Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries
Filterable archive covering centuries of intellectual, artistic, and moral contributions to the human story.
Khamarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun
(ุฎู
ุงุฑููู ุจู ุฃุญู
ุฏ ุจู ุทูููู)
Second Tulunid sovereign of Egypt and Syria (884โ896) whose opulent reign made Cairo an architectural wonderland with exotic botanical gardens, royal menageries, and a legendary liquid mercury air-bed.
Khumarawayh
(ุฎู
ุงุฑููู ุจู ุฃุญู
ุฏ ุจู ุทูููู)
Second ruler of the Tulunid Dynasty who consolidated Egyptian dominion over Syria and the Jazira, renowned for his legendary patronage of palatial architecture, exotic zoological gardens, and the famous royal mercury pool.
Ahmad ibn Tulun
(ุฃุญู
ุฏ ุจู ุทูููู)
Visionary military commander and statesman who founded the Tulunid Dynasty in 868 CE, establishing Egypt as an autonomous sovereign Islamic power independent of Abbasid control for the first time, and builder of the majestic Ibn Tulun Mosque.
Ali ibn Umar al-Idrisi
(ุนูู ุจู ุนู
ุฑ ุจู ุฅุฏุฑูุณ)
Sixth Idrisid Sultan who came from the northern province of the Rif to restore order in Fez in 866 AD, reigning with prudence until 883 AD.
Yahya II of Morocco
(ูุญูู ุงูุซุงูู ุจู ูุญูู ุงูุฃูู)
Fifth Idrisid Sultan who ruled Morocco from Fez from 863 to 866 AD, overseeing municipal expansion during the completion of the great Qarawiyyin and Andalus mosques.
Yahya I of Morocco
(ูุญูู ุจู ู
ุญู
ุฏ ุงูุฃูู)
Fifth Idrisid sovereign of Morocco whose peaceful and prosperous reign witnessed the founding of the University of al-Qarawiyyin by Fatima al-Fihriya in Fez in 859 CE.
Ziyadat Allah I
(ุฒูุงุฏุฉ ุงููู ุงูุฃูู)
Aghlabid Emir of Ifriqiya (817โ838 CE) who launched the historic Muslim conquest of Sicily in 827 CE and rebuilt the magnificent Great Mosque of Kairouan in its enduring stone splendour.
Muhammad ibn Idris al-Azhar
(ู
ุญู
ุฏ ุจู ุฅุฏุฑูุณ ุงูุฃุฒูุฑ)
Third Sultan of the Idrisid dynasty who succeeded his father Idris II in 828 AD, dividing administrative governorships among his brothers upon the advice of his grandmother Kenza.
Al-Ma'mun (The Scholar Caliph)
(ุนุจุฏ ุงููู ุงูู
ุฃู
ูู ุจู ูุงุฑูู ุงูุฑุดูุฏ)
Abbasid Caliph who presided over the zenith of the Islamic Golden Age, expanding the House of Wisdom and measuring the circumference of the Earth.
Idris II of Morocco
(ุฅุฏุฑูุณ ุงูุซุงูู ุจู ุฅุฏุฑูุณ)
Posthumous son of Idris I who assumed sovereignty at age eleven, founded the imperial capital city of Fez in 808 CE, and consolidated the administrative, judicial, and cultural institutions of Morocco.
Abd al-Wahhab ibn Abd al-Rahman
(ุนุจุฏ ุงูููุงุจ ุจู ุนุจุฏ ุงูุฑุญู
ู ุจู ุฑุณุชู
)
Second Imam of the Rustamid state in Tahert who consolidated the Ibadi democratic imamate, founded desert trade arteries, and welcomed Christian and Sunni scholars to his court.
Charlemagne (Charles the Great / Carolus Magnus)
(Carolus Magnus / Karl der Groรe)
King of the Franks and first Holy Roman Emperor, crowned by Pope Leo III on Christmas Day 800 in Rome. United Western and Central Europe for the first time since the fall of Rome, sparking the Carolingian Renaissance of scholarship and arts.
Ibrahim I ibn al-Aghlab
(ุฅุจุฑุงููู
ุจู ุงูุฃุบูุจ)
Abbasid governor who secured hereditary autonomy from Caliph Harun al-Rashid in 800 CE, founding the Aghlabid Dynasty in Kairouan and establishing Ifriqiya as an autonomous naval and cultural power.
Harun al-Rashid (Fifth Abbasid Caliph)
(ูุงุฑูู ุงูุฑุดูุฏ (The Just / Aaron the Upright))
Fifth Abbasid Caliph whose reign marked the zenith of the Islamic Golden Age. Established the legendary House of Wisdom (Bayt al-Hikma) in Baghdad, exchanged diplomatic gifts with Charlemagne, and inspired the tales of the Thousand and One Nights.
Emperor Kammu
(ๆกๆญฆๅคฉ็)
Fiftieth Emperor of Japan (781โ806 CE) who broke the political stranglehold of the Buddhist temples of Nara by relocating the imperial capital to Heian-kyo (Kyoto) in 794, inaugurating the glorious four-century Heian period of classical Japanese culture.
Idris I of Morocco
(ุฅุฏุฑูุณ ุจู ุนุจุฏ ุงููู (ู
ููุงู ุฅุฏุฑูุณ))
Great-grandson of Prophet Muhammad through Ali and Fatima, who fled Abbasid persecution, was welcomed by the Awraba Berbers at Volubilis, and founded the Idrisid Dynasty, establishing the first sovereign Moroccan Islamic state.
Al-Mansur (Abu Ja'far al-Mansur)
(ุฃุจู ุฌุนูุฑ ุงูู
ูุตูุฑ (ุนุจุฏ ุงููู ุจู ู
ุญู
ุฏ))
Second Abbasid Caliph and true founder of the Abbasid Caliphate who designed and founded the legendary Round City of Baghdad in 762 CE.
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang
(ๅ็ๅฎ (ๆ้ๅบ))
Longest-reigning emperor of the Tang Dynasty whose Kaiyuan Era marked the pinnacle of Chinese classical poetry, painting, and opera, tragically shattered by the An Lushan Rebellion.