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Ibn al-Fuwati
Ibn al-Fuwati (ابن الفوطي), Kamal-al-Din Abd-al-Razzaq, was a Baghdad-born historian and librarian of the Ilkhanate, enslaved at Baghdad's fall in 1258 and later keeper of the Mustansiriya library.
Ibn al-Habubi
Ibn al-Habubi (ابن الحبوبي) was a hadith transmitter of Damascus, born in 1079 and died in 1160, who worked as a cloth merchant and taught Ibn Asakir.
Ibn al-Hajj al-Abdari
Ibn al-Hajj al-Abdari (ابن الحاج العبدري) was a Moroccan Maliki jurist who settled in Mamluk Cairo and died there in 1337, known for al-Madkhal, a critique of religious innovations.
Ibn al-Hajjaj
Ibn al-Hajjaj (ابن الحجاج) was an Iraqi poet of the Buyid era who popularized sukhf, obscene scatological parody, after serving as Baghdad's market inspector; he died in 1001.
Ibn al-Hanbali
Ibn al-Hanbali (ابن الحنبلي) was a Hanafi jurist and historian of Aleppo, born in 1502 and died there in 1563, best known for his biographical history Durr al-Habab.
Ibn al-Haytham (الحسن بن الهيثم)
Ibn al-Haytham, also known as Alhazen or Alhacen, was a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer born in Basra around 965 who spent most of his career in Cairo.
Ibn al-Humam
Ibn al-Humam (ابن الهمام) was a Hanafi jurist of Mamluk Egypt who lived from 1388 to 1457 and taught in Cairo under the sultans Barsbay and Jaqmaq.
Ibn al-Husayn
Ibn al-Husayn (ابن الحصين), Abu al-Qasim Hibat Allah al-Shaybani, was a Baghdad hadith transmitter, the sole transmitter of Musnad Ahmad, who died in 525 AH.
Ibn al-Imad
Ibn al-Imad (ابن العماد) was a Hanbali jurist, biographer, and historian of Damascus who lived from 1623 to 1679 and wrote the chronicle Shadharat al-dhahab.
Ibn al-Jabbab
Ibn al-Jabbab (ابن الجباب), Abu Umar Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Qurtubi, was an Andalusian hadith scholar and Maliki jurist of Cordoba, praised by al-Dhahabi as al-Andalus's unmatched hafiz.
Ibn al-Jawzi
Ibn al-Jawzi (ابن الجوزي) was a Hanbali jurisconsult, traditionist, historian, and hortatory preacher of Abbasid Baghdad, born and died there (1116–1201), known for the chronicle al-Muntazam.
Ibn al-Jazzar
Ibn al-Jazzar (ابن الجزّار) was a tenth-century physician of Qayrawan, Tunisia, whose medical handbook Zad al-musafir, translated into Latin as the Viaticum, became one of the most influential medical texts of medieval Europe.
Ibn al-Jundi
Ibn al-Jundi (ابن الجندي) was a hadith transmitter of Baghdad who lived from 306 AH to 396 AH (1006 CE) and was praised by al-Najashi as his teacher, though some critics judged him weak.
Ibn al-Khammar
Ibn al-Khammar (ابن الخمار), born in Baghdad in 942, was a Christian logician and physician who served the courts of Khwarizm and Ghazna and died after 1017.
Ibn al-Khashshab
Ibn al-Khashshab (ابن الخشاب) was the qadi of Aleppo who led the city's civilian resistance during the Crusader siege of 1124, converting major churches, including the largest, into mosques.
Ibn al-Khatib
Ibn al-Khatib (ابن الخطيب) was a vizier, historian, physician, and poet of the Nasrid emirate of Granada (1313–1374), serving sultans Yusuf I and Muhammad V before dying in prison at Fez.
Ibn al-Khattab (ابن الخطاب)
Ibn al-Khattab (ابن الخطاب), Samir al-Suwaylim, 1969–2002, Saudi jihadist who fought in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Chechnya, led Arab foreign fighters with Basayev, and was assassinated by the FSB in 2002.
Ibn al-Khayr
Ibn al-Khayr (ابن الخير), full name Ibrahim ibn Mahmud al-Baghdadi, was a thirteenth-century Baghdad Quran-recitation master and hadith authority whom al-Dhahabi titled "musnid of Baghdad".
Ibn al-Khazin
Ibn al-Khazin (ابن الخازن) was a Sufi shaykh and hadith transmitter born around 1160 who died in Baghdad in 1245, praised by al-Dhahabi as among the elite of the Sufis.
Ibn al-Marzuban
Ibn al-Marzuban (ابن المرزبان) was a Baghdad hadith scholar and littérateur who died in 921 CE and translated over fifty books from Persian into Arabic.
Ibn al-Mu'tazz
Ibn al-Mu'tazz (861–908) was an Abbasid prince and poet who founded the study of badi', the ornamental devices of Arabic poetry, in his Kitab al-Badi'.
Ibn al-Mudabbir
Ibn al-Mudabbir (ابن المدبر) was an Abbasid statesman, secretary, and poet who ran Egypt's land tax from 861, feuded with Ahmad ibn Tulun, and died in prison in 883.
Ibn al-Muhtadi
Ibn al-Muhtadi (ابن المهتدي), meaning "son of al-Muhtadi", is an incompletely attested Islamic scholar who died in 465 AH (1073 CE), distinct from the Abbasid caliph al-Muhtadi and from several better-documented namesakes.
Ibn al-Mujaddir
Ibn al-Mujaddir (ابن المجدر), Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Harun al-Baghdadi, was a Sunni hadith transmitter of Abbasid Baghdad who died in 924 CE aged 83; critics split over his trustworthiness.
Ibn al-Mujawir
Ibn al-Mujawir (ابن المجاور) was a thirteenth-century merchant and traveler, probably from Khurasan, whose Tarikh al-Mustabsir is a leading source on the geography, trade, and customs of southern Arabia.
Ibn al-Mukhayli
Ibn al-Mukhayli (ابن المخيلي), full name Yusuf ibn Abd al-Mati al-Ghassani, was a Maliki jurist and hadith scholar of the Islamic west who died in 642 AH.
Ibn al-Mundhiri
Ibn al-Mundhiri (ابن المنذري) was a hadith scholar of Egypt, the son of al-Hafiz al-Mundhiri (1185–1258), head of the Kamiliyya Dar al-Hadith in Cairo and compiler of the Mukhtasar Sahih Muslim.
Ibn al-Muqaddam
Ibn al-Muqaddam (ابن المقدم), full name Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik, was a commander who served Nur al-Din and Saladin and governed Baalbek and Damascus.
Ibn al-Muqaffa
Ibn al-Muqaffa (ابن المقفع), born Rozbeh, was a Persian chancery secretary and translator serving the Umayyad and Abbasid administrations, best known for his Arabic version of Kalila wa-Dimna.
Ibn al-Murabit
Ibn al-Murabit (ابن المرابط), full name Muhammad ibn Khalaf ibn Sa'id al-Andalusi, was a Maliki jurist and qadi of Almería who died in 1092, remembered for a lost commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari.