| Name : | Period : | Description
: |
| Rabah Bitat |
1925 - 2000 |
Resistance fighter.
Bitat was one of the ... |
| Rabia Al Basri |
713 - 801 |
The fourth daughter of Ismail al-Adawiya. She ... |
| Rabia Balkhi |
c914 - |
Persian poet
Rabia Balkhi, whose life insp ... |
| Rabih Az Zubair |
- 1900 |
A military leader of Chad.
Rabih was in s ... |
| Rabiya Kadeer |
1948 - |
Mother of all Uighurs
The exiled Uighur a ... |
| Rached Ghannouchi |
1941 - |
Tunisian scholar and politician
The Tunisi ... |
| Rachid Abou Tourab |
- 2002 |
Political leader. He was made leader of the a ... |
| Rachida Dati |
1965 - |
The first Muslim to hold high political offic ... |
| Rachid Boudjedra |
1941 - |
A revolutionary Algerian writer.
Boudjedr ... |
| Rachid Koraichi |
1947 - |
An Algerian artist of the modern calligraphic ... |
| Rachid Taha |
1958 - |
Musician whose songs have flavours with Alger ... |
| Radia Nasraoui |
1953 - |
Human rights activist.
Mrs Nasraoui’s dail ... |
| Rafi Ahmad Kidwai |
1894 - 1954 |
Politician.
Rafi Ahmad was the Communicati ... |
| Rafiq Hariri |
1944 - 2005 |
Rags to riches Lebanese leader who put faith ... |
| Rafiq Zakaria |
1926 - 2005 |
India’s distinguished writer and commentator. ... |
| Rahman Baba |
1650 - 1715 |
He was called ‘Hafiz Shirazi’ of Pushto Sufi ... |
| Raja of Mahmoodabad |
1914 - 1973 |
Humility and simplicity were the hallmark of ... |
| Ramiz Alia |
1925 - 2011 |
Last communist president of Albania.
The ... |
| Ramzan Sahin |
1980 - |
Turkey’s 2008 Olympian.
He won gold medal ... |
| Rana Liaquat Ali Khan |
1905 - 1990 |
Rana was the wife of Liaquat Ali Khan, the pr ... |
| Randa Chahal Sabbag |
1953 - 2008 |
Lebanese film-maker and screenwriter
Bette ... |
| Rasheed Jahan |
1905 - 1952 |
India’s feminist activist
Doctor, short st ... |
| Rashid Ahmad Gangohi |
1829 - 1905 |
Co-founder of Madrasa Deoband in 1866, along ... |
| Rashid Ahmad Siddiqi |
1896 - 1977 |
Professor, author and critic of Urdu. His wo ... |
| Rashid Ahmad Siddiqui |
- 2000 |
A Muslim activist of Muslim Aid and UK Islami ... |
| Rashid Al Ghannoushi |
1941 - |
Leader of Tunisia's Islamic movement.
Wide ... |
| Rashid Ali Al Gaylani |
1892 - 1965 |
Prime minister of Iraq 1933, 1936-38, 1940-4 ... |
| Rashid Ibn Saeed Al Maktoum |
1910 - 1990 |
The creator of modern Dubai.
Maktum was v ... |
| Rashidi Mfaume Kawawa |
1929 - |
A Tanzanian political leader. After independe ... |
| Rashid Ramzi |
1979 - |
Bahrain’s 2008 Olympian.
Ramzi gave Bahrai ... |
| Rashid Raza Muhammad |
1865 - 1935 |
A Syrian scholar.
The writing of Muhammad ... |
| Rashiduddin |
1247 - 1318 |
The Iranian historian.
Rashiddin was the ... |
| Rashiduddin Sinan |
1135 - 1192 |
A leader of Syrian Assassins at the time of t ... |
| Rasul Gamzatov |
1923 - 2003 |
People’s poet of Daghestan.
Rasul Gamzatov ... |
| Rauf Denktash |
1924 - 2012 |
Leader of Turkish Cypriots
The former lead ... |
| Raza Ali Abidi |
1936 - |
Broadcaster, journalist and author
Broadca ... |
| Recaizade Mahmud EKram |
1847 - 1914 |
A Turkish writer.
After the Turk revoluti ... |
| Recep Tayyip Erdogan |
1954 - |
Turkey’s builder of bridges, politician.
N ... |
| Reza Abbasi |
c1570 - c1635 |
The Iranian painter at the time of Shah Abbas ... |
| Reza Seyed Hosseini |
1926 - 2009 |
Iranian literary critic
A prominent Irania ... |
| Reza Shah Pahlavi |
1877 - 1944 |
An Iranian Shah.
An army officer who trie ... |
| Riad El Solh |
1894 - 1951 |
The first prime minister of Lebanon
The fi ... |
| Riadh El Droubie |
1935 - 1998 |
Muslim activist.
Riadh’s work as administr ... |
| Riad Mahmud |
1917 - 1992 |
An Egyptian diplomat and soldier.
Riad p ... |
| Riazul Islam |
1919 - 2007 |
Pakistan’s renowned historian
Having spent ... |
| Riffah Al Tahtawi |
1801 - 1873 |
Egyptian scholar.
Al-Tahtawi was an Egypti ... |
| Riza Al Din |
20th century - |
When Barudi died in 1921, Riza al Din was ele ... |
| Rizaeddin Fakhreddin |
1859 - 1936 |
A Russian Islamic scholar, writer and journal ... |
| Roger Garaudy |
1913 - 2012 |
A former French Communist leader, philosopher ... |
| Roquia Sakhawat Hussain |
1880 - 1932 |
Bengali writer and activist
A prolific wri ... |
| Rudolf Nureyev |
1938 - 1993 |
A Russian ballet dancer.
In 1961, Nureyev ... |
| Ruknuddaula |
- 976 |
The brother of Imaduddaula Ali Boya, the fou ... |
| Ruslan Gelayev |
1964 - 2004 |
Chechen freedom fighter.
Gelayev became de ... |
