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Harith
Harith or Hareth ( ar, حارث) is a common Arabic name, meaning "the great lion" or "he who digs the earth". Notable people with the name include: * Ali ibn Abd al-Muttalib, one of the uncles of Muhammad * Al-Harith ibn Hilliza al-Yashkuri, 5th century pre-Islamic Arabian poet * Azazil, also known as Ḥārith, the name of Iblis before he was expelled from heaven * Harith al-Dhari (1941–2015), an Iraqi Sunni Arab cleric * Harith Gassani, Arab Christian governor of Sham and contemporary of Muhammad * Harith al-Hamdani, a contemporary of Muhammad * Harith ibn Harb, brother of the man who would be Muhammad's arch enemy, Abu Sufyan ibn Harb * Harith Iskander (born 1966), a Malaysian actor and comedian * Harith Lim (born 1970), a professional Singaporean darts player * Harith Maduwantha (born 1994), a Sri Lankan cricketer * Harith al-Muhasibi (781–857), founder of the Baghdad School of Islamic philosophy * Harith bin Ghazi al-Nadhari (died 2015), an official of Al Qaeda in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harith Iskander
Harith Iskander bin Musa (born 7 August 1966) is a Malaysian actor and comedian. He is considered to be "the Godfather of Stand-Up Comedy" in Malaysia, having also won the Asia's Best Stand-Up Comedian Award 2014 by Top 10 of Asia Magazine. He won the Funniest Person in the World competition in December 2016. Early life Iskander was raised in Johor Bahru in the state of Johore. His father, Musa Ibrahim hailed from the state and was of Malay descent. His mother, Jane Musa was of Scottish ancestry from the Grant clan, working in the United Nations Headquarters in New York City as a secretary. They both met in the Democratic Republic of Congo during the Congo Crisis, Musa being a member of the peacekeeping corps sent by the Malaysian government there while Jane worked as part of the UN staff. He attended Curtin University in Perth, Australia, majoring in journalism and obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English. He graduated in 1988 During his university and young adult days, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banu Al-Harith
The Banu al-Harith ( ar, بَنُو الْحَارِث ' or ar, بَنُو الْحُرَيْث ') is an Arabian tribe which once governed the cities of Najran, Taif, and Bisha, now located in southern Saudi Arabia. History Origins and early history The Banu Harith descend from the Qahtanite people, one of the most prominent Arab tribes originating from Yemen. The earliest recorded ancestor of the Qahtanites is Joktan, one of the two sons of Eber. The Qahtanite people are divided into the two factions, the Himyarite and Kahlani tribes. The Kahlani tribe can be further broken into smaller sub-groups which include the Banu Harith which was established by Harith bin Ka'b. Originally published: London : Edward Arnold, 1892 The Banu Harith converted to Judaism during pre-Islamic times.Charles Kurzman, ''Liberal Islam'', p. 172Norman Stillman, ''The Jews of Arab Lands: A History and Source Book'', p. 117 They wore a jambiya on their belt and worked primarily in goldsmithing and repai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harith Al-Hamdani
Harith (or Haris) Al A'war Al-Hamdani ( ar, الحارث الهمداني)(literally: Haris From Banu Hamdan, Hamadan or Haris the Hamadanite) was a prominent contemporary of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, and also was one of the firm followers of Ali. Biography A meeting with Ali Perhaps one of the most important accounts involving Harith al-Hamdani is one in which Ali Ibn Abi Talib spoke to him at a time when Harith was old and in poor health. The account is in Nahj al-Balagha as follows: :Al-Harith Al-Hamadani called upon Amirul Mo'mineen (Ali Ibn Abi Talib) with a company of the Shias, and I was among them. Al-Harith walked with a bent stature, hitting his walking stick hard on the ground. He was indeed ill. So Amirul Mo'mineen came close to him and al-Harith had a good standing in his estimation, and he said: "How do you find yourself, O Harith?" :He said: "The vicissitude of time has overtaken me, and the dispute among your companions about you and the three before you, has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harith Al-Sudani
