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'Abd al-Malik I bin Marwân I bin al-Hakam MP (c.646 - 705)

5th Umayyad Caliph b. circa 646, d. October 705Father Marwân I ibn al-Hakam al-Qurayshi, 4th Umayyad Caliph1,2 b. 623, d. 685Mother 'A'isha bint Mu awiya ben al-Mughira 1 b. circa 630Of the Umayyad. 'A...

'Abd ar-Rahmân III al-Nasir bin ibn Muhammad, emir of Córdoba MP (889 - 961)

III (Abd al-Rahmān ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allāh; Arabic: عبد الرحمن الثالث‎; 11 January 889/91[14] – 15 October 961) was the Emir and Caliph of Córdoba (912–961) of the Ummayad dynasty in al-Andalus. Cal...

'Allan ben Aaron ibn Khalaf MP (c.990 - d.)

Amir ibn Harithah MP (c.97 - d.)

From Banu Azd Tribe of Yemen.

'Amr Salūl Bin ibn 'Amr Ka'b MP (deceased)

Salūl is the name of two tribal groups in northern Arabia: a branch of Ḵh̲uzāʿa [q.v.] and a branch of the so-called Northern Arabian federation Ḳays ʿAylān [q.v.], more precisely, the Hawāzin [q.v.]1....

'Amr ibn Murra (ibn Zayd) MP (c.-150 - d.)

'Amru ibn Abu Kariba As'ad MP (deceased)

Tubbaʿ“The people of Tubbaʿ” ( qawm tubbaʿ), an extinct community mentioned twice in the Qurʾān. Among other pre-Islamic groups, they were punished because they refused to believe God or obey God's pro...

2nd wife ibn Yachya HaZaken MP (c.1265 - aft.1265)

Aaron "Harun ben Khalaf ibn Tanab MP (c.960 - d.)

Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Hakam MP (deceased)

Abd' Allah (Abdullah) ibn Sabaʾ al-Yahudi ibn al-Ḥimyarī ibn al-Sawdā MP (c.650 - c.695)

Founder and creator of Shi'a Islam. All early Sunni and Shia sources are agreed and united that the founder of the Shia sect and its core doctrines is Abdullah bin Saba', the Yemeni Jew.A Jew of Yemen,...

Abd Manaf MP (c.446 - c.500)

‘Abdu Manāf ibn Quṣayy (Arabic: عبد مناف بن قصي‎) was a Quraishi and great-great-grandfather of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and Ali. His father was Quṣayy ibn Kilāb.‘Abdu Manāf married a woman named A...

III Calif & VII Emir of Cordova Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi, 3º califa de Córdoba MP (843 - 912)

Abdullah ibn Muhammad (عبد الله بن محمد), (January 11, 844 - October 15, 912) of the Umayyad dynasty, was the seventh Emir of Córdoba, reigning from 888 to 912 in the Al-Andalus (Moorish Iberia).[sourc...

Abdullah ibn Abdul-Muttalib MP (c.545 - 570)

‘Abdullah: The father of Prophet Muhammad [pbuh]. His mother was Fatimah, daughter of ‘Amr bin ‘A’idh bin ‘Imran bin Makhzum bin Yaqdha bin Murra. ‘Abdullah was the smartest of ‘Abdul-Muttalib’s sons, ...

Abraham ben Judah Ibn Ezra MP (c.1090 - 1125)

Also mentioned in Abarbanel Family Scroll – undated handwritten manuscript from the collection of the late Rabbi Shmuel Gorr, held by Chaim Freedman.Reference was made to “Elef Margaliot” 1993, Meir Wu...

Abraham ben Me'ir ibn Ezra MP (c.980 - d.)

Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם אִבְּן עֶזְרָא or ראב"ע‎; Arabic: ابن عزرا‎; also known as Abenezra or Aben Ezra, 1089–c.1167 [1][2]) was one of the most distinguished Jewish biblical comm...

Abraham ibn Yahya of Sofia MP (c.1500 - d.)

Reference: "Divrei ha-Yamim le-Bnei Yahya,( דברי הימים לבני יחייא )", by Eliakim Carmoly, Printed in Frankfort am Main/Rodelheim, Published by: Isak Kaufman, 1850. Genealogy of, and biographical work o...

Abraham ibn Yachya MP (deceased)

Abraham ibn Ya'ish (bin Ya'ish) MP (c.1280 - d.)

