The WSLF was founded by a young captain called Yusuf Dheere Mohamed Sugaal ( Yuusuf the tall man ) who was educated and trained in Syria, after finishing high school in Hargeisa.

Upon his return from Syria, Yusuf Dheere has created the " Ururka dhalinyara soomaali galbeed " or the Western Somali Youth Organisation.

So Siad Barre gave Yusuf Dheere 2 years to give diplomacy a chance and to prepare the Somali National Army, for it was still unproven.

In the meanwhile, Yusuf Dheere was told to recruit about 1500 volunteers and was permitted rations for only 1500 people ; in the space of a month, he recruited over 3000 soldiers, most of them were old fighters from all over the country.

Two years after the initial meeting, and after going through the UN and unsuccessful peace meeting with Emperor Haile Selassie, Yusuf Dheere was given the go ahead he wanted and was told to get control of at least 60 % of the Ogaden region before the Somali army would involve itself in the fighting.

Siad Barre's decision to restrict the WSLF led the exile of Yusuf Dheere in 1989 and to the formation of a WSLF splinter group, the Ogaden National Liberation Front ( ONLF ), whose headquarters were in Kuwait.

In 1138, Ali ibn Yusuf was defeated by Alfonso VII of León, and in the Battle of Ourique ( 1139 ), by Afonso I of Portugal, who thereby won his crown.

Yusuf al-Qaradawi released a fatwā on April 14, 2004, stating that the boycott of American and Israeli products was an obligation for all who are able.

These were entrusted to a native boat builder, Haj Ahmed Yusuf, who slowly and methodically worked out how the pieces fit together.

Isaiah is mentioned as a prophet in Ibn kathir's Stories of the Prophets and the modern writers Muhammad Asad and Abdullah Yusuf Ali accepted Isaiah as a true Hebrew prophet, who preached to the Israelites following the death of King David.

Yusuf Ali ’ s translation reads " That they said ( in boast ), " We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah ";― but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no ( certain ) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not .― ( 157 ) Nay, Allah raised him up unto Himself ; and Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise.

The targets were Mohammad Yusuf al-Najjar ( Abu Yusuf ), head of Fatah's intelligence arm, which ran Black September, according to Morris ; Kamal Adwan, who headed the PLO's so-called Western Sector, which controlled PLO action inside Israel ; and Kamal Nassir, the PLO spokesman.

This Transitional Federal Government ( TFG ) led by Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, who had since been elected President of Somalia, would include among its mandates the re-establishment of Somalia's Armed Forces.

Examples include Muhammad Ali, formerly Cassius Clay ; Ivan Aguéli, who became Abd al-Hadi Aqhili ; Cat Stevens, who became Yusuf Islam ; and Yousuf Youhana, who became Mohammad Yousef.

The treaties reached earlier with the local population stood firm and were further consolidated in 734 when the governor of Narbonne, Yusuf ibn ' Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri, concluded agreements with several towns on common defense arrangements against the encroachments of Charles Martel, who had systematically brought the south to heel as he extended his domains.

Ibn Rushd began his career with the help of Ibn Tufail (" Aben Tofail " to the West ), the author of Hayy ibn Yaqdhan and philosophic vizier of Almohad king Abu Yaqub Yusuf who was an amateur of philosophy and science.

Averroes's strictly rationalist views collided with the more orthodox views of Abu Yusuf Ya ' qub al-Mansur, who therefore eventually banished Averroes, though he had previously appointed him as his personal physician.

A few Barbary corsairs, such as the Dutch Jan Janszoon and the English John Ward ( Muslim name Yusuf Reis ), were renegade European privateers who had converted to Islam.

The founder of this state was a client of the Al-Mansur family, Muyahid ibn Yusuf ibn Ali, who could take profit from the progressive crumbling of the Caliphate's superstructure to gain control over the province of Dénia.

Before the opening credits begin, a dedication to Yusuf Hawkins is shown, who was killed on August 23, 1989, in Bensonhurst, New York, by neighborhood folk who believed the youth was involved with a white girl in the neighborhood, though he was actually in the neighborhood to inquire about a used car for sale in the area.

Among the important early Muslim scholars who made valuable contributions to economic theory are Abu Yusuf ( d. 798 ), Al-Mawardi ( d. 1058 ), Ibn Hazm ( d. 1064 ), Al-Sarakhsi ( d. 1090 ), Al-Tusi ( d. 1093 ), Al-Ghazali ( d. 1111 ), Al-Dimashqi ( d. after 1175 ), Ibn Rushd ( d. 1187 ), Ibn Taymiyyah ( d. 1328 ), Ibn al-Ukhuwwah ( d. 1329 ), Ibn al-Qayyim ( d. 1350 ), Al-Shatibi ( d. 1388 ), Ibn Khaldun ( d. 1406 ), Al-Maqrizi ( d. 1442 ), Al-Dawwani ( d. 1501 ), and Shah Waliyullah ( d. 1762 ).

