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al-Azm family
The al-Azm family (آل العظم) was a Damascene household of Ottoman governors that ruled Syria for most of the eighteenth century, serving as governors of Damascus and other provinces.
Al-Azraqi
Al-Azraqi (الأزرقي) was a ninth-century Meccan historian and genealogist under the Abbasids, author of Akhbar Makka, the earliest surviving history of Mecca, completed around 864 and a principal source on the Kaaba and Hajj.
Al-Babtain Library of Modern Arabic Poetry
The Al-Babtain Library of Modern Arabic Poetry, also known as the Al-Babtain Central Library for Arabic Poetry, is a specialist research library in Kuwait City opened in 2006.
Al-Babtain Prize for Poetry
The Al-Babtain Prize for Poetry (جائزة البابطين) is a Kuwait-based annual award honoring poets and poetry critics from across the Arab world, founded in 1989.
Al-Badhira'i (Abu al-Makarim al-Mubarak ibn Muhammad ibn al-Mu'ammar)
Al-Badhira'i (الباذرائي), fully Abu al-Makarim al-Mubarak ibn Muhammad, was a hadith transmitter of Baghdad who died in 1172; critics graded him from saduq to weak, and no works survive.
al-Baghawi
al-Baghawi (البغوي), fully Abu Muhammad al-Husayn ibn Mas'ud al-Farra' al-Baghawi, was a Khurasani Shafi'i jurist and hadith scholar (c. 1041–1123) whose tafsir Ma'alim al-Tanzil and hadith collection Masabih al-Sunna remained standard works for centuries.
Al-Bahrani
Al-Bahrani (البهراني), fully Muhammad ibn Tammam ibn Salih, kunya Abu Bakr, was a Sunni hadith scholar of Homs and Damascus who died in 313 AH (925 CE).
al-Baji
al-Baji (الباجي), full name Sulayman ibn Khalaf, known as Abu al-Walid, was an Andalusi Maliki jurist, qadi, and poet (1012–1082) who wrote al-Muntaqa, a commentary on Malik's Muwatta'.
al-Bakri
Al-Bakri (أبو عبيد البكري) was an eleventh-century Andalusi geographer and historian who died in Cordoba in 1094; his Book of Roads and Kingdoms is a key source on West Africa.
Al-Bakri's description of Ghana
Al-Bakri's description of Ghana is the account of the Ghana empire in the Kitāb al-Masālik waʾl-Mamālik (كتاب المسالك والممالك), compiled around 1067 by the Andalusi geographer al-Bakri.
Al-Baladhuri
Al-Baladhuri (البلاذري) was a ninth-century historian and court companion in Abbasid Baghdad, known for Futuh al-Buldan on the Islamic conquests and Ansab al-Ashraf.
Al-Balagh al-Usbu'i
Al-Balagh al-Usbu'i (البلاغ الأسبوعي) was a weekly Arabic-language periodical published in Egypt from 1926 to 1930, a Wafd party paper edited by Abd al-Qadir Hamzah.
Al-Bandaniji
Al-Bandaniji (البندنيجي) was a blind Sunni jurist of the Shafi'i school, a student of Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi who spent forty years in Mecca as mufti and hadith transmitter, dying in 1102.
Al-Baqara
Al-Baqara (Arabic: سورة البقرة, Surat al-Baqarah, "The Cow") is the second and longest surah of the Quran, a Medinan chapter of 286 verses containing the Throne Verse.
Al-Baqara 256
Al-Baqara 256, known as "no compulsion in religion" (lā ikrāha fī d-dīn), is a verse of Sūrat al-Baqarah of the Quran, following the Verse of the Throne.
Al-Baqarah 285–286
Al-Baqarah 285–286, the last two verses of Surah al-Baqarah (سورة البقرة), close the Quran's second chapter with a declaration of faith and a prayer for pardon and ease.
Al-Baqi Cemetery
Al-Baqi Cemetery (Jannat al-Baqi, Baqi al-Gharqad) is Medina's main cemetery beside the Prophet's Mosque, holding about 10,000 Companions, the Prophet's family, and four Shia Imams; its mausoleums were demolished in 1806 and 1925.
Al-Bara' ibn 'Azib
Al-Bara' ibn 'Azib (البراء بن عازب) was an Ansari Companion of Muhammad and a prolific hadith transmitter who fought at the Trench and died in Kufa around 691.
Al-Bara' ibn Malik
Al-Bara' ibn Malik was a companion of Muhammad from the Khazraj tribe of Medina, famed for single combat and martyred at the fortress of Tustar.
Al-Bari' al-Husayn ibn Muhammad
Al-Bari' al-Husayn ibn Muhammad (al-Bari') was a Baghdad-born Sunni scholar of grammar, language, and Quranic recitation, and a poet, who lived from 1051 to 1129 or 1130.
al-Barq al-Shami
Al-Barq al-Shami is a chronicle by Imad al-Din al-Isfahani, secretary to Nur al-Din and Saladin, covering 1166 to 1193; of seven parts, only two survive in manuscript.
al-Basasiri
al-Basasiri (البساسيري) was a Turkic military slave who rose to command in Abbasid Iraq, occupied Baghdad in 1058, and transferred caliphal allegiance to the Fatimids.
Al-Bass necropolis
Al-Bass necropolis (موقع آثار البص), also called the al-Bass archaeological area, is the ancient necropolis of Tyre in Lebanon, the largest known Phoenician necropolis in the eastern Mediterranean.
Al-Bassa
Al-Bassa (البصة) was a large Palestinian village in the Acre District, 19 km north of Acre, captured on 14 May 1948 during Operation Ben-Ami; its people were displaced and settlements including Shlomi were built on its lands.
Al-Battani
Al-Battani (Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Jābir al-Battānī), Latinized as Albategnius, was an Islamic astronomer and mathematician who observed at Raqqa from 877 to 918; his Ṣābiʾ Zīj influenced Copernicus.
Al-Bayan wa-l-Tabyin
Al-Bayan wa-l-Tabyin (البيان والتبيين) is a three-volume Abbasid work on eloquence, rhetoric, and language by al-Jahiz of Basra, completed late in his life before his death in 868 CE.
al-Baydawi
Al-Baydawi (البيضاوي), fully Naser-al-Din Abd-Allah ibn Umar al-Baydawi, was a Persian Shafi'i jurist and Quran commentator, chief judge of Fars under the Ilkhanid Mongols, whose commentary Anwar al-tanzil became a standard madrasa textbook for centuries.
al-Baydhaq
al-Baydhaq (البيذق), full name Abu Bakr ibn Ali al-Sanhaji, was a twelfth-century chronicler of the Almohad movement and companion of Ibn Tumart, known for his eyewitness account of the Almohad state's rise.
al-Bayhaqi
al-Bayhaqi (البيهقي), known as Ibn Funduq, was a 12th-century Iranian polymath who wrote the Tarikh-e Bayhaq, a history of Bayhaq in Khurasan completed in 1168.
Al-Bayyani
Al-Bayyani (البياني) was an Andalusi jurist and hadith scholar of Cordoba, born after 835 CE and died in 276 AH, a self-described mujtahid who rejected taqlid and managed Emir Muhammad's official documents.