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  • * Temple Mount/Al-Aqsa ** Dome of the Rock ** Al-Aqsa Mosque * Western Wall * Synagogues * Mosques ...
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  • center in the Muslim world. Its Great Mosque was the largest Mosque in ... dome of Samarra's Al-Askari Golden Mosque, one of Iraq's most ...
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  • the Temple Mount, (the other being the Al-Aqsa Mosque) is one of the holiest ... who turned it into a church, and the Al-Aqsa Mosque became the royal palace ...
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  • scholars and commissioned the Great Mosque at Samarra. On the other ... and a hunger to build. The Great Mosque of Samarra was at its time ...
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  • com/mmosque.htm Makkah—The Holy Mosque:The Black Stone.] Retrieved ... the center of Masjid al-Haram, the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. ...
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  • as a base for military operations. The Mosque of Uqba, also known as the ... Under the Aghlabids, the fame of the Mosque of Uqba and of the other ...
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  • His most famous work is the Suleiman Mosque in Istanbul, although ... important monument was the Hüsrev Pasha Mosque and its double medresse in ...
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  • Israeli Prime Minister's visit to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, or Temple Mount. The term has also been used to describe a wave of demonstrations and riots ...
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  • located inside Islam's holiest mosque (al-Masjidu’l-Ḥarām ... for Mecca suffice. However, in the Sacred Mosque, worshippers pray in concentric ...
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  • of the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque if quarter was not given ... Saladin is buried in a mausoleum in the garden outside the Umayyad ...
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  • King Abdullah, was assassinated at al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. The 15 ... one of the holiest shrines of Islam, Al-Aqsa Mosque. The assailant shot at ...
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  • the complex, including the Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque, the Ala-I-Darwaza, the Alai ... to call people for daily prayers in a mosque (the Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque ...
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  • Tumart was the son of a lamplighter in a mosque and had been noted for his ... to Seville, where they built the great mosque (now replaced by the cathedral ...
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  • located inside Islam's holiest mosque Masjid al-Haram. The Ka& ... "The Sacred Mosque", sometimes called "The Noble Sanctuary ...
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  • usually offering shisha. The Al-Hussein Mosque is also in Khan El-Khalili; ... constructed behind the bazaar. Jome Mosque is the most notable of these. ...
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  • With its twelfth-century Great Mosque, thirteenth-century citadel ... The city has many mosques, the most notable being the "Great ...
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  • [http://www.islamicity.com/mosque/sunnah/bukhari/057.sbt.html#005 ... interruped Abu Bakr's speech in the mosque of Medinah, with a long speech ...
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  • built in the Walled City. The most famous mosque, the Badshahi Mosque, had ... in this area, among them the old exquisite mosque known even now as Masjid ...
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  • at all times, for the whole world is a mosque. His view of the ruler's ... mutual trust. Fifty-five years later, the Mosque of Umar was constructed on ...
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  • now believed to be occupied by the Al Aqsa Mosque, one of the holiest shrines ... result. The Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque were built on the site ...
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  • Hindu and Islamic styles although his Mosque is alleged to have replaced ... Muslim monuments, the Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque and the Qutub Minar. ...
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  • churches dot the capital. The most famous mosque in Amman is the King Abduallah ... of these is the enormous King Abdullah I Mosque, built between 1982 and 1989 ...
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  • history. It is surmounted by a large mosque, al-Haram al-Ibrahimi al ... rumors that Jews were about to attack al-Aqsa Mosque, Arabs began attacking ...
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  • sheeted Dome is not the same as the Al-Aqsa Mosque beside it, which was ... Sanctuary; in 728, the cupola over the Al-Aqsa Mosque was erected, the same ...
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  • a house near the Western Wall and the Al-Aqsa Mosque or Temple Mount, a site ... to the emergency conditions imposed by the al-Aqsa intifada and Israel Defense ...
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  • and on one of the pillars of the Great Mosque of Gaza there was a Greek ... never completed after the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada. Its airport, the ...
