• Zirids in Ifriqiya. He is usually known as Ibn al-Raqīq, al-Raqīq al-Qayrawānī or even just al-Raqīq. Al-Raqiq was born in Qayrawan around 972. He served...
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    historians see Ibrahim ibn ar-Raqīq (~d.1028) and al-Mālikī. "an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself" "Ibn Khaldun – His...
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    raqiq (رقيق) meaning delicate, and raqiq also comes from the verb Raq (رق). Markook was also mentioned in the tenth-century cookbook of Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq...
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    or 1162. List of Sunni Muslim dynasties Ar-Raqiq, a courtier, poet and historian, secretary to al-Muizz ibn Badis. Different historical sources give different...
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    Abū 'l-Ḥasan al-Muḫtār Yuwānnīs ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbdūn ibn Saʿdūn ibn Buṭlān (Arabic: أبو الحسن المختار إيوانيس بن الحسن بن عبدون بن سعدون بن بطلان;...
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  • Bādīs ibn al-Manṣūr (Arabic: باديس بن المنصور; died 1016), known fully as ʾAbū Manād Bādīs Nāṣir al-Dawla (أبو مناد باديس ناصر الدولة), was the third...
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    cousin, Yaddar bin Luqman bin al-Mu'tar. Badis rewarded these leaders and accepted their assistance. Historian Al-Raqiq provided information about the...
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    ‘abd, the Qur'an instead uses that term in sense of "servant of God", and raqiq (another Arabic term for slave) is not found in the Qur'an. Thus, this term...
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    version of the history of the conquest, which was finalised by Ibrahim ibn ar-Raqiq. This version was copied in its entirety and sometimes interpolated,...
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