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Islam Shah Suri

Islam Shah Suri (اسلام شاہ سوری) was Sultan of the Suri Empire, ruling northern India from 1545 to 1554 as the son and successor of Sher Shah Suri.

Islamic attitudes towards science

Islamic attitudes towards science: Muslim scholarly and popular stances on scientific knowledge, from the Abbasid translation of Greek, Persian, Syriac, and Sanskrit texts and figures such as al-Ghazali to modern debates over reformism, conservatism, creationism, and the Islamization of science.

Islamic culture

Islamic culture, also called Muslim culture, is the shared practices, arts, and learning of Muslim-ruled societies, taking form under the Abbasid caliphate (750–1258) centered at Baghdad.

Islamic Golden Age

Islamic Golden Age: period of scientific and cultural flourishing, 8th–13th/14th centuries, under the Abbasid Caliphate centered on Baghdad; defined by the Graeco-Arabic translation movement, the House of Wisdom, and scholars such as al-Khwarizmi and Avicenna.

Islamization of Kano under Yaji

The Islamization of Kano under Yaji was the conversion of the Hausa city-state of Kano's ruling house to Islam under Sarki Yaji, who reigned from 1349 to 1385.

Islamization of the Golden Horde

The Islamization of the Golden Horde was the adoption of Islam by the Mongol Golden Horde, begun under Berke Khan and made the state religion under Uzbek in 1313.

Islamization of the Swahili coast

The Islamization of the Swahili coast is the process by which the Bantu-speaking inhabitants of the East African coast adopted Islam between roughly the 8th and 15th centuries.

Isma'il I

Isma'il I (اسماعیل بن احمد) was the Samanid amir who ruled Transoxiana and Khurasan from Bukhara, becoming sole ruler in 892 and dying in 907.

Isma'il ibn Ja'far

Isma'il ibn Ja'far (إسماعيل بن جعفر) was the son and designated heir of Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq, the eponym of the Ismaili branch of Shi'a Islam.

Isma'il Pasha al-Azm

Isma'il Pasha al-Azm (إسماعيل باشا العظم) was an 18th-century Ottoman governor of Damascus and Tripoli, and the first of the al-Azm family to hold the post.

Isma'ili school of law

The Isma'ili school of law (المذهب الإسماعيلي) is the madhhab codified by Qadi al-Nu'man, based on his Da'a'im al-Islam, as the official law of the Fatimid caliphate.

Isma'ilis

The Isma'ilis (الإسماعيلية) are a Shi'i sect named for Isma'il, son of Ja'far al-Sadiq, whose succession they upheld; their missionary da'wa produced the Qarmatians and the Fatimid caliphate.

Ismail Dede Efendi

Ismail Dede Efendi (اسماعيل دده افندي), 1778 to 1846, was an Ottoman composer, singer, poet, and palace official under three sultans, known for his seven Mevlevi ayins.

Ismail II

Ismail II (اسماعیل دوم) was the third shah of Safavid Iran, the second son of Tahmasp I, who reigned from 1576 to 1577 and pursued a short-lived pro-Sunni policy.

Ismail II of Granada

Ismail II of Granada (إسماعيل الثاني) was a Nasrid emir installed by a palace coup that deposed his half-brother Muhammad V, and murdered about a year later.

Ismail Sidqi Pasha

Ismail Sidqi Pasha (إسماعيل صدقي) was an Egyptian statesman who served twice as prime minister, in 1930 under King Fuad and again in 1946 under King Farouk.

Ismaili state of Multan

The Ismaili state of Multan (اسماعیلیان ملتان) was a Fatimid vassal state in the northern Indus, founded around 958 and annexed by Mahmud of Ghazna in 1010–11.

Isonokami no Yakatsugu

Isonokami no Yakatsugu (石上宅嗣, 729–781) was a Japanese court noble and man of letters of the late Nara period who rose to Dainagon and founded the Untei, regarded as Japan's first public library.

Ispah Rebellion

The Ispah Rebellion (亦思巴奚兵乱) was an armed conflict centered on Quanzhou in Fujian from 1357 to 1366, fought by Muslim commanders of Persian origin against Yuan loyalists; its end marked Quanzhou's decline as an international port.

İspeçkür stele

The İspeçkür stele, or Ispekchur stele, is a four-sided limestone monument with reliefs and a hieroglyphic Luwian inscription, erected by the Malatya ruler Arnuwanti II.

Isputahsu

Isputahsu, also written Išputahšu, was the earliest known king of Kizzuwatna, a Late Bronze Age kingdom in southeastern Anatolia, ruling in the late 16th century BC.

Israel Bissell

Israel Bissell, legendary express rider of the April 19, 1775 Lexington Alarm from Watertown toward Connecticut and Philadelphia; historians dispute the identity, crediting Isaac Bissell of Suffield for a ride only to Hartford.

Israel Finkelstein (ישראל פינקלשטיין)

Israel Finkelstein (ישראל פינקלשטיין), Israeli archaeologist, Tel Aviv University professor emeritus holding the Jacob M. Alkow Chair, known for the Low Chronology of Iron Age strata, Megiddo excavations, and The Bible Unearthed.

Israel Hands

Israel Hands, also called Basilica Hands, was Blackbeard's sailing master, shot in the knee by his captain and later pardoned; he is also the Hispaniola coxswain killed by Jim Hawkins in Treasure Island.

Israel of Aksum

Israel of Aksum was a king of the Aksumite kingdom in what is now Ethiopia and Eritrea, known essentially only from his coinage, dated to the 570s.

Israelite highland settlement

Israelite highland settlement was the Iron Age I founding of hundreds of small villages in the central hill country of Canaan, roughly 1200 to 1000 BC.

Israelite–Aramean War

The Israelite–Aramean War is the conventional label for a series of 9th-century BC conflicts between Israel and Aram-Damascus, shaped by Assyrian pressure on both kingdoms.

Israelites

The Israelites were an Iron Age people of the southern Levant, first named in the Merneptah Stele (c. 1208 BCE), who formed the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, endured Assyrian and Babylonian exiles, and whose religion underlies Judaism.

Isshi Incident

The Isshi Incident (乙巳の変) was a 645 palace coup in which Prince Naka no Ōe and Nakatomi no Kamatari assassinated the court leader Soga no Iruka, ending Soga clan dominance.

Istämi

Istämi was a Turkic ruler who held the western wing of the Göktürk Khaganate as yabghu from 552 to 576, subordinate to his older brother Bumin Khagan.