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Yahya al-Sufi (Biography)
( fl. 1330 – 51 ). Ilkhanid calligrapher . According to the Safavid chronicler Qazi Ahmad , Yahya studied calligraphy with Mubarakshah ibn Qutb ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Yahya ibn Muhammad (Biography)
(d. 1948 ) Zaydi imam and political ruler of North Yemen ( 1904 – 48 ). Succeeded his father, Muhammad , as imam of ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Yahya ibn Zakariyya (Biography)
See John the Baptist . ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Yakan, Shaykh Fathi (Biography)
See Jamaah al-Islamiyyah, al- ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Yan Tatsine (Subject Entry)
See Mai Tatsine . ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
Yangi (Subject Entry)
See Zhambyl . ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Yanyalı Esat Efendi (Biography)
Yanyalı Esat ibn Ali ibn Osman Efendi was born in the Epirus region of northwestern Greece. He completed his early education in Yanya and ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam
Yao, Islam and the (Subject Entry)
The Yao (pl., Wayao) is an ethnic and linguistic group with nuclei in northern Mozambique, southern Malawi, and southern Tanzania, though nowadays the Wayao ...
Source: Oxford Islamic Studies Online
Yaqin, al- (Subject Entry)
Certainty; certain faith. Muslim mystics often distinguish three ascending levels of certainty in spiritual matters: certainty based on proof, certainty derived from exposition, and ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Yaqoob, Salma (Biography)
is a British Muslim of Pakistani descent, antiwar campaigner, national commentator on race issues, and founder of the Respect Party. She was born in ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women
Yaqub (Biography)
See Jacob ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Yaqut al-Musta῾simi (Biography)
( d. Baghdad, 1298 ). Ottoman calligrapher . Yaqut served as secretary to the last Abbasid caliph , al-Musta῾sim ( r. 1242 – 58 ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Yarmuk, Battle of (Subject Entry)
Battle in 637 between Muslim forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid and the Byzantine emperor Heraclius . The decisive Muslim victory led to the ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Yasa (Subject Entry)
Written code of general laws said to have been laid down by Genghis Khan in 1206 and thereafter regarded as binding on rulers throughout ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Yasa, al- (Biography)
See Elisha ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Yasavī, Aḥmad (Biography)
Aḥmad Yasavī was the namesake of the Yasavī Ṣūfī order, and a prominent saint of Central Asia known by the monumental shrine built at ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Yashruti Tariqah (Subject Entry)
Reformist branch of the Shadhili tariqah founded by Ali Nur al-Din al-Yashruti . Centered in Palestine, but spread throughout Syria and North and East ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Yasi (Subject Entry)
See Turkestan . ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Yasin, Abd al-Salam (Biography)
(b. 1928 ) Moroccan Islamic activist, leader, and ideologue of the movement of al-Adl wa'l-Ihsan. Produced several books and published a now-banned monthly periodical, ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Yasin, Abdessalam (Biography)
Abdessalam Yasin ( 1928 –2012) was the leader of an illegal but tolerated Moroccan Islamist political movement, Justice and Benevolence ( Al-ʿAdl wa-al-Iḥṣān ). ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
