Biography of Abd-el-Krim: – Leader of the resistance against Spanish colonial domination in northern Morocco. Belonging to the rifena tribes of Beni Urriaguel, it was son of a cedi; after receiving an education in Tunis and Fez, served the Spanish colonial administration in various positions. Biography of Abd-el-Krim Born:- 1882, Ajdir, Morocco Died:- 6 February 1963, Cairo, Egypt Parents:- Abd al-Karim El-Khattabi Battles/Wars:- Rif War Battle of Annual Other Name:- Abd el-Krim or Abdelkrim Rank:- Emir His first
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Biography of Alvar Aalto
Biography of Alvar Aalto: – A great architect, and a legendary artist of Finland, was born on 3 February 1898 in Kuortane, Finland. He completed the education received in Finland with trips abroad. During the 1920s he was influenced by the great master of functionalism, Le Corbusier, and he himself was a pioneer of this movement in Finland. He soon gained international recognition, and from 1940 to 1949 he was
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Biography of Abd al-Rahman III
Biography of Abd al-Rahman III: – Emir (912-929) and first Umayyad caliph of Cordoba (929-961). The grandson of Abd Allah, emir of Cordoba and a member of the Umayyad dynasty, who had ruled the caliphate of Damascus (661-750), were appointed by his grandfather as heir to the throne because of his intelligence, insight and tenacity. Upon his death, in 912, Abd al-Rahman III, aged twenty-one, assumed the government of a
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Biography of Abd al-Rahman I
Biography of Abd al-Rahman I: – First independent emir of al-Andalus (755-788). Grandchild of the tenth Umayyad caliph of Damascus, he managed to escape the slaughter that his family decimated during the revolution that brought the Abbasids to power in 750. Biography of Abd al-Rahman I Born:- 731 AD, Palmyra, Syria Died:- 30 September 788 AD, Córdoba, Spain Parents:- Mu’awiya ibn Hisham House:- Umayyad Caliphate Children:- Hisham I of Córdoba, Soliman ibn Abdulrahman Successor:- Hisham I of Córdoba During
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Biography of Muhammad Ayub Khan
Biography of Muhammad Ayub Khan:- Muhammad Ayub Khan, who was born in 1907 in Rihana, and died 1974 in Islamabad, was great political figure and hero of 1965 war against India,. President of the Republic of Pakistan from 1958 to 1969, was one of the main architects of the modern development of the Pakistani nation. Biography of Muhammad Ayub Khan Born:- 14 May 1907, Rehana Died:- 19 April 1974, Islamabad Awards:- Royal Victorian Chain, Hilal-i-Jur’at Children:- Gohar
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Biography of Pervez Musharraf
Biography of Pervez Musharraf:- Pervez Musharraf was born in the Indian capital of New Delhi in 1943, into a wealthy family linked to the Punjab, the northern region of his still intact country In India and, subsequently, after the Pakistani independence in 1947, bordering on it. His father had been a diplomat. The young Musharraf received primary education in the southern port city of Karachi, on the Indian Ocean coast.
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Biography of Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Biography of Mohammed Ali Jinnah:- Leader of the Muslims of India and father of the independence of Pakistan (Karachi, 1876-1948). He was born into a wealthy family of merchants of the Muslim Ismailite sect of the kojas . He studied in England and, in 1896, settled down as lawyer in Bombay. Biography of Mohammed Ali Jinnah Born:- 25 December 1876, Karachi Died:- 11 September 1948, Karachi Prime Minister:- Liaquat Ali Khan Education:- City Law School (1895), Spouse:- Maryam
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Biography of Benazir Bhutto
Biography of Banazir Bhutto:- She fought against the military regime of her country and became the first woman leader of the Muslim world, when she was elected Prime Minister of the Republic of Pakistan in 1988, a position she held between 1988 and 1990 and later between 1993 and 1996, after being re-elected. Evicted from power on allegations of corruption, she returned to her country in 2007, after a long
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Biography of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
Biography of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto:- He graduated from universities in England and the United States. In 1953 he returned to Pakistan to practice as an attorney and law professor. In 1957 he was appointed ambassador of his country to the UN, from which he entered politics: he was Minister of Commerce (1958), parliamentary spokesman of the Muslim League (1962) and minister of Foreign Affairs (1963). His policy in this position
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Biography of Mujibur Rahman
Biography of Mujibur Rahman:- Bengali politician, Prime Minister of the Republic of Bangladesh between 1972 and 1975, third of the six children of Sheikh Luftar Rahman, a respected Muslim hero, at the age of seven he entered the Dimadanga Primary School and later attended classes at the local missionary school. His political career dates back to 1939, when he was arrested for participating in a popular protest. Shortly afterwards he
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