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- The Arabian Peninsula (Arabic: شبه الجزيرة العربية šabah al-jazīra al- ʻ arabīyya or جزيرة العرب jazīrat al- ...10 KB (1,505 words) - 21:35, 29 December 2023
- The Arabian Sea is located in the northwestern part of the Indian Ocean, situated between the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian subcontinent. ...10 KB (1,516 words) - 21:28, 11 August 2023
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- The Arabian Sea is located in the northwestern part of the Indian Ocean, situated between the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian subcontinent. ...10 KB (1,516 words) - 21:28, 11 August 2023
- The Arabian Peninsula (Arabic: شبه الجزيرة العربية šabah al-jazīra al- ʻ arabīyya or جزيرة العرب jazīrat al- ...10 KB (1,505 words) - 21:35, 29 December 2023
- a Night, One Thousand and One Nights, 1001 Arabian Nights, Arabian Nights, ... The first European version of Arabian Nights from an earlier compilation ...16 KB (2,579 words) - 15:31, 30 April 2023
- Jasmine tea is produced from dried flowers, particularly of Arabian ... Jasminum sambac (Nyctanthes sambac), also known as Arabian jasmine ...11 KB (1,681 words) - 10:00, 1 April 2024
- The Persian Gulf is located in Southwest Asia. It is an extension of the Indian Ocean located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. Historically ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 00:43, 24 November 2022
- may have been related to the southern Arabian or Ethiopian word "mikrab ... was at that time a shrine to numerous Arabian tribal gods. Desert tribesmen ...10 KB (1,571 words) - 21:48, 4 October 2022
- Resembling in shape a figurehead on a ship's prow, the Sultanate of Oman juts sharply from the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula ...14 KB (2,071 words) - 10:33, 11 March 2023
- widely but unevenly distributed across the Arabian Peninsula. It inhabits mountains ... Three species—the red gazelle, the Arabian gazelle, and the Queen of ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 07:59, 23 January 2023
- Lombok Strait. Seas include Andaman Sea, Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, Great ... south and west winds prevail. In the Arabian Sea the violent monsoon ...15 KB (2,187 words) - 18:45, 7 February 2023
- of the Sinai peninsula and west of the Arabian peninsula. Egypt, Israel ... Further south, Haql is the largest Saudi Arabian city on the gulf. On Sinai ...15 KB (2,306 words) - 08:25, 8 January 2024
- After the capture of Constantinople in 1204, the works of Arabian, Jewish and Greek philosophers were introduced into the Christian schools through ...14 KB (1,990 words) - 17:20, 25 January 2023
- his kingship, Nabonidus was absent at the Arabian oasis of Tayma. During this ... an important oasis, from which lucrative Arabian trade routes could be controlled. ...17 KB (2,715 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
- and Negev to the eastern coast of the Arabian desert. It is occasionally ... Bedouins spread out over the pastures of the Arabian Peninsula in ...21 KB (3,226 words) - 10:21, 26 September 2023
- south of the Arabian Peninsula, the archipelago is 250 kilometers ... once been connected with the African and Arabian mainlands as part of the ...22 KB (3,173 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- The Republic of Yemen is a country on the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, bordering the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden on the south ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 00:57, 17 April 2023
- to the coast from the interior of the Arabian Peninsula. It remained a ... to venture north. Their residence in the Arabian Desert was short-lived, ...18 KB (2,563 words) - 21:19, 29 December 2023
- Sea and using monsoon winds to cross the Arabian Sea directly to southern ... In the third century, Aksum began interfering in South Arabian affairs ...22 KB (3,389 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- for forecasting tropical cyclones in the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. ... Ocean north of the equator, including the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. ...14 KB (1,970 words) - 06:52, 12 January 2024
- of Africa has been in contact with the Arabian peninsula and Southeast ... East Africa also had contacts with the Arabian peninsula early in ...13 KB (1,820 words) - 17:39, 12 February 2024
- was absorbed into medieval Jewish and Arabian philosophy, and reappeared ... was absorbed into medieval Jewish and Arabian philosophy, and reappeared ...13 KB (1,922 words) - 13:20, 4 February 2023
- or Middle Eastern countries outside the Arabian Peninsula. This group includes ... The Arabs of the Arabian Peninsula, the area of land between Asia ...32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
- of alcohol. He followed Galen and the Arabian physicians in attempting to localize mental functions. Adelard's Perdifficiles Quaestiones ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 05:50, 15 June 2023
