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Al-Duhail SC (نادي الدحيل الرياضي)
Al-Duhail SC (نادي الدحيل الرياضي), The Red Knights, is a Doha football club founded in 2009 as Lekhwiya SC, merged with El Jaish in 2017, seven or eight Qatar Stars League titles, home Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium.
Al-Dur Power and Water Station
Al-Dur Power and Water Station is a power and desalination complex at Al Dur on Bahrain's southern coast, supplying electricity and water to the state utility EWA.
al-Durar al-Kamina
al-Durar al-Kamina (الدرر الكامنة) is a biographical dictionary of eighth-century AH notables by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, completed in AH 830 (1426–1427), covering figures who died between 1301 and 1398.
al-Durar al-kamina fi ayan al-mia al-thamina
al-Durar al-kamina fi ayan al-mia al-thamina (الدرر الكامنة, "The Hidden Pearls") is a biographical dictionary by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani covering notables who died between AH 701 and 800.
Al-Ettifaq Club Stadium
Al-Ettifaq Club Stadium is a football stadium in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, and the home ground of Al-Ettifaq Club of the Saudi Pro League, with a capacity near 12,900.
Al-Ettifaq FC (الاتفاق)
Al-Ettifaq FC (نادي الاتفاق) is a Saudi Pro League football club from Dammam founded in 1945; two-time Saudi champion (1983 unbeaten, 1987), first Saudi club to win Gulf (1983, 1988) and Arab (1984, 1988) titles, coached by Steven Gerrard 2023-2025.
al-Fa'iz
Al-Fa'iz bi-Nasr Allah (الفائز بنصر الله) was a Fatimid caliph of Egypt who reigned from 1154 to 1160, raised to the throne as a small child after his father al-Zafir was murdered.
Al-Fadl ibn Ja'far al-Tamimi
Al-Fadl ibn Ja'far al-Tamimi (الفضل بن جعفر التميمي) is a name carried by several distinct men in classical rijal literature; the exact name chain describes a Damascene mu'adhdhin who died in 373 AH.
al-Fadl ibn Sahl
Al-Fadl ibn Sahl (الفضل بن سهل) was vizier and amir to the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun, holding the title Dhu al-Riyasatayn until his murder in 818.
al-Fadl ibn Yahya
Al-Fadl ibn Yahya (الفضل بن يحيى) was a Barmakid Abbasid statesman, son of vizier Yahya ibn Khalid, who governed the East under Harun al-Rashid and died imprisoned at Raqqa in 808.
Al-Faisal
Al-Faisal (مجلة الفيصل) is a Saudi cultural magazine founded by Prince Khalid al-Faisal in 1977 in memory of King Faisal, covering literature, art, and critical studies.
Al-Fami
Al-Fami (الفامي), fully Abu Muhammad Abd al-Wahhab al-Farisi al-Fami al-Shirazi, was a Shafi'i jurist and mufti who taught at Baghdad's Nizamiyya college from 1090; born in Shiraz in 1023, he died there in 1106.
Al-Fanaki
Al-Fanaki (الفناكي), full name Abu al-Qasim Ja'far ibn Abd Allah al-Razi, was a Sunni hadith transmitter who died in 993 CE, remembered as the last transmitter of al-Ruyani's Musnad.
Al-Farabi (أبو نصر محمد الفارابي)
Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī (أبو نصر محمد الفارابي, c. 870–950), the "Second Master" after Aristotle, was a philosopher of Farab who studied in Baghdad under Yūḥannā b. Ḥaylān, wrote the Enumeration of the Sciences, the Virtuous City, and the Great Book of Music, and shaped Avicenna and Latin scholasticism.
al-Farazdaq
al-Farazdaq (الفرزدق) was an Arab poet of the Umayyad caliphate, born around 641 in Basra, famed for his panegyrics to the caliphs and his poetic feud with Jarir.
Al-Farghani
Al-Farghani (الفرغاني), known in Latin Europe as Alfraganus, was a ninth-century Abbasid astronomer and engineer who completed the Great Nilometer at Old Cairo in 861.
Al-Farouq Aminu
Al-Farouq Aminu (Chief), Nigerian-American forward born 1990 in Atlanta; Wake Forest star, 8th pick of 2010 NBA draft by Clippers; 711 games, 7.5 ppg, 6.0 rpg; Portland 2015-19; Nigeria 2012 Olympics and 2019 World Cup.
Al-Fasi
Al-Fasi (الفاسي), born in Fez after 1193, was a Qur'anic reciter, grammarian, and Hanafi jurist who settled in Aleppo and wrote a commentary on the Shatibiyya.
al-Fath al-Qussi fi l-Fath al-Qudsi
Al-Fath al-Qussi fi l-Fath al-Qudsi (الفتح القسي في الفتح القدسي) is a chronicle of Saladin's conquest of Jerusalem in 1187, written by his secretary Imad al-Din al-Isfahani.
al-Fath ibn Khaqan
Al-Fath ibn Khaqan (الفتح بن خاقان) was an Abbasid courtier, secretary, and famous book-lover of Turkic origin, killed with Caliph al-Mutawakkil in the palace conspiracy of December 861.
Al-Fatiha (الفاتحة)
Al-Fatiha (الفاتحة), also called Umm al-Kitab, is the first surah of the Quran, a seven-verse chapter recited in every unit of the daily Islamic prayers.
Al-Forat Park
متنزه الفرات (Al-Forat Park, Euphrates Park): name shared by several Iraqi recreation places, notably a park and adjoining casino in Samawah, Muthanna Governorate, a free family park in Najaf/Kufa, and parks in Dhi Qar and Anbar.
Al-Funun
Al-Funun (الفنون, "The Arts") was an Arabic literary monthly published in New York from 1913 to 1918 by Nasib Arida, the principal platform of immigrant Mahjar writers tied to Kahlil Gibran's Pen League.
Al-Futtaim
Al-Futtaim is a privately held family conglomerate founded in Dubai in the 1930s, employing over 40,000 people across automotive, retail, real estate, health, finance, and education.
Al-Ghanimi
Al-Ghanimi (الغانمي) was a twelfth-century hadith transmitter and man of letters of Khurasan, born in Tus and died in Herat in 553 AH (1158 CE).
Al-Ghazali
Al-Ghazali (Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, الغزالي, Latin Algazel, 1058-1111) was a Persian Sunni jurist, Ash'arite theologian, and Sufi titled Hujjat al-Islam, professor at Baghdad's Nizamiyya, author of the Incoherence of the Philosophers and Revival of the Religious Sciences.
al-Ghubrini
Al-Ghubrini (الغبريني) was a jurist and chief judge of Bejaia in Hafsid North Africa, born in 1246, author of Unwan al-Diraya on the city's scholars.
al-Hadi
Al-Hadi (الهادي), in full Abu Muhammad Musa ibn al-Mahdi, was the Abbasid caliph who crushed the Alid revolt at the Battle of Fakhkh in 786.
Al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya
Al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya (الهادي إلى الحق يحيى) was the founder of the Zaydi imamate in Yemen, invited by northern tribes in 897 and ruling from Sa'da until his death in 911.
Al-Hadriyah
Al-Hadriyah (الحدريه), Arabic term for a medieval sea-route stop east of al-Shihr, a Bahraini place name, Oman's coastal al-Hadriyah regions, a cool summer wind, and an Iraqi casino name.