Sentence examples for ibn from inspiring English sources

Abdullah's succession as Saudi Arabia's sixth monarch resulted from his father King Abdulaziz ibn Saud's strategy of marrying the daughters and widows of defeated enemies.

Salman is the latest son of the kingdom's founder Abdulaziz ibn Saud to accede to the top job.

Baghdadi was born Ibrahim ibn Awwad al-Badri al-Samarrai in 1971, in the Iraqi city of Samarra.

Isis has explicitly referenced early Wahhabi teachers, such as Mohammed ibn Abdulwahhab, to justify its destruction of Shia shrines and Christian churches as it cuts a swath through Iraq and Syria.

Abdullah's mother, Fahda bint Asi al-Shuraim, was the widow of Saud ibn Rashid, who ruled over the emirate before its collapse at the hands of Saudi forces in 1921.

The historic Khalid ibn al-Walid mosque in Homs was the base for the first march in defiance of the Syrian regime.

Satyarthi, 60, dedicated his prize to children in slavery, telling CNN-IBN: "It's an honour to all those children who are still suffering in slavery, bonded labour and trafficking".

If Muqrin does come to the throne, he is likely to be the last of the sons of the founder of Saudi Arabia, King Abdulaziz (Ibn Saud), who died in 1953.

His own hero was Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), regasded as the greatest of Arab historians, the first to identify the regular rise and fall of civilisations, a theme taken up by many subsequent writers, including some contemporary ones.

But that manoeuvre apparently faced opposition from less prominent surviving sons of Ibn Saud, especially Prince Ahmed.

On board the USS Quincy, moored in Egypt's Great Bitter Lake, the president held a long meeting with Ibn Saud, the first Saudi monarch and father of the 45 sons (nobody seems to have bothered to count the daughters) who make the kingdom's succession so operatic.