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  • means "quatrains" in the Persian language. Singular: ruba'i ... Muzaffar Alam, The Pursuit of Persian: Language in Mughal Politics ...
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  • Wudu (Arabic: الوضوء al-wuḍū, Persian:آبدست ābdast, Turkish: abdest, Urdu: وضو wazū) is the Islamic act of washing parts of ...
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  • in his native Azerbaijani, as well as Persian and Arabic. He is regarded ... (collections of poems) in Azerbaijani, Persian, and possibly Arabic. His ...
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  • Traveling by a Persian boat out of Guangzhou( 廣州), he arrived in Srivijaya (today's Palembang of Sumatra) after 22 days, where he spent ...
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  • parts of Islamic realm. In the late ninth century, Persian astronomer al-Farghani wrote extensively on the motion of celestial bodies. His work was translated ...
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  • until 1658. The name Shah Jahan comes from Persian meaning "King of the ... Akbar, gave him the name Khurram (Persian for 'joyful') ...
    17 KB (2,508 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
  • after it was written, it was translated into Persian. Bhaskaracharya ... In one of these stories, found in a Persian translation of Lilavati ...
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  • he familiarized himself with the native language, preached in it, and translated ... " from the Black Sea and the Persian Gulf respectively. ...
    11 KB (1,769 words) - 14:25, 22 May 2024
  • Báb began his most important work, the Persian Bayán, which he never finished ... The Báb abrogated traditional Islamic law and, in the Persian Bayán ...
    17 KB (2,919 words) - 05:23, 26 August 2023
  • to Ferishta, Mahmoud's mother was a Persian noble from Zabulistan; ... for the promotion and preference of Persian language instead of Turkish and ...
    21 KB (3,127 words) - 10:54, 9 March 2023
  • one millennium B.C.E., the equally ancient Persian tradition of Musiqi-e assil ... melodic systems were fused with ideas from Persian music, particularly through ...
    31 KB (4,635 words) - 15:49, 25 January 2023
  • It is in principle the representation of language, rather than images of thought ... beyond those carried out by spoken language. First invented by the early ...
    22 KB (3,308 words) - 14:05, 20 May 2023
  • Euphrates. Some scholars locate it in the Persian Gulf; others seek a location ... that Eden was located somewhere near the Persian Gulf. This location was ...
    19 KB (3,242 words) - 04:30, 18 April 2024
  • of the Zand dynasty, and had reasserted Persian sovereignty over the former ... with strongholds in northern Iran into a Persian dynasty with all the trappings ...
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  • to recite to him the great epic poems of Persian history. He held French ... "The destiny of this family of high Persian nobility, descended from ...
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  • Nasiruddin Humayun (Persian: نصيرالدين همايون) (March ... Shah Suri, and regained them, only with Persian aid, ten years later. Humayun ...
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  • than the older atashkada, a Classical Persian language term that together with ... Avesta proper, nor is there any old Persian language word for one. Moreover ...
    25 KB (4,046 words) - 19:51, 26 March 2024
  • of 244, the Persians counter-attacked. Persian sources claim that a battle ... The Roman eastern frontier and the Persian Wars. London, UK: Routledge ...
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  • (Persian) (the Arm), * sux-Latn|Gula (Euphratean) * Ied Algeuze (Orion's Hand) * cop-Latn|Klaria (Coptic) (an Armlet) * Yedelgeuse ...
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  • al-Husayn ibn ‘Abd Alla-h ibn Si-na- (Persian language|Persian Abu Ali Sinaابوعلى سينا or arabisized: أبو علي الحسين بن ...
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