- *Arabian leopard (Panthera pardus nimr), Arabian Peninsula; Often ... (Barbary leopard), Panthera p. nimr (south Arabian leopard), Panthera p. adersi ...20 KB (3,062 words) - 21:56, 25 October 2022
- the works of Averroes, and other Arabian philosophers and physicians ... systems of Averroes and other Arabian writers to the West. During ...12 KB (1,811 words) - 05:30, 24 November 2022
- |Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula. |- |Cerastes |Laurenti, 1768 |align="center"|3 |align="center"|0 |Horned vipers ...13 KB (1,863 words) - 00:46, 18 November 2022
- Sea, with the wind originating in the Arabian or Sahara Deserts. It often reaches hurricane speeds in North Africa and Southern Europe. ...13 KB (2,044 words) - 06:18, 15 June 2023
- (prior to World War II) in English as Philip the Arabian, was a Roman Emperor from 244 to 249. He became a member of the Praetorian guard under Alexander ...20 KB (3,034 words) - 03:50, 24 November 2022
- in Northwest Arabia, established by South Arabian kingdoms. Modern archaeological ... and there trade, bypassing the South Arabian kingdom of Sheba which previously ...22 KB (3,511 words) - 15:45, 7 December 2022
- In Pasolini's Arabian Nights, the Sium story is based on Abu ... The Khamriyyat of Abu Nuwas, Kegan Paul Arabian Library (London, UK: Routledge ...28 KB (4,086 words) - 06:54, 14 June 2023
- Yasmine Zahran. 2001. Philip the Arab: A Study in Prejudice. (The ... * Zahran, Yasmine. Philip the Arab: A Study in Prejudice. (The Arabian ...15 KB (2,360 words) - 02:07, 22 December 2022
- between 3500 and 2500 B.C.E., to a period when the Arabian Peninsula was subject to much more rainfall than now, and supported a flourishing civilization ...9 KB (1,300 words) - 10:23, 26 September 2023
- the Arabic name. In the 1980s, the Saudi Arabian government and others began ... quot;) in the western region of the Arabian peninsula. The Tropic of ...20 KB (3,193 words) - 03:48, 9 November 2022
- Thousand and One Nights, also known as the Arabian Nights, including "The ... *Marzolph, Ulrich, Richard van Leeuwen, Hassan Wassouf. The Arabian ...20 KB (3,064 words) - 22:02, 10 December 2023
- The Arabian horse, the world's oldest purebred breed, gained ... carriage or cavalry horses were bred to Arabian, Anglo-Arabian, and thoroughbred ...30 KB (4,944 words) - 19:37, 21 February 2022
- equatorial forest zone (Donegan 2002). The Arabian ostriches in the Near and ... *S. c. syriacus in the Middle East, sometimes called the Arabian ostrich ...28 KB (4,283 words) - 10:51, 11 March 2023
- Musiqa (The Book of Music), and his pure Arabian tone system is still in ... of musical instruments and his pure Arabian tone system is still used ...18 KB (2,709 words) - 07:20, 16 June 2023
- Walter Scott, John Bunyan, and The Arabian Nights. He entered the ... *The New Arabian Nights (1882) *More New Arabian Nights:The Dynamiter ...22 KB (3,551 words) - 01:41, 16 December 2022
- Arabia. SoCal's subsidiary, California-Arabian Standard Oil Company, evolved over the years, becoming the Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO ...26 KB (3,656 words) - 18:40, 8 December 2023
- *The Arabian Nights (1863) *English Sacred Poetry (1864) *Legends and Lyrics (1865) *Martin Farquhar Tupper's Proverbial Philosophy ...9 KB (1,251 words) - 07:57, 3 August 2022
- 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
- gospel. From this it has been inferred that the Arabian Christians of the seventh century were habitually using a harmonization such as the Diatessaron ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 11:57, 29 January 2024
- archeri), the Secretary Bird, Arabian and Kori bustards, Abyssinian Roller, and Crested Francolin. In the southern part of the plain, in Ethiopia ...11 KB (1,699 words) - 05:57, 16 June 2023
- the Persian Gulf, separating it from the Arabian coast and Iran, respectively ... beneath the Gulf of Bahrain to the Saudi Arabian coast. Since the early 1980s ...38 KB (5,603 words) - 05:46, 26 August 2023
- United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the eastern Arabian Peninsula. "Dubai" ... Dubai lies within the Arabian Desert. However, the topography of Dubai ...35 KB (5,297 words) - 17:16, 12 February 2024
- jutting for hundreds of kilometers into the Arabian Sea. Overall, the Horn of Africa is estimated to consist of over 772,200 square miles, most of which ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 14:19, 7 February 2024
- ***** (Arabian common dolphin, Delphinus tropicalis) **** Genus Lagenodelphis ***** Fraser's dolphin, Lagenodelphis hosei **** Genus Lagenorhynchu ...13 KB (1,677 words) - 05:01, 4 November 2022
- The United Arab Emirates (also the UAE or the Emirates) is a Middle Eastern country situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest ...41 KB (6,013 words) - 11:40, 3 May 2023
- to European scholars through the works of Arabian and Jewish scholars, and ... was introduced to the medieval world by Arabian theologians. The works of ...28 KB (4,356 words) - 22:59, 30 April 2023
