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Ibdaa Cultural Center The Ibdaa Cultural Center is a grassroots community-based project in the West Bank's Palestinian Dheisheh refugee camp. The name, "Ibdaa," (ابداع) is translated from Arabic as "creation" or "creative ability".
Iben Browning Iben Browning (1918-1991) was publisher of the Browning Newsletter, a business publication in which he regularly predicted crop failures and market crashes. In an issue in the late 1980s he predicted that an earthquake on the New Madrid fault line in southern Missouri would occur on December 3, 1990; the predicted earthquake did not occur.
Iberia (book) Iberia, a book by James Michener, is a detailed exploration of Spain at it existed in the mid 1960s. The author takes great pains to be neutral on such subjects as the Moorish occupation, Islam, Catholicism, Francisco Franco and other controversial subjects, but he is characteristically detailed about his explorations.
Iberian Communist Federation Catalan-Balear Communist Federation (in Catalan: FederaciĂł Comunista Catalano-Balear) was a communist group in Spain. Formed in 1924, it joined the Communist Party of Spain (PCE), and functioned as the PCE federation in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands.
Iberian Communist Youth Iberian Communist Youth (in Spanish: Juventud Comunista Iberica, JCI) was the youth wing of the Iberian Communist Federation, and later of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM). JCI had its main strength in Catalonia and the Llevant (Land of Valencia and Murcia).
Iberian Gate and Chapel Resurrection Gate (, also called Иверские ворота, for Iberian Gate) is the only existing gate of the Kitai-gorod in Moscow. It connects the north-western end of Red Square with Manege Square and gives its name to nearby Voskresenskaya Square.
Iberian language The Iberian language describes a linguistic group identified with the Iberian civilization (7th century BC – 1st century BC), formed in the eastern and south-eastern regions of the Iberian peninsula. These indigenous languages became extinct by the 1st to 2nd centuries AD, after being gradually replaced by Latin.
Iberian Wolf The Iberian Wolf is a subspecies of Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) that inhabited the forest and plains of North Portugal and North-Western Spain. It can be identified by its thinner and smaller complexion and a pair of dark marks in its front legs that give it its subspecies name, signatus ("marked").
Iberic Federalism Iberic Federalism or Pan-Iberism was an ideology from the beginning of the 20th century purporting the federation of both great countries in the Iberian Peninsula: Portugal and Spain. These ideals were mainly promoted by republican and socialist movements in both nations.
Iberica Branch IEE Iberica Branch is the IEE's branch for engineers in the Spain and Portugal area. The IEE has a global network of over 90 Branches worldwide, providing a local focus for engineering, including organised events, technical lectures and company visits.
Ibero-America Ibero-America (also "Spanish and Portuguese Speaking Commonwealth of Independent States") is a term which started to be used in the second half of the 19th century to refer collectively to the countries in the Americas which were formerly colonies of Spain or Portugal. Spain and Portugal are themselves included, for example the Organization of Ibero-American States has them as member states.
Ibero-German Ibero-German means of or pertaining to people of Spanish or Portuguese descent living in Germany or the German speaking countries. This includes Spaniards and Portuguese people, Latin Americans and Hispanics in Germany.
Iberomoldes Iberomoldes is one of the largest mould engineering and product development groups in the world. With about 800 employees, the company is headquartered in Marinha Grande, Portugal, having engineering offices in the UK and Sweden.
Iberville Projects The Iberville Projects are one of the Housing Projects of New Orleans and are located in the 4th Ward of downtown New Orleans on the former site of the famous Storyville district. They are bordered by Rampart Street on the south side of the facility, which is also the northern border of the French Quarter.
Iberville, Quebec Iberville is a town in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada, on the east side of the Richelieu River, across from Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec. It is about 30 miles (50 km) from Montreal, and about the same distance from the United States border at the head of Lake Champlain.
