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(Lido Anthony Iacocca) ( ´´ k ´k ) (KEY) , 1924–, American business executive, b. Allentown, Pa. In 1946 he joined the Ford Motor Company, where ...
1894–1952, Canadian political economist, b. Otterville, Ontario. One of Canada’s leading economic historians, Innis wrote about various facets of ...
( bn kh ´l k n) (KEY) or Ahmad bin Muhammad al-Barmaki al-Irbili ash-Shafii, 1211–82, Arabic biographer, b. in Erbil, Iraq. Ibn Khallikan lived an...
( ´b n khäld n´) (KEY) , 1332–1406, Arab historian, b. Tunis. He held various offices under the rulers of Tunis and Morocco and served (1363) as ...
( dr ´s ) (KEY) or Edrisi ( –) (KEY) , b. 1099?, d. after 1154, Arab geographer, b. Ceuta. He traveled in Europe, Asia Minor, and Mediterranean la...
( b´´ n äl ärä´b ) (KEY) , 1165–1240, a Muslim Sufi mystic b. in Murcia, Spain. As a child in Seville, Ibn al-Arabi had a formative religious ...