfa, Fatima bint Rabi'a ibn Badr al-Fazariyya
An aged woman of Banu Fazara from a noble house, wife of Malik ibn Hudhayfa ibn Badr; the Arabs said that no… - Person
Umm Ruman
The wife of Abu Bakr and mother of Abd al-Rahman and Aisha; she embraced Islam early, gave her pledge and… - Person
Umm Sa'd bint Sa'd ibn al-Rabi'
Daughter of Sa'd ibn al-Rabi', who was killed at Uhud while she was in the womb; she grew up an orphan in Abu… - Person
Umm Salama (Hind bint Abi Umayya)
c. 590 (approx.) CEA wife of the Prophet remembered for her counsel at Hudaybiyya and for the hundreds of hadith transmitted on… - Person
Umm Salama bint Ya'qub
The Makhzumi widow of two Umayyads who wooed al-Saffah with seven hundred dinars — his sole wife, dominant… - Person
Umm Salma Qajar
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Umm Sharik
A Companion of Banu Amir ibn Lu'ayy whose name and lineage are disputed; some reports say she embraced Islam… - Person
Umm Sharik al-Dawsiyya
A Companion of Banu Daws of al-Azd; she embraced Islam and stayed among her people at Dhu al-Khalasa,… - Person
Umm Sulaym bint Milhan
The mother of Anas, the Prophet's servant, known by her kunya with her name disputed; she embraced Islam… - Person
Umm Sunbula al-Aslamiyya
A Companion of Aslam about whom Aisha related that she brought the Prophet milk as a gift; Aisha remarked he… - Person
Umm Ubayda
foster mother and mawla of Muhammad ibn Ali; in al-Baladhuri granted a qatma — the Taqat Umm Ubayda near the… - Person
Umm Ubays
An enslaved woman who embraced Islam in Mecca; the polytheists tortured her, and Abu Bakr freed her. - Person
Umm Waraqa bint Abdullah
An Ansari Companion who had read the Qur'an; she asked to go out with the Prophet to Badr to nurse the sick… - Person
Umm Ziyad al-Ashja'iyya
A Companion of Ashja' who went out with the Prophet on the Khaybar campaign with five other women; the… - Person
Umm Zufar
A tall black woman who complained to the Prophet that she suffered seizures and her body was exposed; he gave… - Person
Ummat al-Salam al-Baghdadiyya
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Ummat al-Wahid
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Ummi Sinan
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Umra Khan of Jandol
1860 CE · 1276 AH†Afghan Pashtun chief (c. 1860–1904), Khan of Jandol and then Nawab of Dir (1890–1895). He killed his elder… - Person
Umran ibn Shahin
Lord of the Batayih marshes; a village tax-farmer of al-Jamida who fled to the reeds, lived on fish and… - Person
Umur Beg of Aydin
Umur Beg ibn Aydin, seafaring emir of the Aydın-oghlu and ally of John VI Cantacuzenus, killed in 1348 while… - Person
Unayf ibn Milla al-Dubaybi
Of the Dubayb of Judham, brother of Hassan ibn Milla; he rode with him and Abu Zayd ibn Amr to Zayd ibn… - Person
Underrated Hijabi
British content creator who publishes under her channel name Underrated Hijabi on YouTube, known first for… - Person
Uqayl ibn Bilal
A transmitter of an anecdote in which a Bedouin woman overhears him recite a verse and says he should have… - Person
Uqba ibn Abi Mu'ayt
c. 570 CEA Qurashi of Banu Abd Shams among the documented harassers of the Prophet in Mecca; captured at Badr, he was… - Person
عقبة بن الحجاج السلولي
Governor of al-Andalus for five years of praised conduct and victorious jihad; under him Muslim settlement… - Person
Uqba ibn Amir al-Juhani
Uqba ibn Amir al-Juhani; a witness of Egypt's conquest who testified that its people hold covenant and… - Person
Uqba ibn Amir ibn Nabi
An Ansari of Banu Salima, he was at the first al-Aqaba, Badr and Uhud, where he was marked by a green band on… - Person
Uqba ibn Nafi' al-Fihri
Uqba ibn Nafi' al-Fihri; Amr ibn al-As gave him the Maghreb — he reached Zawila, all between it and Barqa… - Person
'Uqba ibn Salim
Avenged Ma'n ibn Za'ida in 'Uman and Bahrayn, killing Abd al-Qays and other Rabi'a and Nizar men in Qahtani… - Person
Uraz Muhammad Khan
Draft card for Uraz Muhammad Khan, the seventeenth-century Kazakh khan, d. 1610; the dynastic handbook entry… - Person
Orban the Hungarian cannon-founder
Orban, the Hungarian engineer skilled in cannon-founding whom Mehmed II welcomed and funded; he designed the… - Person
Orfi Mahmut Aga
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أورخان بن عثمان
Sultan Orhan (r. 726–761 AH/1327–1360 CE) — took Nicomedia 727, founded the first Ottoman madrasa there under… - Person
عروج بربروسة
Oruç Reis (d. 1518) — elder Barbarossa brother, named for the night of the Mi'raj on which he was said to be… - Person
Urmazd bishop of Jarbida
Bishop of Jarbida (Gerona) among the Franks; in 328 he sent al-Hakam, heir of Abd al-Rahman of al-Andalus, a… - Person
Urwa ibn Abd al-Uzza
Of Banu Adi ibn Ka'b; he emigrated to Abyssinia and died there. - Person
'Urwa ibn al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba
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Urwa ibn al-Zubayr
Urwa ibn al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam; al-Waqidi reports through Abd al-Hamid ibn Ja'far from his father: I heard… - Person
'Urwa ibn Hizam
The 'Udhri lover dead of longing for 'Afra — she died stretched on his grave, and al-Haytham's account has… - Person
Urwa ibn Mas'ud al-Thaqafi
Chieftain of Thaqif in al-Ta'if and respected Meccan diplomat; represented Quraysh during negotiations at… - Person
Urwa ibn Muhammad ibn Atiyya al-Sa'di
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Urwa ibn Qatiba
Urwa ibn Qatiba; he bore Ibn al-Zubayr's writ giving Ibn Khazim Khurasan, six months after the arbitration… - Person
'Urwa ibn Udhayna al-Tamimi
Bilal al-Khariji's brother — the first to cry 'no judgement but God's' when al-Ash'ath proudly read the… - Person
Urwa ibn Zayd al-Khayl al-Ta'i
Urwa ibn Zayd al-Khayl al-Ta'i; in al-Baladhuri sent by Abu Ubayd to al-Zawabi whose dihqan he pacified on… - Person
Uryani Osman Efendi
Draft card for Uryani Osman Efendi, the Ottoman writer (theologian, d. 1755); the biographical entry is not… - Person
أسامة بن منقذ
Mu'ayyid al-Dawla Usama ibn Murshid al-Kinani, d. AH 584 — the Shayzari emir and man of letters, author of… - Person
Usama ibn Sharik
A Companion from the Banu Tha'laba. Authors of the Sunan collections, Ahmad, Ibn Khuzayma, Ibn Hibban and… - Person
Usama ibn Zayd
'The beloved son of the beloved', son of the Prophet's freedman Zayd and of Umm Ayman who had nursed the… - Person
أسامة بن زيد التنوخي
- Person
Usayd ibn Hudayr
A prominent chief of the Banu Abd al-Ashhal clan of the Aws in Yathrib; when Mus'ab ibn Umayr came preaching,… - Person
Usman Harooni
Draft card for Usman al-Haruni, the thirteenth-century shaykh of Mu'in al-Din Chishti, d. 1207; the… - Person
Usman Khawaja
18 December 1986 CE · 1407 AHAustralian former international cricketer, born in Islamabad, Pakistan, in 1986; his family emigrated to New… - Person
Usman Mansoorpuri
1944 CE · 1363 AH†Draft card for Usman Mansoorpuri, the Indian scholar and Jamiat chief; his entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Usshakizade Ibrahim Hasib Efendi
Draft card for Usshakizade Ibrahim Hasib Efendi, the Ottoman writer, d. 1724; the biographical entry is not… - Person
Ustad Ghulam Hossein
1876 CE · 1293 AH†Afghan musician, composer and teacher of Kharabat, Kabul (1876–1967), from a family of musicians that had… - Person
Usuli
Draft card for Usuli, the Ottoman poet, d. 1539; the biographical entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Utarid ibn Hajib
The orator at the head of the Banu Tamim notables who came to the Prophet in 9 AH; he boasted of his people… - Person
Utba ibn Amir al-Juhani
Utba ibn Amir al-Juhani; after al-Fustat's fall Amr ibn al-As sent him to all lower Egypt's villages, whose… - Person
Utba ibn Farqad al-Sulami
Commander of the Jazira conquests; in al-Baladhuri he opened al-Tirhan and Mosul and enforced for Tikrit's… - Person
Utba ibn Ghazwan
One of the earliest Muslims, he emigrated to Abyssinia and then to Medina and fought at Badr and after; Umar… - Person
Utba ibn Mas'ud
A Companion of Hudhayl, ally of Banu Zuhra; he emigrated to Abyssinia and arrived in the two ships. - Person
Utba ibn Rabi'a
c. 565 CEAn elder of Banu Abd Shams who argued for a negotiated settlement with Muhammad — and is remembered dying at… - Person
'Utba, al-Khayzuran's maid
Al-Khayzuran's singing-girl whose refusal — 'a jar-seller who lives by verse?' — spurned Abu'l-'Atahiyya… - Person
Utban ibn Malik
An Ansari of Banu Salim ibn 'Awf of the Khazraj; he built the utm 'al-Muzdalif' which came to Malik ibn… - Person
Uthman al-Awdi
in al-Baladhuri, who tried and failed to wrest Sisar from Murra ibn Ali, losing most of his held Adharbayjan… - Person
Uthman ibn Ali al-Zayla'i
Draft card for Fakhr al-Din Uthman ibn Ali al-Zayla'i, the fourteenth-century Hanafi jurist of Somaliland… - Person
Uthman, Hafsid caliph
