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unusual facts about Ali al-Masudi



Abd Al-Rahman Ali Al-Jifri

Abd Al-Rahman has two sons, namely, Ali al-Jifri, who is a scholar who currently resides in Abu Dhabi,UAE and who is a lecturer of Islamic Sciences at the famed Islamic University, Dar al-Mustafa and the founder of tabah foundation in abu dhabi, his other son( abdulaziz abdulrahman al jifri), one daughter and 11 grandchildren the oldest male ( alawi hassan aljifri) was born in 1995.

Ahmed Omar Abu Ali

The indictment alleged that Abu Ali had joined a terrorist cell in Medina, led by senior al-Qaeda members Ali Al-Faqasi and Zubayr Al-Rimi, and that among the plots they were developing were a plan to assassinate the President of the United States, and a plan to mount 9/11-style attacks using planes transiting through the US.

Akhbar Al Khaleej

With its Arab nationalist stance, the newspaper has led condemnation of the United States’ invasion of Iraq, and has been particularly critical of those Iraqis who have cooperated with the American backed political order: Samira Rajab in 2005 dismissed Iraqi Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani as an ‘American general’.

Al-Masudi

Again, like all other Arabic historians, he was unclear on Greece before the Macedonian dynasty that produced Alexander the Great.

He is, though, the earliest extant Arabic author to mention the Roman founding myth of Romulus and Remus.

He was well read in philosophy, knowing the works of al-Kindi and al-Razi, the Aristotelian thought of al-Farabi and the Platonic writings.

Al-Nasir Muhammad Salah al-Din

About the middle of the century, his father Ali al-Mahdi ibn Muhammad attained considerable influence, which was however reduced before his death in Dhamar in 1372.

Ali Al-Biladi

He is very well known for his book Anwarul Badrayn (The Lights of the Two Moons) which it contains biographies of many Shia clerics who were in Qatif, Ahsa and Bahrain.

Ali al-Faraj

At the start of February 2010, it became public that al-Faraj had financed the purchase of the club by means of a £17 million bridging loan from Balram Chainrai's company Portpin Ltd.

Ali al-Faraj was allegedly introduced to Portsmouth via their then CEO Peter Storrie, through Israeli agent Pini Zahavi when the club was on the brink of financial meltdown.

Ali is reported to have seven brothers and two sisters, including Ahmed al-Faraj, who also claims a stake in SABIC.

With a holding in petrochemical giant SABIC, Faraj also has business interests in Saudi Uniform Manufacture, AKETIPS'S and Easyway Limited, which owns property in both Saudi Arabia and the UK

It has been asserted by some Portsmouth fans that Al-Faraj is actually a pseudonym for Balram Chainrai.

Ali Al-Fayed

He also owns Turnbull & Asser, the prestigious London-based tailor used by The Prince of Wales and his sons The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry.

Ali Al-Hajri

Ali Al-Hajri is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the fifth district.

On June 1, Roudhan Al-Roudhan was elected the National Assembly's secretary, after a draw between him and Al-Hajri.

Ali al-Khudair

--, conducted by Sheikh Aaid al-Qarn,--> Sheikh al-Khudair withdrew the fatwas he had issued declaring Turki al-Hamad, Mansour al-Naqeedan and Abdullah Abusamh as infidel, this according to Ain-al-Yaqeen in 2003,

Sheikh Ali al-Khudair had issued fatwas against several Saudi-Arabian thinkers, among them Turki al-Hamad, Mansour al-Naqeedan and Abdullah Abusamh declaring them as infidel.

Ali al-Omair

On December 10, 2007, the parliament passed a bill, supported by Al-Omair and Faisal Al-Muslim Al-Otaib, which amended the penal code so that anyone "imitating the appearance of a member of the opposite sex" could be jailed for up to a year or fined up to 1,000 dinars.

