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Sulayhid conquest of Yemen

The Sulayhid conquest of Yemen was Ali ibn Muhammad al-Sulayhi's campaign, from 1047 to 1063, that brought most of Yemen under one rule in allegiance to the Fatimid caliphate.

Sulayhid da'wa in Yemen

The Sulayhid da'wa in Yemen (الدعوة الإسماعيلية في اليمن السليحي) was the Yemeni branch of the Fatimid Ismaili mission, headed by the Sulayhid dynasty from 1038 to 1138.

Sulayhid dynasty

The Sulayhid dynasty, founded by Ali ibn Muhammad al-Sulayhi in 1047, ruled most of Yemen as a Fatimid vassal and ended with Queen Arwa's death in 1138.

Sulaym ibn Qays

Sulaym ibn Qays (سليم بن قيس) was an Arab of Kufa whom Shia tradition counts as a companion of Ali and author of the Kitab Sulaym ibn Qays.

Sulayman Abu Layla

Sulayman Abu Layla (سليمان أبو ليلى), originally named Süleyman Ağa, was a Georgian mamluk who governed Ottoman Baghdad and Basra from 1749 to 1762 and founded the Mamluk dynasty of Iraq, which lasted until 1831.

Sulayman al-Baruni

Sulayman al-Baruni (سليمان الباروني) was an Ibadi Muslim scholar, journalist, and politician from the Jabal Nafusah mountains of Libya who served in the Ottoman parliament and led resistance to Italy from 1911.

Sulayman al-Issa

Sulayman al-Issa (سليمان العيسى) was a Syrian poet, born in 1921 and best known for the large body of children's poetry and songs he wrote after 1967.

Sulayman al-Mahri

Sulayman al-Mahri (سليمان المهري) was a Yemeni sea captain and nautical astronomer from Shihr, active in the early 16th century, counted the second Arab navigational geographer after Ahmad ibn Majid.

Sulayman al-Mustain

Sulayman al-Mustain (سليمان بن الحكم), in full Sulayman ibn al-Hakam, was a caliph of the Umayyad dynasty of Cordoba who held the throne twice, in 1009–1010 and 1013–1016.

Sulayman Baal

Sulayman Baal, also spelled Souleymane Baal, was an eighteenth-century Islamic scholar and warrior whose revolt overthrew the Denianke dynasty in Futa Toro, in northern Senegal, in 1776.

Sulayman Bal

Sulayman Bal (سليمان بال), also written Thierno Souleymane Baal, was a Torodbe scholar from Futa Toro who led the revolution of 1770–1776 that founded the theocratic Almamiyat.

Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik

Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik was the seventh Umayyad caliph, ruling 715 to 717. He oversaw the conquest of Tabaristan and the massive 717–718 expedition against Constantinople.

Sulayman ibn al-Hasan

Sulayman ibn al-Hasan, called Soleiman Hacen by João de Barros, was a Shirazi sultan of Kilwa who seized power from his cousin and conquered much of the Swahili Coast.

Sulayman ibn Harb

Sulayman ibn Harb (سليمان بن حرب) was a hadith scholar and memorizer of Basra who served as qadi of Mecca under the caliph al-Ma'mun and died in 839.

Sulayman Pasha al-Azm

Sulayman Pasha al-Azm (سليمان باشا العظم) was an Ottoman governor of Damascus from the Azm family, serving 1734–1738 and 1741–1743, and commanding the Hajj pilgrimage caravan from Syria.

Sulayman Pasha the Great

Sulayman Pasha the Great (Georgian: სულეიმან ბუიუქი) was a Georgian Mamluk who governed the Ottoman pashalik of Baghdad from 1780 until his death in 1802.

Sulaymaniyah

Sulaymaniyah (Slemani, السليمانية), second-largest city of Iraq's Kurdistan Region after Erbil; founded 1784 by Ibrahim Pasha Baban, a Kurdish cultural center of about 1.5 million people with a semi-arid climate and growing water stress.

Sulaymaniyah Governorate

Sulaymaniyah Governorate (Parêzgay Silêmanî, السليمانية) is a Kurdistan Region governorate in eastern Iraq, capital Sulaymaniyah city; 21,071 km², PUK-governed, industrial and agricultural, with Halabja split off in 2014.

Sulbactam

Sulbactam is an irreversible beta-lactamase inhibitor and antibiotic developed by Pfizer, marketed since 1986 with ampicillin as Unasyn and, unusually for a beta-lactamase inhibitor, active against Acinetobacter.

Sulbactam-durlobactam

Sulbactam-durlobactam (XACDURO) is a co-packaged IV antibiotic for HABP/VABP from susceptible Acinetobacter baumannii-calcoaceticus complex; FDA-approved May 2023, IDSA-preferred for CRAB with a carbapenem, non-inferior to colistin in ATTACK.

Sulci

Sulci, also Sulky or Sulcis (Phoenician Sulki), was a Phoenician colony on Sant'Antioco island off Sardinia, founded in the 8th century BC and later a Roman municipium.

Sulci Gordii

Sulci Gordii, a 400-km-wide corrugated terrain of parallel hills and valleys on Mars east of Olympus Mons, an IAU-named (1976) aureole landslide deposit with water- and lava-carved channels and geologically recent activity.

Sulconazole

Sulconazole (Exelderm, Sulcosyn) is a topical imidazole antifungal, 1% cream or solution, FDA-approved 1985, for tinea corporis, cruris, pedis, and versicolor, similar in efficacy to clotrimazole and miconazole.

Sulcotrione

Sulcotrione is a selective triketone herbicide marketed as Mikado, the first HPPD inhibitor for corn, commercialized in 1993 for postemergence control of broadleaf weeds in maize.

Suleika Jaouad

Suleika Jaouad, American Emmy-winning journalist and author of Between Two Kingdoms and The Book of Alchemy; wrote the NYT column Life, Interrupted during leukemia treatment diagnosed at 22, with 2022 recurrence, Isolation Journals newsletter, and the Oscar-nominated documentary American Symphony with husband Jon Batiste.

Suleiman al-Bustani

Suleiman al-Bustani (سليمان البستاني) was a Lebanese Maronite scholar, poet, and Ottoman statesman, best known for his Arabic verse translation of Homer's Iliad and for serving as an Ottoman deputy, senator, and minister.

Suleiman al-Halabi

Suleiman al-Halabi (سليمان الحلبي), 1777 to 1800, was a Syrian student from Aleppo studying at al-Azhar in Cairo who assassinated French general Jean-Baptiste Kleber there in 1800.

Suleiman Cassamo

Suleiman Cassamo, born 1962, is a Mozambican writer whose story collection O Regresso do Morto was named by UNESCO a representative work of universal literary heritage in 1994.

Suleiman I of Persia

Suleiman I of Persia, born Sam Mirza, was the eighth Safavid shah of Iran, reigning 1666 to 1694; he was crowned twice, first as Safi II in 1666.

Suleiman ibn Qutalmish

Suleiman ibn Qutalmish (Suleiman Shah I, d. 479 AH/1086), Seljuk prince of the Qutalmish branch, founder and first sultan of the Sultanate of Rum, based at Nicaea from about 1077, conqueror of Antioch in 477 AH, killed fighting Tutush of Damascus.