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Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik
8th century Umayyad prince and military leader
Swæfberht of Essex
King of Essex
Gurak
Gurak or Ghurak () was a medieval Sogdian ruler in Central Asia during the period of the Muslim conquest of Transoxiana. In 710, he was installed as king (Sogdian: ikhshid) of Samarkand after the populace overthrew his predecessor, Tarkhun, due to his pro-Muslim stance. The Umayyad governor, Qutayba ibn Muslim, campaigned against Samarkand but in the end confirmed Gurak as its ruler. Gurak was a cautious and intelligent ruler, and managed, through shifting alliance between the Muslims and the Turgesh, to remain on his throne. Some time after the Muslim Pyrrhic victory Battle of the Defile in 7
Uaxaclajuun Ub'aah K'awiil
ajaw of Copán
Habib al-Ajami
8th century Muslim Sufi mystic, saint and traditionalist
Suluk
8th-century Turkic leader
John of Dailam
Syriac saint
Hammad ibn Abi Sulayman
Muslim jurist and scholar

Asad ibn Abdallah al-Qasri
official of the Umayyad Caliphate
Áed mac Colggen
King of Leinster
Fáelán mac Murchado
King of Leinster
Leutfridus
French monk
Bran Becc mac Murchado
King of Leinster