The ambitious Ibn Habib, a member of the illustrious Fihrid family, had long sought to carve out Ifriqiya as a private dominion for himself.

His father, St. John Philby, a well-known author, orientalist, and convert to Islam, was a member of the Indian Civil Service and later a civil servant in Mesopotamia and advisor to King Ibn Sa ' ud of Saudi Arabia.

It was really the caliphate of Uthman Ibn Affan ( 644 – 656 ), a member of Umayyad clan himself, that witnessed the revival and then the ascendancy of the Umayyad clan to the corridors of power.

He is the eighth son of Ibn Saud His mother is Hassa al Sudairi and he was the eldest member of Sudairi Seven.

Ra's grandson, Ibn al Xu ' ffasch, is a member of Lex Luthor's Mankind Liberation Front.

‘ Iraqi was both a member of the school of Persian Sufi poetry but also has been identified with the Ibn ‘ Arabian school of Sufism.

Upon arrival in Afghanistan, ( Hicks was sent to Afghanistan by the LoT ) Hicks allegedly went to an al-Qaeda ( he did not know of the existence of al-Qaeda until he was interrogated by USA army personnel ) guest house where he met Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, a high ranking al Qaeda member.

* In January 2001 Hicks travelled to Afghanistan, then under the control of the Taliban regime, where he presented a letter of introduction from Lashkar-e-Toiba to Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, a senior al-Qaeda member, and was given the alias " Mohammed Dawood ".

The Banu Hafs, were a powerful group amongst the Almohads ; their ancestor is Omar Abu Hafs al-Hentati, a member of the council of ten and a close companion of Ibn Tumart.

The Banu Hafs, were a powerful group amongst the Almohads ; their ancestor is Omar Abu Hafs al-Hentati, a member of the council of ten and a close companion of Ibn Tumart.

A member of the boarding team from USS Hewitt ( DD-966 ) maintains continuous contact with other team members during an inspection of the merchant ship Ibn Abdoon from the bridge of the merchantman.

Ibn Battuta joined the royal caravan for a while, then turned north on the Silk Road to Tabriz, the first major city in the region to open its gates to the Mongols and by then an important trading centre as most of its nearby rivals had been razed by the Mongol invaders.

After Ibn Saud's death in 1953 Philby openly criticized the successor King Saud, saying the royal family's morals were being picked up " in the gutters of the West ".

According to Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan traveller, in India, kebab was served in the royal houses during the Delhi Sultanate period ( 1206-1526 CE ), and even commoners would enjoy it for breakfast with naan.

However, the most serious loss is that of his translation of Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa's Arabic version of the old Indian fable book Kalila and Dimna ( Panchatantra ), which he put into Persian verse at the request of his royal patron.

From Fuzhou he struck across the mountains into Zhejiang and visited Hangzhou, then renowned, under the name of Cansay, Khanzai, or Quinsai ( i. e. Kin gsze or royal residence ), as the greatest city in the world, of whose splendours Odoric, like Marco Polo, Marignolli, or Ibn Batuta, gives notable details.

The principle is currently used by the House of Saud, the royal family of Saudi Arabia ; all successors to Ibn Saud as King of Saudi Arabia have been his sons ( he had 37 sons ).

It is well-known, since the cemetery is the resting place for majority of the Saudi royal members, including Ibn Saud, King Fahd, King Khalid, King Faisal and King Saud.

Ibn Battuta was born into a Berber family of Islamic legal scholars in Tangier, Morocco, on 25 February 1304, during the reign of the Marinid dynasty.

The biographer Ibn Khallikan writes, " Historians agree in stating that father and family belonged to Duwin < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki >.... They were Kurds and belonged to the Rawādiya ( sic ), which is a branch of the great tribe al-Hadāniya ": Minorsky ( 1953 ), p. 124.

Ibn Rushd was born in Córdoba to a family with a long and well-respected tradition of legal and public service.

the family of the famous philosopher and court physician, Ishac Ibn Sulaiman El Israeli of Kairouan, who flourished in the tenth

When his family fled Spain, for Fez, Maimonides enrolled in the Academy of Fez and studied under Rabbi Yehuda Ha-Kohen Ibn Soussan-a student of Isaac Alfasi.

Due to these family ties Anatoli was introduced to the philosophy of Maimonides, the study of which was such a great revelation to him that he, in later days, referred to it as the beginning of his intelligent and true comprehension of the Scriptures, while he frequently alluded to Ibn Tibbon as one of the two masters who had instructed and inspired him.

Isaac Abravanel was steeped in Rationalism by the Ibn Yahya family, who had a residence immediately adjacent to the Great Synagogue of Lisbon ( also built by the Ibn Yahya Family ).

The Ibn Yahya family were renowned physicians, philosophers and accomplished aides to the Portuguese Monarchy for centuries.

