Al-Libi had been visited in April 2009 by a team from Human Rights Watch, who were reportedly " stunned " to discover al-Libi in Tripoli's Abu Salim prison during their fact-finding mission to Libya.

The government prepared legal cases against four southern leaders -- Ali Salim al-Baidh, Haydar Abu Bakr Al-Attas, Abd Al-Rahman Ali Al-Jifri, and Salih Munassar Al-Siyali -- for misappropriation of official funds.

* In the Marinid Empire in present-day Morocco, Abu Salim Ibrahim is overthrown by Abu Umar, who is in turn overthrown by Abu Zayyan.

Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi aka Abu Ali al-Harithi ( Arabic: أبو علي الحاريثي ) ( died November 3, 2002 ) was an al-Qaida operative and a citizen of Yemen who is suspected of having been the mastermind behind the October 2000 USS Cole bombing.

Furthermore, Taif is flirted in other occasions and songs, for examples: " Ya Misafer Ala At Taif " by Abu Bakir Salim and others.

He is then believed to have traveled to southern Lebanon along with Abu Talha al-Sudani, Sayful Islam al-Masri, Abu Ja ` far al-Masri, and Abu Salim al-Masri, where he trained alongside Hezbollah Al-Hejaz.

The DRY, with its capital in Aden, was led by President Ali Salim al-Beidh and Prime Minister Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas and represented a response to the weakening position of the South in the Yemeni civil war of 1994.

In London in the late 1960s Egyptian businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed was introduced to Al Tajir by Salim Abu Alwan, an Iraqi businessman.

The following is an excerpt from Alfred Guillaume's translation of Ibn Ishaq's prophetic biography, chapter " Salim b. Umayr's expedition to kill Abu Afak ". Abu Afak was one of the B. Amr b. Auf of the B. Ubayda clan.

Another description of this story comes from The Major Classes by ibn Sa'd al-Baghdadi, although this work is based on the former source :" Then occurred the " sariyyah " of Salim Ibn Umayr al-Amri against Abu Afak, the Jew, in month of Shawwal in the beginning of the twentieth month from the hijra, of the Apostle of Allah.

Salim Ibn Umayr who was one of the great weepers and who had participated in Badr, said, " I take a vow that I shall either kill Abu Afak or die before him.

In the Marinid Empire, Abu Bakr Said overthrown by Abu Salim Ibrahim.

In the Marinid Empire, Abu Salim Ibrahim overthrown by Abu Umar.

* Aziz, also Salim Abu Aziz, AKA " The Sand Spike " is a leader of Islamic terrorist organization group known as " The Crimson Jihad " in the film True Lies.

Abul Fazl was assassinated while he was returning from the Deccan by Vir Singh Bundela ( who later became the ruler of Orchha ) between Sarai Vir and Antri ( near Narwar ) in a plot contrived by the Mughal Prince Salim, who later became the Emperor Jahangir in 1602, because Abu ' l Fazl was known to oppose the accession of Prince Salim to the throne.

* 1359: Abu Salim Ibrahim is nominated sultan by the vizirs.

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.

ms: Abu Ali Al-Hussain Ibn Abdallah Ibn Sina

uz: Abu Ali ibn Sino

ms: Abu Ali Hasan Ibn Al-Haitham

He was also a direct descendant of Abu Bakr from his maternal side, as well as being a paternal descendant of Ali from his father's side.

The first four Caliphs: Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, Umar ibn al-Khattab, Uthman ibn Affan and Ali ibn Abi Talib are commonly known by Sunnis, mainly, as the Khulafā ’ ur-Rāshideen (" rightly guided successors ") Caliphs.

A strong emphasis on experimentation and empiricism led to new results and new observations, which were contrasted and combined with those of Galen by writers such as Rhazes, Ali ibn Abbas al-Majusi ( Haly Abbas ), Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi ( Abulasis ), Ibn Sina ( Avicenna ), Ibn Zuhr and Ibn al-Nafis.

After Muhammed died, a series of Caliphs governed the Islamic State: Abu Bakr ( 632-634 ), Umar ibn al-Khattab ( Umar І, 634-644 ), Uthman ibn Affan, ( 644-656 ), and Ali ibn Abi Talib ( 656-661 ).

Narrators who took the side of Abu Bakr and Umar rather than Ali, in the disputes over leadership that followed the death of Muhammad, are seen as unreliable by the Shia ; narrations sourced to Ali and the family of Muhammad, and to their supporters, are preferred.