Captain Harith Al-Sudani (1981–2017, Arabic: حارث السوداني ) was an Iraqi soldier, spy and war hero in the Iraq–ISIS war. Al-Sudani infiltrated ISIS, becoming a trustee and car-bombs driver, allowing the Iraqi military to neutralize around 30 car-bomb attacks. Al-Sudani have been described as " raq��s most successful spy" while operating within the secret intelligence unit called Al Suquor, or the Falcons Intelligence Cell, the counter-terrorism unit leading operations against ISIS. The Falcons have been praised by US services for infiltrating IS cells, killing or arresting leaders, preventing attacks and destroying weapons. Early life Al-Sudani has grown up in Ramadi then Baghdad, within a strict disciplinarian family, working after school in his father's small print shop. In university, he neglected his studies. Under pressure from family, he settled into an arranged marriage, returned to school to learn English and Russian, but eventually took a surveillan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Harith Ibn Hilliza Al-Yashkuri
Al-Ḥārith ibn Ḥilliza al-Yashkurī ( ar, الحارث بن حلزة اليشكري) was a pre-Islamic Arabian poet of the tribe of Bakr, from the 5th century. He was the author of one of the seven famous pre-Islamic poems known as the ''Mu'allaqat''. Little is known of the details of his life. The story of the ''mu'allaqa'' which al-Harith composed is as follows. A dispute had arisen between the men of Taghlib and those of Bakr after a number of young Taghlib men had died in the desert. The men of Taghlib chose their prince, Amr ibn Kulthum, to plead their cause before Amr ibn Hind (d. 569), the king of al-Hirah in southern Iraq. Ibn Kulthum pleaded the Taghlib's cause by reciting the sixth of the ''mu'allaqāt''. A quarrel then broke out between Ibn Kulthum and al-Nu'man, the Bakr spokesman, as a result of which the king dismissed them both and asked al-Harith to act as spokesman for the Bakr tribe instead of al-Nu'man. Whereupon, al-Harith recited the seventh ''mu'allaqa''. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harith Al-Dhari
Sheikh Harith Sulayman al-Dhari (al-Dari) or Harith ibn Sulayman ibn Dhari al-Zoba'i al-shamri ( ar, حارث الضاري) (b. 1941 – 12 March 2015) was an Iraqi Sunni Arab cleric, and chairman of the Association of Muslim Scholars. He is also leader of the Zoba' tribe. An outspoken critic of the American invasion of Iraq, he is known as "the Spiritual Leader of the Iraqi Resistance" (Insurgency). His father and grandfather killed British Colonel Gerard Leachman and played a part in the 1920 revolt against British imperial rule, which was the fiercest in the Shi'ite south, and was a seminal moment of unity between Iraq's Sunnis, Shi'ites, and Kurds that forced the British to allow a form of self-rule. Education Harith al-Dhari was educated at Al-Azhar University in Cairo. He later worked in the Islamic Law department of Baghdad University. Iraqi politics Al-Dhari has been an outspoken critic of the foreign military presence in Iraq and has said that he approves of the Sunn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harith Lim
Harith Lim (born 11 April 1970) is an professional Singaporean darts player who plays in the Professional Darts Corporation events. Career He first came into prominence in 1986, when he won the BDO World Youth Masters, defeating Rowan Barry of Australia in the final. He is mainly seen on the soft tip circuit, but has appeared in some steel tip action. He Runner-Up the number 4 seed of 1987 BDO World Youth Championship defeating champion 1986 Mark Day and losing to Rowan Barry of Australia. He has represented Singapore along with Paul Lim (no relation) in eight PDC World Cup of Darts tournaments, with their biggest success being in the 2017 tournament when they defeated the top seeds Scotland (consisting of Gary Anderson and Peter Wright), then knocked out the Spanish pairing of Cristo Reyes and Antonio Alcinas, before losing the quarter-final to Belgium, although Harith defeated Ronny Huybrechts in his singles match, before he and Paul lost to Kim Kim or KIM may refer t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harith Bin Ghazi Al-Nadhari