- (Arabic: مسجد). Mosques originated on the Arabian Peninsula, but now exist on all the world's inhabited continents. The primary purposes of a ...42 KB (6,412 words) - 16:59, 10 November 2022
- could not be found in any Greek, Indian or Arabian manuscripts, not until 1585 Dutch mathematician Adriaan Anthoniszoom obtained this fraction; ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 06:13, 13 June 2023
- of German ethnic tradition; while the Arabian Nights can be viewed as ... Gilgamesh, and the character Sinbad of the Arabian Nights legends all are important ...24 KB (3,693 words) - 06:15, 1 April 2024
- Sinai was connected with Egypt and the Saudi Arabian Peninsula as part of the same land formation. They theorize that thermal currents in the earth’s ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 22:24, 29 January 2023
- classics. They became some of the main sources for Arabian scholars such as Avicenna, Rhazes, and Maimonides. Galen was known in Arabic as Jalinos, and ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 03:50, 18 April 2024
- Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea. It is separated from ... and Chinese traders over 2,000 years ago. Arabian Muslims whose prime interests ...25 KB (3,677 words) - 22:37, 7 January 2024
- when the surrounding Kutch desert was a part of the Arabian Sea. Lothal engineers accorded high priority to the creation of a dockyard and a warehouse ...13 KB (1,801 words) - 14:17, 27 January 2023
- empire. Heralded as the Queen of the Arabian Sea, Kochi has been an important ... mile (1.6 km) wide. To the west lies the Arabian Sea, and to the east perennial ...42 KB (5,911 words) - 04:06, 4 March 2023
- the fleet then cruised southward down the Arabian coast, the Persian Gulf ... | 6th Voyage || 1421-1422 || Hormuz, East Africa, countries of the ...33 KB (5,055 words) - 06:00, 13 June 2023
- settlements spread as far south as the Arabian Sea coast of India, as far west as the Iranian border, and as far north as the Himalayas. Harappa ...14 KB (2,047 words) - 19:32, 9 November 2022
- by the Bible, the stories of the Arabian nights, Aesop's Fables, the works of Homer, and the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, her ...13 KB (2,045 words) - 07:11, 5 October 2022
- author. At the same time, he became fond of Arabian Nights. He also reportedly carried a miniature copy of James McPherson's cycle of poems, Ossian ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 23:44, 12 February 2024
- The Kanem–Bornu Empire was an African trading empire ruled by the Saf dynasty from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries. It encompassed, at ...13 KB (2,008 words) - 02:36, 5 October 2022
- Using Latin translations and the notes of the Arabian commentators, he digested, systematized and interpreted the whole of Aristotle's works in ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
- Before the conquest of Lebanon by Arabian Muslims, which resulted in the Arabization of the Lebanese population, including Maronites, spoke a ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 16:35, 27 January 2022
- century, and in the tenth century, the Arabian traveler Marudee reported ... century, and in the tenth century, the Arabian traveler Marudee reported ...25 KB (3,739 words) - 05:50, 26 August 2023
- VIOAS Voice of the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea. Mancham also served on the advisory board of International Journal on World Peace. He also ...16 KB (2,221 words) - 16:04, 8 February 2023
- argue that Muhammad endorsed the traditional Arabian method of shura or consultation, as the way for the community to choose leaders. Designating one ...14 KB (2,336 words) - 06:48, 14 June 2023
- Karachi (كراچى) is the capital of the province of Sindh, and the largest city in Pakistan. Located on the coast of the Arabian Sea, north ...42 KB (6,146 words) - 08:28, 28 February 2023
- to venture north. Their residence in the Arabian Desert was short-lived, ... In 1710, the Al-Sabah family, a nomadic people of Arabian descent ...41 KB (6,203 words) - 15:18, 22 March 2024
- reached the Cape of Good Hope, Chinese, Arabian, or Indian explorers/merchants may already have visited it, and kept records of these visits ...15 KB (2,280 words) - 00:36, 13 January 2023
- measure astronomical objects. Books obtained from Arabian and Chinese scholars were not complete in their instructions, because these devices could also ...15 KB (2,262 words) - 16:10, 8 February 2023
- which at the time was a more integral part of the Arabian Sea. Between 2000 B.C.E. and 1700 B.C.E., seismic activity caused the waters of the river's ...16 KB (2,489 words) - 03:27, 23 December 2022
- issue 50 featured a story set in the world of the Arabian Nights, with Hārūn ar-Rashīd as one of the protagonists. The story, entitled "Ramadan ...14 KB (2,457 words) - 16:44, 30 January 2022
