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al-Suddi

al-Suddi (السدي), Ismail ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Suddi, was a Quran exegete and hadith transmitter of Kufa who died in 744–745; known as al-Suddi al-Kabir, he transmitted especially from Ibn Abbas and Ibn Masud.

Al-Sulami

Al-Sulami (أبو عبد الرحمن السلمي) was a Sufi, traditionist, and hagiographer of Nishapur (937–1021) who wrote about 100 works, including the influential Tabaqat al-sufiyya.

Al-Suli

Al-Suli (السولي) was an Abbasid man of letters and chess master at the courts of the caliphs al-Muktafi, al-Muqtadir, and al-Radi, and died in Basra in 947.

Al-Suturi

Al-Suturi (الستوري), Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn al-Fadl al-Samarri al-Suturi, was a trustworthy hadith transmitter of fourth-century Baghdad and Samarra who died in 343 AH, aged nearly a hundred.

Al-Suyuti (جلال الدين السيوطي)

Al-Suyuti (Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti) was an Egyptian Shafi'i jurist and polymath of Mamluk Cairo, 1445 to 1505, remembered as one of the most prolific authors in Islamic history.

Sep 24, 2026

al-Suyuti's fatwas for Songhai rulers

Legal documents and correspondence that the Cairo scholar Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (d. 1505) issued for rulers of Bilad al-Takrur, the islamized Sahel, including Agadez and Katsina.

al-Ta'i'

al-Ta'i' (الطائع لله) was the regnal title of ʿAbd al-Karīm b. al-Faḍl, the 24th Abbasid caliph, who reigned as a Buyid figurehead from 974 until his deposition in 991.

al-Ta'rikh al-Bahir fi'l-Dawla al-Atabakiyya

Al-Ta'rikh al-Bahir fi'l-Dawla al-Atabakiyya (التاريخ الباهر في الدولة الأتابكية) is an Arabic dynastic history of the Zengid atabegs of Mosul, written by the Mosuli historian Ibn al-Athir for the Zengid sultan Qahir.

Al-Tabaeen school attack

Al-Tabaeen school attack (مجزرة مدرسة التابعين): Israeli strike of 10 August 2024 on the Saad al-Ghafari Mosque in the Al-Taba'een school complex, Daraj, Gaza City, during dawn prayers, killing at least 93 displaced people sheltering there.

Al-Tabari

Al-Tabari, Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (c. 838–923), was a Muslim scholar from Tabaristan whose Quran commentary and world history are among the most influential works of classical Islamic scholarship.

al-Tabrisi

Al-Tabrisi (الطبرسي), fully Abu Ali al-Fadl ibn al-Hasan, was a leading Twelver Shi'a exegete and jurist of Khurasan, author of Majma' al-Bayan, completed in 1141.

al-Taftazani

al-Taftazani (التفتازاني), fully Sa'd al-Din Mas'ud ibn Umar al-Taftazani, was a fourteenth-century theologian and logician who served Timur at Samarkand and died there in 1390.

Al-Tahawi (أبو جعفر أحمد الطحاوي)

Al-Tahawi, or Abu Ja'far al-Tahawi, was an Egyptian Hanafi jurist, hadith scholar, and theologian who died in 933. His short creed, al-'Aqidah al-Tahawiyyah, remains studied throughout the Muslim world.

al-Tamimi

Al-Tamimi (التميمي) was a Jerusalem-born physician and pharmacologist of the tenth century who served the Fatimid vizier Ya'qub ibn Killis in Cairo, perfecting the Faruq theriac recipe.

Oct 15, 2026

al-Tanak Oil Field

al-Tanak Oil Field is an onshore oil field in Deir ez-Zor governorate, eastern Syria, discovered in 1987 and ranked the governorate's second largest, historically producing light crude.

Al-Tanf (التنف)

Al-Tanf (التنف) is a military base in southeastern Syria near the Jordan and Iraq borders, held by U.S. forces against the Islamic State from 2016 until 2026.

Al-Tankiti

Al-Tankiti (التنكتي), Abu al-Fath Nasr ibn al-Hasan, was a fifth-century AH Sunni hadith transmitter from Transoxiana, born 406 AH, who traveled as a merchant to Egypt, Syria, and al-Andalus collecting hadith and transmitted Sahih Muslim.

al-Tanukhi

al-Tanukhi (التنوخي) was an Abbasid judge and litterateur, born in Basra and died in Baghdad, who served the Buyids and wrote two lasting anthologies of stories.

Al-Taqi al-Fasi

Al-Taqi al-Fasi (التقي الفاسي), born in Mecca in 1373, was a historian and hadith scholar and the first independent Maliki qadi of Mecca, appointed in 1405.

Al-Tarazi

Al-Tarazi (الطرازي) was a fourth-century AH hadith transmitter of Bardha'a and Taraz, praised as one of the huffaz, whose death was reported in 362 AH.

Al-Tarazi (laqab borne by several hadith scholars)

Al-Tarazi (الطرازي) is a laqab borne by several distinct hadith scholars, an occupational nickname meaning one who makes or uses embroidered garments, including the Hanbali Ali ibn Muhammad al-Tarazi of Nishapur.

al-Tarikh al-kabir

al-Tarikh al-kabir (التاريخ الكبير, "The Great History") is a biographical dictionary of hadith transmitters compiled by al-Bukhari, who died in 870, covering Companions to his own teachers.

al-Tartushi

al-Tartushi (أبو بكر محمد بن الوليد الطرطوشي), Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Walid al-Turtushi, was an Andalusi Maliki jurist and writer on politics, born in Tortosa around 1059 and died in Alexandria in 1126.

al-Tayyib Abu al-Qasim

al-Tayyib Abu al-Qasim (الطيب أبو القاسم), born in 1129, was the infant son of Fatimid caliph al-Amir whose claim to the imamate founded the Tayyibi Ismaili branch.

al-Tha'alibi

Al-Tha'alibi (الثعالبي), full name Abu Mansur Abd al-Malik al-Tha'alibi, was an Arabic litterateur, philologist, and anthologist of Nishapur who lived 961–1038 and wrote more than one hundred books, best known for the anthology Yatimat al-dahr.

al-Tifashi

al-Tifashi (التفاشي), fully Ahmad ibn Yusuf al-Tifashi, was a judge, poet, and mineralogist of the western Islamic lands who lived from 1184 to 1253 and wrote a treatise on precious stones.

al-Tijani

Al-Tijani (التجاني), a scholar and travel writer of Tunis active around 1276 to 1321, wrote the Rihla, an account of his 1306 journey to Tripoli that remains a key source on Hafsid Ifriqiya.

Al-Tirmidhi

Al-Tirmidhi, also known as Imam Tirmidhi, was a Sunni hadith scholar from Tirmidh, in present-day Uzbekistan, who compiled the Jami, one of the six canonical hadith collections.

al-Tughra'i

Al-Tughra'i (الطغرائي) was a Seljuk poet, chancery secretary, and alchemist from Isfahan who headed the chancery and was executed in 1121; his best-known poem is the Lamiyyat al-'Ajam.