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Also Known As Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā al-Balādhurī
Died c.892
Subjects Of Study Caliphate • imperialism
Polybius, statue in Vienna.
Polybius
Greek historian
Treitschke, Heinrich von
Heinrich von Treitschke
German historian
Appian of Alexandria
Greek historian
ʿAlī: Arabic calligraphy
ʿAlī
Muslim caliph
Ibn Khaldūn
Ibn Khaldūn
Muslim historian
Muʿāwiyah I
Umayyad caliph
al-Maʾmūn
ʿAbbāsid caliph
ʿAbd al-Malik: Dome of the Rock
ʿAbd al-Malik
Umayyad caliph
Hārūn al-Rashīd
ʿAbbāsid caliph
al-Ṭabarī
Muslim scholar
al-Manṣūr
ʿAbbāsid caliph
al-Masʿūdī
Arab historian
ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān
Muslim caliph
Abū Bakr
Muslim caliph
ʿUmar I
Muslim caliph
Qutaybah ibn Muslim
Arab general
Ibn al-Ashʿath
Arab general
ʿUmar II
Umayyad caliph
Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik
Umayyad caliph
Mosque of ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ
ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ
Arab general

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