Abd Shams, Mecca under Ali ibn Adi ibn Rabi'a of the Banu Abd Shams, and Egypt under Uthman's foster brother Abd Allah ibn Abi Sarh. He also relied on...

troops of Homs led by Samayfa ibn Nakur in the fray against Ali's Rabi'a contingent, largely consisting of the Bakr ibn Wa'il branch of the tribe. Their...

In some of his works, Ibn ‘Arabî referred to himself with fuller versions of his name as Abû ‘Abdullâh Muhammad ibn ‘Alî ibn al-‘Arabî al-Tâ’î al-Hâtimî...

Khalid ibn al-Walid ibn al-Mughira al-Makhzumi (Arabic: خالد بن الوليد بن المغيرة المخزومي, romanized: Khālid ibn al-Walīd ibn al-Mughīra al-Makhzūmī;...

Tha'labah Khubayb ibn Adiy Khunais ibn Hudhafa Khuzayma ibn Thabit Khabbab ibn al-Aratt Al-Khansa Khalid ibn al Walid Labid ibn Rabi'a Layla bint al-Minhal...

ibn Qays ibn Maʿdīkarib ibn Muʾāwiya ibn Jabala ibn ʿAdī ibn Rabīʿa ibn Muʾāwiya al-Akramīn ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Muʾāwiya ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Muʾāwiya ibn...

follows: Taghlib/Dithār ibn Wāʾil ibn Qasit ibn Hinb ibn Afṣā ibn Duʿmī ibn Jadīla ibn Asad ibn Rabīʿa ibn Nizār ibn Maʿadd ibn Adnān. Their rival and...

Rābiʼa al-ʼAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya (Arabic: رابعة العدوية القيسية; c. 716 – 801 CE) was an Arab Muslim saint, one of the earliest Sufi mystics and an influential...

Ibn al-Farid or Ibn Farid; (Arabic: عمر بن علي بن الفارض, `Umar ibn `Alī ibn al-Fārid) (22 March 1181 – 1234) was an Arab poet as well as a Sufi waliullah...

left his brother Aws ibn al-Harith to oversee Qarqisiya, while he and Hudhayl set out against the Taghlib. Zufar sent Muslim ibn Rabi'a, a man of the Banu...