Illustration from Kitab al-aghani ( Book of Songs ), 1216-20, by Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani, a collection of songs by famous musicians and Arab poets.

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The game does not appear in literature until late in the 10th century when the author Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani mentioned Qirkat in his 24 volume work Kitab al-Aghani (" Book of Songs ").

* Encyclopaedia of Bar-Hebraeus ( Abu al-Faraj ) / SuryoyoNews.

One of the principal manuscript sources used is the great Kitab al-Aghani of Abu al-Faraj, which has since been published ( 20 vols., Boulak, 1868 ) in Egypt ; but no publication of texts can deprive the Essai, which is now very rare, of its value as a trustworthy guide through a tangled mass of tradition.

Illustration from Kitab al-Aghani ( Book of Songs ), 1216-20, by Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani, a collection of songs by famous musicians and Arab poets.

Many stories about these early singers were retold in the Kitab al-Aghani or Book of Songs by Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani.

Abu al-Faraj Runi and Masud Sad Salman ( d. 1121 ) were the two earliest major Indo-Persian poets based in Lahore.

The titles of 105 of his works are mentioned in the Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim, and his Book of Days is the basis of parts of the history of Ibn al-Athir and of the Kitab al-Aghani of Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani, but nothing of his ( except a song ) seems to exist now in an independent form.

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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.

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.

In November 1087, Abu Bakr was killed in battle by a poisoned arrow, while fighting in the historic region of the Sudan.

Abu Bakr ( Abdullah ibn Abi Quhafa ) (, c. 573 CE – 23 August 634 CE ) also known as Abū Bakr as-Șiddīq ( Arabic: أبو بكر الصديق ) was a senior companion ( Sahabi ) and the father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Not long after, Abu Bakr accepted Islam and was the first person outside the family of Muhammad to openly become a Muslim.

He was instrumental in the conversion of many people to the Islamic faith and early in 623, Abu Bakr's daughter Aisha was married to Muhammad, strengthening the ties between the two men.

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.

Imam Jafar al Sadiq famously narrated how the title Siddiq was given to Abu Bakr from Muhammad.

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.

Jafar al-Sadiq was also the successor of the Naqshbandi Sufi order originating from Abu Bakr himself.

Abu Bakr was born in Mecca some time in 573 CE, to a rich family in the Banu Taym clan of the Quraysh tribe.

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 ).

The lineage of Abu Bakr was: Abu Bakr ; the son of Uthman Abu Quhafa ; the son of Amar ; the son of Umru ; the son of Kaab ; the son of Saad ; the son of Taym ; the son of Murrah.

Abu Bakr was a thin man with white skin.

When Abu Bakr was 10 years old, he went to Syria along with his father with the merchants ' caravan.

In 591 at the age of 18, Abu Bakr went into trade and adopted the profession of cloth merchant, which was the family's business.

During the 1450s, Shari ' ful Hashem Syed Abu Bakr, an Arab born in Johor, arrived in Sulu from Malacca.

He was born in Mount Abu, British India, educated in Plymouth, Devon, and worked as an insurance officer for 10 years before studying for the stage and eventually becoming a writer.

The Hanafi school was the earliest established under the jurist Imam Abu Hanifa, who was born and taught in Iraq.

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

* Abu Rayhan Biruni, a Muslim Scientist, ( born 5 September 973 in Kath, Khwarezm, died 13 December 1048 in Ghazni )

** Da ' ud Abu al-Fadl, Karaite Jewish physician in Egypt ( born 1161 )

Lieutenant General Abdel-Razak al-Yehiyeh or Abdul-Razzaq Al-Yahya ( born March 15, 1929 in Tantura, near Haifa, then in the British Mandate of Palestine ), also known as Abu Anas, is the Interior Minister of the Palestinian National Authority.

From its first encounters with Jolo, Spain was met with stiff resistance from a highly organized people under the Sultanate of Sulu, which had been established in 1457 by an Arab born in Johore, Shari ’ ful Hashem Syed Abu Bak ’ r.

Nabil Ali Muhammad ( Abu Rashid ) Shaath (,, also spelled Sha ' ath ; born August 1938 in Safad ) is a senior Palestinian official.

Ghiyāth ad-Din Abu ' l-Fat ' h ' Umar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khayyām Nīshāpūrī () was born in Nishapur, modern-day Iran, but then a Seljuq capital in Khorasan, which rivaled Cairo or Baghdad in cultural prominence in that era.

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

Abu Hamza al-Masri ( Arabic: أبو حمزةالمصري, ) ( born 15 April 1958, Alexandria ) is an Egyptian-born Sunni preacher known for the preaching of Islamic fundamentalism and militant Islamism or jihadism.

Abu Hamza al-Masri was born in Alexandria, Egypt as Mustafa Kamel Mustafa in 1958, the son of a middle class army officer.

Muhammad's father had died before he was born, and his mother died while he was a child, so Muhammad was raised by his uncle Abu Talib, chief of the Hashemites.

* Abu Hamza al-Masri ( born 1958 ), Egyptian Muslim cleric, imprisoned in the UK

Mahmoud Abbas (, ; born 26 March 1935 ), also known by the kunya Abu Mazen (, ), has been the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) since 11 November 2004 and became President of the Palestinian National Authority on 15 January 2005 on the Fatah ( فتح Fataḥ ) ticket.

The 18th century Islamic judge and scholar Abu al-Ali az-Zibi was born in the village.

Taqi ad-Din Ahmad ibn Taymiyyah ( January 22, 1263 – 1328 CE ), full name: Taqī ad-Dīn Abu ' l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn ʿAbd as-Salām Ibn Taymiya al-Ḥarrānī (), was an Islamic scholar ( alim ), theologian and logician born in Harran, located in what is now Turkey, close to the Syrian border.

Ahmed Ali Mohammed Qurei ( or Qureia ; أحمد علي محمد قريع, ), also known by his Arabic Kunya Abu Alaa ( أبو علاء, ) ( born March 26, 1937 ) is a former prime minister of the Palestinian Authority.

Qurei was born in Abu Dis ( near Jerusalem ) in 1937 to a relatively wealthy family.

Sheikh Nefzawi, full name Abu Abdullah Muhammad ben Umar Nafzawi, was born among the Berber Nefzawa tribe in the south of present-day Tunisia.

Abu Ishaq was born to a Turkic slave mother, his father was then caliph Harun al-Rashid.

Bahadur Shah II (), better known as Bahadur Shah Zafar, born Abu Zafar Sirajuddin Muhammad Bahadur Shah Zafar (), on 24 October 1775 – died 7 November 1862 ) was the last Mughal emperor and a member of the Timurid Dynasty.