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al-Mukhtār ibn Abī ʿUbayd al-Thaqafī
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Born c.622 • Al-Ṭāʾif • Arabia
Died March 687 • Kūfah • Iraq
Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq
Shīʿite imam
Ḥasan
grandson of Muḥammad
al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī
Muslim leader and martyr
Fāṭimah
daughter of Muḥammad
al-Aḥsāʾī
Muslim religious leader
al-Ḥillī
Muslim theologian
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
Ali Khamenei
Ali Khamenei
rahbar of Iran
Ibn Baṭṭūṭah
Ibn Battuta
Muslim explorer and writer
Ebrahim Raisi
Ebrahim Raisi
Iranian cleric, prosecutor, and politician
Muqtada al-Sadr
Muqtada al-Sadr
Iraqi Shīʿite leader
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
ʿAbbās I
ʿAbbās I
Ṣafavid shah of Persia