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Ibn Sulayman al-Aswani
Ibn Sulayman al-Aswani, also rendered Ibn Salim al-Aswani, was a tenth-century Fatimid envoy from Aswan who visited Makuria and wrote a lost account of Nubia preserved in excerpts by al-Maqrizi.
Ibn Sulayman Atrabulusi
Ibn Sulayman Atrabulusi (خيثمة بن سليمان الأطرابلسي) was a tenth-century Sunni hadith scholar of Tripoli in Syria, praised as Syria's leading narrator of his generation.
Ibn Sunni Dinawari
Ibn Sunni al-Dinawari, also known as Ibn Sunni al-Dinawari, was a Shafi'i hadith scholar (c. 893–975), remembered as the leading eastern transmitter of Sunan al-Nasa'i and author of Amal al-yawm wa'l-layla.
Ibn Surayj
Ibn Surayj (ابن سريج) was a singer and oud player of the Umayyad era, remembered for his Harra laments and for introducing the oud into Arabic music.
Ibn Taghribirdi
Ibn Taghribirdi (ابن تغري بردي) was a Cairo historian, born about 1410 and died in 1470, the principal authority for mid- to late fifteenth-century Mamluk history.
Ibn Tahir Baghdadi
Abd al-Qahir ibn Tahir al-Baghdadi (عبد القاهر البغدادي) was a Shafi'ite jurist, Ash'arite theologian, and mathematician who died in 1038, known for his books on Islamic sects and doctrine.
Ibn Tahman
Ibn Tahman (ابن طهمان), fully Abu Sa'id Ibrahim ibn Tahman al-Khurasani, was a hadith scholar and jurist from Herat, cited by al-Bukhari and Abu Dawud, who died around 780 CE.
Ibn Talha Na''ali
Ibn Talha Na'ali (محمد بن طلحة النعالي) was a hadith transmitter of Baghdad who tracked down rare and denounced reports and died in 413 or 431 AH.
Ibn Taymiyya (grandfather of Taqi al-Din, d. 1225)
Fakhr al-Din Ibn Taymiyya was a Hanbali jurist, exegete, and preacher who led the religious life of Harran, born around 1147 and died in 1225 at about eighty.
Ibn Taymiyya (ابن تيمية)
Ibn Taymiyya, fully Taqi al-Din Ahmad Ibn Taymiyya (1263–1328), was a Hanbali jurist and theologian of Mamluk Damascus and Cairo whose fatwas, imprisonments, and contested legacy remain influential.
Ibn Tufayl
Ibn Tufayl (ابن طفيل), known in Latin Europe as Abubacer, was an Andalusi physician and philosopher at the Almohad court, best known for the philosophical tale Hayy ibn Yaqzan.
Ibn Tulun
Ibn Tulun (ابن طولون الدمشقي) was a prolific Damascene Hanafi scholar and chronicler, 1475 to 1546, whose chronicle Mufakaha al-Khullan records Damascus across the Ottoman conquest of 1516 to 1517.
Ibn Tumart
Ibn Tumart (ابن تومرت) was a Masmuda Berber reformer from the Anti-Atlas of Morocco who proclaimed himself the Mahdi and founded the Almohad movement against the Almoravids.
Ibn Turkamani
Ibn Turkamani (ابن التركماني) was a Hanafi hadith scholar and judge of Mamluk Cairo (1284–1349), remembered for abridging Ibn al-Salah's hadith manual and serving as Egypt's chief judge.
Ibn Waddah Qurtubi
Ibn Waddah Qurtubi, Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Waddah, was an Andalusi hadith scholar and Maliki jurist of Cordoba who died in 900 CE and wrote against religious innovation.
Ibn Wahhab Hanbali
Ibn Wahhab Hanbali was a Baghdad Hanbali jurist and Quran reader, regarded as the leading Hanbali authority in fiqh of his time, who died in 1095.
Ibn Wahshiyya
Ibn Wahshiyya (ابن وحشية) was an Iraqi alchemist, occultist, and agronomist of the late ninth and early tenth centuries, known for the Book of the Nabataean Agriculture.
Ibn Wasil
Ibn Wasil (ابن واصل) was a historian, judge, and administrator of Ayyubid and early Mamluk Syria and Egypt, born in Hama in 1208 and died there in 1298.
Ibn Yabqa
Ibn Yabqa (ابن يبقى), fully Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Yabqa al-Qurtubi, was a Cordoban Maliki jurist and chief judge of Cordoba who died in 991.
Ibn Yamin
Ibn Yamin (ابن یمین), a Persian poet born in Faryumad around 1286, served the Sarbadar amirs and the Kartid court of Herat, and is known above all as a master of the qet'a.
Ibn Yasin
Ibn Yasin (ابن ياسين) was an Egyptian hadith transmitter and builder, born in 514 AH and died in 596 AH, the last Egyptian to transmit from Abu Abd Allah al-Razi.
Ibn Yunus
Ibn Yunus (ابن يونس) was an Egyptian astronomer serving the Fatimid caliphs al-Aziz and al-Hakim, who compiled the Great Hakimi Zij and died in 1009.
Ibn Yunus Baghdadi
Ibn Yunus Baghdadi, fully Sarīj ibn Yūnis ibn Ibrāhīm, was a ninth-century Sunni hadith transmitter, jurist, and Quran reader of Marw origin who settled in Baghdad and died in 235 AH.
Ibn Yusuf 'Allaf
Ibn Yusuf 'Allaf, known as Ibn Dost, was a trustworthy Baghdad hadith narrator who died in 381 AH (991 CE), taught Abu Muhammad al-Khallal, and wrote al-Amali.
Ibn Yusuf Juwayni
Ibn Yusuf Juwayni, Abu Muhammad 'Abd Allah ibn Yusuf al-Juwayni, was a Shafi'i jurist, Ash'ari theologian, and exegete of Nishapur who died in 1047, best known as father and first teacher of Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni.
Ibn Zafar al-Siqilli
Ibn Zafar al-Siqilli (ابن ظفر الصقلي) was a 12th-century Arab scholar and political writer born in Sicily in 1104, remembered for Sulwan al-Muta', an advice-to-the-prince work.
Ibn Zahra Turaythithi
Ibn Zahra Turaythithi was a Sunni hadith transmitter and Sufi ascetic of Baghdad, born around 411 AH, remembered as an imam, musnid, and shaykh of the Sufis.
Ibn Zakariya Mutarriz
Ibn Zakariya Mutarriz (أبو بكر القاسم بن زكريا البغدادي) was a Baghdadi Qur'an reader and hadith transmitter, born around 834, who taught Ibn Mujahid and died in 917.
Ibn Zakariya Nahrawani
Ibn Zakariya Nahrawani, also called Ibn Tarara, was a tenth-century Iraqi scholar of fiqh, hadith, and tafsir who served as a deputy judge in Baghdad and died in 1000.
Ibn Zamrak
Ibn Zamrak (ابن زمرك) was an Andalusi Arab poet and vizier of the Nasrid emirate of Granada, born about 1333, serving Sultan Muhammad V; some Alhambra inscriptions are his.