Abdul Hafez Salem Rajab is an Omani politician. Rajab was born in 1937 in Dhofar. He studied mechanical engineering in Kiev University, USSR. After Sultan Qaboos took power in 1970, he had a number or cabinet appointments: minister of economy 1971,...
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab ibn Sulayman al-Tamimi al-Najdi (Arabic: مُحَمَّد بن عبد الوهاب بن سليمان التميمي النجدي, romanized: Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Sulaymān al-Tamīmī al-Najdī; 1703–1792 C.E., 1115–1206 A.H.) was an Arab Muslim scholar,...
The Ministry of Finance (MOF) is the governmental body in the Sultanate of Oman responsible for all government financial matters. The current Finance Minister is Sultan bin Salem bin Saeed al-Habsi.
Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhyi al-Din (between 1806 and 1808 – 26 May 1883; Arabic: عبد القادر ابن محي الدين, romanized: ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Muḥy al-Dīn), known as Emir Abdelkader or ʿAbd al-Qadir al-Hasani al-Jazaʾiri, was an Algerian religious and military...
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The Hanbali school or Hanbalism is the smallest of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. Named after and based on the teachings of Ahmad ibn Hanbal, the school belongs to the Ahl al-Hadith historical tradition. Like the...
Shaykh al-Islām Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī al-Makkī al-Anṣārī known as Ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī al-Makkī (Arabic: ابن حجر الهيتمي المكي) was a renowned Sunni Egyptian scholar. He was the leading jurist...
Abu Hanifa (Arabic: أَبُو حَنِيفَة, romanized: Abū Ḥanīfa; 5 September 699 – 18 June 767 CE) was a Muslim scholar, jurist, theologian, and ascetic, and the founder and eponym of the Hanafi school of Sunni jurisprudence. The Hanafi school remains the...
As of January 6, 2025, 15 detainees remain at Guantanamo Bay. This list of Guantánamo prisoners has the known identities of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, but is compiled from various sources and is incomplete. In official...
Mansour Dhao Ibrahim (Arabic: منصور ضو إبراهيم; sometimes spelled Dao or Daw) is a Libyan former politician. He was a prominent figure in the Gaddafi government, serving as Muammar Gaddafi's chief of security until they were both captured. Dhao was...