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Tunku Abdul Rahman

Birth:1903

Death:1990

A Malayan prince and politician. Following Malaya's independence, Tunku Abdul Rahman, as prime minister (1957 - 63) introduced reforms that spread power among the sultans who had ruled over fiefdoms on Malay peninsula for hundreds of years. In 1963 Malaya joined with Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore under a ...

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Tamerlane

Birth:1336

Death:1405

Conqueror of the world. Tamur the Lame, a self-made nomadic chieftain from Kesh, became 'one of the greatest conquerors the world has ever seen.' Styling himself the Scourge of God, he outdid Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan (to whom he was related by ...

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Tansu Ciller

Birth:1946

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The first woman prime minister of Turkey. She graduated from Robert College in Istanbul in 1969. She has a PhD from Yale University in International Economics. She married Ozer Ucuran, who adopted his wife's surname. He was the general manager of Istanbul Bank. Ciller Tansu lectured ...

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Taslim Olawale Elias

Birth:1914

Death:1991

The International jurist born in Nigeria. Elias had distinguished career which culminated in his being the President of the International Courts of Justice during 1982-85.

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Tawfiq Al Hakim

Birth:1890

Death:1987

The founder of the modern Egyptian theatre. Hakim Tawfiq studied law at Cairo University, and in Paris, and pursued dramas as his hobby. He was acknowledged for his dramatic talents, in 1933, for his drama Al Kahf. He wrote Shahrazad in 1934 followed by Malik Udib, Pijmaliyin, ...

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Taha Hussein

Birth:1889

Death:1973

An outstanding figure in modern Arabic literature. Hussain Taha wrote novels, short stories, social and political essays and literary criticism. He was blind from the age of two, he was the first man to obtain a doctorate degree in 1914 from the University of Cairo and ...

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Taqiuddin Ali Bin Abdul Kafi

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Death:1355

An Arabian author.

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Tjipto Mangunkusmo

Birth:1884

Death:1942

An Indonesian leader who fought against the Dutch colonial rule. Tjipto founded the Indies Party along with Suwardi Surjaningrat in 1911. He was exiled to Dutch East Indies in 1913. In 1927 he founded the Partai National of which Sukarno was the Chairman. Soon after, he was again ...

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Taqiuddin Ahmad Maqrizi

Birth:1360

Death:1442

Historian and geographer. Maqrizi's some of his works were translated into French and Latin. His fame rested on his al Mawaiz wa al itibar fi Zikr al Khitat wa al Athar. Maqrizi was born in Maqrez near Balbec.

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Turgut Ozal

Birth:1927

Death:1993

Turkish politician. Turgut Ozal, who founded the Anap, a political party, in 1983, became prime minister when election were restored in 1983 and that it led to its victory in the that year. Ozal is often called the second great Turkish revolutionary, after Ataturk. Ozal, a devout ...

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Taqiuddin Abul Hasan Ali Subki

Birth:1284

Death:1355

A Shafii theologian. Subki was a Mufti and Judge at Cairo and he authored Al-Dur- uI-Nazeem, Ibtihaj fi Sharh al Minhaj and others.

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Tahir Ibn Al Husayn

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Death:822

The founder of the Tahirid dynasty. Tahir was a military general, who was awarded the North Eastern Iran by the Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad and was virtually independent. He was the general of Al Mamun, who helped him against Al Amin. Tahir was the founder ...

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Tahmasp I

Birth:1514

Death:1576

Saffavid Shah of Iran. Tahmasp I enthroned in 1525, after the death of his father Shah Ismail, the founder of the dynasty. His reign was marked by wars with Ottoman Empire in 1534, 1538 and 1543. Peace, however, was concluded with Turkey in 1555. Tahmasp I gave refuge to the ...

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Talat Mahmood

Birth:1924

Death:1998

A singer. Talat's soft, sensuous, trembling and pathos of his voice enchanted India, for over two decades, with haunting love songs as a playback singer in over 200 Bolluwood films. A good-looking and dapper person, Talat acted in the Fifties. However, he preferred singing to acting, ...

