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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Abdullah Yusuf Azzam (, ‘ Abdu ’ llāh Yūsuf ‘ Azzām ; 1941 – November 24, 1989 ) was a highly influential Palestinian Sunni Islamic scholar and theologian, who preached in favor of both defensive jihad and offensive jihad by Muslims to help the Afghan mujahideen against the Soviet invaders and became a leader of Al Qaeda.

* Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, Palestinian Sunni Islamic scholar and theologian

Some traditional scholars caution against Yusuf Qaradawi's methodology and regard him as excessively lenient as he does not limit himself to the positions of the four Sunni schools of fiqh '.

Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a contemporary Sunni Muslim scholar, states that sodomy is prohibited.

The Sunni scholar Yusuf ibn abd al-Barr says:

The famous Sunni scholar Yusuf ibn abd al-Barr says: " His children born of Khadīja are four daughters ; there is no difference of opinion about that ".

Yusuf was a firm believer in the law, or Shariah in restricting all Sufi activity, being of the Shafi madhab or thought of Sunni Islam holding a similar stance to al-Ghazali in his later years on Sufism.

* Abu Yusuf Bin Saamaan, also known as Nasiruddin ( died 1067 ), Sufi Saint

Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the primary scholar of the Muslim Brotherhood movement, and Presently Supreme seat of learning Al Azhar University Cairo, Islamic Scholar Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki, Syed Shujaat Ali Qadri, Muhammad Ilyas Qadri the founder of Dawat e Islami, Akhtar Raza Khan, Grand Mufti of India, Gibril Haddad, Shaykh Said Afandi al-Chirkawi, and Zaid Shakir, subscribing to Sufi Islam, and have given their approval for the observance of Mawlid.

* Gazel: Classical Sufi Music of the Ottoman Empire, with Husnu Anil, Aziz Bahriyeli, Yusuf Bilgin, Mehmet Emin Bitmez, Suleyman Erguner, Hasan Esen, Fevzi Misir, Walter Quintus, Kurt Renker, 1991

* L ' Orient de L ' Occident: Flamenco & Ottoman Sufi Music, with Yusuf Bilgin.

Kings and sultans like Sunan Giri, Sunan Gunungjati, Sunan Kudus, Sultan Trenggono of Demak, Pakubuwana II, Pakubuwana IV, Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa of Banten, Sultan Alauddin Riayat Syah, Engku Hajji Muda Raja Abdallah to Raja Muhammad Yusuf are sufi-kings ; they learned Sufism from eminent Sufi teachers ( Perpustakaan Nasional 2001: 12-39 ).

In May 1801, Pasha Yusuf Karamanli demanded from the United States an increase in the tribute ( then $ 83, 000 ) which the US government had paid since 1796 for the protection of US commerce from piracy by Ottoman tribes along the North African coast.

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.

Black Sheep ruler Qara Yusuf and Jalayirid Sultan Ahmad flee and take refuge with the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I.

* Yusuf Akçura, prominent Tatar activist and ideologue of Turanism in the late Ottoman Empire.

Yusuf Akçura (; December 2, 1876, Simbirsk, Russia-March 11, 1935, Istanbul, Turkey ) was a prominent Tatar activist and ideologue of Turanism in the late Ottoman Empire.

Nadir Shah's devastating campaign against the Mughal Empire, created a void in the western frontiers of Persia, which was effectively exploited by the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud I, who initiated the Otttoman-Persian War ( 1743 – 1746 ), in which the Mughal Emperor Muhammad Shah closely cooperated with the Ottomans and their ambassador Haji Yusuf Agha, these relations between the two great empires continued until Muhammad Shah's death in 1748.

* Yusuf Nabi – 17th century Ottoman poet

By 1617, political changes in the Ottoman sultanate had resulted in the removal of many of Fakhr-al-Din's enemies from power, allowing Fahkr-al-Din's return to Lebanon, whereupon he was able quickly to reunite all the lands of Lebanon beyond the boundaries of its mountains ; and having revenge from Emir Yusuf Pasha ibn Siyfa, attacking his stronghold in Akkar, destroying his palaces and taking control of his lands, and regaining the territories he had to give up in 1613 in Sidon, Tripoli, Bekaa among others.

Having completely beaten the main Ottoman army under Grand Vizier Koca Yusuf Pasha in the Battle of Rymnik, he captured the greater part of Wallachia, including Bucharest, being welcomed by the population after the flight of Prince Nicholas Mavrogenes ( see History of Bucharest ), and soon after becoming a Field Marshal.

* Yusuf Izzet Pasha ( 1876 – 1922 ), Ottoman and Turkish general

This trend began in 1861, with the translation into Ottoman Turkish of François Fénelon's 1699 novel Les aventures de Télémaque, by Yusuf Kâmil Pasha, Grand Vizier to Sultan Abdülaziz.

However, Nadir Shah's campaign against the Mughal Empire, caused the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud I to initiate the Otttoman-Persian War ( 1743 – 1746 ), in which the Mughal Emperor Muhammad Shah closely cooperated with the Ottomans and their ambassador Haji Yusuf Agha until his death in 1748.

* Prof. Yusuf Hikmet Bayur, Minister of Education of the Ottoman Empire ( 1909 graduate )

Yusuf Dia Pasha al-Khalidi (, ) was a prominent Palestinian who played a major political role in the Ottoman Empire dominance period.

According to Firishta, Yusuf was the son of the Ottoman Emperor Murad II.

This is the most widely quoted history of the Adil Shahi, and it is the source of the story that Yusuf was an Ottoman prince " ( Devare 272 ).

On January 9, 1792, Catherine II of Russia had her representative Alexander Bezborodko sign the Treaty of Jassy with Grand Vizier Koca Yusuf Pasha of the Ottoman Empire.

Devare, Firishta's account is the most widely quoted history of the Adil Shahi, but it is the only source for a fabricated story asserting the Ottoman origin of Yusuf Adil Shah, the founder of the Adil Shahi dynasty ( Devare 67 fn2, 272 ).