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Abd al-Malik's father was a senior aide of their Umayyad kinsman, Caliph Uthman (r. 644–656). [3] In 656, Abd al-Malik witnessed Uthman's assassination in Medina, [6] an "event [that] had a lasting effect on him" and contributed to his "distrust" of the townspeople of Medina, according to the historian A. A. Dixon. [12]
Abd al-Malik had been replaced by a leader of the Seville jund, Abu al-Sabbah al-Yahsubi, but the latter rebelled against Abd al-Rahman and was dismissed from his post. [5] Abd al-Malik was the only member of Abd al-Rahman's court to advocate for Abu al-Sabbah's execution, [ 12 ] reportedly telling the Emir:
Abd al Malik has been very active in writing as well. In 2004, he published his autobiographical book Qu'Allah bénisse la France (meaning May Allah bless France), about his childhood in Neuhof in a mono-parental family of seven kids, about his schooling, tough life and musical beginning. The book won Belgian Laurence Trân Prize in 2005. [2]
Abd al-Malik ibn Quraib Al-Asmaʿi (ca. 740–828), Iraqi scholar Abu Manşūr 'Abd ul-Malik ibn Mahommed ibn Isma'īl, known as Tha'ālibī (961–1038), Persian-Arabic philologist and writer Abū Merwān ’Abdal-Malik ibn Zuhr (1091–1161), Muslim physician, pharmacist, surgeon, parasitologist and teacher in Al-Andalus
Abd al-Malik was a member of the Samanid dynasty, [1] a Persian family which ruled mainly in Transoxania and Khurasan. [2] Established in 819, they initially occupied the governorship of Transoxiana under the Abbasid Caliphate, but became independent in 900 under Ismail Samani (r.
Abd al-Malik's governorship was a turbulent one, as it coincided with the arrival of the Abbasid Revolution in Egypt. In the Nile Delta , the Copts rebelled against the government and refused to pay the taxes that Abd al-Malik had levied on them, forcing the governor to send troops which engaged the insurgents in a bloody battle. [ 2 ]
ʿAbd al-Malik, originally called Sayf al-Dawla, later al-Muẓaffar [a] (975 to 20 October 1008), [2] [b] was the second ʿĀmirid ruler of al-Andalus, ruling from 1002 until his death. Like his father and predecessor, al-Manṣūr, he was the actual power behind the Caliph of Córdoba. The seven-year government of al-Muẓaffar was a period ...
Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I (Arabic: أبو مروان عبد الملك الغازي), often simply Abd al-Malik or Mulay Abdelmalek, (b. 1541 – d. 4 August 1578) was the Saadian Sultan of Morocco from 1576 until his death right after the Battle of al-Kasr al-Kabir against Portugal in 1578.