Draft card for Abu Amr Uthman ibn Muhammad al-Mansur, the Hafsid caliph of Tunis from 1435 to 1488; the… - Person
عثمان بن أرطغرل
1258 CE · 656 AHOsman I (1258–c. 1326 CE) — born the year Baghdad fell, raised to the emirate by the Rum Seljuk Ala al-Din,… - Person
Uthman ibn Abd al-Haqq al-Marini
Abu Sa'id Uthman ibn Abd al-Haqq al-Marini; he avenged his father and brother on their killers, then ranged… - Person
Uthman ibn Abd Ghanm
Of Banu al-Harith ibn Fihr; he emigrated to Abyssinia — one of three men Ibn Ishaq names from that clan. - Person
عثمان بن أبي العلاء شيخ الغزاة
The Nasrids' shaykh al-ghuzat — by convention a Marinid kinsman since they were the first to rule al-Andalus… - Person
Uthman ibn Abi al-As
The youngest of the six-man Thaqif delegation to Medina in Ramadan 9 AH and its keenest student of the… - Person
عثمان بن أبي نسعة الخثعمي
Governor of al-Andalus under Ubayda of Ifriqiya; he arrived in 110 and was twice interrupted by the short… - Person
'Uthman ibn Abi Shayba
The Kufan traditionist of the Musannaf family — dead in 239. - Person
Uthman ibn Affan
c. 576 CEThird caliph (644–656); the early community married him to two of the Prophet's daughters in succession.… - Person
Uthman ibn Ali
Uthman ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib; Ibn Kathir counts him among Ali's sons killed with Husayn at Karbala in 61 AH. - Person
Uthman ibn Bashir ibn al-Muhtafiz
Uthman ibn Bashir ibn al-Muhtafiz; taken by Ibn Khazim after his son Muhammad's killing at Herat and slain in… - Person
Uthman ibn Farooq
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عثمان بن حيان
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Uthman ibn Hunayf
An Ansari, brother of Sahl ibn Hunayf; al-Tirmidhi alone said he fought at Badr, while the majority say his… - Person
Ibn Kinana
A jurist of Medina who studied with Imam Malik and was known for independent reasoning. Malik gave him leave… - Person
Uthman ibn Mas'ud
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Uthman ibn Maz'un
One of the earliest Muslims of the secret call; he accepted Islam with his brothers Qudama and Abdullah. - Person
Uthman ibn Qa'id
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Uthman ibn Rabi'a
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Uthman ibn Said al-Anmati
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Uthman ibn Sanad al-Basri
1766 CE · 1180 AHA jurist, man of letters, poet and historian from Najd, with contributions across several fields of learning. - Person
عثمان بن سليمان البتي
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Uthman ibn Talha
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Uthman ibn 'Urwa
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Uthman ibn Yaghmurasan ibn Zayyan
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'Uttab ibn Ghaylan al-Thaqafi
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Uwaym ibn Sa'ida
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Uwaymir al-Ajlani
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Uways al-Barawi
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Uzeyir Hajibeyov
18 September 1885 CE · 1302 AHAzerbaijani composer and musicologist (1885–1948), the founder of Azerbaijani classical music. His Leyli and… - Person
Uzra ibn Qays
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Uzra ibn Qays al-Bajali
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Uzun-Haji
1848 CE · 1264 AH†Uzun-Haji Saltinsky (1848–1920), known in Arabic sources as Hajji Udhun Khayr, was a Naqshbandi sheikh from… - Person
Hasan Bak the Aq Qoyunlu (Uzun Hasan)
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Vakkom Moulavi
28 December 1873 CE · 1290 AHIndian social reformer, scholar, writer and journalist (1873–1932) of Vakkom in the Kingdom of Travancore,… - Person
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Vieux Farka Touré
12 March 1981 CE · 1401 AHMalian singer, guitarist and composer, born at Niafunké in 1981, the son of Ali Farka Touré. He took up the… - Person
Vilayat Inayat Khan
19 June 1916 CE · 1334 AHSufi teacher (1916–2004), born in London and died two days before his 88th birthday. A son of Inayat Khan and… - Person
Vilfredo Pareto
The Italian thinker Vilfredo Pareto, author of the 80/20 law that Tareq al-Suwaidan teaches in management:… - Person
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وُشمگير بن زيار
The Ziyarid lord of Tabaristan and Gurgan; in 351 Rukn al-Dawla drove him out of both into Gilan while three… - Person
Vusuli Celebi
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Wadi'a ibn Thabit
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Wael Ghonim
23 December 1980 CE · 1401 AHEgyptian Internet activist and computer engineer, born in Cairo in 1980 and raised in Abha, Saudi Arabia. He… - Person
Wael Gomaa
3 August 1975 CE · 1395 AHEgyptian retired professional footballer, born in Gharbia Governorate in 1975 and nicknamed 'The Rock'. A… - Person
Wafaa Abdel Salam
An Egyptian female preacher (wa'iza) at the Ministry of Awqaf, described in reports as 'the first female… - Person
Wahb ibn Abd Manaf ibn Zuhra
Chief of Banu Zuhra by lineage and standing; father of Amina and thus the Prophet's maternal grandfather; Abd… - Person
Wahb ibn Masarra (Andalusian Maliki jurist)
Wahb ibn Masarra ibn Mufarrij ibn Hakim, Abu al-Hazm, of the Maliki school, of the Tamim and of Wadi… - Person
Wahb ibn Munabbih
Abu 'Abd Allah of the Persian abna' — died at San'a' in 104 or 110, aged ninety; the chronicles disagree. - Person
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Wahb ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Sarh
Companion of Quraysh, from Banu Malik ibn Hisl; martyred at Mu'tah. - Person
Wahbah al-Zuhayli
1932 CE · 1351 AHSyrian Islamic jurist and professor (1932–2015), born at Deir Atiyah and long chairman of Islamic… - Person
Wahbi Khazri
8 February 1991 CE · 1411 AHFormer Tunisian footballer (born 1991 in Ajaccio, France), an attacking midfielder who played for Bastia,… - Person
Waheed Zafar Qasmi
1962 CE · c. 1381 AHPakistani Qur'an reciter and naat singer, brother of the reciters Zahir Qasmi and Shakir Qasmi. He began… - Person
Wahid Hasyim
1 June 1914 CE · 1332 AHIndonesian ulama and politician (1914–1953), the eldest son of Hasyim Asy'ari, founder of Nahdlatul Ulama.… - Person
Wahshi ibn Harb
c. 600 CEAn Abyssinian slave famous for his javelin: promised his freedom for killing Hamza at Uhud, he later became a… - Person
Wa'il ibn Hujr
From the sons of the kings of Hadramawt; he came to the Prophet as a delegate, asked for a grant of land and… - Person
Wajih al-Din al-Shaybani al-Zabidi
c. 16 December 1460 CE · 4 Muharram 865 AHZabid's musnid — 'shaykh al-Islam, musnid of the world, amir al-mu'minin in hadith, seal of the verifiers who… - Person
Wajih al-Din al-Tanukhi (Asad ibn al-Munajja)
Wajih al-Din Abu al-Ma'ali Asad ibn al-Munajja, also called Muhammad ibn al-Munajja Barakat ibn al-Mu'ammal… - Person
وجيه الدين القزويني
c. 1107 CE · 501 AHThe learned Wajih al-Din Abu al-Khayr Ahmad b. Isma'il al-Taliqani al-Qazwini, Shafi'i jurist and preacher;… - Person
وجاج بن زلو اللمطي
Wajjaj ibn Zallu al-Lamti, the Sijilmasa jurist who sent Abdallah b. Yasin with the Guddala. - Person
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Wak'i ibn Abi Sud al-Tamimi
Wak'i ibn Abi Sud al-Tamimi; when Adi ibn Arta'a consulted the Basrans on a canal he wrote 'if you dig us no… - Person
Waki' ibn al-Dawraqiyya al-Quray'i
Waki' ibn al-Dawraqiyya al-Quray'i — Abu Rabi'a, son of Umaira and a Dawraq captive; with Bujayr he stabbed… - Person
Waki' ibn al-Jarrah
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Waki' ibn Hassan al-Tamimi
Waki' ibn Hassan ibn Qays ibn Abi Sud of Tamim; al-Hudayn's choice to lead Khurasan against Qutayba — 'a… - Person
Waleed Basyouni
Islamic scholar and educator based in Texas: president of AlMaghrib Institute and head of its Islamic… - Person
Waleed Ismail
1975 CE · 1395 AHWaleed Ismail (born 1975) is an Egyptian Salafi preacher known for televised and livestreamed debates in… - Person
Wali al-Din al-Malwi al-Manfaluti
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Walid al-Muallem
13 January 1941 CE · 1359 AHSyrian diplomat and Ba'ath Party member, foreign minister of Syria from 2006 until his death in 2020 and… - Person
Walid Regragui
23 September 1975 CE · 1395 AHMoroccan football manager and former player (born 1975 in Corbeil-Essonnes, France). A right-back capped by… - Person
ولادة بنت المستكفي
Wallada bint al-Mustakfi, Umayyad princess and famed salon poetess who had her bold couplets embroidered in… - Person
Wang Jingzhai
12 March 1880 CE · 1297 AHChinese Muslim scholar from Tianjin (1880–1949), a leading ahong of the Republic of China and one of the four… - Person
Wanudin ibn Khazrun al-Maghrawi
Wanudin ibn Khazrun ibn Fulful al-Maghrawi, second Khazrunid king of Sijilmasa; pardoned by Ziri ibn Atiyya… - Person