Harith bin Ghazi al-Nadhari ( ar, حارث غازي النظاري'; died 31 January 2015) was a senior sharia official of the Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) based in Yemen. Al-Nadhari has featured in many of AQAP's propaganda videos such as rebuking the Islamic State announcement of expanding their caliphate into Yemen and renewing loyalties to al-Qaeda Emir Ayman al-Zawahiri Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri (June 19, 1951 – July 31, 2022) was an Egyptian-born terrorist and physician who served as the second emir of al-Qaeda from June 16, 2011, until his death. Al-Zawahiri graduated from Cairo University with .... In his address, al-Nadhari stated ''"The announcement of the caliphate for all Muslims by our brothers in the Islamic State did not meet the required conditions. The policy of our brothers in the Islamic State split the ranks of the mujahideen, and scattered them, in this sensitive phase in the history of the mujahid ummah ommunity This is one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harith Gassani
Harith ibn Abi Shamir Al-Gassani ( ar, اَلْحَارِث ٱبْن أَبِي شَمِر الغَسَّانِي, al-Ḥārith-bn-Abī-Shamir al-Ghassānī) was the Ghassanid Arab Christian governor of Sham (Levant or Greater Syria) which was in the domain of the Byzantine Empire. He was a contemporary of Muhammad and King of Damascus now in modern-day Syria. He received a letter from Muhammad in which he was invited to Islam. Harith was a member of the Ghassanid dynasty, which ruled parts of Sham. Letter sent by Muhammad After the Hudaybiyah Treaty, Muhammad sent a letter to Harith Gassani which read as follows: See also *Non-Muslims Interactants with Muslims During Muhammad's Era *Muqawqis Al-Muqawqis ( ar, المقوقس, cop, ⲡⲭⲁⲩⲕⲓⲁⲛⲟⲥ, ⲡⲓⲕⲁⲩⲕⲟⲥ, p-khaukianos, pi-kaukos "the Caucasian") is mentioned in Islamic history as a ruler of Egypt who corresponded with the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He ... References 6th-century Arabs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harith Al-Muhasibi
al-Muḥāsibī () was an Arab philosopher, and considered to be the founder of the Baghdad School of Islamic philosophy, and a teacher of the Sufi masters Junayd al-Baghdadi and Sirri Saqti. His full name is Abu Abdullah Harith bin Asad bin Abdullah al-Anizi al-Basri hailed from the Arab Anazzah tribe. He was born in Basra in about 781. ''Muhasibi'' means self-inspection/audit. It was his characteristic property. He was a founder of Sufi doctrine, and influenced many subsequent theologians, such as al-Ghazali. The author of approximately 200 works, he wrote about theology and ''Tasawwuf'' (Sufism), among them ''Kitab al-Khalwa'' and ''Kitab al-Ri`aya li-huquq Allah'' ("Obeying God's Permits"). Life His parents left Basra for Baghdad shortly after his birth, perhaps inclined to the economic opportunities in the new capital. His father became wealthy, though al-Muhasibi refused it. Despite the affluent lifestyle available to him, he retained an ascetic quality from Al-Hasan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harith Maduwantha
Harith Maduwantha (born 7 October 1994) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Sinhalese Sports Club in the 2015–16 Premier League Tournament The 2015–16 Premier League Tournament was the 28th season of first-class cricket in Sri Lanka's Premier Trophy. It was held between 4 December 2015 and 6 March 2016, with fourteen teams competing. Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club won the ... on 4 December 2015. References External links * 1994 births Living people Sri Lankan cricketers Sinhalese Sports Club cricketers Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club cricketers Cricketers from Colombo {{SriLanka-cricket-bio-1990s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harith Al-Obeidi
Harith Mohey Al Deen Abd al-Obeidi (1961? 1964? – 12 June 2009) was an Iraqi politician and cleric and member of Parliament for the Iraqi Accord Front. He was assassinated on 12 June 2009.Campaigning Iraqi MP Harith al Obeidi shot dead outside Baghdad mosque '''', 2009-06-12 Background Obeidi (also transliterated as ''ʻUbaydī'', ''Ubaidi'' or ''Obaidi'') was born in Baghdad into a fam ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
