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Ali ibn Abi Talib (601–661), cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, the fourth Caliph of Sunni Islam. Ali ibn Husayn (Zayn al-Abidin) (c. 659 – c. 713), grandson of Ali ibn Abi Talib, Ali ibn Musa (ar-Reza) (c. 766 – 818), eighth infallible Imam in Shia Islam
Most Arabic names have meaning as ordinary adjectives and nouns, and are often aspirational of character. For example, Muhammad means 'Praiseworthy' and Ali means 'Exalted' or 'High'. The syntactic context will generally differentiate the name from the noun or adjective.
Ali ibn Abi Talib (Arabic: عَلِيُّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب, romanized: ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib; c. 600–661 CE) was the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and was the fourth Rashidun caliph who ruled from 656 CE to 661, as well as the first Shia imam.
Aliya bint Ali (1911–1950), Queen of Iraq; Aliyah bint al-Mahdi, was the daughter of Abbasid caliph Al-Mahdi (r. 775–785) from his concubine Bahtariyah. Aliya (actress) (born 1992), Chinese actress; Aliya LeeKong (born 1978), American chef, television personality, and author; Aliya Moldagulova (1925–1944), Soviet and Kazakh sniper
Alawites [b] are an Arab ethnoreligious group [17] who live primarily in the Levant region in West Asia and follow Alawism. [18] A sect of Islam that splintered from early Shia as a ghulat branch during the ninth century, [19] [20] [21] Alawites venerate Ali ibn Abi Talib, the "first Imam" in the Twelver school, as a manifestation of the divine essence.
Ali is accorded an almost legendary place in Islam as a paragon of virtues, a fount of wisdom, and a fearless but magnanimous warrior. [9] But it is in Shia Islam that Ali takes center stage, [10] for the Arabic word shi'a itself is short for shi'a of Ali (lit.
Husayn also had two other sons named Ali, both of whom were killed in the Battle of Karbala in 680. The first one was an infant, identified in Shia literature as Ali al-Asghar (lit. ' Ali junior '). The second one was Ali al-Akbar (lit. ' Ali senior '), although some historical accounts suggest that al-Sajjad was instead the eldest son of ...
[38] Responsible for their difference is the Arabic conjunction waw, which can mean 'while', as in the Shia translation, or may mean 'and', as in the Sunni translation. [40] As for the occasion of its revelation, the verse is considered a specific reference to Ali by Shia and some Sunni commentators, that is, a reference to when Ali reputedly ...