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Ali Yahya Muammar

Libyan ibadi scholar and reformer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ12228212 ↗
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Ali Yahya Muammar (Arabic: علي يحيى معمر) was a Libyan Ibadi scholar, educator, author, and reformer.

Early life

Ali bin Yahya Maʿmar was born in 1919 in the village of Takwit, on the outskirts of Nalut, approximately 15 kilometers to the west, in the Libyan region of Jabal Nafusa.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1919—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1919. The account is most persuasive where Yahya, Muammar and Libyan can be independently traced.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q12228212. VIAF identifies the subject as 59170457. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1919.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ali Yahya Muammar” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.