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al-Sakkaki
al-Sakkaki (السكاكي) was a Khwarazmian scholar of Arabic language, rhetoric, and logic, born in 1160 and died in 1229; his Miftah al-'ulum became a canonical work on Arabic rhetoric.
al-Salih Ayyub
al-Salih Ayyub (الصالح أيوب) was the Ayyubid sultan of Egypt from 1240 to 1249, the last effective Ayyubid ruler, whose Bahriyya mamluks later founded Egypt's Mamluk sultanate.
al-Salih Isma'il (Ayyubid ruler of Damascus)
al-Salih Isma'il (الصالح إسماعيل) was an Ayyubid ruler of Damascus and a son of Sultan al-Adil, who held the city twice, in 1237 and from 1239 to 1245.
al-Salih Ismail (son of Nur al-Din, Zengid Syria)
Al-Salih Ismail (الملك الصالح إسماعيل) was the Zengid ruler of Syria who succeeded his father Nur al-Din in 1174 at age eleven; Saladin took Damascus, and he died in 1181.
Al-Sallar
Al-Sallar (السلار), Abu al-Hasan Makki ibn Mansur ibn Muhammad ibn 'Allan al-Karaji, was a Sunni hadith transmitter who died in Isfahan in 491 AH (1098 CE).
al-Sam'ani
Al-Sam'ani (السمعاني) was a Shafi'i jurist, hadith scholar, and genealogist of Marv who lived under Seljuk rule and wrote Kitab al-Ansab, a biographical dictionary.
al-Samaw'al
Al-Samaw'al (السموأل بن يحيى المغربي) was a Baghdad-born mathematician, astronomer, and physician who wrote the algebra treatise al-Bahir fi'l-jabr at age 19 and converted to Islam in 1163.
Al-Samdhi Abu al-Makarim al-Mubarak ibn Ali ibn Abd al-Aziz
Al-Samdhi Abu al-Makarim al-Mubarak ibn Ali ibn Abd al-Aziz (السمذي) was a Baghdadi hadith transmitter and baker who died on Ashura in 539 AH in his nineties.
Al-Sanawbari
Al-Sanawbari (الصنوبري) was a tenth-century Arab poet who served Sayf al-Dawla in Aleppo and was the first Arab poet to write odes on nature and flowers.
al-Saraqusti
al-Saraqusti (السرقسطي) was an Andalusi poet and man of letters, probably born in Zaragoza, who settled in Cordoba and wrote al-Maqamat al-Luzumiyya, among the finest literary works of al-Andalus; he died there in 1143–1144.
Al-Saydalani
Al-Saydalani (الصيدلاني القاسم بن الفضل بن عبد الواحد) is a hadith transmitter traditionally identified as al-Qasim ibn Fadl ibn Abd al-Wahid, an Isfahani apothecary dated to 338 AH, though sources conflict.
Al-Shabaab (حركة الشباب المجاهدين) (militant group)
Al-Shabaab (حركة الشباب المجاهدين), Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen, is a Somalia-based Islamist insurgent group and al-Qaeda affiliate that fights the Somali government and carries out attacks in Kenya and Ethiopia.
Al-Shadhyakhi
Al-Shadhyakhi (الشاذياخي) was a Sunni hadith transmitter of Nishapur who sold beads for a living, heard the Sahih from Abu Sahl al-Hafsi, and died in 1141.
Al-Shafi'i
Al-Shafi'i, also known as Imam Shafi'i, was a Muslim legal scholar (767–820) whose Risala is the oldest surviving Arabic work on legal theory, founding the Shafi'i school of Sunni law.
al-Shahrastani
Al-Shahrastani (الشهرستاني) was a Persian scholar of religion and Ash'ari theologian, born in 1086 and died in 1153, who served the Seljuk sultan Sanjar as deputy of the chancellery.
al-Shahrazuri
al-Shahrazuri (الشهرزوري), fully Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Mahmud al-Shahrazuri, was a 13th-century physician, philosopher, and historian of philosophy in the Illuminationist school of Suhrawardi, considered the school's second figure, and died after 1288.
al-Shanfara
Al-Shanfara (الشنفرى) was a sixth-century pre-Islamic Arabian poet of the Azd tribe, remembered among the outlaw brigand poets for the Lamiyyat al-'Arab, one of the most famous poems in classical Arabic literature.
al-Sharif al-Jurjani
al-Sharif al-Jurjani (الشريف الجرجاني), also called Sayyid Sharif al-Jurjani, was a Persian theologian, logician, and philosopher who taught under Shah Shuja and Timur and died in Shiraz in 1413.
al-Sharif al-Murtada
Al-Sharif al-Murtada (الشريف المرتضى), also known as Sayyid al-Murtada, was a leading Shia scholar of Baghdad in theology, literature, and poetry, living from 966 to 1044 under the Abbasids and Buyids.
Al-Sharif al-Radi
Al-Sharif al-Radi (الشريف الرضي) was a Baghdadi Twelver Shia scholar, poet, and chief of the Prophet's descendants who compiled Nahj al-Balagha, a celebrated collection of sermons and sayings attributed to Ali.
al-Sharishi
al-Sharishi (الشريشي) was an Arab grammarian, philologist, and commentator from Sharish (Jerez de la Frontera) in al-Andalus, who lived from 1162 to 1222 or 1223 and is famed for his commentary on al-Hariri's Maqamat.
al-Shatibi
Al-Shatibi (الشاطبي), Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Musa al-Gharnati, was a Maliki legal theorist of Nasrid Granada who died in 1388 and wrote al-Muwafaqat, the first systematic treatment of the objectives of Islamic law.
Al-Shawkani
Al-Shawkani (الشوكاني), full name Muhammad ibn Ali al-Shawkani, was a Yemeni jurist and hadith scholar who served as chief judge of the Qasimi imamate in Sana'a from 1795 until his death in 1834.
Al-Shaykh al-Mufid
Al-Shaykh al-Mufid (الشيخ المفيد) was the leading Twelver Shia theologian and jurist of Baghdad under the Buyids, from about 947 to 1022, whose writings remain core to Shia seminary curricula.
al-shra3
al-shra3 (كازينوا الشراع) is a casino in Mosul, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq, on Al-Ghabat Street at 36.37714 N, 43.11115 E, OSM node 5106889337, near other Mosul casinos; gambling is illegal in Iraq but such venues operate.
Al-Sijzi
Al-Sijzi (السجزي) was a Persian mathematician and astronomer born in Sijistan around 945 who left about 40 mathematical works, took part in solar observations at Shiraz in 969–970, and died around 1020.
Al-Siyasa al-Usbu'iyya
Al-Siyasa al-Usbu'iyya (السياسة الأسبوعية, "The Weekly Politics") was a Cairo political and cultural weekly, the literary supplement of the daily Al-Siyasa, edited by Muhammad Hussein Heikal from 1926 to 1949.
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.