* 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.

Some notable mathematicians include Archimedes of Syracuse, Leonhard Euler, Carl Gauss, Johann Bernoulli, Jacob Bernoulli, Aryabhata, Brahmagupta, Bhaskara II, Nilakantha Somayaji, Omar Khayyám, Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, Bernhard Riemann, Gottfried Leibniz, Andrey Kolmogorov, Euclid of Alexandria, Jules Henri Poincaré, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Alexander Grothendieck, David Hilbert, Alan Turing, von Neumann, Kurt Gödel, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Georg Cantor, William Rowan Hamilton, Carl Jacobi, Évariste Galois, Nikolay Lobachevsky, Rene Descartes, Joseph Fourier, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Alonzo Church, Nikolay Bogolyubov and Pierre de Fermat.

By the 8th century, a navigable canal existed between Old Cairo and the Red Sea, but accounts vary as to who ordered its construction — either Trajan or ' Amr ibn al -' As, or Omar the Great.

* Omar Sharif as Sherif Ali ibn el Kharish.

" 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.

* Omar the Great, or Umar ibn Khattab, early Muslim Caliph

* Great Mosque of Gaza, alternatively named al-Omari in honor of Omar ibn al-Khattab

After the Siege of Jerusalem by the Rashidun army under the command of Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah, Patriarch Sophronius refused to surrender except to the Caliph Omar himself.

* Omar Tiberiades ( Abû Hafs ' Umar ibn al-Farrukhân al-Tabarî ) ( d. c. 815 ), Persian astrologer and architect

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Beth Zabdai or Gezireh was a town located on the right hand of the Tigris River, close to Jeziret ibn Omar, now Turkey.

Among the best known are: Ishaq ibn Hunain ( d. 911 ) ( son of Hunain ibn Ishaq ), the physician and translator of Greek philosophical works into Arabic ; ibn Fadlan, the explorer ; al Battani ( d. 923 ), astronomer ; Tabari ( d. 923 ), historian and theologian ; al-Razi ( d. 930 ), philosopher who made fundamental and lasting contributions to the fields of medicine, chemistry ; al-Farabi ( d. 950 ), chemist and philosopher ; Abu Nasr Mansur ( d. 1036 ), mathematician ; Alhazen ( d. 1040 ), mathematician ; al-Biruni ( d. 1048 ), mathematician, astronomer, physicist ; Omar Khayyám ( d. 1123 ), poet, mathematician, and astronomer ; Mansur Al-Hallaj a mystic, writer and teacher of Sufism most famous for his apparent, but disputed, self-proclaimed divinity, his poetry and for his execution for heresy by Caliph Al-Muqtadir.

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.

It goes on to note that Abu Bakr left a pregnant Fula wife, Fâtimata Sal, who gave birth to a son, the legendary Amadou Boubakar ibn Omar, better known as Ndiadiane Ndiaye, who went on to found the Wolof kingdom of Waalo in the lower Senegal river.

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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.

' Omar sent him as a present, either directly to Anas ibn Malek ( one of the most authoritative sources on the life and opinions expressed by Muhammad ) or first to a man called Talha Al-Bukhari ( from Bukhara, Central Asia ) who, in turn, gave him to Anas.

The fact that he was deaf or quick-of-hearing did not prevent him from becoming one of the most fabulous storytellers of his time about Muhammad, quoting such prominent personalities as Abu Hurayrah, ' Abdullah ibn ' Omar, and Anas ibn Malek.

At some point he was visited by Abu Hafs Omar ibn Yahya al-Hintati (" Omar Hintati "), a prominent Hintata chieftain ( and stem of the future Hafsids ).

Sultan Said Ali bin Said Omar of Grande Comore ( 1897 )

In 1886 Said Ali bin Said Omar, Sultan of Bambao, signed an agreement with the French government that allowed France to establish a protectorate over the entire island of Ngazidja ( Grande Comore ; protectorates were also established over Ndzwani ( Anjouan ), and Mwali ( Mohéli island in French ) the same year.

At Victoria College on El Iqbal Street, Former Bulgarian King and Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha attended classes along with schoolmates such as King Hussein of Jordan, Zaid Al Rifai, the Kashoggi brothers ( whose father was one of Saudi King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud's physicians ), Kamal Adham ( who ran the Saudi external intelligence directorate under King Faisal ), scholar Edward Said, present-day Saudi businessmen Mohammed Al Attas, the Shobokshi brothers and Ghassan Shaker — and actor Omar Sharif.

They were Haji Othman bin Mohammad Said and Haji Ismail bin Omar Abdul Aziz.

Sultan Said Ali bin Said Omar of Grande Comore ( 1897 )

In 1886 the ruler of Bambao, Sultan Said Ali bin Said Omar, united the sultanates of Grande Comore into the state of Ngazidja, with the other sultanates maintaining autonomy.

