Hajjaj
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Hajjaj may refer to:
  • Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf (661-714), military governor of the Umayyad caliphate
  • Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar
    Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf ibn Matar
    ' was an Arab mathematician who first translated Euclid's Elements from Greek into Arabic. His first translation was made for for Yaḥyā ibn Khālid, the Vizier of Caliph Hārūn al‐Rashīd. He made a second, improved, more concise translation for the Caliph al-Maʾmūn...

     (786-833), translated Euclid's Elements into Arabic.
  • Muslim b. al-Hajjaj, Islamic author of Hadith
  • Abu Haggag Mosque
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