Waqar Younis
16 November 1971 CE · 1391 AHPakistani former cricketer, coach and commentator and former captain of the Pakistan national team, born in… - Person
Waqid ibn Abd Allah ibn Umar
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Waqid ibn Abdullah al-Yarbu'i
A Tamimi of Banu Yarbu', ally of Banu Adi; he was at Badr, and he is the one who shot Amr ibn al-Hadrami dead… - Person
Waraqa ibn Nawfal
c. 555 CEKhadija's cousin, an elderly Meccan Christian who had studied the scriptures; the man who first told the… - Person
Warash, Uthman's servant
Uthman's servant caught at Hasma carrying the fateful letter to Ibn Abi Sarh — cut this man's hand, kill that… - Person
وردة اليازجي
1838 CE · 1254 AH†Warda al-Yaziji (1838–1924 CE) — the Lebanese poetess of Kafarshima, author of the diwan Hadiqat al-Ward. - Person
Wardan, Amr's Mawla
Wardan, Amr ibn al-As's mawla and lord of Egypt's Suq Wardan; some say it was he — not Utba ibn Amir — who… - Person
Waris Ali Shah
1817 CE · 1232 AHIndian Sufi (1817–1905) of Dewa in Barabanki, founder of the Warsi Sufi order. As a boy he became the… - Person
Warith Deen Mohammed
30 October 1933 CE · 1352 AHAmerican religious leader (1933–2008), son of Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam. He succeeded… - Person
Warqa' ibn Nawfal
Al-Muqtadir's commander; in 303 he fell on the Arabs at al-Ajfar, killing and capturing bands whom the… - Person
Warram ibn Abi Firas
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Waseem Youssef
29 June 1981 CE · 1401 AHJordanian Muslim preacher of Palestinian origin, born in Irbid in 1981. He served as preacher and imam at the… - Person
Washmakir ibn Ziyar
Washmakir ibn Ziyar, brother of Mardawij ibn Ziyar of the Gilanite brothers of the Daylam; summoned from… - Person
Wasi Zainulalimin
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Wasif al-Khadim
The rebel chamberlain of the Syrian march — hunted down at Darb al-Jubb, he asked only for basil and the… - Person
Wasif ibn Sawartekin
Al-Muktafi's commander sent against Zikrawayh the Qarmatian; he met him via al-Qadisiyya on the Khaffan road… - Person
واصل بن عطاء أبو حذيفة
Wasil ibn Ata' al-Ghazzal, Abu Hudhayfa — head of the Mu'tazila and author of the 'intermediate rank'… - Person
Wasil ibn Taysala al-Anbari
Wasil ibn Taysala al-Anbari; he struck Musa ibn Abdallah ibn Khazim the final blow in 85h after his horse's… - Person
Wasim Akram
3 June 1966 CE · 1386 AHPakistani former cricketer and captain of the Pakistan national team, born in Lahore in 1966 to a Punjabi… - Person
Wathila ibn al-Asqa'
From Banu Layth ibn Abd Manat, he embraced Islam before Tabuk and took part in it; Ibn Sa'd lists him among… - Person
Wazir Akbar Khan
15 October 1816 CE · 23 Dhu al-Qa'da 1231 AH†Barakzai prince and general, son of Emir Dost Mohammad Khan; Emir of Kabul from December 1842 to April 1843… - Person
al-Wirtha bint Tha'laba
A woman of Banu Tha'laba in pre-Islamic times who said 'Bakh bakh, a leg with an anklet' on seeing a co-wife… - Person
Wejdan Al-Ali
Preacher known for his talks on purification of the soul, love of God and the explanation of the divine… - Person
Wilfried Zaha
10 November 1992 CE · 1413 AHIvorian footballer, born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast in 1992 and raised in England. A Crystal Palace academy… - Person
William I of Sicily
William I of Sicily (Ghulaym b. Rujar) — succeeded his father Roger II; the poet Ibn Qalaqis came to his… - Person
William Oncken
William Oncken, the management thinker behind the 'monkey laws' theory of delegation, published in the… - Person
Xherdan Shaqiri
10 October 1991 CE · 1412 AHSwiss professional footballer of Kosovar Albanian descent, born in Gjilan in 1991 and brought to Switzerland… - Person
Ya'rub ibn Bil'arab
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Yacine Brahimi
8 February 1990 CE · 1410 AHAlgerian professional footballer (born 1990 in Paris to Algerian parents). An attacking midfielder trained at… - Person
Yacoub Artin
15 April 1842 CE · 1258 AHEgyptian educator and scholar of Armenian origin, undersecretary of the Egyptian Ministry of Public… - Person
Yacouba Sylla
c. 1906 CE · 1324 AHHamawi Tijani preacher and entrepreneur (c. 1906–1988), one of Shaykh Hamahullah's most prominent disciples… - Person
Ya'ish ibn Sadaqa al-Furati
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يغمراسن بن زيان بن ثابت
Founder of the Abd al-Wadid sultanate of Tlemcen from Zanata; besieged Tlemcen eight years, took it, was… - Person
Yahshi Fakih
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Yahya
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Yahya al-Khayyat al-Falaki Abu Ali Yahya ibn Ghalib
Baghdadi astronomer and astrologer of the third century AH, a pupil of Masha'allah; died 250 AH (864 CE),… - Person
Yahya al-Mu'tali
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Yahya al-Qattan
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Yahya Dowlatabadi
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Yahya es-Sufi
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Yahya Fahreddin
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Yahya Haqqi
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Yahya ibn Abd al-Azim al-Jazzar
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Yahya ibn Abd al-Wahhab Ibn Mandah
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يحيى بن عبد الله بن حسن العلوي
A Hasanid Alid slandered to al-Rashid by Abdallah ibn Mus'ab al-Zubayri, who died the day of their mutual… - Person
Yahya ibn Abi al-Khayr al-Imrani
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Yahya ibn Abi Kathir
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Yahya ibn Abi Nasr al-Harawi
Abu Sa'id of Herat, who heard Ibn Rahawayh, Ibn Hanbal and Ibn al-Madini — trustworthy, a hafiz, ascetic and… - Person
Yahya ibn Zakariya ibn Abi Za'ida
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يحيى بن أحمد بن إسماعيل الساماني
Abu Zakariya, son of the Samanid amir Ahmad ibn Isma'il; his brother Nasr imprisoned him with his brothers… - Person
يحيى بن أكثم
Al-Ma'mun's judge and boon-companion, his transmitter in hadith — 'were we to discuss medicine you would be… - Person
Yahya ibn al-Bitriq
Yahya ibn al-Bitriq, of al-Ma'mun's embassy to the Byzantine emperor for the stored ancient sciences — with… - Person
Yahya ibn al-Husayn ibn al-Qasim
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Yahya ibn Ali al-Munajjim
Yahya b. Ali al-Munajjim — Mu'tazili boon-companion of al-Muwaffaq and al-Muktafi; began Kitab al-Bahir on… - Person
Yahya ibn Ali ibn Ghaniya
Yahya ibn Ali ibn Ghaniya the Sanhaji Massufi; raised with his brother Muhammad in Yusuf ibn Tashfin's… - Person
Yahya ibn Ayyub al-Maqabiri
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Yahya ibn Harthama
The officer sent to fetch 'Ali al-Hadi from Medina — 'I found nothing but a mushaf and a prayer-book'. - Person
Yahya ibn Hassan al-Tinnisi
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يحيى بن هذيل الكفيف
The blind master of letters who trained al-Ramadi — 'blame me not for halting at a dwelling whose people made… - Person
يحيى بن إبراهيم الكدالي
Yahya ibn Ibrahim al-Guddali, chief of Guddala; returning from the hajj he met Abu Imran al-Fasi at Kairouan… - Person
Yahya ibn Idris al-Idrisi
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Yahya ibn Imran
chief of Qumm's people; in al-Baladhuri, killed by Ali ibn Hisham al-Marwazi when they rebelled and withheld… - Person
Yahya ibn Kathir al-Anbari
Yahya ibn Kathir ibn Dirham, Abu Ghassan al-Anbari al-Khurasani. He narrated from Qurra, Shu'ba, Ali ibn… - Person
Yahya ibn Khalid al-Barmaki
al-Rashid's vizier, who stopped the canal joining the Red Sea to the Mediterranean with one image — Roman… - Person
Yahya ibn Ma'in
The celebrated traditionist — among the seven first tested at the mihna in 218, dead at Medina aged… - Person
أبو زكريا يحيى بن منده
The Isfahani Hanbali hafiz, author of Tarikh Isfahan — in old age he came to Baghdad on hajj, dictated, and… - Person
Yahya ibn Muhammad al-Idrisi
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Yahya ibn Muslim al-'Abid
Abu Zakariya the ascetic, transmitter from Wahb ibn Jarir; the youth who kept company with Bishr al-Hafi… - Person
Yahya ibn Omar al-Kinani
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Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Ansari
A Medinan jurist of the third generation who served as qadi for al-Mansur; Hammad ibn Zayd reports Ayyub… - Person
Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Qattan
Abu Sa'id al-Qattan of Basra — the exacting hadith critic who sat with Shu'ba for twenty years and taught Ibn… - Person
Yahya ibn Sa'id ibn al-'As
al-Ashdaq's brother — rushed the palace door to break it as his brother was slaughtered, striking the prince… - Person
يحيى بن سلمة الكلبي
