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Ghalib Ali Al Hinai (Arabic: غالب بن علي الهنائي‎) (c. 1908 or 1912 – 29 November 2009) was the last elected Imam of the Imamate of Oman.<br/><br/> From 1954, he led the Imamate of Oman in Nizwa and Oman proper in the Jebel Akhdar revolt against Sultan Said Bin Taimur. The war lasted 5 years until the Sultan of Oman's armed forces, aided by colonial British soldiers from the Special Air Service, had put down the Jebel Akhdar revolt in 1959. Imam Ghalib Al Hinai managed to escape to Saudi Arabia. He continued for a short time to lead a temporary government-in-exile from Dammam, Saudi Arabia while the fighting continued in Oman.<br/><br/> He continued to receive many visitors from Oman up until his death and remaioned deeply. He was known for his faithful adherence to his religion. He died on 29 November 2009 at the age of 96 (or 101) in Dammam.
The Mozabite people are a Berber ethnic group living in M'zab in the northern Sahara. They speak Tumzabt. Most of them are Ibadi Muslims. Most also speak Arabic, though they use the Zenati dialect of the Berber language in everyday life.<br/><br/> Mozabites live in five oases, namely, Ghardaia, Beni-Isguen, El-Ateuf, Melika and Bounoura and two other isolated oases farther north, Berriane and Guerrara.
Hunayn ibn Ishaq (also Hunain or Hunein) (Syriac: ܚܢܝܢ ܒܪ ܐܝܣܚܩ, Arabic: أبو زيد حنين بن إسحاق العبادي‎; ’Abū Zayd Ḥunayn ibn ’Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī, known in Latin as Johannitius) (809–873) was a famous and influential Assyrian Nestorian Christian scholar, physician, and scientist, known for his work in translating Greek scientific and medical works into Arabic and Syriac during the heyday of the Islamic Abbasid Caliphate.<br/><br/>Ḥunayn ibn Isḥaq was the most productive translator of Greek medical and scientific treatises in his day. He studied Greek and became known among the Arabs as the 'Sheikh of the translators'. He mastered four languages: Arabic, Syriac, Greek and Persian. His translations did not require corrections. Hunayn’s method was widely followed by later translators. He was originally from southern Iraq but he spent his working life in Baghdad, the center of the great ninth-century Greek-into-Arabic/Syriac translation movement.<br/><br/> The Isagoge (Greek: Εἰσαγωγή) or 'Introduction' to Aristotle's 'Categories', written by Porphyry in Greek and translated into Latin by Boethius, was the standard textbook on logic for at least a millennium after his death. It was composed by Porphyry in Sicily during the years 268-270 CE, and sent to Chrysaorium, according to all the ancient commentators Ammonius, Elias, and David. The work includes the highly influential hierarchical classification of genera and species from substance in general down to individuals, known as the Tree of Porphyry, and an introduction which mentions the problem of universals.<br/><br/> Boethius' translation of the work, in Latin, became a standard medieval textbook in European schools and universities, setting the stage for medieval philosophical-theological developments of logic and the problem of universals. Many writers, such as Boethius himself, Averroes, Abelard, Scotus, wrote commentaries on the book. Other writers such as William of Ockham incorporated them into their textbooks on logic.
Ghalib Ali Al Hinai (Arabic: غالب بن علي الهنائي‎) (c. 1908 or 1912 – 29 November 2009) was the last elected Imam of the Imamate of Oman.<br/><br/> From 1954, he led the Imamate of Oman in Nizwa and Oman proper in the Jebel Akhdar revolt against Sultan Said Bin Taimur. The war lasted 5 years until the Sultan of Oman's armed forces, aided by colonial British soldiers from the Special Air Service, put down the Jebel Akhdar revolt in 1959. Imam Ghalib Al Hinai managed to escape to Saudi Arabia. He continued for a short time to lead a temporary government-in-exile from Dammam, Saudi Arabia while the fighting continued in Oman.<br/><br/> He continued to receive many visitors from Oman up until his death. He was known for his faithful adherence to his religion. He died on 29 November 2009 at the age of 96 (or 101) in Dammam.