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Al-Maʿarri (973–1057), blind Arab philosopher, poet and writer; Al-Maqrizi (1364–1442), historian; Al-Maqdisi (946–991), medieval Arab geographer, author of Ahsan at-Taqasim fi Ma`rifat il-Aqalim (The Best Divisions for Knowledge of the Regions) Al-Maziri (1061–1141 CE), jurist in the Maliki school; Al-Mubarrad (826–898), grammarian ...
Ibn Abd Rabbih’s book, Al-Iqd Al-Fareed, is one of the best known of such literary selections. The title means, The Unique Necklace. Ibn Abd Rabbih’s conception of his book is that it is a necklace made of 25 fine jewels, 12 pairs and a larger middle one.
He also wrote al-Fath al-Qussi fi-l-Fath al-Qudsi, which survives. One manuscript of the Bustan al-jami' attributes it to Imad al-Din, but this seems to be an error, for its information on Saladin does not align too well with that of Imad al-Din's biography. [4] He died on 5 June 1201 in Damascus. [2]
Known as al-Ashʿarī (c. 874 – 936), he was an Arab scholastic theologian and founder of Ashʿarism, an important theological school in Sunni Islam. [ 456 ] The elucidation of Islam's foundation (1940).
Al Fath (Arabic: The Victory) was a weekly political magazine which existed between 1926 and 1948 in Cairo, Egypt.The magazine is known for its cofounder and editor Muhib Al Din Al Khatib and for its role in introducing Hasan Al Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, to the Egyptian political life.
Born in Damascus in July 1886 Al Khatib was the son of a Damascene ulema Abu Al Fath Al Khatib. [9] [10] Al Khatib received secondary education in his hometown and attended Maktab Anbar, a very well-known educational institute, where he studied modern sciences, Ottoman Turkish, French and some Persian. [10]
A Dutch court convicted five men for their part in last month's violence against Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam.
The later caliph Yaqub al-Mansur (ruled 1184–1199) embarked on a huge project to construct a new fortified imperial capital, called al-Mahdiyya or Ribat al-Fath, on the site of what is now the medina (old city) of Rabat, with new walls extending over a vast area beyond the old kasbah. [4]