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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
Ibn Baṭṭūṭah
Ibn Battuta
Muslim explorer and writer
Muʿāwiyah I
Umayyad caliph
al-Maʾmūn
ʿAbbāsid caliph
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal
Muslim scholar
ʿAbd al-Malik: Dome of the Rock
ʿAbd al-Malik
Umayyad caliph
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
Muḥammad al-Idrīsī
Arab geographer
al-Ṭabarī
Muslim scholar
al-Ḥallāj
Islamic mystic
al-Manṣūr
ʿAbbāsid caliph
Fakhr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī
Muslim theologian
al-Masʿūdī
Arab historian
al-Muḥāsibī
Muslim theologian
Ibn Ḥazm
Spanish Muslim scholar