Ibex (vehicle) An Ibex is a specialist off-road vehicle, ready-built or supplied as a kit to build with donor parts from a Land Rover Defender on a spaceframe chassis. The Ibex can be delivered with different wheel bases and body type.
Ibex Valley The Ibex Valley (named for the Ibex Mountain) is located approximately 16 kilometres (10 miles) west of the City of Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. The valley, and surrounding area, is governed by five elected councilors from the Ibex Valley Hamlet.
Ibias Ibias is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is bordered on the north by Allande and Fonsagranda and Negueira (in the Province of Lugo, Galicia); on the east by Degaña and Cangas del Narcea; on the south by Peranzanes and Candín (in the province of León) y on the west by Fonsagrada and Navia de Suarna (also in Lugo province).
Ibibio language Ibibio is a Cross River language spoken by 1,5 to 2 million Ibibio in the Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Because of its importance in trade and education in the region, many Annang and Efik people also speak Ibibio.
IbicuĂ­ River The IbicuĂ­ River (IbicuĂ­ means ground of sand in the Tupi-Guarani language) is a river in Rio Grande do Sul state of southern Brazil. The IbicuĂ­ is 290 km in length, and is the main tributary of the Uruguay River.
Ibicuy Islands The Ibicuy Islands (Spanish: Islas del Ibicuy) are a maze of low-level islands in the east of the Paraná Delta, within Entre Ríos Province, Argentina. They make up the Islas del Ibicuy Department and are sparsely but widely populated, with their capital at Villa Paranacito.
Ibid Ibid (Latin, short for "ibidem", "the same place") is the term used to provide an endnote or footnote citation or reference for a source that was cited in the preceding endnote or footnote. It is similar in meaning to idem ("the same person"), abbreviated "Id.
Ibid: A Life Ibid: A Life is the third novel by Mark Dunn, published in 2004. Its form is highly reminiscent of Nabokov's Pale Fire in that it consists almost entirely of a set of endnotes for a larger (non-existent) biographical work.
Ibis Nieves Ibis Del Mar Nieves (born July 16, 1984 in Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a contestant as well as a cast member on MTV's Road Rules. She currently resides in Gainesville, Florida and will graduate from the University of Florida in 2006.
Ibiza Town Eivissa is a city and municipality located on the southeast coast of the island of Eivissa (Ibiza) in the Balearic Islands autonomous community. Although called Ibiza in Spanish, its official Catalan name is Eivissa (as restored in 1986) and its inhabitants call it Vila d'Eivissa or simply Vila.
Ibn al Xu'ffasch Ibn al Xu'ffasch (Arabic: إبن الخفّاش; literally "Son of the Bat") is a character in the Batman comic book series who is the biological son of Batman and Talia al Ghul. Multiple versions of the character have appeared under different names, most recently as Damian Wayne.
Ibn al-Baitar Abu Muhammad Abdallah Ibn Ahmad Ibn al-Baitar Dhiya al-Din al-Malaqi () was one of the greatest scientists of Muslim Spain and it's believed that he was the greatest botanist and pharmacist of the Middle Ages. Born in the Spanish city of Málaga at the end of the 12th century, he learned botany from the Málagan botanist Abu al-Abbas al-Nabati with whom he started collecting plants in and around Spain.
Ibn al-Haitham Abū ‘Alī al-Haṣan ibn al-Haṣan ibn al-Haytham (965–1040) (Arabic: أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم, Latinised: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen), was an Islamic mathematician, astronomer, and physicist, who made significant contributions to the principles of optics and the use of scientific experiments. He is sometimes called al-Basri (Arabic: البصري), after his birthplace Basra, Iraq, then part of Buwayhids dynasty, PersiaHe is considered the father of optics for his writings on and experiments with lenses, mirrors, refraction] and [[Reflection (physics)|reflection.
