Ibn Isḥāq: Quick Facts


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Also Known As Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Yasār ibn Khiyār
Born c.704 • Medina • Saudi Arabia
Died 767 • Baghdad • Iraq
Notable Works “Kitāb al-maghāzī”

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Bahāʾ al-Dīn
Arab author
Medina, Saudi Arabia: Prophet's Mosque
Muhammad
prophet of Islam
ʿAlī: Arabic calligraphy
ʿAlī
Muslim caliph
Statue of Averroës (Ibn Rushd)
Averroës
Muslim philosopher
Engraving of Ibn Battuta in Egypt, standing on a decorated stone block with another man, overlooking ancient Egyptian columns and palm trees in the background.
Ibn Battuta
Muslim explorer and writer
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Muʿāwiyah I
Umayyad caliph
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al-Maʾmūn
ʿAbbāsid caliph
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Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal
Muslim scholar
Aga Khan IV
Aga Khan IV
Nizārī imam
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al-Ṭabarī
Muslim scholar
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al-Ḥallāj
Islamic mystic
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Fakhr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī
Muslim theologian
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al-Muḥāsibī
Muslim theologian
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Ibn Ḥazm
Spanish Muslim scholar
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al-Ghazālī
Muslim jurist, theologian, and mystic
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Ibn al-ʿArabī
Muslim mystic
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Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī
Muslim theologian
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al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī
Muslim scholar
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ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān
Muslim caliph
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Rashīd Riḍā
Islamic scholar