Sami Al-Hinnawi

Sami Al-Hinnawi

male, deceased (1950)
Coup D'etat, damascus, prime minister, Colonel, Beirut, president of syria
Colonel Sami Hilmy al-Hinnawi was Syrian politician and military man. Col. al-Hinnawi overthrew the military rule of Syrian President Husni...
Hasan Salama

Hasan Salama

male, deceased (1948)
damascus, palestinian, 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Jaysh al-Jihad al-Muqaddas, Palestine Arab Party, Hassan Salameh
Hasan Salama or Hassan Salameh (???? - 1948) was a commander of the Palestinian Holy War Army ("Jaysh al-Jihad al-Muqaddas", Arabic: جيش الج...

Akhtal

male, deceased (710)
Taghlib, elegies, abbasid, umayyad, Arabic poet, poem…damascus
Akhtal (Ghiyath ibn Ghawth al-Taghlibi al-Akhtal) (c. 640-710) was one of the most famous Arab poets of the Umayyad period. He belonged to the...
Ibn Qudamah

Ibn Qudamah

male, deceased (1223)
Hadith scholar, Sunni Muslim scholar of Islam, Mukhtasar, ghazali, Madhhab, Hanbali…damascus
Al-Imaam Ibn Qudamah: He is Shaikh-ul Islam Muwaffaq-ud Deen Abu Muhammad Abdullah Ibn Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Qudamah Ibn Miqdaam Ibn Nasr...

Qaitbay

male, deceased (1496)
Circassian People, Al-Ashraf Sayf-ad-Din Barsbay, mamluk, mecca, dinar, Egyptian nobility…damascus
Al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Qa'it Bay was the eighteenth Burji Mamluk sultan of Egypt from 872-901 A.H. (AD 1468-1496). He was Circassian by birth, and...

Yahya Ibn Sharaf Al-Nawawi

male, deceased (1278)
Hadith scholar, Sunni fiqh scholar, Sunni Muslim scholar of Islam, Muslim scholar of Islam, Sunni Muslim Islamic scholar, Sunni Muslim scholar…damascus
Abu Zakaria Mohiuddin Yahya Ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi (Arabic:أبو زكريا يحيى بن شرف النووي), popularly known as al-Nawawi, an-Nawawi or Imam Nawaw...
Zakaria Tamer

Zakaria Tamer

male, 78 years old
Zakariya Tamir, writer, Syrian, Middle Eastern writer, surrealistic, folktales…damascus
Zakaria Tamer, also transliterated Zakariya Tamir is an influential master of the Arabic-language short story. He is one of the most important and...

Khalid Al-Baghdadi

male, deceased (1826)
iraqi, Umayyad Mosque, sheikh, sufi, fiqh, Naqshbandi order…damascus
Khalid al-Baghdadi was a Naqshbandi Sufi Sheikh and founder of the Khalidi branch of the Naqshbandi order. He was born in Shehrezur, Karadag an...

Barsine

male
mentor, rhodes, memnon, heracles, Diodorus, Hellespontine Phrygia…damascus
Barsine was daughter of Artabazus, satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia, and wife of Mentor of Rhodes and after his death, Mentor's brother, Memnon. In...
Tayeb Salih

Tayeb Salih

male, 80 years old
damascus, University of London, society, Sudanese, short stories, colonization
Al-Tayyib Salih is a noted Sudanese writer. Born in the Northern Province of the Sudan in 1929, he studied at the University of Khartoum before...