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  • known as Abu Sufyan, was a leading man of the Quraish of Mecca and arch ... especially between Sunni and Shi'a Muslims. The lateness of his conversion ...
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  • ) is used in Islam to mean a "chapter" of the Holy Qur& ... Each Surah is named for a word or name mentioned in an ayah (section ...
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  • 573 – August 23, 634) ruled as the first of the Muslim caliphs (632–634). Abu Bakr was a towering figure in the development and early survival ...
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  • Axum, or Aksum, is a city in northern Ethiopia named after the Kingdom ... The ancient African civilization of Axum flourished for over a thousand ...
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  • Autonomous Region—a Hui autonomous region of the People's Republic ... contact with Muslim merchants. The presence of the Hui ethnic group, with ...
    15 KB (2,041 words) - 04:50, 15 November 2022
  • Patterson had been knocked out for a count of ten. Liston was known by the ... May 8, 1932, there is a considerable amount of uncertainty about the date ...
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  • The mosque displays an excellent example of Mughal era architecture. The ... 1566, by Mughal emperor Akbar. The symbolism of building the aesthetically ...
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  • Vyasaraja or Vyasaraayaru, is considered one of the three founders of Dvaita ... 1486-1498 C.E., before moving, at the behest of the king and ministers, to ...
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  • to impose a single Mu'tazili version of Islam. On the one hand, he ... rule, which lacked the generosity and piety of his brother and the intellectual ...
    13 KB (2,047 words) - 04:19, 17 June 2023
  • date back about 2500 years with the arrival of Judaism, ... followed by arrival of Christianity around 2000 years ago. ...
    24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
  • Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a huge, landlocked nation ... borders on the north stretch into the center of the Sahara Desert, while the ...
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  • Bar-Hebraeus (1226 - July 30, 1286) was catholicos (bishop) of the ... science and history represent compendia of the state of learning in these ...
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  • (March 10, 1957 - May 2, 2011) was a founder of the militant Islamist al-Qaeda ... quot; or "Usama bin Ladin," both of which are abbreviated to UBL. ...
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  • ), a city and a municipal board in Agra district in the state of Uttar ... through architecture. He stands as one of the greatest Mughal leaders ...
    14 KB (2,150 words) - 00:44, 25 March 2024
  • Ashkenazic pronunciation), is the weekly day of rest in Judaism, some forms ... Christianity inherited the Jewish tradition of Sabbath, but gradually ...
    24 KB (3,695 words) - 18:30, 22 December 2022
  • The Sultanate of Sulu was a Muslim state that ruled over many of the ... network, and Spanish troops overran the city of Jolo and built a walled garrison ...
    12 KB (1,852 words) - 21:54, 26 February 2023
  • May 16, 1926) was the 36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, reigning ... won a much more favorable re-negotiation of the peace-terms, established ...
    16 KB (2,497 words) - 04:11, 9 November 2022
  • 11, 1948) was a major political leader of the All India Muslim League ... to quit the Congress. He then took charge of the Muslim League and proposed ...
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  • term that refers to the modern notion of a Chinese nationality transcending ... The roots of the Zhonghua minzu lie in the multi-ethnic Qing Empire ...
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  • In the broader sense of the term, bioethics encompasses both biomedical ... ==Scope of bioethics== Bioethics concerns the ethical questions that ...
    12 KB (1,586 words) - 17:53, 31 October 2023

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