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Ahsan Manzil (Bengali: আহসান মঞ্জিল) is a palace located in the Kumartoli area beside Buriganga River of Dhaka, Bangladesh. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was formerly the residence and seat of the Nawab of Dhaka and has been designated an Old Dhaka Heritage Site . [ 3 ]
Abd al-Malik's father was a senior aide of their Umayyad kinsman, Caliph Uthman (r. 644–656). [3] In 656, Abd al-Malik witnessed Uthman's assassination in Medina, [6] an "event [that] had a lasting effect on him" and contributed to his "distrust" of the townspeople of Medina, according to the historian A. A. Dixon. [12]
Abd al-Malik was the eldest of the Marwanids in al-Andalus. [1] He is generally credited with counselling Abd al-Rahman to drop the name of the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur (r. 754–775) from the Friday prayer—a traditional acknowledgement of Islamic sovereignty—in 757. [9] Abd al-Malik gained the confidence of Abd al-Rahman.
Abdul Ghani was a great patron of the arts of the baijees, the hereditary dancing girls introduced to Bengal by Wajid Ali Shah, the Nawab of Awadh. Baijees, known as the Tawaif in Northern India, danced a special form of Kathak focused at popular entertainment along with singing mostly in the form of Thumri .
Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Qasim was born in Egypt in a mosque known as the 'Utaqi Mosque in the mid 8th century CE at a time when the Abbasids took control of the Muslim world from the Umayyads. Ibn al-Qasim's origins were from the Palestinian town of Ramla. He was a descendant from the slaves of Ta'if whom the Prophet Muhammad had freed.
Al-Qasim's Father Muhammad bin Abdur Rahman, was among the senior students of Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Ibrahim Al Ash-Shaykh – Mufti of Saudi Arabia during his era. His father worked as a teacher in the faculty of Uṣūl Ad-Dīn in the department of Islamic Creed at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University.
In the aftermath of Marwan's death, Abd al-Malik and his brother Mu'awiyah were captured and imprisoned by Salih ibn Ali, but were soon pardoned on account of the leniency Abd al-Malik had shown towards the Abbasids during his time in office. They later accompanied Salih when he departed from Egypt in 751. [6]
Al-Samh ibn Malik al-Khawlani (Arabic: السمح بن مالك الخولاني) was the Arab governor general of Al-Andalus from between 719 and 721. [1] In 720, under his governorate he minted the first purely Arab coins in Al-Andalus as part of his fiscal reforms.