- areas. It also grows naturally in the southern Arabian Peninsula and in very localized areas in Madagascar, and has been naturalized in Israel and ...16 KB (2,282 words) - 01:53, 27 February 2023
- second son, Harun al-Rashid, immortalized in the Arabian Nights. Harun continued to patronize scholarship and entered diplomatic relations with Charlemagne ...15 KB (2,203 words) - 22:55, 18 December 2022
- such as Il fiore delle mille e una notte (Arabian Nights, 1974), Boccaccio ... *Il fiore delle Mille e una Notte (A Thousand and One Nights/Arabian ...27 KB (4,092 words) - 05:15, 24 November 2022
- where the fragrances can commingle. Much Arabian incense, also called Bukhoor ... as a channel for trading goods such as Arabian frankincense and myrrh; ...32 KB (4,937 words) - 12:45, 4 March 2024
- as a python for this reason); the Arabian sand boa, (Eryx jayakari); and the West African sand boa, (Eryx muelleri). The genera placed within ...16 KB (2,471 words) - 18:41, 26 July 2023
- Kutch desert had been a part of the Arabian Sea. A vital and thriving ... The city imported ingots from sites on the Arabian peninsula. Workers mixed ...37 KB (5,691 words) - 16:48, 25 October 2023
- Similarly, the Saudi Arabian firm SABIC has announced construction of a plant to produce acetic acid by ethane oxidation at Yanbu. The economic ...16 KB (2,309 words) - 01:40, 19 March 2022
- Walter Scott, Byron, The Tale of Genji and The Arabian Nights. They began chronicling the lives and struggles of the inhabitants of their imaginary ...15 KB (2,478 words) - 00:38, 5 December 2023
- Equestrian sports involve many types of horse competition from classical types such as Dressage to intense types like cross-country sports. These ...17 KB (2,688 words) - 19:15, 13 February 2024
- word for god. It is also found in Old South Arabian and in Amharic/Ethiopian. In Hebrew, it is often used as an element in proper names, such ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 01:12, 11 November 2022
- pilgrims unable to make the long journey to the Arabian Peninsula. It also became a center of Islamic religious and scientific scholarship in West Africa ...17 KB (2,566 words) - 04:37, 4 March 2023
- sold as pearl divers and domestic servants in the Arabian and Persian gulfs. === Colonialism === A new branch of trade developed once ivory became ...16 KB (2,498 words) - 23:51, 3 December 2023
- of support from non-Arab Muslims. The popular Arabian Nights is set in the reign of Harun al-Rashid, and tells us something about what life was ...16 KB (2,377 words) - 07:16, 13 June 2023
- Acting (1927), and his second film,Two Arabian Knights (1928), were financial ... of the Golden Era of Film, including Two Arabian Knights (1928), which won ...29 KB (4,496 words) - 19:27, 7 February 2024
- caused by the separation of the African and Arabian Plates. Consequently, the area is subject to earthquakes and, in the past, volcanic activity. This ...16 KB (2,502 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
- and taught that God could not be named. Arabian philosophers denied that the essence of God had any attributes, and attempted to define God by ...17 KB (2,392 words) - 06:18, 31 July 2023
- also serve as essays on military strategy, Arabian culture and geography, and ... * Graves, Robert. Lawrence and the Arabian Adventure. New York: Doubleday ...33 KB (5,295 words) - 00:58, 21 April 2023
- He was also a prolific editor. He edited The Portable Arabian Nights ... * The Portable Arabian Nights (1951) * The Art of Indian Asia; Heinrich ...35 KB (5,308 words) - 07:20, 10 August 2022
- Saudi Arabia, respectively) swept through the Arabian Peninsula and camped on the coasts within small fishing and pearling villages. In the 1760s, ...17 KB (2,415 words) - 16:36, 29 January 2024
- Muhammad was born into a well-to-do family settled in the northern ... At a certain point, Muhammad began to engage in the old Arabian practice ...64 KB (10,057 words) - 01:48, 11 March 2023
- the Qur'an, which challenges the Pre-Islamic Arabian concept of death. Cyril Glasse (ed.), "Resurrection," in The New Encyclopedia ...21 KB (3,169 words) - 19:58, 8 December 2022
- who suffered in the course of the great Arabian campaign of Assurbanipal. Other Ammonite kings attested to in contemporary sources found at Heshbon ...18 KB (2,883 words) - 07:34, 25 July 2023
- Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Yemen. Arabian Peninsula (Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 2007, ISBN 9780761475729), 773. ...18 KB (2,729 words) - 03:59, 15 August 2023
- of the Persian Gulf, where fresh waters from the Arabian aquifer mix and mingle with the salt waters of the sea. Crawford (1998). This characteristic ...16 KB (2,560 words) - 23:20, 30 April 2023
- At the time of the Arabian conquest Istakhr offered a desperate resistance, but the city was still a place of considerable importance in the ...19 KB (3,001 words) - 17:58, 26 March 2023
- beyond Europe including The Perfumed Garden, The Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra. ===Science, philosophy and discovery=== [[Image:Charles Darwin ...18 KB (2,842 words) - 20:10, 3 May 2023
