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Ibn Jurayj
Ibn Jurayj (ابن جريج), full name Abd al-Malik ibn Abd al-Aziz, was a Meccan hadith scholar and mufti of Mecca who lived from about 699 to 767.
Ibn Juzayy
Ibn Juzayy (ابن جُزَيّ) was an Andalusi scholar, poet, and court secretary of Granada, remembered as the writer to whom Ibn Battuta dictated his travel account, the Rihla.
Ibn Kamil
Ibn Kamil (ابن كامل) was a tenth-century Baghdad scholar of Quranic sciences, hadith, and law, a disciple of al-Tabari who served as qadi of Kufa and died in 961.
Ibn Kamil Yusuf ibn al-Mubarak al-Baghdadi
Ibn Kamil Yusuf ibn al-Mubarak al-Baghdadi (ابن كامل) was a Sunni hadith transmitter and Quran reader of Baghdad, born in 527 AH, who died in 601 or 606 AH.
Ibn Kammuna
Ibn Kammuna (ابن كمونة) was a Jewish physician-philosopher of Baghdad under Mongol rule who died in 1284, known for his comparative Examination of the Three Faiths.
Ibn Karram
Ibn Karram (ابن كرّام), Muhammad b. Karram, was an itinerant ascetic preacher from Sistan, founder of the Karramiyya movement centered on Nishapur, who died in Jerusalem in 869.
Ibn Kathir (ابن كثير)
Ibn Kathir, also known as Ibn Kathīr or Ismail ibn Kathir, was a Damascene Shafi'i jurist and Quran commentator, c. 1300–1373, whose tafsir is among the most widely read today.
Ibn Khafaja
Ibn Khafaja (ابن خفاجة) was an Andalusian Arabic poet born near Valencia around 1058 and died in 1138 or 1139, famed as a describer of nature and gardens.
Ibn Khalaf Saraqusti
Ibn Khalaf Saraqusti (Abu Tahir Isma'il ibn Khalaf al-Ansari) was an Andalusi Qur'an reciter, grammarian, and exegete who settled in Egypt and died in 1063.
Ibn Khalawayh
Ibn Khalawayh (ابن خالويه) was an Arabic grammarian, philologist, and poet of Iranian origin, born in Hamadan, who served Sayf al-Dawla's court at Aleppo and died there in 980 or 981.
Ibn Khaldun (ابن خلدون)
Ibn Khaldun (ابن خلدون, 1332–1406), Maghrebi historian and statesman born in Tunis, died in Cairo; author of the Muqaddimah, founder of the science of 'umran, and theorist of 'asabiyya and the 120-year dynastic cycle.
Ibn Khallikan
Ibn Khallikan (ابن خلكان) was a Shafii jurist and chief judge of Damascus under the Mamluk sultanate, best known for Wafayat al-A'yan, the first general Arabic biographical dictionary.
Ibn Khawasti
Ibn Khawasti (ابن خواستى), also known as Ibn Abi Ghasan, was a Quran reader, hadith transmitter, and grammarian who entered al-Andalus as a merchant in 350 AH.
Ibn Khayr
Ibn Khayr (ابن خير), full name Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Khayr al-Lamtuni, was a 12th-century Andalusi hadith scholar, Quran reciter, and lexicographer, born in Seville in 1109.
Ibn Khordadbeh
Ibn Khordadbeh (ابن خرداذبة) was a ninth-century Persian geographer and administrator of the Abbasid Caliphate, author of the Kitab al-Masalik wa-l-Mamalik, the earliest surviving Arabic administrative geography.
Ibn Khuraym
Ibn Khuraym, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Khuraym al-Dimashqi, was a hadith transmitter of Damascus, styled musnid Dimashq by al-Dhahabi, who died in 316 AH at about ninety.
Ibn Khusraw Balkhi
Ibn Khusraw Balkhi was a hadith traditionist from Balkh in Khorasan, a city the Fazael-e Balkh ranks among the leading centers of Hadith, jurisprudence, and Sufism.
Ibn Khuzayma
Ibn Khuzayma was a Nishapuri hadith master (223–311 AH) whose Sahih, with 3,079 hadith, was ranked by Ahmad Shakir among the most important sound collections after the two Sahihs.
Ibn Khuzayma Naysaburi
Ibn Khuzayma Naysaburi was a Sunni hadith scholar and Shafi'i jurist of Nishapur (838–924) whose rigor in isnad criticism earned him the byname "imam of imams" among his contemporaries.
Ibn Kulayb Shashi
Ibn Kulayb Shashi, Haytham ibn Kulayb Abu Sa'id al-Shashi, was a hadith scholar of Transoxiana who studied under al-Tirmidhi, worked in Bukhara and Samarqand, and died in 947.
Ibn Kullab
Ibn Kullab (ابن كُلَّاب) was a Sunni theologian of Basra in the Abbasid caliphate who first argued the Quran is uncreated, founding the Kullabiyya school absorbed into Ash'arism.
Ibn Majid
Ibn Majid (ابن ماجد) was a 15th-century Muslim navigator of the Indian Ocean, known as the Lion of the Sea and author of the sailing encyclopedia Kitab al-fawa'id.
Ibn Makula
Ibn Makula (ابن ماكُولا) was a Sunni Shafi'i hadith scholar and genealogist of Abbasid Baghdad, best known for al-Ikmal, the standard reference on confusable Arabic names.
Ibn Malik
Ibn Malik (ابن مالك) was an Arab grammarian from al-Andalus, born in Jaen, who composed the Alfiyya, the most famous versified treatise of Arabic grammar.
Ibn Manda Muhammad
Ibn Manda Muhammad, also known as Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Mandah al-Abdi, was an Isfahani hadith scholar (922–1005) famed for his wide travels and creedal works.
Ibn Manjuwayh Isbahani
Ibn Manjuwayh Isbahani (أبو بكر ابن منجويه) was a Persian hadith scholar and hafiz who settled in Nishapur, lived 958 to 1036, and wrote Rijal Sahih Muslim.
Ibn Mansur Kawsaj
Ibn Mansur Kawsaj was a Sunni hadith scholar and Hanbali-leaning jurist, born in Marw after 170 AH, who settled in Nishapur and died there in 251 AH.
Ibn Mansur Khurasani
Ibn Mansur Khurasani (Sa'id ibn Mansur) was a third-century hadith scholar who settled in Mecca and compiled an early Sunan collection thought lost until modern editions.
Ibn Manzur
Ibn Manzur (ابن منظور), born 1232 and died 1311, was an Arabic philologist and jurist of Mamluk Egypt who compiled the great dictionary Lisan al-Arab.
Ibn Mardanish
Ibn Mardanish (ابن مردنيش), known to Castilians as el rey lobo, the Wolf King, ruled eastern al-Andalus from Murcia from 1147 to 1172 as the leading opponent of the Almohads.