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Al White
Al White (Albert Cosad White, 1895-1982), American Stanford diver, first Olympic double diving champion, winning 3m springboard and 10m platform gold at Paris 1924; undefeated on 1m lowboard, 10 AAU titles, ISHOF honoree.
Al Wilson
Al Wilson refers to several athletes: Alfred Mayo Wilson (1903-1989), Yale captain and 1924 Olympic rowing gold medalist; Aldra Kauwa Wilson (born 1977), Denver Broncos linebacker; a BC Lions lineman; and WNBA guard Ally Wilson.
Al Young
Al Young (Albert Young, 1877–1940), German-born American boxer, won welterweight gold at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics by decision over Harry Spanjer, then became a San Francisco boxing promoter.
Al Zubarah Archaeological Site
Al Zubarah Archaeological Site: abandoned walled pearling and trading town in northwest Qatar, founded by Utub merchants from Kuwait, destroyed 1811, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2013, Qatar's first.
Al-'Abbas ibn Muhammad al-Tabarani
Al-'Abbas ibn Muhammad al-Tabarani (العباس بن محمد) was a twelfth-century Quran reciter who shares his name with the earlier hadith compiler al-Tabarani, who died in 971.
Al-'Ajli
Al-'Ajli (العجلي), fully Abu al-Futuh As'ad ibn Mahmud al-'Ijli al-Asbahani, was a Shafi'i jurist, preacher, and hadith transmitter of Isfahan who lived from 1121 to 1203 and was known as mufti of the Persians.
Al-'Ala' ibn Ziyad al-'Adawi
Al-'Ala' ibn Ziyad al-'Adawi (العلاء بن زياد العدوي) was a Basran ascetic and hadith narrator of the tabi'un, graded reliable, who died in 94 AH (712-13).
Al-'Allama al-Majlisi
Al-'Allama al-Majlisi (العلامة المجلسي), born 1627, was a leading Twelver Shi'ite jurist of Safavid Iran who served as shaykh al-Islam of Isfahan from 1687 until his death in 1699 or 1700.
Al-'Asal Ahmad ibn 'Abd al-Warith ibn Jurayr
Al-'Asal Ahmad ibn 'Abd al-Warith ibn Jurayr (العسال أحمد بن عبد الوارث بن جرير) was a Sunni Egyptian hadith transmitter graded thiqah, who died in 321 AH.
Al-'Ayshi
Al-'Ayshi (العيشي), also known as Ibn 'A'isha, was a Basran hadith scholar who died in 843; his students included Ahmad ibn Hanbal and Abu Dawud, and a booklet of 172 hadiths from his teachers survives.
al-A'sha
Al-A'sha (الأعشى), born Maymun ibn Qays, was a pre-Islamic Arabian poet of the Jahiliyyah who died around 629, known for his ode in the Mu'allaqat and for making praise poetry a paid profession.
al-Abbas ibn al-Walid
Al-Abbas ibn al-Walid (العباس بن الوليد) was an Umayyad prince and son of Caliph al-Walid b. Abd al-Malik, known as the Horseman of the Marwanids for leading nine raids on the Byzantine frontier.
al-Abshihi
al-Abshihi (الأبشيهي) was a fifteenth-century Egyptian man of letters and preacher, born in 1388, known for the anthology al-Mustatraf, an encyclopedia of adab, religion, and tales.
Al-Abudhiyya
Al-Abudhiyya (الأبوذية) is an Iraqi folk poetry form in colloquial Arabic built on jinas wordplay, one of the oldest oral forms of central and southern Iraq and a pillar of rural singing.
Al-Abwab
Al-Abwab, Arabic for "the gates," was a medieval Nubian kingdom in present-day central Sudan, first mentioned in the ninth century and known for siding with the Mamluks before vanishing from records after the fourteenth century.
Al-Adab
Al-Adab (مجلة الآداب) is a Beirut-based Arabic literary and cultural monthly founded by Suhayl Idris, Bahij Uthman, and Munir al-Baalbaki in January 1953, the principal vehicle for committed literature.
Al-Adib
Al-Adib (مجلة الأديب, 'The Man of Letters') was a monthly literary magazine published in Beirut from 1942 to 1983, founded and edited by Albert Adib.
al-Adid
al-Adid li-Din Allah (العاضد لدين الله) was the last Fatimid caliph of Egypt, reigning from 1160 to 1171 under powerful viziers, ending as a figurehead under Saladin.
al-Adil I
al-Adil I, Sayf al-Din Abu Bakr al-Adil, was an Ayyubid sultan of Egypt and brother of Saladin who negotiated with Richard the Lionheart and died in 1218.
Al-Adil ibn al-Sallar
Al-Adil ibn al-Sallar (Ibn al-Sallar) was a Fatimid vizier who ruled Egypt as effective ruler of the caliphate from 1149 until his assassination in 1153.
al-Adil II
Al-Adil II (العادل الثاني) was the Ayyubid sultan of Egypt from 1238 to 1240, succeeding his father al-Kamil and deposed by his brother al-Salih Ayyub.
Al-Adil's seizure of power
Al-Adil's seizure of power was his takeover of the Ayyubid state after Saladin's death, defeating his nephew al-Afdal and reuniting Egypt and Syria by 1202.
Al-Adwa
Al-Adwa (Arabic: مجلة الأضواء) corresponds to Al-Adwaa, a weekly newspaper published in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from 1957 to 1959, considered the first newspaper of Jeddah in the Saudi era.
al-Afdal al-Abbas
Al-Afdal al-Abbas (الأفضل العباس) was the sixth sultan of the Rasulid dynasty of Yemen from 1363 to 1377, known for quelling rebellions, founding madrasas, and his agricultural treatise Bughyat al-fallahin.
al-Afdal Ali
Al-Afdal Ali (الأفضل علي بن صلاح الدين) was an Ayyubid prince, the eldest son of Saladin, who inherited Damascus in 1193 and later served briefly as regent of Egypt.
al-Afdal ibn Salah al-Din
al-Afdal ibn Salah al-Din, eldest son of Saladin, ruled Damascus from 1193 as Saladin's designated heir, but lost the city to his uncle al-Adil in 1196.
al-Afdal Shahanshah
al-Afdal Shahanshah, who inherited both offices from his father Badr al-Jamali, was vizier and army commander of the Fatimid Caliphate from 1094 until his assassination in 1121, ruling the empire in fact.
al-Afshin
Al-Afshin (أفشين) was Haydar ibn Kavus, a prince of Ushrusana and foremost Abbasid commander who crushed Babak's revolt in 837 and died in caliphal custody in 841.
Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion
Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion: October 17, 2023 blast in the Gaza City hospital courtyard killing an estimated 100-471. US, UK and HRW analyses point to a misfired Palestinian rocket; Forensic Architecture disputes this; attribution remains unconfirmed.
Al-Ahli Saudi FC (النادي الأهلي السعودي)
Al-Ahli Saudi FC (النادي الأهلي السعودي), also called Al-Ahli Jeddah, is a professional football club in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, founded in 1937 and one of the four founding members of the Saudi Pro League.