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Al-Husayn I ibn Ali, also known as Hussein I (Arabic: حسين الأول; born in 1675 – 13 September 1740) was the founder of the Husainid Dynasty, which ruled Tunisia until the abolition of the monarchy in 1957. Biography. Husayn was born a Kouloughli, which is a term used to refer to an Ottoman father and a local North African mother.
Ali al-Akbar ibn al-Husayn ( Arabic: عَلِيّ ٱلْأَكْبَر بن ٱلْحُسَيْن ), commonly known as simply Ali al-Akbar, was the son of Layla bint Abi Murra and Husayn ibn Ali, the third Shia imam and the grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Aged between eighteen and twenty-five, Ali was killed at the Battle of Karbala in ...
Al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Abid. Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-ʿĀbid ( Arabic: الحسين بن علي العابد) was an Alid who rebelled at Medina against the Abbasid caliph al-Hadi. He was killed with many of his followers at the Battle of Fakhkh outside Mecca on 11 June 786, whence he is known to history as the Man of Fakhkh ( Arabic: صاحب ...
Husayn ibn Ali. Ḥusayn ibn ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib (3rd Sha‘bān 4 AH - 10th Muharram 61 AH; 8th January 626 AD - 10th October 680 AD) was the grandson of the Islamic Prophet, Muhammad (ﷺ), and the son of Ali (final Caliph and first Shī‘ah Imām) and Fātimah Zahrā (daughter of the Prophet (ﷺ)). Husayn is an important figure in ...
Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abi Talib (ٱلْحُسَيْن ابْن عَلِي ابْن أَبِي طَالِب; 10 October 625 – 10 October 680; also transliterated as Husayn ibn Ali, Husain, Hussain and Hussein) was a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a son of Ali ibn Abi Talib (the first Shia Imam and the fourth Rashid caliph of Sunni Islam) and Muhammad's daughter Fatimah. He is an important figure in Islam as he was a member of the Bayt (Household) of Muhammad and the ...
The Story of Imam Husayn (A) Imam Husayn (S) is the grandson of Prophet Muhammad (S) and the son of both Imam Ali (A) and Lady Fatimah (A). Prophet Muhammad (S) adored him and credited him with a number of important merits during his life. However some 50 years later he was brutally massacred for refusing to side with a corrupt tyrant.
Portrait of Abbas ibn Ali, the standard-bearer of Husayn ibn Ali (the prophet's grandson) at the Battle of Karbala. Mu'awiya seized the rule after the assassination of Ali in 661 and founded the Umayyad Caliphate, during which the Alids and their supporters were heavily persecuted.