First of the governors al-Andalus received from the amirs of Ifriqiya; sent by Bishr b. Safwan after Anbasa's… - Person
Yahya ibn Tamim
Abu Tahir Yahya b. Tamim — Zirid ruler of Ifriqiya, succeeded his father at al-Mahdiyya in Dhu al-Hijja 497… - Person
يحيى بن عمر اللمتوني
Yahya ibn Umar al-Lamtuni, the chief who joined Ibn Yasin in the island ribat and rose with him. - Person
Yahya ibn 'Umar al-Talibi
The Ja'farid who rose at Kufa in 248 — just, bloodless, beloved — killed, his head gibbeted at Baghdad to… - Person
Yahya ibn Umar Munqari-zadah
Yahya ibn Umar al-Ala'i al-Rumi, known as Munqari-zadah, a Turkish judge and exegete with some other… - Person
Yahya ibn Urwa
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Yahya ibn Watthab al-Asadi
Banu Kinana's mawla, a Kufan diviner — died under Yazid II. - Person
يحيى بن يحيى الغساني
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Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi
152 AHFrom al-Andalus; he came to Imam Malik in Medina and studied the Muwatta with him. His recension became the… - Person
Yahya ibn Yahya al-Tamimi
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Yahya ibn Yaman
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Yahya ibn Yamur
Yahya ibn Yamur, Abu Sulayman al-Layti al-Basri, one of the Successors, learned in hadith, fiqh and the… - Person
Yahya ibn Yusuf al-Zami
Abu Zakariyya al-Zami — transmitted from by al-Saghani, al-Bukhari, Abu Hatim, Hanbal b. Ishaq and Ibn… - Person
يحيى بن زكرويه القرمطي
The Qarmatian who rose in Syria under al-Muktafi, killed in 290; his brother al-Husayn — the mole on his face… - Person
Yahya Ibrahim
Canadian-born Islamic lecturer of Egyptian ancestry, based in Perth, Western Australia. He memorised the… - Person
Yahya II al-Wathiq, Hafsid
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Yahya II al-Idrisi
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Yahya Kemal Beyatlı
2 December 1884 CE · 1302 AHTurkish poet, author, politician and diplomat, born at Skopje in 1884 and died at Istanbul in 1958. He spent… - Person
Yahya Khan
4 February 1917 CE · 1336 AHPakistani general (1917–1980) who served as the third president of Pakistan from 1969 to 1971 under martial… - Person
Yahya Raaby
A UK-based Islamic teacher originally from Denmark. He memorised the Qur'an as a teenager at Badr Academy in… - Person
the commander Yahya
The commander who carried out Salih Reis's plan after his death, sailing on Oran in 963/1556; en route came… - Person
Yahya al-Shirwani al-Khalwati
Yahya al-Shirwani — 'shaykh of the Khalwati way at Baku,' who 'first instituted the khulafa' system on which… - Person
Yakub Beg
c. 1820 CE · c. 1235 AH†Emir of the Yettishar (Kashgaria) state in Xinjiang from 1865 to 1877, under the title Ataliq Ghazi; a… - Person
Yakubzade Mehmed Efendi
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Ya'la ibn Muhammad al-Yafrani
Ya'la ibn Muhammad ibn Salih al-Yafrani, amir of Zanata in the Maghreb; succeeding his father killed by a… - Person
al-Zahir Yalbay
Yalbay al-Mu'ayyadi — the fourteenth Circassian king, enthroned the day Khushqadam died (Sat 10 Rabi' I 872)… - Person
اليمامة بنت مرّ الجديسية
The Jadisite woman crucified by the Tubba' Abd Kulal on the gate of Jaww — whence the plain's name Jaww… - Person
Yaʾmar ibn Awf (al-Shaddakh)
The Bakr ibn Abd Manaf arbiter who judged between Qusayy and Khuzaʾa that Qusayy was worthier of the Kaaba… - Person
Yamin ibn Umayr al-Nadri
Ibn Ishaq names him in a report that reached him: he met Abu Layla and Abdullah ibn al-Mughaffal weeping and… - Person
Yemini
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Yamut ibn al-Muzarri
The Basran littérateur, al-Jahiz's nephew, who never visited the sick lest they take omen from his name 'he… - Person
Yan Dhanda
14 December 1998 CE · 1419 AHEnglish attacking midfielder of Punjabi descent, born in Birmingham in 1998. He came through the West… - Person
Yanyali Bedreddin Mehmed
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Yanyali Esad Efendi
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Yaqtin ibn Musa
The envoy sent to strip Abu Muslim of the war-treasury — his triple-divorce oath that he came only to… - Person
Ya'qub (Jacob)
Son of Ishaq, father of Yusuf — named in Bukhari's prophetic chain. - Person
Yaqoob al-Duraqi
783 CE · 166 AH†Draft card for Ya'qub ibn Ibrahim al-Dawraqi, the Baghdad hadith master and musnad compiler; his entry is not… - Person
Ya'qub al-Jarkhi
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يعقوب المنصور الموحدي
The Almohad caliph al-Mansur, victor of Alarcos — dark, tall, handsome and sonorous, versed in usul, furu',… - Person
Ya'qub Beg ibn Hasan Beg, sultan of the two Iraqs
Ya'qub Beg — Uzun Hasan's successor as Aq Qoyunlu 'sultan of the two Iraqs'; died 896. - Person
Ya'qub ibn Ahmad ibn al-Sabuni
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يعقوب بن السكيت
The imam of Arabic, tutor to al-Mutawakkil's sons; asked in 244 'who is dearer — al-Mu'tazz and al-Mu'ayyad… - Person
يعقوب بن داود
Ya'qub b. Dawud, client of Ibn Khazim the Khurasan governor and secretary to Ibrahim b. 'Abd Allah who rose… - Person
Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al-Sikut
Abu Yusuf al-Sikut — the Khuzi grammarian of Islah al-Mantiq who tutored the sons of al-Mutawakkil; his… - Person
يعقوب بن كلس
c. 930 CE · 318 AHWazir of the Fatimid al-Aziz; a Baghdad Jew by birth who claimed descent from Aaron — or, some said, from… - Person
Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar
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يعقوب بن صابر المنجنيقي
c. 1159 CE · 554 AHYa'qub ibn Sabir al-Munajjiniqi 'Najm al-Din' — Baghdadi master of the mangonel corps turned poet, author of… - Person
Ya'qub ibn Shayba
798 CE · 182 AHAbu Yusuf al-Sadusi of Basra, settled at Baghdad and Samarra; his Musnad ma'lul remained unfinished despite a… - Person
Yaqub Sanu (Abu Naddara)
1839 CE · 1255 AH†Yaqub b. Rafa'il Sanu, known as Abu Naddara (James Sanua), a prolific Jewish Egyptian playwright (1839-1912)… - Person
Yaqut al-Hamawi
1179 CE · 575 AHA geographer and lexicographer, author of Mu'jam al-Buldan and Mu'jam al-Udaba'. Sold young from Byzantine… - Person
Yaqut al-Musta'simi
The Baghdad scribe-adib, al-Musta'sim's mamluk — last to head the munasab script school, writing in Ibn… - Person
Yar Muhammad al-Harawi
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Yarjukh the Turk
The Turkish commander in Bayakbak's ambush whose house received the fleeing al-Muhtadi. - Person
Ya'rub ibn Qahtan
Son of Qahtan who led his following into Yemen chanting his own verses — the first, in this genealogy, of the… - Person
Yasar, herdsman of the Prophet's milch-camels
A slave the Prophet acquired in the raid on Muharib and Banu Tha'laba and set over his milch-camels grazing… - Person
Yasin Bey
11 December 1973 CE · 1393 AHAmerican rapper and actor, born in Brooklyn, New York in 1973 as Dante Terrell Smith, and known… - Person
Yasir ibn Amir
Father of Ammar and husband of Sumayya; the whole family was tortured by the polytheists, and Yasir died… - Person
Yasir Naqvi
25 January 1973 CE · 1392 AHPakistani-Canadian lawyer and Liberal politician who represented Ottawa Centre in Ontario's provincial… - Person
Yasir Qadhi
30 January 1975 CE · 1395 AHAmerican Muslim scholar of Pakistani descent, born in Houston in 1975. He studied at the Islamic University… - Person
Yasir Rakhila
The servant ordered to fetch Ja'far's head — granted his own death the moment it was laid before al-Rashid:… - Person
Yasmin Mogahed
11 March 1980 CE · 1400 AHAmerican Muslim educator and motivational speaker specialising in spirituality, psychology and personal… - Person
Yasmin Qureshi
5 July 1963 CE · 1383 AHBritish Labour Party politician and barrister, born at Gujrat, Punjab, in 1963, who moved to Britain at nine.… - Person
Yasser Al-Dosari
6 August 1980 CE · 1400 AHSaudi Quran reciter and scholar, born in al-Kharj governorate in 1980. He memorised the Quran by the age of… - Person
Yasser Al-Qahtani
10 October 1982 CE · 1402 AHSaudi Arabian former professional footballer (forward), born in 1982. He began at Al-Qadsiah, moved to… - Person
Yasser Al-Qurashi
1976 CE · c. 1396 AHEgyptian Qur'an reciter born in 1976 in the village of Deir Ganadleh in Asyut province. He memorised the… - Person
Yasser Arafat
4 August 1929 CE · 1348 AHYasser Arafat (August 1929 – 11 November 2004), known by his kunya Abu Ammar, was a Palestinian political… - Person
Yasser Mamdouh
Egyptian preacher and content creator, known for short weekly videos on religious and social topics addressed… - Person
Yassine Bounou
5 April 1991 CE · 1411 AHMoroccan professional goalkeeper (born 1991 in Montreal, Canada, to Moroccan parents), known mononymously as… - Person
Yastasif (Gushtasp)
King Yastasif who emptied the Isfahan hill-temple Maris of its idols on his conversion to Magianism and made… - Person