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  • The most famous of these is the Sankore Mosque, also known as the University ... attended courses in the open courtyards of mosque complexes or private residences ...
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  • A mosque is a place of worship for Muslims (followers of Islam). Muslims ... The modern-day English word "mosque," just like its equivalents ...
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  • of diners. The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, the largest ... striking the bedug, a giant drum, in the mosque. The bedug is also part of ...
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  • Casablanca is home to the grand Hassan II Mosque, the second largest ... The port is located near Hassan II Mosque. ==Cityscape== ...
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  • deys until the French conquest. The Grand Mosque (Jamaa-el-Kebir الجامع ... The New Mosque (Jamaa-el-Jedid الجامع الجديد), dating ...
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  • and Abbasids, and contained the first mosque in Africa. When the North ... Umayyads and Abbasids, and contains the first mosque in Africa. ...
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  • Begum), by far the most famous. The Pearl Mosque at Agra and the palace and ... of Agra Fort, the Jama Masjid (Grand Mosque), Delhi, the Wazir Khan Mosque ...
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  • that year was the November 20, 1979 Grand Mosque Seizure at Mecca, in western ... the sermon every Friday. The Arab mosque was in the University Town ...
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  • * The Great Mosque, including the Muslim University and library. * Aghlabid Ez-Zitouna Mosque ("Mosque of the Olive"), built ...
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  • break the treaty, turning the church into a mosque. D.J. Sahas, [https://doi ... refuse and debris before having a wooden mosque built on the site.Leslie ...
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  • is said to have given Francis the key to his own mosque so that the saint could pray there. St. Francis is reported to have regards the Sultan as more ...
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  • [[Image:AHMosque.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Al-Ḥākim Mosque]] ... In 1013 he completed the mosque in Cairo begun by his father, the ...
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  • Malik Bin Deenar built the first Indian mosque in Kodungallurin 612 C.E ... temple, where he established the first mosque in the Indian subcontinent ...
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  • his house to take part in prayers at the mosque, then returned to his quarters ... A splendid mosque called Mashad Ali was afterwards erected near the ...
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  • 225px|Downtown Samarkand with Bibi Khanym mosque in the background.]] ... * Bibi Khanym Mosque, which was built between 1399 and 1404 by Timur ...
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  • * Several mosques include the Juma Mosque, built over a sixth century Christian basilica, the seventeenth century Kyrhlyar mosque, the Bala mosque ...
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  • In 1994, following the massacre in the Ibrahim Mosque by Kach supporter ... In late 2000, as the Al-Aqsa Intifada began, Kahane supporters spray ...
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  • entirely enclosed by the Masjid al-Haram mosque, and can be accessed via ... made available in coolers throughout the mosque. The pilgrims then return ...
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  • spectacular is the eighth-century Great Mosque of the Umayyads, built on ... Timur put the city to sack. The Umayyad Mosque was burnt and men and women ...
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  • added another ring, inside the first. A mosque, and headquarters for guards ... Image:Abu Hanifa Mosque, 2008.jpg|Abu Hanifa Mosque in Adhamiyah ...
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  • Abu Bakr lies buried in the Masjid al Nabawi mosque in Medina, alongside Muhammad and Umar ibn al-Khattab. == Was Abu Bakr the first man to adopt ...
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  • * The Kalyan Mosque, believed to have been completed in 1514, is equal with Bibi-Khanym Mosque in Samarkand in size. Although they are of the ...
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  • Yantra (from the Sanskrit root sa|यन्त्र् yam, meaning "to restrain, curb, check") refers to "any instrument [or ...
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  • Mughal structures such as the Badshahi Mosque, Ali Hujwiri, and the mausoleums ... such as the Lahore Fort, Badshahi mosque, as well as colonial buildings. ...
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  • (17245613545).jpg|Two-tiered arches in the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba (Islamic) ... the end of the seventh century C.E. (Al-Aqsa Mosque, Palace of Ukhaidhir ...
