Al-Husayn I ibn Ali, also known as Hussein I (Arabic: حسين الأول; born in 1675 – 13 September 1740) was the founder of the Husainid Dynasty, which ruled...

Husayn ibn Ali (Arabic: الحسين بن علي, romanized: al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī; 11 January 626 – 10 October 680) was a social, political and religious leader. The...

Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Sajjad (Arabic: علي بن الحسين السجاد, romanized: ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Sajjād, c. 658 – 712), also known as Zayn al-Abidin (Arabic:...

Ali al-Akbar ibn al-Husayn (Arabic: عَلِيّ ٱلْأَكْبَر بن ٱلْحُسَيْن), commonly known as simply Ali al-Akbar, was the son of Layla bint Abi Murra and Husayn...

of Greek origin from the island of Crete. It came to power under al-Husayn I ibn Ali in 1705, succeeding the Muradid dynasty. After taking power, the...

Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi (Arabic: ٱلْحُسَيْن بِن عَلِي ٱلْهَاشِمِي, romanized: al-Ḥusayn bin 'Alī al-Hāshimī pronunciation; 1 May 1854 – 4 June 1931)...

Ali III ibn al-Husayn (Arabic: علي الثالث بن الحسين ; 14 August 1817 – 11 June 1902) commonly known as Ali III Bey (Arabic: علي باي الثالث) was the Husainid...

Abd-Allah ibn al-Husayn (Arabic: عَبْد ٱللَّٰه ٱبْن ٱلْحُسَيْن), also known as Ali al-Asghar (Arabic: عَلِيّ ٱلْأَصْغَر, lit. 'Ali, the youngest'), was...

Husayn ibn Ali (Arabic: حسين بن علي) is the name of: Husayn ibn Ali, (625–680), the grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and the son of Ali, who can...

known as Umm al-Banin (Arabic: أُمّ ٱلْبَنِين, lit. 'mother of the sons'). Abbas fought as the standard-bearer of his half-brother Husayn ibn Ali in the Battle...

Hasan ibn Ali (Arabic: الْحَسَنِ بْن عَلِيّ, romanized: al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī; c. 625 – 2 April 670) was an Alid political and religious leader. The eldest...

Prophet Muhammad, was his uncle and father of Ali. After the death of his father Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim ibn Abd Manaf, he inherited this position as tribal...

the son of Ali Muddat ibn al-Husayn.[citation needed] He was born in the Dar al-Taj Palace at La Marsa. On 14 January 1928 he became the Bey al-Mahalla (Crown...

Abū Bakr ibn ʿAlī (Arabic: أبو بكر بن علي) was reportedly the son of Ali and Layla bint Mas'ud. He was among companions of Husayn who was martyred at the...

Rubāb bint Imraʾ al-Qays (Arabic: رُبَاب بِنْت ٱمْرِئ ٱلْقَيْس) was the first wife of Husayn ibn Ali, the third Shia Imam. After some years of remaining...

Al-Husayn II ibn Mahmud (Arabic: أبو محمد حسين باشا باي; 5 March 1784 – 20 May 1835) was the Bey of Tunis from 1824 until his death in 1835. He was of...

ʿUthmān ibn ʿAlī (Arabic: عُثْمان اِبِنْ عَلي) was a son of Ali ibn Abi Talib and Umm al-Banin. He fought in the Battle of Karbala, in which he was martyred...

sons Hasan and Husayn, many recognized Ibn al-Hanafiyya as the head of the House of Ali. Claiming to represent Ibn al-Hanafiyya, Mukhtar al-Thaqafi rose...

Ruqayya bint al-Ḥusayn (Arabic: رُقَيَّة بِنْت ٱلْحُسَيْن) is said to have been a daughter of Husayn ibn Ali, the third imam in Twelver Shia. Husayn and a small...

Zayd ibn ʿAlī (Arabic: زيد بن علي; 695–740), also spelled Zaid, was the son of Ali ibn al-Husayn Zayn al-Abidin, and great-grandson of Ali ibn Abi Talib...

her fallen nephew Ali al-Akbar ibn Husayn when the latter was killed in the fight. Husayn walked her back to the camp. When Husayn's last remaining warrior...

The Imam al Husayn Shrine (Arabic: مَقَاما الإِمَامُ الْحُسَيْن اِبِنْ عَلي, romanized: Maqām al-ʾImām al-Ḥusayn ʾibn ʿAlī) is the mosque and burial site...

Islamic prophet Muhammad. She was the daughter of Husayn ibn Ali, the third Shia Imam, and Rubab bint Imra al-Qais. Sakina was a young child in 680 at Karbala...

was the son of Al-Husayn I ibn Ali. He was succeeded in turns by his sons Hammuda ibn Ali and Uthman ibn Ali. Moustapha Khodja Muhammad al-Warghi Rejeb...

including Husayn ibn Ali. On Mu'awiya's death and Yazid's succession in 680, the latter instructed the governor of Medina to secure Husayn's pledge of...

Ali bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi GBE (Arabic: علي بن الحسين بن علي الهاشمي, romanized: ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Hāshimī; 1879 – 13 February 1935)...

to Iraq at a young age and grew up in Kufa. Following the death of Husayn ibn Ali, a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, at the hands of the Umayyad...

centuries which narrate the story of the battle of Karbala and the death of Husayn ibn Ali. They were first written in the eighth century. Books recounting the...

Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Iṣfahānī (Arabic: أبو الفرج الأصفهاني), also known as Abul-Faraj, (full form: Abū al-Faraj ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad...

banner of Muhammad’s grandson, Husayn ibn Ali. After Yazid died in November 683, the Mecca-based rebel Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr declared himself caliph...