2025: January 29 (29 Rajab 1446 AH)

January 29

Events

  • 946 - Caliph Al-Mustakfi was blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, ruler of the Buyid Empire.  He was succeeded by Al-Mufti as caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate. 
  • 1948 - The Pakistan Socialist Party was founded in Karachi.
  • 1996 - President Jacques Chirac announced a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.
  • 2001 - Thousands of student protestors in Indonesia stormed parliament and demanded that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals. 
  • 2002 - In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush described "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil, in which he included Iraq, Iran and North Korea.  
  • 2009 - The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt ruled that people who do not adhere to one of the three government recognized religions, while not allowed to list any belief outside of those three, were still eligible to receive government identity documents.
  • 2013 - SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashed near the Kazakh city of Almaty, killing 21 people. 
  • 2017 - Quebec City mosque shooting: Alexandre Bissonnette opened fire at a mosque in Sainte-Foy, Quebec, killing six and wounding 19 others in a spree shooting.

Births

  • 1870 - Suleyman Nazif, Turkish poet and civil servant (d. 1927)
  • 1926 - Abdus Salam, Pakistani British physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
  • 1937 - Hassan Habibi, Iranian lawyer and politician, 1st Vice President of Iran (d. 2013) 
  • 1945 - Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, Malian academic and politician, Prime Minister of Mali
  • 1951 - Fereydoon Forooghi, Iranian singer-songwriter (d. 2001) 
  • 1970 - Mohammed Yusuf, Nigerian Islamist leader, founded Boko Haram (d. 2009)
  • 1988 - Aydin Yilmaz, Turkish footballer
  • 1989 - Mohamed Abou Gabal, Egyptian footballer


Deaths

  • 661 - 'Ali, cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad (b. 601)

'Ali ibn Abi Talib (ʿAli ibn ʾAbi Talib; September 13, 601 – January 29, 661) was a cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad who ruled as the fourth caliph from 656 until his assassination in 661. He is one of the central figures in Shi'a Islam and is regarded as the rightful immediate successor to Muhammad as an Imam by Shi'a Muslims.


'Ali was born inside the Kaaba in Mecca, the holiest place in Islam, to Abu Talib and Fatimah bint Asad.  He was the first male who accepted Islam under Muhammad's watch. 'Ali protected Muhammad from an early age and took part in almost all the battles fought by the nascent Muslim community. After migrating to Medina, 'Ali married Muhammad's youngest daughter Fatimah, and after her death, he had other wives, including Muhammad's granddaughter Umamah bint Zaynab.  He was appointed caliph by Muhammad's companions in 656, after Caliph Uthman ibn Affan was assassinated. 'Ali's reign saw civil wars and on January 27, 661, he was attacked and assassinated by a Kharijite while praying in the Great Mosque of Kufa, dying two days later on 29 January.


'Ali is important to both Shi'as and Sunnis, politically and spiritually. The numerous biographical sources about 'Ali are often biased according to sectarian lines, but they agree that he was a pious Muslim, devoted to the cause of Islam and a just ruler in accordance with the Qur'an and the Sunnah. While Sunnis consider 'Ali the fourth Rashidun Caliph, Shi'a Muslims regard 'Ali as the first Caliph and Imam after Muhammad. Shi'a Muslims also believe that 'Ali and the other Shi'a Imams, all of whom are from the House of Muhammad, known as the Ahl al-Bayt, are the rightful successors to Muhammad.


  • 870 - Salih ibn Wasif, Muslim general
  • 1950 - Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler (b. 1885)
  • 1993 - Adetokunbo Ademola, Nigerian lawyer and jurist, 2nd Chief Justice of Nigeria (b. 1906)

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