of Pope Pius II, but he instead uses the army to attack a small port located between Tangier and Ceuta. 1459: Abu Muhammad Abd Al-Haqq revolts against...

Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd al-Haqq (Arabic: أَبُو يُوسُف يَعقُوب بن عَبد الحَقّ) (c. 1212 – 20 March 1286) was a Marinid ruler of Morocco. He was the fourth...

Abd al-Haqq II (Arabic: عبد الحق الثاني) (Abd al-Haqq ibn Uthman Abu Muhammad; 1419 – 14 August 1465) was Marinid Sultan of Morocco from 1420 to 1465...

Muhammad al-Mahdi (Arabic: محمد بن الحسن المهدي, romanized: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Mahdī) is believed by the Twelver Shia to be the last of the Twelve...

Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I (Arabic: أبو مروان عبد الملك الغازي), often simply Abd al-Malik or Mulay Abdelmalek, (b. 1541 – d. 4 August 1578) was the Saadian...

Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa (born 29 October 1982) also known by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Julani, is a Syrian politician and former rebel commander...

Maturidi school of theology. He left behind two major students, Abu Yusuf and Muhammad al-Shaybani, who would later become celebrated jurists in their own...

Abu Yahya was the son of Abd al-Haqq I and the brother of both Uthman I and Muhammad I. When he ascended the throne in 1244, Abu Yahya shared control of...

Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Hāshimī al-Qurashī (Arabic: أبو محمد عبد الله بن الحسن بن الحسن بن علي بن أبي...

the Umayyads by the Abbasids, the descendants of Muhammad's paternal uncle Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib. Al-Sadiq maintained his father's policy of quietism...

Tāj al-Dīn Abū al-Fath Muhammad ibn `Abd al-Karīm ash-Shahrastānī (Arabic: تاج الدين أبو الفتح محمد بن عبد الكريم الشهرستاني; 1086–1153 CE), also known...

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥanafiyya (Arabic: عبد الله بن محمد بن الحنفية) (died 98 AH; c. 716 CE), also known as Abū Hāshim was a member of the Banu...

Najmuddin Kubra (d. 1221), as well as Naj̲īb al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Ḳāhir Suhrawardī, Abū Saʿīd Tabrīzī, and ʿAbd al-Waḥid G̲h̲aznawī (all d. c. 1230), all of whom...

the son of Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, an uncle of Muhammad, and a nephew of Maymunah bint al-Harith, who later became Muhammad's wife. During the early...

sultan Abu Said Uthman III was assassinated, leaving behind only a one-year-old child, Abu Muhammad Abd al-Haqq II as son and heir, supported by Abu Zakariya...

Mausoleum of Imam al-Shafi'i Full name Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Idrīs ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Shāfiʿī al-Ḥijāzī al-Qurashī al-Hāshimī al-Muṭṭalibī (Arabic:...

Sultan Muhammad I to return to Baghdad. He died on 19 December 1111. According to 'Abd al-Ghafir al-Farisi, he had several daughters but no sons. Al-Ghazali...

al-Haqq II came of age. In 1459, Abd al-Haqq II ordered the slaughter of the Wattasids, leaving Abu Abd Allah al-Sheikh Muhammad ibn Yahya one of the few of...

Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī (Arabic: أبو محمد عبد الله بن علي; c. 712 – 764 CE) was a member of the Abbasid dynasty, and played a leading role in...

1908, p. 17. al-Lakhnawī: Kalimat al-ḥaqq. 1908, p. 74. ʿAbd al-Ḥaiy al-Ḥusainī al-Laknawī: al-Iʿlām bi-man fī taʾrīḫ al-Hind min al-aʿlām. Dār Ibn...

Abu Muhammad ar-Rashid Abd al-Wahid (Arabic: أبو محمد الرشيد عبد الواحد بن المأمون; Abū Muḥammad Ar-Rashīd `Abd al-Wāḥid ibn Al-Mā'mūn; died 4 December...

in which the sultan Abu Said Uthman III was assassinated, leaving behind only a one-year-old child, Abu Muhammad Abd al-Haqq II as son and heir. A succession...

Atharism. Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī's epithet or nisba refers to Māturīd or Māturīt, a locality in Samarkand (today Uzbekistan). His full name was Muḥammad ibn...

Jaysh al-Ahrar (an Ahrar al-Sham faction), Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (JFS), Ansar al-Din Front, Jaysh al-Sunna, Liwa al-Haqq, and the Nour al-Din al-Zenki...

descendant of al-Hasan, a son of Ali ibn Abu Talib, the son-in-law of Muhammad and first Shi'a imam: his father al-Husayn was a great-great-grandson of al-Hasan's...

1229–1232 Abu Muhammad Abd al-Wahid II 'al-Rashid' 1232–1242 Abu al-Hassan Ali 'al-Said' 1242–1248 Abu Hafs Umar 'al-Murtada', 1248–1266 Abu al-Ula (Abu Dabbus)...

Tamhid and the Istidhkar of Yusuf ibn Abd al Barr, as well as the Al-Muntaqa of Abu al-Walid al-Baji. Al-Imla' fi Sharh al-Muwatta in 1,000 folios, by Ibn Hazm...

Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿal-ʿAbbās or Muḥammad al-Imām (679/80 - 743) was the father of the two first 'Abbâsid caliphs, Al-Saffah and Al-Mansur...

Muhammad Abu Zahra (Arabic: محمد أبو زهرة; 1898–1974) was an Egyptian public intellectual and an influential Hanafi jurist. He occupied a number of positions;...

Abu Abdallah al-Husayn ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Zakariyya, better known as Abu Abdallah al-Shi'i (Arabic: ابو عبد الله الشيعي, romanized: Abū ʿAbd Allāh...