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Definition of Al-hakim
1. Noun. An Ismaili caliph of Egypt who declared himself an incarnation of God and founded the Druze religious sect (985-1021).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Al-hakim
Literary usage of Al-hakim
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Souls pass through a certain process of purification until the end of time, when
al-Hakim and Hamzah will again appear and when the souls will commingle in ..."
2. Endless Torment: The 1991 Uprising in Iraq and Its Aftermath by Eric Goldstein, Middle East Watch (Organization), Andrew Whitley (1992)
"Dr. al-Hakim gave their names as: Murtadha Mohammad Ali al-Hakim, ... Mohammad Ridha
Muhsin al-Hakim and Ali Said al-Hakim appear on the list of missing ..."
3. Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary by Ibn Khallikān (1843)
"When his father, uncle, and two brothers were put to death by al-Hakim, the
sovereign of Egypt (5), he fled to Ramla and joined Hassan Ibn ..."
4. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments: Now by Kama̜ Shastra society, Benares, Richard Francis Burton (1885)
"THE Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amri'llah was riding out in state procession one day, when
he passed along a garden, wherein he saw a man, surrounded by negro-slaves ..."
5. Palestine Under the Moslems: A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from A by Guy Le Strange (1890)
"Al Hakim also commanded the other churches throughout his dominions to be likewise
pulled down, and so it was done." (Ibn al Athir, ix. 147. ..."
6. Anecdota Oxoniensia (1895)
"It was in this neighbourhood that Ai-Imam al-Hakim bi-amri'llah alighted from
the ass which he was riding, and ordered his groom, who accompanied him ..."
7. The Lebanon in Turmoil, Syria and the Powers in 1860: Book of the Marvels of by Iskandar ibn Yaʻqūb Abkāriyūs (1920)
"... in its faith and in the furtherance of its success, always ready to urge people
to the worship of al-Hakim above all [other] beliefs and religions. ..."
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