Definition of Al-hakim

1. Noun. An Ismaili caliph of Egypt who declared himself an incarnation of God and founded the Druze religious sect (985-1021).

Generic synonyms: Religious Leader

Lexicographical Neighbors of Al-hakim

Akureyri
Akureyri disease
Akutagawa
Akwa'ala
Al
Al-Andalus
Al-Anon
Al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham
Al-Hudaydah
Al-Iraq
Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya
Al-Magrib
Al-Mukalla
Al-Nakba
Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language
Al-hakim
Al Alamayn
Al Capone
Al Faran
Al Gore
Al Hijrah
Al Jazeera
Al Jolson
Al Madinah
Al Nathir
Al Qahira
Al Qanoon
Al Tawhid
Ala.
Alaafin

Literary usage of Al-hakim

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Souls pass through a certain process of purification until the end of time, when al-Hakim and Hamzah will again appear and when the souls will commingle in ..."

2. Endless Torment: The 1991 Uprising in Iraq and Its Aftermath by Eric Goldstein, Middle East Watch (Organization), Andrew Whitley (1992)
"Dr. al-Hakim gave their names as: Murtadha Mohammad Ali al-Hakim, ... Mohammad Ridha Muhsin al-Hakim and Ali Said al-Hakim appear on the list of missing ..."

3. Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary by Ibn Khallikān (1843)
"When his father, uncle, and two brothers were put to death by al-Hakim, the sovereign of Egypt (5), he fled to Ramla and joined Hassan Ibn ..."

4. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments: Now by Kama̜ Shastra society, Benares, Richard Francis Burton (1885)
"THE Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amri'llah was riding out in state procession one day, when he passed along a garden, wherein he saw a man, surrounded by negro-slaves ..."

5. Palestine Under the Moslems: A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from A by Guy Le Strange (1890)
"Al Hakim also commanded the other churches throughout his dominions to be likewise pulled down, and so it was done." (Ibn al Athir, ix. 147. ..."

6. Anecdota Oxoniensia (1895)
"It was in this neighbourhood that Ai-Imam al-Hakim bi-amri'llah alighted from the ass which he was riding, and ordered his groom, who accompanied him ..."

7. The Lebanon in Turmoil, Syria and the Powers in 1860: Book of the Marvels of by Iskandar ibn Yaʻqūb Abkāriyūs (1920)
"... in its faith and in the furtherance of its success, always ready to urge people to the worship of al-Hakim above all [other] beliefs and religions. ..."

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