Yahya ibn Ali ibn Hammud al-Mu'tali (Arabic: يحي بن علي ين حمّود المعتلي; died 1035) was Caliph of Cordoba in the Hammudid dynasty of the Al-Andalus (Moorish...

Yahya ibn Ali al-Hajuri is a Yemeni preacher. He leads the Hajoor tribe which is the dominant tribe in northern Yemen. On January 19, 2020, renewed clashes...

Abd al-Rahman ibn Yahya ibn Ali (Arabic: عبد الرحمن بن يحيى بن علي, romanized: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī; 1894–1966), commonly known by the nisba...

Yahya ibn Ali ibn Ghaniya (Arabic: يحيى بن علي بن غانية), more commonly known as Ibn Ghaniya, was governor of Valencia and Murcia (1133-1145) and of al-Andalus...

Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī al-Tanūkhī (5 March 1051 – c. 1105), called Ibn Zurayq, was a Syrian chronicler. Ibn Zurayq was born in Maʿarrat al-Nuʿmān. He played a...

Abu Zakariyya Yahya ibn Umar ibn Talagagin ibn Turgut ibn Wartasin, commonly suffixed al-Lamtuni al-Sanhaji, (d. near Azuggi, 1056; Arabic : يحيى إبن...

806), Vizier of the Barmakids Yahya ibn Umar ibn Yahya ibn Husayn ibn Zayd ibn Ali ibn Husayn ibn Ali, Alid imam Yahya ibn al-Batriq (fl. 796–806), translator...

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...

IV, 1017 Ali ibn Hammud al-Nasir, 1016–1018 Al-Qasim ibn Hammud al-Ma'mu, 1018–1021 Yahya ibn Ali ibn Hammud al-Mu'tali, 1021–1023 Al-Qasim ibn Hammud al-Ma'mu...

al-Qasim Muhammad ibn Abbad was a qadi (religious judge) when he was named governor of Seville by the caliph of Cordoba, Yahya ibn Ali ibn Hammud al-Mu'tali...

librarian. Although religious domains were still dominated by men, Fatima bint Yahya al-Maghami was a well-known faqih (expert on Islamic law and jurisprudence)...

Yahya ibn Zayd (Arabic: يحيى بن زيد, romanized: Yaḥyā ibn Zayd; 725/6–743) was the eldest son of Zayd ibn Ali, the founder of the Zaydi movement. He participated...

Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyyā (Arabic: يَحْيَىٰ ٱبْن زَكَرِيَّا‎, literally Yahya/John, son of Zechariah), identified in English as John the Baptist, is considered...

Husayn ibn Ali (Arabic: ٱلْحُسَيْنُ ٱبْنُ عَلِيٍّ‎, romanized: Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī; 11 January 626 – 10 October 680 C.E.) was a social, political and religious...

influential in the science of hadith. Alongside Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Ibn Abi Shaybah and Yahya ibn Ma'in, Ibn al-Madini has been considered by many Muslim specialists...

Yahya ibn Muhammad (Arabic: يحيى بن محمد; died 863) was the fifth Idrisid ruler of Morocco. Yahya was a younger son of the fourth Idrisid emir, Muhammad...

Muhammad al-Jawad (Arabic: محمد بن علي الجواد, romanized: Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Jawād, c. 8 April 811 – c. 29 November 835) was a descendant of the Islamic...

except for his nephew, Yahya ibn Abu Bakr, the governor of Fes. Ali ibn Yusuf marched his army to the gates of Fes, causing Yahya to flee to Tlemcen. There...

contemporary Imamite traditionist Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Yahya transmitted from al-Hadi on the authority of Ali ibn Bil'al. He was the agent of al-Hadi in...

before ibn Sina left Khwarazm, he had met al-Biruni (a scientist and astronomer), Abu Nasr Mansur (a renowned mathematician), Abu Sahl 'Isa ibn Yahya al-Masihi...

Ali ibn Hammud al-Nasir (Arabic: علي بن حمود الناصر, romanized: al-nāṣir ʿalī ben ḥammūd) (d. 22 March 1018) was the sixth Caliph of Córdoba from 1016...

Yahya IV or Yahya ibn Idris ibn Umar (Arabic: يحيى بن إدريس بن عمر) was an Idrisid ruler of Morocco, ruling in Fes from 905 to 922. For the last three...

Yaḥyā ibn Abī Manṣūr; Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā; ‘Alī ibn Yaḥyā; Yaḥyā ibn ‘Alī; Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā; Hārūn ibn ‘Alī; ‘Alī ibn Hārūn; Aḥmad ibn ‘Alī; Hārūn ibn ‘Alī...

Muhammad ibn Yahya (Arabic: أبو زكرياء محمد الشيخ المهدي) (also known as Abu Abdellah al-Shaykh Muhammad ben Yehya, Abu Abdallah Sheikh Muhammad ibn Yahya or...

the people of Córdoba revolted against him and fearing the march of Yahya ibn Ali ibn Hammud al-Mu'tali, he was forced to flee the city. It is believed...

Husayn ibn Isma'il, who had been sent to deal with him. His father was ʿUmar ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Zayd ibn ʿAlī Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī...

Yahya ibn Yahya (Arabic: يحيى بن يحيى) was the sixth Idrisid ruler of Morocco, and the last of the main branch of the dynasty. Yahya was the namesake son...

attacked by a large Berber army under the Hammudid governor of Ceuta, Ali ibn Hammud al-Nasir, who conquered it on 1 July 1016. Sulayman was imprisoned...

Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-‘Abbās al-Ṣūlī (Arabic: أبو بكر محمد بن يحيى بن العباس الصولي) (born c. 870 Gorgan – died between 941 and 948 Basra)...

Yahya ibn Ma'in (Arabic: يحيى بن معين, romanized: Yaḥyā ibn Maʻīn; 774-847) was a classical Islamic scholar in the field of hadith. He was a close friend...