Nasr ibn Ahmad or Nasr II (Persian: نصر دوم), nicknamed "the Fortunate", was the ruler (amir) of Transoxiana and Khurasan as the head of the Samanid dynasty...

849—he was the son of Ahmad ibn Asad, and had a brother named Nasr I, who ascended the Samanid throne in 864/5. During Nasr's reign, Ismail was sent...

Ahmad ibn Asad (d. 864/865) was a Samanid Amir of Ferghana (819-864/5) and Samarkand (851/2-864/5). He was a son of Asad. In 819, Ahmad was granted authority...

Abū al-ʻAbbās Ahmad ibn Muhammad at-Tijāniyy or Ahmed Tijani (Arabic: أحمد التجاني, 1735–1815), was an Algerian Sharif who founded the Tijaniyyah tariqa...

Nasr I (Persian: نصر یکم; died August 892) was amir of the Samanids from 865 to 892. He was the son and successor of Ahmad ibn Asad. With the weakening...

Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad (Arabic: أحمد بن محمد بن محمد الوطاسي), also Sultan Ahmad, or Ahmad al-Wattasi, was a Sultan of the Moroccan Wattasid dynasty...

Abu Nasr Ahmad ibn Fadl (Arabic: أبو نصر أحمد بن فضل) (died 1126) was the vizier of the Seljuk ruler of Damascus, Tutush. On his orders, the Umayyad Mosque...

Abu Nasr Ahmad ibn Marwan, also known with the laqab Nasr al-Dawla, was the ruler of the Marwanid Emirate from 1011 to 1061. Nasr al-Dawla was regarded...

Nasr ibn Mahmud ibn Nasr ibn Salih ibn Mirdas (Arabic: نصر بن محمود بن نصر المرداسي, romanized: Naṣr ibn Maḥmūd ibn Naṣr ibn Ṣaliḥ ibn Mirdās) (died 1076)...

Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi (Arabic: أبو نصر محمد الفارابي, romanized: Abū Naṣr Muḥammad al-Fārābī; c. 870 – 14 December 950–12 January 951), known in...

political doctrines. After Muhammad Ahmad's unexpected death from typhus on 22 June 1885, his chief deputy, Abdallahi ibn Muhammad took over the administration...

Abu Nasr Ahmad ibn Fadl Abu Nasr Khusrau Firuz or Al-Malik al-Rahim Abu Nasr Mansur, Muslim mathematician Abu Nasr Muhammad Abu Nasr Mushkan Abu Nasr Sa'd...

Abū Naṣr Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Bukhārī, is known for writing the Persian-language Tāj al-qiṣaṣ around 475 AH (1082–83 CE) at Balkh. This was an extensive...

Qadi 'Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali ibn Naṣr ibn Ahmad ibn Hussein ibn Harun ibn Malik ibn Tawk al-Taghlibi (Arabic: القاضي عبدالوهّاب) (973 – 1035CE) (362 AH...

ibn Ahmad (Arabic: ناصر الدين القصري), also Nasir al-Qasiri, was the young son of the Sultan of Fez, Sultan Ahmad. In 1545, his father Sultan Ahmad was...

Christians who converted to Islam (Muwallads). al-Dhahabi said: "Ali Ibn Ahmad Ibn Saeed Ibn Hazm, known for his extensive knowledge and skills, hailed from...

Abu ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad ibn ‘Amr ibn Tammām al-Farāhīdī al-Azdī al-Yaḥmadī (Arabic: أبو عبد الرحمن الخليل بن أحمد بن عمرو بن تمام الفراهيدي...

Basil II. Elias of Nisibis has written that Nasr al-Dawla Ahmad ibn Marwan, "the victorious emir", subdued Ibn Dimne, his vassal in Diyarbakır, in 1011....

Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Nasr (Arabic: أبوجعفر أحمد بن نصر) was a merchant and Isma'ili dāʿī. He operated openly as the head of the pro-Fatimid propaganda...

Saracenic settlement of Fraxinet; in 940, Saint-Tropez was controlled by Nasr ibn Ahmad. From 961 to 963, Adalbert, son of Berengar, the pretender to the throne...

Abu'l-Asha'ir Ahmad ibn Nasr (Arabic: أبو الأشاعر أحمد بن نصر) (died 2 November 906) was a military commander for the Abbasid Caliphate and the governor...

Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Abd al-Aziz (أبو العباس أحمد بن عبد العزيز), known by the regnal name al-Mustansir (المستنصر), was Marinid Sultan of Morocco from...

Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi (Arabic: أحمد بن إبراهيم الغازي, Harari: አሕመድ ኢብራሂም አል-ጋዚ, Somali: Axmed Ibraahim al-Qaasi; c. 21 July 1506 – 10 February 1543)...

Abū Aḥmad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl (Arabic: أَبُو أَحْمَد عَبْد ٱللَّٰه ٱبْن مُحَمَّد ٱبْن إسْماعِيل, c. 766 – 828), was a descendant of the...

right after Nasr II had ascended the throne, several revolts erupted, the most dangerous one being under his paternal grand-uncle, Ishaq ibn Ahmad, who seized...

Ahmad al-Alawi (1869 – 14 July 1934), in full Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafā ibn ʿAlīwa, known as al-ʿAlāwī al-Mustaghānimī (Arabic: أبو العباس أحمد...

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

imams descended from ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān ibn Rustam, the austere Persian who founded the state in the 8th century. Abun-Nasr, Jamil M. (1971). A history of the...

imprisoned after angering the Samanid amir, Nasr ibn Ahmad. He was freed after receiving the support of Nasr's vizier Abu'l-Fadl al-Bal'ami and was sent...

Ahmad ibn Ismail (Persian: احمد سامانی; died 24 January 914) was amir of the Samanids (907–914). He was the son of Ismail Samani. He was known as the...