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Also Known As Hāshim ibn Ḥākim
Died 783
Subjects Of Study Islam • Zoroastrianism
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Bedreddin
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Abu Muslim
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Muhammad Atef
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Sheikh Ahmad Yassin
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Burhanuddin Rabbani
president of Afghanistan
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Amyrtaeus of Sais
king of Egypt
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Shamsur Rahman
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Quang Trung
emperor of Vietnam
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Simón Bolívar
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ʿAlī: Arabic calligraphy
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Muslim caliph
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Cardinal Richelieu
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Yoon Suk-Yeol
Yoon Suk-Yeol
president of South Korea
Statue of Averroës (Ibn Rushd)
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Muslim philosopher
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
president of Turkey
The Hongwu emperor; in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
Hongwu
emperor of Ming dynasty
The Canon of Medicine
Avicenna
Persian philosopher and scientist
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
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