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Muhammad bin Qasim (695–715), an early Arab General who captured Sindh and Multan and parts of Punjab in Pakistan; Isma'il ibn Jafar, an Arab who fought the Banu Umayyad; Marwan II, the last Umayyad Caliph and a military leader; Qutaibah bin Muslim, an Arab Muslim general who captured Transoxiana; Abdallah ibn Ali, Abbasid General and ...
United Arab Emirates: Arabian Peninsula: Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan: President of the United Arab Emirates: 14 May 2022 Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum: Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates: 11 February 2006 Yemen: Rashad al-Alimi [c] Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council of Yemen: 7 April 2022 Ahmad Awad bin Mubarak [c] Prime ...
The top 50 fits into six broad categories as follows: 12 are political leaders (kings, generals, presidents), four are spiritual leaders (Sufi shaykhs), 14 are national or international religious authorities, three are "preachers", six are high-level scholars, 11 are leaders of movements or organizations. [12]
A caliph is the supreme religious and political leader of an Islamic state known as the caliphate. [1] [2] Caliphs (also known as 'Khalifas') led the Muslim Ummah as political successors to the Islamic prophet Muhammad, [3] and widely-recognised caliphates have existed in various forms for most of Islamic history.
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
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Further information on Palestinians: History of Palestinian nationality and Definitions of Palestinian Part of a series on Palestinians Demographics Definitions Palestine History Name People Origin Nakba Diaspora Politics Previous Arab Higher Committee Depopulated villages All-Palestine ...
Political decisions had to take into account the opinions and attitudes of important members of the dynasty, the bureaucratic and military establishments, as well as religious leaders. [7] Beginning in the last decades of the sixteenth century, the role of the Ottoman sultans in the government of the empire began to decrease, in a period known ...
The following is a list of Muslim historians writing in the Islamic historiographical tradition, which developed from hadith literature in the time of the first caliphs. ...