ali : Idioms & Phrases


abu ali al-husain ibn abdallah ibn sina

  • noun Arabian physician and influential Islamic philosopher; his interpretation of Aristotle influenced St. Thomas Aquinas; writings on medicine were important for almost 500 years (980-1037)
    ibn-Sina; Avicenna.
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ali baba

  • noun the fictional woodcutter who discovered that `open sesame' opened a cave in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment
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mehemet ali

  • noun Albanian soldier in the service of Turkey who was made viceroy of Egypt and took control away from the Ottoman Empire and established Egypt as a modern state (1769-1849)
    Mohammed Ali; Mehemet Ali.
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mohammed ali

  • noun Albanian soldier in the service of Turkey who was made viceroy of Egypt and took control away from the Ottoman Empire and established Egypt as a modern state (1769-1849)
    Mohammed Ali; Mehemet Ali.
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muhammad ali

  • noun Albanian soldier in the service of Turkey who was made viceroy of Egypt and took control away from the Ottoman Empire and established Egypt as a modern state (1769-1849)
    Mohammed Ali; Mehemet Ali.
  • noun United States prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942)
    Cassius Clay; Cassius Marcellus Clay; Ali.
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muhammad ali jinnah

  • noun Indian statesman who was the founder of Pakistan as a Muslim state (1876-1948)
    Jinnah.
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