* Akbar founds Fatehpur Sikri to honor the Muslim holy man Shaikh Salim Chisti, who has foretold the birth of Akbar's son and heir, Jahangir.

Other striking features of the tomb are white marble serpentine brackets, which support sloping eaves around the parapet. On the left of the tomb, to the east, stands a red sandstone tomb of Islam Khan I, son of Shaikh Badruddin Chisti and grandson of Shaikh Salim Chishti, who became a general in the Mughal army in the reign of Jahangir.

The tomb is topped by a dome and thirty-six small domed chattris, and contains a number of graves, some unnamed, all male descendants of Shaikh Salim Chisti.

The driver Salim Shaikh, did not pelt any hand grenades.

Nawab Khwaja Abid Siddiqi ( Khulich Khan I ) s / o Shaikh Mir Ismail Siddiqi ( Alam Shaikh Siddiqi ) Alam ul-Ulema, son of Ayub Younus Salim Siddiqi, son of Abdul Rehman Shaikh Azizan Siddiqi, fourteenth in direct decent from Sheikh Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi, of Suhraward in Kurdistan, a celebrated Sufi mystic, or dervish, maternal ( first ), a lady of the family of Mir Hamadan ( a descendant of the Prophet Mohammed ) ( SW ), a distinguished Sayyid of Samarkand.

Shaikh Amr Salim, says that this story has no authentic Isnad.

In May 1896, Shaikh Muhammad Al-Sabah was assassinated by his half-brother, Mubarak, who, in early 1897, was recognized, by the Ottoman sultan, as the qaimmaqam ( provincial sub-governor ) of Kuwait.

Their emigration left the Sabahs in undisputed control, and by the end of Abdullah I's long rule ( 1762 – 1812 ), Sabah rule was secure, and the political hierarchy in Kuwait was well established, the merchants deferring to direct orders from the Shaikh.

On 1 April 1923, Shaikh Ahmad al-Sabah wrote the British Political Agent in Kuwait, Major John More, " I still do not know what the border between Iraq and Kuwait is, I shall be glad if you will kindly give me this information.

Maqbara Shaikh Husain, houses the tomb of Khwaja Husain Chishty Rehamatullah Alaih ( Shaikh Husain Ajmeri ) who was the Peer of Ajmer Sharif Dargah in Emperor Akbar's Time, He was the great grandson of Khwaja Moinuddin Hasan Chishty Rehmatullah Alaih, his tomb was built in 1637-1638 by Khwaja Alauddin Chishty and Sajjadanashin Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin

* Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi (~ 1564 – 1624 ) was part of " a reassertion of orthodoxy within Sufism " and was known to his followers as the ' renovator of the second millennium '.

By the 19th century, not only was the ruling Sabah much stronger than a desert Shaikh but also capable of naming his son successor.

They have clan names known as krams ..." It was recorded that these kram names included " Tantre ," " Shaikh ,", " Bhat ", " Mantu ," " Ganai ," " Dar ," " Damar ," " Lon " etc.

The 2001 attacks were preceded by the less well known Bojinka plot which was planned in the Philippines by Ramzi Yousef ( of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing ) and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.

The plan included crashing a plane into the CIA headquarters, leading credence that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed evolved this plot into the September 11 attacks The plot was disrupted in January 1995 after a chemical fire drew the Filipino police and investigation authorities ' attention, resulting in the arrest of one terrorist and seizure of a laptop containing the plans.

Shaikh was, coincidentally, an FBI informant, but since they never acted suspiciously around him, he never reported them.

By agreement, that last Israel element was withdrawn by 1600 GMT on 8 March and a full Israeli withdrawal from the Sharm al Shaikh area was effected at the same time.

As Ibn al-Nadim relates in Fihrist, Razi was then a Shaikh ( title given to one entitled to teach ), surrounded by several circles of students.

The Gulf Medical University ( GMU ), previously Gulf Medical College, was awarded university status in July 2008 after an order issued by Shaikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research.

Shaihu Usman dan Fodio (), born Usuman ɓii Foduye, ( also referred to as Shaikh Usman Ibn Fodio, Shehu Uthman Dan Fuduye, or Shehu Usman dan Fodio, 1754 – 1817 ) was the founder of the Sokoto Caliphate in 1809, a religious teacher, writer and Islamic promoter.

early eighteenth century, the village was under control of Shaikh Husayn, while later in the Ottoman period it became one of the major cotton-producing villages of Galilee, and the administrative center of the nahiya.

There was an Arab by the name Sharik ibn Shaikh al-Mahri in Bukhara, who wanted to spread Shia Islam firmly and oppose anyone against him.

under the training of his father, Maulana Shaikh Ahmed rehmatullahi Bin Ali, Hazrat Makhdum Ali Mahaimi acquired full fledged knowledge of recitation of ’ the Qura ’ n with correct phonetics.

