Persons
Terms:Persons
List of persons names (and their functions) used in AWR-Articles
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| Name | Function |
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| Yūsuf Sīdhum |
Editor-in-chief of Watanī newspaper; Author; Member of the Coptic Orthodox Millī (Community) Council |
| Yūsuf Tawfīq | |
| Yūsuf Wahba (Pasha) |
Coptic Prime Minister of Egypt (1919-1920) |
| Yūsuf Wālī (Dr.) |
Former Egyptian Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Former Secretary-General for NDP |
| Yūsuf Zaydān |
Youssef Ziedan is an Egyptian scholar who specializes in Arabic and Islamic studies. He works as director of the Manuscript Center and Museum affiliated to the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. He is a university professor, a public lecturer, a columnist and a prolific author of more than 50 books. Born: June 30, 1958 (age 60 years), Sohag, Egypt Languages: Arabic Education: University of Alexandria (1989), MAIS |
| Yūsuf ʿAbd Allāh al-Qaraḍāwī [Yousef Al-Qaradawi] (Shaykh) |
Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī, Egyptian Islamic Scholar born 9 September 1926, based in Doha, Qatar, Member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Islamic Research Academy; President of the International Union for Muslim Scholars, member of the European Council for Fatwá and Research.
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| Yūsuf ʿUthmān |
head of the Syndicate of Actors 1995 |
| Yūsuf (Patriarch) |
new patriarch of the Greek Catholic Church of Egypt, successor of Patriarch Gregorius III Lahham- 2017 |
| Yūwannis (Father in Qufada) (Maghagha) | |
| Yūwannis Kamāl (Father of al-Malak Mikhael Church) |
Coptic Orthodox priest |
| Yūwannis XIX (Coptic Orthodox Pope) |
Coptic Orthodox Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark (1929 – 1942) |
| Yūwannis XVII (Coptic Orthodox Pope) | |
| Yūwaqīm (Bishop) |
Coptic Orthodox Bishop of Isnā and Armant |
| Yūʾānnis Adīb (Priest) |
Official of the Catholic Church in the Red Sea
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| Yūsuf al-ʿAẓma |
(1883-1920) Syrian minister of war in the governments of prime ministers Rida al-Rikabi and Hashim al-Atassi (01/1920-death); Arab Army's chief of general staff under King Faisal I |
| Yvonne Ridley (Journalist) |
British journalist; Convert to Islam; Former Taliban captive |
| Yvonne Ṣidqī |
Mother of the Coptic girl Sārā Subḥī who allegedly has been kidnapped . Sawt al-Ummah met with YvonneSidqī. According to the magazine, the mother asserted that there were similar cases in her family, like those of her husband’s sisters who embraced Islam and married Muslims 15 years ago. No kidnapper is mentioned by name. [Ref. AWR, 2006, week 32, art. 17 and: Arab-West Report, Paper 6, p. 16] |
| Yʿaqūbiyyūs (Bishop) | |
| Ẓafar al-Islām Khān |
indian mulsim author, reguler commentator on islamic and south asian issues issues on many TV channels |
| Zaghloul al-NajjƗr | |
| Zaghlūl al-Najjār [Zaghloul R. Naggar] (Dr.) |
Geologist; Chairman, Committee of Scientific Notions in the Glorious Qur'ān. Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, Egypt |
| Zaghlūl ʿAbd al-Shahīd |
involved in bureaucratic problems related to being officially recognized as Muslim, cases reported about in Sawt al-Ummah [Ref. Arab-West Report, Paper 6, p. 9] |
| Zāhī Hawās [Zahi Hawass] (Dr.) |
