* As a Shia, the early Muslims whom Khomeini looked to were Ali ibn Abī Tālib and Husayn ibn Ali, not Caliphs Abu Bakr, Omar or Uthman.

Medina was the power base of Islam in its first century, being where the early Muslim community ( ummah ) developed under the Prophet's leadership, then under the leadership of the first four caliphs of Islam: Abu Bakr, Omar, Othman and Ali.

Under the first three Caliphs, Abu Bakr, Omar, and Othman, Medina was the capital of a rapidly increasing Muslim Empire.

* Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki ( born Omar Hammami ), American-born member of the Somali Islamist paramilitary group al-Shabaab.

Pipes has accused CAIR of demanding that a billboard declaring Osama bin Laden " the sworn enemy " be brought down in 1998 as " offensive to Moslems ", denying bin Laden's responsibility for the Africa embassy bombings, calling the conviction of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers " a travesty of justice ," calling the conviction of the blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman a " hate crime ", calling the extradition order of suspected Hamas terrorist Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook " anti-Islamic ", calling President Bush's closing of the Holy Land Foundation for collecting money used to support Hamas " unjust " and " disturbing ", praising and defending convicted murderer H. Rap Brown as well as convicted attempted murderer Adnan Chaudhry, and their LA office head calling Israelis " zionazis "; he also quotes the FBI's former chief of counterterrorism Steven Pomerantz saying that CAIR " effectively " gives aid to international terrorist groups.

After the Siege of Jerusalem by the Rashidun army under the command of Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah, Patriarch Sophronius refused to surrender except to the Caliph Omar himself.

Maqama texts are often derived from classical Arabic poetry, such as by Mohammad Mehdi Al-Jawahiri, al-Mutanabbi and Abu Nuwas, or Persian poets like Hafez and Omar Khayyám.

* November 23 – Omar Rezaq and two other members of the Abu Nidal Organization calling themselves the " Egypt Revolution " hijack EgyptAir Flight 648, a Boeing 737-200 – the same aircraft U. S. Navy fighters had intercepted in October – with 95 other people on board, during a flight from Athens, Greece, to Cairo, Egypt.

They claim that Abu Omar al-Kurdi, a top Zarqawi bombmaker who was captured in January 2005, confessed to carrying out this bombing.

The money came through a Filipino bank account owned by Syrian Omar Abu Omar, who worked at International Relations and Information Centre, an Islamic organization run by Mohammed Jamal Khalifa.

The organization also funneled money to an account owned by Omar Abu Omar, an employee of the International Relations and Information Centre, an organization run by Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, who is married to one of Osama bin Laden's sisters.

Janjalani's aliases include Khadafi Abubakar Janjalam, Khaddafy Abubakar Janjalani, Abu Muktar, Amir Khadafi Abubaker Janjalani, Khadafi Abu Muktar, Jimar Manalad Montanio, Khadafi Montanio, Abu Mochtar (" The good-hearted "), " Daf ", and Omar Bin Salik.

According to the investigation and the court ruling that followed, the bombings were organized by Achemez Gochiyaev, who remained at large as of 2010, and ordered by Ibn Al-Khattab and Abu Omar al-Saif, who were later killed.

Abu ` Abdullah Muhammad Ibn ‘ Omar Ibn Waqid al-Aslami ( Arabic ) ( c. 130-207 AH ; c. 748-822 AD ), commonly referred to as al-Waqidi ( Arabic: ), was an early Muslim historian and biographer of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad specializing in his campaigns.

* His Highness received the visit of guests Almarhum Sultan Abu Bakar of Pahang, Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin of Selangor, Almarhum Tuanku Syed Putra of Perlis, Almarhum Tuanku Munawir of Negeri Sembilan, Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman and his deputy, Tun Abdul Razak Hussein who attended the official opening ceremony of the Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque.

According to historian Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, Almalki described three of his fellow captives in Syria's Palestinian Branch military prison: Omar Ghramesh, Abu Abdul Halim Dalak and a Syrian teenager who was captured during the same raid where Abu Zubaydah was captured, who Worthington concluded was Noor al-Deen.

Marty qualified the sequestration of Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr ( aka " Abu Omar ") in Milan in February 2003 as a " perfect example of extraordinary rendition.

On 17 February 2003, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr ( aka " Abu Omar ") was kidnapped by the CIA in Milan ( Italy ), and deported to Egypt.

Abu Omar was kidnapped as he walked to his mosque in Milan for noon prayers.

