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- Abū-Yūsuf Ya’qūb ibn Ishāq al-Kindī (c. 801-873 C.E.) (Arabic: أبو يوسف يعقوب ابن إسحاق الكندي) (also known in the Western world by the Latinized ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 04:13, 17 June 2023
- Al-Mutawakkil ˤAlā Allāh Jaˤfar ibn al-Muˤtasim (Arabic المتوكل على الله جعفر بن المعتصم; March 821 – December 861) was the tenth Abbasid caliph ...13 KB (2,047 words) - 04:19, 17 June 2023
- Al Capp (September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979) was an American cartoonist best known for the satiric comic strip, Li'l Abner. He also created the comic strips Abbie and ...16 KB (2,493 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) was the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Gore ...32 KB (4,643 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), popularly known as Al "Scarface" Capone, was an American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated ...18 KB (2,835 words) - 04:20, 17 June 2023
- Category:Media Organizations Category:Image wanted [[Image:Al Jazeera mews room under construction by ashour jsc.jpg|thumb|300px|Al Jazeera newsroom under construction.]] ...22 KB (3,270 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- Asa "Al Jolson" Yoelson (May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was an acclaimed American singer and actor whose career lasted from 1911 until his death in 1950. He was ...14 KB (2,198 words) - 04:22, 17 June 2023
- Abū Nasr Muhammad ibn al-Farakh al-Fārābi (in Persian: محمد فارابی) or Abū Nasr al-Fārābi (in some sources, known as Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Tarkhan ibn Uzalagh ...18 KB (2,709 words) - 07:20, 16 June 2023
- #REDIRECT Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi ...43 bytes (5 words) - 23:23, 1 July 2021
- Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali, full name Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali (Arabic): ابو حامد محمد بن محمد الغزالى for short: الغزالى ) (born 1058 ...28 KB (4,307 words) - 07:21, 16 June 2023
- Muhammad ibn Mansur al-Mahdi (Arabic: محمد بن منصورالمهدى ) (ruled 775–785), was the third Abbasid Caliph. He succeeded his father, al-Mansur and reigned for ...15 KB (2,203 words) - 22:55, 18 December 2022
- Hārūn ar-Rashīd (Arabic هارون الرشيد also spelled Harun ar-Rashid, Haroun al-Rashid or Haroon al Rasheed (English: Aaron the Upright or rightly-guided) (c. 763 – ...14 KB (2,457 words) - 16:44, 30 January 2022
- Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri أيمن محمد ربيع الظواهري|translit=ʾAyman Muḥammad Rabīʿ aẓ-Ẓawāhirī Al-Zawahiri is also sometimes transliterated ...80 KB (10,642 words) - 07:25, 23 August 2023
- Abu Jafar al-Ma'mun ibn Harun (also spelled Almamon and el-Mâmoûn) (September 14, 786 - August 9, 833) (المأمون) was the seventh Abbasid caliph who reigned from ...24 KB (3,663 words) - 05:21, 30 April 2021
- Ibn al-'Arabi (1165 C.E. - 1240 C.E.) was a Muslim mystic, philosopher, poet, and writer who came to be acknowledged as one of the most important spiritual teachers within ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- Ameru' al-Qays, or Imru'u al Quais, Ibn Hujr Al-Kindi, Arabic (امرؤ القيس بن حجر بن الحارث الكندي), was a celebrated pre-Islamic Arabian poet ...9 KB (1,439 words) - 12:38, 4 March 2024
- Tawfiq al-Hakim or Tawfik el-Hakim (Egyptian Arabic: توفيق الحكيم, ar|Tawfīq el-Ḥakīm ; October 9, 1898 – July 26, 1987) was a prominent Egyptian writer and visionary ...19 KB (2,884 words) - 18:13, 2 December 2023
- 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
- #REDIRECT Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi ...43 bytes (5 words) - 17:05, 11 April 2020
