Abu'l-Faraj Ya'qub ibn Yusuf ibn Killis (Arabic: يعقوب ابن كلس, romanized: Abu’l-Faraj Yaʿqūb ibn Yūsuf ibn Killis, Hebrew: יעקוב אבן כיליס‎), (930 in...

June 2010. Rashid-al-Din Hamadani – 13th-century Persian physician Yaqub ibn Killis – 10th-century Egyptian vizier under the Fatimids. Leila Mourad – Egyptian...

to 1199. Ya'qub ibn Abdallah al-Mansur (b. 760s) was the third son of al-Mansur (r. 754–775) from his wife Fatima. Ya'qub ibn Killis (930–991), Egyptian...

the patriarch Abraham, also known as Pope Abraam, and a Jew named Yaqub ibn Killis (in another account of this story he was referred to as Moses) were...

Fatimid army. However, Alptakin was later poisoned by al-Aziz's vizier, Yaqub ibn Killis. Gil 1997, p. 343. Kennedy 2004, p. 224. Kennedy 2004, p. 205. Romane...

the mosque at Constantinople. This lasted until the long-time vizier Yaqub ibn Killis died in 991. Fatimid caliph Al-Aziz Billah chose to pursue a more aggressive...

preach at least one Friday khutbah (sermon) during Ramadan at al-Azhar. Yaqub ibn Killis, a polymath, jurist and the first official vizier of the Fatimids,...

Fatimid caliph al-Aziz Billah (r. 975-996) granted his favored vizier, Yaqub ibn Killis, a fief in modern-day Deir al-Balah, as testified by an inscription...

fought off (972–974) before the restructuring of state finances under Yaqub ibn Killis could be embarked upon. Al-Mu'izz was succeeded by his son Al-Aziz...

enrolled the services of competent administrators and merchants, such as Yaqub ibn Killis, contributing to his economic accomplishments. Abu al-Misk Kafur gained...

in Bakjur a tool for capturing Aleppo, and his long-serving vizier, Yaqub ibn Killis, who was opposed to this policy and moreover wished to maintain the...

the Kutama tribe). In 991, after the death of the long-time vizier Yaqub ibn Killis, who had dominated Fatimid politics during his life, al-Aziz chose...

instrument in the Syrian effort. After Ibn Killis became vizier in 979, the Fatimids changed tactics. Ibn Killis was able to subjugate most of Palestine...

Abu Ya'qub Ishaq ibn Ahmad al-Sijistani (Arabic: أبو يعقوب إسحاق بن أحمد السجستاني) or al-Sijzi (السجزي), also known as Bandaneh (Persian: بندانه), was...

Abu'l-Fawaris Ahmad ibn Ya'qub was an early 11th-century Isma'ili scholar and missionary (da'i) active in Syria, which at the time was largely under the...

Dorothee Klaus. 2003 256. Der Wille zur Macht: der fatimidische Wesir Yaʻqūb ibn Killis. Susanne Saker. Berlin Schwarz 2003 257. Mamlukische Sultansstiftungen...

Jewish citizens who rose to high position in that society was Ya'qub ibn Killis. The caliph al-Hakim (996–1020) vigorously applied the Pact of Umar, and...

Hamid al-Din Abu'l-Hasan Ahmad ibn Abdallah al-Kirmani (Arabic: حميد الدين الكرماني; fl. 996–1021 CE) was an Isma'ili scholar. He was of Persian origin...

ibn Musa, born in the town of Shiraz, capital of the Fars Province (then Persia, now in modern-day Iran), in the year 1000 CE. His father, Musa ibn Dawud...

Isma'ili theologians of the period, men like Muhammad al-Nasafi and Abu Yaqub al-Sijistani, and later Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani, were active thered. The...