In the " Imam Rapito affair " in Italy, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr ( aka Abu Omar ), an Islamist cleric, was kidnapped in a joint CIA – SISMI operation in Milan on 17 February 2003, transferred to the Aviano Air Base, and then flown to Egypt, where he was held until 11 February 2007, when an Egyptian court ruled his imprisonment was " unfounded.

Arafat's personal doctor Ashraf al-Kurdi and aide Bassam Abu Sharif maintained that Arafat was poisoned, possibly by thallium.

The male lineage of the Safavid family given by the oldest manuscript of the Safwat as-Safa is :"( Shaykh ) Safi al-Din Abul-Fatah Ishaaq the son of Al-Shaykh Amin al-din Jebrail the son of al-Saaleh Qutb al-Din Abu Bakr the son of Salaah al-Din Rashid the son of Muhammad al-Hafiz al-Kalaam Allah the son of Javaad the son of Pirooz al-Kurdi al-Sanjani ( Piruz Shah Zarin Kolah the Kurd of Sanjan )" similar to the ancestry of Sheykh Safi al-Din's father in law, Sheikh Zahed Gilani, who also hailed from Sanjan, in Greater Khorassan.

Abu Omar al-Kurdi, real name Sami Muhammad Ali Said al-Jaaf, was a top bombmaker for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's organization in Iraq, Jama ' at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad.

* Abu Omar al-Kurdi, aka Sami Mohammed Ali Said al-Jaaf-Iraqi Kurd

de: Abu Umar al-Kurdi

Imam Malik, whose real name was Abu Abdullah, Malik bin Anas, was born in Medina in the year 715 AD.

On the other hand, al-Ghazali ( 1058 – 1111 ) ( and in modern times, Abu Muhammad Asem al-Maqdisi ) argued that Qiyas refers to analogical reasoning in a real sense and categorical syllogism in a metaphorical sense.

Numerous stories depict Jinns, Ghouls, Apes, sorcerers, magicians, and legendary places, which are often intermingled with real people and geography, not always rationally ; common protagonists include the historical Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid, his Grand Vizier, Jafar al-Barmaki, and his alleged court poet Abu Nuwas, despite the fact that these figures lived some 200 years after the fall of the Sassanid Empire in which the frame tale of Scheherazade is set.

On the other hand, al-Ghazali ( 1058 – 1111 ) ( and in modern times, Abu Muhammad Asem al-Maqdisi ) argued that Qiyas refers to analogical reasoning in a real sense and categorical syllogism in a metaphorical sense.

The solution proposed by Abu al-Hasan al-Ash ' ari to solve the problems of tashbih and ta ' til concedes that the Divine Being possesses in a real sense the Attributes and Names mentioned in the Qur ' an.

The solution proposed by Abu al-Hasan al-Ash ' ari to solve the problems of tashbih and ta ' til concedes that the divine Being possesses in a real sense the Attributes and Names mentioned in the Qur ' an.

al-Jāḥiẓ ( in Arabic الجاحظ ) ( real name Abu Uthman Amr ibn Bahr al-Kinani al-Fuqaimi al-Basri ) ( born in Basra, 781 – December 868 / January 869 ) was an Arabic prose writer and author of works of literature, Mu ' tazili theology, and politico-religious polemics.

On the other hand, al-Ghazali ( 1058 – 1111 ) ( and in modern times, Abu Muhammad Asem al-Maqdisi ) argued that qiyas refers to analogical reasoning in a real sense and categorical syllogism in a metaphorical sense.

The real founder of Shaybanid power was Muhammad Shaybani-grandson of Abu ' l Khair.

Another speculation is that since the event of Mobahela is the highlight of this surah, Al Imran could very well refer to the progeny of Abu Talib ibn ‘ Abd al-Muttalib, whose real name was Imran.

Up to that moment, they represented a complicated issue for the newly established Kingdom, as they were essential to keep the economy working due to their numbers, which inspired frequent pacts with local Muslim populations, such as Mohammad Abu Abdallah Ben Hudzail al Sahuir, allowing their culture various degrees of tolerance but, on the other side, they were deemed as a menace to the Kingdom due to their lack of allegiance and their real or perceived conspiracies to bring the Ottoman Empire to their rescue.

On a previous occasion Gauci had identified Abu Talb ( who the defence contended was the real bomber ) saying that Talb resembled the customer " a lot ".

Aldar Properties PJSC ( شركة الدار العقارية ) is a real estate development, management and investment company with headquarters in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Its first employee was Christopher Sims MRICS, MHKIS, ACIArb, who built the company from ground zero to create real estate developments for Abu Dhabi, while providing stable and profitable investment portfolio for its investors and stakeholders.

