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al-Hafiz li-Din Allah
Al-Hafiz li-Din Allah (الحافظ لدين الله), personal name Abu'l-Maymun Abd al-Majid, was a Fatimid caliph of Egypt who became regent after al-Amir's assassination in 1130 and died in 1149.
al-Hajj Bashir
al-Hajj Bashir (الحَاجّ بَشِير) was Wazir, or prime minister, of Borno, serving the al-Kanemi Shehus at their capital Kukawa and commanding the Musgu campaign of 1852.
Al-Hajj Salim Suwari
Al-Hajj Salim Suwari (الحاج سليم سوواري) was a West African Soninke Muslim scholar, founder of the Suwarian tradition teaching Muslims peaceful coexistence under non-Muslim rulers, though his dates are disputed.
al-Hajj Umar Tall
al-Hajj Umar Tall (الحاج عمر طعل) was a Tijani scholar and military leader from Futa Toro who founded a jihad state in the western Sudan, dying in battle in 1864.
Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf
Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf (الحجاج بن يوسف) was an Umayyad governor of Iraq and the eastern provinces from 694 to 714, serving caliphs Abd al-Malik and al-Walid I.
Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf ibn Matar
Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf ibn Matar (الحجاج بن يوسف بن مطر) was a translator of Greek mathematical and astronomical texts into Arabic in Abbasid Baghdad, active from 786 to 830.
Al-Hakam I
Al-Hakam I (الحكم الأول), in full Abu al-As al-Hakam ibn Hisham, was the Umayyad emir of Cordoba from 796 to 822, known for crushing revolts in Toledo and Cordoba.
Al-Hakam II
Al-Hakam II (الحكم الثاني) was the second Umayyad caliph of Cordoba, ruling al-Andalus from 961 to 976, a scholar-caliph whose library reportedly held more than 400,000 volumes.
al-Hakim al-Munajjim
Al-Hakim al-Munajjim (الحكيم المنجم), a Persian physician-astrologer sent from Alamut, was the first Nizari Ismaili chief da'i in Syria, serving at the Seljuk court of Aleppo.
Al-Hakim al-Nishapuri
Al-Hakim al-Nishapuri (الحاكم النيسابوري) was a hadith scholar, critic, and judge of Nishapur under the Samanids who lived from 933 to 1014 and wrote al-Mustadrak ala al-Sahihayn.
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (الحاكم بأمر الله), personal name al-Mansur Abu Ali, was the sixth Fatimid caliph, ruling Egypt from 996 until his unexplained disappearance in 1021.
Al-Hakim family
The al-Hakim family is a multi-generational Iraqi Shia scholarly lineage based in Najaf, which produced Grand Ayatollah Muhsin al-Hakim and founded the political party ISCI.
Al-Hakim I
Al-Hakim I (الحاكم الأول) was an Abbasid caliph of Cairo under Mamluk rule, installed by Sultan Baybars after the Mongols destroyed Baghdad in 1258, reigning until 1301–1302.
al-Hakim II
Al-Hakim II (الحاكم بأمر الله الثاني), personal name Abu al-Abbas Ahmad, was an Abbasid caliph of Cairo from 1341 until his death of plague in 1352.
Al-Hakim Mosque
The Al-Hakim Mosque (الجامع الحاكم) is a Fatimid-era congregational mosque in historic Cairo, begun in 990 by Caliph al-Aziz and completed in 1013 by al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah.
Al-Hakim's persecution of Christians and Jews and destruction of the Holy Sepulchre
Al-Hakim's persecution of Christians and Jews was a Fatimid campaign from about 1004 to 1021, including the destruction of Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre in 1009, its most famous episode.
Al-Hakim's sumptuary and social decrees
Al-Hakim's sumptuary and social decrees (قيود الحاكم) were edicts issued by the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah from about 1004, imposing distinctive dress on Jews and Christians and demolishing churches.
Al-Hamadhani (Mercurian crater)
Al-Hamadhani crater, IAU-approved 1979, is a 164-186 km impact crater on Mercury at ~39°N, ~92°W, named for tenth-century writer Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadhani, famous for a MESSENGER smile-shaped shadow image.
Al-Hamawi
Al-Hamawi (الحموي), Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Muzaffar al-Shami, was a Shafi'i jurist and ascetic who served as chief judge of Baghdad from 478 AH until his death in 488 AH.
Al-Hamdani
Al-Hamdani (الهمداني), in full Abu Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Ahmad ibn Yaqub al-Hamdani, was a tenth-century Yemeni geographer, historian, and genealogist born in Sanaa, nicknamed Lisan al-Yaman, "the Tongue of Yemen."
Al-Haouz
Al Haouz (الحوز) is a rural, mountainous province of Morocco's Marrakech-Safi region south of Marrakech, known for the High Atlas, the Haouz aquifer, and the deadly 8 September 2023 Mw 6.8 earthquake centered at Ighil.
Al-Hariri of Basra
Al-Hariri of Basra (الحريري البصري) was an Arab poet, philologist, and government official of Basra who lived 1054 to 1122 and wrote the Maqamat, fifty rhymed-prose narratives.
Al-Harith al-Muhasibi
Al-Harith al-Muhasibi (الحارث المحاسبي), born in Basra around 781 and based in Baghdad, was a Sunni scholar whose self-examination method shaped Sufism and later al-Ghazali; he died in 857.
al-Harith ibn Amr
al-Harith ibn Amr (الحارث بن عمرو) was the most renowned king of the Kinda tribe, known for invading Iraq and capturing al-Hira, capital of the Lakhmids.
al-Harith ibn Hilliza
al-Harith ibn Hilliza (الحارث بن حلزة) was a pre-Islamic Arab poet of the Bakr ibn Wa'il tribe, one of the poets of the Mu'allaqat, who died around 570 CE.
al-Harith ibn Jabala
al-Harith ibn Jabala (الحارث بن جبلة), known in Greek as Aretas, was king of the Ghassanid Arabs, appointed by Justinian I around 529 and reigning until 569.
al-Harith ibn Surayj
Al-Harith ibn Surayj (الحارث بن سريج) was an Arab notable of the tribe of Tamim who led a twelve-year revolt against Umayyad rule in Khurasan from 734 to 746.
Al-Hasakah
Al-Hasakah (Kurdish: Heşîçe) is a city in northeastern Syria and the capital of Al-Hasakah Governorate, situated at the confluence of the Jaghjagh and Khabur rivers.
Al-Hasakah Governorate
Al-Hasakah Governorate (محافظة الحسكة, Parêzgeha Hesekê), Syria's far-northeastern province of 23,334 km², is the country's breadbasket and a major oil region, ethnically mixed, and since 2026 divided between government and SDF administration.
al-Hasan al-Yusi
Al-Hasan al-Yusi (الحسن بن مسعود اليوسي) was a Moroccan Maliki jurist, Sufi, and poet, 1631 to 1691, known for his Discourses on Language and Literature.