Ibn al-Khattab Ibn al-Khattab (ابن الخطاب) (born Saudi Arabia, 1969, died March 20, 2002), more commonly known as Emir mir Khattab (also transliterated as Emir Khattab and Ameer Khattab), and also known as Habib Abdul Rahman, was a Sunni warlord and financier working with Chechen militants in the First Chechen War and the Second Chechen War.
Ibn al-Nadim Abu'l-Faraj Muhammad bin Ishaq al-Warraq (Arabic: ابو الفضل محمد بن إسحاق الوراق), commonly known as Ibn al-Nadim (Arabic: ابن النديم) (died September 17 995 or 998) was a Shi'ite Muslim scholar and bibliographer of either Persian or Arab background. He is famous as the author of the Kitab al-Fihrist.
Ibn al-Nafis Ala-al-din abu Al-Hassan Ali ibn Abi-Hazm al-Qarshi al-Dimashqi (Arabic: علاء الدين أبو الحسن عليّ بن أبي حزم القرشي الدمشقي ) known as ibn Al-Nafis (Arabic: ابن النفيس ), was an Arab physician who is mostly famous for being the first to describe the pulmonary circulation of the blood.
Ibn al-Nile Ibn al-Nile (, ) is a classic 1951 Egyptian drama film directed by Youssef Chahine. It starred Yehia Chahine, Faten Hamama, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, and Shukry Sarhan and was chosen as one of the best 150 Egyptian film productions in 1996, during the Egyptian Cinema centennial.
Ibn al-Shatir Ibn al-Shatir or Ibn ash-Shatir (; 1304–1375) was an Arab Islamic astronomer. He worked as muwaqqit (موقت, religious timekeeper) in the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus and constructed a magnificent sundial for its minaret in 1371/72.
Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi (ابن الشیخ اللبّی) was a Libyan paramilitary trainer for Al-Qaeda. After being captured and interrogated by American forces, the information he gave under interrogation was cited by the Bush Administration in the months preceding the 2003 invasion of Iraq as evidence of a connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda.
Ibn al-Tiqtaqa ‘Ibn al-Tiqtaqā’, or the son of a chatterbox, was an onomatopoeic nickname for the Iraqi historian Jalāl-ad-Dīn Abu Ja’far Muhammad born Tāji’d-Dīn Abi’l-Hasan ’Ali, the spokesman of the Shi'a community in the Shi’ī holy cities—Hillah, Najaf, and Karbala; in an Iraq that was to remain the stronghold of Shi'ism, until the forcible conversion of Iran by Shah Ismail I Safavi.
Ibn an-Nawwahah Ibn an-Nawwahah was a messenger for Musaylimah, a purported prophet during the time of Muhammad who had gained a significant following through his miracles, teachings and from the fact that he was from Yamamah. Many people of the Rabiah Tribe of Yamamah were greatly hostile to Muhammad and the tribe of Quraish, so in an exchange between a man of the Rabiah tribe and Musaylimah, one man said:
Ibn Abd Rabbih Ibn Abd Rabbih or Ibn Abd Rabbihi (Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn `Abd Rabbih) (860-940) was an Arab poet. He was born in Cordova, now in Spain, and descended from a freed slave of Hisham I, the second Spanish Umayyad emir.
Ibn Aqil Abu al-Wafa Ali Ibn Aqil ibn Ahmad al-Baghdadi (1040-1119) was an Islamic theologian from Baghdad, Iraq. Trained in the tenets of the Hanbali school (madhab), the most traditional school of Islamic law, he outraged his teachers by striving to incorporate liberal theological ideas into the tradition.
Ibn Bajjah Ibn Bajjah ابن باجة Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Yahya Ibn al-Sayegh أبو بكر محمد بن يحيى بن الصايغ was an Andalusian Muslim philosopher, poet and physician who was known in the West using his latinized name, Avempace. He was born in Saragossa in what is today Spain and died in Fez in 1138.
