All articles starting with K

Khalid ibn Ma'dan

Khalid ibn Ma'dan (خالد بن معدان) was a Syrian Successor, jurist, and ascetic of Homs who died in 103 AH (721 CE) and met seventy of the Prophet's Companions.

Khalid ibn Muhammad al-Saffar

Khalid ibn Muhammad al-Saffar (الصفار أبو محمد خالد بن محمد) was a Baghdad hadith transmitter and coppersmith who died in 310 AH (922 CE), aged over ninety.

Khalid ibn Saud

Khalid ibn Saud (خالد بن سعود) was a member of the Al Saud dynasty who ruled Najd as amir in the early 1840s, installed by Egyptian forces.

Khalid ibn Yazid

Khalid ibn Yazid (خالد بن يزيد) was an Umayyad prince, son of Caliph Yazid I, designated heir in 683 but passed over, and remembered as a founder of Islamic alchemy.

Khalid ibn Yazid al-Hamdani

Khalid ibn Yazid al-Hamdani was a second-century AH Sunni hadith transmitter of Damascus who died in 185 AH; hadith critics were sharply divided on his reliability.

Sep 21, 2026

Khalid Iqbal

Khalid Iqbal is a neurochemist, known as the "father of tau," who discovered that Alzheimer's paired helical filaments are made of abnormally hyperphosphorylated tau protein.

Sep 19, 2026

Khalid Juma Al Majid

Khalid Juma Al Majid, born in 1964, is a Dubai businessman and Vice Chairman of Juma Al Majid Holding Group, the conglomerate his father founded in 1950.

Oct 21, 2026

Khalid Mahmood

Khalid Mahmood (Hussain Khalid Mahmood), Pakistani field hockey right winger, 1941-2026; Olympic silver 1964 and gold 1968, captain of the 1970 Asian Games and 1971 World Cup winning Pakistan teams.

Sep 27, 2026

Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui

Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui is a Pakistani politician who serves as Federal Minister for Federal Education and Professional Training and chairs the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P).

Khalid of Saudi Arabia (خالد بن عبد العزيز آل سعود)

Khalid of Saudi Arabia (خالد بن عبد العزيز آل سعود), fourth King of Saudi Arabia, reigned 1975–1982 after Faisal's assassination; oversaw oil-boom development plans, the 1979 Grand Mosque seizure response, and was succeeded by Fahd.

Sep 20, 2026

Khalid Salaita

Khalid Salaita is a biophysical chemist and Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor at Emory University, known for inventing the first molecular tension probe and winning the 2023 Merck Future Insight Prize.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (خالد شيخ محمد)

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (خالد شيخ محمد), alias Mukhtar, alleged 9/11 mastermind and al-Qaida Chief of External Operations, captured in Rawalpindi in 2003, waterboarded 183 times, held at Guantánamo since 2006; his 2024 guilty-plea deal was revoked by Defense Secretary Austin.

Oct 21, 2026

Khalid Skah

Khalid Skah (خالد سكاه), born 1967 in Midelt, Moroccan long-distance runner; Olympic 10,000m champion Barcelona 1992 after disqualification and reinstatement, and world cross-country champion 1990 and 1991.

Khalida Boufedeche

Khalida Boufedeche (Khalida Boufedech, خليدة بوفدش), born 1982, is an Algerian FLN physician-allergologist elected 28 July 2026 as the first woman Speaker of the People's National Assembly, winning 302 of 366 votes for a five-year term.

Khalifa

Khalifa (khalīfah, خليفة), "successor" or "deputy," is the Arabic title of the caliph, leader of the Muslim community after Muhammad; the office (khilafah, caliphate) ran from 632 until its abolition by Turkey on 3 March 1924, with later claims such as ISIS's al-Baghdadi.

Khalifa Ahmad Mubarak

Khalifa Ahmad Mubarak (خليفة المبارك), UAE ambassador to Sudan, Syria, and France, assassinated in Paris on 8 February 1984 by the Abu Nidal group; father of Mubadala chief Khaldoon Al Mubarak, honored with a Legion of Honor and Abu Dhabi commemorations.

Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani

Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani (خليفة بن حمد آل ثاني) was the Amir of Qatar from 1972 to 1995, when his son Hamad bin Khalifa deposed him.

Khalifa Haftar

Khalifa Haftar (خليفة حفتر), born 1943 in Ajdabiya, is Libya's eastern field marshal commanding the LAAF; a 1969 coup officer, ex-CIA-backed exile, and head of a family military dynasty with sons Saddam, Khaled and Belgassem in key posts.

Khalifa ibn Khayyat

Khalifa ibn Khayyat (خليفة بن خياط) was a Basran hadith scholar, historian, and genealogist of the Abbasid caliphate who died in 854. His chronicle al-Ta'rikh is the earliest annalistic history of Islam to survive.

Sep 24, 2026

Khalifa ibn Said

Khalifa ibn Said (خليفة بن سعيد; 1852–1890) was Sultan of Zanzibar from 1888 until his death in 1890, when his treaties leased the mainland coast to German and British companies before Zanzibar became a British protectorate.

Khalifa International Stadium (استاد خليفة الدولي)

Khalifa International Stadium (استاد خليفة الدولي), Doha's national stadium, opened 1976, named for Emir Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani; renovated 2005 and 2017, first 2022 World Cup venue, 40,000 seats, cooled outdoor stadium.

Khalifa Naysaburi

Khalifa Naysaburi is a name not attested for any hadith scholar or commentary on al-Mustadrak; the name given belongs verbatim to al-Hakim al-Naysaburi of Nishapur, who died in 1014.

Khalifa: The Ruler

Khalifa: The Ruler (ഖലീഫ) is a 2026 Malayalam action-crime film by Vysakh and Jinu V. Abraham, starring Prithviraj Sukumaran as gold-smuggling heir Aamir Ali, with Mohanlal as grandfather Mambarakkal Ahmed Ali; released 20 August 2026, first of two parts.