Osman Ağa of Temeşvar (Turkish: Temeşvarlı Osman Ağa; 1670–1725) was an Ottoman army officer, historian, and travel writer, as well as one of the few...
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Ağa is a Turkish surname. Notable people with the surname include: Mustapha Aga, Ottoman Empire ambassador to the Swedish Court Osman Aga of Temesvar...
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Maldives, the Sultan of the Maldives in 1377 Osman II of the Maldives, the Sultan of Maldives from 1420 to 1421 Osman Aga of Temesvar (1670–1725), Turkish...
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Lütfi Pasha (category 16th-century Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire)
Arabic and eight in Turkish. Two of his works are the Asafname, a kind of mirror for ministers, and the Tevâriḫ-i Âl-i ‘Os̱mân, dealing with Ottoman history...
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Serbs in Turkey (category Turkish people of Serbian descent)
convert Mara Branković, wife of Murad II, very influential in imperial affairs, ambassador to Venice Osman Aga of Temesvar (1670–1725), Ottoman commander...
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Ibn Khaldun (category Arab Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam)
widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest social scientists of the Middle Ages, and considered by many to be the father of historiography, sociology,...
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influential personalities including Osman Aga of Temesvar, a fellow diplomat of Transylvanian origins and former prisoner-of-war imprisoned in Austria. It was...
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Ziauddin Barani (category Historians of India)
(Urdu: ضیاء الدین برنی; 1285–1358 CE) was an Indian Muslim political thinker of the Delhi Sultanate located in present-day Northern India during Muhammad...
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Ibn Kathir (category Syrian Muslim scholars of Islam)
had the laqab (epithet) of ʿImād ad-Dīn (عماد الدين "pillar of the faith"). His family trace its lineage back to the tribe of Quraysh. He was born in...
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Minhaj-i Siraj Juzjani (category Year of death uncertain)
in the region of Ghur. In 1227, Juzjani immigrated to Ucch and, thereafter, to Delhi. The principal historian of the Mamluk Sultanate of Delhi in northern...
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Ibn Ishaq (category Writers of lost works)
were transmitters of "akhbār", i.e. they collected and recounted written and oral testaments of the past. Isḥāq married the daughter of another mawlā and...
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Ottoman Serbs (redirect from List of Ottoman Serbs)
convert Mara Branković, wife of Murad II, very influential in imperial affairs, ambassador to Venice Osman Aga of Temesvar (1670–1725), Ottoman commander...
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Al-Tabari (category 9th-century Muslim scholars of Islam)
Journal of Middle East Studies. 29 (2): 287–289. doi:10.1017/S0020743800064564. JSTOR 164026. Osman, Ghada. "ORAL VS. WRITTEN TRANSMISSION: THE CASE OF ṬABARĪ...
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Ibn al-Jawzi (category Arab Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam)
particular school – historically, the smallest of the four principal Sunni schools of law – enjoy the same level of "prestige" often bestowed by rulers on the...
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Yaqut al-Hamawi (category Travel writers of the medieval Islamic world)
(ruby or hyacinth) was the kunya of Ibn Abdullāh ("son of Abdullāh"). He was born in Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, called in Arabic...
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of Cordoba fell in 1031. Al-Bakri belonged to the Arab tribe of Bakr. When his father was deposed by al-Mu'tadid (1042–1069) of the ruler of Taifa of...
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Ibn Hisham (category Year of birth unknown)
grammarian and student of language and history in Egypt. His family was of Himyarite origin and belonged to Banu Ma‘afir tribe of Yemen. As-Sīrah an-Nabawiyyah...
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1735, a satiric parody of the genre) Osman Aga of Temesvar (1670–1725) Turkish soldier who wrote Gavurların Esiri ("Prisoner of Infidels") in 1724 about...
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Ya'qubi (category Explorers of India)
a family of noble background, his great-grandfather was Wadih, the freedman of the caliph Al-Mansur and ruler of Egypt during the reign of al-Mahdi....
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Al-Suyuti (category Egyptian people of Iranian descent)
accounts of prominent figures in the early development of Arabic philology. He was also in his time the leading authority of the Shafi'i school of thought...
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Ibn Sa'd (redirect from The Book of the Major Classes)
Madina-II, The Scholars of Kufa, The Men of Madina-I, and The Women of Madina.online link List of Islamic scholars List of biographies of Muhammad Siyar A'lam...
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of his life in Baghdad. Like his father, he collected information about the genealogies and history of the ancient Arabs. One of the notable works of...
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the earlier periods of Egyptian history. He is recognized as the most influential historian of premodern Egypt. A direct student of Ibn Khaldun, al-Maqrīzī...
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Al-Masudi (category Year of birth uncertain)
companion of Islamic prophet Muhammad. It is believed that he was a member of Banu Hudhayl tribe of Arabs.[citation needed] Al-Masudi mentions a number of scholar...
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grave of a girl who married the Emir of Mosul but died of poisoning. The tomb of Ibn al-Athir was bulldozed by members of the Islamic State of Iraq and...
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ash-sharīf, on the subject of the Mamluk administration, and Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār, an encyclopedic collection of related information. The...
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Matrakçı Nasuh (category Year of death unknown)
competence in the combat sport of Matrak which was invented by himself, (also known as Nasuh el-Silâhî, Nasuh the Swordsman, because of his talent with weapons;...
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Al-Baladhuri (category Year of birth unknown)
historian. One of the eminent Middle Eastern historians of his age, he spent most of his life in Baghdad and enjoyed great influence at the court of the caliph...
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scholar, who was one of the most prominent and renowned experts on Hadith and Islamic history in the medieval era. and a disciple of the Sufi mystic Abu...
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