Abraham ben Shmuel ibn Hasday (haLevi) MP (1175 - d.)

Abraham ben Samuel ha-Levi ibn Ḥasday lived in Barcelona during the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries and was a translator from Arabic to Hebrew, a poet, and an active partisan of Maimonides....

Abram Yakob ibn Yachya MP (deceased)

Abram ibn Yachya MP (deceased)

Abu 'l-Hasan Sa'id ibn Hibat Allah al-Baghdādī al-Baladī, haRoffe MP (deceased)

He was the physician of Salaḥ al-Din (Saladin) and, after the death of the latter, of his brother Al-Malik al-'Adil. Ibn Abi Uṣaibi'ah, in his biographies of the Arabic physicians, speaks highly of Abu...

Abu Abdullah "Hanemel" ben Nehemiah II (ibn Abi' l-Huqayq al-Nadir), 36th Exilarch Shallum al-Farsi MP (c.594 - c.657)

According to Zev Golan, Hanemel was sold as a slave. He accepted the leadership of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and became Prophet Muhammad's top Wazir named Solomon al-Farsi.Solomon al-Farsi led an army of...

al-Hakam II, Caliph of Córdoba MP (915 - 976)

Al-Hakam II (al-Ḥakam II ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān III; Arabic: الحكم الثاني‎) (January 13, 915 – October 16, 976) was the second Caliph of Cordoba, in Al-Andalus (Moorish Iberia), and son of Abd-ar-rahman II...

Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Yaʿīs̲h̲ al-Asadī, Nasi,Qadi,Vizier-Sevilla MP (1031 - 1086)

This man, who was Qadi of Toledo for a short period, I dually identify with the vizier of the Abbadids Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn ʿAmmār. Historians suggest that ibn Ammar was born in Silves, Portugal, whil...

Abu Baqr ibn Yaḥyā, II MP (deceased)

Bakr Ben YahiaFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaBakr Ben Yahia II was an important Mozarab (Iberian Christian living under Muslim domination) figure in Medieval Portugal.Bakr Ben Yahia II was the so...

Abu Baqr ibn Yaḥyā, I MP (1151 - 1227)

Bakr Ben Yahia IFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaBakr Ben Yahia I was possibly a son of Yahia Ben Yahi III and the father of Yahia Ben Bakr. He was, apparently, the first of his branch of the famil...

Abu Ibrahaim Yitzhak ben Yaʿḳōb ibn Ezra MP (c.1045 - d.)

Born around 1045, Isaac (Abū Ibrāhῑm) ibn Ezra was the older brother of Moses ibn Ezra . He lived in Granada quite probably until the arrival of the Almoravids in 1090, when he had to leave for Lucena....

Abu Isḥāq Ibrahim Sahl (abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn al-Nag'hdilah ibn Ata al-Yahudi, haRoffeh) Exilarch, Rosh Golah of Judah ibn al-Nag'hdīlah ibn Ata al-yahūdī, haRoffe al-Galut 'Mar Sahl' MP (c.965 - 1053)

Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm Ibn ʿAṭāʾ (Abraham ben Nathan) was leader of Qayrawan Jewry in the first third of the eleventh century. He was a member of a wealthy elite that included the Ben Berekhiah, Tahertī, an...

Abu Musa Levi bar Ishaq ibn Mar Sahl MP (c.989 - 1013)

Ibn Mar Saul, Levi ben IsaacAccording to Moses ibn Ezra (Kitāb al-Muḥāḍara wa ʾl-Mudhākara; Halkin ed., p. 66), Levi ben Isaac ibn Mar Saul was a native of Cordova, where he seems to have lived until 1...

Abu Sa'id Yaḥyā Nissim ben Nahray Ibn al-Majjānī MP (c.1056 - d.)

Ibn al-Majjānī FamilyThe Ibn al-Majjānī family, known from documentary sources in the Cairo Geniza, were active in Mediterranean trade during the first half of the eleventh century. The earliest member...

Abu Yaqub Ishaq bar Levi ibn Mar Sahl MP (c.1021 - c.1070)

Ibn Mar Saul, Isaac bar LeviIn his Kitāb al-Muḥāḍara wa-ʾl-Mudhākara (31), Moses ibn Ezra mentions Isaac ibn Mar Saul (late 10th-11th century) as a prominent member of the second generation of Andalusi...

