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Rafi al-Din Shirazi (c. AH 947 (1540/1541) – 1620), [1] also known as Rafi al-Din Ibrahim, [2] was a Persian chronicler, diplomat, and merchant who served under sultans Ali I and Ibrahim II of the Sultanate of Bijapur. [3] Born in Shiraz in Persia [4] in around AH 947 (1540/1541), [5] his father was Nur al-Din Shirazi. [2]
The Artuqid ruler Nasr al-Din Mahmud (r. 1201–1222) is known to have commissioned an edition of the Al-Jāmi‘ fī ṣinā‘at al-ḥiyal of Ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari, devoted to the depiction of mechanical devices, in April 1206 at the Artuqid court (Ahmet III 3472, Topkapı Sarayı Library).
Nasir al-Din Artuq Arslan (ruled 1200–1239) was a ruler of the Artuqids of Mardin. [4] The "Mardin branch" of the Artuqids ruled in Mardin and Mayyafariqin from 1101 to 1409, and were primarily descendants of Ilghazi and his brother Alp-Yaruq.
Abd al-Ghaffar al-Ījī, better known as Aḍud al-Din al-Ījī (Arabic: عضد الدين الإيجي) was an Islamic scholar from the Ilkhanate period. He was an influential judge , Shafi'i jurist , legal theoretician , linguist , rhetorician and is considered the leading Ash'arite theologian of his time.
Ali was born in January 1353. [4] He was taught by Abdulmuhsin of Kayseri, a renowned Islamic scholar of that era. [5] He was crowned at 13 years old, following the murder of his father, Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad I. [4] After Muhammad's death, local emirs obtained control of much of the region with the former vizier Khoja Ali Shah's son Hajji Ibrahim in Sivas, Sheikh Najib in Tokat, and Hajji ...
Alfred Bester (December 18, 1913 – September 30, 1987) was an American science fiction author, TV and radio screenwriter, magazine editor and scriptwriter for comics. He is best remembered for his science fiction, including The Demolished Man, winner of the inaugural Hugo Award in 1953.
The Zengid or Zangid dynasty, also referred to as the Atabegate of Mosul, Aleppo and Damascus (Arabic: أتابكة الموصل وحلب ودمشق), or the Zengid State (Old Anatolian: ظانغى دولتی, Modern Turkish: Zengî Devleti; Arabic: الدولة الزنكية, romanized: al-Dawla al-Zinkia) was initially an Atabegate of the Seljuk Empire created in 1127. [4]
He was the grandson of Shahab al-Din al-Suhrawardi and a descendant of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq. [1] He was an influential tutor and adviser to Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror. [2] [3] After completing his work with his master Sheikh Hacı Bayram-ı Veli, he founded the Shamsiyya-Bayramiyya Sufi order.