Search results for "Arabian" - New World Encyclopedia
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- of Egypt, from 600 million-year-old andesite of the Arabian-Nubian Shield. This quarry, named Mons Porpyritis ("Porphyry Mountain," the Arabic ...8 KB (1,217 words) - 05:39, 30 November 2022
- the Horn of Africa. Through close contacts with the Arabian Peninsula for more than a thousand years, the Somali and Afar tribes in this region became ...32 KB (4,757 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
- on the northeastern coast of the larger Arabian Peninsula. It is considered one of the fifteen states that comprise the so-called "Cradle ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 21:09, 14 April 2023
- that the Uyghurs were worshippers of Mani. The Arabian historian An-Nadim (died c. 998) informs us that the Uyghur khan did his best to project Manichaeism ...9 KB (1,391 words) - 02:52, 6 November 2022
- quagga to a young chestnut mare of seven-eighths Arabian blood, which had never before been bred from. The result was a female hybrid which resembled ...10 KB (1,564 words) - 04:03, 7 December 2022
- of good cheer, and go boldly forth to meet the Arabian host, which would do him no hurt, as he himself would send those who should help him. Sethos, ...9 KB (1,470 words) - 09:47, 26 January 2023
- west on Salsette Island. The harbor opens to the Arabian Sea to the south. The Gateway of India with its jetty for Elephanta constitutes the most important ...10 KB (1,412 words) - 16:07, 13 February 2024
- Meccans in what was probably a traditional Arabian gesture while yelling "Defaced ... determine the course of history on the Arabian Peninsula for the next century ...28 KB (4,414 words) - 11:31, 20 September 2023
- , was a celebrated pre-Islamic Arabian poet of the sixth century, circa 500-535 C.E. and the author of one of the Muallaqat, an anthology of ...9 KB (1,439 words) - 12:38, 4 March 2024
- commonly used for navigating at the time in the Arabian Sea. ... On the isolated island of Socotra, south of Yemen in the Arabian Sea ...21 KB (3,427 words) - 00:53, 23 December 2022
- The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights), easily the best ... as Theologus Autodidactus, written by the Arabian polymath Ibn al-Nafis (1213 ...44 KB (6,658 words) - 21:28, 11 August 2023
- "India, China and the Arabian peninsula take one hundred million ... Italian preferred, also Laodicean and Arabian; copper, tin, and lead; ...21 KB (3,121 words) - 04:51, 16 December 2022
- [[Image:Black scorpion.jpg|thumb|240px|right|Arabian fat-tailed scorpion, Androctonus crassicauda]] Scorpions are arachnids belonging to the order ...11 KB (1,536 words) - 02:13, 9 January 2023
- Jabneh, and Ashdod. He also defeated certain Arabian tribes who may have lived in the territory of Edom and exacted tribute from the Ammonites (2 Chron. 26). ...10 KB (1,704 words) - 22:57, 13 November 2022
- hid a crafty policy, deep ambition, and an un-Arabian foresight, strength of character and obstinacy. Lawrence also described the Sharif (or Sherif ...11 KB (1,749 words) - 21:19, 9 February 2024
- cultures of Ancient Egypt, Palestine, and the Arabian Peninsula. He learned the Arabic language and spent many months studying local customs. He visited ...12 KB (1,721 words) - 10:46, 12 May 2023
- William sought to rescue Aristotle from the Arabian philosophers and to refute doctrines such as the eternality of the world and the Cathar heresy. He ...11 KB (1,755 words) - 15:20, 14 May 2023
- Saʻūdiyya) is the largest country on the Arabian Peninsula. ... The kingdom occupies about 80 percent of the Arabian Peninsula. A ...57 KB (8,635 words) - 17:04, 23 December 2022
- story is an attractive servant girl. In Arabian Nights and Days (1981) and ... * Arabian Nights and Days (1981) ليالي ألف ليلة ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 23:15, 10 November 2022
- ***Panthera pardus nimr (Arabian Leopard) ***Panthera pardus orientalis (Amur Leopard) ***Panthera pardus pardus (African Leopard) ...14 KB (1,964 words) - 11:21, 11 March 2023