- 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
- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ( أبومصعب الزرقاوي , ’Abū Muṣ‘ab az-Zarqāwī ) (October 20, 1966 – June 7, 2006) led Al-Qaeda in Iraq until his death in June 2006 ...57 KB (8,842 words) - 17:21, 17 December 2022
- Jaʿfar al-Sadiq (in accurate transliteration, Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq; Arabic: جعفر الصادق, in full, Jaʿfar ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Husayn) (702 – 765 C.E.) is believed ...14 KB (2,157 words) - 08:33, 13 March 2024
- Rabbi Yisroel (Israel) ben Eliezer (רבי ישראל בן אליעזר August 27, 1698 – May 22, 1760), better known as the Ba'al Shem Tov, was an eighteenth century ...23 KB (3,822 words) - 05:22, 26 August 2023
- Abu ‘Ali Mansur Tāriqu l-Ḥākim, called bi Amr al-Lāh ( الحاكم بأمر الله ; literally "Ruler by God's Command"), was the sixth Fatimid caliph ...28 KB (4,430 words) - 04:12, 17 June 2023
- ruled by the caliph (spiritual and political leader) al-Ma’mun. The caliph, who himself was an enthusiastic scholar and philosopher, soon turned the city into an important intellectual ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:58, 10 November 2022
- Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakarīya al-Rāzi (Arabic: ابو بکر محمد بن زكريا الرازی; Persian: زكريای رازی Zakaria ye Razi; Latin: Rhazes or Rasis ...24 KB (3,833 words) - 01:39, 8 December 2022
- #REDIRECTMuhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī ...47 bytes (7 words) - 18:00, 31 December 2022
- Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi (c. 1506 – February 21, 1543) was an Imam and General of Adal who defeated Emperor Lebna Dengel of Ethiopia. Nicknamed Gurey in Somali and Gragn in ...15 KB (2,396 words) - 06:52, 16 June 2023
- #REDIRECT Doctors' Trial ...28 bytes (3 words) - 18:35, 26 October 2021
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- #REDIRECTUmar ibn al-Khattab ...32 bytes (4 words) - 18:18, 31 December 2022
- #REDIRECT Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi ...43 bytes (5 words) - 23:23, 1 July 2021
- #REDIRECT Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi ...43 bytes (5 words) - 23:23, 1 July 2021
- #REDIRECT Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi ...43 bytes (5 words) - 17:05, 11 April 2020
- #REDIRECTMuhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī ...47 bytes (7 words) - 18:00, 31 December 2022
- #REDIRECTMuhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi ...42 bytes (5 words) - 17:10, 11 April 2020
- The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma’mun. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University ... of Al-Jahiz into the Religious Policy of al-Ma’mun.” Muslim World 69 (2001): 8-17. ...9 KB (1,426 words) - 17:53, 10 November 2022
- ruled by the caliph (spiritual and political leader) al-Ma’mun. The caliph, who himself was an enthusiastic scholar and philosopher, soon turned the city into an important intellectual ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:58, 10 November 2022
- Abū-Yūsuf Ya’qūb ibn Ishāq al-Kindī (c. 801-873 C.E.) (Arabic: أبو يوسف يعقوب ابن إسحاق الكندي) (also known in the Western world by the Latinized ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 04:13, 17 June 2023
- The Arabic word Surah (or "Sura" ar|سورة sūrah , plural "Surahs" ar|سور ) is used in Islam to mean a "chapter" of the Holy Qur'an. Literally ...13 KB (1,852 words) - 23:51, 26 February 2023
- Ameru' al-Qays, or Imru'u al Quais, Ibn Hujr Al-Kindi, Arabic (امرؤ القيس بن حجر بن الحارث الكندي), was a celebrated pre-Islamic Arabian poet ...9 KB (1,439 words) - 12:38, 4 March 2024
