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al-Muwaffaq
Al-Muwaffaq (الموفق), in full Abu Ahmad Talha ibn al-Mutawakkil, was an Abbasid prince and brother of Caliph al-Mu'tamid who crushed the Zanj rebellion in 883.
Al-Muwazana
Al-Muwazana (الموازنة بين أبي تمام والبحتري) is a tenth-century work of Arabic literary criticism by al-Amidi, weighing the Abbasid poets Abu Tammam and al-Buhturi against each other by reasoned method.
al-Muzaffar Hajji
al-Muzaffar Hajji (المظفر حاجي) was a Mamluk sultan of Egypt from 1346 to 1347; a son of al-Nasir Muhammad, he was deposed and killed by the emirs.
al-Muzaffar Yusuf I
al-Muzaffar Yusuf I (المظفر يوسف بن عمر) was the second Rasulid sultan of Yemen, reigning 1249–1295 from Ta'izz; his 46-year reign unified most of Yemen, conquered Dhofar, and drew rich revenues from Aden.
Al-Muzani
Al-Muzani (المزni), in full Abu Ibrahim Ismail ibn Yahya, was an Egyptian Shafi'i jurist (791–878) who led the school after al-Shafi'i's death and wrote the Mukhtasar.
Al-Muzhir
Al-Muzhir (المزهر) is an encyclopedic handbook of Arabic linguistics written by the Egyptian scholar Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti, who died in 1505, and divided into fifty types.
al-Nabigha al-Dhubyani
al-Nabigha al-Dhubyani (النابغة الذبياني), born Ziyad ibn Muawiya, was a pre-Islamic Arab poet of Dhubyan who served the Lakhmid court of al-Hira and died in 604.
Al-Nabigha al-Ja'di
Al-Nabigha al-Ja'di (النابغة الجعدي) was an Arab poet and companion of the Prophet Muhammad, active from pre-Islamic times through Mu'awiya's caliphate, who fought at Siffin for Ali.
Al-Nadrawi
Al-Nadrawi (النضروي), fully al-Abbas ibn al-Fadl ibn Zakariyya, kunya Abu Mansur, was a Sunni hadith transmitter of Herat who died in 372 AH and was graded thiqa by al-Khatib al-Baghdadi.
Al-Nasa'i (hadith scholar, d. 915)
Al-Nasa'i (النسائي), c. 829 to 915, was a Sunni hadith scholar from Nasa in Khurasan whose Sunan al-Sughra is one of the Six Books of Sunni hadith.
Al-Nasa'i (Shafi'i jurist, d. 1027)
Al-Nasa'i (النسائي), fully Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zuhayr ibn Akhtal al-Nasa'i, was a Shafi'i jurist of Nasa titled "shaykh al-Shafi'iyya"; he died in 1027, and his grave in Hamadhan is visited.
al-Nashw
al-Nashw (النشو), full name Sharaf al-Din Abd al-Wahhab, was a Copt convert who headed the private diwan of Mamluk sultan al-Nasir Muhammad until his arrest in 1339–1340.
al-Nasir
Al-Nasir (الناصر لدين الله), fully al-Nasir li-Din Allah, was the 34th Abbasid caliph, reigning in Baghdad from 1180 to 1225 as the last powerful Abbasid caliph before the Mongols.
Al-Nasir Faraj
Al-Nasir Faraj (الناصر فرج) was a Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria, son of Barquq, who reigned twice before being killed in Damascus in 1412.
al-Nasir Hasan
al-Nasir Hasan (الناصر حسن) was a Mamluk sultan of Egypt, a son of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad, who reigned twice, from 1347 to 1351 and 1354 to 1361.
al-Nasir ibn Alnas
al-Nasir ibn Alnas (الناصر بن علناس) was emir of the Hammadid state in the Central Maghreb, reigning 1062 to 1088 and founding the Mediterranean port of Bejaia as his capital.
al-Nasir Muhammad
Al-Nasir Muhammad was a Mamluk sultan of Egypt and son of Sultan Qalawun who ruled across three reigns; his thirty-two-year third reign is seen as the sultanate's peak.
al-Nawadir al-Sultaniyya
al-Nawadir al-Sultaniyya (النوادر السلطانية والمحاسن اليوسفية) is a biography of Saladin by his judge Baha' al-Din Ibn Shaddad, an essential source for the sultan's last years.
Al-Nawawi
Al-Nawawi, also known as Imam Nawawi, was a Sunni Muslim scholar of hadith and Shafi'i law in Damascus, born in 1233 at Nawa and died in 1277.
Al-Nawawi's Forty Hadith
Al-Nawawi's Forty Hadith, or Al-Arba'in al-Nawawiyyah (الأربعون النووية), is a collection of 42 hadith compiled in the 13th century by the Shafi'i jurist Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi.
Al-Nayrizi
Al-Nayrizi (النيريزي) was a Persian mathematician and astronomer from Nayriz near Shiraz who worked in Baghdad under the Abbasid caliphs around 900, best known for his commentary on Euclid's Elements.
Al-Nu'man ibn Abd al-Salam al-Taymi
Al-Nu'man ibn Abd al-Salam al-Taymi (النعمان بن عبد السلام التيمي) was a Sunni jurist and hadith transmitter, styled the mufti of Isfahan, who died in 799.
al-Nu'man ibn Muqarrin
al-Nu'man ibn Muqarrin (النعمان بن مقرن) was an Arab commander of the Muzayna tribe who served Muhammad, Abu Bakr, and Umar, dying at the Battle of Nihawand in 641–642.
al-Nu'man III ibn al-Mundhir
al-Nu'man III ibn al-Mundhir (النعمان الثالث بن المنذر) was the last Lakhmid king of al-Hira, reigning from about 580 to 602 and killed by the shah Khosrow II.
al-Nu'man VI ibn al-Harith
al-Nu'man VI ibn al-Harith (النعمان بن الحارث) was a ruler of the Ghassanids, a Christian Arab tribe allied to Byzantium, in the late sixth century.
Al-Nufayli
Al-Nufayli (النفيلي), fully Abd Allah ibn Muhammad, was a Sunni hadith transmitter and narrator-critic of Harran who died in 234 AH (848 or 849), famed for his memory.
Al-Nuqani
Al-Nuqani (النوقاني), Abu al-Mafakhir Muhammad ibn Abi Ali ibn Abi Nasr, was a sixth-century AH Shafi'i jurist from Nuqan in Khurasan who taught in Baghdad and died in Kufa in 592 AH.
Al-Nusra Front
Al-Nusra Front (Jabhat al-Nusra), al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate founded in 2011 by Abu Muhammad al-Julani, rebranded as Jabhat Fateh al-Sham in 2016 and Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham in 2017, ruling Idlib until its US terror designations were revoked in 2025–2026.
al-Nuwayri
al-Nuwayri (النويري) was an Egyptian administrator and encyclopedist of the Mamluk sultanate who served Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad and compiled the Nihayat al-arab encyclopedia until his death in 1333.
al-Omar Oil Field
al-Omar Oil Field (حقل العمر النفطي) is Syria's largest oil field, in the Euphrates Graben about 45 km southeast of Deir ez-Zor, producing since 1989.