Abu Yosef Yakob ben Amram ibn Mar Sahl al-Nag'hdīlah MP (c.990 - d.)

Abu Yusuf Yehuda (Hasday/Ḥasadya) ben Yitzhak ben Ezra ibn Shaprūṭ MP (c.915 - 975)

Hasdai (Abu Yusuf ben Yitzhak ben Ezra) ibn Shaprut חסדאי אבן שפרוט‎ born about 915 at Jaén; died about 975 at Córdoba in Spain, was a Jewish scholar, physician, diplomat, and patron of science.His fat...

Abu Zikri "Yehuda" ben David (ibn Daud), Nasi MP (c.1015 - c.1059)

A reconciliation between Dabid ben Zakkai and Sa'adya Gaon took place on February 27, 937. After the David ben Zakkai's death Sa'adya voted for David's son, Yehuda, as his successor.Sherira's Letter, i...

Abu ʾl-Ḥasan ‘Alī "Eli" ibn Sulaymān al-Muqaddasī (Qara'im) MP (c.1077 - c.1130)

‘Alī ibn Sulaymān, whose full Arabic name is attested as Abu ʾl-Ḥasan ‘Alī ibn Sulaymān al-Muqaddasī—or, as otherwise attested in Hebrew (cf. Skoss, Commentary, p. 34; Mann, p. 41; Ibn al-Hītī, p. 435,...

Abu ’l-Farad̲j̲ Yaʿḳūb ben Yusuf ibn Killis, al-ad̲j̲all 1st Fāṭimid Wazīr of Al-ʿAzīz MP (c.935 - c.991)

Fāṭimid vizier of the caliph al-ʿAzīz [q.v.]. He was by origin a Jew, born in Bag̲h̲dād in 318/930. He went with his father to Syria and settled at Ramla, becoming an agent for various merchants; but, ...

Abu ’l-Hasan ʿAlī ben al-Sh̲aybānī al-Kātib al-Mag̲h̲ribī al-Qayrawānī Ibn Abi ’l-Rid̲j̲āl MP (c.968 - c.1049)

abu ’l-ḥasan ʿalī al-s̲h̲aybānī al-kātib al-mag̲h̲ribī al-ḳayrawānī , was the tutor and astrologer of the Zīrid prince, al-Muʿizz b. Bādīs (407-54/1016-62), who held his court at Ḳayrawān till 449/1057...

Averroes, Qadi al-Qurtubi & al-Sebilla MP (c.1126 - c.1198)

Abu ’l-walīd muḥammad b. aḥmad b. muḥammad b. rus̲h̲d, al-ḥafīd ( the grandson ), the “Commentator of Aristotle”, famous in the Mediaeval West under the name of Averroes, scholar of the Ḳurʾānic scienc...

Abul-Fat'h al-Mansur ibn Yusif Buluggin, 2nd Zirid Emir al-Ifriqiya MP (b. - 995)

al-Mansûr ibn Buluggin (Arabic: المنصور بن بلوجن) (died 995) was the second ruler of the Zirids in Ifriqiya (984–995). Al-Mansur succeeded his father Buluggin ibn Ziri (972–984) in Ifriqiya. Despite fu...

Abul-Futuh Sayf ad-Dawla Yusif Bologhine ibn Ziri, 1st Zirid Emir & al-Wazir al-Ṣanhājah MP (c.955 - c.984)

Abū ʾl-Faraj Furqān "Yeshua" ben Yehudah ibn Asad (Qara'im) MP (c.995 - c.1070)

Jeshua ben Judah (also known as Abū ʾl-Faraj Furqān ibn Asad) was one of the most renowned Karaite scholars in eleventh-century Jerusalem. An outstanding Karaite philosopher and Bible exegete who flour...

Abu Salama ibn Qasi MP (deceased)

Abü Tawr ibn Qasi, valí de Huesca MP (deceased)

Leadership of the Banu QasiThe following men are the documented leaders of the Banu Qasi (entried in italics are of uncertain affiliation to the family):Cassius, fl. 714Abu Taur, Wali of Huesca, fl. 77...

Abū al-Khayr Mūsā ibn Barhūn al-Tāhertī (ibn Ismāʿīl al-Tāhertī) MP (c.1020 - d.)

