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Ahmad ibn Najda al-Harawi

Ahmad ibn Najda al-Harawi (أحمد بن نجدة الهروي) was a trusted hadith transmitter of Herat who died in 908 CE and wrote works on the Quran and faith.

Ahmad ibn Nasr al-Khuza'i

Ahmad ibn Nasr al-Khuza'i (أحمد بن نصر الخزاعي) was a Baghdad hadith scholar executed by the Abbasid caliph al-Wathiq in 846 for refusing to declare the Qur'an created.

Ahmad ibn Nasr al-Qurashi

Ahmad ibn Nasr al-Qurashi (أحمد بن نصر القرشي) was a ninth-century Sunni hadith narrator, Quran reciter, jurist, and ascetic of Nishapur, rated reliable, who died peacefully in 859.

Ahmad ibn Sa'id al-Hamdani

Ahmad ibn Sa'id al-Hamdani was a Sunni hadith transmitter in Egypt who died in 253 AH; a student of Ibn Wahb, he taught Abu Dawud and al-Nasa'i.

Ahmad ibn Said

Ahmad ibn Said (أحمد بن سعيد البوسعيدي) was the ruler of Oman who expelled the Persians in 1744 and founded the Al Bu Said dynasty.

Ahmad ibn Sayyar al-Marwazi (أحمد بن سيار المروزي) was a Sunni hadith narrator, Shafi'i jurist, and historian of Merv who lived from 814 to 881 and is credited with spreading Shafi'i fiqh in Khurasan.

Ahmad ibn Shabib al-Habti

Ahmad ibn Shabib al-Habti was a Basran hadith transmitter, resident in Mecca, who died in 229 AH; al-Bukhari relied on him uniquely in the Sahih.

Ahmad ibn Sinan al-Wasiti

Ahmad ibn Sinan al-Wasiti (أحمد بن سنان الواسطي) was a Sunni hadith scholar of Wasit in Abbasid Iraq who taught al-Bukhari, Muslim, and other collectors of the canonical Sunni collections.

Ahmad ibn Tulun's seizure of Egypt

Ahmad ibn Tulun's seizure of Egypt (أحمد بن طولون) was the takeover of Egypt by Ahmad ibn Tulun, who by 872 made the province de facto independent.

Ahmad ibn Yunus al-Dabbi

Ahmad ibn Yunus al-Dabbi was a Sunni hadith scholar who settled in Isfahan, where he died in 882; Ahmad ibn Hanbal called him the shaykh of Islam.

Ahmad Jalayir

Ahmad Jalayir (احمد جلایر) was sultan of the Jalayirid state in Iraq and Azerbaijan from 1382 to 1410, seizing the throne by killing his brother Sultan Huseyin.

Ahmad Jamal

Ahmad Jamal (Frederick Russell Jones, 1930-2023), American jazz pianist and NEA Jazz Master from Pittsburgh; his spacious trio style and album At the Pershing: But Not for Me shaped Miles Davis and modern jazz piano.

Ahmad Jurjani

Ahmad Jurjani, or Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Isma'ili al-Jurjani, was a Sunni hadith scholar and Shafi'i jurist of Jurjan, Persia, who died in 371 AH at about 94.

Ahmad Kamal Pasha

Ahmad Kamal Pasha (أحمد كمال باشا) was an Egyptian Egyptologist, born in Cairo in 1851, the first Egyptian in a field then monopolized by foreign scholars.

Ahmad Karamanli

Ahmad Karamanli (أحمد القرمانلي) was a cavalry officer who seized Tripoli in 1711 and founded the Karamanli dynasty, ruling Libya until 1745 and unifying it by subduing Fezzan.

Ahmad Kasravi

Ahmad Kasravi (احمد کسروی) was an Iranian historian, judge, linguist, and social and religious reformer who wrote a history of the Constitutional Revolution and was assassinated in 1946.

Ahmad Khalid Abdelrazaq

Ahmad Khalid Abdelrazaq is an American structural engineer who was chief technical director for the Burj Khalifa and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.

Ahmad Khalil

Ahmad S. Khalil is a synthetic biologist and biomedical engineer, Professor at Boston University, whose lab designs molecular circuits in cells and studies how antibiotics kill bacteria.

Sep 24, 2026

Ahmad Khan

Ahmad Khan (Ахмад-хан), also written Akhmat, was khan of the Great Horde until 1481, remembered for the failed Ugra River standoff against Ivan III of Moscow.

Ahmad Khan Kharal

Ahmad Khan Kharal, also known as Rai Ahmad Khan Kharal (احمد خان کھرل), was a Punjabi chieftain who led the 1857 uprising against British rule.

Ahmad Khattu

Ahmad Khattu (احمد خطو), also known as Ahmad Maghribi, was a Sufi saint of the Maghribi order who settled at Sarkhej near Ahmedabad, Gujarat, dying there in 1446.

Ahmad Lutfi al-Sayyid

Ahmad Lutfi al-Sayyid (أحمد لطفي السيد) was an Egyptian intellectual, lawyer, and anti-colonial activist who founded the Umma Party, helped found the Wafd, and led Cairo University.

Oct 22, 2026

Ahmad Mahmoud

Ahmad Mahmoud (احمد محمود) was an Iranian novelist and short-story writer, born in Ahvaz in 1931, best known for Hamsayeha (The Neighbors) and a trilogy following one protagonist from the Mosaddeq era to the Iran-Iraq War.

Ahmad Massoud (احمد مسعود)

Ahmad Massoud (احمد مسعود), son of commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, leads Afghanistan's National Resistance Front against the Taliban; founded August 2021 in Panjshir, exiled in Tajikistan after September 2021, now guerrilla warfare and Vienna Process diplomacy.