Who's Who in Islam

     Y oruba Yoruba . The term “Yoruba” is used to identify a people having, with considerable dialectic variation, a common language (of th...

  Yunfa Yunfa  (d. 1808).    Ruler of the Hausa kingdom of Gobir (r. c.1801-c.1808).    Tradition says that, in his youth, Yunfa was tutored...

  Zacharias Zacharias  ( Zakariyya’ ) ( Zechariah ) (b. c. 100 B.C.T. - d. c. 20) Father of John the Baptist.    In the Qur’an , he is reck...