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Leader Title In Office Abkhazia: Near East and the Caucasus: Badra Gunba: Acting President of Abkhazia: 19 November 2024: Valeri Bganba: Acting Prime Minister of Abkhazia: 19 November 2024 Afghanistan: Near East: Hibatullah Akhundzada: Supreme Leader of Afghanistan: 15 August 2021 Hasan Akhund: Acting Prime Minister of Afghanistan: 7 September ...
The title is also used to refer to religious leaders for both Sunni and Shia Muslims. For example, the Saudi Arabian family Al ash-Sheikh (literally House of the Sheikh ) is named after the religious leader and eponymous founder of Wahhabism , Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab .
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. Muhammad Ibn 'Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi 1882–1963: A Moroccan Berber leader, he fought against the French and Spanish occupations of Northern ...
Arabian Peninsula states. This is a list of current monarchs of the Arabian Peninsula.. It includes the reigning houses of those states which are monarchies: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and each of the seven emirates which make up the United Arab Emirates.
Monarchs in the Middle East (47 C, 5 P) B. Bahraini monarchs (2 C, 9 P) C. Heads of state of Cyprus (2 C) E. ... List of leaders of Middle Eastern and North African ...
Islamic religious leaders have traditionally been people who, as part of the clerisy, mosque, or government, performed a prominent role within their community or nation.. However, in the modern contexts of Muslim minorities in non-Muslim countries as well as secularised Muslim states like Turkey, and Bangladesh, the religious leadership may take a variety of non-formal sha
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and the country’s foreign minister were found dead Monday hours after their helicopter crashed in fog, leaving the Islamic Republic without two key leaders as ...
[8] [6] Soon after, the Great Seljuks adopted this title after defeating the Ghaznavid Empire and taking control of an even larger territory which included Baghdad, the capital of the Abbasid caliphs. The early Seljuk leader Tughril Bey was the first leader to adopt the epithet "sultan" on his coinage. [6]