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Talat Pasha

Birth:1874

Death:1921

A leader of the young Turks and grand Vizier. Before becoming the grand Vizier (1917 to 1918), he was a member of the Ottoman government from 1913 to 1918. After the revolution of the young Turks in 1908, he was the deputy for Edrine in the Ottoman Parliament and was ...

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Talha Bin Ubaidullah

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Death:656

Eighth man to accept Islam. He fought very bravely in the battle of Ouhad. Subsequent to the murder of Hazrat Usman, he refused to acknowledge Hazrat Ali's Khilafat. Both Talha and Zubair had followers in Al-Hijaz, Iraq and represented the Makkan Party. In the Battle ...

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Talib Shibib

Birth:1934

Death:1997

An Iraqi politician. Talib Shibib was elected to the leadership of Ba'ath party, and was one of a triumvirate who planned the later coup against President Abdul Karim Qassim and became foreign minister. Internal disagreements led him to go in exile. After the second coup ...

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Tamara Ali Hanani

Birth:1928

Death:1988

Founder of the British Circus without animals. The Royal society for the prevention of cruelty to Animals gave it full support. Tamara Ali was born in Russia.

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Tansen

Birth:1555

Death:1610

Miyan Tansen was one of the Nov-Ratans of the court of Akbar in India and a great singer and musician. According to Abul Fazl, India had never known a singer of his talent in the last thousands years. Tansen was largely responsible for introducing Persian ...

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Taqiuddin Tamimi

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Death:1596

The author of a biographical treatise giving an account of the Hanafi lawyers in alphabetical order, called Tabqat us Saniat Tarajim ul Hanafait.

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Tariq Ibn Ziyad

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Death:720

The Muslim General who conquered Spain. Tariq Ibn Ziyad was the general of Musa Ibn Nusayr, who had conquered Morocco and had appointed him in his place at Tangier, the capital. Tariq landed at Gibraltar in May 711 at the request of the sons of the ...

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Tauran Shah

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Death:1180

Surnamed Malik-ul-Muazzam was the brother of Salahuddin Ayubi.

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Tawfiq Fikret

Birth:1867

Death:1915

Pseudonym of Muhammad Tawfiq Nizami, founder of the modern school of Turkish poetry. Editor of Servet-i-Funun in 1896. He sought to adapt Turkish poetry to western themes and forms. His most important works was Rubbab-i-Shikeste (1896), Halukun Deftri (1911) and Sis (1962).

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Tawfiq Pasha

Birth:1852

Death:1892

A Khedive or ruler of Egypt, during the time of the British occupation in 1882. Son of Ismail Pasha whose economic adventures had led to the bankruptcy of Egypt in 1876 and his deposition by the Ottoman Sultan in 1879. Tawfiq replaced his father as Egyptian ruler in 1879, ...

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Taymur Mohamud

Birth:1894

Death:

An Egyptian writer. He was one of the most influential Arabic writers of the 20th century. He wrote short stories, plays, literary criticism and edited a magazine. His Tales from Egyptian Life (1949) and The Call of the Unknown (1964) have been translated into English.

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Tipu Sultan

Birth:1750

Death:1799

A great ruler of Mysore, India. Tipu Sultan succeeded his father, Hyder Ali Khan, in 1782. During the American War of independence he sided with the French against the English, but due to breakout of the French Revolution he was left alone. In 1792 Tipu Sultan had ...

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Titumir

Birth:1782

Death:1831

A disciple of Syed Ahmad Barelvi, who founded the Tariqah-Muhammadia a revivalist movement of Islam. Titu Mir began preaching in Bengal in late 1820's and won the support of the peasants as he opposed the oppressive ruling class (the Hindu landlords of Bengal). But when ...

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Toujan Al Faisal

Birth:1948

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The first Jordanian woman member of Parliament and a human rights activist.

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Tughril Beg

Birth:993

Death:1063

The first Sultan of Saljuqs. He was in the service of Mahmud Ghaznawi. After defeating his son Masud in 1038 he became the ruler of Nishapur and subdued Qaem Billah, the Caliph of Baghdad, who invited him as Sultan of Khurasan. He ruled for twenty-five years. ...

