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Al-Qa'im (Abbasid caliph of Baghdad, r. 1031–1075)
Al-Qa'im (Abu'l-Qasim Abd Allah) was the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad from 1031 to 1075, who invited Tughril Beg to the city in 1055, ending Buyid rule.
Al-Qa'im (Abbasid caliph of Cairo, r. 1451–1455)
Al-Qa'im (القائم), personal name Abu al-Baqa Hamza, was the thirteenth Abbasid caliph of Cairo, reigning from 1451 to 1455, deposed by Sultan Inal after supporting a mamluk mutiny.
al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah
al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah (القائم بأمر الله) was the second Fatimid caliph, ruling in Ifriqiya from 934 to 946 and besieged in Mahdia by Abu Yazid's revolt.
al-Qadi al-Fadil
al-Qadi al-Fadil (القاضي الفاضل) was an Egyptian chancery secretary and head of the chancellery who served Saladin as chief counselor, drafting his state papers and the famous proclamation after the liberation of Jerusalem in 1187.
al-Qadi al-Nu'man
Al-Qadi al-Nu'man (قاضي النعمان) was the leading jurist of the Fatimid caliphate, serving its first four imam-caliphs and codifying Ismaili law in the Da'a'im al-Islam around 960.
al-Qadir
Al-Qadir, regnal name al-Qadir bi'llah, was the 25th Abbasid caliph, reigning from 991 to 1031 under Buyid control and known for the Qadiri creed affirming Sunni orthodoxy.
Al-Qadisiyah Governorate
Al-Qadisiyah (القادسية), or Al-Diwaniyah, Governorate is a south-central Iraqi governorate with capital Al Diwaniyah, 8,153 km², four districts, Euphrates-fed rice agriculture, and over 300 archaeological sites including Nippur and Uruk.
Al-Qaeda (القاعدة)
Al-Qaeda (القاعدة, "the Base") is the Sunni jihadist organization founded by Osama bin Laden in 1988, responsible for the 1998 embassy bombings and 9/11, now a decentralized network of affiliates including JNIM, AQAP, and al-Shabaab.
Al-Qaeda in Iraq
Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI, القاعدة في العراق), also al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, was al-Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate founded in October 2004 by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi; it drove Iraq's sectarian war, became the Islamic State of Iraq, and spawned ISIS.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is the Yemen-based Sunni jihadist group formed in January 2009 by merging al-Qaeda's Yemeni and Saudi branches; known for the 2009 Christmas Day airliner plot, Inspire magazine, and leaders Wuhayshi, Raimi, and Batarfi.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (تنظيم القاعدة في بلاد المغرب الإسلامي)
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM, تنظيم القاعدة في بلاد المغرب الإسلامي), formerly the GSPC, is an al-Qaeda affiliate founded in Algeria in 1998, renamed in 2007, active in the Sahara-Sahel and parent of JNIM.
Al-Qaeda–Islamic State conflict
Rivalry between al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (ISIS/Daesh) over leadership of the global jihadist movement, beginning with the 2014 schism in the Levant and continuing in the Sahel between JNIM and IS Sahel Province.
al-Qahir
al-Qahir (القاهر بالله) was the nineteenth Abbasid caliph, reigning in Baghdad from 932 to 934 between his brother al-Muqtadir and al-Radi; deposed and blinded in 934.
Al-Qahira Vallis
Al-Qahira Vallis is a roughly 555-600 km valley system on Mars near 18S 163E, IAU-named in 1973 from the Arabic, Indonesian, and Malay word for Mars, lying on the crustal dichotomy boundary.
Al-Qalasadi
Al-Qalasadi (القلصادي) was a Muslim mathematician and Maliki jurist of the emirate of Granada, born in 1412 in Baza, Spain, and died in 1486 in Tunisia, remembered as the last known Spanish-Muslim mathematician.
al-Qali
al-Qali (القالي) was an Arabic philologist and man of letters, born in 901, who brought Baghdad's linguistic scholarship to Cordoba in al-Andalus and wrote the first dictionary there.
al-Qalqashandi
al-Qalqashandi (القلقشندي) was an Egyptian jurist and chancery secretary of the Mamluk Sultanate, born in 1355, best known for his encyclopedic chancery manual Subh al-A'sha, completed in 1412.
al-Qanun al-Mas'udi
al-Qanun al-Mas'udi (القانون المسعودي), also called the Canon Masudicus, is al-Biruni's Arabic encyclopedia of astronomy, mathematics, and geography, presented to Sultan Mas'ud of Ghazna in 1030.
Al-Qasim al-Rassi
Al-Qasim al-Rassi (القاسم الرسي) was a Hasanid Zaydi imam and theologian of Medina (785-860), founder of the legal school later dominant among the Zaydis of Yemen.
al-Qasim ibn Ibrahim al-Rassi
Al-Qasim ibn Ibrahim al-Rassi (القاسم بن إبراهيم الرسي) was a Hasanid religious scholar and Zaydi imam of the Hijaz, regarded as the founder of the Zaydi legal school of Yemen.
Al-Qasim ibn Ma'n al-Hudhali
Al-Qasim ibn Ma'n al-Hudhali was a Kufan hadith master, Hanafi jurist, and Arabic philologist who served as qadi and mufti of Kufa, dying in 175 AH (791 CE).
Al-Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr
Al-Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr (القاسم بن محمد بن أبي بكر) was a Medinan jurist and hadith scholar, a grandson of Caliph Abu Bakr.
Al-Qassim power plant
Al-Qassim power plant is a 1.08 GW oil- and gas-fired power station in the Qassim region of Saudi Arabia, owned and operated by Saudi Electricity Company.
Al-Qassim Region
Al-Qassim Region (منطقة القصيم), also Qassim Province, is a central-north administrative region of Saudi Arabia with capital Buraydah, about 73,000 km², 1,336,179 people (2022 census), 13 governorates, and the Kingdom's top date production.
al-Qastallani
al-Qastallani (القسطلاني) was an Egyptian hadith scholar, Shafi'i jurist, and preacher who lived in Mamluk Cairo from 1448 to 1517, best known for his commentary on al-Bukhari's Sahih.
Al-Qati'i
Al-Qati'i (القطيعي), fully Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Ja'far al-Baghdadi, was a Hanbali hadith transmitter of Baghdad (887–979), unique transmitter of Musnad Ahmad, buried beside Ahmad ibn Hanbal.
al-Qazwini
Zakariya ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini (القزويني) was a 13th-century jurist, cosmographer, and geographer born in Qazvin around 1203, who served as qadi in Iraq and wrote Aja'ib al-makhluqat and Athar al-bilad before dying in 1283.
al-Qifti
al-Qifti (القفطي) was an Arab historian and biographer who headed the finance diwan and served as vizier of Aleppo from 1236 until his death in 1248, writing the biographical dictionary Ta'rikh al-hukama.
Al-Qirq
Al-Qirq (قرق, qirq) is the Arabic name for three-in-a-row alignment or morris games, first recorded in the 10th-century Kitab al-Aghani; it became Spanish alquerque and is now replaced in Arabic by idris.
al-Quda'i
Al-Quda'i (القضاعي) was a Sunni Shafi'i jurist, hadith scholar, and historian who held high judicial office in Egypt under the Fatimid caliphate and died there in 1062.