Tāhertī FamilyThe Tāhertīs were a Maghrebī merchant family active in the period from 1010 to 1075. Together with the houses of Ibn ʿAwkal, al-Tustarī, and Nahray ben Nissim, the Tāhertīs were, in terms...

haRoffe Abū Ayyūb "Suleiman" ibn al-Muʿallim al-Yahūdī MP (c.1055 - c.1106)

In his Treatise on Asthma (102–105), Moses Maimonides mentions that Abū Ayyūb ibn al-Muʿallim from Seville, known as the Israelite (al-Yahūdī), was one of the four physicians at the court of the Almora...

Abū Bakr Yaʿīs̲h̲ ben Muhammad ibn Yaʿīs̲h̲, haNasi, Qadi of Toledo MP (deceased)

Abū Faḍl Ṣāliḥ ibn Barhūn al-Tāhertī (ibn Ismāʿīl al-Tāhertī) MP (c.1015 - d.)

Tāhertī FamilyThe Tāhertīs were a Maghrebī merchant family active in the period from 1010 to 1075. Together with the houses of Ibn ʿAwkal, al-Tustarī, and Nahray ben Nissim, the Tāhertīs were, in terms...

Abū Harūn Moses Ibn Abī ʾl-ʿAysh (HaNasi), Qadi al-calat al-Yahud al-Zaragoza MP (c.1049 - c.1120)

bn Abī ʾl-ʿAysh, Moses (Abū Harūn)Almost nothing is known about the poet Moses ibn Abī ʾl-ʿAysh. The only reference to him is made by Moses ibn Ezra in the Kitāb al-Muḥāḍara wa ʾl-Mudhākara (ed. Halkin...

Abū Hārūn Mōs̲h̲ē ben Yaʿḳōb ibn ʿEzra, (ibn Ezra) MP (deceased)

Chronologically, Moses (Abū Har­ūn) ibn Ezra (d. after 1138) was the third of the four most artistically distinguished Hebrew poets of the Andalusian Golden Age of Jewish culture. Born early in the sec...

Yosef ben Shmuel HaLevi HaNagid MP (c.970 - d.)

Abū Ibrāhīm Ishaq Ibn Qusṭar ibn Yashūsh, haRoffe al-Denia MP (c.982 - 1056)

Ibn Yashūsh, Isaac (Abū Ibrāhīm) Ibn QasṭārBorn in Toledo around 982, Abū Ibrāhīm Isaac ibn Yashūsh died in the same city in 1056. He was a court physician in the service of ʿAlī ibn Mujāhid and his so...

Abū Ibrāhīm Ismāʿīl ibn Barhūn al-Tāhertī, ḥemdat ha-yeshiva MP (c.1008 - d.)

Tāhertī FamilyThe Tāhertīs were a Maghrebī merchant family active in the period from 1010 to 1075. Together with the houses of Ibn ʿAwkal, al-Tustarī, and Nahray ben Nissim, the Tāhertīs were, in terms...

Abū Isḥāq Barhūn ibn Isḥāq al-Tāhertī (ibn Barhūn al-Tāhertī) MP (deceased)

Tāhertī FamilyThe Tāhertīs were a Maghrebī merchant family active in the period from 1010 to 1075. Together with the houses of Ibn ʿAwkal, al-Tustarī, and Nahray ben Nissim, the Tāhertīs were, in terms...

Abraham ibn Da'ud haLevi, Rabad I MP (c.1110 - c.1180)

Abraham ben David Halevi ibn Daud , (born c. 1110, Toledo, Castile—died c. 1180, Toledo), physician and historian who was the first Jewish philosopher to draw on Aristotle’s writings in a systematic fa...

Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh Ibn Rus̲h̲d, Qadi MP (deceased)

Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh Ibn Rushd (sixth-seventh/twelfth-thirteenth centuries) was one of the sons of the famous philosopher Ibn Rushd (d. 595/1198), known in the West as Averroes. According to the meag...

Abū Naṣr Samawʾal ibn Yaḥyā al-Mag̲h̲ribī al-Lawī, Apostate MP (c.1126 - c.1175)

Abū Naṣr Samawʾal b. Yaḥyā al-Mag̲h̲ribī (?520-70/?1126-75)Prominent physician and mathematician who lived and practiced among the notables of Syria, ʿIrāḳ, Kurdistān and Ād̲h̲arbāyd̲j̲ān. Born and rai...

