Around 1040, Yahya ibn Ibrahim, a chieftain of the Gudala ( and brother-in-law of the late Tarsina ), went on pilgrimage to Mecca.

With Abu Imran's recommendation, Yahya ibn Ibrahim made his way to the ribat of Waggag ibn Zelu in the Sous valley of southern Morocco, to seek out a Maliki teacher for his people.

The Gudala soon had enough and expelled him almost immediately after the death of his protector, Yahya ibn Ibrahim, sometime in the 1040s.

Probably sensing the useful organizing power of Ibn Yasin's pious fervor, he was invited by the Lamtuna chieftain Yahya ibn Umar al-Lamtuni to preach to his people.

In the early 1050s, the Lamtuna, under the joint leadership of Yahya ibn Umar and Abdallah ibn Yasin-soon calling themselves the al-Murabitin ( Almoravids )-set out on campaign to bring their neighbors over to their cause.

Yahya ibn Umar was killed in a battle in 1057, but Abdullah ibn Yasin, whose influence as a religious teacher was paramount, named his brother Abu Bakr ibn Umar as chief.

The Almoravids ' first military leader, Yahya ibn Umar al-Lamtuni, gave them a good military organization.

* Yahya ibn Umar al-Lamtuni ( c. 1050-1056 )

In the Islamic times, a pseudo-etymology was produced by the historian Ahmad ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri ( d. 892 ) quoting a folk story that the town was presumably founded by one " Abbad bin Hosayn " from the Arabian Tribe of Banu Tamim, who established a garrison there during the governorship of Hajjaj in the Ummayad period.

The Algarve was dominated completely by a muladí coalition led by Sa ' id ibn Mal, who had expelled the Arabs from Beja, and the lords of Ocsónoba, Yahya ibn Bakr, and of Niebla, Ibn Ufayr.

... The Christian writer Yahya ibn Sa ' id reported that everything was razed ' except those parts which were impossible to destroy or would have been too difficult to carry away '.

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 only early Arab historian who mentions the Druze is the 11th century Christian scholar Yahya of Antioch, who clearly refers to the heretical group created by ad-Darazī rather than the followers of Hamza ibn ' Alī.

This passage corresponds closely with the canonical John 1: 19-30, except that in that passage, the words are spoken by John the Baptist ( in the Qur ' an ; Yahya ibn Zakariya ) and refer to Jesus.

A 13th century book illustration produced in Baghdad by Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti | al-Wasiti showing a group of pilgrims on a Hajj.

Mohamed El-Moctar El-Shinqiti, a contemporary Mauritanian scholar, has argued that " though homosexuality is a grievous sin ... no legal punishment is stated in the Qur ' an for homosexuality ... it is not reported that Prophet Muhammad has punished somebody for committing homosexuality ... there is no authentic hadith reported from the Prophet prescribing a punishment for the homosexuals ..." Hadith scholars such as Al-Bukhari, Yahya ibn Ma ` in, An-Nasa ' i, Ibn Hazm, Al-Tirmidhi, and others have impugned them.

In a commentary of the hadith Sahih Muslim, entitled al-Minhaj, the medieval Islamic scholar Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi stated that " one of the collective duties of the community as a whole ( fard kifaya ) is to lodge a valid protest, to solve problems of religion, to have knowledge of Divine Law, to command what is right and forbid wrong conduct ".

* October / November – Al-Fadl ibn Yahya al-Barmaki, Abbasid governor ( b. 766 )

* February – Al-Fadl ibn Yahya al-Barmaki, Abbasid governor ( d. 808 )

* Ja ' far ibn Yahya, Persian Vizier

The Jordan river, where some Muslim accounts narrate that Jesus met with Yahya ibn Zakariyya ( otherwise known as John the Baptist ).

High ranking LIFG operatives inside Al-Qaeda, are the leader of the insurgency Abdel-Hakim Belhadj ( also known as Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq ), and the recently killed Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, who was killed in a CIA drone strike, and Al-Qaeda's Abu Yahya al-Libi.

Abū-Bakr Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn al-Sāyigh ( Arabic أبو بكر محمد بن يحيى بن الصائغ ), known as Ibn Bājjah (), was an Andalusian Berber polymath: an astronomer, logician, musician, philosopher, physician, physicist, psychologist, botanist, poet and scientist.

René Guénon ( November 15, 1886 – January 7, 1951 ), also known as Shaykh ` Abd al-Wahid Yahya, was a French author and intellectual who remains an influential figure in the domain of metaphysics, having written on topics ranging from metaphysics, " sacred science " and traditional studies to symbolism and initiation.

Mirza Yahya was born in 1831 to Kuchak Khanum-i-Karmanshahi ( Ruhi, A Brief Biography ) and Mírzá Buzurg-i-Núrí, in the province of Mazandaran, and a younger-half-brother of Mírzá Husayn ` Ali, better known as Bahá ' u ' lláh.

" Shahāb ad-Dīn " Yahya ibn Habash as-Suhrawardī (, also known as Sohrevardi ) was a Iranian, philosopher, a Sufi and founder of the Illuminationist philosophy or " Oriental Theosophy ", an important school in Islamic mysticism that drew upon Zoroastrian and Platonic ideas.

In 1937, he and archaeologist Jules Barthou were in Yemen making preparations to film a documentary, the first ever of that country and one that includes the only known film image of Imam Yahya.

* Yahya ben Ishak ( known as Yahya Ibn Ghaniya ) 1188-1202 / 1203 lord of war in Tunis 1188-1212

His original name was " Fesga Oumzal ", which later changed to " Abu Hafs Omar ibn Yahya al-Hentati " ( also known as " Omar Inti ") since it was a tradition of Ibn Tumart to rename his close companions once they had adhered to his religious teachings.

His original name was " Fesga Oumzal ", which later changed to " Abu Hafs Omar ibn Yahya al-Hentati " ( also known as " Omar Inti ") since it was a tradition of Ibn Tumart to rename his close companions once they had adhered to his religious teachings.

Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra, more commonly known as Summit Road, leads from the top station to the western part of the hill right towards Western Hill and Tiger Hill.

Chief Justice Rahman noted that the General Yahya Khan failed to not come to political settlement laying the foundation of two separate states which was known during general's time as " Tum Wahan Hum Yaha " ( Urdu: تم وها ههم ياها ; English: We're here, you're there .).

* Yahya ibn Muhammad, known as " Yahya I "-( 848-864 )

* Yahya ibn Al-Qassim, known as " Yahya III "-( 883-904 )

* Yahya ibn Idris ibn Umar, known as " Yahya IV "-( 904-917 )

The exact time when he lived is not known ; but, as he quotes Alexander of Tralles, and is himself quoted by Yahya ibn Sarafyun ( Serapion the Elder ), it is probable that Abu-al-Faraj is correct in placing him in the latter half of the 7th century.

Abu al-Hasan Ahmad ibn Yahya ibn Ishaq al-Rawandi (, ), commonly known as Ibn al-Rawandi (; born 827 CE – died 911 CE ), was an early skeptic of Islam and a critic of religion in general.

* 864 – 866: Yahya ben Yahya ( Yahya II )

* Tengku Zainab II of Kelantan ( 1979-1993 ) widow of Yahya Petra of Kelantan

* Yahya II al-Watiq ( 1277 – 1279 )

Al-Mundhir II ibn Yahya ibn al-Mundhir Mu ' azz al-Dawlah () was the third local boss of the Banu Tujibi group.