Ibn Battuta Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد ابن بطوطة) (born February 24, 1304; year of death uncertain, possibly 1368 or 1377) was a Moroccan Arab Sunni Islamic scholar and jurisprudent from the Maliki Madhhab (a school of Fiqh, or Sunni Islamic law), and at times a Qadi or judge. However, he is best known as an extensive traveler or explorer, whose account documents his travels and side-excursions over a period of almost thirty years, covering some 73,000 miles (117,000 km).
Ibn Battuta (crater) Ibn Battuta is a small lunar crater on the Mare Fecunditatis, a lunar mare in the eastern part of the Moon's near side. It lies to the southwest of the Lindbergh crater, and northeast of the prominent Goclenius crater.
Ibn Duraid Ibn Duraid (Abu Bakr Mahommed ibn al-Hasan ibn Duraid al-Azdi) (837-934), Arab poet and philologist, was born at Basra of south Arabian stock. Here he was trained under various teachers, but fled in 871 to Oman at the time Basra was attacked by the Zanj, under Muhallabi.
Ibn Hawqal Mohammed Abul-Kassem ibn Hawqal (born in NisibisSoucek, Svat, A History of Inner Asia (Cambridge University Press:2000), page 73.; travelled 943-969 CE) was a 10th century Arab writer, geographer, and chronicler.
Ibn Hazm Ibn Hazm (7 November 994 – 15 August 1064 456 AH) in full Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥazm (Arabic :أبو محمد علي بن احمد بن سعيد بن حزم) - sometimes with al-Andalusī aẓ-Ẓāhirī as wellA. R.
Ibn Hubal Ibn Hubal (full name: Muhadhdhab al-Din ‘Ali ibn Ahmad, al-Baghdadi al-Khilati) was an Arab physician and scientist known primarily for his medical compendium titled Kitab al-Mukhtarat fi al-tibb, "The Book of Selections in Medicine." It was written in 1165 in Mosul, south of Baghdad, where Ibn Hubal spent most of his life.
Ibn Humaid Abdullah Ibn Humaid was the former Chief Justice of Saudi Arabia and Imam of the Grand Mosque of Mecca. His son Salih is the current Imam of the Grand Mosque of Mecca as well as the head of the Saudi Consultative Council.
Ibn Ishaq Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Yasar, or simply Ibn Ishaq (, meaning "the son of Isaac" (the "sh" part being pronounced as two different sounds) (died 768), was a Muslim historian. Ibn Sa'd calls him "the first to collect the accounts of the expeditions of the Messenger of Allah and record them".
Ibn Juzayy Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ahmad Ibn Juzayy al-Kalbi (1321–1340) was an Arab Andalusian scholar (present day Spain) and writer of poetry, history, and law, born 721/1321, died in the battle of Rio Salado in 741/1340. His three sons, Aḥmad, Muḥammad and ʿAbdallāh, all worked in the same fields.
Ibn Khaldun Ibn Khaldūn or Ibn Khaldoun, full name , (May 27, 1332/732AH – March 19, 1406/808AH), was a famous historiographer and historian born in present-day Tunisia, and is sometimes viewed as one of the forerunners of modern historiography, sociology and economics. He is best known for his Muqaddimah "Prolegomenon".
Ibn Khallikan Abu-l ‘Abbas Ahmad ibn Khallikan (Arabic: أبو العباس أحمد ابن خلكان), ( Born September 22 , 1211 - October 30 , 1282) was a Muslim scholar of the 13th century. He was born in Irbil, in 1211.
Ibn Khosrov al-Ustad Abu Bakr Ibn Khosrow Al-Ustad was a Persian-language author of Azerbaijani origin, living in Ganja in the middle of 12 century. It is known that he was a private tutor for Muhammed Jahan Pehlevan - Atabegs of Azerbaijan.
