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An ongoing dispute concerns the identity of the second male Muslim, that is, the first male who accepted the teachings of Muhammad. [3] [2] Shia and some Sunni sources identify him as Muhammad's cousin, Ali ibn Abi Talib, aged between nine and eleven at the time. [4] For instance, this is reported by the Sunni historian Ibn Hisham (d.
Arab scientists and scholars from the Muslim World, including Al-Andalus (Spain), who lived from antiquity up until the beginning of the modern age, include the following. The list consists primarily of scholars during the Middle Ages. Both the Arabic and Latin names are given. The following Arabic naming articles are not used for indexing: Al ...
Muhyi al-Dīn al-Maghribī (1220–1283), Spanish-born Arab astronomer Muhi Al-Din Lari (died 1526), Indian or Persian miniaturist and writer. Muhi al-Din Muhammad Aurangzeb (1618–1707), Emperor of the Sultanate of India and the Mughal Empire
Name Occupation Place of birth Date of birth Date of death Abd-ar-Rahman III: Emir and first Caliph of Córdoba: Córdoba: 891: 961 Niceto Alcalá-Zamora: First Prime Minister and first President of the Second Spanish Republic: Priego de Córdoba: 1877: 1949 Al-Mansur aka Almanzor: Muslim general and statesman: Algeciras: 940: 1002 Javier Arenas
Muhammad ibn Yusuf was born in 1195 [4] in the town of Arjona, then a small frontier Muslim town south of the Guadalquivir, [5] now in Spain's province of Jaén. He came from a humble background, and, in the words of the Castilian First General Chronicle , initially he had "no other occupation than following the oxen and the plough". [ 6 ]
According to the Muslim historian Al-Tabari, [22] Iberia was first invaded some sixty years earlier during the caliphate of Uthman (Rashidun era). Another prominent Muslim historian of the 13th century, Ibn Kathir , [ 23 ] quoted the same narration, pointing to a campaign led by Abd Allah bin Nafi al Husayn and Abd Allah bin Nafi al Abd al Qays ...
Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (c. 1043 – 10 July 1099) was a Castilian knight and ruler in medieval Spain.Fighting both with Christian and Muslim armies during his lifetime, he earned the Arabic honorific as-Sayyid ("the Lord" or "the Master"), which would evolve into El Çid (Spanish: [el ˈθið], Old Spanish: [el ˈts̻id]), and the Spanish honorific El Campeador ("the Champion").
Bakht Khan: Indian Muslim commander during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Husein Gradaščević: Leader of the Great Bosnian uprising. Muhammad Ahmad 1844–1885: A Muslim religious leader and militant in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Omar Mukhtar 1858–1931: A Libyan leader of the resistance against the Italian occupation forces in Libya.