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Al-Hajjaj was born in ca. 661 in the city of Ta'if in the Hejaz (western Arabia, where Mecca and Medina are located). [1] He belonged to the family of Abu Aqil, [2] called after al-Hajjaj's paternal great-grandfather. [3] The family was part of the Banu Awf branch of the Thaqif tribe. [2]
Yusuf was the first son of Muhammad V of Granada (r. 1354–1359 and 1362–1391), and the only one born during the first of the sultan's two reigns. Although his date of birth is unknown, historian Francisco Vidal Castro estimated that he was born c. 757 AH or 1356 AD (a few years after his father's accession).
Abu al-Hajjaj Yusuf ibn Ismail was born on 29 June 1318 (28 Rabi al-Thani 718 AH) in the Alhambra, the fortified royal palace complex of the Nasrid dynasty of the Emirate of Granada. He was the third son of the reigning sultan, Ismail I, and a younger brother of the future Muhammad IV. [2]
Sheikh Yusuf Abu el Haggag (Arabic: الشيخ يوسف أبو الحجاج; c. 1150 – c. 1245), also al Haggag or Al-Hajjaj, [A] was a mystic Sufi scholar and religious figure whose birthday is celebrated annually in the town of Luxor, Egypt.
He married al-Hajjaj's niece, Umm al-Hajjaj, the daughter of Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Thaqafi. [1] [2] During her uncle's lifetime, she gave birth to Yazid's sons: al-Hajjaj, who died young, and al-Walid II, who became caliph in 743. [1] Umm al-Hajjaj became very influential wife of Yazid II.
In a hazmat suit, his hands bound with plastic cable ties, Jamal Abu Al-Ola’s warned people to leave the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. Hours later he was dead.
685–705) appointed the Thaqafite al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf over Iraq and the east in 694. Although coming from Ta'if, al-Hajjaj benefited from his tribal ties with the Thaqif of Iraq. [16] Like the other Thaqafites who administered Iraq, al-Hajjaj had been a man of letters, in his case, working as a teacher before taking up a military career. [5]
But two officials with Iran-backed militias in Iraq said that three died, including Wissam Muhammad Sabir Al-Saadi, known as Abu Baqir Al-Saadi, the commander in charge of Kataib Hezbollah’s ...