Ibn Maja Ibn Maja, full name Abu `Abdallah Muhammad ibn Yazid Ibn Maja al-Rab`i al-Qazwini, was a medieval scholar of hadith (the sayings of Muhammad). He compiled the last of Sunni Islam's six canonical hadith collections, Sunan Ibn Maja.
Ibn Qudamah Muwaffaq al-Din 'Abd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Qudamah (Arabic أبن قدامة ) al-Maqdisi al-Hanbali (1147-1223) was a noted Islamic scholar of the Hanbali madhhab, author of Al-Mughni (the main Hanbali fiqh manual) as well as Mukhtasar Minhaj Al-Qasidin (a summary of Ghazali's Ihya ulum ad-din) and Tahrim an-Nazar (Censure of Speculative Theology, an attack on Ibn Aqil's rationalist views.) He was born in Jerusalem, and died in Damascus.
Ibn Sad Abdallh Mahommed ibn Sa'd ibn Mani uz-Zuhri, often called Kitab ul-Waqidi (secretary of Waqidi) of Baraj (d. 845), Arabian biographer, received his training in tradition from Al-Waqidi and other celebrated teachers.
Ibn Sahl of Sevilla Ibn Sahl (Arabic: أبو إسحاق إبرهيم بن سهل الإسرائيلي الإشبيلي Abu Ishaq Ibrahim Ibn Sahl al-Isra'ili al-Ishbili) of Sevilla (1212-1251) is considered one of the greatest Moorish poets of Andalusia of the 13th century.
Ibn Selim el-Aswani Ibn Selim el-Aswani (Arabic: ابن سليم الأسواني) was a tenth century Egyptian diplomat who was dispatched to Nubia and left a written record of his travels. He traveled through much of Lower Nubia to the Makurian capital at Dongola.
Ibn Tufail Ibn Tufail (c.1105–1185) full name: Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad ibn Tufail al-Qaisi al-Andalusi أبو بكر محمد بن عبد الملك بن محمد بن طفيل القيسي الأندلسي (Latinised form: Abubacer).
Ibn Usaibia Ibn Usaibia ul-Qasim ibn abi Usaibia (1203-1270), Arabian physician, was born at Damascus, the son of an oculist, and studied medicine at Damascus and Cairo. In 1236 he was appointed by Saladin's physician to a new hospital in Cairo, but surrendered the appointment the following year to take up a post given him by the amir of Damascus in Salkhad near that city.
Ibn Wahshiyya Ibn Wahshiyya (Abu Bakr Ahmed (or Mohammed) ibn Ali ibn al-Wahshiya al-Kaldani or al-Nabati) was an Iraqi Aramean (who are often called "Nabateans" in mediaeval Arabic sources, though they are unrelated to the ancient Nabateans from the area around Petra). He wrote or translated a book called Nabataean Agriculture (Kitab al-falaha al-nabatiya) (c.
Ibn-e-Safi Ibn-e-Safi (also spelled as Ibne Safi) (Urdu: ابنِ صفی) was the pen name of Asrar Ahmad (Urdu: اسرار احمد), a best-selling and prolific fiction writer, novelist and poet of Urdu. The word Ibn-e-Safi is a Persian expression which literally means Son of Safi, where the word Safi means chaste or righteous.
Iboga Iboga (Tabernanthe iboga), also known as Black bugbane, is a perennial rainforest shrub and hallucinogen, native to western Africa. Iboga stimulates the central nervous system when taken in small doses and induces visions in larger doses.
Iboga Records Iboga Records is a Danish psychedelic trance record label which was born in mid 90s when DJ Amon, DJ Banel and DJ Emok decided that it was time for a new unique Scandinavian progressive trance sound. IIboga is mostly known for its minimal psytrance style.
Ibogaine Ibogaine is an indole alkaloid, a long-acting hallucinogen which has gained attention due to its application in the treatment of opioid addiction and similar addiction syndromes. It occurs naturally in a number of dogbane plants, among them above all in Tabernanthe iboga.
