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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 ...
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 ]
First Muslim Female convert: Khadija [5] 610 [5] When Muhammad reported his first revelation from the Angel Gabriel , Khadija was the first female and first person to convert to Islam. However, Shia Muslims claim Ali was the first to convert to Islam. Ibn Hisham & Ibn Ishaq [5] 3. First Muslim Male convert: Ali Ibn Abi Talib [6] 610 [6]
Aljamiado text in 16th century. The Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan words muladí, muladi or muladita are derived from the Arabic muwallad.The basic meaning of muwallad is 'a person of mixed ancestry', especially a descendant of one Arab and one non-Arab parent, [4] who grew up under the influence of an Arabic society and were educated within the Islamic culture.
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
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.
The first expedition led by Tariq consisted mainly of Berbers, who had themselves only recently come under Muslim influence. It is probable that this army represented a continuation of a historic pattern of large-scale raids into Iberia dating to the pre-Islamic period, [ 11 ] and hence it has been suggested that actual conquest was not ...