In the early 1990s, Shaikh found the electronic music scene full of innovative and explorative sounds.

The financial influence of the merchants came from their control of trade and imports, duties on which sustained the Shaikh.

The Muzaffarid then release control of the Il-Khanate after being marched on by the Mongol Jalayirid tribe ruled by Shaikh Uvais.

After accepting surrender from Shaikh Uvais, Janibeg boasted that three uluses ( districts ) of the Mongol Empire were under his control.

Gilan: In Gilan, in northwestern Persia, a group of Shi ' i shaikhs received help from the Mazandarani dervishes, and gained control of the region under Shaikh Amir Kiya.

Behzādān ( Abu Muslim ) fought " Sharik ibn Shaikh al-Mahri " and his Shiite supporters for thirty-seven days with no victory, everyday Behzādān's side was losing soldiers and several taken as prisoners .. After that, all of a sudden Sharik ibn Shaikh al-Mahri ( Shiite leader ) died, and his supporters started to crumble & fear, but they were still hostile.

What is the hesitation and reluctance for at all ?’ They said that they were reluctant to come in because Shaikh was sitting on the door sill and he would see them.

In the meantime, Shaikh Kalifa's follower Hasan Juri had been preaching in towns all across Khurasan, with great success.

The convention ruled that Shaikh Mubarak had authority over an area extending out to a radius of 80 km, from the capital.

According to Faw ' id-ul-Fu ' ad, Ali Hujwiri reached Lahore at night and in the morning found the people bringing out the bier of Shaikh Husain Zanjani whom he replaced in Lahore.

Ramzi bin al-Shibh later said that Essabar delivered the cryptic message from Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, indicating the date that the September 11 attacks would be carried out, although bin al-Shibh's claim is in doubt.

Khwaja Ubaidullah who was brought up in the house of Shaikh Mubarak's daughter opines that Mubarak's views changed with the change in the political climate and he adopted the religious attitudes of rulers and nobles of those days out of expediency and minionism and thus he was a bitter Sunni during the reign of Sultan Ibrahim Lodi, became a Mahdavi during the Sur period, was a Naqshbandi during the reign of Humayun and a protagonist of liberal thought under Akbar.

He moved against their organization and forced them out of Sabzavar, and even destroyed the graves of Shaikh Khalifa and Hasan Juri.

33 Shaikh Mohammad Ikram, Rud-Kausar ( Lahore 1968 ), pp 603 – 10, criticizes their activities as totally out of touch with the needs of the Muslim community.

Mir Yazdanbakhsh collected revenues and safeguarded caravans traveling on the Hajigak route through Bamyan to Kabul from Shaikh Ali and Besud bandits.

* " Substitute for Testimony " from Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.

Yousef and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed were able to escape from the Philippines to Pakistan.

Following the disputed elections in 1987, young disaffected Kashmiris in the Valley such as the HAJY group-Abdul Hamid Shaikh, Ashfaq Majid Wani, Javed Ahmed Mir and Mohammed Yasin Malik-were recruited by the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front ( JKLF ) and the popular insurgency in the Kashmir Valley increased in momentum from this point on.

Sultan Hamid, Ali Bahar and Khalid al Shaikh ( a singer and oud player ) are among the most popular musicians from Bahrain.

Nevertheless, Anwar Shaikh has demonstrated that they also have no empirical relevance, as long as alleged good fit outcomes from an accounting identity, not from any underlying laws of production / distribution.

Legend has it that once when he was watering his plants, a revered Sufi, Shaikh Ibrāhim Qundūzī ( or Kunduzi ) -- the name deriving from his birthplace, Kunduz in Afghanistan -- came to his orchard.

The quarter guard and other sepoys present, with the single exception of a soldier called Shaikh Paltu, drew back from restraining or arresting Mangal Pandey.

Shaikh Paltu restrained Pandey from continuing his attack.

Rashid bin Humayd was the Shaikh of Ajman from 1816 until 1838.

Tahnun bin Shakhbut (- 1833 ) was Shaikh of Abu Dhabi from 1818-1833.

Other poets are known from the 17th – 19th centuries and include Mahzuni, Shaikh Mostafa Takhti, Khana Qubadi, Yusuf Zaka, and Ahmab Beg Komashi.

Sheikh Safi al-Din, in turn, gave a daughter from a previous marriage in wedlock to Shaikh Zahed Gilani's second-born son.

Al-Hujwiri came to Lahore under orders from his Pir as successor to Shaikh Husain Zanjani at a time when as a result of irruption of the Seljuks on one side and the rising tide of Hindu resistance on the order, the Ghaznavid Empire began to dismember rapidly, and life in Ghazni itself was disrupted.

When Khatri from the western districts of the Punjab ; Sargodha, Jhang, Jehlum, Pind Dadan Khan, Chakwal, Faisalabad ; accepted Islam called themselves Khawaja and adopted Shaikh as title.