Rabbi Yehiel Hilel Gaon II MP (c.1060 - c.1080)

"In 1066, when his father, Jehoseph HaNagid, was assassinated and a riot broke out against the Granadan Jewish community, his widow, Rahel, and his son Abū Naṣr Azariah, who was a child at the time, fl...

Abū Sahl ʿAṭāʾ ibn Ishaq al-Tāhertī (ibn Barhūn al-Tāhertī) MP (b. - c.1062)

Tāhertī FamilyThe Tāhertīs were a Maghrebī merchant family active in the period from 1010 to 1075. Together with the houses of Ibn ʿAwkal, al-Tustarī, and Nahray ben Nissim, the Tāhertīs were, in terms...

Abū Saʿīd Yūsuf ibn Musa al-Tāhertī (ibn Barhūn al-Tāhertī) MP (b. - c.1062)

Tāhertī FamilyThe Tāhertīs were a Maghrebī merchant family active in the period from 1010 to 1075. Together with the houses of Ibn ʿAwkal, al-Tustarī, and Nahray ben Nissim, the Tāhertīs were, in terms...

Abū Sulaymān David ben Sa'adya ben ha-Ger (= Ibn Muhājir) (Ibn Muhājir) MP (c.1025 - d.)

Abū Sulaymān (David?) ibn Muhājir was a member of the illustrious Ibn Muhājir family of Seville, linked to this city at least from the middle of the eleventh century. In the Romance language, his famil...

Abū Surūr Isḥāq ibn Barhūn al-Tāhertī MP (c.1017 - d.)

Tāhertī FamilyThe Tāhertīs were a Maghrebī merchant family active in the period from 1010 to 1075. Together with the houses of Ibn ʿAwkal, al-Tustarī, and Nahray ben Nissim, the Tāhertīs were, in terms...

Abū ʾl-Faraj Nissim ibn Ishaq al-Tāhertī (ibn Barhūn al-Tāhertī) MP (deceased)

Tāhertī FamilyThe Tāhertīs were a Maghrebī merchant family active in the period from 1010 to 1075. Together with the houses of Ibn ʿAwkal, al-Tustarī, and Nahray ben Nissim, the Tāhertīs were, in terms...

Abū ʾl-Ḥasan Labrat Da'ud Ibn Sughmār, haDayyan al-Mahdiyya, Tunisia MP (c.1052 - d.)

Ibn Sughmār FamilyThe Ibn Sughmārs were a prominent Maghrebi family of merchants and scholars whose activities from the 1040s to the 1090s are attested by several letters preserved in the Cairo Geniza....

Abū ʾl-Surūr Perahya ben ben Yosef ibn ʿAwkal MP (deceased)

Abū ʾl-Walīd "Yonah" Ibn Ḥasday ha-Levi MP (c.917 - d.)

Jonah (Abū ʾl-Walīd) ibn Ḥasday ha-Levi was a grammarian and poet in Lucena from the end of the tenth century through the early part of the eleventh. We know of him from later quotations. According to ...

Abū ʿAmr Yosef ben Me’ir ibn Migash (Ibn al-Muhājir), Rosh Yeshiva al-Lucena MP (c.1077 - 1141)

Joseph ha-Levi ben Me’ir ibn Migash (1077– 1141), the successor to Isaac al-Fāsī (the Rif) as head of the yeshiva in Lucena, the center of talmudic learning in al-Andalus, was born in Seville. At the a...

Abū ʿAmr Yosef ben Ya'akub ibn Sahl MP (c.1030 - c.1113)

Ibn Sahl, Joseph (Abū ʿAmr) ben JacobIn his Kitāb al-Muḥāḍara wa-l-Mudhākara, Moses ibn Ezra mentions Abū ʿAmr ibn Sahl as one of Solomon ibn Ghiyyāth's most prominent students in Lucena and indicates ...

Abū ʿAmr Yosef ben Yaqub Ibn Ṣaddīq (Kohen Ṣedeq), Dayyan al-Qurtubi MP (c.1075 - c.1149)

The poet, philosopher, and distinguished talmudist Joseph Ibn Ṣaddīq was born around 1075, probably in Cordova. According to the Sefer ha-Qabbala by Abraham Ibn Daʾud, he was a dayyan in the rabbinical...

