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Abdallah Al Amin; Former Minster of Labour, Member of Parliament, and Leader of the Lebanese Ba'ath Party. Abdallah Mohamad Al Amin (Arabic: عبدالله محمّد الأمين; born October 30 1947) is an author and a Lebanese politician who served as Minister of Labor, [1] Member of the Parliament of Lebanon, and former leader of the Lebanese Arab Ba'ath Socialist party.
A fifteenth-century copy of the Arabic text. The Masāʾil was probably written in the tenth century. [14] Although ʿAbdallāh was a historical Jewish convert to Islam from the time of Muḥammad, the Masāʾil is an apocryphal work, a late development of the ʿAbdallāh legend, "amplified dramatically" and not an authentic record of actual discussions. [15]
Map of Arabia from the Kitab al-Masalik wa'l-Mamalik by al-Istakhri (copy dated to c. 1306 CE). The Book of Roads and Kingdoms (Arabic: كتاب المسالك والممالك, Kitāb al-Masālik waʿl-Mamālik [1]) is a group of Islamic manuscripts composed from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. [2]
Abdallah al-Alayli (Arabic: عبد الله العلايلي) (1996-1914) was a Lebanese intellectual and writer. His specializations included the Arabic language, Arab history and politics, and Islamic law. His works sparked controversy among Arab audiences, even leading to the banning of some of his books in certain places.
Little is known of his life, apart from what can be gleaned from manuscripts of his texts. He was a deacon and the grandson of a bishop also called Abdallah. [1] He received an excellent education in both Arabic and Greek, having studied Arabic grammar with the famous poet Abul ʿAla Al-Maʿarri and patristic texts with an unidentified teacher called Symeon. [1]
Ibn Khordadbeh was the son of Abdallah ibn Khordadbeh, who had governed the northern Iranian region of Tabaristan under the Abbasid caliph al-Mamun (r. 813–833), and in 816/17 conquered the neighbouring region of Daylam, as well as repelled the Bavandid ispahbadh (ruler) Shahriyar I (r.
Abdullah Al Rasi (1929–1994), Lebanese physician and politician; Abdullah ibn Rawaha (C. 590–629), general in the Battle of Mut'ah; Abdullah bin Saud Al Saud (died 1819), Ruler of the First Saudi State; Abdullah bin Faisal Al Saud (1831–1889), Ruler of the Emirate of Diriyah; Abdullah bin Faisal Al Saud (1923–2007), Saudi royal and ...
Book of Roads and Kingdoms or Book of Highways and Kingdoms (Arabic: كتاب المسالك والممالك, Kitāb al-Masālik wa'l-Mamālik) is an eleventh-century geography text by Abu Abdullah al-Bakri. It was written in 1067-8 in Córdoba, al-Andalus (present-day Spain).