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  • and Apollyon (Apollo) are dragged from the mosque and beaten with sticks. That night, Baligant, the Emir of Babylon (that is, Cairo and not the ...
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  • the first man to enter the gate of the mosque the next morning would decide ... to the site of the Masjid al-Aqsa, the al-Aqsa Mosque. It is believed to have ...
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  • vengeance against Ali ibn Abi Talib in the mosque of Mecca. ... they repaired to the congregational Mosque for evening prayers, and ...
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  • began a second uprising, known as the Al-Aqsa Intifadah, just after the ... which increased significantly during the al-Aqsa Intifada. Its supporters ...
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  • He may have been a mosque cleric around the time of the US-led invasion ... 2011 suicide bombing]] at the Umm al-Qura Mosque in Baghdad, which killed ...
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  • Al-Ma'mun died near Tarsus and the city's major mosque contains a tomb reported to be his. He was succeeded by his nominated heir, ...
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  • [[Image:Koutobia Mosque, Morocco..jpg|thumb|400px|Koutoba Mosque, ... The Almohad built the Marrakech Kutubiya Mosque, which accommodated twenty ...
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  • The Assassins (originally called Hashashim, Hashishin, or Hashashiyyin) were a religious sect of Ismaili Shi'a Muslims (from the Nizari ...
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  • the capital to that city in 1598: The Imperial Mosque, Masjid-e Shah, completed in 1630, the Imami Mosque,Masjid-e Imami, the Lutfullah Mosque and ...
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  • center of Khartoum proper just south of the Great Mosque (Mesjid al-Kabir) and the minibus station. It is divided into separate sections, including ...
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  • (religious school) and a Persian style Mosque built by Ulugh Beg. The mausoleum ... the Musallah complex in Herat, and the mosque of Gowhar Shād in Mashhad ...
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  • Stanley Lane-Poole. Studies in a Mosque. (Beirut: 1883), 199; reprinted ... * Lane-Poole, Stanley. Studies in a Mosque. (Beirut: 1883), 199; reprinted ...
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  • His tomb stands on the grounds of Hukuru Mosque, or miski, in the capital ... On the inhabited islands, the miski, or mosque, forms the central ...
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  • [[Image:Mosque of Cordoba Spain.jpg|thumb|right|275px|The Mezquita Mosque in Córdoba.]] In 1248 Seville fell to Castilian rule. After the fall ...
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  • Hinduism and Islam: Sai Baba lived in a mosque, practised Hindu and Muslim ... up residence in an old and dilapidated mosque and lived a solitary life ...
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  • it into a museum, but it was being used as a mosque. * The Telyashayakh Mosque (Khast Imam Mosque), which contains the ...
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  • perform the requisite ablutions, then go to the mosque, and continue in prayer until understanding came to him. Deep into the night he would continue ...
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  • he lived in seclusion in the city's principle mosque; then he continued on to Jerusalem, to the Dome of the Rock, possibly shortly before 1099 (the ...
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  • On his way home, he attended the teachers of the mosque at Kairouan, in Tunisia, who soon learnt from him that his people knew little of the religion ...
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  • Anyone who enters a mosque is required to remove his/her shoes. The mosque is the common house of a Muslim community, therefore, shoes are cast ...
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  • grandest structure in the city. There was also one mosque for visiting Muslim officials. (El-Ghaba, coincidentally or not, means "The Forest" ...
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  • the February 2006 attack on the Al Askari Mosque in Samarra, in an attempt to trigger sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shi'ites in Iraq. ...
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  • would be forbidden—how can it be allowed in a mosque, in the presence of men? During the twelfth century, women accounted for no more than one ...
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  • Antinomianism (from the Greek: αντι, "against" + νομος, "law"), or lawlessness (Greek: ανομια), in theology ...
