(Encyclopedia) Aga KhanAga Khanäˈgä khän [key], the title of the religious leader and imam of the Ismaili Nizari sect of Islam, originally bestowed by the Persian shah Fath Ali on Hasan Ali Shah,…
(Encyclopedia) Ershad, Hussain Muhammad, 1930–2019, Bangladeshi military and political leader, b. Cooch Behar (now part of West Bengal, India). Commissioned in Pakistan's army in 1952, he was a…
Cousin and son-in-law of Mahomet, the beauty of whose eyes is with the Persians proverbial; insomuch that the highest term they employ to express beauty is Ayn Hali (eyes of Ali). —Chardin…
(Encyclopedia) Yunus, Muhammad, 1940–, Bangladeshi economist and banker, b. Chittagong (then in British India), grad. Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, Tenn. (Ph.D. 1971). Yunus, who taught economics in…
(Encyclopedia) Masudi, Abd al-Hasan Ali ibn al-HusaynMasudi, Abd al-Hasan Ali ibn al-Husaynmäs&oomacr;ˈdē [key], d. 956, Arab historian, geographer, and philosopher, b. Baghdad. He traveled in…
(Encyclopedia) Al-Biruni or Al Beruni, Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn AhmadAl-Biruni or Al Beruni, Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmadäb&oomacr;ˈ rīhänˈ məhămˈĭd ĭbˈən äˈməd ăl-bēr&oomacr;ˈnē, ăl bĕr&…
(Encyclopedia) IdrisidsIdrisidsĭdˈrĭsĭdzˌ [key], two historic Muslim families. 1 An Arab Shiite dynasty of Morocco (788–974), founded by Idris I, a descendant of caliph Ali. It was the first Shiite…
Ali MacGraw(Alice MacGraw)actressBorn: 4/1/1938Birthplace: Pound Ridge, New York This ex-fashion model rose to movie stardom with Goodbye Columbus (1969) and the internationally successful Love Story…