- reading, providing him with classics such as The Arabian Nights, Bulfinch's Age of Fable, and children's versions of Homer's Iliad and ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 18:23, 29 July 2023
- * Vathek, an Arabian Tale (1786) by William Thomas Beckford ([http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2060 Full text] at [http://www.gutenberg.org Project ...19 KB (2,806 words) - 12:13, 24 January 2023
- Semitic nomads who came from the Arabian peninsula. The Aramaeans first established a water-distribution system for Damascus by constructing ...36 KB (5,471 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- control of the Ghassanians, a group of South Arabian Christian tribes who migrated from Yemen around 250 C.E. With the rise of Islam, Arab general Yazid ...17 KB (2,613 words) - 00:55, 9 January 2023
- From July 25 to September 23, 2001, red rain sporadically fell on the southern Indian state of Kerala. Heavy downpours occurred in which red ...21 KB (3,061 words) - 19:10, 16 April 2023
- the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the eastern Arabian Peninsula. "Abu Dhabi" also refers to that emirate's main city, which is often ...19 KB (2,925 words) - 06:53, 14 June 2023
- * Ruete, Emilie. Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar. New York, NY: M. Wiener Pub., 1989. ISBN 978-1558760073 * Uğur, Hatice. Osmanlı ...19 KB (2,660 words) - 05:43, 13 June 2023
- Cranes are any of the large, long-legged, long-necked, wading birds comprising the family Guidae of the order Gruiformes. Cranes are distinguished ...19 KB (2,899 words) - 06:15, 11 January 2024
- discipline, after Avicenna and other Arabian writers. This work, so far, has not been published, with the exception of one chapter, by Margoliouth ...19 KB (3,000 words) - 19:08, 10 February 2023
- scarcely populated territory, where, according to Arabian sources, Great Moravia used to send its criminals, and where the Roman Empire had settled the ...20 KB (3,024 words) - 05:22, 5 November 2022
- provinces of Palawan, Romblon, Guimaras, Arabian Sea along Pakistan, and Davao Oriental, and in the Red Sea in Egypt provinces Marsa Alam at ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 17:19, 12 February 2024
- An inscription using the Ancient South Arabian script in Old Arabic from ... According to Gerhard Böwering, in contrast with pre-Islamic Arabian ...42 KB (6,212 words) - 23:54, 4 March 2024
- station, faced with censorship demands by the Saudi Arabian government, shut down after two years of operation. Many former BBC World Service staff members ...22 KB (3,270 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- *Arabian mythology – Juha *Ashanti mythology – Anansi *Australian Aboriginal mythology – Bamapana *Aztec mythology – Huehuecoyotl ...19 KB (2,802 words) - 16:52, 2 May 2023
- (200 mi) in length. In the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula, a region called the Empty Quarter because of its total lack of population, a vast ...19 KB (2,942 words) - 17:21, 12 February 2024
- ca. 1400 B.C.E.) Byblos syllabary and the South Arabian alphabet (ca. 1200 B.C.E.).Robert Hetzron, The Semitic Languages (Routledge, 2006, ISBN 0415412668 ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 14:05, 20 May 2023
- branches: the Bay of Bengal branch and the Arabian Sea branch. The latter extends ... and Orissa, swerves to the northwest. The Arabian Sea branch moves northeast ...54 KB (7,582 words) - 22:06, 7 January 2024
- owns UBS will be bought out by an even larger Saudi Arabian conglomerate, Beale launches an on-screen tirade against the two corporations, encouraging ...21 KB (3,165 words) - 06:13, 18 November 2022
- Shish lik is an Arabian barbecued rack of lamb. Other typical Arabian barbecue includes beef steaks, chicken parts, Middle-Eastern kebab made ...43 KB (6,886 words) - 08:03, 20 September 2023
- the city was controlled by various European, Arabian, and Berber warlords. In the thirteenth century, Algiers came under the dominion of the Abd ...19 KB (2,767 words) - 00:36, 9 January 2023
- In early twelfth century al-Andalus, the Arabian philosopher, Ibn Tufail (Abubacer), wrote discussions on materialism in his philosophical novel ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 16:49, 7 November 2022
- Bombay into one of the largest seaports on the Arabian Sea. ... Mumbai lies in the tropical zone, near the Arabian Sea. The climate ...39 KB (5,723 words) - 02:34, 11 March 2023
- *****Arabian jird, Meriones arimalius *****Cheng's jird, Meriones chengi *****Sundevall's jird, Meriones crassus *****Dahl's jird ...22 KB (2,988 words) - 15:28, 30 November 2022
- a 650 mile (1046 km) coastline along the Arabian Sea to the south. ... captured Sindh and extended to the coast of the Arabian Sea. ...40 KB (5,985 words) - 19:54, 7 March 2024
- * Discovery! The Search for Arabian Oil (1971) * Writer in America (1982) * Conversations With Wallace Stegner on Western History and Literature (1983) ...23 KB (3,464 words) - 18:47, 17 April 2023
