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Al-Turtushi ibn Abi Randaqa (or Rundaqa)
Al-Turtushi ibn Abi Randaqa (الطرطوشي) is the nickname of the Maliki jurist Abu Bakr al-Turtushi (1059–1126), a Tortosa-born scholar who settled in Alexandria and wrote Siraj al-Muluk.
Al-Ubayyid
Al-Ubayyid (El Obeid, Arabic الأبيض) is the capital of North Kordofan state, Sudan, a gum arabic trading crossroads nicknamed 'the bride of the sands', besieged by the RSF from 2023 to 2025.
al-Udri
al-Udri (الأذri) was an Andalusi geographer and hadith scholar who lived 1003 to 1085, born in Almeria and known for Tarsi' al-akhbar, a geography of al-Andalus.
Al-Ukbari
Al-Ukbari (العكبري), fully Abu al-Qasim Nasr ibn Nasr al-Ukbari, was a Sunni Shafi'i hadith transmitter and preacher from Ukbara on the Tigris near Baghdad, who died in 552 AH.
al-Umari
al-Umari (ابن فضل الله العمري) was a Damascene chancery official, jurist, and encyclopedist of the Mamluk sultanate who served Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad and wrote the encyclopedia Masalik al-Absar.
Al-Utbi
Al-Utbi (Abu Nasr Mohammad al-Utbi) was a Persian historian and secretary at the Ghaznavid court who wrote the Arabic Kitab al-Yamini on Mahmud of Ghazna.
Al-Uzza Undae
Al-Uzza Undae (Fortuna-Meshkenet dune field) is a 150-km-wide transverse dune field on Venus at 67.7N, 90.5E, IAU-named in 1994 for the Arabian desert goddess Al-'Uzza; one of only two known Venusian dune fields, found in Magellan radar data.
al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat
Al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat (الوافي بالوفيات, "The Comprehensive Book of Obituaries") is a biographical dictionary in thirty volumes compiled by the Mamluk-era historian al-Safadi, containing over 14,000 biographies of Islamic notables.
Al-Wahidi
Al-Wahidi (الواحدي) was a Qur'an commentator, philologist, and poet of Nishapur who died in 1076; his Asbab al-Nuzul is the earliest surviving collection of occasions of revelation.
Al-Waleed bin Khalid Al-Saud
Al-Waleed bin Khalid Al-Saud, also known as Al-Walid ibn Khalid, was a Saudi prince called the "Sleeping Prince," comatose for twenty years after a 2005 car accident.
Al-Walid I
Al-Walid I (al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik, c. 671–715), sixth Umayyad caliph ruling from Damascus 705–715; son of Abd al-Malik, oversaw conquests from Iberia to Sind and built the Great Mosque of Damascus.
Al-Walid ibn al-Qasim al-Hamdani
Al-Walid ibn al-Qasim al-Hamdani, also called al-Khabdha'i al-Kufi, was a Kufan hadith transmitter who died around 203 AH, belonged to the tenth tabaqa, and taught Ahmad ibn Hanbal.
Al-Walid ibn Bakkar
Al-Walid ibn Bakkar (الوليد بن بكر), Abu al-'Abbas al-Ghamri, was a 4th-century AH hadith scholar, linguist, and poet from Saragossa in al-Andalus who died in al-Dinawar.
Al-Walid ibn Mus'ab
Al-Walid ibn Mus'ab (الوليد بن مصعب) is a legendary Amalekite king of Egypt in medieval Arabic chronicles, identified by many Muslim traditionists as the Pharaoh of Moses.
al-Walid ibn Tarif
Al-Walid ibn Tarif (الوليد بن طريف) was a Kharijite rebel leader who rose against the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid in 794 and was killed in 795.
al-Walid ibn Uqba
Al-Walid ibn Uqba (الوليد بن عقبة) was an Arab poet and administrator of the Umayya clan, maternal half-brother of Caliph Uthman and governor of Kufa.
al-Walid ibn Zaydan
al-Walid ibn Zaydan (الوليد بن زيدان) was a Saadian sultan of Morocco, son of Zaydan al-Nasir, who ruled from Marrakesh from 1631 until he was killed in 1636.
al-Walid II
al-Walid II (الوليد بن يزيد) was a Umayyad caliph who reigned from 743 to 744 and was killed in a rebellion led by his cousin Yazid III.
al-Wansharisi
al-Wansharisi (الونشريسي), Ahmad ibn Yahya al-Tilimsani, was a Maliki jurist who fled Tlemcen for Fez and compiled al-Mi'yar al-Mu'rib, a twelve-volume collection of Maghrebi and Andalusi fatwas.
al-Waqa'i' al-Misriyya
al-Waqa'i' al-Misriyya (الوقائع المصرية, "Egyptian Events") is the official gazette of the Egyptian government and the country's first newspaper, founded by Muhammad Ali Pasha, with its first issue on 3 December 1828.
Al-Waqidi
Al-Waqidi (الواقدي), born in Medina in 747 and died in Baghdad in 823, was an Arab historian and Abbasid judge best known for the Kitab al-Maghazi.
al-Wathiq
Al-Wathiq (الواثق بالله), personal name Abu Ja'far Harun ibn Muhammad, was the ninth Abbasid caliph, reigning from Samarra from 842 to 847, intensifying the mihna over the Quran's createdness.
al-Wathiq I
al-Wathiq I (Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm al-Wāthiq bi-llāh) was an Abbasid caliph of Cairo under Mamluk suzerainty, reigning 1340–1341; placed on the throne over a designated rival heir, he was deposed after the sultan's death.
al-Wathiq II
al-Wathiq II, personal name ʿUmar, was an Abbasid caliph of Cairo under Mamluk rule, installed by Sultan Barquq in 1383 after a coup plot and died in office in 1386.
Al-Wazir al-Maghribi
Al-Wazir al-Maghribi (الوزير المغربي), born 981, was a hadith scholar, man of letters, and statesman who served as vizier to Uqaylid, Buyid, and Marwanid rulers of Iraq.
Al-Wuquf 'ala al-atlal
Al-Wuquf 'ala al-atlal (الوقوف على الأطلال, "standing upon the ruins") is an Arabic poetic convention, prominent in pre-Islamic poetry, of opening an ode weeping at a beloved's abandoned campsite.
al-Yafi'i
al-Yafi'i (اليافعي) was a Yemeni Shafi'i jurist, historian, and Sufi who lived 1298–1367 and spent his last decades in Mecca, best known for his chronicle Mir'at al-jinan.
Al-Yahudu tablets
The Al-Yahudu tablets, also known as the Al-Yahudu archive, are Babylonian cuneiform legal documents from a village of Judean deportees in southern Mesopotamia, written between 572 and 477 BCE.
Al-Yamama
Al-Yamama (اليمامة) is a weekly cultural and general-interest magazine published in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Founded by Hamad Al-Jasir in 1953, it was the capital's first publication and became digital-only in 2026.
Al-Yaman Sulci
Al-Yaman Sulci: IAU-approved sulcus (furrow system) on Saturn's moon Enceladus, 177.9 km across at latitude 9.7, longitude 191.8, named 2010 after a place in the Arabian Nights tale "The Man of Al-Yaman and His Six Slave-Girls."