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The lineage of Zayn ad-Din, according to an inscription in his zawiya (Sufi lodge), can be traced back to the Banu Umayya tribe. [1] The inscription states his full lineage as Zayn ad-Din, son of Sharaf ad-Din, son of al-Hasan, son of 'Adi, son of Sakhr, son of 'Adi, son of Musafir, son of Ismail, son of Musa, son of al-Hasan, son of Marwan, son of al-Hakam, son of Umayya. [2]
The Arabic spelling in its standard transliteration is al-Din. Due to the phonological rules involving the " sun letter " ( حرف الشّمسيّة hurfu ’sh-Shamsiyyah ), the Arabic letter د ( dāl ) is an assimilated letter of the Arabic definite article ال ( al ).
Martin Lings (24 January 1909 – 12 May 2005), also known as Abū Bakr Sirāj ad-Dīn, was an English writer, Islamic scholar, and philosopher.A student of the Swiss metaphysician Frithjof Schuon [1] and an authority on the work of William Shakespeare, he is best known as the author of Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources, first published in 1983 and still in print.
Abd al-Ghaffar al-Ījī, better known as Aḍud al-Din al-Ījī (Arabic: عضد الدين الإيجي) was an Islamic scholar from the Ilkhanate period. He was an influential judge , Shafi'i jurist , legal theoretician , linguist , rhetorician and is considered the leading Ash'arite theologian of his time.
Ali was born in January 1353. [4] He was taught by Abdulmuhsin of Kayseri, a renowned Islamic scholar of that era. [5] He was crowned at 13 years old, following the murder of his father, Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad I. [4] After Muhammad's death, local emirs obtained control of much of the region with the former vizier Khoja Ali Shah's son Hajji Ibrahim in Sivas, Sheikh Najib in Tokat, and Hajji ...
From '2001: A Space Odyssey' to 'Star Wars,' it’s a medium where anything goes and nothing is off limits. Now, with the release of 'Dune: Part Two,' the canon of classic sci-fi films has a new ...
Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi, also known by his pen name Sharaf, was a 15th-century scholar who authored several works in the arts and sciences, including mathematics, astronomy, enigma, literature such as poetry, and history, the Zafarnama being his most famous (539). [3]
Ala al-Din Husayn remained a prisoner for two years, until he was released in return for a heavy ransom to the Seljuqs. Meanwhile, a rival of Ala al-Din named Husayn ibn Nasir al-Din Muhammad al-Madini had seized Firuzkuh , but was murdered at the right moment when Ala al-Din returned to reclaim his ancestral domain.