** HH HGlory Nabila Emine Halim Hanım Efendi ( Constantinople, 1 June 1899-Istanbul, 6 December 1979 ), married firstly at Constantinople, Nişantaşı, Nişantaşı Palace, on 4 June 1919 and divorced in 1923 her cousin HIH Prince Şehzade Abdurrahim Hayri Efendi ( Constantinople, Yıldız Palace, 14 August 1894-Paris, 1 June 1952 ), and had female issue, married secondly in Berlin on 28 May 1925 Kemaleddin Sami Pasha ( 1873-Berlin, 15 April 1934 ), without issue, married thirdly in Halki on 10 October 1936 and divorced in 1937 HG Nabil Omar Said Halim ( Yeniköy, Bosphorus, 16 February 1898-1954 ), without issue, and married fourthly Sabri Bey, without issue

Following the breakdown of central authority that accompanied the civil war in 1991, various local militias fought for control of the city, including supporters of Mohammed Said Hersi (" General Morgan ") and Col. Omar Jess ' Somali Patriotic Movement ( SPM ).

* Abu Omar al-Kurdi, real name Sami Muhammad Ali Said al-Jaaf, bomb maker who worked in Iraq

Omar ibn Said was born in present-day Senegal in Futa Tooro, a region along the Middle Senegal River in West Africa, to a wealthy family.

Omar ibn Said was also known as Uncle Moreau and Prince Omeroh.

In 1991, a masjid in Fayetteville, North Carolina renamed itself Masjid Omar Ibn Said in his honor.

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Omar ibn Said is widely known for fourteen manuscripts that he wrote in Arabic.

* A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said ed.

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Omar Said Al-Hassan is the Chairman of the Gulf Centre for Strategic Studies, a London based think tank which gathers, and publishes information about the Persian Gulf states, and Arab issues in general.

Two of the men shown in these images were identified by police on Monday 25 July as Muktar Said Ibrahim and Yasin Hassan Omar.

On 25 July, two of the suspects were named by police as Yasin Hassan Omar and Muktar Said Ibrahim ( also known as Muktar Mohammed Said ).

* 1990 – Omar El Kaddouri, Belgian footballer

* 1967 – Omar Vizquel, Venezuelan baseball player

* 1123 – Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher ( b. 1048 )

It was founded circa 1958 – 1959 after the publication of its ( first ) holy book the Principia Discordia, written by Malaclypse the Younger and Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst after a series of shared hallucinations at a bowling alley.

* 1935 – Omar Bongo, President of Gabon ( d. 2009 )

* 1929 – Omar Torrijos, Panamanian ruler ( d. 1981 )

* 1954 – Omar Belhouchet, Algerian journalist

Omar Khayyám ( 1048 – 1131 ), a Persian scientist, calculated the length of a solar year to 10 decimal places and was only out by a fraction of a second when compared to our modern day calculations.

Omar Sawaidwere – were abducted by Hezbollah while patrolling the Israeli side of the Israeli-Lebanese border.

* 2010 – Omar Rayo, Colombian artist ( b. 1928 )

* 1861 – Omar Bundy, American general ( d. 1940 )

* 1967 – Omar Olivares, Puerto Rican baseball player

* 2009 – Omar Bongo, Gabonese politician, President of Gabon ( b. 1935 )

* 2002 – Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

In 2009 a federal court of appeals in San Francisco found that Ashcroft could be sued and held personally responsible for the wrongful detention of material witness Abdullah al-Kidd – an American citizen arrested in March 2003 and held for 13 months in maximum security to be used as a witness in the trial of Sami Omar Al-Hussayen ( who himself was acquitted of all charges of supporting terrorism ).

* 866 – 880: Ali ben Omar ( Ali II )

* 1938 – Omar Abdel-Rahman, Egyptian terrorist

* 1048 – Omar Khayyám, Persian mathematician, poet, and philosopher ( d. 1131 )

* 2004 – Dullah Omar, South African lawyer ( b. 1934 )

* 1991 – Samia Yusuf Omar, Somalian sprinter ( d. 2012 )

* 2009 – The International Criminal Court ( ICC ) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.

* 1947 – Omar Ruiz Hernández, Cuban dissident journalist

* 1967 – Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.

* 1976 – Omar Gooding, American actor

Nicknamed " The Wizard " for his defensive brilliance, Smith set major league records for career assists ( 8, 375 ) and double plays ( 1, 590 ) by a shortstop ( the latter since broken by Omar Vizquel ), as well as the National League ( NL ) record with 2, 511 career games at the position ; Smith won the NL Gold Glove Award for play at shortstop for 13 consecutive seasons ( 1980 – 1992 ).