Zahi Hawass is an Egyptian archaeologist and Egyptologist. In the last years it has gained great worldwide popularity thanks to its participations in numerous documentaries that approach the civilization of Ancient Egypt. In 2006 he was named by TIME magazine as one of the 100 most influential people on the planet. Born: May 28, 1947 (age 71 years), Damietta, Egypt Spouse: Fekhira Field: Egyptology Education: University of Pennsylvania (1987), MORE Movies and TV: Chasing Mummies, MORE |
| Ẓāhir Zakī Jūrjī (Gen.) | |
| Zainab Mehdi [Zaynab Mahdī] | |
| Zakārī Kamāl Mikhāʾīl (Lawyer) |
Lawyer in the Abū Fānā incident |
| Zakaria Kamal | |
| Zakariyyā (Father, Qaṣr Hūr) |
Priest of the church in Qasr Hur, one of the villages close to the monastery of Abū Fānā |
| Zakariyyā Abū Ḥarām |
Author |
| Zakariyyā Bin Abī Mulayḥ | |
| Zakariyyā Buṭruṣ (Fr.) |
Egyptian Coptic priest, best known for his critiques of the Qur'an and other books of Islam |
| Zakariyyā Mūsawī [Zacarias Moussaoui] |
Moroccan-French fundamentalist; Alleged participant in 9/11 attacks |
| Zakariyyā ʿAzmī (Dr.) |
Chief of the presidential staff; Member of the NDP; Member of the People's Assembly |
| Zaki Badawi | |
| Zakī Badawī (Dr.) |
Director of the Islamic College in London |
| Zakī Badr |
Minister of interior |
| Zakī Zīdān |
Dean of faculty of engineering at Mansoura University (Islamist) |
| Zaven (1929-2004) | |
| Zaven Chinchinian (Archbishop) |
Armenian Orthodox Archbishop of Egypt (since 1977). Also a member of the Supreme Spiritual Council of the Armenian Church |
| Zayd Ibn Thābit |
According to Islamic tradition, the personal scribe of the Prophet Muhammad. Zayd had the role of writing down the verses of the Qur'an which Allah relayed to the Prophet Muhammad through the Angel Jibril (Gabriel). |
| Zayd Raʿad al-Ḥussayn (High Commissioner for Human Rights - UN) | |
| Zayd Saʿīd Ṣādiq (Shaykh) |
Egyptian Sheikh |
| Zaydān al-Qināʾī (Justice and Rights Development Organization) (Egypt) | |
| Zāyid bin Sulṭān Āl-Nahiyān (Shaykh) | |
| Zayn al-Sammāk (Shaykh) |
Member of the Tagammūc Party; Author |
| Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn al-Mihdār |
Commander of Aden-Abyan Islamic Army in Yemen |
| Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn al-Rikābī |
Saudi Journalist; Author |
| Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn bin ʿAlī | |
| Zayn Ibrāhīm |
Author |
| Zaynab al-Darbī |
Author |
| Zaynab al-Ṭahṭāwī al-Ghazālī |
Female activist member of the Muslim Brotherhood |
| Zaynab Ḥamdī |
Author |
| Zaynab Muntaṣir |
Author |
| Zaynab Raḍwān (Dr.) |
Professor of philosophy and Sharicah; Undersecretary of the People's Assembly; Member of the National Council for Human Rights |
| Zaynab Suwaydān | |
| Zaynab ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (Dr.) |
Professor of French civilization; Author |
| Zaynab ʿAbd Allāh |
Author |
| Zebeida Attalla [Zubaydā ʿAṭāllah], Dr. | |
| Zheng He [Ma He] (Chinese Mariner) |
Zheng He (1371-1433/1435) – imperial admiral of the fleet of Yongle emperor of the Ming dynasty. A Chinese Muslim from Yunnan, Zheng He was enslaved at a young age and sold as a eunuch to the imperial court, where he rose to become the fleet admiral. His expeditions led him to India, Persia, Arabia and East Africa. |
| Zhou Enlai [Chou En-lai] (Premier of the People's Republic of China) |
Zhou Enlai (1898-1976) – Premier of the People’s Republic of China between 1949 and 1976. As the foreign minister of China between 1949 and 1958, Zhou played an influential role at the Bandung Conference, where he fostered Communist China’s relations with the ‘Third World’. |
| Ziād Dūwayrī |