Ibolya Csák Ibolya Csák (6 January 1915 - 9 February 2006) was a Hungarian athlete best known as the winner of the women's high jump at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. She won a gold medal in the European Championships in Athletics in 1938 in unusual circumstances.
Ibon Koteron Ibon Koteron (born in Bilbao in 1967) is a Basque musician renowned as a player of the alboka. His most important release was the joint record with Kepa Junkera Leonen Orroak (the roarings of Leon, a homage to the great albokalari Leon Bilbao).
Ibrahim 'Ali Salman Ibrahim 'Ali Salman (‎إبراهيم علي سلمان‎) (died March 30, 1995) is the most famous contemporary poet of the Arab Manasir who inhabit the area of the Fourth Cataract of the Nile in Northern Sudan. He is referred to by the Manasir simply as "Ibrahim the poet" (‎إبراهيم الشائر‎).
Ibrahim al-Fazari Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Habib ibn Sulaiman ibn Samura ibn Jundab al-Fazari (Persian: أبو يشاق يبرهيم إبن حبيب إبنسليمان إبن سمورا إبن جندب الفزارى) was an 8th century Persian from Kunduz, now part of Afghanistan. He was the mathematician and astronomer at the Abbasid court of the Caliph Harun al-Rashid.
Ibrahim al-Hamadi Lieutenant-Colonel Ibrahim el-Hamdi (1943 - October 11, 1977) (Arabic: إبراهيم الحمدي) was the leader of a military coup d'etat in Yemen Arab Republic that overthrew the regime of President Abdul Rahman al-Iryani on June 13, 1974. After the revolt, he was President of the Military Command Council that governed the country.
Ibrahim al-Jaafari Ibrahim abd al-Karim Hamza al-Ashaiqir al-Jaafari (; born 1947) is the former Prime Minister of Iraq in the Iraqi Transitional Government following the January 2005 elections. He is a Shiite and was previously one of the two vice-presidents of Iraq under the Iraqi Interim Government in 2004, and the main spokesman for the Islamic Dawa Party in Iraq.
Ibrahim al-Makadmeh Ibrahim al-Makadmeh (Arabic: ابراهيم المقادمي) was a Palestinian and Hamas senior leader in the Gaza Strip who was assassinated by Israeli forces on March 8, 2003. Makadmeh, one of Hamas' founders and a leader of the group's military wing, was accused of engineering several attacks that killed 28 Israelis.
Ibrahim Abboud Ibrahim Abboud (5 October1899–1983) (Arabic: إبراهيم عبود) was a Sudanese dictator, general, and political figure. He served as the head of state of Sudan between 1958 and 1964; and as president of Sudan in 1964 but soon resigned.
Ibrahim Abd El Adheem Ibrahim Abd El Adheem (Arabic: إبراهيم عبد العظيم) (born December 25 1984 in Libya) is a singer who rose to popularity around the world after placing eighth in Super Star 3, the pan-Arabic version of Pop Idol.
Ibrahim Abouleish Ibrahim Abouleish (*1937 in Egypt) began his chemistry and medicine studies at the age of 19 in Austria. He did his doctorate in 1969 in the field of pharmacology and then worked in leading positions within pharmaceutical research.
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Ibrahim Abu-Lughod (February 15, 1929 — May 23, 2001) was a Palestinian (later American) academic, characterised by Edward Said as "Palestine's foremost academic and intellectual"Said 2001 and by Rashid Khalidi as one of the first Arab-American scholars to have a really serious effect on the way the Middle East is portrayed in political science and in America". Khalidi quoted in Gerner 2001.
Ibrahim Afellay Ibrahim Afellay (Arabic: ابراهيم أفيلاي) (born April 2, 1986 in Utrecht) is a Dutch footballer playing for PSV Eindhoven. Even though he has Moroccan roots, he plays for the Dutch national youth teams and has been pre-selected for the Dutch national team.
Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi (إبراهيم أحمد محمود القوسي) (born 1960) is a Sudanese citizen and alleged paymaster for al-Qaida. On Trial At Gitmo: Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi, CBS News, August 24 2004
Ibrahim Altynsarin Ibrahim (Ibrai) Altynsarin (1841-1889) was a major figure in pre-Soviet Kazakh history. He was the most prominent Kazakh educator of the late 19th century, during the period of Russian colonization of and cultural influence in Kazakhstan.
Ibrahim bek Aslanbekov Ibrahim bek Allahverdi bek oglu Aslanbekov (Azeri: İbrahim bəy Allahverdi bəy oğlu Aslanbəyov, Russian: Ибрагим бек Аллахверди бек оглу Асланбеков; 1822—1901) was the most celebrated Azeri vice-admiral, commander of the 3rd and 8th naval depots in 1871-1878 and ship detachment in the Pacific Ocean (1879-1882). In Russia of that time he was known as Avramiy Bogdanovich Aslanbekov (Аврамий Богданович Асланбеков).
Ibrahim Babangida General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (born August 17 1941), popularly known as IBB, was the military ruler of Nigeria from August 1985 until his departure from office under heavy popular pressure in 1993, after his annulment of elections held that year which were widely held to have been the freest and fairest in Nigeria's post-independence history.
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara (May 9, 1949–April 9, 1999) was a military officer in the West African country of Niger who seized power in a January 1996 coup d'état and ruled the country until his assassination during another coup in April 1999.
Ibrahim Baylan Ibrahim Baylan (born 1972) is a Swedish Social Democratic politician. He was (as of 2005) Minister for Schools in the Swedish government on 6 October 2006, when he was replaced by Jan Björklund, who represents the Liberal People's Party.
Ibrahim Bilali Ibrahim Bilali (born July 21, 1965) is a retired flyweight boxer from Kenya, who won the bronze medal in the flyweight division (– 51kg) at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. In the semifinals he was defeated by Redzep Redzepovski of Yugoslavia, who went on to win the silver medal.
Ibrahim Bin Adham Ibrahim Bin Adham (ابراہیم بن ادھم) was popularly known as Abu Ben Adhem or Abou Ben Adhem in the West due to a famous poem by James Henry Leigh Hunt. His full name was Sultan Ibrahim bin Adham, Bin Mansur al-Balkhi al- Ijli, Abu Ishaq.
Ibrahim Bushati Ibrahim Bushati was a noble of the Bushati family in Ottoman controlled Albania near the city of Shkodër. Brother of Kara Mahmud Bushati, the Ottoman appointed governor of Shkodër, Albania, Ibrahim worked closely with the Ottoman Empire right up until his death in 1810.
Ibrahim Coulibaly Ibrahim Coulibaly (known as "IB") was a rebel leader in Côte d'Ivoire. A former army sergeant, he was one of the leaders of the December 1999 coup that brought Robert Guéï to power, and was also behind a rebellion launched in September 2002 against the government of President Laurent Gbagbo.
Ibrahim El Hakami Ibrahim El Hakami (Arabic: ابراهيم الحكمي) (born 1979 in Saudi Arabia) is a singer who rose to popularity around the world as the winner of Super Star 3, the pan-Arabic version of Pop Idol. Ibrahim won with 53% of the total vote against Shahd Barmada from Syria.
Ibrahim Hamed Ibrahim Hamed is a Hamas military commander in the West Bank who ordered suicide bombing attacks during the Al-Aqsa IntifadaTop Hamas fugitive nabbed by Efrat Weiss, Ynetnews, May 23, 2006 until he was apprehended by Israeli security sources on May 23, 2006.IDF arrests most-wanted Hamas bomb mastermind in West Bank by Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent, May 23, 2006
Ibrahim Hussein Ibrahim Hussein (born June 3, 1958) is a retired long-distance runner from Kenya, who was a three time winner of the Boston Marathon in 1988, 1991, and 1992. He was also the winner of the New York City Marathon in 1987.