Hasan's sons Muhammad Toghan Khan II, and Yusuf Kadir Khan who held Kashgar, became in turn the head of the Karakhanid dynasty.

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.

The dynasty reached its apex under the successive reigns of Sultan Yusuf Mahamud Ibrahim, who successfully consolidated Gobroon power during the Bardera wars, and Sultan Ahmed Yusuf, who forced regional powers such as the Omani Empire to submit tribute.

In 1086 Yusuf ibn Tashfin was invited by the taifa Muslim princes of the Iberian Peninsula ( Al-Andalus ) to defend their territories from Alfonso VI, King of León and Castile.

Three years afterwards, under Yusuf's son and successor, Ali ibn Yusuf, Sintra and Santarém were added, and Iberia was again invaded in 1119 and 1121, but the tide had turned, the French having assisted the Aragonese to recover Zaragoza.

According to some scholars Ali ibn Yusuf was a new generation of leadership that had forgot the desert life for the comforts of the city.

Muwaffaq al-Din Muhammad ' Abd al-Latif ibn Yusuf al-Baghdadi (; 1162 – 1231 ), more commonly known as ' Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi or ' Abdallatif al-Baghdadi (), born in Baghdad, Iraq, was a celebrated physician, historian, Egyptologist and traveller, and one of the most voluminous writers of the Near East in his time.

At that moment, the nominal ruler of al-Andalus, emir Yusuf ibn ' Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri ( another member of the Fihrid family, and a favorite of the old Arab settlers ( baladiyun ), mostly of south Arabian or ' Yemenite ' tribal stock ) was locked in a contest with his vizier ( and son-in-law ) al-Sumayl ibn Hatim al-Qilabi, the head of the new settlers ( shamiyum, the Syrian junds or military regiments, mostly of north Arabian Qaysid tribes, which had arrived only in 742 ).

Mehmet Barış Manço ( also spelled Boris Mancho in some European album releases ), born Tosun Yusuf Mehmet Barış Manço, ( January 2, 1943-February 1, 1999 ) was a Turkish rock singer, composer, and television producer.

At birth, he was additionally named Tosun Yusuf after his deceased uncle Yusuf called Tosun ( literally: Yusuf The Sturdy ).

Andalusian Knights found El Cid their foe ill, thirsty and exiled from the court of Alfonso, he was presented before the elderly Yusuf al-Mu ' taman ibn Hud and accepted command of the forces of the Taifa of Zaragoza as their Master.

Leading this pan-Islamic effort was Palestinian sheikh Abdullah Yusuf Azzam.

Shawar was promptly assassinated, and when Shirkuh died in 1169, he was succeeded by his nephew Yusuf, better known as Saladin.

Mohammed Zahir's father, son of Sardar Mohammad Yusuf Khan, was born in Dehradun, British India, his family having been exiled following the second Anglo-Afghan war.

His personal name was " Yusuf "; " Salah ad-Din " is a laqab, a descriptive epithet, meaning " Righteousness of the Faith.

The deep Bir Yusuf (" Joseph's Well ") was built on Saladin's orders.

Sultan Ibrahim's son Ahmed Yusuf succeeded him and was one of the most important figures in 19th century East Africa, receiving tribute from Omani governors and creating alliances with important Muslim families on the East African coast.

It was founded by Yusuf Ali Kenadid in the middle of the 19th century in central Somalia.

On 9 November, the Italian fear was realized when a mutiny, led by one of the military chiefs of Sultan Ali Yusuf, Omar Samatar, recaptured El Buur.

A government was formed by Abdullahi Issa and other members of the trusteeship and protectorate governments, with Haji Bashir Ismail Yusuf as President of the Somali National Assembly, Aden Abdullah Osman Daar as President and Abdirashid Ali Shermarke as Prime Minister ( later to become President from 1967 – 1969 ).

On October 10, 2004, in a session held by the Transitional Federal Parliament ( TFP ), former Puntland President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed was elected as President of the succeeding Transitional Federal Government ( TFG ), an interim federal administrative body that he had helped establish earlier in the year.

In his speech, which was broadcast on national radio, Yusuf expressed regret at failing to end the country's seventeen year conflict as his government had mandated to do.