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Ahmad al-Barzani
Ahmad al-Barzani (أحمد البرزاني) was a Kurdish religious and tribal leader of Barzan in northeastern Iraq, who led the first Barzan revolt of 1931–1932 against the Iraqi monarchy.
Ahmad al-Damanhuri
Ahmad al-Damanhuri (أحمد الدمنهوري), born around 1690, was an Egyptian Muslim scholar who served as the tenth Shaykh al-Azhar from 1768 until his death in 1778.
Ahmad al-Damhuji
Ahmad al-Damhuji (أحمد الدمهوجي), born in 1761, was a Shafi'i scholar who served as the fifteenth Grand Imam of al-Azhar around 1829–1831, dying in office at about seventy.
Ahmad al-Darmi
Ahmad al-Darmi (أحمد بن سعيد الدارمي) was a ninth-century Khurasani hadith scholar, jurist, and qadi of Sarakhs who taught in Nishapur and Baghdad and died in 253 AH.
Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi
Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi (Abon Tourab), Malian head of Ansar Dine's morality police, directed the 2012 destruction of Timbuktu mausoleums; first ICC defendant charged solely with cultural heritage destruction and first to plead guilty, sentenced to nine years.
Ahmad al-Ghazzal
Ahmad al-Ghazzal (أحمد الغزال) was a Moroccan scribe, litterateur, and diplomat who served Sultan Muhammad III as chief diplomat to Spain from 1766 to 1775.
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (أحمد الجابر الصباح), born 1885, was ruler of Kuwait from 1921 until his death in 1950, granting the first oil concession in 1934 and seeing Kuwait's first crude oil exported.
Ahmad al-Mansur
Ahmad al-Mansur (أحمد المنصور), called al-Dhahabi ("the Golden"), was the Saadian sultan of Morocco from 1578 to 1603, proclaimed after the battle of Ksar el-Kebir.
Ahmad al-Maqqari
Ahmad al-Maqqari (أحمد المقري التلمساني) was a Maghrebi historian, man of letters, and hadith scholar from Tlemcen, best known for Nafh al-Tib, a biographical history of al-Andalus.
Ahmad al-Rifa'i
Ahmad al-Rifa'i (أحمد الرفاعي) was a Sufi shaykh of Umm Abida in southern Iraq, founder of the Rifa'iyya order, one of the oldest Sufi orders; he died in 1182.
Ahmad al-Safti
Ahmad al-Safti (أحمد السفطي), known as Ahmad al-Sa'im, was a Shafi'i scholar identified as the 18th Grand Imam of al-Azhar, serving from 1838 to 1847.
Ahmad al-Sharif al-Sanusi
Ahmad al-Sharif al-Sanusi (أحمد الشريف السنوسي) led the Senussi Sufi order from 1902 to 1916, commanding resistance to French and Italian colonial expansion in the Sahara and Libya.
Ahmad al-Tayyib al-Bashir
Ahmad al-Tayyib al-Bashir (أحمد الطيب البشير) was a Sudanese Sufi shaykh of the Sammaniyya order, born near Omdurman in 1742 and trained in Mecca and Medina.
Ahmad al-Tijani
Ahmad al-Tijani (أحمد التيجاني) was a North African Sufi shaykh who founded the Tijaniyya order, settling in Fez under the patronage of Sultan Mawlay Sulayman.
Ahmad al-Zarruq
Ahmad al-Zarruq (أحمد زروق) was a Maliki jurist and Shadhili Sufi master of Fez who lived from 1442 to 1493, founded the Zarruqiyya order, and settled in Misrata, Libya, in 1481.
Ahmad AlZaini
Ahmad AlZaini is a Saudi technology entrepreneur who co-founded Foodics in 2014 and leads it as chief executive officer; the Riyadh company raised $198 million and operates in 35 countries.
Ahmad Amin
Ahmad Amin (أحمد أمين) was an Egyptian scholar and historian of Islamic intellectual life who wrote the trilogy Fajr al-Islam, Duha al-Islam, and Zuhr al-Islam.
Ahmad Baba (Mercurian crater)
Ahmad Baba is a roughly 126-127 km impact crater on Mercury at about 58.3°N, named for the writer Ahmad Baba al Massufi (1556-1627) and approved by the IAU in 1979 after Mariner 10 mapping.
Ahmad Baba al-Timbukti
Ahmad Baba al-Timbukti (أحمد بابا التمبكتي) was a Sanhaja Berber Muslim scholar of Timbuktu, a prolific Maliki jurist deported to Marrakesh in 1594 who returned to teach until his death in 1627.
Ahmad Bey of Tunis
Ahmad Bey of Tunis (أحمد باشا باي) ruled the Regency of Tunis from 1837 to 1855 and in 1846 issued the first formal abolition of slavery in the modern Islamic world.
Ahmad bin Muhammad Zain al-Fatani
Ahmad bin Muhammad Zain al-Fatani (1856–1908) was a Patani-born Islamic scholar and publisher who became the central figure in printing Malay religious books in Mecca.
Ahmad Bukr
Ahmad Bukr (أحمد بكر) was a sultan of Darfur of the Keira dynasty, reigning from 1682 to 1722, who expanded the sultanate and laid its administrative foundations.
Ahmad Dahlan
K.H. Ahmad Dahlan, born Muhammad Darwis, was a religious scholar of the Yogyakarta Sultanate who founded the Islamic reform organization Muhammadiyah in 1912 and was declared a National Hero of Indonesia in 1961.
Ahmad Dhani
Ahmad Dhani, born Dhani Ahmad Prasetyo, is an Indonesian musician, keyboardist, producer, and songwriter who founded the influential band Dewa 19 in 1986 and wrote more than 200 songs.
Ahmad Donish
Ahmad Donish (احمد دانش, 1827–1897), known as Ahmad Kalla and Mohandes, was a Tajik historian, poet, astronomer, and reformer who served the amirs of Bukhara and shaped Central Asian reform thought.
Ahmad Ghazali
Ahmad Ghazali (احمد غزالی), died 1123 or 1126, was a Persian Sufi master and writer, younger brother of al-Ghazali, and author of the Sawanih, the first Persian treatise on mystical love.
Ahmad Hardy
Ahmad Hardy (born 2005) is an American college football running back from Oma, Mississippi, who starred at Louisiana-Monroe and Missouri, rushing for 1,649 SEC-leading yards in 2025 as a consensus All-American and Doak Walker finalist.
Ahmad I ibn Mustafa
Ahmad I ibn Mustafa, known as Ahmed I Bey, was the Husainid Bey of Tunis from 1837 to 1855, best known for abolishing slavery in Tunisia in 1846.
Ahmad I of Ifriqiya
Ahmad I of Ifriqiya, Abu Ibrahim Ahmad b. Muhammad I, was an Aghlabid emir who ruled Ifriqiya from 856 to 863 and added to Kairouan's Great Mosque.
Ahmad ibn Abd al-Malik al-Asadi
Ahmad ibn Abd al-Malik al-Asadi (أحمد بن عبد الملك الأسدي) was a ninth-century hadith transmitter of Harran and Baghdad, cited by al-Bukhari and al-Nasa'i, whose reliability classical scholars sharply disputed.