- Awn ad-Din ibn Hubayra
Abu al-Muzzafar Awn ad-Din Yahya ibn Hubayra al-Shaybani (Lang-ar|أبو المظفر عون الدين يحيي بن هبيرة الشيباني; 1104-1165) was a 12th century Arab
politician andjurist , who served asvizier underal-Muqtafi and his successoral-Mustanjid .He was born in 1104 (499 AH) in Dour,
Iraq . He received a classical Arabic education, studying theQur'an and Arabic linguistics, the basis for an understanding of the Qur'an,hadith , andfiqh . He was appointed as the chief of the treasury by caliph al-Muqtafi, and in 1149, at the age of 45, he was appointed as the vizier of the caliphate. In 1165, ibn Hubayra died of natural causes.
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