Appended to this he gives a commentary to a poem of Nabigha, to one of A ' sha, and moreover one to that poem of ' Abid which, as we have just seen, Ibn Qutaiba had counted among the seven.

However, the learned Ibn Qutaiba ( 9th century ), in his book Of Poetry and Poets, mentions as belonging to the " Seven " not only the poem of ' Amr, which has invariably been reckoned among the Mu ' allaqat ( ed.

Surrounded by the vizier Said ibn al-Mundhir who had ordered the construction of bastions around the city, he resisted the siege for six months, until he surrendered, having his life spared ( 928 ).

The leader of the revolt, Ahmad ibn Said al Said, was elected sultan of Muscat upon the expulsion of the Persians.

The Al Said clan became a royal dynasty when Ahmad ibn Said Al Said was elected imam following the expulsion of the Iranians from Muscat in 1744.

Schisms within the ruling family were apparent before Ahmad ibn Said's death in 1783 and were later manifest with the division of the family into two main lines, the Sultan ibn Ahmad Al Said ( r. 1792 – 1806 ) line controlling the maritime state, with nominal control over the entire country ; and the Qais branch, with authority over the Al Batinah and Ar Rustaq areas.

During the period of Sultan Said ibn Sultan Al Said's rule ( 1806 – 1856 ), Oman cultivated its East African colonies, profiting from the slave trade.

The death of Sa ' id bin Sultan in 1856 prompted a further division: the descendants of the late sultan ruled Muscat and Oman ( Thuwaini ibn Said Al-Busaid, r. 1856 – 1866 ) and Zanzibar ( Mayid ibn Said Al-Busaid, r. 1856 – 1870 ); the Qais branch intermittently allied itself with the ulama to restore imamate legitimacy.

The British gave Imam Azzam's rival, Turki ibn Said Al-Busaid, financial and political support.

Turki ibn Said succeeded in defeating the forces of Imam Azzam, who was killed in battle outside Matrah in January 1871.

In the hope of saving this rare animal, Sultan Qabus ibn Said has declared part of the mountain a national park.

Its capital, Salalah, was the permanent residence of Sultan Said ibn Taimur Al Said and the birthplace of the present sultan, Qabus ibn Said.

In the early nineteenth centuries, continuing bloody conflict involved not only the Al Khalifa, the Al Jalahima, and the Iranians but also the Omanis under Sayyid Said ibn Sultan Al Said, the nascent Wahhabis of Arabia, and the Ottomans.

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

` Ali ibn al-Husayn ul-Isfahānī (), also known as Abu-l-Faraj or, in the West, as Abulfaraj ( 897 – 967 ) was an Iranian scholar of Arab-Quraysh origin who is noted for collecting and preserving ancient Arabic lyrics and poems in his major work, the Kitāb al-Aghānī.

ibn Saud noted that the Convention had never been ratified and that Kuwait was not effectively in control of the disputed territory.

Much of the material on spherical trigonometry in Regiomontanus ' On Triangles was taken directly and without credit from the twelfth-century work of Jabir ibn Aflah otherwise known as Geber, as noted in the sixteenth century by Gerolamo Cardano.

" Chelo also noted that " It is this Western Wall which stands before the temple of Omar ibn al Khattab, and which is called the Gate of Mercy.

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However, Gerolamo Cardano noted a century later that much of the material there on spherical trigonometry was taken from the twelfth-century work of the Spanish Islamic scholar Jabir ibn Aflah.

He talked Al-Muizz into sponsoring a debate between Abraham and a locally noted Jewish friend of ibn Killis ' named Moses.

Chapati is noted in Ain-i-Akbari, a 16th century document, by Mughal Emperor, Akbar ’ s vizier, Abu ' l-Fazl ibn Mubarak.

By the ninth century, ibn Khordadbeh noted the travels of Jewish merchants called Radhanites, whose trade took them to China via the Silk Road through Central Asia and India.

Several of Ibadism's founding figures – in particular Jabir ibn Zayd – were noted for their hadith research, and Jabir ibn Zayd is accepted as a reliable narrator by Sunni scholars as well as by Ibadi ones.

After this, the center of power shifted to Algeria, and, in 777, ʻAbd ar-Rahmān ibn Rustam, a Tunisian-born convert to Ibadiism, who was likewise of Persian origin ( already noted as one of the four founders of this imamate ), was elected imām ; after this, the post remained in his family, a practice which the Ibādiyya justified by noting that he came from no tribe, and thus his family had no bias towards any of the tribes of which the state was formed.

* Al-Mu ' tasim ibn Sumadih ( 1051 – 1091 ), a noted Arabic poet

This discrepancy has been noted since the time of the medieval commentators, leading some to seek a reconciliatory model ( i. e. Hezekiah bar Manoah ), while others have proposed two separate sites being identified as Kadesh ( i. e. Abraham ibn Ezra & Nahmanides ).

Earlier visits of Sa'd ibn abi Waqqas were noted in Arab accounts since it was a period of nascent Islam mixed with events of many hectic preaching and warfare.

The famed Imam Malik ibn Anas, founder of Maliki one of the four extant Sunni schools of law, is noted to have been asked about binding divorce ( al-batta ).

