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Al-Yazidi
Al-Yazidi (اليزيدي) was a Quran reciter and scholar of Basran origin who worked in Baghdad and died in 202 AH, best known as transmitter of Abu Amr's Quranic reading.
al-Yazuri
Al-Yazuri (اليازوري) was a Fatimid administrator from Yazur near Ramla in Palestine who served as vizier to the caliph al-Mustansir from 1050 until the caliph had him killed in 1058.
Al-Za'farani
Al-Za'farani (الزعفراني) was a Sunni hadith transmitter and Shafi'i jurist of Baghdad, a traveling merchant who collected hadith in five regions and died in 517 or 518 AH.
al-Zafir
Al-Zafir (الظافر بأمر الله), in full Abu Mansur Isma'il, was the twelfth Fatimid caliph, ruling 1149 to 1154; his reign saw war with the Crusaders, the loss of Ascalon, and his own murder.
Al-Zahawi
Al-Zahawi (الزهاوي) chiefly denotes Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi (1863–1936), Iraqi poet, philosopher, and Ottoman deputy for Baghdad, and Baghdad's al-Zahawi Cafe, founded 1917, renamed for him in 1936; also Iraqi places and the calligrapher Khalil al-Zahawi.
al-Zahir (Abbasid caliph in Baghdad)
Al-Zahir bi-Amr Allah (الظاهر بأمر الله), personal name Abu al-Nasr Muhammad, was the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad who reigned nine months in 1225 and was famed for justice.
al-Zahir (seventh Fatimid caliph)
al-Zahir, fully al-Zahir li-i'zaz din Allah, was the seventh Fatimid caliph of Egypt and seventeenth Ismaili imam, reigning from 1021 to 1036. He acceded at sixteen after his father al-Hakim's death.
al-Zahir Ghazi
al-Zahir Ghazi (الظاهر غازي) was an Ayyubid ruler of Aleppo and a son of Saladin, who governed Aleppo from 1186 until his death in 1216 and founded its Ayyubid branch.
Al-Zahrawi
Al-Zahrawi (Albucasis, 936–1013), Andalusian surgeon of Córdoba, author of the 30-volume Kitab al-Tasrif; its illustrated 30th volume depicts over 200 surgical instruments and influenced European surgery for five centuries.
Al-Zaki Ali ibn Muhammad al-Qurashi
Al-Zaki Ali ibn Muhammad al-Qurashi (الزكي علي بن محمد القرشي) was a Shafi'i qadi of Damascus, born in 507 AH, who died in Baghdad in 564 AH.
al-Zamakhshari
al-Zamakhshari (الزمخشري) was a Khwarazmian exegete, theologian, and grammarian, born in 1075 and died in 1144, known for the Quran commentary al-Kashshaf and the grammar al-Mufassal.
al-Zarkashi
al-Zarkashi (الزركشي) was a Shafi'i jurist and hadith scholar of Mamluk Egypt who lived in Cairo from 1344 to 1392 and wrote about forty to sixty works.
al-Zarnuji
al-Zarnuji (الزرنوجي) was a Hanafi jurist of Transoxiana who wrote Ta'lim al-Muta'allim, a manual on the etiquette of study used in Ottoman madrasas and translated into Latin in 1838.
al-Zarqali
Al-Zarqali (الزرقالي), Latinized as Azarquiel or Arzachel, was an Andalusian astronomer and instrument maker of eleventh-century Toledo who invented the universal astrolabe and produced the Toledan Tables.
Al-Zawra
Al-Zawra (الزوراء) was the first newspaper published in Iraq, founded in Baghdad in 1869 by the Ottoman governor Midhat Pasha and printed in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish.
Al-Zayyadi
Al-Zayyadi (الزيادي), Abu al-Muhasin As'ad ibn Ali ibn al-Mawfaq, was a sixth-century AH hadith transmitter of Herat, a Hanafi ascetic who died in 544 AH at age 85.
Al-Ziyadi Muhammad ibn Ziyad
Al-Ziyadi Muhammad ibn Ziyad (الزيادي محمد بن زياد) was a Basran hadith transmitter of the tenth generation who died around 250 AH (863/864 CE), graded mostly saduq.
Al-Zour LNG Terminal
The Al-Zour LNG Terminal is Kuwait's first permanent onshore LNG import facility, located 90 kilometers southeast of Kuwait City and reaching full operations in February 2022.
Al-Zour Refinery
Al-Zour Refinery is an oil refinery about 90 kilometers south of Kuwait City, operated by KIPIC and, at 615,000 barrels per day, the Middle East's largest refinery.
Al-Zubayr ibn Ahmad
Al-Zubayr ibn Ahmad (الزبير بن أحمد) was a blind Basran scholar of the Shafi'i school of law and a hadith narrator who died in 317 AH (929 CE).
al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam
Al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam (الزبير بن العوام) was a Companion of Muhammad, one of the Ten promised Paradise, killed in 656 after the Battle of the Camel.
Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkar
Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkar (الزبير بن بكار) was an Arab historian, genealogist, and poet of the Abbasid caliphate who served as judge of Mecca and wrote on Quraysh lineage.
al-Zubayr Pasha
al-Zubayr Pasha Rahma (الزبير باشا رحمة) was a Sudanese slave-and-ivory trader and commander of the Ja'aliyyin who conquered the Darfur sultanate in 1874 and later spent decades in detention in Cairo and exile in Gibraltar.
al-Zubayr Rahma Mansur
al-Zubayr Rahma Mansur (الزبير رحمة منصور), known as Zubayr Pasha, was a Sudanese merchant and military commander who built a private armed state in Bahr al-Ghazal and conquered Darfur in 1874.
al-Zuhri
Al-Zuhri (الزهري), full name Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr al-Zuhri, was an Arab geographer of al-Andalus known for the Kitab al-Ja'rafiyya, a 12th-century commentary on al-Ma'mun's world map.
Al-Zunburi
Al-Zunburi (الزنبري), fully Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Mas'ud al-Zunbari al-Misri, was an Egyptian hadith transmitter who died in Ramadan 333 AH and taught al-Tabarani, Ibn Yunus, and Umar ibn Shahin.
Al’met’yevsk
Al’met’yevsk (Альметьевск) is a city in southeastern Tatarstan, Russia, on the Zay River, center of Almetyevsky District and of Tatarstan's oil industry; city since 3 November 1953, home of Tatneft, start of the Druzhba pipeline.
Al(al)komenai
Al(al)komenai (Ἀλαλκομεναί): small Boeotian settlement at the foot of Helikon with an ancient sanctuary of Athena, its reputed birthplace; ivory image stolen by Sulla; also namesakes on Ithaka and in Pelagonia.
Ala al-Dawla Muhammad
Ala al-Dawla Muhammad (علاء الدولة محمد) was the founder of the Kakuyid dynasty, who ruled Isfahan in western Persia, became its strongest power, and died on campaign in 1041.
Ala al-Din Husayn
Ala al-Din Husayn (علاء الدین حسین), called Jahansuz, was a Ghurid sultan who ruled Ghor in central Afghanistan from 1149 to 1161 and sacked Ghazna.