Friday, April 17, 2015

A00060 - Ibn Badis, Author of Staff of the Scribes

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Al- Muʻizz ibn Bādīs  (Arabic:   المعز بن باديس ‎); 1008–1062) was the fourth ruler of the Zirids in Ifriqiya, reigning from 1016 to 1062. ...
Friday, March 20, 2015

A00059 - Ibn al-Wafid, Author of The Book of Simple Drugs

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Ibn al-Wafid Ibn al-Wafid  ( Ali Ibn al-Husain Ibn al-Wafid )  ( 997-c.1074), known in Latin   Europe as   Abenguefit , was a pharmacolog...
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

A00058 - Yasar Kemal, Master Turkish Novelist

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Yasar Kemal, Yasar also spelled Yashar, original name Kemal Sadik Gogceli, (b. 1923, Hemite, Turkey - d. February 28, 2015, Istanbul) was a...
Friday, March 13, 2015

A00057 - Ibn al-Thahabi, Author of First Known Alphabetical Medical Encyclopedia

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Ibn al-Thahabi Ibn al-Thahabi  ( Abu Mohammed Abdellah Ibn Mohammed Al-Azdi )   (Arabic:  ابو محمد عبدالله بن محمد الأزدي ‎) (ca. ? - 1033...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

A00056 - Ibn al-Shatir, The "Father" of Copernicus' Theory

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Ala Al-Din Abu'l-Hasan Ali Ibn Ibrahim Ibn al-Shatir  (1304 – 1375) (Arabic:  ابن الشاطر ‎) was an Arab Muslim astronomer, mathematicia...
Monday, February 2, 2015

A00055 - Abdullah, Shrewd King Who Reshaped Saudi Arabia

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Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Abdullah,   also spelled  ʿAbd Allāh ,  in full  Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud  or  Abdullah ibn ʿAbd al-...
Sunday, February 1, 2015

A00054 - Faten Hamama, First Lady of the Arabic Screen

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Hamama, Faten Faten Hamama  (Arabic:  فاتن حمامة ‎,  Fātan Ḥamāmah ) , 27 May 1931 – 17 January 2015) was an Egyptian  film and television...