They are all related to Joshua ibn Gaon, a scribe, Masorete, and decorator. |
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Jabir ibn Aflah is often known by the Latinised form of his name, namely Geber. |
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One of the mathematical problems which ibn al-Haytham attacked was the problem of squaring the circle. |
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The Zaydis favored Zayd ibn Ali, grandson of Husayn, as fifth imam due to his activist revolutionary position against the Umayyad dynasty. |
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Thabit ibn Qurra was a notable 9th century sage, a native of Harran and a member of the dedicated star worshippers of the Sabian sect. |
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At this time, the Arab alchemist Jabir ibn Hayyan Geber produced concentrated acetic acid by distilling vinegar. |
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In that attack, the Scooter Killer's first, the paratrooper, ibn Ziaten, had sought to sell his Suzuki Bandit motorcycle. |
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This dinar coin has kufic inscriptions on both faces and was minted during the reign of the Almoravid Ali ibn Yusuf in Almería, Spain. |
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Among other translations from the Hebrew, that of the 10th-century Karaite Yāphith ibn ʿAlī is the most noteworthy. |
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It is Wahhabism, a political and religious movement that bears the name of its founder, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. |
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Anas ibn Malik Child Protection and Care Centre: this centre accommodates boys between 7 and 12 years of age. |
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The fresco painter of the topmost layer was Sarkis ibn al-Qassis Ghali bin Barran and the calligrapher was Hunayn. |
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Since the death of ibn Saud in 1953, succession has moved only among his sons. |
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To his credit, ibn Thabit's pro-revolution songs had been making the scene before the revolution. |
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Salman is the latest son of the kingdom's founder Abdulaziz ibn Saud to accede to the top job. |
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The great calligrapher, Muhammad ibn Muqla, a vizier at the court of three Abbasid caliphs, was charged with the task of standardising and refining the myriad cursive scripts. |
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These included a flamboyant veteran of the war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan named ibn al-Khattab. |
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One of the most important rooms in the temple is the shrine of sheik Adi ibn Musafir. |
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The remaining parts of this palace hint at its past grandeur and beauty, as befitted the son-in-law of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qalawun. |
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Baghdadi was born Ibrahim ibn Awwad al-Badri al-Samarrai in 1971, in the Iraqi city of Samarra. |
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The historic Khalid ibn al-Walid mosque in Homs was the base for the first march in defiance of the Syrian regime. |
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In the Umayyad period Fudayn was owned by Sa'id ibn Khalid ibn Amr ibn 'Uthman ibn Affan, whose three daughters were married to Umayyad caliphs. |
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This Qur'an was copied, illuminated and bound by Ali ibn Ahmad al-Warraq for Fatima al-Hadinah, the governess of the Zirid prince, Badis. |
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Surrounded by their enemies, taifa rulers sent a desperate appeal to the Berber chieftain Yusuf ibn Tashfin, leader of the Almoravids. |
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In 798, however, Pamplona is recorded as being under a Banu Qasi governor, Mutarrif ibn Musa. |
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Amrus negotiated in secret with the Banu Mahsa faction in Toledo, promising them the governorship if they betrayed ibn Hamir. |
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In the 920s he campaigned against the areas that rebelled under Umar ibn Hafsun and still refused to submit. |
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His Berber ally Jafar ibn Hamdun crossed the straits with his army, whereas Ghalib allied with the Kingdom of Navarre. |
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In 1054 and 1055, employing these specially trained forces, Almoravid leader Yahya ibn Umar defeated the Kingdom of Ghana and the Zanata Berber. |
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Besides ibn Khordadbeh, the Radhanites are mentioned by name only by a handful of sources. |
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For a wildly elaborate seven-volume Qur'an, completed at the start of the 14th century, the calligrapher Muhammad ibn Mubadir entwined individual golden words in involute patterns of stars and hexagons. |
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Abu'l Majd Majdud ibn Adam is most commonly referred to in historical texts as Hakim Sana'i, which he used as his pen name and is best known for his classic mystical poem The Garden of Truth. |
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Other sources, emphasizing the belief in transmigration of souls current among the Khorram-dīnān, maintain that Bābak claimed to possess the soul of Jawizān ibn Sahl, a former leader of the Khorram-dīnān. |
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On the obverse, the inscription is religious, while the inscription on the reverse shows, after the formulaic praise to God, the minting date under the reign of Ibrahim ibn Ahmad al-Aghlabi. |
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The Khalid ibn al-Walid centre for juvenile delinquents was upgraded early in 2005, thanks to a cooperative project involving the Italian agency Movimondo. |
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In 697 the ruthless Umayyad governor Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf had ordered the change to Arabic notation, marking the final dethronement of Pahlavi characters. |
