(Encyclopedia) Maliki, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, Nuri Kamal al-n&oomacr;rˈē kämälˈ äl-mälˈĭkē [key], 1950–, Iraqi political leader. A Shiite who worked as an education official in Hilla, he was a…
(Encyclopedia) Abu'l Hasan al-Uqlidisi, c. a.d. 920–c. a.d. 980, Arab mathematician working in Damascus and Baghdad. He wrote (952–53) a treatise on arithmetic and Arabic numerals that is the first…
(Encyclopedia) Abd al-Aziz IV, 1880–1943, sultan of Morocco (1894–1908), son of Hassan. His weak control was evident after the death (c.1900) of the regent Ba Ahmed. His submissiveness to foreign…
(Encyclopedia) Bakr, Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr, Ahmad Hasan al-äkhmädˈ häsänˈ äl-bäkˈər [key], 1914–82, president of Iraq (1968–79). He served as an officer in the Iraqi army but was forced to retire (1958…
(Encyclopedia) Abd al-Hamid II, 1842–1918, Ottoman sultan (1876–1909). His uncle, Abd al-Aziz, was deposed from the throne of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) in 1876 by the Young Turks, a liberal…
(Encyclopedia) Baghdadi, Abu Bakr al-, nom de guerre of Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai, 1971–2019, Iraqi jihadist leader. Following the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, he helped found a Sunni…
BRAMBLETT, Ernest King, a Representative from California; born in Fresno, Calif., April 25, 1901; attended the public schools; was graduated from Stanford University in 1925; took graduate…
UDALL, Morris King, (brother of Stewart Lee Udall; father of Mark Udall; uncle of Thomas Udall; cousin of Gordon H. Smith), a Representative from Arizona; born in St. Johns, Apache County,…