* 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.

Abu Bakr recommended toppling a wall on the evil-doer, or else burning alive, while Ali bin Abi Talib ordered death by stoning for one " luti " and had another thrown head-first from the top of a minaret — according to Ibn Abbas, this last punishment must be followed by stoning.

* Abu ' Ali al-Husayn Ibn Sina

* Abu Muhammad ' Ali Ibn Hazm

Historic sites of religious importance which have been destroyed by the Saudis include five of the renowned " Seven Mosques " initially built by Muhammad's daughter and four of his " greatest Companions ": Masjid Abu Bakr, Masjid Salman al-Farsi, Masjid Umar ibn al-Khattab, Masjid Sayyida Fatima bint Rasulullah and Masjid Ali ibn Abu Talib.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine took credit for the killing and stated that it was in revenge for the assassination of their secretary-general Abu Ali Mustafa, killed by Israel in August that year.

According to Ali ibn al-Athir, a Kurdish historian of the 12th century, Charlemagne received the envoys of Sulayman al-Arabi, Husayn, and Abu Taur at the Diet of Paderborn in 777.

The ' Al Jubayl community harbor and Abu Ali Island, which juts into the gulf immediately north of ' Al Jubayl, experienced the greatest pollution, with the main effect of the spill concentrated in mangrove areas and shrimp grounds.

Ajman Port, Fujairah Port, Das Island, Mina ' Zayid and Mina Jabal Al Dhanna in Abu Dhabi, Khawr Fakkan, Mina Al Hemreya and, Mina ' Khalid in Sharjah, Mina ' Jabal ' Ali, Port Rashid in Dubai, Mina ' Saqr in Ras Al Khaimah, Umm al-Qaiwain Port,

During the reign of Ali ibn Abu Talib, the issue of zakat was tied to legitimacy of his government.

* Abu al-Hasan ' Ali abi Sa ' id ' Abd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad ibn Yunus al-Sadafi al-Misri, Egyptian mathematician and astronomer

* 1628 – 1631: Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik II

* 750: The last Umayyad Caliph Marwan II ( 744 – 750 ) is overthrown and executed by the first Abbasid Caliph, Abu al-Abbas al-Saffah.

* The Zayanids under Abu Hamuw II recapture Algeria.

* Abu Tashufin II succeeds his nephew, Abu Hammu II, as ruler of the Abdalwadid Dynasty in present-day eastern Algeria.

* Abu Zayyan II succeeds his brother, Abul Hadjdjadj I, as ruler of the Abdalwadid dynasty in present-day eastern Algeria.

* Abd al-Aziz II succeeds Abu al-Abbas Ahmad II as ruler of the Hafsid dynasty in present-day Tunisia.

* Abdul Aziz II becomes Sultan of the Marinid dynasty in present-day Morocco after the death of Sultan Abu Al-Abbas.

* Abu Thabid II succeeds Abu Tashufin II as ruler of the Abdalwadid dynasty in present-day eastern Algeria.

** Abu Abdallah Mohammed II Saadi, King of Morocco

* Muhammad II as Said becomes ruler of the Marinid dynasty in present-day Morocco after the assassination of Abu Inan Faris.

* Abu Amir succeeds Abdul Aziz II as ruler of the Marinid dynasty in present-day Morocco.

The Almohad caliph, Abu Yaqub Yusuf, manages to broke an alliance with the king of León Ferdinand II against Afonso.

In 1184, after a series of failed attempts, the Almohad caliph Abu Yaqub Yusuf invaded Portugal with an army recruited in Northern Africa and, in May, besieged Afonso I in Santarém ; the Portuguese were helped by the arrival of the armies sent by the archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, in June, and by Ferdinand II in July.

Ramses II fighting from a chariot at the Battle of Kadesh with two archers, one with the reins tied around the waist to free both hands ( relief from Abu Simbel )

* c. 1279 BC – 1213 BC — Temple of Ramesses II in Abu Simbel, Nubia ( 19th dynasty ) was built.

In May 2012 the tribunal again under a purported exercise of universal jurisdiction took testimony from victims of torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and convicted in absentia former President Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Deputy Assistant Attorneys General John Yoo and Jay Bybee, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and former counselors David Addington and William Haynes II for conspiracy to commit war crimes.