The attack marked the first time Sunni Islamists had made use of suicide in terrorism, a technique made famous by Shia Hezbollah in Lebanon.

There have been numerous translation of the Qur ' an into Urdu, the most famous of which is Kanz al-Iman treasure of faith by the Indian Sunni scholar, Imam Ahmad Raza Khan.

Among Sunni scholors, Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī in his famous work The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries has stated that Husayn's head was returned to his body and was buried altogether on 20th of the lunar month of Safar ( Arba ' een ).

" Other famous Sunni scholars like Al-Bukhari and Abu Hatim al-Razi said in regards to Al-Waqidi's work: " His narrations are not retained, and their bane comes from him.

It is historically famous for an event, in which Muhammad said, what is known as the Hadith of the pond of Khumm, equally accepted by both Sunni and Shia Muslims.

Mazahir Uloom Saharanpur is a famous seminary imparting advanced education in Muslim's both Sunni and shin's theology, closely following the Darul Uloom Deoband Islamic university.

* al -' Aqidah al-Tahaawiyyah: editing and footnotes to the famous book of Sunni creed by Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Tahawi

Even today not only Khoja Ismaili Muslims but Memon Sunni Muslims also retain some of their Hindu surnames, among the most famous of these is Lakhani.

Its residents are Sunni unlike most of the rest of the country, and are famous as traders.

He is well known as an author and scholar, and his most famous work, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ( The Ecclesiastical History of the English People ) gained him the title " The Father of English History ".

The Italian scholar and poet Petrarch is credited with being the pursuit's first and most famous aficionado.

Cyril Northcote Parkinson ( 30 July 1909 – 9 March 1993 ) was a British naval historian and author of some sixty books, the most famous of which was his bestseller Parkinson's Law, which led him to be also considered as an important scholar within the field of public administration.

Al-Jahiz was a famous Arab scholar and historian.

Following the era of the Khilji dynasty in 1333, the famous Moroccan travelling scholar Ibn Battuta was visiting Kabul:

Ayatollah Khomeini's paternal grandfather, Seyyed Ahmad Musavi Hindi, was born in Kintoor and was a contemporary and relative of the famous scholar Ayatollah Syed Mir Hamid Hussain Musavi.

In the late 19th century a Pakistani scholar Khwaja Shamsuddin Azeemi wrote of and taught about the science of Islamic spirituality, of which the best known form remains the Sufi tradition ( famous through Rumi and Hafiz ) in which a spiritual master or pir transmits spiritual discipline to students.

Solomon Schechter ( Hebrew: שניאור זלמן שכטר ; December 7, 1847 – November, 19 1915 ) was a Moldavian-born Romanian rabbi, academic scholar, and educator, most famous for his roles as founder and President of the United Synagogue of America, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and architect of the American Conservative Jewish movement.

" He adds that by the fall of 1923 it was plain that Heidegger felt " the clear superiority of Count Yorck over the famous scholar, Dilthey.

There are several Carmelite figures who have received significant attention in the 20th century, including Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, one of only three female Doctors of the Church, so named because of her famous teaching on the " way of confidence and love " set forth in her best-selling memoir, " Story of a Soul "; Titus Brandsma, a Dutch scholar and writer who was killed in Dachau Concentration Camp because of his stance against Nazism ; and Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross ( née Edith Stein ), a Jewish convert to Catholicism who was also imprisoned and died at Auschwitz.

His father, Shri Gangadhar Tilak was a famous school teacher and a Sanskrit scholar who died when Tilak was sixteen.

According to the famous Islamic legal scholar Ibn Qayyim ( 1292 – 1350 ), non-Muslims had the right to engage in such religious practices even if it offended Muslims, under the conditions that such cases not be presented to Islamic Sharia courts and that these religious minorities believed that the practice in question is permissible according to their religion.

Sun Tzu's descendant, Sun Bin, also became a famous scholar of the military arts.

In Rome, he also learned grammar under the rich and famous scholar Tyrannion of Amisus.

In this way he was also a distant relative to Pierre Bernard's nephew, Theos Bernard, an American scholar of religion, explorer, and famous practitioner of Yoga and Tibetan Buddhism.

Al-Suli's chronicle has long been in the shadow of more famous chronicles such as those of al-Mas ' udi and Miskawayh, perhaps because al-Suli was seen as a nadim and not a serious scholar.