Yathrib ibn Qatiya
Yathrib ibn Qatiya ibn Mahlil — the eponym of Medina, who settled it with his sons and followers until some… - Person
Yavuz Ali Pasha
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Yaya Touré
13 May 1983 CE · 1403 AHIvorian retired footballer, born in Bouaké, Ivory Coast in 1983. A midfielder who was part of the Barcelona… - Person
Yazicioglu Ali
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Yazicioglu Mehmed
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Yazid al-Jarrashi (Abu Salim)
Yazid al-Jarrashi, Abu Salim ibn Yazid; sent by Ibn Amir he took Rustaq Zam of Naysabur by force, then… - Person
Yazid al-Raqqashi
The traditionist-companion whose night-session tale of the tribe-hopping Tanukhi and the satirist slave-girl… - Person
Yazid ibn Abd al-Madan
A member of the Banu al-Harith ibn Ka'b delegation of 10 AH; it was he who answered the Prophet's fourth… - Person
يزيد بن عبد الملك
71 AHThe ninth Umayyad caliph, Abu Khalid, born in year 71; he took the caliphate after Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz by… - Person
Yazid ibn Abi Kabsha al-Saksaki
Yazid ibn Abi Kabsha al-Saksaki; Sulayman's Sind governor who had Muhammad ibn al-Qasim carried bound — dead… - Person
Yazid ibn al-Asamm
Maymuna's nephew, of Raqqa — died under Yazid II. - Person
Yazid ibn al-Harith
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Yazid ibn al-Husayn ibn Numayr
al-Husayn ibn Numayr's son — his arrow killed Sulayman ibn Surad, the Penitents' chief, at 'Ayn al-Warda. - Person
Yazid ibn al-Muhajjal
A member of the Banu al-Harith ibn Ka'b delegation that came with Khalid ibn al-Walid to the Prophet in 10… - Person
Yazid ibn al-Mundhir
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Yazid ibn al-Qa'qa'
660 CE · 40 AHOne of the ten well-known canonical reciters, from Medina. - Person
Yazid ibn al-Tathriyya
Yazid b. al-Tathriyya al-Qushayri — the Khariji poet of Banu Amir, nicknamed al-Muwaddiq for his beauty and… - Person
Yazid ibn Amir ibn Hadida
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Yazid ibn 'Asim al-Muharibi
Named by some as the first to raise the hukm at Siffin — variants name 'Urwa ibn Udhayna or a Sa'dite of Banu… - Person
Yazid ibn Haram
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Yazid ibn Harun
118 AHAbu Khalid al-Sulami of Wasit, b. 118, a pillar of the Wasiti hadith school; he taught at Baghdad then… - Person
Yazid ibn Harun
The Wasit traditionist giant — born 117, dead 206, his father having served the kitchens of Ziyad, Mus'ab and… - Person
يزيد بن هشام بن عبد الملك
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Yazid ibn Hujayya al-Tamimi
A man of Tamim whom the book lists as Ali's governor of Rayy. The name is open to misreading in the scan and… - Person
Yazid ibn Hujba
Yazid ibn Hujba ibn Amir of Taym Allah ibn Tha'laba ibn Ukaba; Ali made him governor of Rayy and Dastaba, he… - Person
Yazid ibn Huzayl Kal al-Azzi
Yazid ibn Huzayl Kal al-Azzi; sent by Musa against Ziyad al-Qasir — wounded, he asked quarter yet took a… - Person
Yazid ibn Ibrahim al-Tamimi al-Basri
Yazid ibn Ibrahim al-Tamimi al-Basri, a client of the Banu Tamim. The major hadith collectors related from… - Person
Yazid ibn Mazyad
Yazid ibn Mazyad; Ma'n's vanguard to Rukhkhaj — after the Kharijites killed Ma'n at Bust he slew them to a… - Person
Yazid ibn Mu'awiya
Yazid ibn Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan, second Umayyad caliph; in al-Baladhuri: when Mu'awiya died and his son… - Person
Yazid ibn Mufarrigh
Yazid b. Mufarrigh al-Himyari (d. 69) — the satirist who destroyed the Zubayrid house for killing his brother… - Person
Yazid b. Muhammad al-Azdi
Abu Zakariyya Yazid b. Muhammad al-Azdi, historian of Mosul and author of the first political annals of the… - Person
يزيد بن محمد المهلبي
The poet; when al-Mutawakkil resolved to dwell at Damascus he warned 'the lovely woman is worn out by… - Person
Yazid ibn Qays ibn al-Khatim
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Yazid ibn Rabi'a ibn Mufarrigh
A poet of the Himyar tribe, whose poetry belongs to the Umayyad period. The sources differ on his father's… - Person
Yazid ibn Ruqaysh
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Yazid ibn Tazwan 'Habanqa'
Yazid ibn Tazwan, called Habanqa al-'A'ishi; singled out in Sulayman's first khutba — the man who prized… - Person
Yazid ibn Umar al-Usaydi
Yazid ibn Umar al-Usaydi, lieutenant of Adi ibn Arta; the canal called Yazidān at Basra bears his name — a… - Person
Yazid ibn Umar ibn Hubayra
Yazid ibn Umar ibn Hubayra al-Fazari, the last Umayyad governor of Iraq; in al-Baladhuri he built a city on… - Person
Yazid ibn Yazid ibn Jabir al-Azdi al-Dimashqi
Yazid ibn Yazid ibn Jabir al-Azdi al-Dimashqi, a trustworthy jurist, scholar and memoriser. He transmitted… - Person
Yazid ibn Zam'a
A Qurashi Companion from Banu al-Muttalib (nephew of Sawda bint Zam'a); at the Battle of Hunayn, his spirited… - Person
Yazid ibn Ziyad ibn Rabi'a al-Himyari
Yazid ibn Ziyad ibn Rabi'a ibn Mufarri' al-Himyari; granted Kirman land at Ibn Ziyad's letter to Shurayk,… - Person
Yazid ibn Ziyad ibn Abihi
Yazid ibn Ziyad; marched on Kabul's breakers who had taken his brother Abu Ubayda, fought them at Junza, and… - Person
Yazici Salih
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Ybrai Altynsarin
1 November 1841 CE · 16 Ramadan 1257 AH†Kazakh educator and writer (1 November 1841 – 29 July 1889), the foremost Kazakh enlightener of the… - Person
Yegen Haci Mehmed Pasa
1726 CE · 1138 AH†Draft card for Yegen Haji Mehmed Pasha, the Ottoman grand vizier under Mustafa II; his entry is not yet… - Person
Yemisci Hasan Pasha
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Yesari Mehmed Esad
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Yigitbasi Ahmed Semseddin
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Yirmisekiz Mehmed Celebi
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Younes El Aynaoui
12 September 1971 CE · 1391 AHMoroccan former professional tennis player and coach, born in Rabat in 1971. He turned professional in 1990,… - Person
Younis Mahmoud
3 February 1983 CE · 1403 AHIraqi striker, born in 1983 in Dibis, Kirkuk Governorate, who captained Iraq to its only AFC Asian Cup title… - Person
Yousaf Raza Gillani
9 June 1952 CE · 17 Ramadan 1371 AH†Pakistani politician (born 1952), prime minister of Pakistan from March 2008 to June 2012, speaker of the… - Person
Yousef Madani Tabrizi
1928 CE · 1346 AH†Draft card for Yousef Madani Tabrizi, the Iranian ayatollah; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Youssef Chahine
25 January 1926 CE · 1344 AHEgyptian film director, born in Alexandria in 1926 and died in Cairo in 2008. Active in Egyptian cinema from… - Person
Youssef Msakni
28 October 1990 CE · 1411 AHFormer Tunisian footballer (born 1990 in Tunis), a winger who played for Espérance de Tunis and, for a… - Person
Youssou N'Dour
1 October 1959 CE · 1379 AHSenegalese singer, songwriter and politician, born at Dakar on 1 October 1959. He helped develop mbalax,… - Person
Yoweri Museveni
15 September 1944 CE · 1363 AHUgandan politician and former rebel leader (born 1944) who became president of Uganda on 29 January 1986… - Person
John of Damascus
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Yuhanna ibn Ru'ba
The master of Ayla; he came to the Prophet at Tabuk, made peace with him and paid the jizya, and the Prophet… - Person
Yumni
Draft card for Yumni, the Ottoman writer (d. 1663); the biographical entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Yunus (Jonah)
Yunus ibn Matta: the Prophet said no servant should claim to be better than him. - Person
يونس المخارقي
Yunus al-Mukhariqi — eponym of the Yunusiyya fuqara'; a majdhub with no shaykh, his companions saying he was… - Person
Yunus Emre
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Yunus ibn Abd al-A'la
Al-Shafi'i's Egyptian pupil al-Sadafi, died 264 aged ninety-two. - Person
Yunus ibn Abd al-Rahman
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Yunus ibn Abd al-Wahhab al-'Aythawi
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Yunus ibn Habib the Grammarian
Yunus ibn Habib, Basra's grammarian; 'I lived when the houses of Ziyad and Ibn Amir stood estranged over the… - Person
يونس بن عبيد
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Yunus ibn Yazid al-Ayli
Yunus ibn Yazid ibn Abi al-Nijad al-Ayli al-Qurashi, Abu Yazid, a client of Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan; the text… - Person
Yunus Pasha
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Yurnuqsh ibn Abdullah
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Yusayra al-Sahabiyya
A Companion who emigrated among the first women to pledge allegiance; Ibn Sad said she embraced Islam,… - Person
Yusuf (Joseph)