- Sāmarrā (Arabic,سامراء) is a town in Iraq that in ancient times may have been the world's largest city. With its majestic mosques, gardens, and ruins of royal palaces ...9 KB (1,343 words) - 02:08, 23 December 2022
- category:image wanted Michel Aflaq (Arabic: ميشيل عفلق Mīšīl `Aflāq) (1910 – June 23, 1989) was the ideological founder of Ba’athism, a form of secular Arab nationalism ...9 KB (1,421 words) - 17:09, 9 November 2022
- Ibn Hazm (November 7, 994 – August 15, 1064 456 AH) in full Abū Muhammad ‘Alī ibn Ahmad ibn Sa’īd ibn Hazm (Arabic :أبو محمد علي بن احمد بن سعيد ...15 KB (2,253 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- Imam Ahmed ibn Hanbal (Arabic: أحمد بن حنبل Ahmad bin Hanbal ) (780 C.E./ 164 AH - 855 C.E./ ...7 KB (1,052 words) - 06:52, 16 June 2023
- Newts (also called efts when terrestrial) are an informal grouping of salamanders within the Salamandridae family that may have rough-textured skin when terrestrial, unlike other ...8 KB (1,133 words) - 09:41, 11 March 2023
- Ibn al-'Arabi (1165 C.E. - 1240 C.E.) was a Muslim mystic, philosopher, poet, and writer who came to be acknowledged as one of the most important spiritual teachers within ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- Jaʿfar al-Sadiq (in accurate transliteration, Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq; Arabic: جعفر الصادق, in full, Jaʿfar ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Husayn) (702 – 765 C.E.) is believed ...14 KB (2,157 words) - 08:33, 13 March 2024
- Al-Mutawakkil ˤAlā Allāh Jaˤfar ibn al-Muˤtasim (Arabic المتوكل على الله جعفر بن المعتصم; March 821 – December 861) was the tenth Abbasid caliph ...13 KB (2,047 words) - 04:19, 17 June 2023
- In Islamic eschatology the Mahdi ( ar|مهدي Mahdī , also Mehdi; "Guided One") is the prophesied redeemer of Islam. The advent of Mahdi is not a universally accepted ...8 KB (1,342 words) - 05:27, 5 November 2022
- The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is the name given to the shooting of seven people (six of them gangsters) as part of a Prohibition Era conflict between two powerful criminal ...8 KB (1,287 words) - 00:55, 23 December 2022
- The Black Stone (called الحجر الأسود al-Hajar-ul-Aswad in Arabic) is a Muslim object of reverence, said by some to date back to the time of Adam and Eve. ...7 KB (1,139 words) - 18:07, 31 October 2023
- Recombinant DNA is a form of genetically engineered DNA that is created by taking DNA strands from one organism and combining or inserting these strands into the DNA of a host ...13 KB (1,928 words) - 21:12, 23 July 2022
- A centriole is a small, barrel-shaped, sub-cellular structure typically consisting of nine triplet microtubules (nine groups of three fused microtubules) arranged in a hollow ...11 KB (1,624 words) - 01:44, 13 January 2023
- Abū Nasr Muhammad ibn al-Farakh al-Fārābi (in Persian: محمد فارابی) or Abū Nasr al-Fārābi (in some sources, known as Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Tarkhan ibn Uzalagh ...18 KB (2,709 words) - 07:20, 16 June 2023
- The ability of a chemical to behave as both an acid and a base is called amphoterism, and this type of substance is known as an amphoteric substance. According to the Brønsted ...5 KB (789 words) - 17:25, 26 July 2023
- The Ayyubid or Ayyoubid Dynasty was a Muslim dynasty of Kurdish [http://www.bartleby.com/65/sa/Saladin.html Saladin]. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Retrieved May 17, 2008. ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 07:28, 23 August 2023
- Abbasid (Arabic: العبّاسدين al-ʿAbbāsidīn ) was the dynastic name generally given to the caliphs of Baghdad, the second of the two great Sunni dynasties of the Muslim ...16 KB (2,377 words) - 07:16, 13 June 2023