He was brought up alongside Ibn ‘ Arabī own family in Malatya and after the death of his real father Qūnawī joined Shaykh al-Akbar in Damascus.

The biographer Ibn Khallikan writes, " Historians agree in stating that father and family belonged to Duwin < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki >.... They were Kurds and belonged to the Rawādiya ( sic ), which is a branch of the great tribe al-Hadāniya ": Minorsky ( 1953 ), p. 124.

The medieval historian Ibn Athir relates a passage from another commander: "... both you and Saladin are Kurds and you will not let power pass into the hands of the Turks ": Minorsky ( 1953 ), p. 138 .</ ref > Salah El Din in Syria, Ameer Sherko in Egypt and Ameer Adil in Jordan, with family members ruling most of the cities of today's Iraq.

The origin of the Jumblatt family is the Kurdish Janpoulad family coming from Shamel Janpoulade and dating back to Janboulad Ibn Kassem al Kirdi al Kaisari, known as Ibn Arabou ( 1530 – 1580 ), and governor of Aleppo.

Ibn Taymiyya was born in 1263 at Harran into a well-known family of theologians and died in Damascus, Syria, outside of the Muslim cemetery.

Ibn Saud's family ( then known as the Al Migrin ) traced its descent to the tribe of ' Anizzah but, despite popular misconceptions, Muhammad ibn Saud was neither a nomadic bedouin nor was he a tribal leader.

The origin of the Jumblatt family is the Kurdish Janpoulad family coming from Shamel Janpoulad and dating back to Janboulad Ibn Kassem al Kirdi al Kaisari, known as Ibn Arabou ( 1530 – 1580 ), and governor of Aleppo.

Ibn Ruzzik tried to persuade him to come back, as the rest of his family was still in Cairo, but Usama was able to bring them to Damascus, through crusader territory, in 1156.

In philosophy and the humanities, Jacques Derrida, the father of deconstruction, was born in El Biar in Algiers ; Malek Bennabi and Frantz Fanon are noted for their thoughts on decolonization ; Augustine of Hippo was born in Tagaste ( modern-day Souk Ahras ); and Ibn Khaldun, though born in Tunis, wrote the Muqaddima while staying in Algeria.

Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā ( Persian پور سينا Pur-e Sina " son of Sina "; c. 980 – 1037 ), commonly known as Ibn Sīnā or by his Latinized name Avicenna, was a Persian polymath, who wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived.

A novel called Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, based on Avicenna's story, was later written by Ibn Tufail ( Abubacer ) in the 12th century and translated into Latin and English as Philosophus Autodidactus in the 17th and 18th centuries respectively.

However, the rule of the dynasty was relatively short-lived and the Almoravids fell-at the height of their power-when they failed to quell the Masmuda-led rebellion initiated by Ibn Tumart.

Writing three centuries later, Ibn Abi Zar suggested it was chosen early on by Abdallah Ibn Yasin because, upon finding resistance among the Gudala Berbers of Adrar ( Mauritania ) to his teaching, he took a handful of followers to erect a makeshift ribat ( monastery-fortress ) on an offshore island ( possibly Tidra island, in Arguin bay ).

Ibn Idhari wrote that the name was suggested by Ibn Yasin in the " persevering in the fight " sense, to boost morale after a particularly hard-fought battle in the Draa valley c. 1054, in which they had taken many losses.

The 13th-century Moroccan biographer Ibn al-Zayyat al-Tadili and Qadi Ayyad before him in the 12th-century, note that Waggag's learning center was called Dar al-Murabitin ( The house of the Almoravids ), and that might have inspired Ibn Yasin's choice of name for the movement.

Ibn Yasin certainly had the ardor of a puritan zealot, his creed was mainly characterized by a rigid formalism and a strict adherence to the dictates of the Qur ' an, and the Orthodox tradition.

( chroniclers like al-Bakri allege Ibn Yasin's own learning was superficial.

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.

Invoking stories of the early life of the Prophet Muhammad, Ibn Yasin preached that conquest was a necessary addendum to Islamicization, that it was not enough to merely adhere to God's law, but necessary to also destroy opposition to it.

He compiled a survey of mirror configurations in his work on remarkable mechanical devices which was known to Arab mathematicians such as Ibn al-Haytham.

Omari came from Asir Province, a poor region in southwestern Saudi Arabia that borders Yemen, and graduated with honours from high school, attained a degree from the Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, was married, and had a daughter.

Upon landing in al-Andalus, Abd al-Rahman was greeted by clients Abu Uthman and Ibn Khalid and an escort of 300 cavalry.

When the latter was surrounded by Umayyad troops, he sued for help to Ibn Hafsun, but the latter was defeated by the besiegers and returned to Bobastro.

Abd ar-Rahman's next objective was to squash the longstanding rebellion of Ibn Hafsun.

The last of Ibn Hafsun to fall was Hafs, who stood in his powerful fortress of Bobastro.

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.