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Ibn Hawqal

Ibn Hawqal (ابن حوقل), fully Abu'l-Qasem Mohammad ibn Ali al-Nasibi, was a tenth-century Muslim merchant and geographer who wrote Surat al-Ard, a leading Arab-Islamic geographic work.

Ibn Hawqal's description of Alodia

Ibn Hawqal's description of Alodia, in Kitab Surat al-Ard (كتاب صورة الأرض), is the 10th-century geographer Ibn Hawqal's account of the Nubian kingdom of Alwa, visited about 955.

Ibn Hawshab

Ibn Hawshab (ابن حوشب), honorifically known as Mansur al-Yaman, was an Ismaili missionary sent to Yemen in 881 who ruled part of northern Yemen until his death in 914.

Ibn Hayd

Ibn Hayd (ابن حيد), fully Abu Ahmad Mansur ibn Bakr al-Naysaburi, was a 5th-century AH Sunni hadith transmitter and merchant of a Nishapuri trading family who resided in Baghdad.

Ibn Hayyan

Ibn Hayyan (ابن حيان) was a historian of Cordoba in Muslim-ruled al-Andalus, born in 987, whose works al-Muqtabis and al-Matin preserve much of its history.

Ibn Hazm

Ibn Hazm (ابن حزم) was a Muslim scholar of Islamic Spain and leading Zahiri jurist, born in Cordoba in 994 and author of some 400 works.

Ibn Hibban

Ibn Hibban (محمد بن حبان البستي) was a tenth-century hadith scholar, transmitter critic, and judge born at Bust in Sijistan, author of the Sahih Ibn Hibban and the Kitab al-Thiqat.

Ibn Hibban al-Busti

Ibn Hibban al-Busti (ابن حبان البستي) was a hadith scholar, historian, and judge from Bust in Sijistan who died in 965 and compiled Sahih Ibn Hibban.

Ibn Hijja al-Hamawi

Ibn Hijja al-Hamawi (ابن حجة الحموي) was a Mamluk poet, critic, and chancery secretary, born in Hama in 1366, best known for his Badi'iyya in praise of the Prophet.

Ibn Hisham

Ibn Hisham (ابن هشام) was a traditionist, genealogist, and philologist who died in Egypt in 833, best known as the editor of Ibn Ishaq's biography of Muhammad.

Ibn Hubayra

Ibn Hubayra (ابن هبيرة) was a Hanbali jurist and scholar who served as vizier to the Abbasid caliphs al-Muqtafi and al-Mustanjid in Baghdad from 1149 to 1165.

Ibn Hud al-Mutawakkil

Ibn Hud al-Mutawakkil (ابن هود المتوكل) was an Andalusi military leader who revolted against the Almohads in 1228 and ruled southern al-Andalus until his death in 1238.

Ibn Husayn Azdi

Ibn Husayn Azdi, Abu al-Fath Muhammad ibn al-Husayn al-Azdi, was a 10th-century Sunni hadith scholar and narrator-critic from Mosul who settled and taught in Baghdad.

Ibn Husayn Muhaqqiq Thani Karaki

Ibn Husayn Muhaqqiq Thani Karaki (المحقق الكركي) was an Arab Twelver Shi'i jurist from Jabal Amel who led Safavid Iran's clergy, dying in Najaf in 1534.

Ibn Husayn Sijistani

Ibn Husayn Sijistani (محمد بن الحسين بن إبراهيم) was a hadith scholar of Sijistan, born in 283 AH, who studied under Ibn Khuzayma and wrote Manaqib al-Imam al-Shafi'i.

Ibn Ibrahim Hamadhani Jurqani

Ibn Ibrahim Hamadhani Jurqani (الحسين بن إبراهيم الهمذاني الجورقاني) was a Sunni hadith scholar and critic of Hamadan who died in 1148 and wrote on forged hadith.

Ibn Ibrahim Khuttali

Ishaq ibn Ibrahim ibn Sunin al-Khuttali was a hadith transmitter of the twelfth generation who lived in Baghdad, wrote Kitab al-Dibaj, and died in 283 AH at about eighty.

Ibn Ibrahim Nabulusi was an 11th-century Shafi'i jurist and hadith scholar born in Nablus and settled in Jerusalem, whose students included al-Khatib al-Baghdadi and whom al-Ghazali visited in Damascus.

Ibn Ibrahim San'ani

Ibn Ibrahim San'ani, in full Abu Ya'qub Ishaq ibn Ibrahim al-San'ani al-Dabri, was a Yemeni hadith transmitter who died in Sanaa in 898 CE, remembered as the principal carrier of Abd al-Razzaq's Musannaf.

Ibn Isfandiyar

Ibn Isfandiyar (ابن اسفندیار), full name Baha-al-Din Mohammad b. Hasan, was a Persian historian and court secretary to the Bavandid rulers of Tabaristan, author of the Tarikh-e Tabarestan.

Ibn Ishaq

Ibn Ishaq (محمد بن إسحاق) was a Medinan traditionist and biographer of Muhammad, born around 700, whose Sirat Rasul Allah was the first book on the Prophet's life.

Ibn Ishaq Jahdami

Ibn Ishaq Jahdami, known as Isma'il al-Qadi, was a Maliki jurist and hadith scholar who became chief judge of all Baghdad, dying there in 895.

Ibn Ishaq Sarraj

Ibn Ishaq Sarraj (Abu al-Abbas al-Sarraj) was a hadith scholar and historian of Nishapur who died in 313 AH (925 CE); al-Bukhari and Muslim narrated from him.

Ibn Iyas

Ibn Iyas (ابن إياس) was a Cairo chronicler of the late Mamluk sultanate, author of Bada'i al-zuhur, a year-by-year history of Egypt ending in 1522.

Ibn Ja'far Ansari

Ibn Ja'far Ansari (إسماعيل بن جعفر) was a Sunni hadith transmitter and Qur'an reciter of Medina, the muqri' of his time, who died in Baghdad in 796 CE.

Ibn Jama'a Badr Din Hamawi

Badr al-Din ibn Jama'a al-Hamawi (1241–1333) was a Shafi'i jurist and hadith scholar from Hama who served as chief qadi of Egypt and Damascus under the early Mamluk sultans.

Ibn Jazla

Ibn Jazla (ابن جزلة) was a physician and pharmacologist of Abbasid Baghdad who converted from Christianity to Islam and served as court physician to Caliph al-Muqtadi.

Ibn Jinni

Ibn Jinni (ابن جني) was a tenth-century Arab grammarian and philologist, born in Mosul and active in Baghdad, best known for al-Khasa'is and his commentary on the poet al-Mutanabbi.

Ibn Jubayr

Ibn Jubayr (ابن جبير) was an Andalusi secretary of the Almohad dynasty who wrote the Rihla, an account of his 1183 to 1185 pilgrimage to Mecca.