- Odonata is an order of insects (class Insecta) encompassing dragonflies and damselflies, with members characterized by large, compound eyes, chewing mouth parts, a long and slender ...9 KB (1,363 words) - 00:22, 29 December 2023
- The pyroxenes are a group of important rock-forming silicate minerals found in many igneous and metamorphic rocks. They share a common structure comprised of single chains of ...9 KB (1,340 words) - 03:53, 7 December 2022
- Muhammad ibn Mansur al-Mahdi (Arabic: محمد بن منصورالمهدى ) (ruled 775–785), was the third Abbasid Caliph. He succeeded his father, al-Mansur and reigned for ...15 KB (2,203 words) - 22:55, 18 December 2022
- Category:Media Organizations Category:Image wanted [[Image:Al Jazeera mews room under construction by ashour jsc.jpg|thumb|300px|Al Jazeera newsroom under construction.]] ...22 KB (3,270 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- ad-Dajjal sometimes spelled Dajal, (Arabic: الدّجّال, ad-dajjāl) ("The Deceiver/impostor"), also known as the false Messiah (see also: Antichrist) is an evil ...8 KB (1,233 words) - 16:34, 21 January 2024
- The Kaabah, Kaaba or Ka'bah (Arabic: الكعبة meaning: "Cube") is a building located inside Islam's holiest mosque (al-Masjidu’l-Ḥarām) found in Mecca ...10 KB (1,571 words) - 21:48, 4 October 2022
- Amphibole defines an important group of generally dark-colored, rock-forming silicate minerals. Some are constituents of igneous rocks, and others are part of metamorphic rocks ...6 KB (934 words) - 17:24, 26 July 2023
- Lysosome is an organelle of eukaryotic cells that contains hydrolytic enzymes active under acidic conditions and involved in intracellular digestion. This membrane-bound sub-cellular ...11 KB (1,480 words) - 10:41, 9 March 2023
- Feldspar is the name of a group of rock-forming minerals that make up as much as 60 percent of the Earth's crust. Feldspars crystallize from magma in both intrusive and extrusive ...5 KB (690 words) - 01:58, 26 March 2024
- Orthoptera ("straight wings") is a widespread order of generally large- or medium-sized insects with incomplete metamorphosis (hemimetabolism), chewing/biting mouthparts ...13 KB (1,770 words) - 10:49, 11 March 2023
- In Islam, the word Houri (Arabic: حورية, also ḥūr or ḥūrīyah) refers to heavenly angels, splendid beings, Surah Al-Waqiah (56): 38, note 15. In Muhammad Asad, The ...18 KB (2,560 words) - 21:26, 7 January 2023
- Isma'il bin Jafar (Arabic: إسماعيل بن جعفر, c. 721 C.E./103 AH - 755 C.E./138 AH) was the eldest son of the sixth Shi'a Imam, Ja'far al-Sadiq. Isma ...12 KB (1,981 words) - 21:53, 8 March 2024
- In zoology, skipper or skipper butterfly is the common name for any of the butterflies comprising the family Hesperiidae, characterized by antennae clubs hooked backward, stocky ...12 KB (1,517 words) - 22:59, 23 April 2023
- Physiology (Greek Φυσιολογία, physis, meaning "nature") can refer either to the parts or functions (mechanical, physical, and biochemical) of living organisms ...6 KB (856 words) - 05:11, 24 November 2022
- Brine shrimp is the common name for any of the small, salinity tolerant, aquatic crustaceans comprising the genus Artemia, the only genus in the family Artemiidae of the order ...9 KB (1,378 words) - 02:03, 12 January 2023
- Jahannam ( جهنم ) is the Islamic equivalent to hell. Its roots come from the Hebrew word Gehinnom, which was an ancient garbage dump outside of the city of Jerusalem where ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 12:41, 6 November 2021
- Khalil Gibran (born Gibran Khalil Gibran, Arabic: جبران خليل جبران, Syriac: ܓ̰ܒܪܢ ܚܠܝܠ ܓ̰ܒܪܢ) (January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) was an artist, poet ...9 KB (1,418 words) - 03:34, 6 October 2022
- The Almohad Dynasty (From Arabic الموحدون al-Muwahhidun, i.e. "the monotheists" or "the Unitarians"), was a Berber, Muslim dynasty that was founded ...15 KB (2,322 words) - 08:17, 23 July 2023
- Mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) is an Old World monkey (family Cercopithecidae), characterized by large size, long limbs, stubby upright tail, light brown or olive-colored fur, and ...10 KB (1,594 words) - 06:44, 5 November 2022
- Tawfiq al-Hakim or Tawfik el-Hakim (Egyptian Arabic: توفيق الحكيم, ar|Tawfīq el-Ḥakīm ; October 9, 1898 – July 26, 1987) was a prominent Egyptian writer and visionary ...19 KB (2,884 words) - 18:13, 2 December 2023
- Category:Image wanted Sakhr ibn Harb, (Arabic: صخر بن حرب ) more commonly known as Abu Sufyan, was a leading man of the Quraish of Mecca and arch-enemy of Muhammad. He ...12 KB (1,857 words) - 06:56, 14 June 2023
- Galliformes is an order of chicken-like birds, characterized by stocky built, small head, strong feet, and often short bills and wings, and adult males have sharp horny spur on ...13 KB (1,829 words) - 03:58, 18 April 2024
- Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) is a type of non-coding ribonucleic acid (RNA) that is a primary and permanent component of ribosomes, the small, cellular particles that form the site of ...12 KB (1,767 words) - 20:05, 8 December 2022
- Once thought of as a single mineral species, lepidolite has been recently redefined as a series of minerals in the mica group. [http://www.mindat.org/min-2380.html Lepidolite] ...4 KB (543 words) - 00:47, 7 March 2023
- Flounder is a common name for various marine fish in the Order Pleuronectiformes (flatfish), and in particular those comprising the families Bothidae (lefteye flounders), Pleuronectidaea ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 17:43, 28 March 2024
- The Mohs scale of mineral hardness characterizes the scratch resistance of various minerals through the ability of a harder material to scratch a softer material. It was created ...5 KB (710 words) - 13:04, 10 March 2023
- Hārūn ar-Rashīd (Arabic هارون الرشيد also spelled Harun ar-Rashid, Haroun al-Rashid or Haroon al Rasheed (English: Aaron the Upright or rightly-guided) (c. 763 – ...14 KB (2,457 words) - 16:44, 30 January 2022
- Rook is the common name for members of the Old World bird species Corvus frugilegus of the crow family (Corvidae), characterized by black feathers (often with a glossy blue or ...10 KB (1,526 words) - 21:41, 16 April 2023
- Exocytosis is the process by which a cell packages materials in membrane-bound secretory vesicles inside the cell and directs these secretory vesicles to fuse with the cell membrane ...10 KB (1,533 words) - 04:40, 7 April 2021
- Garnet is a group of minerals that have been used since the Bronze Age as gemstones and abrasives. Garnets are most often seen in red, but are available in a wide variety of colors ...18 KB (2,682 words) - 04:33, 18 April 2024
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (1126 – December 10, 1198) was an Andalusian-Arab philosopher and physician, a master of philosophy and Islamic law, mathematics, and medicine. He was born ...19 KB (2,761 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- Fatimah binte Muhammad or popularly Fatimah Zahra (Fatima the Gracious) (Arabic: فاطمة الزهراء) (Born Friday twentieth of Jumada al-akhir in Mecca – fourteenth Jumada ...9 KB (1,417 words) - 01:39, 26 March 2024
- Marlin is the common name for several, large marine billfish in the family Istiophoridae of the bony fish order Perciformes. As with the other members of the family, known as ...10 KB (1,463 words) - 16:04, 6 November 2022
- Mantodea is an order (or suborder) of large, terrestrial, carnivorous insects characterized by raptorial forelegs (adapted to capturing prey). The closest relatives of mantids ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 11:08, 9 March 2023