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Tun Muhammad Suffian

Birth:1917

Death:2000

Judge. Humility, compassion and fierce independence marked his career in Malaysia. He was awarded the Ramon Magaysay Award for government service in 1975. Suffian, known as Suff, was born in a remote village in Perak state and died in Kuala Lumpur, of cancer.

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Turtush

Birth:1065

Death:1095

Son of Alp Arslan. He took prisoner, Atsiz, who was a Sultan of Khawazim. He was slain in a battle, by his nephew.

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Tikka Khan

Birth:1915

Death:2002

Soldier. Former Chief of Staff of the Pakistan Army was best known for his repressive and ruthless tenure as governor of East Pakistan, the part of Pakistan, which in 1971 declared itself to become Bangladesh. Commissioned into 2nd Field Regiment Artillery of the British Indian Army ...

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Thomas Ballantyne Irving

Birth:1914

Death:2002

Professor, writer, translator and activist best known for his translation of the Quran: First American Version (1985). Dr Irving who accepted Islam in 1950s and took the name Al Hajj Ta'lim Nasr learned and taught at universities across Canada and America and retired as a professor ...

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Thojib N J Suharto

Birth:1921

Death:2008

An autocrat Indonesian leader who fostered stability. When president Sukarno lost public confidence in 1966, Suharto took control and was made acting president in 1967. First elected in 1968, re-elected in 1971, 1977 and 1983. He was chosen president for the seventh time in 1998. Reversing Sukarno's policy, he developed close economic ...

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Talun Ahmad

Birth:9th century

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The founder of the Tulunid dynasty in Egypt and Syria. Talun Ahmad was a Turk who came to Egypt in 868 as governor and soon established his own dynasty, which was the first dynasty to exist independently of the Abbasid government in Baghdad. He ruled from 868 ...

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Tan Malaka Ibrahim Datuk

Birth:1894

Death:1949

The Indonesian communist leader who vied with Sukarno for power. Tan Malaka returned from Europe in 1919 after his education there. The communists were at that time working with Sarekat Islam (Islamic Association) but in 1921 they parted ways with the Sarekat. Tan Malaka represented Indonesia at ...

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Tan Sri Datuk Ahmad Bin Muhammad Ibrahim

Birth:1916

Death:1999

Islamic scholar. Prof Ibrahim was a renowned scholar who had spent most of his life in Islamic academic and Da'wah in Malaysia. He was rector of the International Islamic University of Malaysia. Prof. Ibrahim was expert in Islamic legal matters and served as member of ...

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Tarif Bin Malik

Birth:9th century

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The celebrated governor of North Africa. Musa sent him in 710 on a reconnaissance before he sent Tariq ibn Ziyad to Spain. He landed on the southern most tip of Spain. This peninsula, now Tarifa, has since borne his name.

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Tariq Ali

Birth:1944

Death:

Writer and film-maker. In 1967, 25,000 students marched on the American Embassy in London in a violent outburst against Vietnam War and at their head was Tariq Ali, blessed with film-star good looks, who urged the masses on to revolution. He earned a national reputation through debates ...

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Tariq Ramadan

Birth:1962

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Acclaimed Swiss philosopher and Islamic theoretician. Ramadan has become enormously influential among Muslims throughout Europe for his calls for Muslims to embrace and practice Islam in a thoroughly modern manner. He advises Muslims on how they can fully integrate into European societies without betraying the ...

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Tabish Dehlavi

Birth:1911

Death:2004

Urdu poet and broadcaster. Tabish Dehlavi was admired not only as poet but also as a broadcaster and Urdu newsreader - he read the news bulletin announcing the establishment of Pakistan on 14 August 1947, from the All India Radio. He was associated with Radio Pakistan as ...

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Turki Al Hamad

Birth:1953

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Saudi political analyst, academic, novelist and liberal reformer. Turki al-Hamad's publication of Adama (1998), the first instalment of his sweeping trilogy, banned in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain, has sold some 20,000 to his readers' delight. His second novel, Shumaisi, in the trilogy published in English, in ...

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Tahsin Ozguc

Birth:1916

Death:2005

An eminent Turkish archaeologist. Dr Ozguc digs in Anatolia documented the intermingling of Bronze Age cultures and commerce in what in now central Turkey. For more than 50 years, Dr Ozguc, a professor of archaeology at Ankara University, led the excavation of Kultepe, the ancient Kanesh, ...

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Tahar Ben Jelloun

Birth:1944

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Novelist, poet, playwright and essayist In 1966, Tahar was arrested as a student radical and detained at a military camp for 18 months. After his release he became a teacher, moved to Paris, in 1971, making his mark as a journalist for Le Monde. His first novel, Harrouda, ...

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Tahir Mirza

Birth:1936

Death:2007

Pakistan's veteran journalist Pakistan's veteran journalist and columnist Tahir Mirza who was a former editor of The Dawn had a long and distinguished career in journalism. Born into a learned family of Delhi Tahir Mirza spent his formative years in journalism as a reporter with ...

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Taha Jabir Al Alalwani

Birth:1935

Death:

Islamic scholar Currently President of Cordoba University in USA, Dr. al-Alwani is also the Imam al-Shafi'i Chair in Islamic Legal Theory at the Graduate School of Islamic and Social sciences in USA. He is a founder-member of the Council of the Muslim World League in ...

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Tayeb Salih

Birth:1929

Death:2009

Sudan's illustrious literary figure Writing in Arabic with great success, Tayeb Salih is well known for his Mawsim al hijra ila al shimal (Season of Migration to the North, 1966) showing perceptive assessment of the relationship between East and West, and complex weaving of personal and ...

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Turkan Saylan

Birth:1935

Death:2009

Turkey's women's rights champion A champion of women's rights and education for poor children in Turkey, Turkan Saylan was also a leader in the fight against leprosy. Working as a dermatologist in Turkey, Dr. Saylan became active in the 1970s, founding the Turkish Leprosy Relief ...

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Tajudeen Abdul Raheem

Birth:1956

Death:2009

Champion for the peaceful unification of Africa The champion of Pan-African vision and the peaceful unification of Africa, Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, was also a thinker, writer and prodigious orator who inspired and influenced a whole generation of Africans with his mixture of passion and humour. In ...

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Tyeb Mehta

Birth:1925

Death:2009

India's Modernist painter One of the most celebrated of India's Modernist painters, Tyeb Mehta, was known for his work breaking auction records and who became a national hero. In 2005 his 1997 painting 'Mahisasura,' an image of the Hindu buffalo-demon defeated by goddess Durga, sold at ...

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Tafazzul Hussain Khan

Birth:1727

Death:1800

Harbinger of a new age A man who embraced and promoted modernity and the scientific outlook, at the time, Khan-e-Allama Nawab Tafazzul Hussain Khan was acknowledged as the harbinger of a new age and was given the high accolade. His expertise in the rational (Mathematics ...

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Tareque Masud

Birth:1956

Death:2011

One of Bangladesh's most prominent filmmakers. One of Bangladesh most prominent filmmakers, Tareque Masud rose to prominence with the films Muktir Gaan (The Song of Freedom) in 1995 and Matir Moina (The Clay Bird) in 2002, the later based on his experiences during Bangladesh's war of independence ...

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Tawakkul Karman

Birth:1979

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Yemeni human rights activist and a co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel peace prize. Recognised to some of Yemen's opposition movement as the 'mother of the revolution', Tawakkul Karman has emerged as a crucial figure among the youth activists who began camping out at Change Square in ...

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Tahmima Anam

Birth:1975

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Bangladeshi novelist With her first novel, 'A Golden Age' (2007) Tahmima Anam's book distinguished her as a young novelist writing resonantly about ruptures of war. Her research into the Bangladeshi liberation war of 1971 and its emotional aftershocks included testimonies from her own freedom-fighters parents. These accounts ...

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Birth:1940

Death:2013

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Tijjani Abubakar El-Miskin

Birth:1940

Death:2015

Note: Date of Birth to be verified. An obituary prepared by Bala Muhammad and published in the Daily Trust, Nigeria notes: Deputy Secretary General of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs Professor Tijjani Abubakar El-Miskin was a veteran journalist and prominent civil society activist. ...

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