- with immigration from India, China, Portugal, Arabian, and Netherlands. Before the arrival of the Abrahamic religions of Christianity and Islam ...26 KB (3,688 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- &id=39 Les langues en Erythrée] Arabian Humanities. Retrieved July ... are pulling away from one another: the Arabian Plate, and the two parts ...41 KB (6,034 words) - 19:30, 13 February 2024
- Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its western coast. ... Goa, being in the tropical zone and near the Arabian Sea, has a warm ...39 KB (5,868 words) - 08:05, 24 January 2023
- in 586 B.C.E. They travel across the Arabian Peninsula, and then to the promised land (the Americas) by ship. [https://www.churchofjesuschrist ...29 KB (4,400 words) - 00:27, 19 November 2023
- suffered enormous casualties. The Saudi Arabian government and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) gradually increased financial and military ...22 KB (3,344 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
- sites of Sunni Islam would always be in the Arabian peninsula. Shi'a's sacred sites were much closer—in Iraq, captured by the Safavids ...23 KB (3,547 words) - 18:36, 22 December 2022
- Syrian Desert, and the northern part of the Arabian Desert. ... Semitic people, who had migrated from the Arabian Peninsula. In 2125 B.C.E ...56 KB (8,476 words) - 13:04, 6 March 2024
- Around the turn of the millennium, the Arabian astronomer and polymath ... Near the end of the twelfth century, the Spanish-Arabian Muslim astronomer ...58 KB (9,037 words) - 23:45, 3 December 2023
- of Philosophy. Retrieved June 5, 2018. The Arabian astronomer, Alhazen (965 ... 1054 supernova was observed by Chinese and Arabian astronomers. The Crab Nebula ...57 KB (8,514 words) - 03:49, 18 April 2024
- The Great Rift Valley formed in Miocene times as a result of the Arabian Plate moving northward and then eastward away from the African Plate. ...24 KB (3,779 words) - 08:53, 28 January 2024
- *Browne, E. G. 1921. Arabian Medicine. Cambridge, pp. 44–53. *Fakhry, Majid. 2004. "Opera Philosophica," A History of Islamic Philosophy ...24 KB (3,833 words) - 01:39, 8 December 2022
- or DVD of Pier Paolo Pasolini's luxuriant Arabian Nights (1974),[http://www.moviemartyr.com/1974/arabiannights.htm] which the Arab scholar Robert ...24 KB (3,634 words) - 06:28, 18 November 2022
- grew in importance and attracted the Arabian trade away from Petra, the latter declined. It seems, however, to have lingered on as a religious ...24 KB (3,829 words) - 14:47, 28 March 2023
- dislike. He wrote, "No one is farther from the Arabian prophet than the philosopher. Know that philosophy (falsafa) is the wont and way of Zoroaster ...25 KB (4,069 words) - 00:42, 25 March 2024
- the third millennium B.C.E. from the inner Arabian Peninsula. ... the third millennium B.C.E. from the inner Arabian Peninsula. However, the ...51 KB (7,390 words) - 17:16, 4 May 2023
- *Salloum, H. 2001. [http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200102/arabian.memories.in.portugal.htm Arabian memories in Portugal]. Saudi Aramco ...26 KB (3,898 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- In the 1990s, henna artists in Africa, India, the Arabian Peninsula and the West began to experiment with para-phenylenediamine (PPD)-based black ...26 KB (4,222 words) - 09:39, 10 March 2023
- , the "Hebrewisms" in the Ancient West Arabian language, the word for Ark in Ge'ez (which is taken from pre-Babylonian captivity Hebrew ...29 KB (4,905 words) - 02:49, 15 August 2023
- and often followed the method of the Arabian encyclopedists known as "the Brothers of Purity." Inclined to contemplative mysticism ...28 KB (4,179 words) - 03:01, 1 August 2022
- Jewish, Christian, Zoroastrian, Arabian, and Indian) to identify supposed contradictions and inconsistencies in the fundamental Islamic doctrine ...29 KB (4,094 words) - 21:49, 8 March 2024
- mentions of porcelain by a foreigner was made by an Arabian traveler during the Tang Dynasty who recorded that: They have in China a very fine ...32 KB (4,846 words) - 22:42, 13 January 2023
- in Medina and in many regions in the Arabian Peninsula, so he lays down various laws for his community. Thus, judging personal injury is one of them. ...29 KB (4,671 words) - 22:22, 25 October 2022
- a large herd of the once nearly–extinct Arabian Oryx. There are also ostriches ... Essential to any cooking in the Arabian Peninsula is the concept of ...50 KB (7,586 words) - 20:00, 4 May 2024
- Africa collided with Eurasia in the Turkish-Arabian region between 19 and 12 Ma (ICS 2004). Subsequent uplift of mountains in the western Mediterranean ...37 KB (5,215 words) - 06:53, 18 April 2024
- the form of refueling facilities situated in the Arabian Sea. ... However, it, combined with the Saudi Arabian alliance with the United ...62 KB (9,530 words) - 08:21, 8 January 2024
