The Alam al-Dins, also spelled Alamuddin or Alameddine, were a Druze family that intermittently held or contested the paramount chieftainship of the Druze...

by the Alam al-Dins and other Ottoman-backed Druze from the start. Qurqumaz was killed by the Ottomans in 1662. Ahmad defeated the Alam al-Dins in 1667...

Eid al-Adha (Arabic: عيد الأضحى, romanized: ʿĪd al-ʾAḍḥā, lit. 'Feast of Sacrifice') is the second of the two main holidays in Islam alongside Eid al-Fitr...

Al-Khidr (/ˈxɪdər/, Arabic: ٱلْخَضِر, romanized: al-Khaḍir; also Romanized as al-Khadir, Khader, Khidr, Hidr, Khizr, Kezr, Kathir, Khazer, Khadr, Khedher...

Druze sources claim that al-Ḥākim's mother was the daughter of 'Abdu l-Lāh, one of al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah's sons and therefore al-'Azīz's niece. Historians...

Salman al-Farsi (Arabic: سَلْمَان ٱلْفَارِسِيّ) was a Persian religious scholar and one of the companions of Muhammad. As a practicing Zoroastrian, he...

Amir al-Bayān (Arabic: أَميرُ البَيان, lit. 'Prince of Eloquence') due to his influential writings. Influenced by the ideas of Jamal al-Din al-Afghani...

her father's first marriage. Her father Ramzi Alamuddin is of the Alam al-Din dynasty and is from Baakleen in the Chouf District. He received his MBA degree...

The People of Monotheism may translate several Arabic terms: Ahl al-Tawḥīd (Arabic: أهل التوحيد), a name the Druze use for themselves. Literally, "The...

names ending with ad-Din. The name may refer to: Ala al-Din Husayn (died 1161), king of the Ghurid dynasty from 1149 to 1161 Ala al-Din Atsiz (died 1214)...

The Epistles of Wisdom (Arabic: رَسَائِل ٱلْحِكْمَة, romanized: Rasāʾil al-Ḥikma) is a corpus of sacred texts and pastoral letters by teachers of the Druze...

a prophet to a community: the Midianites, who are also known as the Aṣḥāb al-Aykah ("Companions of the Wood"), since they used to worship a large tree...

attracted to warrior saints that resemble their own militarized society. Fakhr-al-Din II (1572–1635), a Druze prince and an early leader of the Emirate of Chouf...

ruler of the Sayyid dynasty, Alauddin Alam Shah was defeated by Bahlol Lodi, who started the Lodi dynasty. List of Sunni Muslim dynasties Persianate states...

the paramount Druze emir, the governor and tax farmer Fakhr al-Din II of the Ma'n dynasty. Shidyaq holds that after Ali's defeat, the Janbulad family...

the Ghurids took advantage of and began their territorial expansion. Ala al-Din Husayn ended the Ghurid subordination to the Ghaznavids, ruthlessly sacking...

filmmaker Alam al-Din al-Hanafi (1178–1251), Egyptian mathematician, astronomer and engineer Alam al-Malika (died 1130), leader of Zubayd in Yemen Alam Dad...

example, in an epistle ascribed to one of the founders of Druzism, Baha al-Din al-Muqtana, probably written sometime between AD 1027 and AD 1042, accused...

territory, instead of placing Alam Khan (Ibrahim's uncle) on the throne. Ibrahim's death marked the end of the Lodi dynasty and led to the establishment...

(1266–1290). Before the establishment of the Mamluk dynasty, Qutb al-Din Aibak's tenure as a Ghurid dynasty administrator lasted from 1192 to 1206, a period...

الدين الثاني, romanized: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Thānī), was the paramount Druze emir of Mount Lebanon from the Ma'n dynasty, an Ottoman governor of Sidon-Beirut...

in literature or a musical performance. Alam al-Din dynasty, Alamuddin's father Najib was head of the dynasty, known as the "Flying Sheikh" Jakob Künzler...

Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (c. 1137 – 4 March 1193), commonly known as Saladin, was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Hailing from a Kurdish family...

assumed the throne under the title of Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq and ended in 1413. The Indo-Turkic dynasty expanded its territorial reach through a military...

Yamani faction was led by Mahmoud Abu Harmoush and consisted of the Druze Alam al-Din, Arslan and Sawaf clans. The Yamani faction also had backing from the...

Ghurid dynasty based in the Ghor region of what is today central Afghanistan who ruled from 1173 to 1206. Muhammad and his elder brother Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad...

fled to Mecca, where he was recognized and executed. His disciple Baha al-Din al-Muqtana resumed Hamza's missionary effort in 1027–1042, finalizing the...

Jabal al-Druze (Arabic: جبل الدروز, romanized: jabal al-durūz, lit. 'Mountain of the Druze'), is an elevated volcanic region in the As-Suwayda Governorate...

Sultan (regent 1779–1780) Patra Alam, Sultan (1780–1783) Hairul Alam Kamaluddin, Sultan (1784–1797) Nuku, Muhammad al-Mabus Amiruddin Syah, Sultan (1797–1805)...

swaths of the Indian subcontinent. It was founded by Jalal ud din Firuz Khalji. The Khalji dynasty was of Turko-Afghan origin whose ancestors, the Khalaj, are...