Qaboos bin Said Al Said (Arabic: قابوس بن سعيد آل سعيد, IPA: [qaː.buːs bin sa.ʕiːd ʔaːl sa.ʕiːd]; 18 November 1940 – 10 January 2020) was Sultan of Oman...

behind Qabus. When Bisutun gained the assistance of the Buyid Rukn al-Dawla the Samanid army left for Khurasan. Qabus found a new ally in al-Hasan ibn al-Fairuzan...

species of wild goat. In the hope of saving this rare animal, Sultan Qabus ibn Said has declared part of the mountain a national park. Behind the Western...

you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Ibn Sina (Persian: ابن سینا, romanized: Ibn Sīnā; c. 980 – 22 June 1037 CE), commonly known in the...

aid Qabus against Dubaj. Qabus managed to defeat him and capture the son of Bisutun in Simnan. Adud al-Dawla then made the Abbasid caliph give Qabus the...

Baha al-Din Muhammad ibn Hasan ibn Isfandiyar (Persian: بهاءالدین محمد بن حسن بن اسفندیار), commonly known as Ibn Isfandiyar (ابن اسفندیار), was a 13th-century...

Civil War. Sufyan's father was al-Abrad ibn Abi Umama ibn Qabus ibn Sufyan and, like the chief of the Syrian Kalb, Ibn Bahdal, they hailed from the tribe's...

debate on his religious affinity. Theodor Nöldeke noted that Imru' al-Qays ibn 'Amr was not a Christian, while Irfan Shahîd noted a possible Christian affiliation...

Judith Miller (1997). "Creating Modern Oman: An Interview with Sultan Qabus". Foreign Affairs. 76 (May/June 1997). Archived from the original on 28...

Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni /ælbɪˈruːni/ (Persian: ابوریحان بیرونی; Arabic: أبو الريحان البيروني; 973 – after 1050), known as al-Biruni, was...

was in his late twenties, at the court of Qabus, the Ziyarid ruler of Gorgan. The text is dedicated to Qabus. The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries is...

favor from the Ziyarid ruler Qabus, and was imprisoned. The fate of his brother is unknown. Nasr had a son named Hazarasp ibn Nasr, who served as a Buyid...

completed in 1055, standing at a height of 84 m (275 ft). The Tower of Gonbad-e Qabus in Iran is built in 1006. Construction begins on the Sassovivo Abbey of...

the writings of Qabus, al-Ghazali, al-Farabi (873–950), Ibn Sina (Avicenna) (980–1037), Ibn Miskawayh, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201–74), Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406)...

wa-Maḥāsin al-Kalim (مختار الحكم ومحاسن الكلم) 'Selected Maxims and Aphorisms' Qabus nama (1082) – a Persian example of the genre Nizam al-Mulk, Siyāset-nāmeh...

Abu Ali Hasan ibn Ali Tusi (Persian: نظام‌الم ابو علی حسن بن علی طوسی) (1018 – 1092), better known by his honorific title of Nizam ul-Mulk (Persian: نظام‌الملک...

acquaintances; they included Abū al-Fāḍl ʿUbaydallāh ibn Aḥmad al-Mīkālī (d. 1044/1055), Qābus ibn Wushmgīr (d. 1012), Sebüktegin (d. 1021), Abū Sahl al-Ḥamdūnī...

finalized by the Muslim Arabs in the form of the Rashidun army led by Khalid ibn al-Walid, under the overall leadership of Abu Bakr, resulting in Syria becoming...

territory was attacked by Qabus ibn al-Mundhir, the new Lakhmid ruler, who sought to take advantage of the situation. Qabus's forces were repulsed and...

Ghaboos ibn Wushmgir (Qabus) Ibn Sina (Avicenna) Ibn Miskawayh Al-Ghazali (Algazel) Ibn Taymiyyah Al-Mawardi Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī (Tusi) Ibn Khaldun Al-Maqrizi...

III ibn al-Harith defeat the Lakhmids under Qabus ibn al-Mundhir. Battle of Hadhramaut Sasanians defeat the Kingdom of Aksum and kill King Masruq ibn Abraha...

parties revolted in some regions comprising Khuzistan, Kurdistan and Gonbad-e Qabus, which resulted in fighting between them and revolutionary forces. These...

become senior amir. Following Fakhr al-Dawla's death, the Ziyarid ruler Qabus (r. 977–981, 997–1012) conquered Tabaristan and Gurgan, which he had previously...

discuss] The city was again rebuilt in the Islamic era by Abdallah ibn Salih ibn Ali al-Abassi, the Abbasid governor of southern and central Syria. Al-Abbasi's...

al-Daula) invaded, and drove him (with his ally Qabus) to Khorasan. When 'Adud died in 372 H (983 CE), Fakhr and Qabus returned to Djurdjan, with Samanid allies...

907) ruler of the Samanid dynasty Bukhara, Uzbekistan Samanid Mausoleum Qabus ebn Voshmgir (d. 1012) ruler of the Ziyarid dynasty Gonbad, Iran none Toghril...

prince Kaykāvus b. Eskandar mentioned Abu’l-Aswār as “a great king” in his Qābus-nāma, written when he lived for several years in Ganja fighting against...

parties revolted in regions comprising Khuzistan, Kurdistan and Gonbad-e Qabus, resulting in severe fighting between rebels and revolutionary forces. These...

Market, and fireplace there was. Ibn Rawi, in his book, calls Amol bigger than Isfahan and Qazvin. Hudud al-'Alam had said about Amol, that it was a great...

Abu Ubaida's forces during the Muslim conquest of Syria in 634, while Umar ibn al-Khattab was caliph. In early 945 the Aleppo-based Hamdanids under the...