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  • century Mevlana mausoleum, which also has a mosque, dance hall, dervish living quarters and school, continues to draw pilgrims from across the world. ...
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  • jpg|thumb|300px|Allah script outside the [[Old Mosque, Edirne|Old Mosque]] in Edirne, Turkey]] In Islam, Allah is the unique, omnipotent and only ...
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  • [[Image:Baitul Futuh.jpg|thumb|340px|The Ahmadiyya Mosque in London ... Mumtazi, were directed to occupy an Ahmadi mosque. The march was supported ...
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  • practically unattended to the Eyüp Sultan Mosque where he was given the sword ... Abdülhamid was regularly using only the mosque for Friday prayers. This ...
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  • the Umrah. He walked every day to his local Mosque for prayer. He chose "work and worship" as the slogan for Northern Nigeria. Bello established ...
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  • [[Image:Ablution area inside Eastern wall of Badshahi mosque.JPG|right|thumb|275px|People washing before prayer at the Badshahi mosque in Lahore ...
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  • in 1626, consists of a paired tomb and a mosque. The tomb presents an exquisite ... tomb of Muhammad Qutb Shah (1626), and the mosque of Hayat Bakshi Begam (1666 ...
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  • in Cairo. His funeral took place in the el-Rashdan Mosque in Nasr City on the outskirts of Cairo. Mahfouz once dreamed that all the social classes ...
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  • [[Image:Mosque Moufia.jpg|thumb|right|275px|Moufia Mosque in Saint-Denis]] ... and most large towns have both a mosque and a temple. == Culture == ...
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  • control of the Lal Masjid ("Red Mosque") in Islamabad found ... "Bin Laden’s deputy behind the Red Mosque bloodbath,"] The Sunday ...
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  • quarries to enable the conqueror to erect a mosque at Samarkand, probably the enormous Bibi-Khanym Mosque. ===Fall of Timur=== During the war ...
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  • of their time on the veranda of the Prophet's mosque devoted to prayer. *A final etymology, advanced by the tenth-century author Al-Biruni ...
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  • steps of the city's new Jamiah Masjid (Friday mosque) in 1026. He placed a new King in Gujarat as a tributary and took the old one to Ghazni prisoner ...
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  • The oldest mosques in Kuwait are the Alkhamis Mosque, built between 1772–1773 and the Abd AlRazzag Mosque built in 1797. Kuwait’s traditional ...
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  • the remainder taking refuge in the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Tancred then called ... day, Tancred's prisoners in the mosque were slaughtered. Nevertheless ...
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  • [[Image:Beirut Mosque Church.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Mosque and Church in downtown Beirut.]] [[Image:American University of beirut3.jpg|right|250px ...
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  • [[Image:Banda Aceh's Grand Mosque, Indonesia.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Banda Aceh's Grand Mosque, a noted landmark of Aceh]] ...
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  • also oversaw the destruction of the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya which triggered ... Members of the VHP demolished the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya on 6 December ...
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  • in a public place, usually outside a main mosque on Friday. The criminal& ... walking distance. There was a main central mosque, a major market area, and ...
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  • Caliph Al-Walid I had the larger Al-Aqsa Mosque built. ... began a second uprising, known as the Al-Aqsa Intifadah, just after the ...
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  • a million people. The historical Chawk Mosque, located in the bazaar area ... [https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php/Chawk_Mosque,_Dhaka Chawk Mosque ...
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  • dressed more for their jobs than prayer in a mosque. Under those circumstances, at prayer time the man is only required to be covered from his naval ...
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  • mosques, famously the Suleymaniye Mosque as well as public buildings ... the Hagia Sophia was turned into a mosque. The Ottoman court life in ...
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  • His body was returned to Egypt and buried in the Mosque of Al Rifai' in Cairo. == Affairs and marriages == In addition to an affair with ...
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  • Calligraphy (from the Greek meaning κάλλος kallos "beauty" + γραφή graphẽ "writing") is a form of ornamental ...
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