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Rashid ad-Din Sinan was born between the years 1131 and 1135 in Basra, southern Iraq, to a prosperous family. [5] According to his autobiography, of which only fragments survive, Rashid came to Alamut , the fortress headquarters of the Assassins , as a youth after an argument with his brothers, [ 5 ] and received the typical Assassin training.
The collector David Khalili has described it as one of his two favourite objects out of the 35,000 he has collected. [27] It is a different section of the History than that of the Edinburgh version, possibly from a different copy.
One of the buildings sometimes attributed to him is the Nışançı Mehmed Pasha Mosque (1584–1589) in Istanbul, [10] [11] but it may be a late work of Sinan [12] or even possibly a work of Sedefkar Mehmed Agha. [13] He probably designed the market (arasta) and primary school that were added to the Selimiye Mosque complex built by Sinan in ...
Rashid ad-Din Sinan, 12th century Syrian religious figure and leader of resistance to the Crusades Rashid al-Din Vatvat , 12th century Persian royal panegyrist and epistolographer Amin al-Din Rashid al-Din Vatvat , 13th century Persian physician
David of Dinant (c. 1160 – c. 1217) was a pantheistic philosopher. He may have been a member of, or at least been influenced by, a pantheistic sect known as the Amalricians. David was condemned by the Church in 1210 for his writing of the "Quaternuli" (Little Notebooks), which forced him to flee Paris. When and where he died is unknown; all ...
The grandson of Hezekiah ben David through his eldest son David ben Chyzkia, Hiyya al-Daudi, died in 1154 in Castile according to Abraham ibn Daud and is the ancestor of the ibn Yahya family. Several families, as late as the 14th century, traced their descent back to Josiah, the brother of David ben Zakkai who had been banished to Chorasan (see ...
South Arabian Mazmuur inscription. The Zabur (Arabic: ٱلزَّبُورِ, romanized: az-zabūr) is, according to Islam, the holy book of Dawud (David in Islam), one of the holy books revealed by Allah before the Quran, alongside others such as the Tawrāh (Torah) and the Injīl (Gospel).
The son of Queen Rusudan by her Seljuk husband, Ghias ad-din, David was crowned at Kutaisi, as joint sovereign by his mother in 1230.Fearing that her nephew David would claim the throne at her death, Rusudan held the latter prisoner at the court of her son-in-law, the Seljuk sultan Kaykhusraw II, and in 1243 sent her son David to the Mongol court of Batu Khan in Karakorum to get official ...