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The mausoleum of Ahmad Yasawi who was also considered a Sufi saint and poet in Turkistan, current day Kazakhstan.. Sufi saints or wali (Arabic: ولي, plural ʾawliyāʾ أولياء) played an instrumental role in spreading Islam throughout the world. [1]
Khalid ibn al-Walid ibn al-Mughira al-Makhzumi (Arabic: خالد بن الوليد بن المغيرة المخزومي, romanized: Khālid ibn al-Walīd ibn al-Mughīra al-Makhzūmī; died 642) was a 7th-century Arab military commander.
Walid Khalidi (Arabic: وليد خالدي, born 1925) is a Palestinian historian who has written extensively on the Palestinian exodus.He is a co-founder of the Institute for Palestine Studies, established in Beirut in December 1963 as an independent research and publishing center focusing on the Palestine problem and the Arab–Israeli conflict, and was its general secretary until 2016.
Wali (Islamic legal guardian) Al-Walī (Arabic: الولي) and Al-Wālī (Arabic: الوالي), are two related names of God in Islam; Wāli, an administrative title used by the Arabic and Ottoman Caliphates; Wali, weli, wely or welli, a synonym for a Muslim maqam (shrine), used in Palestine and in older Western scholarly literature
The term wali (Arabic: وَلِيّ, romanized: waliyy, lit. 'friend'; plural أَوْلِيَاء, ʾawliyāʾ) is most commonly used by Muslims to refer to a saint, or literally a "friend of God". [1] [2] [3] In the traditional Islamic understanding, a saint is portrayed as someone "marked by [special] divine favor ...
The Hanafi school of Islamic law is unique among Sunni madhhab (school of jurisprudence) in recognizing the validity of a marriage where the woman acts on her own behalf and is not represented by a male wali. [9] [12] [13] At least in the Hanafi school of fiqh, there is a distinction between a Wali ijbar and a wali ikhtiyar.
Mustafa Mohamed Ismail, professionally known by his stage name, Freek, is a UAE-based Somali rapper, singer, music director and record producer. [1] [2] He is noted as one of the contributors to the Arabic drill rap music genre [3] [4] [5] and in particular, to the GCC's underground music scene.
Khalil or Khaleel (Arabic: خليل) means friend and is a common male first name in the Middle East, the Caucasus, the Balkans, North Africa, West Africa, East Africa, Central Asia and among Muslims in South Asia and as such is also a common surname. It is also used amongst Turkic peoples of Russia and African Americans.