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Ali was the son of Muhammad ibn Idris, whom he succeeded in March/April 836 at the age of nine. [1] During his infancy, the chieftains of the Berber tribes acted as his regents. [ 1 ] He proved an able ruler, who managed to stabilize and pacify the Idrisid realm after the troubled reign of his father. [ 1 ]
The Zanj Rebellion (Arabic: ثورة الزنج Thawrat al-Zanj / Zinj) was a major revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate, which took place from 869 until 883.Begun near the city of Basra in present-day southern Iraq and led by one Ali ibn Muhammad, the insurrection involved both enslaved and freed East Africans or Abyssinians (collectively termed "Zanj" in this case) exported in the Indian ...
Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin (658/59-712/14), Imam in Shiʻi Islam; Husayn ibn Ali (626-680), Abu Abd Allah or Imam Husayn, a grandson of Muhammad; Hasan ibn Ali (625-670), the firstborn son of Ali and Fatima and a grandson of Muhammed; Ali ibn al-Athir (1160-1232/33), 12th- and 13th-century Islamic historian and geographer
Their challenges were taken up by Hamza ibn Abdul Muttalib (the uncle of Muhammad and Ali), Ubaydah ibn al-Harith (a cousin of Muhammad and Ali), and Ali ibn Abi Talib. Ali's duel against Walid ibn Utba, one of Mecca's fiercest warriors, was the first of the three one-on-one duels. After a few amazing blows were exchanged, Walid was killed.
Ali and Fatima also had two daughters, namely, Zaynab and Umm Kulthum. [6] After the death of Fatima in 632 CE, Ali remarried and had more children. Among them, the lineage of Ali continued through Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiya, Abbas ibn Ali, and Umar al-Atraf, their descendants were honored by the title Alawi (lit. ' of Ali ').
A caliph is the supreme religious and political leader of an Islamic state known as the caliphate. [1] [2] Caliphs (also known as 'Khalifas') led the Muslim Ummah as political successors to the Islamic prophet Muhammad, [3] and widely-recognised caliphates have existed in various forms for most of Islamic history.
Ali ibn Abi Talib (Arabic: عَلِيُّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب, romanized: ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib; c. 600–661 CE) was the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and was the fourth Rashidun caliph who ruled from 656 CE to 661, as well as the first Shia imam.
The Investiture of Ali at Ghadir Khumm in the fourteenth-century Ilkhanid copy of Chronology of Ancient Nations, illustrated by Ibn al-Kutbi. As the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, Ali ibn Abi Talib was likely the first male to profess Islam. [1] He significantly contributed to Muhammad's cause inside and outside the ...