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Al-Hakam

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ428472 ↗
Source-derived summary

Al-Hakam or Al-Hakum may refer to:

Hakam, one of the names of God in Islam

People

Al-Hakam I (died 822), Córdoban emir

Al-Hakam II (915–976), caliph of Córdoba

Sulayman ibn al-Hakam (died 1016), caliph of Córdoba

Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (985–1021), Fatimid caliph of Cairo

Al-Hakam ibn Abi al-'As (c. 600), father of Umayyad caliph Marwan I and uncle of Uthman ibn Affan

Ibn 'Abd al-Hakam (c. 800–c.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1016, 1021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Al-Hakam, Wikimedia and disambiguation is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Al-Hakam” 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.