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Ahmed Mohamed (other)
Ahmed Mohammed (with some minor variations of spelling transliteration) is an Arabic patronymic name. It means ''Ahmed, Son of Mohammed'' (more precisely expressed as Ahmed bin Mohammed) or ''Ahmed, descendant of Mohammed''. Given name Given the popularity of Ahmed and Mohammed as given name, there are many "Ahmed, son of Mohammed": *Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari (c. 1578–1632), Arab-Algerian historian *Ahmed bin Mohammed al-Khalili (born 1942), Grand Mufti of the Sultanate of Oman *Ahmed Mohamed (general) (born 1964), Vice Chief of Defence Force of the Maldives National Defence Force *Ahmed Mohammed Hamed Ali (1965–2010), Egyptian citizen suspected of terrorism *Ahmed Mohamed (born c. 2001), American student arrested after bringing a reassembled clock to school in Texas (Ahmed Mohamed clock incident) Politics *Ahmed Mohammed Ali Al-Madani (born 1934), Saudi politician *Ahmed Mohamed ag Hamani (born 1942), Prime Minister of Mali *Ahmed Mohammed Inuwa (born 1948), Nigerian senator ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmed Mohammed Al-Maqqari
Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Maqqarī al-Tilmisānī (or al-Maḳḳarī) (), (1577-1632) was an Algerian scholar, biographer and historian who is best known for his , a compendium of the history of Al-Andalus which provided a basis for the scholarly research on the subject until the twentieth century. Life A native of Tlemcen and from a prominent intellectual family originally from the village of Maqqara, near M'sila in Algeria. After his early education in Tlemcen, al-Maqqari travelled to Fes in Morocco and then to Marrakesh, following the court of Ahmad al-Mansur. On al-Mansur's death in 1603, al-Maqqari established himself in Fes, where he was appointed both as mufti and as the imam of the Qarawiyyin Mosque by al-Mansour's successor, Zidan Abu Maali. In 1617, he left for the East, possibly following a quarrel with the local ruler, and took up residence in Cairo, where he composed his best known work, ''Nafḥ al-ṭīb''. In 1620 he visited Jerusalem and Damascus, and ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |