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
Death:
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
Birth:
Death:1355
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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
Birth:
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
Birth:
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
Birth:
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
Birth:
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
Birth:
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
Death:
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
Death:
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
Death:
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
Death:
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
Death:
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
Death:
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
Death:
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
Death:
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
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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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