Lebanese film director |
| Ziyād al-ʿUlaymī | |
| Ziyād ʿAlī | |
| Ziyyād Ḥassan | |
| Zubayda Muḥammad ʿAṭā (Dr.) |
Professor of History specialized in the Middle Ages; Head of the history department at Helwan University |
| Zuhayr al-ʿArabī |
Author |
| Zuzana Skálová |
Czech art historian and icon restorer |
| Zvi Hirsch Kalischer (German Orthodox Rabbi) (1795-1874) |
Orthodox Rabbi, 1795-1874, who believed that the salvation of the Jews, promised by the Prophets, could come about only by means of self-help. This is the beginning of religious Zionism |
| [William] Makram ʿUbayd (Pasha, Coptic-Christian Politician) |
William Makram ʿUbayd (1879-1961) was a christian-coptic politician in Egypt |
| Ʈd LabƯ | |
| ʾAnba Ibrām [Patriarch of Coptic Orthodox Church-- al-Fayūm] | |
| ʿAbbās al-Ṭarābīlī |
Egyptian journalist; Former editor-in-chief of al-Wafd newspaper |
| ʿAbbās Ḥilmī II (Khedive) |
Khedive of Egypt (1892 - 1914) |
| ʿAbbās Maḥmūd al-ʿAqqād |
Egyptian Thinker; Author; Poet (1884-1964) |
| ʿAbbūd ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Zumur |
Leader of the Islamic Jihād Movement in Egypt |
| ʿAbd al-ʿĀṭī al-Shāfiʿī (Chancellor) |
Member of the Egyptian Scientific Council; Chancellor: Former Head of the Court of Appeal; Author |
| ʿAbd Abū al-Ḥamad |
head of an international human rights organization in Aswan |
| ʿAbd al Qādir Ḥamzah Dr. (Egyptian historian and journalist (1880-1941) | |
| ʿAbd al ʿAzīz ibn al-Bāz (Grand Muftī) | |
| ʿAbd al-Aḥad Jamāl al-Dīn [Abd Elahad Gamal Eldin] (Dr.) |
Parliamentary leader of the National Democratic Party |
| ʿAbd al-Badīʿa Abū Hāshim | |
| ʿAbd al-Bahāʾ |
Born cAbbās Effendī, he was the eldest son of Bahā' Allāh, the founder of the Bahā'ī Faith |
| ʿAbd al-Bāqī Khalīfa |
Author |
| ʿAbd al-Bāsiṭ Bin Ḥassan (Dr.) | |
| ʿAbd al-Bāsiṭ Dunqul (General) | |
| ʿAbd al-Bāsiṭ Muḥammad al-Miqraḥī [Abdelbaset al-Megrahi] |
was head of security for Libyan Arab Airlines and an alleged Libyan intelligence officer. On 31 January 2001, Megrahi was convicted of 270 counts of murder for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie. |
| ʿAbd al-Bāsiṭ ʿAbd al-Ṣamad (Shaykh) |
Famous Qur'an reciter |
| ʿAbd al-Dāyīm Nuṣayr |
Adviser for Al-Azhar Grand Imam Ahmad al-Tayyīb |
| ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Bizim (Abd al-Fattāh al-Bizim) |
Damscus Mufti |
| ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Shaykh (Dr.) |
Former head of the Azhar University; member of the Islamic Research Academy; Head of the Supreme Council of the Azhar |
| ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Sīsī (Abdel Fattah el-Sisi) [President of Egypt] | |
| ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ Hāshim (Dr.) | |
| ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ Idrīs (Dr.) |
Professor and Chairman of Department of Comparative Jurisprudence in Faculty of Sharīcah and Law at al-Azhar University |
| ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ Khaṭāb |
Head of the Coalition for Tourism Workers |
| ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ ʿAbd al-Munʿim |
Author; Journalist |
| ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ ʿAsākir (Islamic Scholar) | |
| ʿAbd al-Ghaffār al-Malāḥ | |
| ʿAbd al-Ghaffār Hilāl (Dr.) |
Former Dean of the Faculty of Arabic Language at the Azhar University |
| ʿAbd al-Ghaffār Shukr |
Member of the Tajammuc Party |
| ʿAbd al-Ghanī Hindī (Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs - Egypt) |
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