- of lute, believed to have been introduced from the Arabian Peninsula area during the sixth century and improved, is most popular in Shanghai and surrounding ...33 KB (4,845 words) - 16:58, 24 October 2023
- Aramaic, which then gave rise to Hebrew. The South Arabian alphabet, a sister script to the Phoenician alphabet, is the script from which the Ge'ez ...44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
- phalanx-like formation. According to the Arabian sources the Franks drew ... than the Nile or Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed ...68 KB (10,731 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- Because of the extensive Arabian influence of the music on north Africa, which gives it a separate and distinct style, this discussion will be ...35 KB (5,601 words) - 21:41, 27 November 2021
- absolved of sin, but he died close to Mecca in the Arabian desert in 1557. == India Revisited== Sher Shah Suri had died in 1545, and, although ...33 KB (5,251 words) - 21:14, 11 January 2023
- a varied number of musical instruments and his pure Arabian tone system is still used in Arabic music.[http://www.islamonline.net/english/Science/2002/01/article20 ...38 KB (5,454 words) - 00:21, 12 April 2023
- deal" to Iran as Aramco had to the Saudi Arabian; anger over Iran’s defeat and occupation by the Allied powers—nationalization of oil was ...33 KB (4,921 words) - 19:30, 9 November 2022
- Following the Islamic prophet Muhammad's unification of the Arabian peninsula in 632, his successors, the Caliphs, began a series of invasions ...33 KB (5,040 words) - 11:07, 6 March 2024
- Muslims), as well as in certain traditionalist Arabian states such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. In cultures where polygamy is still ...37 KB (5,815 words) - 17:42, 30 November 2023
- sometime extending to the edge of the Arabian Desert. The northern border ... The Islamic unification of the Arabian Peninsula by the first caliph ...86 KB (12,843 words) - 06:24, 18 November 2022
- tin, sugar, iron, ambergris, Indian ivory and Arabian frankincense. Altogether, 150 voyages between the kingdom and Southeast Asia on Ryūkyūan ...37 KB (5,344 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- to collect brazilwood, used as a dye. In the Arabian Sea, Socotra was occupied in 1506, and in the same year Lourenço d'Almeida visited Ceylon ...34 KB (5,157 words) - 00:26, 12 April 2023
- and the Nile Valley, as well as parts of the Arabian peninsula and Southeast Asia. In both areas, the custom predates Islam. Many African Muslims ...36 KB (5,852 words) - 19:56, 21 April 2023
- Sinai, and Negev to the eastern coast of the Arabian desert, were traditionally divided into related tribes. These tribes were organized on several ...37 KB (5,635 words) - 16:06, 27 July 2021
- in the third millennium B.C.E. from the inner Arabian Peninsula. The population is categorized according to residential status. There are indigenous ...33 KB (4,844 words) - 04:49, 18 April 2024
- is a reliable source of information about the Arabian invasions of Armenia and Asia Minor. History of Albania, attributed to Movses Kaghankatvatsi ...39 KB (5,646 words) - 09:18, 10 March 2023
- who also promised him the restitution of the Arabian towns taken by the Hasmoneans, readily espoused the cause of Hyrcanus and advanced toward Jerusalem ...39 KB (6,358 words) - 14:51, 7 June 2023
- to its west and south lie the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean ... (1.18 percent of India) wedges between the Arabian Sea to the west and the ...79 KB (10,302 words) - 22:30, 3 March 2023
- of Manavadar, Mangrol and Babriawad. The Arabian Sea stood between it and Pakistan, and over 80% of its population professed Hinduism. Possibly ...40 KB (5,861 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- Sahara, Sinai, and the eastern coast of the Arabian Desert. The term applies mainly to Arabs but occasionally to non-Arab groups such as the Beja of ...40 KB (5,990 words) - 02:37, 16 November 2022
- Taejo Lee Sung-gye founded Joseon (July 1392 - August 1910) (also Chosun, Choson, Chosŏn) in 1392. The dynasty continued until 1910, lasted ...39 KB (5,704 words) - 03:49, 6 August 2022
- and flows southwest through Pakistan to the Arabian Sea. It is fed by the Jhelum, the Chenab, the Ravi, the Beas, and the Sutlej rivers, among others. ...37 KB (5,509 words) - 23:27, 18 December 2020
- of the staple diet in Mohenjodaro near the Arabian Sea. The Indus Plain had rich alluvial deposits which came down the Indus River in annual floods ...39 KB (5,853 words) - 00:03, 19 November 2020
- the flood". Hud, the first of five Arabian prophets of the Qur'an, prophet for the ancient tribe of 'Ad does not have any particular ...43 KB (6,326 words) - 11:08, 10 March 2023
- Shell Oil Company is an equal partner with the Saudi Arabian government-owned oil company Saudi Aramco in Motiva Enterprises, a refining and ...44 KB (6,285 words) - 21:48, 16 April 2023
- down to swim in the sea. We also had stables with Arabian horses, and one of our homes in Ashkelon even had a large swimming pool. I think we must have ...43 KB (6,718 words) - 06:53, 14 June 2023
