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Ibn al-Muslima
Ibn al-Muslima (ابن المسلمى), named Ali ibn al-Hasan and titled Reis al-Ru'asa, was vizier to the Abbasid caliph al-Qa'im from 1045 until his execution by al-Basasiri.
Ibn al-Nadim (ابن النديم)
Ibn al-Nadim (ابن النديم), d. 380/990 or 385/995, Baghdad bookseller and copyist, author of Kitab al-Fihrist (begun 377/987), the foundational ten-discourse Arabic bibliography covering scripts, Qur'an, grammar, poetry, law, philosophy, and sects.
Ibn al-Najjar
Ibn al-Najjar (ابن النجار) was a Baghdadi hadith scholar and historian (1183 to 1245), teacher at the Mustansiriya madrasa and author of the Dhayl Tarikh Baghdad.
Ibn al-Qalanisi
Ibn al-Qalanisi (ابن القلانسي) was a Damascene historian and senior administrator who twice served as head of Damascus and wrote a chronicle of the Crusades.
Ibn al-Qass
Ibn al-Qass (ابن القاص), Abu al-Abbas Ahmad al-Tabari, was a Shafi'i jurist, judge, and preacher who led the school in Tabaristan and died at Tarsus in 946.
Ibn al-Qaysarani
Ibn al-Qaysarani (ابن القيسراني), born in Acre around 1085, was a court poet of Damascus and Aleppo under Nur al-Din, known for his Ifranjiyyat poems on the Franks.
Ibn al-Qushayri (Abd al-Mun'im, hadith transmitter)
Ibn al-Qushayri (ابن القشيري), fully Abd al-Mun'im ibn Abd al-Karim al-Qushayri, was a Nishapur hadith transmitter, son of the Sufi author Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayri, whose students included al-Sam'ani and Ibn Asakir.
Ibn al-Qushayri (Abu Nasr Abd al-Rahim, Shafi'i scholar)
Ibn al-Qushayri, Abu Nasr Abd al-Rahim (1047–1120), was a Shafi'i scholar of Nishapur, a grammarian, theologian, jurist, and Qur'an commentator, and son of the Sufi author Abd al-Karim al-Qushayri.
Ibn al-Qutiyya
Ibn al-Qutiyya (ابن القوطية) was an Andalusi historian and grammarian of Visigothic descent who died in Cordoba in 977, known as "son of the Gothic woman."
Ibn al-Raqiq
Ibn al-Raqiq (ابن الرقيق) was a historian, poet, and chancery secretary of Qayrawan who served the Zirid court of Ifriqiya for over twenty years, dying around 1033.
Ibn al-Rawandi
Ibn al-Rawandi (ابن الراوندي) was a ninth-century theologian of Khurasani origin in Abbasid Baghdad who began as a prominent Mu'tazilite and ended as the arch-heretic of Islam.
Ibn al-Rumi
Ibn al-Rumi (ابن الرومي), full name Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn al-Abbas, was an Abbasid Arabic poet of Baghdad, 836 to 896, known above all for his feared satires.
Ibn al-Rutabi
Ibn al-Rutabi (ابن الرطبي) was a Shafi'i jurist, qadi, and market inspector of Baghdad, born 460 AH, who taught the children of the Abbasid caliphs.
Ibn al-Sa'i
Ibn al-Sa'i (ابن الساعي), full name Taj al-Din Ali ibn Anjab, was a Baghdad historian and librarian who wrote Consorts of the Caliphs and survived the Mongol conquest of 1258.
Ibn al-Salah
Ibn al-Salah (ابن صلاح) was a Kurdish Shafi'i scholar of hadith who taught in Jerusalem and Damascus and wrote a standard work on hadith science.
Ibn al-Sam'ani
Ibn al-Sam'ani was a Sunni hadith scholar and Shafi'i jurist of Merv, born in 1073 and died in 1116, best known for his work al-Amali.
Ibn al-Saqati
Ibn al-Saqati (السقطي), Abu al-Barakat Hibat Allah ibn al-Mubarak, was a Hanbali hadith scholar and historian of Baghdad, 1053 to 1115, author of a Muʿjam of his teachers and a continuation of Taʾrikh Baghdad.
Ibn al-Sayrafi
Ibn al-Sayrafi (ابن الصيرفي) was a Fatimid official, historian, and writer of Egypt who headed the state chancery in Cairo and wrote a valued history of the Fatimid vizierate.
Ibn al-Shatir
Ibn al-Shatir (ابن الشاطر) was a Damascus astronomer and mathematician, head timekeeper of the Umayyad Mosque, whose planetary models closely match those Copernicus used two centuries later.
Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi
Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi (Ali Mohamed al-Fakheri), Libyan al-Qaeda trainer captured in Pakistan in 2001, rendered to Egypt, whose false Iraq-al-Qaeda WMD training claims helped justify the 2003 Iraq invasion; he died in Abu Salim prison, Libya, in May 2009.
Ibn al-Sid al-Batalyawsi
Ibn al-Sid al-Batalyawsi (ابن السيد البطليوسي) was an Andalusi grammarian, philosopher, and jurist born in Badajoz in 1052 who served the taifa courts of Toledo and Zaragoza before dying in Valencia in 1127.
Ibn al-Sikkit
Ibn al-Sikkit (ابن السكيت), full name Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq al-Dawraqī, was a Persian Arabic philologist of the Kufan school, known for Iṣlāḥ al-Manṭiq and killed in 858.
Ibn al-Tahhan
Ibn al-Tahhan (ابن الطحان), in full Abu'l-Husayn Muhammad ibn al-Tahhan, was a singer, lutenist, and composer at the Fatimid court in Egypt in the 10th and 11th centuries.
Ibn al-Tayyuri
Ibn al-Tayyuri (ابن الطيوري), born al-Mubarak ibn Abd al-Jabbar al-Baghdadi, was a Sunni hadith scholar of Baghdad, 411–500 AH, regarded as the muhaddith of Baghdad and graded thiqa thabt.
Ibn al-Thalji
Ibn al-Thalji (ابن الثلجي), fully Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Shuja' al-Baghdadi, was a ninth-century Hanafi jurist of Abbasid Baghdad who re-grounded Hanafi law in hadith.
Ibn al-Thumna
Ibn al-Thumma (ابن الثمنة) was a Muslim qaid who ruled Syracuse and Catania in mid-11th-century Sicily and, in rivalry with Ibn al-Hawwas, invited the Normans to conquer the island.
Ibn al-Tilmidh
Ibn al-Tilmidh (ابن التلميذ) was a Nestorian Christian physician and poet of Abbasid Baghdad, court physician to the caliphs and head of the Adudi hospital.
Ibn al-Tuwayr
Ibn al-Tuwayr (ابن الطوير) was an Egyptian Fatimid chancery official, historian, and hadith scholar who served the Fatimids and then the Ayyubids, dying in Cairo in 1220; his chronicle records Fatimid court ritual.
Ibn al-Wardi
Ibn al-Wardi (ابن الوردي) was a Syrian historian, Shafi'i jurist, and poet of Mamluk times, known for his chronicle and his eyewitness account of the Black Death, which killed him in Aleppo in 1349.
Ibn al-Zaghuni
Ibn al-Zaghuni (ابن الزاغوني) was a twelfth-century Baghdad hadith transmitter and master bookbinder who bound the caliph al-Muqtafi's book treasury and taught Ibn Asakir, al-Sam'ani, and Ibn al-Jawzi before dying in 552 AH.