Prophet son of a prophet: 'the noble son of the noble son of the noble son of the noble', and the Prophet… - Person
Yusuf Akçura
2 December 1876 CE · 1293 AHTatar historian, writer and politician (1876–1935), born at Simbirsk and died at Istanbul. His 1904 essay Üç… - Person
Yusuf al-Asir
1817 CE · 1232 AHFrom a family of Sidon known by the nickname al-Asir. He grew up in Sidon, memorized the Qur'an and went to… - Person
Yusuf al-Azma
1883 CE · 1300 AHSyrian officer (1883–1920), minister of war and chief of general staff of the Arab Army of the Arab Kingdom… - Person
يوسف البياسي
c. 1177 CE · 573 AHAbu al-Hajjaj Yusuf al-Bayyasi — the Andalusi hafiz who carried the Hamasa, the Six Diwans, al-Mutanabbi's… - Person
Yusuf al-Findalawi
Muhyi al-Din Yusuf b. Dirbas al-Findalawi (k. 543 at al-Nayrab) — aged Maghrebi faqih who refused Mu'in… - Person
يوسف الهمذاني
c. 1048 CE · 440 AHAbu Ya'qub Yusuf al-Hamadhani — the ascetic jurist of Buzanjird who outshone his peers in Abu Ishaq… - Person
Yusuf al-Hamdani
Draft card for Yusuf al-Hamdani, the Khwajagan master who taught Abd al-Khaliq al-Ghujdawani in… - Person
Yusuf al-Khwarizmi
The fortress-commander on the Oxus who killed Sultan Alp Arslan: brought bound before him on 6 Rabi' I 465… - Person
Yusuf al-Lakzi
Draft card for Yusuf al-Lakzi, the eleventh-century theologian, historian and muhaddith, d. 1090; the… - Person
Yusuf al-Qaradawi
9 September 1926 CE · 1345 AHEgyptian scholar who lived in Qatar, founder and chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars. He… - Person
Yusuf ibn Muhammad al-Shirbini
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يوسف السيرافي
c. 941 CE · 330 AHAbu Muhammad Yusuf al-Sirafi — 'the excellent son of the excellent', who succeeded his father Abu Sa'id in… - Person
يوسف بلكين بن زيري
Son of Ziri ibn Manad the Sanhaji; al-Mu'izz left him over the Maghrib on departing for Egypt, and al-Aziz… - Person
Yusuf Dadoo
5 September 1909 CE · 1327 AHSouth African physician and politician, born in Krugersdorp in 1909 and died in exile in London in 1983.… - Person
Yusuf Dede Efendi
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Yusuf Dhannun
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Yusufefendizade
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Yusuf Hakiki
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Yusuf I of Granada
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Sultan Yusuf I Abu al-Hajjaj al-Nasri
Abu al-Hajjaj Yusuf ibn Ismail ibn Nasr, sultan of Granada; killed by stabbing at the Eid musalla on the day… - Person
يوسف بن عبد الرحمن الفهري
Last of the old governors of al-Andalus; when the jund agreed to alternate the amirate yearly between Qays… - Person
Yusuf ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Jawzi
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يوسف بن أبي الساج
Abbasid commander sent from Wasit against Abu Tahir the Qarmatian; reaching Kufa a day after him he scorned… - Person
Yusuf ibn Adi
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Yusuf ibn Ahmad al-Khassi
Yusuf ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Bakr, Najm al-Din al-Khassi, from the village of al-Khass in Khwarazm. A Hanafi… - Person
Yusuf Ibn al-Hasan Ibn al-Mibrad
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الموفق ابن الخلال
al-Muwaffaq 'Ibn al-Khallal' — Fatimid head of the diwan al-insha' under al-Hafiz, called by Imad al-Din… - Person
يوسف بن درة
Yusuf ibn Durra 'Ibn al-Darra' — the sharp young Mosuli poet who perished with the Hajj caravan in 545 AH… - Person
Yusuf ibn Haydara al-Rakhi
Yusuf b. Haydara al-Rakhi (d. Ashura 631, aged 97) — dean of medicine in Syria, one of Salah al-Din's… - Person
Yusuf ibn Ibrahim al-Katib
Ibrahim ibn al-Mahdi's secretary — author of the physicians-at-court book and the 'varieties of reports' on… - Person
Yusuf ibn Mirdaw
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Yusuf ibn Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Marwazi
Yusuf ibn Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Marwazi; al-Mutawakkil gave him Armenia for two years of his caliphate — he… - Person
Yusuf ibn Muhammad ibn Sa'id
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Yusuf ibn Musa al-Qattan
Abu Ya'qub al-Qattan of Marw al-Rudh, who traveled to the far horizons for hadith — Ibn Rahawayh, 'Ali ibn… - Person
Yusuf ibn Nafis
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Yusuf ibn Tahir al-Khu'i
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يوسف بن تاشفين أمير المسلمين
Lord of Sabta and Marrakesh; in 479 he asked al-Muqtadi for investiture — the robes, banners and title amir… - Person
Yusuf ibn Umar al-Anfasi
A Maliki jurist, imam of the Qarawiyyin mosque in Fez; he studied with Abd al-Rahman ibn Affan al-Jazuli and… - Person
Yusuf ibn Umar al-Thaqafi
Yusuf ibn Umar ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hakam ibn Abi Aqil al-Thaqafi, al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf's cousin; in… - Person
Yusuf ibn Yahya al-Karmi
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Yusuf ibn Ya'qub
Al-Mu'tadid's qadi of Baghdad for the East Side — Abu Hazim, whose sons the poet lampooned. Ibn al-Jawzi:… - Person
Yusuf ibn Ya'qub al-Saffar
Draft card for Yusuf ibn Ya'qub al-Saffar, a hadith transmitter; his entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Yusuf Islam / Cat Stevens
1948 CE · 1367 AH†The British singer formerly Cat Stevens; embraced Islam in 1977 and later recorded Islamic and educational… - Person
Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin
10 October 1857 CE · 1274 AHOttoman prince, eldest son of Sultan Abdulaziz, and crown prince of the Ottoman Empire from 1909 until his… - Person
Yusuf Kamil Pasha
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Yusuf Karali
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Yusuf Meddah
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Yusuf Sarvestani
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Zabita Khan
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Zadanfarrukh
Zadanfarrukh; he dug the canal in Mahallaban, al-Mughira ibn al-Muhallab's estate, and the canal took his… - Person
Zadawayh, mawla of Banu'l-'Anbar
The third Meccan conspirator with Ibn Muljam and al-Burak — assigned 'Amr ibn al-'As and missing him on the… - Person
Zadhan Furrukh
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Zadhanfarrukh ibn Biri
al-Hajjaj's scribe; in al-Baladhuri employed when he took Iraq, Salih ibn Abd al-Rahman writing Arabic and… - Person
Zadhuya, Marzban of Sarakhs
Zadhuya, marzban of Sarakhs; he sued for peace on aman for a hundred men and the handing over of its women —… - Person
ظافر الحداد
The celebrated poet Abu al-Mansur Zafir ibn al-Qasim al-Judhami of Alexandria, known as al-Haddad; among the… - Person
ظافر شيخ المالكية
Zafir b. al-Husayn Abu Mansur al-Azdi of Egypt, shaykh of the Malikis; he stood for teaching and fatwa, and… - Person
Zafrullah Chowdhury
27 December 1941 CE · 1360 AHBangladeshi physician and public-health activist (27 December 1941 – 11 April 2023). A freedom fighter in the… - Person
Zaganos Pasha
Zaganos Pasha — spelled 'Zughnush' in al-Salabi's text — a commander in Mehmed II's army whom the book… - Person
Zaha Hadid
31 October 1950 CE · 1370 AHIraqi-British architect, born in Baghdad in 1950 and died in 2016, who founded Zaha Hadid Architects in… - Person
Zahir al-Din ibn al-Attar
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ظاهر الشحامي
Musnid of Khurasan Abu al-Hasan Zahir ibn Tahir al-Shahhami; he heard copiously, dictated over a thousand… - Person
Zahir ibn Ahmad al-Sarakhsi
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Mohammad Zahir Shah
15 October 1914 CE · 26 Dhu al-Qa'da 1332 AH†The last king of Afghanistan, reigning from 8 November 1933 until his cousin Mohammad Daoud Khan deposed him… - Person
Zahra Billoo
1983 CE · 1403 AHAmerican civil-rights attorney who has been executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations,… - Person
Zahra Pedersen
British Muslim coach and podcast host. In 2014 she founded The Healthy Hijab, a women-only fitness company… - Person
Zaiba Hasan
American podcast host and interfaith speaker, founder of the Mommying While Muslim podcast, which she… - Person
Zaid Shakir
24 May 1956 CE · 1375 AHAmerican Islamic scholar, born Ricky Daryl Mitchell in Berkeley, California, in 1956; he converted to Islam… - Person
Za'ida ibn Umayr al-Ta'i
Za'ida ibn Umayr al-Ta'i; distinguished himself the day Multan's folk fought Muhammad ibn al-Qasim. - Person
Zaifi
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Za'im al-Din Yahya ibn Abdallah
1117 CE · 511 AHZa'im al-Din Abu al-Fadl Yahya b. Abdallah Ibn Ja'far (511–570) — Abbasid finance official; supervised the… - Person
Zainab Alwani
1962 CE · 1381 AHAmerican Islamic scholar and jurist of Iraqi origin, born in Baghdad in 1962. She is the first Associate… - Person
