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 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...

Yahya ibn Ali al-Hajuri is a scholar, who managed the Dar al-Hadith al-Khayriyya madrassa in Dammaj, Yemen. He leads the Hajoor tribe which is the dominant...

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...

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)...

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...

Abu Ahmad Yahya ibn Ali ibn Yahya ibn Abi Mansur Aban al-Monajjem (Arabic: ابواحمد یحیی ابن علی ابن یحیی ابن ابی منصور آبان المنجم; 241/855-56 – in 13...

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...

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-Walid, an Umayyad prince and...

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

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 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...

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...

Yaḥyā ibn ʿUmar ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥusayn Dhu al-Dam'a ibn Zayd ibn ʿAlī Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib was an Alid Imam. His grandfather...

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...

Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyā (Arabic: يحيى ابن زكريا‎, literally Yahya/John, son of Zechariah), identified in English as John the Baptist, is considered in Islam...

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...

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...

Musa ibn Nusayr (Arabic: موسى بن نصير Mūsá bin Nuṣayr; c. 640 – c. 716) was an Arab general and governor who served under the Umayyad caliph Al-Walid...

ʾAḥmad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Jābir al-Balādhurī (Arabic: أحمد بن يحيى بن جابر البلاذري) was a 9th-century West Asian historian. One of the eminent Middle Eastern...

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...

of Ali ibn Abi Talib. Maytham ibn Yaḥyā was born at Nahrawān, an area near Kūfa. He was the son of Yaḥyā, hence, ibn Yaḥyā (which means son of Yaḥyā)....

Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (Arabic: يحيى بن عبد الله بن الحسن بن الحسن بن علي بن أبي طالب; c. 745/6–803) was...

Hamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmed (Arabic: حمزة بن علي بن أحمد, romanized: Ḥamza ibn ‘Alī ibn ʾAḥmad; c. 985–c. 1021) was an 11th-century Persian Ismai'li missionary...

Ali ibn Yahya (Arabic: علي بن يحي) was the penultimate Zirid ruler of Ifriqiya, in 1116–1121 CE. Ali inherited the throne from his father, Yahya ibn Tamim...

Abu Yahya Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abi Imran al-Tinmalali (Arabic: ابو يحي محمد بن علي بن أبي عمران التينمللي, romanized: Abū Yaḥyà Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī...

Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu'awiya ibn Hisham (Arabic: عبد الرحمن إبن معاوية إبن هشام, romanized: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muʿāwiya ibn Hishām; 7 March 731 – 30 September...

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...

Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah that is one of the earliest extant works in that genre. Alongside Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Ali ibn al-Madini and Yahya ibn Ma'in, Ibn Abi...

Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din (or Imam Yahya) (Arabic: يحيى محمد حميد الدين, 18 June 1869 – 17 February 1948) was the first king of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom...