Abu Ishaq (literally "father of Isaac") may refer to: * Abu Ishaq Muhammad al-Mutasim, Abbasid

caliph A caliphate or khilāfah ( ar, خِلَافَة, ) is an institution or public office under the leadership of an Islamic steward with the title of caliph (; ar, خَلِيفَة , ), a person considered a political-religious successor to th ...

(r. 833–842) and one of the most famous bearer of this

Teknonym Teknonymy (from grc-gre, τέκνον, "child" and grc-gre, ὄνομα, label=none, "name"), is the practice of referring to parents by the names of their children. This practice can be found in many different cultures around the world. The term ...

. * Abu Ishaq Ahmad al-Tha'labi (died 1035/36), Persian scholar * Abu Ishaq al-Fazari (died 805), Islamic historian, traditionalist and jurist * Abu Ishaq Ibrahim

al-Muttaqi Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Jaʿfar al-Muqtadir ( ar, أبو إسحاق إبراهيم بن جعفر المقتدر) better known by his regnal title Al-Muttaqi (908 – July 968, ar, المتقي) was the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad from 940 to 944. Hi ...

, Caliph of Baghdad from 940 to 944 *

Abu Ishaq al-Heweny Abu Ishaq al-Heweny ( ar, أبو إسحاق الحوينى, born 10 June 1956).Abū Isḥāq al-Ilbirī, 11th-century Andalusian poet and faqīh * Abu Ishaq al-Isfarayini (died 1027), medieval Sunni Islamic theologian *

Abu Ishaq al-Saffar al-Bukhari Abu Ishaq al-Saffar al-Bukhari ( ar, أبو إسحاق الصفّار البخاري), was an important representative of the Sunni theological school of Abu Mansur al-Maturidi (d. c. 333/944) and the author of '' Talkhis al-Adilla li-Qawa'id al- ...

( 1067–1139), Sunni theologian and Sufi *

Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Mūsā al-Shāṭibī (720 – 790 A.H./1320 – 1388 C.E.) was an Andalusí Sunni Islamic legal scholar following the Maliki madhab.Dr. Ahmad Raysuni, ''Imam Shatibi's Theory of the Higher Objectives and Intents o ...

(1320–1388), Andalusian Maliki scholar *

Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī al-Shīrāzī ( ar, أبو إسحاق الشيرازي) was a prominent Persian Shafi'i-Ash'ari scholar, debater and the second teacher،after Ibn Sabbagh al-Shafei (ابن الصباغ), at the Nizamiyya sch ...

(1003–1083), Shafi'i-Ash'ari scholar * Abu Ishaq al-Zouaoui (1394–1453), Algerian Maliki scholar * Abu Ishaq Ibrahim (953–after 978), Buyid prince *

Abu Ishaq Ibrahim I Abu Ishaq Ibrahim I ( ar, أبو إسحاق إبراهيم) was the Hafsid emir of Ifriqiya (1279–1283). Ibrahim came to power during the struggles that broke out under Yahya II al-Wathiq. In contrast to his two predecessors, he only held the ...

(1279–1283), Hafsid emir of Ifriqiya * Abu Ishaq Ibrahim al-Istakhri (died after 952), Persian geographer * Abu Ishaq Ibrahim al-Sahili (c. 1290–1346), Andalusian poet and legal scholar * Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī (1029–1087), Andalusian Muslim instrument maker *

Abu Ishaq Ibrahim of Ghazna Abu Ishaq Ibrahim, also known as Ishaq ibn Alp-Tegin, was a Turkic people, Turkic officer, who was the Samanid Empire, Samanid governor of Ghazna from September 963 to November 966. He was the son and successor of Alp-Tegin. Abu Ishaq Ibrahim brief ...

, Turkic officer, who was the Samanid governor of Ghazna * Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn al-Sari al-Zajjaj (c. 842–922), Iraqi grammarian * Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn al-Mudabbir (died c. 893), Abbasid courtier * Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Khafaja (1058–c. 1138), Andalusian poet *

Abu Ishaq Inju Abu Ishaq Inju ( fa, ابو اسحاق اینجو) was the last Injuid ruler from 1343 to 1357. During his reign the city of Shiraz flourished, consisting of prominent figures such as Hafez, Khwaju Kermani and Ubayd Zakani. In 1357, the Muzaffari ...

( 1343–1357), last Injuid ruler *

Abu Ishaq Shami Abu Ishaq Shami () (died 940) was a Muslim scholar who is often regarded as the founder of the Sufi Chishti Order. He was the first in the Chishti lineage (''silsila'') to live in Chisht and so to adopt the name "Chishti", so that, if the Chisht ...

(died 940), Syrian Sufi and scholar

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