Ibrahim Hussein Abdel Hadi Eidarous Ibrahim Hussein Abdel Hadi Eidarous was a main perpetrator of the 1998 United States embassy bombings. His exact connection is unknown, but his fingerprints were found on the letter claiming responsibility for the attack.
Ibrahim ibn al-Walid Ibrahim ibn Al-Walid (Arabic: ابراهيم ابن الوليد بن عبد الملك ) was an Umayyad caliph. He only ruled for a short time in 744 before he abdicated, and went into hiding out of fear of his political opponents.
Ibrahim ibn Muhammad Ibrahim ibn Muhammad (Arabic script إبرهيم بن محمد) was the male child of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and Maria al-Qibtiyya. The child was named after Abraham, the common ancestor of both Muslim and Christians.
Ibrahim ibn Sinan Ibrahim ibn Sinan ibn Thabit ibn Qurra (Ibrahim ibn Sinan; 908, Baghdad – 946) was an Arabic mathematician and astronomer who studied geometry and in particular tangents to circles. He also made advances in the theory of integration.
Ibrahim Kargbo Ibrahim Kargbo (born April 10, 1982 in Freetown, Sierra Leone) is a Sierra Leonean professional footballer, who currently plays as a defender for Willem II in the Dutch Eredivisie and for the Sierra Leonean national football team. Former teams are East End Lions, Feyenoord Rotterdam, RWD Molenbeek, Sporting Charleroi, Malatyaspor and FC Brussels.
Ibrahim Lodhi Ibrahim Lodhi (died April 21, 1526) was the last ruler of the Delhi Sultanate. He was an Afghan (specifically of the Ghilzai tribe of Pashtuns) who presided over much of India from 1517-1526, when he was defeated by the Mughals, who established a new dynasty that would last some three centuries.
Ibrahim Meer Ibrahim Meer, full name Ibrahim Meer Abdulrahman (born 1967-07-16), is a UAE football (soccer) player who played as a left back for the UAE national football team and Sharjah Club in Sharjah. He played in the 1990 FIFA World Cup along with his twin brother Eissa.
Ibrahim Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum Ibrahim Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum (b. 1954) served as the Iraqi Minister of Oil from May 2005 until December 2005, while he was a member of the Islamic Virtue Party He had also previously served in this position as part of the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council] in September [[2003 until June 2004.
Ibrahim Muteferrika Ibrahim Muteferrika (1674-1742) was a Transylvanian-born Ottoman printer, the first Muslim to run a printing press with movable Arabic type. The press was operated in Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, publishing its first book in 1729.
Ibrahim Nasir Ibrahim Nasir Rannabandeyri Kilegefan, KCMG, NGIV (born 1926) is a Maldivian statesman who served as his country's Prime Minister under Sultan Muhammad Fareed Didi (from 1957 to 1968 ) and succeeded him to become the first President of the Second Republic from 1968 to 1978. He is currently living in Singapore, where he is a citizen.
Ibrahim Niass Ibrāhīm Niass (1900-1975)—also written Ibrahima Niasse in French, Ibrayima Ñas in Wolof, Shaykh al-'Islām al-Ḥājj Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥājj ʿAbd Allāh at-Tijānī al-Kawlakhī in Arabic— was a major leader of the Tijānī Sufi order of Islam in West Africa. His followers in the Senegambia region affectionately refer to him in Wolof as Baay, or "father.
Ibrahim Quraishi Ibrahim Quraishi (born 1970 Nairobi, Kenya) is a conceptual artist, writer, choreographer and artistic director of Compagnie Faim de Siecle (NY/Paris). Ibrahim's work is based on the transformation of space, an immersive narrative and a pro-active performative dialogue through digital and human interface.

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