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Ibn al-Zayyat

Ibn al-Zayyat (ابن الزيات) was a vizier of the Abbasid caliphate who served three caliphs and died in 847 on the torture device he had built.

Ibn Aqil

Ibn Aqil (ابن عقيل) was a Shafii jurist and grammarian of Mamluk Egypt who died in 1368, known for his commentary on Ibn Malik's Alfiyya.

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Ibn Arabi

Ibn Arabi, also known as Muhyiddin ibn Arabi, was an Andalusian Muslim thinker and Sufi master (1165 to 1240) who shaped Islamic mystical thought for centuries.

Ibn Arabshah

Ibn Arabshah (ابن عربشاه) was a Damascene historian, litterateur, and translator of the fifteenth century, best known for Aja'ib al-Maqdur, a hostile biography of Timur completed in 1435.

Ibn Arafa

Ibn Arafa (ابن عرفة) was a Maliki jurist and chief mufti of the Zaytuna Mosque in Tunis, regarded as the leading jurist of the Maghrib until his death in 1401.

Ibn Asakir

Ibn Asakir (ابن عساكر) was a Damascene hadith scholar, historian, and Shafi'i jurist who lived from 1105 to 1176 and wrote the vast biographical dictionary Tarikh madinat Dimashq.

Ibn Ashir

Ibn Ashir (ابن عاشر) was a Maliki jurist, hadith scholar, and Sufi of Fes who lived from 1582 to 1631 and wrote the poem al-Murshid al-Mu'in.

Ibn Ashnani

Ibn Ashnani (عمر بن الحسن الشيباني) was a hadith scholar and judge of Baghdad, born around 872 and died in 950, whose students included al-Daraqutni.

Ibn Askar

Ibn Askar (ابن عسكر) was a Moroccan judge, mufti, and biographer serving the Sa'di dynasty, known for Dawhat al-nashir, a collection of biographies of Maghribi Sufi masters.

Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari

Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari (ابن عطاء الله الاسكندري) was an Egyptian Shadhili Sufi master and Maliki jurist who led the order from 1287 and wrote the classic al-Hikam.

Ibn Atiyya (ابن عطية) was a Granadan Qur'an commentator, hadith scholar, and Maliki jurist, born in Granada in 1088 and author of the influential tafsir al-Muharrar al-Wajiz, completed while he served as qadi of Almeria.

Ibn Ayyub Razi

Ibn Ayyub Razi, fully Sulaym ibn Ayyub, Abu al-Fath al-Razi, was a Sunni Shafi'i jurist and Qur'an commentator of Rayy who taught in Baghdad and died by drowning in 1055.

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Ibn Babawayh

Ibn Babawayh, known as Shaykh Saduq, was a 10th-century Twelver Shia traditionist and jurist of Qom, author of Man la yahduruhu al-faqih, second of the four canonical Shia hadith books.

Ibn Bahlul

Ibn Bahlul (ابن بهلول), fully Abu Sa'd Dawud ibn al-Haytham al-Tanukhi al-Anbari, was a tenth-century Baghdad grammarian, philologist, and hadith transmitter who died in 928.

Ibn Bajja

Ibn Bajja (ابن باجة), known to Latin philosophers as Avempace, was an Andalusi philosopher, physician, and statesman born in Saragossa who served the Almoravids as vizier and died in Fez in 1139.

Ibn Barrajan

Ibn Barrajan (ابن برجان) was a Sufi master and Quran commentator of Seville, called the al-Ghazali of al-Andalus, who was tried by the Almoravids and died in 1141.

Ibn Bashkuwal

Ibn Bashkuwal (ابن بشكوال) was an Andalusi traditionist, historian, and jurist of Cordoba who lived 1101 to 1183 and wrote Kitab al-Sila, the main source on Andalusi scholars.

Ibn Bassam al-Shantari

Ibn Bassam al-Shantari (ابن بسام الشنتريني) was an Andalusi poet and philologist who died in 1147. His anthology al-Dhakhira is an essential source for eleventh-century al-Andalus.

Ibn Batta al-'Ukbari

Ibn Batta al-'Ukbari (ابن بطة العكبري), full name 'Ubayd Allah b. Muhammad, was a Hanbali theologian and jurisconsult of 10th-century Iraq, born and died at Ukbara near Baghdad.

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Ibn Battuta (ابن بطوطة)

Ibn Battuta (ابن بطوطة) was a Moroccan traveler and scholar who journeyed across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia from 1325, recording it in the Rihla.

Ibn Baz

Ibn Baz (ابن باز), born in Riyadh around 1912, was a blind Saudi scholar who served as Grand Mufti and head of the Council of Senior Scholars until his death in 1999.

Ibn Bishran

Ibn Bishran (ابن بشران), full name Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Malik, was an 11th-century Baghdadi hadith scholar titled "musnid al-Iraq" by al-Dhahabi, who died in 1039 and taught al-Khatib al-Baghdadi.

Ibn Bukayr Sayrafi

Ibn Bukayr Sayrafi (أبو عبد الله الحسين بن أحمد بن بكير الصيرفي) was a Baghdad hadith scholar and hafiz of the money-changer's trade, famed for reciting any hadith's isnads from memory, who died in 388 AH.

Ibn Butlan

Ibn Butlan (ابن بطلان) was an eleventh-century Christian physician from Baghdad who traveled as a doctor in Syria, Egypt, and Constantinople, wrote the Taqwim al-sihha, and died in Antioch in 1066.

Ibn Daniyal

Ibn Daniyal (ابن دانيال) was a Mosul-born oculist, poet, and court entertainer in Mamluk Cairo who wrote the three earliest shadow plays known to exist before his death in 1310.

Ibn Daqiq al-Id

Ibn Daqiq al-Id (ابن دقيق العيد) was a Shafi'i jurist and hadith scholar who served as chief qadi of Egypt under the Mamluks, dying in 1302.

Ibn Darbas (blind Shafi'i judge and hadith transmitter, d. 1261)

Ibn Darbas (ابن درباس) was a blind Shafi'i judge and hadith transmitter from a Kurdish-Egyptian scholarly family, praised by al-Dhahabi as among the foremost shaykhs of his time.

Ibn Darbas (Shafi'i chief judge of Egypt, d. 1208)

Ibn Darbas (ابن درباس) was a Shafi'i jurist and chief judge of Egypt under Ayyubid rule, appointed in 1171 and removed in 1194, dying in 1208.

Ibn Dihya

Ibn Dihya (ابن دحية) was an Andalusian hadith scholar, historian, and man of letters who died in Cairo in 1235 and wrote works on the unique attributes of the Prophet Muhammad.