Abū Ṭālib ibn ‘Abd al-Muṭṭalib MP (535 - 619)

Abû Tâlib ibn Abd al-Muttalib ا chef du clan de Bani Hashem de la tribu des Qurayshi ابو طالب بن عبدالمطلباAbū Ṭālib (ʿImrān) b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib (d. ten years after the advent of Islam, December 619 o...

Abū ‘Alī Ḥasan 'Japheth' Ibn Bundār, Peqid haSoḥerim ‘Adan wa-’l-Hind MP (c.1060 - d.)

Ibn Bundār, Ḥasan , Abū ‘Alī (Japheth)Abū ‘Alī Ḥasan (Japheth) ibn Bundār, in the second half of the eleventh century and the beginning of the twelfth, was the “representative/trustee of the merchants”...

Abū ’l Ḥasan Ismai'il Ibrahim ben Me'ir ibn Qamni’el, haRoffe al-Maraqesh MP (c.1090 - c.1143)

Aghamat and Marakesh 1106-1142 CEAghamat, the old capital of the Mourabitoun stood proud at the foot of the High Atlas Mountains, a day's walk South East of Marrakech. Jews lived in Aghamat since an an...

Abū ’l Ḥasan Me'ir Ibn Qamni’el (Ibn Abī ʾl-ʿAysh), haRoffe al-Maraqesh MP (c.1051 - 1106)

Me’ir (Abū ’l Ḥasan) ibn Qamni’el, born in Saragossa, belonged to one of the foremost Jewish families of Seville. What little information there is about his life comes largely from poems dedicated to h...

Aharon ibn Yachya MP (deceased)

Ahikam ibn Yachya MP (c.1535 - d.)

Reference: "Divrei ha-Yamim le-Bnei Yahya,( דברי הימים לבני יחייא )", by Eliakim Carmoly, Printed in Frankfort am Main/Rodelheim, Published by: Isak Kaufman, 1850. Genealogy of, and biographical work o...

Aisha bint 'Uthman ibn 'Affan MP (c.617 - d.)

al-Azd ibs al-Gaith First King of the Azdi Kingdom MP (c.-170 - d.)

Invaded Oman and established the Azdi Kingdom Progenitor of Banu Azd Tribe of Yemen.Source: Upward Geneaology: Ibn Al-Ghoth Ibn Nabit Ibn Malik Ibn Zaid Ibn Kahlan Ibn Saba'a Ibn Yashjub Ibn Yarab Ibn ...

al-Hakam bin Abu al-ʻAs ibn Abi al-'As MP (c.599 - d.)

Original name Hakam ibn Wa'il . Also known as al-Hakam ibn Abi al-'As .Source 1: ibn Abi al- As ibn Umayyah (Arabic: الحكم بن أبي العاص‎ / ALA-LC: al-Ḥakam bin Abī al-‘As) was the father of the Umayyad...

Saladin Yusuf ibn Ayyub MP (c.1138 - 1193)

Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb (Arabic: صلاح الدين يوسف بن أيوب‎, Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb, Kurdish: سه‌لاحه‌دین ئه‌یوبی, Selah'edînê Eyubî) (c. 1138 – March 4, 1193), better known in the Western wor...

al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ ʿImād al-Dīn Ismāʿīl bin al-Malik al-Adil Sayf al-Din Abu-Bakr ibn Ayyūb MP (c.1202 - 1250)

al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ ʿimād al-dīn ismāʿīl, son of Sulṭān al-Malik al-ʿĀdil Abū Bakr, son of Aiyūb, was born in the year 598 (1202). Ismāʿīl was killed in Cairo in the year 648 (1250) when fighting with Su...

Al-Nu'man I ibn Imru' al-Qais, 6th Lakhmid King MP (390 - 418)

Al-Rabi ibn al-Rabi' l-Huqayq al-Nadir (ibn Abi' l-Huqayq al-Nadir) MP (c.585 - c.614)

Qur'an says the Jews of Yathrib thought that Ezra was the "son of God". Rabbi Ben Abrahamson, Director of ISraeli Rabbinate's "Committee for Historical Research in Islam and Judaism" argues, and I agre...

Tekish, Shah of Khwarezm MP (b. - 1200)

From Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia Ala ad-Din Tekish (Persian: علاء الدين تكش; full name: Ala ad-Dunya wa ad-Din Abul Muzaffar Tekish ibn Il-Arslan) or Tekesh or Takesh was the Shah of Khwarezmian ...

