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Muhammad al-Fahham
Muhammad al-Fahham (محمد محمد الفحام) was an Egyptian Azharite scholar and linguist who served as Grand Shaykh of al-Azhar from 1969 to 1973, appointed by President Nasser after the 1967 defeat.
Muhammad al-Fayturi
Muhammad al-Fayturi (محمد الفيتوري), full name Muhammad Miftah al-Fayturi, was a Sudanese-born poet, 1936 to 2015, known as "the poet of Africa" for collections on African identity and colonialism.
Muhammad al-Hajj al-Muqrani
Muhammad al-Hajj al-Muqrani, also written Mohamed El Mokrani (c. 1815 – 1871), was an Algerian aristocrat who led the Mokrani revolt, the largest insurrection against French rule since 1830.
Muhammad al-Idrisi
Muhammad al-Idrisi (1100–1165), also known as Al-Idrisi, was an Arab geographer and cartographer born in Ceuta who wrote the Nuzhat al-Mushtaq world geography for Roger II of Sicily.
Muhammad al-Ifrani
Muhammad al-Ifrani (محمد الإفراني), known as al-Saghir, was a Moroccan historian, biographer, and jurist born in Marrakesh in 1669, famous for his chronicle of the Sa'did dynasty.
Muhammad al-Jawad
Muhammad al-Jawad (محمد الجواد), also called Muhammad al-Taqi, was the son of Ali al-Rida who led the Imami community for 17 years until his death in Baghdad in 835.
Muhammad al-Jazuli
Muhammad al-Jazuli (محمد الجزولي) was a 15th-century Moroccan Sufi and jurist who founded the Jazuliyya branch of the Shadhiliyya order and compiled the prayer collection Dala'il al-Khayrat.
Muhammad al-Kattani
Muhammad al-Kattani (محمد بن جعفر الكتاني, 1858–1927) was a Moroccan Muslim scholar of hadith, Maliki jurist, historian, and Sufi born in Fez, author of about sixty works.
Muhammad al-Kharashi
Muhammad al-Kharashi (محمد بن عبد الله الخرشي) was an Egyptian Maliki jurist who was the first Shaykh al-Azhar, holding the newly created office from 1679 until his death in 1690.
Muhammad al-Khidr Husayn
Muhammad al-Khidr Husayn (محمد الخضر حسين) was a Tunisian-born Islamic scholar who served as Shaykh al-Azhar, the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, from 1952 until his resignation in 1954.
Muhammad al-Maghut
Muhammad al-Maghut (محمد الماغوط; 1934–2006) was a Syrian poet, playwright, and journalist, born in Salamiyah and died in Damascus, widely credited with introducing free verse into Arabic poetry.
Muhammad al-Mahdi (محمد المهدي)
Muhammad al-Mahdi (محمد المهدي) is the twelfth and final Imam of Twelver Shi'ism, born in Samarra, Iraq, in 869 and hidden in occultation since 874.
Muhammad al-Mahdi al-Abbasi
Muhammad al-Mahdi al-Abbasi (محمد المهدي العباسي) was an Egyptian Hanafi scholar who served as Grand Mufti of Egypt and twice as Grand Imam of al-Azhar, the first Hanafi to hold the office.
Muhammad al-Mahdi al-Sanusi
Muhammad al-Mahdi al-Sanusi (محمد المهدي السنوسي), born in 1844 in Libya, was the second head of the Sanusiyya Sufi order from 1859 until his death in 1902.
Muhammad al-Makhzangi
Muhammad al-Makhzangi (محمد المخزنجي), born 1949 in Mansoura, Egypt, is a physician, psychiatrist, and writer known for very short stories and the Chernobyl book Memories of a Meltdown.
Muhammad al-Nashrati
Muhammad al-Nashrati (محمد النشرتي) was an Egyptian Maliki jurist who served as the third Grand Imam of al-Azhar from 1695 until his death in 1709, leaving no written works.
Muhammad al-Nasir
Muhammad al-Nasir (محمد الناصر) was an Almohad caliph from 1199 to 1213 who re-established control over Ifriqiya but was defeated at Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212.
Muhammad al-Nasir al-Dila'i
Muhammad al-Nasir al-Dila'i is the name under which Arabic biographical literature knows Muhammad ibn Abd al-Salam al-Nasiri, an eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Moroccan hadith scholar titled 'the leading scholar of hadith'.
Muhammad al-Nur ibn Abdallah
Muhammad al-Nur ibn Abdallah, known as Katib al-Shuna (كاتب الشونة), was a Sudanese chronicler born around 1785 in the Gezira, principal author of the Funj Chronicle covering the Funj sultanate.
Muhammad al-Nur wad Dayfallah
Muhammad al-Nur wad Dayfallah (محمد النور واد ضيف الله) was a Sudanese jurist and historian of the Funj era who wrote the Tabaqat, a biographical dictionary of Sufi figures.
Muhammad al-Rida al-Sanusi
Muhammad al-Rida al-Sanusi was a Libyan prince, younger brother of King Idris, and the first Crown Prince of independent Libya from 1953 until his death in 1955.
Muhammad al-Sadiq Bey
Muhammad al-Sadiq Bey (محمد الصادق باي) was Bey of Tunis of the Husainid dynasty from 1859 to 1882, promulgating the 1861 constitution and signing the 1881 Treaty of Bardo.
Muhammad al-Saffar
Muhammad al-Saffar (محمد الصفار) was a Moroccan jurist and diplomat, born in Tetouan in 1810, known for his account of a mission to Paris in 1845.
Muhammad al-Shanwani
Muhammad al-Shanwani (محمد بن علي الشنواني) was an Egyptian Shafi'i scholar who served as the 13th Grand Imam of al-Azhar from 1812 until his death in 1818.
Muhammad al-Shaybani
Muhammad al-Shaybani (محمد بن الحسن الشيباني) was an Abbasid jurist who served Harun al-Rashid as a judge and helped found the Hanafi school of Islamic law.
Muhammad al-Shaykh
Muhammad al-Shaykh (محمد الشيخ) was a sultan of the Saadian dynasty of Morocco who defeated the ruling Wattasids, conquered Fez and Marrakech, and united the country under Saadian rule.
Muhammad al-Shaykh al-Ma'mun
Muhammad al-Shaykh al-Ma'mun (محمد الشيخ المأمون) was a Saadian prince of Morocco, son of Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur, who contested the succession after 1603 and was assassinated in 1613.
Muhammad al-Shaykh al-Mahdi
Muhammad al-Shaykh al-Mahdi (أبو زكرياء محمد الشيخ المهدي) was the first sultan of Morocco's Wattasid dynasty, ruling from Fez from 1472 to 1504 and contending with Portuguese occupation of the coast.
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Clay (1942-2016), American heavyweight boxing champion who won the title three times, won 1960 Olympic gold, refused the Vietnam draft, and became a civil rights icon.
Muhammad Ali dynasty
Muhammad Ali dynasty, also called the Alawiyya dynasty, ruled Egypt 1805–1952/1953. Founded by Albanian-born Ottoman officer Muhammad Ali Pasha; hereditary rule granted 1840; ended by the 1952 revolution.