However, it was Umar's disciple, Yahya Shirvani, who founded the “ Khalwati Way .” Yahya Shirvani wrote Wird al-Sattar, a devotional text read by the members of nearly all the branches of Khalwatiyya.

Shaykh Yahya Shirvani was considered “ the second pir ” that was responsible for the spread of the Khalwati order.

Yahya Shirvani entered Baku at this time of religious fervor and political instability, and he was able to start a movement.

Yahya Shirvani was able to gather ten thousand people to his movement.

He lived and worked at the Academy of Gundishapur, in Khuzestan, Iran, at the time of Yahya ibn Khalid ibn Barmak, who died in 803AD, where he is reported to have been making astronomical observations around the year 800AD.

Therefore, Ilyas's brother, Muhammad Yahya, requested that his father allow Ilyas to come with him to Gangoh, where Yahya lived with and studied under Rashid Ahmad Gangohi.

The exact time when he lived is not known ; but, as he quotes Alexander of Tralles, and is himself quoted by Yahya ibn Sarafyun ( Serapion the Elder ), it is probable that Abu-al-Faraj is correct in placing him in the latter half of the 7th century.

In the Islamic times, a pseudo-etymology was produced by the historian Ahmad ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri ( d. 892 ) quoting a folk story that the town was presumably founded by one " Abbad bin Hosayn " from the Arabian Tribe of Banu Tamim, who established a garrison there during the governorship of Hajjaj in the Ummayad period.

Imam Yahya died during an unsuccessful coup attempt in 1948 and was succeeded by his son Ahmad.

To that end it is reported, that during his time in Baghdad he performed incredibly in a public debate with one of the leading scholars of the city, namely Yahya ibn Aktham, and publicly humiliated him.

The main thrust of the Indian Army during the 1971 war was directed towards the eastern theatre, with the western sector envisaged as a holding operation to prevent the Pakistan Army from achieving any success that would allow the President of Pakistan, Yahya Khan, any bargaining tool to trade against the captured territories in the east.

Sir Gilbert Clayton, who visited King Yahya in Sanaa in an earnest attempt to win him over in 1925 and during his short stay in the capital, was impressed by this ruler's administration, his military preparedness, and organization.

* Yahya bin Surour ( 1803 – 1813 ): Jailed in Constantinople during the Ottoman – Saudi War

An uprising against General Ayub Khan during 1968 and 1969 resulted in Ayub Khan relinquishing his office as President and Chief of Army Staff in favour of General Yahya Khan, who assumed power in 1969.

However, under pressure during the meeting from Pakistan's Army and Air Force's general, General Yahya Khan gave orders to his Army and Air Force commanders to launch the operation.

It assumed that the Bengali Army and other military units would revolt at the onset of operations and the planners suggested that all Bengali units under arms should be disarmed prior to commencing the operation, and the political leadership arrested during a planned meeting with the President, General Yahya Khan.

Yahya Khan refused to sanction the arrest of Awami League leaders during a meeting with him, as the plan had proposed.

Chief Justice Rahman noted that the General Yahya Khan failed to not come to political settlement laying the foundation of two separate states which was known during general's time as " Tum Wahan Hum Yaha " ( Urdu: تم وها ههم ياها ; English: We're here, you're there .).

Imam Yahya died during the unseccessful Coup d ' état in 1948, but was eventually succeeded by a firm heir-Yahya's son, Ahmad bin Yahya, regained power several months later.

Al Fadl, son of Yahya bin barmak is credited with being the first to introduce the use of lamps in the mosques during the holy month of Ramadan.

* Tunis-At that time, Abu Yahya ( son of Abu Zajaria ) was the sultan of Tunis.

For several weeks, the four provinces worked together and guided the " One Unit dissolution committee ", towards resolving all outstanding issues in time set by the Yahya government.

Nixon also expressed a wish to fix a time limit with Yahya for political accommodation in East Pakistan.

At that time ( 1993 – 96 ) Hamas enjoyed rapidly rising popularity in the wake of their successful strategy of suicide bombings devised by Yahya Ayyash (" the Engineer ").

Rabbi Yosef was a poet, religious scholar, rebuilder of Ibn Yahya Synagogue of Calatayud, well versed in rabbinic literature and in the learning of his time, devoting his early years to the study of Jewish philosophy.

In 1969, Ayub resigned and handed over power to General Yahya Khan, who declared martial law for the second time.

To clear this misconception Yahya ibn Aktham who was serving as the Chief Justice of the Abbasid empire and was the most learned man of that time was called by Mamun al-Rashid to test his knowledge.

At the same time, al-Mutawakkil ordered Yahya bin Harthama to go to Medina to both investigate Abdullah's claims and to bring Imam al-Hadi to Samarra '.

In his adulthood-specifically in its infancy-when he was an associate for his father impartial judge learned him everythings about Islamic law while he was studying in the Aviation College to become a pilot, but did not complete that studies and continoued working with his father as a judge in court of Dhamar in the reign of Imam Ahmed Yahya Hamid al-Din where has raised a lot of controversy wonders and attention to his smart skills at the same time.

Tengku Zainab married Sultan Yahya Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim Petra of Kelantan on 4 June 1939, who at the time held the title of Tengku Temenggung.

At that time, Yemen was ruled by Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din, who decreed that all orphaned Jewish children must be disconnected from their religion and be given over for adoption to a Muslim family.

MacEoin notes that Subh-i-Azal appointed his son, Yahya Dawlatabadi, as his successor, but notes that there is little evidence that Yahya Dawlatabadi was involved in the affairs of the religion, and that instead he spent his time as that of secular reformer.

Created in 1992, under the direction of Yahya Ayyash, the primary objective of the group was to build a coherent military organisation to support the goals of Hamas, which was at the time concerned with blocking the Oslo Accords negotiations.

His son, Yahya ibn Barmak, at one time Governor of Arminiya, was entrusted by Caliph al-Mahdi ( 775-85 ) with the education of his son, Harun, the future Caliph al-Rashid .< ref > Encyclopedia of Islam, 2 ed., v. 1, pp. 1033 ff.

* The Governor of Khurasan at the time, Ali ibn Isa ibn Mahan, sent a letter to Harun reporting about the unrest in his province and blaming Musa ibn Yahya, another brother of Ja ' far, for it.

Ja ' far, another son of Yahya acquired great fame for eloquence, literary activity and pen-manship.

The senior high command officers in Pakistan Armed Forces, and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a former Karachi University professor of political science, began to pressure General Yahya Khan to take armed action against Mujib and his party.

On 26 March 1971 after Mujib was arrested by the Pakistan Army, which had been ordered by Yahya to suppress political activities.

Yahya, Pasha Ibrahim ( 1876 – 1951 ) () was an Egyptian political figure.

The Pakistani government led by junta leader General Yahya Khan was severely criticized for its delayed handling of the relief operations following the storm, both by local political leaders in East Pakistan and in the international media.

* Abdel Fattah Yahya Ibrahim Pasha ( 1876 – 1951 ), Egyptian political figure

During the rule of General Yahya Khan, the people of East Pakistan protested against various political and economic disparities that had been imposed on them by West Pakistan and massive civil unrest broke out in East Pakistan.

: In East Pakistan ( now Bangladesh ) President of Pakistan, General Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan, and his top generals also planned to murder its Bengali intellectual, cultural, and political elite.

* Al-Amir Ali Ibn Yahya Abu ’ l Hassan al-Armani – the governor of Egypt in 841 and 849, appointed by the Abbasid Caliph, the spiritual and political guide and leader of Muslims at Baghdad.