Marwan mohamed ali biography

This book covers the progress of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and the biography of its first president, His Excellency Dr. Ahmad Mohammad Ali, who led the Bank for more than four decades. The book is the result of joint work by a group of individuals who contributed in various ways to the activities of the IsDB Group over the different stages of its existence.

The book reviews the history of the IsDB from a nascent idea until the retirement of Dr. Ahmad Mohammed Ali in It deals with the various stages and the main milestones the IsDB went through in the context of global and regional changes. The book highlights the president’s initiatives, attitudes, and ideas that he drew on in his interaction with the realities of countries and communities whose aspirations for growth, progress and prosperity are the essence of the Bank’s mission.

The book includes success stories from which valuable lessons may be learned, as well as testimonies of key people who have worked with the Bank, believed in its mission, knew Dr. Ahmad Ali well and highly appreciated him.

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Marwan ibn al-Hakam ibn Abi al-As ibn Umayya (Arabic: مروان بن الحكم بن أبي العاص بن أمية, romanized:&#;Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam ibn Abī al-ʿĀṣ ibn Umayya; or &#;&#; April/May ), commonly known as Marwan&#;I, was the fourth Umayyad caliph, ruling for less than a year in – He founded the Marwanid ruling house of the Umayyad dynasty, which replaced the Sufyanid house after its collapse in the Second Fitna and remained in power until

During the reign of his cousin Uthman (r.&#;–), Marwan took part in a military campaign against the Byzantines of the Exarchate of Africa (in central North Africa), where he acquired significant war spoils. He also served as Uthman's governor in Fars (southwestern Iran) before becoming the caliph's katib (secretary or scribe). He was wounded fighting the rebel siege of Uthman's house, in which the caliph was slain. In the ensuing civil war between Ali (r.&#;–) and the largely Qurayshite partisans of A'isha, Marwan sided with the latter at the Battle of the Camel. Marwan later served as governor of Medina under his distant kinsman Caliph Mu'awiya&#;I (r.&#;–), founder of the Umayyad Caliphate. During the reign of Mu'awiya's son and successor Yazid&#;I (r.&#;–), Marwan organized the defense of the Umayyad