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Al-Quhi
Al-Quhi (الكوهي), fully Abu Sahl Wijan ibn Rustam al-Quhi, was a Persian mathematician and astronomer, born around 940, who directed the Baghdad observatory opened in 988.
Al-Qushayri
Al-Qushayri (ابوالقاسم قشیری) was a Shafi'i jurist, Ash'ari theologian, and Sufi master of Nishapur, best known for his Risala on Sufism and the commentary Lata'if al-Isharat.
Al-Qusur
Al-Qusur is a large early Islamic settlement on Failaka Island, Kuwait, whose center is a Christian monastery of the Church of the East, occupied from the 7th to the 9th century.
al-Rabi ibn Habib
Al-Rabi ibn Habib (الربيع بن حبيب) was an Ibadi jurist and hadith scholar of Basra and Oman who led the Basra Ibadis and died between 791 and 796.
Al-Rabi' ibn Sulayman
Al-Rabi' ibn Sulayman al-Muradi (الربيع بن سليمان) was an Egyptian hadith scholar and chief narrator of Imam al-Shafi'i's books, muezzin of the Mosque of Amr ibn al-As in Fustat, dying in 884.
Al-Rabita al-Adabiyya
Al-Rabita al-Adabiyya (الرابطة الأدبية, "the Literary League") was an Arabic literary group formed in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1949, described as resembling a branch of al-ʿUsba al-Andalusiyya.
al-Radi
Al-Radi (الراضي) was the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad from 933 to 940, who created the office of amir al-umara, transferring executive power to a military commander.
Al-Rafi'i (al-Jili, qadi of Baalbek and Damascus, d. 1244)
Al-Rafi'i al-Jili (Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd al-Wahid) was a Shafi'i jurist and judge who served as qadi of Baalbek and then Damascus, dying in 1244.
Al-Rafi'i (Qazvini historian and Shafi'i jurist, d. 1226)
Al-Rafi'i was a Shafi'i jurist, hadith scholar, and historian of Qazvin (1160 to 1226), known for the legal work Fath al-'Aziz and the biographical dictionary al-Tadwin.
Al-Rafiqi Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas ibn Muhammad ibn Nasr
Al-Rafiqi Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas ibn Muhammad ibn Nasr (الرافقي أبو الفضل العباس بن محمد بن نصر) was an Egyptian hadith scholar who died in 356 AH.
Al-Ras'ani
Al-Ras'ani (الرسعني), Abu Salih al-Qasim ibn al-Layth al-'Attabi, was a Sunni hadith transmitter and Quran reciter who settled in Tinnis, Egypt, and died there in 916 CE, graded trustworthy by classical critics.
al-Rashid
Al-Rashid was the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad, son of al-Mustarshid, who reigned from 1135 to 1136 before being deposed by Sultan Mas'ud and killed in 1138.
Al-Ratabi
Al-Ratabi (الرطبي), known as Ibn al-Rutbi, was a hadith scholar of 6th-century AH Baghdad, born in 468 AH and honored by al-Dhahabi as an eminent, upright transmitter.
al-Rawd al-Zahir fi Sirat al-Malik al-Zahir
Al-Rawd al-Zahir fi Sirat al-Malik al-Zahir (الروض الزاهر) is a biography of the Mamluk sultan Baybars written during his lifetime by his chancery secretary, Ibn Abd al-Zahir.
Al-Rayyan SC (نادي الريان الرياضي)
Al-Rayyan SC (نادي الريان الرياضي), nicknamed The Lions or Al Raheeb, is a Qatari multi-sports club founded in 1967 in Al-Rayyan, Doha, an eight-time Qatar league champion playing at Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium.
Al-Rehab Palace
Al-Rehab Palace, also known as Qasr al-Rihab, was a royal residence in Baghdad where King Faisal II lived until army officers massacred the royal family in 1958.
Al-Risala (magazine)
Al-Risala (مجلة الرسالة, "The Message") was an Arabic-language weekly cultural magazine published in Cairo from 1933 to 1953 by the Egyptian writer Ahmad Hasan al-Zayyat.
Al-Risala school of criticism
The al-Risala school of criticism (مدرسة الرسالة) is a school of Arabic literary criticism formed around al-Risala, the Cairo weekly magazine founded in 1933 by Ahmad Hasan al-Zayyat.
Al-Roj refugee camp
Al-Roj camp (Camp Roj) in Al-Hasakah governorate, northeastern Syria, is a detention camp for foreign women and children linked to ISIS, established 2016, expanded 2020, administered by the Kurdish-led AANES/SDF, smaller than al-Hol, still SDF-held in 2026.
Al-Sa'ib ibn Yazid
Al-Sa'ib ibn Yazid (السائب بن يزيد) was an early Medinan hadith transmitter of Kinda, classed as a young companion of Muhammad or a tabi'i, who died in 91 AH.
Al-Sa'ih
Al-Sa'ih (السائح, "The Traveler") was an Arabic-language newspaper founded in New York City in 1912 by the Syrian-born writer Abd al-Masih Haddad and run for over four decades.
Al-Saadi Gaddafi
Al-Saadi (Saadi) Gaddafi, born 1973, third son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi; a Libyan midfielder who played 2 Serie A matches for Perugia and Udinese, captained Libya, led its football federation, and was freed from a Tripoli prison in 2021.
Al-Sabeen Park
Al-Sabeen Park (حديقة السبعين) is the largest public park in Sana'a, Yemen, at about 391,000 square meters, established by investor Abdulla Al-Maghshi in 1986 with Yemen's first amusement city, and a leading family recreation venue.
Al-Sabghi
Al-Sabghi (الصبغي), fully Abu Bakr Ahmad al-Nisaburi al-Shafi'i, was a Sunni jurist and hadith master who served as mufti of Nishapur for over fifty years.
Al-Sadr family (آل الصدر)
The al-Sadr family (آل الصدر) is a Shia Muslim scholarly lineage of sayyids descended from the Prophet Muhammad, originating in Jabal Amel, Lebanon, and producing maraji, a prime minister of Iraq, and executed clerics.
al-Safadi
al-Safadi (الصفدي), born in Safad in 1297, was a Mamluk biographer, historian, and chancery official who wrote al-Wafi bi-l-wafayat, one of the largest Arabic biographical dictionaries.
al-Saffah
al-Saffah (السفاح), in full Abu al-Abbas Abd Allah ibn Muhammad, was the first caliph of the Abbasid dynasty, reigning from 750 until his death in 754.
Al-Saghani
Al-Saghani (الصاغاني), fully Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ishaq, was a hadith transmitter and Quran reciter who settled in Baghdad, dying there in 270 AH.
al-Sakhawi
al-Sakhawi (السخاوي) was a hadith scholar, biographer, and historian of Mamluk Cairo, born in 1427 and died in Medina in 1496, best known for al-Daw' al-Lami'.
al-Sakkaki
al-Sakkaki (السكاكي) was a Khwarazmian scholar of Arabic language, rhetoric, and logic, born in 1160 and died in 1229; his Miftah al-'ulum became a canonical work on Arabic rhetoric.