Abu Yahya

• Abu Yahya (author), Pakistani writer and novelist.
• Abu Yahya ibn Abd al-Haqq, Marinid ruler
• Abu Yahya al-Libi, Islamist ideologue and leading high-ranking official within al-Qaeda
• Abdul Rahman Saleem, British-Iranian Islamic activist
• Zakariya al-Qazwini, Persian physician
• Abu Talib Yahya, imam of the Zaydiyyah sect in 1020–1033
• Abu Zakariya Yahya al-Wattasi, vizier of the Marinid sultan of Fez, regent and effective strongman ruler of Morocco from 1420 until 1448
• Yaghmurasen Ibn Zyan, founder of the Abdelwadid dynasty
• Abu Zakariya, the founder and first ruler of the Hafsid dynasty in Ifriqiya
• Abu Yahya Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abi Imran al-Tinmalali, the last Muslim governor of Majorca before its conquest by James I of Aragon in 1229