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St. Adolphus – Christian martyr who was put to death along with his brother, John, by Abd ar-Rahman II, Emir of Córdoba for apostasy. [161] Akbar Gbaja-Biamila – American football player. [162] [163] Albertus Soegijapranata, a National Hero of Indonesia, was the first native Indonesian Roman Catholic bishop in Indonesia. [164]
According to Islamic prophetic tradition, Muhammad was descended from Adnan. [7] Tradition records the genealogy from Adnan to Muhammad comprises 21 generations. The following is the list of chiefs who are said to have ruled the Hejaz and to have been the patrilineal ancestors of Muhammad.
Yahya (Arabic: يحيى, romanized: Yaḥyā), also spelled Yehya, is an Arabic male given name.It is an [a] Arabic form of the given name John, originally Aramaic Yohanan (Yəhôḥānān יְהוֹחָנָן "YHWH is gracious"), i.e. primarily John the Baptist, who is known as Yahya ibn Zakariyya in Islam, and is considered a prophet in Islam.
Hārūn (brother) Mūsā ibn ʿImrān ( Arabic: موسى ابن عمران, lit. 'Moses, son of Amram ') [ 1] is a prominent prophet and messenger of God and is the most frequently mentioned individual in the Quran, with his name being mentioned 136 times and his life being narrated and recounted more than that of any other prophet. [ 2][ 3] He ...
Muhammad. In Islam, Muḥammad ( Arabic: مُحَمَّد) is venerated as the Seal of the Prophets and earthly manifestation of primordial divine light ( Nūr ), who transmitted the eternal word of God ( Qur'ān) from the angel Gabriel ( Jabrāʾīl) to humans and jinn. [ 2] Muslims believe that the Quran, the central religious text of Islam ...
Sayyid Qutb. Sayyid Ibrahim Husayn Shadhili Qutb[ a] (9 October 1906 – 29 August 1966) was an Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary who was a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood. He is dubbed the "father of Salafi jihadism ", the religio-political doctrine that underpins the ideological roots of global jihadist organisations such ...
In Islam, Jesus ( Arabic: عِيسَى ٱبْنُ مَرْيَمَ, romanized : ʿĪsā ibn Maryam, lit. 'Jesus, son of Mary ') is believed to be the penultimate prophet and messenger of God and the Messiah sent to guide the Children of Israel ( Banī Isra'īl) with a book called the Injīl (Evangel or Gospel). In the Quran, Jesus is described ...
The Quran says that John the Baptist was the first to receive this name (Quran 19:7-10) but since the name Yoḥanan occurs many times before John the Baptist, [10] this verse refers either to Islamic scholar consensus that "Yaḥyā" is not the same name as "Yoḥanan" [11] or to the Biblical account of the miraculous naming of John, which ...