Zainab Farrukh
Clinical psychologist and trauma-informed therapist, and the sole practitioner behind Muslimah Wellness, an… - Person
Zainab Hassan
British content creator and founder of The Documented Life, a wellness brand and community platform centred… - Person
Zainal Abidin Ahmad
16 September 1895 CE · 26 Rabi' I 1313 AH†Malaysian writer and linguist (1895–1973), known by his pen name Za'ba, who modernised Malay grammar and… - Person
Zainul Abedin
29 December 1914 CE · 1333 AHBangladeshi painter (1914–1976), titled Shilpacharya, 'Great Teacher of the Arts', and regarded as the… - Person
Zainul Abideen Azmi
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Zakaria Tamer
2 January 1931 CE · 1349 AHSyrian short-story writer and journalist born in Damascus in 1931. He began as a blacksmith, educated… - Person
Zakariya ibn Adam
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Zakariya ibn Ayyub al-Antaki
Abu Yahya of Antioch, who came to Egypt and transmitted there — trustworthy, exacting and pious; he died in… - Person
زكريا بن يحيى الساجي
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Zakariya Khan Bahadur
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Zakariyya (Zechariah)
Zakariyya is a prophet who asked his Lord for a sign that his barren wife had conceived, and was told that… - Person
Zakariyya al-Ansari
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Zakariyya al-Saji
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Zakariyya ibn Adi
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Zakaullah of Dehli
20 April 1832 CE · 1247 AHUrdu writer, translator and professor (1832–1910) of Delhi, educated at Delhi College, where he later taught.… - Person
Zaki al-Arsuzi
1900 CE · 1318 AHA Syrian thinker and teacher from Latakia, named after the village of Arsuz in the Alexandretta sanjak. He… - Person
Zaki al-Din Ibn Abi al-Asba'
Egyptian adib (d. 654) — author of Tahrir al-Tahbir fi al-Badi', a work without peer on rhetorical ornament. - Person
Zakir Naik
18 October 1965 CE · 1385 AHIndian preacher and physician, born in Bombay (Mumbai) in 1965. He founded and presides over the Islamic… - Person
Zalzal
A singer named in anecdotes of Abu Sadaqa at Harun al-Rashid's court. - Person
zamaa-ibn-al-aswad
A Quraysh notable named in al-Raheeq al-Makhtum's account of the boycott covenant (pp. 110–111). - Person
Zamil ibn Ajwad al-Jabri
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Zamil ibn Husayn al-Jabri
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زرارة بن عدس
Zurara ibn Udas al-Tamimi, the Darimi chief who fostered Amr ibn al-Mundhir's son As'ad; after the king's… - Person
Zardusht (Zoroaster)
Founder-figure of the Magian creed — builder of the first fire temples after the early Persian kings,… - Person
Zarqa' al-Yamama
The far-sighted woman of Jadis — three nights' sight — who warned her people of trees marching and was… - Person
Zati
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Zawba'a the seeress
One of the Arab kahins marked, in al-Mas'udi's report, by bodily defect — listed with Shiqq, Satih, Sammalqa,… - Person
Zayd al-Khayl
Chief of Tayy' whose delegation came to Medina in the Year of Delegations; the Prophet renamed him Zayd… - Person
Zayd al-Khayr
Zayd al-Khayr is a figure related by Sheikh Omar Abdelkafy in his lesson: the Prophet asked him what he felt… - Person
زيد اليفاعي
The Yemeni faqih Zayd al-Yafa'i — pupil and son-in-law of Abu Ishaq al-Murhi, who then studied in Mecca under… - Person
Zayd ibn Abd Allah ibn Umar
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Zayd ibn Abdallah ibn Abi Mulayka al-Qurashi
Zayd ibn Abdallah ibn Abi Mulayka ibn Abdallah ibn Jud'an al-Qurashi; martyred with Yazid ibn Ziyad at Junza… - Person
Zayd ibn Adi al-Ibadi
The courtier whose intrigue at Khosrow's court turned the king against al-Nu'man ibn al-Mundhir of al-Hira,… - Person
زيد بن الحسن بن علي
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Zayd ibn al-Khattab
Umar's older brother, who embraced Islam before him; he fought at Badr and the later campaigns and carried… - Person
Zayd ibn al-Lusayt al-Qaynuqa'i
He was in the litter of Umara ibn Hazm, and Ibn Ishaq calls him a hypocrite; a saying about the Prophet's… - Person
Zayd ibn Amr
c. 560 CEA Meccan seeker who rejected the idols of his people and sought 'the religion of Abraham' years before the… - Person
Zayd ibn Arqam
A Khazraji Companion, judged too young at Uhud, who campaigned with the Prophet in seventeen expeditions; he… - Person
Zayd ibn Aslam
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Zayd ibn Haritha
c. 580 (approx.) CEA freedman of the Prophet, once adopted by him, who became one of the earliest Muslims and commanded the… - Person
Zayd ibn Jariya
One of the twelve men who built Masjid al-Dirar, according to Ibn Ishaq; his ascription: son of Jariya ibn… - Person
Zayd ibn Musa
Musa al-Kazim's son — with 'Ali ibn Muhammad he seized Basra in Abu'l-Saraya's year. - Person
Zayd ibn Thabit
c. 611 CEA young Ansari who became the Prophet's scribe of revelation; Abu Bakr set him to gather the Qur'an, and… - Person
Zayed bin Khalifa Al Nahyan
c. 1835 CE · 1251 AHZayed bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, known as Zayed the Great and Zayed I (his birth year is disputed: c. 1835, 1837… - Person
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
6 May 1918 CE · 1336 AHFounding President of the United Arab Emirates (1971–2004) and ruler of Abu Dhabi (1966–2004). Governor of… - Person
Zayn al-Abidin al-Husayni al-Kashani
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Zayn al-Abidin ibn Muhammad al-Shirazi
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Zayn al-Abidin of Kashmir
Draft card for Zayn al-Abidin Shah Mir known as Budshah the Great, the fifteenth-century sultan of Kashmir… - Person
Zayn al-Abidin
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Zayn al-Din al-Amidi
Draft card for Zayn al-Din Ali al-Amidi, the fourteenth-century Diyarbakir merchant and instrument-maker of… - Person
Zayn al-Din al-Dashtuti
'Sahib Misr' — the Upper Egyptian mystic of the famous karamat whom Qaytbay venerated by rubbing his face on… - Person
Zayn al-Din al-Juba'i al-'Amili
Draft card for Zayn al-Din ibn Ali al-Juba'i al-Amili, the sixteenth-century jurist of Jabal Amil, d. 1558;… - Person
Zayn al-Din al-Marighi of Medina
c. 1328 CE · 728 AHZayn al-Din al-Marighi (b. 728) — last living transmitter of Abu al-Abbas Ibn al-Shihna, qadi and khatib of… - Person
زين الدين علي كوجك صاحب أربل
Zayn al-Din Ali ibn Kuchuk ibn Baktakin the Turkmen, lord of Arbil; nicknamed Kuchuk — 'the small and short'… - Person
Zayn al-Din ibn al-Munaja
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Zayn al-Din ibn al-Munir
Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Mansur ibn Abi al-Qasim, Abu al-Hasan Zayn al-Din ibn al-Munir of Alexandria, a Maliki… - Person
Zayn al-Din ibn al-Muwaffaq
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Zayn al-Din Ali ibn Naja
Ali ibn Naja 'Ibn Najiyya', preacher and qadi — let into the Fatimid-restoration circle as its designated… - Person
Zayn al-Din Makhdum II
Draft card for Ahmad Zayn al-Din al-Malibari, the sixteenth-century jurist and historian of Malabar author of… - Person
Zayn al-Din Yusuf, lord of Irbil
Lord of Irbil — died 18 Ramadan 586 in Saladin's camp leaving no son; its people wrote to Mujahid al-Din… - Person
Zain Bhikha
1974 CE · 1394 AH†The South African vocalist of 'Mountains of Makkah' — among the oldest English-language nasheed artists. - Person
Zaynab al-Nafzawiyya
Zaynab bint Ishaq al-Nafzawiyya, famed for beauty and command; she married Laqut ibn Yusuf al-Maghrawi of… - Person
Zaynab bint Abi Salama
Born in the land of Abyssinia to her father Abu Salama and her mother Umm Salama; she arrived with her mother. - Person
Zaynab bint al-Harith ibn Khalid
Daughter of al-Harith ibn Khalid and Rayta, born in the land of Abyssinia; she died on the road with her… - Person
Zaynab bint al-Kamal
1248 CE · 646 AH†Draft card for Zaynab bint al-Kamal of Damascus, the celebrated hadith transmitter and holder of ijazat; her… - Person
Zaynab bint Ali
c. 626 CE · c. 5 AH†Granddaughter of the Prophet through Fatima and Ali; a survivor of Karbala whose accounts and defiance made… - Person
Zaynab bint Jahsh
A Mother of the Believers, whose mother Umayma was the Prophet's aunt; she was married to Zayd ibn Haritha… - Person
Zaynab bint Khuzayma
A Mother of the Believers called 'Umm al-Masakin' (mother of the poor) for feeding and giving to them; the… - Person
Zaynab bint Makki of Harran
c. 1197 CE · c. 594 AH - Person
Zaynab bint Muhammad
The Prophet's eldest daughter, married to Abu al-As ibn al-Rabi; she gave him protection in Medina, the… - Person
Zaynab bint Nabit
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Zaynab bint Radi al-Din al-Amiri
