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Ibrahim al-Birmawi
Ibrahim al-Birmawi (إبراهيم البرماوي) was an Egyptian Shafi'i jurist who served as the second Grand Shaykh of al-Azhar from 1690 until his death in 1694 or 1695.
Ibrahim al-Koni
Ibrahim al-Koni (إبراهيم الكوني), born 1948 in Ghadames, Libya, is a Tuareg novelist whose more than 70 works on the Sahara, including The Bleeding of the Stone, are translated into over 40 languages.
Ibrahim al-Kurani
Ibrahim al-Kurani (إبراهيم الكراني), 1616 to 1690, was a Kurdish Shafi'i hadith scholar and Sufi master of the Shattariyya who taught in Medina for nearly four decades.
Ibrahim al-Mawsili
Ibrahim al-Mawsili (إبراهيم الموصلي) was a singer, composer, and court companion of the early Abbasid caliphs, born in Kufa around 742 and ranked among the era's greatest musicians.
Ibrahim al-Nakha'i
Ibrahim al-Nakha'i (إبراهيم النخعي) was a jurist and hadith transmitter of Kufa in Iraq, the leading Follower of the Kufan legal tradition, who died in 714–715.
Ibrahim al-Yaziji
Ibrahim al-Yaziji (إبراهيم اليازجي) was a Lebanese philologist, poet, and journalist who spent nine years revising the Jesuit Arabic Bible translation and founded journals in Cairo.
Ibrahim Alhakmi
Ibrahim Al Hakami (ابراهيم الحكمي) is a Saudi khaleeji and Arabic folk-pop singer who won the pan-Arab talent show Super Star in 2006, the first Saudi to do so.
Ibrahim Ali Khan (actor)
Ibrahim Ali Khan, Bollywood actor, son of Saif Ali Khan and Amrita Singh; debuted in Netflix's Nadaaniyan (2025), followed by Sarzameen; upcoming film Diler.
Ibrahim Aqil (إبراهيم عقيل)
Ibrahim Aqil (إبراهيم عقيل), alias Tahsin or Hajj Abd al-Qader, was a senior Hezbollah commander on the Jihad Council who headed operations and the Radwan Force; killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut's Dahieh, September 20, 2024, aged 61, with a $7 million U.S. reward.
Ibrahim Babangida
Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), Nigerian Army general born 1941 in Minna, ruled Nigeria as military president 27 August 1985 to 26 August 1993 after ousting Buhari, led the 1986 Structural Adjustment Program, and is chiefly known for annulling the June 12, 1993 election won by MKO Abiola.
Ibrahim Bek
Ibrahim Bek (Ибрагим-бек) was an Uzbek Lakai leader of the basmachi movement, the armed anti-Soviet resistance in Central Asia, executed in Tashkent after his 1931 surrender.
Ibrahim Bek's revolt
Ibrahim Bek's revolt was the Basmachi insurgency led by Ibrahim Bek, an Uzbek Lokai commander, against Soviet rule in Eastern Bukhara from the early 1920s until 1931.
Ibrahim Bey
Ibrahim Bey (إبراهيم بك) was a Mamluk emir of Ottoman Egypt who headed its joint government with Murad Bey from 1775, ruling until the French invasion of 1798.
İbrahim Çallı
İbrahim Çallı was a Turkish Impressionist painter, born in Çal in 1882, who led the 1914 Generation bringing French modern painting to Turkey and taught until 1947.
Ibrahim Chatta
Ibrahim Chatta (born Ibrahim Abiodun Chatta, 1970) is a Nigerian actor, singer, producer, and director of Yoruba-language cinema; began acting in 1985, famous for Aiyekooto (2012), founder of Africhatta Film Village.
Ibrahim Dabo
Ibrahim Dabo was Emir of Kano, in what is now northern Nigeria, from 1819 to 1846, restoring central authority after the upheavals of the Sokoto jihad.
Ibrahim Diarra (footballer)
Ibrahim Diarra, born 2006 in Mali, is a Malian left-sided midfielder and winger at FC Barcelona Atlètic; Africa Foot Academy product, 2023 U-17 World Cup captain with 5 goals, joined Barça 2024 until 2028.
Ibrahim El-Salahi
Ibrahim El-Salahi (إبراهيم الصلحي), born in 1930, is a Sudanese painter and foundational figure of African modernism who co-founded the Khartoum School, blending Arabic calligraphy with modernist art.
Ibrahim Ferrer
Ibrahim Ferrer (1927-2005) was a Cuban son and bolero singer from San Luis, Santiago de Cuba, rediscovered at age 70 for the Grammy-winning Buena Vista Social Club album (1997) after years shining shoes in Havana, later winning a Grammy for Buenos Hermanos.
Ibrahim Hamrush
Ibrahim Hamrush (إبراهيم حمروش; 1880–1960) was an Egyptian Hanafi scholar who served as Grand Imam of al-Azhar from September 1951 until King Farouk dismissed him in February 1952.
Ibrahim Hananu
Ibrahim Hananu (إبراهيم هنانو) was a Syrian nationalist leader who led the 1920 revolt of the North against the French occupation and chaired the 1928 constitution committee.
Ibrahim I ibn al-Aghlab
Ibrahim I ibn al-Aghlab (إبراهيم بن الأغلب) was the founder and first emir of the Aghlabid dynasty in Ifriqiya, appointed by the caliph Harun al-Rashid in 800.
Ibrahim I of Shirvan
Ibrahim I of Shirvan, also known as Shaikh Ibrahim Darbandi, was the Shirvanshah who ruled Shirvan from 1382 to 1417 and founded the Derbendi dynasty.
Ibrahim ibn Abdallah
Ibrahim ibn Abdallah (إبراهيم بن عبد الله) was a Hasanid descendant of Hasan ibn Ali who led a revolt against the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur from Basra in 762–763.
Ibrahim ibn Adham
Ibrahim ibn Adham (إبراهيم بن أدهم) was an eighth-century ascetic and mystic from Balkh in Khurasan, later settled in Syria, who died around 777–778 as a frontier volunteer against Byzantium.
Ibrahim ibn al-Ashtar
Ibrahim ibn al-Ashtar (إبراهيم بن الأشتر) was an Arab commander who defeated and killed the Umayyad general Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad at the battle of Khazir in 686.
Ibrahim ibn al-Walid
Ibrahim ibn al-Walid (إبراهيم بن الوليد) was an Umayyad caliph who reigned at Damascus in 744, succeeding his brother Yazid III before yielding to Marwan II.
Ibrahim ibn Hammad al-Azdi
Ibrahim ibn Hammad al-Azdi (إبراهيم بن حماد) was a Basran-born Maliki judge and hadith transmitter of the family of Hammad ibn Zayd, dying in Baghdad in 934.
Ibrahim ibn Hamza al-Asadi
Ibrahim ibn Hamza al-Asadi (إبراهيم بن حمزة الأسدي) was a Medinan hadith transmitter who died in 230 AH (845 CE); his narrations appear in Sahih al-Bukhari.
Ibrahim ibn Ma'qil al-Nasafi
Ibrahim ibn Ma'qil al-Nasafi (إبراهيم بن معقل النسفي), kunya Abu Ishaq, was a Hanafi hadith scholar and qadi of Nasaf in Transoxiana who died in 907/908.