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  • Both Sayyid Qutb in Egypt and Abu'l Ala Mawdudi in Pakistan tried to transform their societies into a just Islamic order (Nizam-e Mustafa, the model order of the Prophet PBUH, in Maulana Mawdudi's elegant phrase).

    Taming Of Religious Leaders A Must For Winning Terror War 2008

  • It's not easy to succeed in meeting Meshal (Abu'l Walid, for his followers).

    HAMAS SUPREME LEADER RESPONDS TO VICTORY 2006

  • And as for Khwarezm, it was the home of not only the great mathematician Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi note final -i: 'the Khwarezmian' but of the great scientist Abu'l Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni, so it was quite the place to be from... unless Genghis Khan was in the neighborhood.

    languagehat.com: MATHEMATICAL TERMS. 2004

  • Muhammad Iqbal and Muhammad Ali Jinnah started as Indian nationalists before becoming Muslim nation - alists and the fathers of Pakistan, whereas Abu'l Kalam

    NATIONALISM HANS KOHN 1968

  • Abu'l 'Abbás Thalub, on his death-bed expressed his belief in the fact that the Quránists, the Traditionists, and others, had gained their heavenly reward, but he had been only a grammarian, and grammar after all was, in connection with the Qurán, a science of doubtful legality.

    The Faith of Islam Edward Sell

  • Abu'l Haggag, the patron saint of Luxor, whose mosque and tomb stand upon the ruins of the Temple of Amon, a boat is dragged over the ground in unwitting remembrance of the dragging of the boat of Amon in the processions of that god.

    The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology Arthur E. P. B. Weigall

  • Of the surgical authors, Abu'l Kasim Chalaf ben Abbas el-Zahrewi of el-Zahra near Cordova (Abulkasem, about 912-1013) alone deserves mention, and he depends absolutely on Paulus Ægineta.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • They defeated the troops of the Caliph Al-Mutazid (Ahmed Abu'l Abbas), entered Syria

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • Abu'l Futuh succeeded his brother as professor, and abridged his most important literary work, "The Revival of the religious sciences."

    Mystics and Saints of Islam Claud Field 1902

  • He was, at any rate, intensely indignant at having his orthodoxy impugned, as appears from a striking story narrated by the Arabic historian Abu'l Feda.

    Mystics and Saints of Islam Claud Field 1902

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