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- Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi al-Qurayshi أبو بكر البغدادي ; born Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai, ar|إبراهيم عواد إبراهيم علي محمد ...67 KB (8,996 words) - 06:52, 14 June 2023
- The term carotene refers to a class of related organic compounds with the formula C40H56. Carotenes exist in several isomers that have the same formula but different molecular ...11 KB (1,641 words) - 00:37, 29 November 2023
- Baghdad ( بغداد Baġdād ) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, which it is also coterminous with. With a municipal population estimated at 7,000,000, it is ...29 KB (4,200 words) - 05:40, 26 August 2023
- Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (1040? – July 1099), was a Castilian military and political leader in medieval Spain. Born of the Spanish nobility and nicknamed El Cid Campeador, Rodrigo ...21 KB (3,514 words) - 02:49, 17 January 2023
- Papaya is a palm-like, soft-stemmed, evergreen tree, Carica papaya, that is native to the tropics of the Americas, but which is now cultivated in tropical and warm, semi-tropical ...11 KB (1,652 words) - 07:31, 18 November 2022
- Birefringence, or double refraction, is the splitting of a ray of light into two rays when it passes through certain types of material, such as calcite crystals. The two rays ...9 KB (1,136 words) - 17:57, 31 October 2023
- In biology, detritus is dead organic material, as opposed to living organisms or inorganic matter. However, what specifically is included as detritus varies according to different ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 08:55, 15 January 2023
- The Panchatantra Panachatantra translated from the Sanskrit by Arthur W. Ryder, (Bombay: Jaico Publishing House, 1949) (from Ryder's esteemed original 1924 translation, also ...24 KB (3,634 words) - 06:28, 18 November 2022
- Umar ibn al-Khattab (in Arabic, عمر بن الخطاب) (c. 581 - November, 644), sometimes referred to as Umar Farooq or just as Omar or Umar, was from the Banu Adi clan of ...21 KB (3,473 words) - 01:32, 3 May 2023
- Antinomianism (from the Greek: αντι, "against" + νομος, "law"), or lawlessness (Greek: ανομια), in theology, is the idea that members of a particular ...21 KB (3,237 words) - 06:34, 31 July 2023
- Arabic literature (Arabic ,الأدب العربي ) Al-Adab Al-Arabi, is the writing produced, both prose and poetry, by speakers (not necessarily native speakers) of the Arabic ...44 KB (6,658 words) - 21:28, 11 August 2023
- Amman, sometimes spelled Ammann (Arabic عمان ʿAmmān), is the capital, largest city, and economic center of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The city, which has served as ...17 KB (2,613 words) - 00:55, 9 January 2023
- Measles, also known as rubeola, is a very highly contagious [[virus|viral] disease caused by a paramyxovirus of the genus Morbillivirus, and characterized by a high fever and ...18 KB (2,539 words) - 09:34, 10 March 2023
- Aisha, Ayesha, 'A'isha, or 'Aisha 1 (Arabic عائشه `ā'isha, "she who lives") was a wife of the prophet Muhammad. Aisha was the daughter of the ...25 KB (4,166 words) - 07:12, 16 June 2023
- Harvestmen is the common name for any of the eight-legged invertebrate animals comprising the order Opiliones (formerly Phalangida) in the arthropod class Arachnida, characterized ...21 KB (3,059 words) - 10:35, 11 March 2023
- The hajj ( حج , transliterated Ḥaǧǧ; "greater pilgrimage") Cyril Glassé, The New Encyclopedia of Islam (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001 ISBN ...29 KB (4,558 words) - 16:54, 21 January 2024
- Trichoptera is an order of moth-like, holometabolous insects, known commonly as caddisflies (or caddis flies), with aquatic, silk-spinning, caterpillar-like larva and adults that ...12 KB (1,840 words) - 16:48, 2 May 2023
- Sufism (from Arabic (صوف), Suf meaning "wool") is a mystical tradition of Islam dedicated to experiencing Allah/God as the epitome of divine Love. Sufis can be associated ...29 KB (4,602 words) - 13:45, 28 April 2023
- Rhododendron is the common and genus name for a large and diverse group of woody shrubs and small (rarely large) trees in the flowering plant family Ericaceae. It is a large genus ...16 KB (2,229 words) - 20:52, 16 April 2023
- A wetland is a transitional environment between permanently aquatic and terrestrial environments that shares characteristics of both environments and where water, which covers ...25 KB (3,675 words) - 18:28, 17 April 2023