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Zaynab bint Sulayman
The senior Hashimi matriarch whose rank topped al-Khayzuran's majlis — 'an old woman of ours who saw our… - Person
زينب فواز
Zaynab Fawwaz of Jabal Amil (d. 1914 CE) — author of al-Durr al-Manthur, the great biographical dictionary of… - Person
Zaynab Umm al-Khayr al-Qurashi
c. 1228 CE · c. 625 AH - Person
Zeenat Mahal
1823 CE · 1238 AHMughal empress consort (1823–1886), the favoured wife of the emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar and de facto regent… - Person
Zeeshan Ali
A British Muslim debater and presenter known as Smile2Jannah, host of the Smile2Jannah YouTube channel, which… - Person
Zekeriyazade Yahya
Draft card for Zekeriyazade Yahya Efendi, the seventeenth-century Ottoman Shaykh al-Islam and court poet, d.… - Person
Zeki Velidi Togan
10 December 1890 CE · 27 Rabi' II 1308 AH†Bashkir historian and leader of the Bashkir liberation movement (1890–1970): he declared Bashkir autonomy in… - Person
Zenbillizade Fudayl Celebi
Draft card for Zenbillizade Fudayl Celebi, the Ottoman writer, d. 1583; the biographical entry is not yet… - Person
Zesh Rehman
14 October 1983 CE · 1404 AHBritish defender of Pakistani origin (born 1983 in Birmingham), the first British Asian to play in England's… - Person
Zeynalabdin Taghiyev
January 1838 CE · 1253 AHAzerbaijani oil magnate and philanthropist (1838–1924; his birth year is disputed), a Baku shoemaker's son… - Person
Zheng He
1371 CE · 772 AH†Zheng He. - Person
Zia' al-Saltaneh
1799 CE · 1214 AH†Draft card for Zia' al-Saltaneh, Fath-Ali Shah's daughter and the Qajar calligrapher; her entry is not yet… - Person
Ziauddin Ahmad
13 February 1873 CE · 1289 AHZiauddin Ahmad (1873–1947) was an Indian mathematician and parliamentarian from Meerut, a central figure of… - Person
Ziauddin Sardar
31 October 1951 CE · 1371 AHBritish-Pakistani scholar, writer and cultural critic, born in Dipalpur, Punjab in 1951 and educated and… - Person
Ziauddin Yousafzai
20 April 1969 CE · 1389 AHZiauddin Yousafzai (born 20 April 1969) is a Pakistani education activist who founded and ran a chain of… - Person
Ziaur Rahman
19 January 1936 CE · 1354 AHBangladeshi military leader and politician (19 January 1936 – 30 May 1981), the sixth president of Bangladesh… - Person
Zidane Iqbal
27 April 2003 CE · 1424 AHMidfielder born in Manchester in 2003 to a Pakistani father and an Iraqi mother. A Manchester United academy… - Person
Zinatossadat Alevi Homayooni
Draft card for Zinatossadat Alevi Homayooni, the Iranian Shia mujtahida; her entry is not yet checked on the… - Person
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
3 September 1936 CE · 1355 AHZine El Abidine Ben Ali (1936–2019) was a Tunisian officer and politician who rose through the security… - Person
Zinedine Zidane
23 June 1972 CE · 1392 AHFrench football manager and former attacking midfielder, born in Marseille in 1972. A playmaker for Cannes,… - Person
Zinnira
An enslaved woman who embraced Islam in Mecca and was tortured; Abu Bakr bought her and set her free. - Person
Ziri ibn Atiyya al-Maghrawi
Ziri ibn Atiyya ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Khazir al-Maghrawi, founder of the Zirid (Maghrawa) kingship of Fez;… - Person
زيري بن مناد الصنهاجي
Lord of Sanhaja; al-Qa'im summoned him with the Kutama chiefs to Mahdiyya to fight Abu Yazid in 333 — the… - Person
Zirr ibn Hubaysh
583 CEDraft card for Zirr ibn Hubaysh al-Asadi, the Kufan Successor and hadith scholar; his entry is not yet… - Person
زرياب
Ali ibn Nafi, called Ziryab — al-Mahdi's freedman and Ibrahim al-Mawsili's pupil — reached Abd al-Rahman II… - Person
Ziya Gökalp
23 March 1876 CE · 1293 AHTurkish sociologist, writer, poet and politician (1876–1924), the leading theorist of Turkism and Turkish… - Person
زياد البكائي
Ziyad al-Bakka'i — Kufan third-tier sira scholar (d. 183), the transmitter through whom Ibn Ishaq's sira is… - Person
Ziyad al-Qasir al-Khuza'i
Ziyad al-Qasir al-Khuza'i; struck down by Musa's man Yazid ibn Huzayl — quarter asked, he gave a head-blow… - Person
Ziyad ibn al-Habula
The most famous king of the Daja'ima, Banu Dajam ibn Salih of Quda'a, whom the Romans set up as kings over… - Person
Ziyad ibn al-Harith al-Sudai (Companion)
Ziyad ibn al-Harith al-Sudai, a Companion who came to the Prophet, who allowed him to call the prayer on a… - Person
Ziyad ibn Hudayr al-Asadi
Ziyad ibn Hudayr al-Asadi; in al-Baladhuri through Ibrahim ibn Muhajir from him: Umar sent him to the… - Person
Ziyad ibn Khalfun
A physician of Kairouan, a client of the Aghlabids, about whose origins little is known. - Person
Ziyad ibn Kulayb al-Tamimi
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Ziyadat Allah I of Ifriqiya
Draft card for Ziyadat Allah I ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Aghlab, the Aghlabid emir in whose reign the conquest of… - Person
زيادة الله بن الأغلب
The last Aghlabid amir of Ifriqiya; he fled the Ubaydid Mahdi to Egypt then Iraq — and the Maghreb left the… - Person
Zubair Ali Zai
1957 CE · 1376 AH†Draft card for Zubair Ali Zai, the Pakistani hadith scholar and editor of the Sunan collections; his entry is… - Person
Zubair Dahlan
Draft card for Zubair Dahlan; the entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Zubayd al-Yami
Zubayd ibn al-Harith al-Yami, Abu Abd al-Rahman, who narrated from Murra ibn Sharahil, Sa'd ibn Ubayda and… - Person
Zubayda bint Ja'far
Umm Ja'far Zubayda bint Ja'far ibn al-Mansur; in al-Baladhuri the first digger of Nahr al-Maymun was her… - Person
al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam
c. 594 CEOne of the earliest converts and a cousin of the Prophet through his mother Safiyya; at Badr he was one of… - Person
Zubayr ibn Dahman
A singer named in anecdotes of Abu Sadaqa at Harun al-Rashid's court. - Person
Zubeida Jaffer
26 January 1958 CE · 1377 AHSouth African journalist and author from Cape Town who began at the Cape Times in 1980, was twice detained… - Person
Zufar ibn al-Harith al-Kilabi
A horseman of the Banu Kilab who fought with al-Dahhak ibn Qays at Marj Rahit. When his side broke he fled… - Person
Zufar ibn al-Hudhayl
Abu Hanifa's companion-jurist, dead in 158 — the year of al-Mahdi's accession. - Person
Zuhayr ibn Abi Umayya
A Makhzumi notable whose mother was Atika bint Abd al-Muttalib; the first among the five Meccan leaders to… - Person
Zuhayr ibn Janab al-Kalbi
Kalb's Jahili knight — quoted by Sa'sa'a for the definition of the faris, mourning his son 'Amr: 'a rider… - Person
زهير بن جذيمة العبسي
Zuhayr ibn Judhayma al-Absi, chief of Banu Abs; grappled with Khalid ibn Ja'far sword to sword, fell beneath… - Person
Zuhayr ibn Qays al-Balawi
Zuhayr ibn Qays al-Balawi; Abd al-Aziz ibn Marwan gave him Ifriqiya — he opened Tutus, then turned back to… - Person
Zuhayr ibn Sard
A chieftain of Hawazin who headed the fourteen-man delegation that came to the Prophet at al-Ji'rana as… - Person
Zuhayr ibn Sulaym al-Azdi
grappled al-Nakhirjan at al-Mada'in, both falling, then slit his belly with the dagger at his own belt. - Person
Zuhra ibn Hawiyya al-Sa'di
Zuhra ibn Hawiyya ibn Abdallah ibn Qatada al-Tamimi, then al-Sa'di; commanded the Muslims' foragers at… - Person
Zulali Hasan Efendi
Draft card for Zulali Hasan Efendi, the Ottoman writer, d. 1731; the biographical entry is not yet checked on… - Person
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
5 January 1928 CE · 12 Rajab 1346 AH†Pakistani barrister and statesman (1928–1979), founder of the Pakistan People's Party, who served as… - Person
Zulfiqar Khan Nusrat Jung
Draft card for Zulfiqar Khan Nusrat Jung, Aurangzeb's amir and nawab of the Carnatic who led the taking of… - Person
Zulkifli Muhammad Ali
Draft card for Zulkifli Muhammad Ali; the entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Zur'a Dhu Yazan
A Himyarite king who sent Malik ibn Murra al-Rahawi to the Prophet with news of their Islam and separation… - Person
Zur'a ibn al-Nu'man
Zur'a ibn al-Nu'man — by another naming al-Nu'man ibn Zur'a — of Banu Taghlib; in al-Baladhuri: he it was who… - Person
Zur'a ibn Sharik al-Tamimi
The swordsman who severed al-Husayn's left hand at the Taff before Sinan's finishing spear. - Person
Zurara ibn Awfa
Draft card for Zurara ibn Awfa; the entry is not yet checked on the page. - Person
Zurara ibn A'yun
Draft card for Zurara ibn A'yun, the eighth-century Kufan narrator and jurist among the companions of Ja'far… - Person
Zurayq ibn Hayyan
Sa'id ibn Hayyan, Abu al-Miqdam al-Dimashqi, nicknamed Zurayq by Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan; the caliphs… - Person
Zurnazen Mustafa Pasha
Draft card for Zurnazen Mustafa Pasha, the Ottoman grand vizier whose appointment lasted mere hours in 1656,… - Person
Zuyayd ibn al-Salt
Zuyayd ibn al-Salt ibn Ma'd Yakrib al-Kindi, a Madinan. Scholars differ on whether he met the Prophet. He…