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Al-hakim   /æl-hɑkˈim/   Listen
Al-hakim

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





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... Kurdistan or PUK [Jalal TALABANI]; Sadrist Trend [Muqtada al-SADR] (not an organized political party, but it fields independent candidates affiliated with Muqtada al-SADR); Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq or SCIRI [Abd al-Aziz al-HAKIM] note: the Kurdistan Alliance, Iraqi National List, Tawafuq Coalition, Iraqi Front for National Dialogue, and Unified Iraqi Alliance were only electoral slates consisting of the representatives from the ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States
... once in Cairo, in the days of the Caliph Al-Hakim bi' Amri'llah, a butcher named Wardan, who dealt in sheep's flesh; and there came to him every day a lady and gave him a dinar, whose weight was nigh two and a half Egyptian dinars, saying, "Give me a lamb." So he took the money and gave her the lamb, which she delivered ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton


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