On February 19, 2007, Waleed Al-Tabtabaie submitted a motion to formally question Health Minister Sheik Ahmed Abdullah Al Ahmed Al Sabah about allegations of favoritism, deteriorating health services offered by state hospitals, and wasting public money by sending people for treatment abroad at the country's expense when they could be treated at home.

Ali Al-Omair is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the third district.

Ali al-Shemari

Al-Shemari's deputy, Hakim al-Zamili, and his security chief, Hamid al-Shammari, were arrested and tried in 2007 on claims they ran a death squad that attacked Sunni Arabs patients and visitors in Health Ministry hospitals.

Ali al-Sistani

While presenting Bela Hodod (a.k.a. "Without Borders"), Mansour voiced skepticism of Sistani's leadership credentials while directing questions about the Iranian-born cleric to his guest, Shia cleric Jawad al-Khalsi.

Ali al-Uraidhi ibn Ja'far al-Sadiq

Furthermore, many families in Hadhramaut, India, the Hejaz, Africa, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar and the rest of the world are descendants of Imam Alawi ibn Ubaidullah.

Ali Soufan

He also obtained a confession from Ali al-Bahlul, an al Qaeda propagandist and Bin Laden media secretary accused of making a video celebrating the Cole attacks, and testified at his military tribunal as well.

Ba 'Alawiyya

In the early 4th Century Hijri at 318 H, Sayyid Ahmad al-Muhaajir bin Isa ar-Rumi bin Muhammad al-Naqib bin Ali al-Uraidhi ibn Ja'far al-Sadiq migrated from Basrah, Iraq first to Mecca and Medina, and then to Hadhramout, to avoid the chaos then prevalent in the Abbassid Caliphate, where descendants of Muhammad were continuously being suspected of arson and revolt against the caliph.

Bahlul

Ali al-Bahlul (born 1969), United States Guantanamo Bay detainee

Battle of Hanna

The well prepared Ottoman positions, notably the well-sited machine gun nests, forced them to abandon the assault and withdraw the relief force to the base of Ali Gharbi.

History of Mozambique

Muslims had actually lived in the region for quite some time; the famous Arab historian and geographer, Al-Masudi, reported Muslims amongst Africans in the land of Sofa in 947 (modern day Mozambique, itself a derivative of the name of the Arab Shiekh who ruled the area at the time when the Portuguese arrived, Musa bin Ba'ik).

Iraq Family Health Survey

The previous Iraqi health minister, Ali al-Shemari, in early November 2006 estimated between 100,000 and 150,000 people had been killed since the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion.

Islamization of Iran

In almost all the Iranian provinces, according to Al Masudi, fire temples were to be found – the Madjus he says, venerate many fire temples in Iraq, Fars, Kirman, Sistan, Khurasan, Tabaristan, al Djibal, Azerbaijan and Arran.

Jibla

Following the death of Sulayhid dynasty ruler Ali al-Sulayhi in 1067, Arwa al-Sulayhi's husband Ahmad became the de jure ruler of Yemen, but he was unable to rule being paralysed and bedridden.

Naimi

Ali Al-Naimi, Saudi Arabian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources

Old Azeri language

Aliyev also mentions that the medieval Muslim historians like Baladhuri, Masudi, Ibn Hawqal and Yaqut have mentioned this language by name.

Roudhan Al-Roudhan

On June 1, Al-Roudhan was elected the National Assembly's secretary, after a draw between him and his opponent Ali Al-Hajri.

Samir Abdel Fattah

In 2009, he teamed up with fellow writers Nadia al-Kokabany, Wajdi al-Ahdal and Ali al-Moqri to form a literary group called Meeting Yesterday.

Sistan and Baluchestan Province

Ayatollah Sistani is also from Sistān; though he currently resides in Najaf, Iraq .

Soqota

Philip Briggs speculates that this town may be identified with the mysterious Ku'bar, said by al-Ya'qubi and al-Masudi to have succeeded Axum as the capital of Ethiopia.

Ziyarat

In this regard, Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani also narrates a hadīth from the tenth Imām of the Twelver Shī‘as


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