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Died 1058 • Baghdad • Iraq
Subjects Of Study caliph • sharif
Medina, Saudi Arabia: Prophet's Mosque
Muhammad
prophet of Islam
ʿAlī: Arabic calligraphy
ʿAlī
Muslim caliph
Statue of Averroës (Ibn Rushd)
Averroës
Muslim philosopher
Ibn Khaldūn
Ibn Khaldūn
Muslim historian
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
ʿAbd al-Malik: Dome of the Rock
ʿAbd al-Malik
Umayyad caliph
Arts and sciences under Hārūn al-Rashīd
Hārūn al-Rashīd
ʿAbbāsid caliph
Aga Khan IV
Aga Khan IV
Nizārī imam
Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, Abū Mūsā
Abū Mūsā Jābir ibn Ḥayyān
Muslim alchemist
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Muḥammad al-Idrīsī
Arab geographer
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al-Ṭabarī
Muslim scholar
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al-Ḥallāj
Islamic mystic
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al-Manṣūr
ʿAbbāsid caliph
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Fakhr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī
Muslim theologian
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al-Masʿūdī
Arab historian
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al-Muḥāsibī
Muslim theologian
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Ibn Ḥazm
Spanish Muslim scholar