ALDAR ’ s vision is to establish Abu Dhabi as the United Arab Emirate ’ s most dynamic forward-thinking real estate market by creating unique and prestigious developments that can be used as a benchmark of quality, whilst adhering to the cultural and natural heritage of the city.

Another possibility, raised in an essay by the Swedish fantasy writer and editor Rickard Berghorn, is that the name Alhazred was influenced by references to two historical authors whose names were Latinized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic ; and Abu ' Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics.

Abu Bakr's full name was ' Abd Allah ibn ' Uthman ibn Aamir ibn Amr ibn Ka ' ab ibn Sa ' ad ibn Taym ( from whom the at-Taymi al-Quraishi ) ibn Murrah ibn Ka ' ab ibn Lu ' ai ibn Ghalib ibn Fihr al-Quraishi.

Abu Bakr's father's name was Uthman Abu Quhafa ( nicknamed Abu Quhafa ) and his mother was Salma Umm-ul-Khair ( nicknamed Umm-ul-Khair ).

Lindh went by the name Sulayman al-Faris during his time in Afghanistan, but prefers the name Abu Sulayman al-Irlandi today.

In January 1977, Abu Daoud was intercepted by French police in Paris while traveling from Beirut under an assumed name.

In the Swahili and Indonesian culture many of his stories are being told under the name of " Abunuwasi " or " Abunawas ", though this confuses Nasreddin with an entirely different man – the poet Abu Nuwas, known for homoerotic verse.

Perhaps for no other reason than the association of name, the 9th century Persian astronomer Abu Ma ' shar assumed Ptolemy to be member of Egypt's royal lineage, stating that the ten kings of Egypt who followed Alexander were wise " and included Ptolemy the Wise, who composed the book of the Almagest ".

There is little evidence on the subject of Ptolemy's ancestry, apart from what can be drawn from the details of his name ( see above ); however modern scholars refer to Abu Ma ’ shar ’ s account as erroneous, and it is no longer doubted that the astronomer who wrote the Almagest also wrote the Tetrabiblos as its astrological counterpart.

During the early 1950s, Arafat adopted the name Yasser, and in the early years of Arafat's guerrilla career, he assumed the nom de guerre of Abu Ammar.

Citing the example of one of the first written applications of the Arabic term hashish to the Ismailis by 13th century historian Abu Shama, de Sacy demonstrated its connection to the name given to the Ismailis throughout Western scholarship.

The quarrel was taken up by his brother Abdallah, known by the name of Abu al -' Abbas as-Saffah, who defeated the Umayyads in 750 in the Battle of the Zab near the Great Zab and was subsequently proclaimed caliph.

Qassem also told reporters that he had once escorted Abu Nidal, who was allegedly using the name Shakir Farhan, around town to buy a tie, without realizing who he was.

Ali Hassan Salameh (, ) ( 1940 – January 22, 1979 ) was the chief of operations — code name Abu Hassan — for Black September, the organization responsible for the 1972 Munich massacre and other attacks.

Bassam Abu Sharif in Damascus issued a statement in the name of the PFLP claiming responsibility.

ابوالفتح عمر بن ابراهیم Abu ' l-Fat ' h ' Umar ibn Ibrāhīm-Abu means father, Fat ' h means conqueror, ' Umar means life, Ibrahim is the name of the father.

According to their version, FSB knew about the terrorist group's arrival in Moscow and directed them to the theater through their agent provocateur Khanpasha Terkibayev (" Abu Bakar "), whose name was in list of hostage takers and who left the theater alive.

According to Ibn-Khaldun's comprehensive history of the Malian kings, Mansa Musa's grandfather was Abu-Bakr ( the Arabic equivalent to Bakari or Bogari, original name unknown-not the sahabiyy Abu Bakr ), a brother of Sundiata Keita, the founder of the Malian Empire as recorded through oral histories.

Originally known by his Hebrew name " Nethanel " Baruch ben Melech al-Balad later became known as Abu ' l-Barakat Hibat Allah ibn Ali ibn Malka al-Baghdadi was a Jewish philosopher and physicist and father-in-law of Maimonides who converted to Islam in his twilight years-once Head of the Baghdad Yeshiva and considered the leading philosopher of Iraq.

Citing the example of one of the first written applications of the Arabic term hashishi to the Ismailis by historian Abu Shams ( d. 1267 ), de Sacy demonstrated its connection to the name given to the Ismailis throughout Western scholarship.

Abu Hamza () meaning father of Hamza, is a given name and a common alias used by several people, it may refer to:

His full name was Abu Said Abdul Rahman ibn Abdullah ibn Bishr ibn Al Sarem Al ' Aki Al Ghafiqi.