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al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya
Al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya (البداية والنهاية, "The Beginning and the End") is a universal history in Arabic by Ibn Kathir of Damascus, narrating history from creation to the 14th century.
al-Biqa'i
al-Biqa'i (البقاعي), Burhan al-Din Ibrahim ibn Umar, was a Mamluk-era hadith scholar and Quran exegete active in Cairo and Damascus, 1406 to 1480, whose Bible-quoting commentary drew accusations of unbelief.
Al-Biruni (lunar crater)
Al-Biruni is an 80.41 km lunar impact crater at 18.07°N, 92.62°E on the Moon's far side near the eastern limb, named in 1970 for the Persian polymath al-Biruni (973–1048) and photographed by Apollo 16 and 17.
Al-Biruni (أبو الريحان محمد بن أحمد البيروني)
Al-Biruni (Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni, 973-1048), Khwarazmian polymath of the Islamic Golden Age; wrote the Qanun al-Mas'udi on astronomy and Tahqiq ma li-l-Hind on India; pioneer of comparative religion and geodesy.
al-Birzali
al-Birzali (البرزالي) was a hadith scholar and historian of Damascus who lived from 1267 to 1339 and wrote al-Muqtafi, a chronicle continuing Abu Shama's history of the Mamluk period.
Al-Bitriq
Al-Bitriq (البطريق) was a Melkite Christian translator of Greek scientific and medical works into Arabic in Abbasid Baghdad under the caliph al-Mansur, and father of the translator Yahya ibn al-Bitriq.
al-Buhturi
al-Buhturi (البحتري), in full Abu Ubada al-Walid ibn Ubayd, was an Arab Abbasid poet, court panegyrist to six caliphs, best known for his Iwan Kisra ode.
al-Bulqini
al-Bulqini, also known as Siraj al-Din al-Bulqini, was a Shafi'i jurist and hadith scholar of Mamluk Egypt, born in 1323, who served Sultan Barquq and taught Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani.
al-Bundari
al-Bundari (البنداري) was a Persian-born historian, poet, and jurist of the Ayyubid period, known for his Arabic translation of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh and his abridgments of Imad al-Din al-Isfahani.
Al-Buraimi (البريمي)
Al-Buraimi (البريمي) is an Omani oasis town and governorate capital on the UAE border, twin of Al Ain; historically the Buraimi Oasis of nine villages contested by Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, and Muscat in the 1950s.
Al-Burda (قصيدة البردة)
Al-Burda (قصيدة البردة), formally al-Kawākib al-Durriyya, is al-Busiri's 7th-century AH Arabic ode praising the Prophet Muhammad, in ten chapters and about 160 verses, distinct from Ka'b ibn Zuhayr's original Burda and widely recited, commented, and translated.
Al-Burji
Al-Burji (البرجي), Abu al-Qasim Ghanim ibn Muhammad, was a hadith transmitter of Isfahan who died in 511 AH and was called the musnid of Isfahan by al-Dhahabi.
Al-Busaid dynasty
The Al-Busaid dynasty (البوسعيد) is the ruling family of Oman, founded by Ahmad b. Sa'id, an Ibadi leader, in the 1740s after the Ya'ariba dynasty collapsed.
al-Busiri
al-Busiri (البوصيري), full name Sharaf al-Din Muhammad ibn Sa'id al-Sanhaji, was an Egyptian poet of Berber origin, born around 1212, best known for his praise poem of the Prophet Muhammad, the Burdah.
al-Buwayti
Al-Buwayti (البويطي) was an Egyptian jurist who led al-Shafi'i's teaching circle, compiled the earliest compendium of Shafi'i law, and died in prison in Baghdad in 846.
Al-Dabbiya Oil and Gas Field
Al-Dabbiya Oil and Gas Field (حقل الضبعية), also called Al Nouf, is an onshore oil field in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, discovered in 1983 and producing since 2005 under ADNOC Onshore.
Al-Dahhak al-Mushriqi
Al-Dahhak al-Mushriqi (الضحاك المشرقي), usually identified as al-Dahhak ibn Sharahil, was a Kufan Tabi'i hadith transmitter of the Hamdan tribe who narrated from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, with reports in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim.
Al-Dakhmisini
Al-Dakhmisini (الدخمسيني), fully Abu Ahmad Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Hamdan al-Marwazi al-Sayrafi al-Dakhmisini, was a Sunni hadith scholar of Khurasan, a tireless traveler and Samanid companion who died in Bukhara around 345 AH.
Al-Daqqaqi
Al-Daqqaqi (الدقيقي), precisely al-Daqiqi, was a hadith transmitter of Wasit and Baghdad, rated thiqa by al-Daraqutni yet saduq by Abu Hatim, who died in 266 AH.
al-Daraqutni
al-Daraqutni (الدارقطني) was a leading hadith scholar and critic of Baghdad who lived from about 918 to 995 and wrote Kitab al-Ilal on the hidden defects of hadith.
Al-Darawardi
Al-Darawardi (عبد العزيز بن محمد بن عبيد) was a Medinan hadith scholar, the "shaykh of the shaykh" of the six canonical Sunni collection compilers, who died in 187 AH.
Al-Darimi
Al-Darimi (الدارمي), Abu Muhammad Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Samarqandi (797–869), was a hadith scholar and judge of Samarkand, teacher of Bukhari and Muslim, known for the collection Sunan al-Darimi.
al-Daw al-lami li-ahl al-qarn al-tasi
Al-Daw al-lami li-ahl al-qarn al-tasi (الضوء اللامع لأهل القرن التاسع) is a biographical dictionary by al-Sakhawi covering notable people of the ninth century AH, a key Mamluk-era source.
Al-Dhahabi (شمس الدين الذهبي)
Al-Dhahabi (شمس الدين الذهبي) was a Damascene Sunni hadith scholar, historian, and biographer, 1274 to 1348, whose Tarikh al-Islam and Siyar A'lam al-Nubala' remain standard reference works.
Al-Dhakhira
Al-Dhakhira (الذخيرة في محاسن أهل الجزيرة) is a biographical and literary encyclopedia of al-Andalus compiled by Ibn Bassam al-Shantarini, who died in 1147, and a key source for taifa-period literature.
al-Dhayl wa-l-Takmila
al-Dhayl wa-l-Takmila is a biographical dictionary of al-Andalus compiled by al-Marrakushi, who died in 1303–1304, continuing the chain of Andalusi biographical dictionaries begun by Ibn al-Faradi.
al-Dimashqi
al-Dimashqi (الدمشقي) was an Arab geographer, cosmographer, and polymath of Damascus, born in 1256 and died in Safed in 1327, best known for the encyclopedic Nukhbat al-dahr.
Al-Dinawari
Al-Dinawari (الدينوري), fully Abu Hanifa Ahmad ibn Dawud al-Dinawari, was a ninth-century Abbasid polymath of Dinawar who died around 895, known as the founder of Arabic botany and author of Kitab al-Akhbar al-Tiwal.
Al-Diwan school
The al-Diwan school (مدرسة الديوان), also called the Diwan group, was an Egyptian literary and critical movement of the early twentieth century formed by Abbas al-Aqqad, Ibrahim al-Mazini, and Abd al-Rahman Shukri.
Al-doped ZnO
Al-doped ZnO, also written AZO or ZnO:Al, is zinc oxide in which some zinc ions are replaced by aluminum, making a transparent conductor used as an electrode.