- The Wahhabi movement which spread across the Arabian peninsula starting in the eighteenth century, emphasized jihad as armed struggle.Dore Gold, ...48 KB (7,155 words) - 12:39, 1 August 2022
- suffers from multiple sclerosis, whereas in the Arabian peninsula, Asia, and continental South America, the frequency is much lower. In sub-Saharan Africa ...42 KB (6,258 words) - 02:34, 11 March 2023
- of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea. It is separated from the Indian subcontinent by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait ...42 KB (6,170 words) - 15:45, 27 April 2023
- fairy tale has ancient roots, older than the Arabian Nights collection of magical tales (c. 1500 C.E.), such as the Vikram and the Vampire, and Bel ...47 KB (7,154 words) - 00:31, 25 March 2024
- raised fine horses, similar to contemporary Arabian horses, which were greatly prized and exported. Carthage's merchant ships, which surpassed ...45 KB (7,001 words) - 00:42, 29 November 2023
- practice of other areas of the world, such as the Arabian Peninsula, where a group's territory was congruent with its military or trade influence ...46 KB (6,657 words) - 06:01, 16 June 2023
- greater than the estimated oil deposits in the Arabian Peninsula. However, this coal has a high sulfur content, which causes acid rain unless special ...44 KB (6,183 words) - 16:22, 12 February 2024
- aloe wood, perfumes, sandalwood and condiments. Arabian horse shipments constituted the most expensive import to South India, that trade being monopolized ...49 KB (7,018 words) - 17:18, 4 May 2023
- dry northeasterly winds from the Arabian Peninsula or moist southwesterly winds from the Congo River basin. The amount of rainfall increases ...46 KB (6,808 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- were made, and as Islam expanded beyond the Arabian peninsula into Persia, India, Russia, China, Turkey, and across North Africa, the third Caliph ...49 KB (7,703 words) - 20:37, 24 January 2023
- Sea in the west and to the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea in the south. ===Invasion of Khwarezmid Empire=== After the defeat of the Kara-Khitais ...50 KB (8,058 words) - 06:47, 18 April 2024
- The Arabian Sea borders Karnataka to the west, Goa to the northwest, Maharashtra to the north, Andhra Pradesh to the east, Tamil Nadu to the ...50 KB (6,914 words) - 20:25, 4 January 2024
- theory states that immigrants from the Arabian peninsula settled in northern Ethiopia, bringing with them their language, proto-Ethiopian (or ...47 KB (6,926 words) - 04:34, 22 March 2024
- Notable minor plates include the Arabian Plate, the Caribbean Plate, the Juan de Fuca Plate, the Cocos Plate, the Nazca Plate, the Philippine ...57 KB (8,619 words) - 02:46, 8 January 2024
- worker community lives in the countries of the Arabian Peninsula and in smaller communities in Europe and North America. A sizable community of largely ...61 KB (8,656 words) - 18:55, 23 March 2023
- for concerns of animal health, by Arabian Peninsula states. Drought has also impaired agricultural and livestock production. Because rainfall ...54 KB (7,776 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
- The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War, or October War ( מלחמת יום הכיפורים ; (Romanization of Hebrew transliteration) Milkhemet Yom ...55 KB (8,557 words) - 16:54, 4 June 2023
- empire's 300 ports, large and small, on the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. The ports of Mangalore, Honavar, Bhatkal, Barkur, Cochin, Cannanore ...55 KB (7,789 words) - 20:20, 3 May 2023
- It is predicted that by 2025, countries of the Arabian peninsula will be using more than twice the amount of water naturally available to them. ...56 KB (8,647 words) - 23:15, 3 May 2023
- to Western markets. Nomads of the Syrian and Arabian deserts visited the cities of Syria to trade, developing limited routes that often led to the ...55 KB (7,922 words) - 06:11, 6 March 2023
- Saudi Arabian schoolbooks contain explicit summaries of the Protocols as factual: Another textbook for boys for Tenth Grade on Hadith and Islamic ...66 KB (9,730 words) - 23:42, 22 October 2023
- quot;), a leading member of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, stated that al-Zawahiri was the best candidate. Moneer Al-Omari, [https://web.archive ...80 KB (10,642 words) - 07:25, 23 August 2023
- || United Kingdom || On the Arabian peninsula, Aden colony becomes independent as South Yemen, to be united with formerly Ottoman North Yemen ...71 KB (10,085 words) - 19:16, 10 July 2023
- . It is bounded on the southwest by the Arabian Sea and on the southeast by the Bay of Bengal. The Himalayas are to the north, while Kanyakumari ...64 KB (9,559 words) - 13:04, 4 March 2024
- the sea trade with the east. Later the south Arabian kingdom renounced Sassanid overlordship, and another Persian expedition was sent in 598 that ...72 KB (11,035 words) - 16:49, 23 December 2022