After establishing himself as the Despot, Constantine worked to strengthen the defence of the Morea, including reconstructing a wall across the Isthmus of Corinth called the " Hexamilion " ( Six-mile-wall ), on the suggestion of the famous scholar and teacher of his, Plethon.

Another famous victim of castration was the medieval French philosopher, scholar, teacher, and ( later ) monk Pierre Abélard.

The famous scholar Cai Yuanpei was appointed president on January 4, 1917, and helped transform the university into the country's largest institution of higher learning, with 14 departments and an enrollment of more than 2, 000 students.

In 1925 at the age of 18, he joined fellow students to stage a school sit-in to mourn the death of the famous patriotic scholar Phan Chu Trinh.

The most famous constructivist scholar, Alexander Wendt noted in a 1992 article in International Organization ( later followed up by a book, Social Theory of International Politics ( 1999 )), that " anarchy is what states make of it ".

The father of the famous Hanbalite scholar Ibn Taymiyyah was a refugee from Harran, settling in Damascus.

He was also an influential redology scholar and held the famous Jiaxu manuscript () for many years until his death.

Posidonius's extensive writings and lectures gave him authority as a scholar and made him famous everywhere in the Graeco-Roman world, and a school grew around him in Rhodes.

Saint Jerome, a biblical scholar who translated the Bible into Latin ( the Vulgate ), was famous for his severe penances in the desert.

The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan had exchanged ambassadors and documents with the Ottoman Sultan Murad IV, it was through these exchanges led by the Mughal ambassador Sayyid Muhiuddin and his counterpart the Ottoman ambassador Arsalan Agha, that Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan received Mimar Yusuf, Isa Muhammad Effendi and Ismail Effendi, two Turkish architects and students of the famous Koca Mimar Sinan Agha.

The festival has grown to now cater for tens of thousands of Muslims and non-Muslims and has included as guests Yusuf Islam, famous Australian footballer, Hazem El Masri, the then Governor-General of Australia, Michael Jeffery and the previous Premier of New South Wales, Kristina Keneally.

The title song from that album, written about a romance between Simon and Yusuf Islam ( known then as Cat Stevens ), was a significant hit, reaching # 3 at Easy Listening radio and # 13 on Billboard's Hot 100 and was perhaps even more famous for its use in a variety of international commercials to market the legendary " slow " ( i. e., thick ) ketchup of the H. J. Heinz Company, one of the largest food producers in the world.

Another famous Karakhanid writer was Yusuf Balasaghuni who wrote Kutadgu Bilig ( The Wisdom of Felicity ), an important but the only known literary work written in Turkic from the Karakhanid period.

Among the most famous of the early qadi al-qudat was Qadi Abu Yusuf who was a disciple of the famous early jurist Abu Hanifa.

In his famous English translation and commentary of the Qur ' an, Abdullah Yusuf Ali ( 1872 – 1953 AD ) supported the notion of Dhul-Qarnayn being Alexander the Great and he indicated an extensive knowledge of the legends concerning Alexander:

Other famous personalities include Prime Minister of Pakistan Yusuf Raza Gillani, political activist Javed Hashmi, news anchor Hamid Mir, nuclear physicist Ishfaq Ahmed and Choudhry Rahmat Ali to name a few.

Behzad's most famous works include " The Seduction of Yusuf " from Sa ' di's Bustan of 1488, and paintings from the British Library's Nizami manuscript of 1494-95-particularly scenes from Layla and Majnun and the Haft Paykar ( see accompanying image ).

These are the circumstances that led to the Almoravid conquest and the famous quote, rebuffing his son, Rashid, who advised him not to call on Yusuf ibn Tashfin, where al-Mu ' tamid said

The name Murabitun means “ People of the Ribāṭ ” and derives from the famous Islamic movement led by Yusuf ibn Tashfin, which restored Islam in Andalusia.

* Yusuf Islam ( born Steven Demetre Georgiou ; 21 July 1948, aka Cat Stevens ) the famous singer of Cypriot Greek origin, converted to Islam at the height of his fame in December, 1977 and adopted his Muslim name, Yusuf Islam, the following year.

The festival has grown to now cater for tens of thousands of Muslims and non-Muslims and has included as guests Yusuf Islam, famous Australian footballer, Hazem El Masri, the then Governor-General of Australia, Michael Jeffery and the previous Premier of New South Wales, Kristina Keneally.