940), usually simply known by his regnal name al-Radi bi'llah (Arabic: الراضي بالله, romanized: al-Rāḍī bi'llāh, lit. 'Content with God'), was the twentieth...

often credited to Sharif al-Radi (d. 1015), a prominent Shia scholar. Known for its moral aphorisms and eloquent content, Nahj al-balagha is widely studied...

1015), also known as al-Sharīf al-Raḍī (Arabic: الشريف الرضي; Persian: شريف رضی) was a Shia scholar and poet. Al-Radi wrote several books on Islamic issues...

إسْماعِيل, c. 825 – 881), also known as al-Zakī (lit. 'the pure'), al-Raḍī (lit. 'the satisfied one') and al-Muqtadā al-Hādī (lit. 'whose example should be...

nominated heir al-Radi (r. 932–940). When He refused to abdicate, he was blinded and cast into prison. According to al-Mas'udi, al-Radi "kept news of him...

Refusing to abdicate in favour of al-Radi (r. 932–940), he was blinded and cast into prison. According to al-Mas'udi, al-Radi "kept news of him hidden", so...

Husain al-Radi was born into a Shia Muslim family of sayyids in southern Iraq in 1924. His father was a junior clerk in a flour mill. Al-Radi trained...

Mahmoud Mohammed al-Radhi is an Iraqi politician from the religious Shia Arab-led Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, and the Minister of Labour and Social...

Kitāb al-Muwashshaḥ. Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī made extensive use of his material in his Kitāb al-Aghānī. On Caliph al-Rāḍī's death in 940, al-Ṣūlī fell...

 870–892). al-Abbas ibn al-Mu'tadid, son of the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tadid (r. 892–902). al-Abbas ibn al-Radi, son of the Abbasid caliph al-Radi (r. 934–940)...

the Caliphate had become by now that when the previous Caliph al-Radi died, Bajkam, amir al-umara (Amir of Amirs), contented himself with despatching to...

al-ʿilm Wa al-ʿAmal. Fakhr al-Mulk Sayyid Raḍī Shaykh al-Mufīd Shaykh al-Tūsī Shaykh al-Sadūq Muḥammad al-Kulaynī Allāmah Majlisī Shaykh al-Ḥurr al-ʿĀmilī...

Selma Al-Radi (Arabic: سلمى الراضي) (July 23, 1939 – October 7, 2010) was an Iraqi archaeologist who began and led the over twenty-year restoration of...

aware of his whereabouts. He is known by the epithets al-Wāfī (lit. 'true to one's word') and al-Raḍī (lit. 'the satisfied one'). Abd Allah designated his...

contemporary of the caliphs al-Qahir, al-Radi, al-Muttaqi, al-Mustakfi, al-Muti and al-Ta'i', three of whom were his brothers. As a son of al-Muqtadir, he was also...

Al-Taqi is reported to have died in 225/840 in Salamiyah after bequeathing the office of Imamate to his son, al-Husayn surnamed, Abd Allah al-Radi. His...

Ibn ʿAyyāsh al-Jawharī (d. 1010) Muḥammad al-Sharīf al-Raḍī, (al-Sayyid al-Raḍī) (d. 1015) Muḥammad al-Qummī (Ibn Shādhān) (d. 1029) al-Tabarsi, Fadhl...

930–935, particularly during the reign of al-Qahir (932–934) and the early months of the reign of ar-Radi, when he was the most powerful man in the state...

913/14 as al-Fadl, a son of the Abbasid caliph, al-Muqtadir (r. 908–932), and a Slavic concubine, Mash'ala. He was the brother of caliphs al-Radi (r. 934–940)...

Guantanamo Bay. Three Saudis: Yasser Talal Al Zahrani, Mani Shaman Turki al-Habardi Al-Utaybi and Abdul Rahman al-Amri, died at Guantanamo in 2006 and 2007...

Muhammad al-Mahdi (Arabic: أَبُو جَعْفَر هَارُون ٱبْنِ مُحَمَّد ٱلْمَهْدِيّ, romanized: Abū Ja'far Hārūn ibn Muḥammad al-Mahdī), or simply Harun ibn al-Mahdi...

Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn (Arabic: أبو محمد عبد الله بن الحسين; 31 July 874 – 4 March 934), better known by his regnal name al-Mahdī biʾllāh (Arabic:...

descendants of al-Muktafi on the one hand and those of his brother and successor, al-Muqtadir (r. 908–932), on the other. Under al-Muqtadir's son al-Radi (r. 934–940)...

Nuha al-Radi (January 27, 1941 in Baghdad – August 30, 2004 in Beirut) was an Iraqi diarist, ceramicist and painter and noted author of the Baghdad Diaries...

The House of Wisdom (Arabic: بَيْت الْحِكْمَة Bayt al-Ḥikmah), also known as the Grand Library of Baghdad, was believed to be a major Abbasid-era public...

15th century. Tahir ibn Radi al-Din, died 15th century. Radi al-Din II ibn Tahir, died 1509. Shah Tahir ibn Radi al-Din II al-Husayni ad-Dakkani, died...

emirs, and the caliph al-Radi (934–941) was forced to acknowledge their power by creating the position of "Prince of Princes" (amir al-umara). In addition...

shrines, belonging to the brothers Sayyid Raḍī (who compiled Nahjul-Balāghah) and Sayyid Murtadā and Qadi Abu Yusuf al-Ansari. The mosque was built on the site...

Rusafah Cemetery. Children The children of al-Muqtadir are: al-Radi was born on 20 December 909, to the caliph al-Muqtadir (r. 908–932) and a Greek slave...

Al-Shafi'i (Arabic: ٱلشَّافِعِيّ, romanized: al-Shāfiʿī; 767–820 CE) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, traditionist, theologian, ascetic, and eponym...