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Ibn Wāṣil was a Syrian judge, scholar and writer. He was a courtier and diplomat…

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ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Abī Ḥazm al-Qarashī, known as Ibn al-Nafīs, was an…

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Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin Ibrāhīm bin Abū Bakr ibn Khallikān, better known as Ibn Khallikān,…

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Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi was a jurist and hadith scholar, better known for authoring The…

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Al-Adil I was the fourth Sultan of Egypt and Syria, and brother of Saladin, who…

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Radwan or Redwan or Ridwan is a given name and a surname. Notable people with…

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Ibn 'Arabī was a Sunni Muslim Arab scholar, Sufi mystic, poet, and Muslim philosopher from…

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Abū Shāma Shihāb al-Dīn al-Maḳdisī was an Arab historian.Connection to DamascusBorn lived and died in…

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Al-Ghazali, (Persian: ابو حامد محمد ابن محمد غزالی توسی, romanized: Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ghazālī…