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In 1916, during World War I, Sharīf Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī, who claimed lineal descent from the Prophet Muhammad, revolted against Turkish rule, destroyed the railroad, and proclaimed himself the king of Hejaz. |
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Furthermore, a few verses of poetry on the base of the mausoleum dome in maghrebin naskhi script attribute the construction to the bey Muhammad ibn Murad. |
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This mihrab was commissioned by the Caliph's wife for the shrine of Sayyida Ruqayya, the daughter of the Fourth Righteous Caliph, 'Ali ibn Abi Talib. |
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Vowel-points are absent from this writing, but, in keeping with the system developed by al-Khalil ibn Ahmad, there is an abundance of orthographic signs. |
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Abdullah's succession as Saudi Arabia's sixth monarch resulted from his father King Abdulaziz ibn Saud's strategy of marrying the daughters and widows of defeated enemies. |
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Tariq's forces were joined the next year by those of his superior, Musa ibn Nusair. |
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The Yufirid emir Abdullah ibn Qahtan attacked and burned Zabid in 989, severely weakening the Ziyadid dynasty. |
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In 1050, the island's governor Abd Allah ibn Aglab rebelled and established the independent Taifa of Mallorca. |
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Muhammad ibn Ganiya, the Almoravid claimant, fled to Palma and established his capital there. |
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During this expedition one of Muhammad's envoys Dihyah bin Khalifa Kalbi was attacked, Muhammad sent Zayd ibn Haritha to help him. |
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When the news reached Muhammad, he immediately dispatched Zayd ibn Haritha with 500 men to battle. |
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Tariq's forces were joined the next year by those of his Arab superior, Musa ibn Nusair. |
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They have tended to emphasize ibn Rustah's report as the only historical clue to the location of the khagan's residence. |
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It was founded by Salih I ibn Mansur in 710, as a client state to the Rashidun Caliphate. |
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According to medieval legend, Idris ibn Abdallah had fled to Morocco after the Abbasids' massacre of his tribe in Iraq. |
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He was either a cousin or nephew of Abu Bakr ibn Umar, the founder of the Almoravid dynasty. |
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After Yahya ibn Umar died, his brother Abu Bakr ibn Umar pursued the expansion of the Almoravids. |
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Forced to resolve a Sanhaja civil war, he left control of the Moroccan conquests to his brother, Yusuf ibn Tashufin. |
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With the victory of Tariq ibn Ziyad in 711, the lives of the Sephardim changed dramatically. |
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In 1521, the Portuguese allied with Hormuz and seized Bahrain from the Jabrid ruler Migrin ibn Zamil, who was killed during the takeover. |
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In Baghdad, papermaking was under the supervision of the Grand Vizier Ja'far ibn Yahya. |
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Her mother was learned in Hebrew and stuidied the weekly parashah with the commentaries of Rashi and ibn Ezra on Shabbat. |
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Another visitor, officials said, was Sheik Mohammed ibn Rashid al Maktum, the Dubai crown prince and Emirates defense minister. |
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After the recorded peace treaty between with Hassan ibn Ali and the suppression of early Kharijites' disturbances, Muawiyah I acceded to the position of Caliph. |
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When the Moorish Almoravid ruler, Yusuf ibn Tashifin, finished the Alhambra Palace in Granada in the 14th century, it became one of the wonders of the world. |
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The biographical dictionary of Ibn Khallikan preserves the record of the Berber predominance in the invasion of 711, in the entry on Tariq ibn Ziyad. |
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For example, the poet Bashar ibn Burd listens to Khalif Moataz Bellah. |
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In 670, therefore, an Arab army under Uqba ibn Nafi established the town of Qayrawan about 160 kilometres south of modern Tunis and used it as a base for further operations. |
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At that time, the Almoravid leader Yahya ibn Ibrahim went on a hajj. |
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Malikite disciple Abd Allah ibn Yasin accepted the invitation. |
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Under the leadership of the Berber general Tariq ibn Ziyad, the Muslims used Ceuta as a staging ground for an assault on Visigothic Iberian Peninsula. |
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As late as the 6th century the Eastern Roman empire and Caliph Umar ibn Khattab were issuing decrees against conversion to Judaism, implying that this was still occurring. |
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He followed the way opened by al-Hasan ibn Musa, particularly in his work on the measure of curved planes and solids, and on the properties of conic sections. |
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He was initially the deputy of Musa ibn Nusair in North Africa, and was sent by his superior to launch the first thrust of an invasion of the Iberian peninsula. |
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And it was an Arab general, Khaled ibn ul-Walid, who defeated the Sassanid forces with his army in the 630s AD from its empire's southern borders in the battle of Qadissiyah. |
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In this sense, Hayy ibn Yaqdhan would be considered an early example of a philosophical novel, while Theologus Autodidactus would be considered an early theological novel. |
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