Muhammad II, Shah of Khwarezm MP (1169 - 1220)

From Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia Ala ad-Din Muhammad II (Persian: علاءالدین محمد خوارزمشاه; full name: Ala ad-Dunya wa ad-Din Abul-Fath Muhammad Sanjar ibn Tekish) was the Shah of the Khwarezmian...

Ali ibn Sahl, Rabban al-Tabari MP (deceased)

Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari (Persian: علی ابن سهل ربن طبری‎) (c. 838 – c. 870 CE; also given as 810–855 or 808–864 also 783–858), was a Persian Muslim scholar, physician and psychologist...

Alluf Maḍmūn Ibn Bundār, śar haśarim nagīd Radhani ‘Adan wa-’l-Hind MP (c.1105 - d.)

Ibn Bundār, Ḥasan , Abū ‘Alī (Japheth)Abū ‘Alī Ḥasan (Japheth) ibn Bundār, in the second half of the eleventh century and the beginning of the twelfth, was the “representative/trustee of the merchants”...

Samuel Moises Castiel MP (c.1532 - d.)

Shmuel (a/k/a Samuel Moises Castiel of Cochin who was originally living in Cairo when hired by Afonso – a distant cousin through the Paloma Don Fadrique liaison) Samuel had a brother named Isaac Pinto ...

Anani (Huna II) bar Nathan, 8th Exilarch MP (c.190 - c.260)

Anani in I Chron. 3:24; the first exilarch explicitly mentioned as such in Talmudic literature (where he is named as Huna ); contemporary of Judah I (Judah HaNasi)======================================...

Ar-Rabī' "Hushiel" ibn Abi' l-Huqayq al-Nadir, 35th Exilarch MP (c.570 - c.609)

Ar-Rabī' bin Abī 'l-Huqayq (Arabic: الربيع بن أبي الحقيق‎) was a Jewish poet of the Banu al-Nadir in Medina, who flourished shortly before the Hegira (622). His family was in possession of the fort Qam...

Asher haZaken haSofer al-Pembeditha (ibn Habibi) MP (c.719 - c.800)

Ashraf ibn al-Tayy MP (deceased)

Assona Iniguez Iñiguez ibn Musa al Qasaw MP (c.792 - 852)

Assona Iñiguez , daughter of Iñigo Iñiguez Arista, King of Pamplona 824-852, married Musa ibn Musa ibn Fortun ibn Quasi. No children listed.* van de Pas, Leo, "Assona Iñiguez" at Genealogics .

Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā; Abū Alī Sīnā) MP (c.980 - 1037)

Avicenna, Ibn Sīnā (ابن سینا)Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Sīnā, known as Abū Alī Sīnā (Persian: ابوعلی سینا، پورسینا) or, more commonly, Ibn Sīnā[8] or Pour Sina, but most commonly known in En...

Avigdor ibn Yachya MP (deceased)

Azariah ibn Abū ʾl-ʿAlā Israel Gaon, haKohen MP (c.973 - d.)

Azariah ben Solomon ibn Hasan (ben Hasan) MP (c.965 - d.)

Azariah ben Daniel ibn Abī ʿl-Rabīʾ ha-Kohen MP (c.1190 - d.)

Azariah (mentioned by Eleazar ben Jacob; see van Bekkum, p. 46, l. 24) Bibliographyvan Bekkum, Wout Jac (ed.). The Secular Poetry of El‘azar ben Ya‘aqov ha-Bavli (Leiden: Brill, 2007).

Baddis bin Habbus ibn Makhsen, 3rd Zirid Emir of Granada MP (c.1038 - c.1074)

Bādīs b. ḥabbūs b. māksin al-ṣinhād̲j̲ī, called al-muhẓaffar (the victorious”), a Berber Zīrid, cousin of Bādīs Abū Mennād [q. v.], King of Granada (429—465 = 1038—1073), a bloodthirsty tyrant and drun...

Bahrām Chōbīn, Shahanshah of Ērānshahr MP (b. - 591)

from Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia Bahrām Chōbīn (Middle Persian: see picture ; New Persian: بهرام چوبین), also known by his epithet Mehrbandak (Middle Persian: Mihrewandak ),[1] was a famous spahb...