Abu al-Hasan ' Ali ibn ' Abd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad ibn Yunus al-Sadafi al-Misri ( Arabic: ابن يونس ) ( c. 950-1009 ) was an important Egyptian Muslim astronomer and mathematician, whose works are noted for being ahead of their time, having been based on meticulous calculations and attention to detail.

The Muslim explorer Ahmad ibn Fadlan, in his travelogue regarding his diplomatic mission in 921 AD to Volga Bulgars ( a vassal of the Khazarian Empire ), noted the beliefs about Gog and Magog being the ancestors of the Khazars.

" Like all other observers, Ali ibn Ridwan noted that the new star was low on the southern horizon.

Abu Dawud Sulaymān ibn al-Ashʿath al-Azdi as-Sijistani ( Persian / Arabic: أبو داود سليمان بن الأشعث الأزدي السجستاني ), commonly known as Abu Dawud, was a noted Persian collector of prophetic hadith, and compiled the third of the six " canonical " hadith collections recognized by Sunni Muslims, the Sunan Abī Dāwūd.

829 – 915 AD / CE ), full name Aḥmad ibn Shu ` ayb ibn Alī ibn Sīnān Abū ` Abd ar-Raḥmān al-Nasā ' ī, was a noted collector of hadith ( sayings of Muhammad ), and wrote one of the six canonical hadith collections recognized by Sunni Muslims, Sunan al-Sughra, or " Al-Mujtaba ", which he selected from his " As-Sunan al-Kubra ".

Harun orders his vizier, Ja ' far ibn Yahya, to solve the crime and find the murderer within three days or be executed if he fails his assignment.

The Persian physician Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (" Rhazes ", 845 – 930 CE ) maintained a laboratory and school in Baghdad, and was a student and critic of Galen, made use of opium in anesthesia and recommended its use for the treatment of melancholy in Fi ma-la-yahdara al-tabib " In the Absence of a Physician ", a home medical manual directed toward ordinary citizens for self-treatment if a doctor was not available.

The caliph had charged him first to negotiate with ` Abd-Allah ibn al-Zubayr and to assure him of freedom from punishment if he capitulated, but, if the opposition continued, to starve him out by siege, but on no account to let the affair result in bloodshed in the Holy City.

As he sat in a circle in a mosque with al-Hasan al-Basri, Wasil ibn ' Ata inquired as to the place of a sinning Muslim, if he was to be considered a believer or an unbeliever.

The conference provided the political blueprint for British administration in both Iraq and Transjordan, and in offering these two regions to the sons of Sharif Hussein ibn Ali of the Hedjaz, Churchill stated that the spirit, if not the letter, of Britain's wartime promises to the Arabs might be fulfilled.

* 12 December 1698 – December 1698: Imam Sa ' if ibn Sultan

That city had fallen and then in July, Abdullah, the eldest son of the Hashemite leader and Sharif of Mecca Husayn ibn Ali, was sent with seventy men to Tā ' if.

Thus, as ibn Daud remarks, perhaps with a reference to the miracles attributed to Jesus, the authenticity of the Torah would be in a sorry plight if, instead of being based on miracles of real historic certainty, such as those of Moses, it were supported merely by miracles of such private character as the resurrections effected by Elijah and Elisha ( ib.

" Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal also spoke strongly against kalam, stating his view that no one looks into kalam unless there is " corruption in his heart ," and even went so far as to prohibit sitting with people practicing kalam even if they were defending the Sunnah, and instructing his students to warn against any person they saw practicing kalam.

" Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal also spoke strongly against kalam, stating his view that no one looks into kalam unless there is " corruption in his heart ," and even went so far as to prohibit sitting with people practicing kalam even if they were defending the Sunnah, and instructing his students to warn against any person they saw practicing kalam.

In Shaikh Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Tadifi al-Hanbali's book of wonders, Qala ' id-al-Jawahir (" Necklaces of Gems "), Shaikh Abdul-Qadir Gilani walks on the water of the River Tigris, then an enormous prayer rug ( sajjada ) appears in the sky above, " as if it were the flying carpet of Solomon Sulaiman ".

Husayn ibn Ali received letters from Kufa expressing its offer of support if he claimed the caliphate.

As he prepared for the journey to Kufa, Abdullah ibn Umar and Abdullah ibn Abbas argued against his plan and, if he was determined to proceed to Kufa, asked him to leave women and children in Mecca, but Husayn ignored their suggestions.

Ali ordered his sons not to attack the Kharijites, instead stipulating that if he survived, ibn Muljam would be pardoned whereas if he died, ibn Muljam should be given only one equal hit ( regardless of whether or not he dies from the hit ).

Harun orders his vizier, Ja ' far ibn Yahya, to solve the crime and find the murderer within three days, or be executed if he fails his assignment.

According to one version Marwan asked Muhammad's wife Aisha also to allow his relative Uthman ibn Affan to be buried beside the Prophet if Hasan were to be buried there, but Aisha refused Marwan's request and did not allow anyone else to be buried beside Muhammad.

He first sent an envoy to the caliph with letters asserting his loyalty as he was loyal to previous caliphs, urging Sulayman not to replace Qutaibah as governor of Khurasan with Yazid ibn al-Muhallab and, finally, if the envoy saw Sulayman favouring Yazid, with Qutaibah's renunciation of allegiance to Sulayman.

Harun orders his vizier, Ja ' far ibn Yahya, to solve the crime and find the murdererer within three days, or be executed if he fails his assignment.