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  • - Sùtè) was the ancient civilization of an Iranian people and a ... Asia. They were the main caravan merchants of Central Asia and dominated ...
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  • and died around 850. He worked most of his life as a scholar in the ... His Algebra was the first book on the systematic solution of linear ...
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  • ), also known as The Inner Canon of Huangdi or Yellow Emperor's ... Questions, covers the theoretical foundation of Chinese Medicine and its diagnostic ...
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  • regarded as the “crown†or the “cream†of the Vedas ... philosophy, meditation, and the nature of God; they form the core spiritual ...
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  • the Muslim world, he nominated the leader of the Shi'a community as ... He founded the famous 'Bayt al-Hikmah' (House of Wisdom} ...
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  • thumb|300px|A sixteenth-century depiction of Ptolemy.]] Soter, a Macedonian general who became king of Egypt in 305 B.C.E., or other ...
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  • A library is a collection of information, sources, resources and services ... In addition, with the collection of media other than books for storing ...
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  • meaning "a writing") are sacred texts that serve a variety of purposes ... The scriptures of the world's religions have provided humanity ...
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  • 200 books and articles in various fields of science. He was well versed ... Razi's portrait adorns the great hall of the Faculty of Medicine in ...
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  • The Pandyan kingdom was an ancient Tamil state in South India of unknown ... The early Pandyan dynasty went into obscurity during the invasion ...
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  • Jahan comes from Persian meaning "King of the World." He stood as ... to the Mughal throne after the death of Jahangir. He succeeded to the ...
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  • and doctor and the most influential of the Tibbon family who translated ... He also produced the first Hebrew glossary of philosophical and biblical ...
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  • Bahram II was the fifth Sassanid King of Persia in 276–293. He was ... regarding them as their peers. The survival of the Persian empire against ...
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  • all the objects in the universe are composed of very small, invisible, indestructible ... Traditional atomism is used in two distinct domains: The atoms of ...
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  • A late 19th-century artist's conception of the Ark of the Covenant, employing ... The Ark of the Covenant (Hebrew: ×רון הברית,aron habrit) ...
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  • Jabir ibn Hayyan (c. eighth and early ninth centuries) was an Islamic ... are from the tenth century. The first, Notes of Abu Suaiman al-Mantiqi al-Sijistani ...
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  • quot; becomes a regular element in the names of angels such as "Gabri·el ... Elyon (God Most High) before the revelation of his name Yahweh to Moses. But ...
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  • Many ascetics believe the action of purifying the body helps to ... Historically, there have been two main categories of asceticism: ...
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  • Asia, located near the modern day city of Mary, Turkmenistan. between northeast Persia and the states of Bukhara and Samarkand. It is ...
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  • independently in both the official Records of the Grand Historian and unofficial ... China's long history that the concept of ruler's social obligations ...
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