Author: islamicfocus
Taqi al Din
Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf al-Shami al-Asadi was born in 1521 in Damascus, Syria, and was educated in Cairo, Egypt and died in 1585. He became a ...
Sultan Suleiman I
Suleiman I (born 1494, died 1566) was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 to 1566. He personally led armies to conquer Belgrade, Rhodes, the Balkan...
Sayyid Abdullah Hassan
Sayyid Muhammad Abdullah Hassan (born 1856, Somalia, died 1920, Ogaden) was Somalia's religious and nationalist leader (called the ‘Mad Mullah’ by the...
Haroon Ar Rashid
Haroon Ar Rashid (Born 763 in Rayy, Iran. Died 809 Mashhad, Iran) was the fifth and most famous Abbasid Caliph. He ruled from 786 to 809, and his time...
Syed Ahmad Shaheed
Syed Ahmad Shaheed of Rai Bareilly (b.1786 d.1831) was a warrior from India who, under the influence of Shah Abdul Aziz, son of Shah Waliullah, raised...
Moulana Ishaaq Ackerdien
In this series, we look briefly at the life and achievements of the Ulama and Mashaaikh of PE/Uitenhage. The profiling is in no particular order.
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Sheikh Abdul Qadir al Jazairi
Name: Abdul Qadir. Born: 1808 Mascara, Algeria. Died: 1883 Damascus, Syria.
Abdul Qadir was an Algerian Islamic scholar, Sufi and political and mil...