- Abu Dhabi, officially, the Emirate of Abu Dhabi ( إمارة أبو ظبيّ ), (literally Father of Gazelle), is one of seven emirates that constitute the United Arab Emirates ...19 KB (2,925 words) - 06:53, 14 June 2023
- Jabir ibn Hayyan (c. eighth and early ninth centuries) was an Islamic thinker from the early medieval period to whom is ascribed authorship of a large number of alchemical, practical ...16 KB (2,525 words) - 08:37, 13 March 2024
- Impala (plural impala or impalas) is the common name for a light-built, swift-running, powerful-jumping African antelope, Aepyceros melampus, characterized by a reddish brown ...10 KB (1,571 words) - 16:37, 12 February 2024
- Nerve cord is a term that can refer to either (1) the single, hollow, fluid-filled, dorsal tract of nervous tissue that is one of the defining characteristics of chordates (dorsal ...7 KB (1,053 words) - 16:22, 11 November 2022
- Topaz is a silicate mineral of aluminum and fluorine, with the chemical formula Al2SiO4(F,OH)2. Typically, its crystals are wine or straw-yellow in color, but they can also come ...5 KB (639 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
- The tourmaline mineral group is chemically one of the most complicated groups of silicate minerals. It is a complex silicate of aluminum and boron, but because of isomorphous ...15 KB (2,235 words) - 04:46, 1 May 2023
- Kuwait City (Arabic: مدينة الكويت, transliteration: Madīnat al-Kūwait), is the capital and largest city of Kuwait. The city is located on the southern shore of Kuwait ...18 KB (2,563 words) - 21:19, 29 December 2023
- Allosaurus was a large (up to 9.7 m long) bipedal (moving on two legs), carnivorous dinosaur that lived during the late Jurassic period, 155 to 145 million years ago. Allosaurus ...11 KB (1,532 words) - 08:09, 23 July 2023
- Piranha, or piraña, is the common name for various South American, freshwater, tropical fish of the order Charciformes known for their pointed, razor-sharp teeth in a pronounced ...14 KB (2,041 words) - 20:41, 9 April 2023
- Panthera is a genus of large, wild cats in the mammalian family, Felidae, and includes the four, well-known living species of the lion (Panthera leo), the tiger (Panthera tigris ...14 KB (1,964 words) - 11:21, 11 March 2023
- Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakarīya al-Rāzi (Arabic: ابو بکر محمد بن زكريا الرازی; Persian: زكريای رازی Zakaria ye Razi; Latin: Rhazes or Rasis ...24 KB (3,833 words) - 01:39, 8 December 2022
- Ijtihad (Arabic اجتهاد) is a technical term of Islamic law that describes the process of making a legal decision by independent interpretation of the legal sources, the ...12 KB (1,870 words) - 00:00, 19 December 2020
- The siege of Jerusalem (636–637) was part of the Muslim conquest of the Levant and the result of the military efforts of the Rashidun Caliphate against the Byzantine Empire ...21 KB (2,975 words) - 21:24, 26 February 2024
- Yak is the common name for a stocky, ox-like bovine, Bos grunniens , of high altitude areas in Central Asia, characterized by long, upcurved, black horns and a long, shaggy outer ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 10:03, 22 May 2023
- Transfer RNA (tRNA) is a class of short-chain, non-coding ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules in which each variety attaches to and transfers a specific amino acid to a polypeptide ...13 KB (1,936 words) - 01:34, 2 May 2023
- The Samanids (819–999)Sāmāniyān) were a Persian dynasty in Central Asia and Greater Khorasan, named after its founder Saman Khuda who converted to Sunni Islam despite being ...15 KB (2,168 words) - 11:36, 6 September 2022
- A planarian is any flatworm (phylum Platyhelminthes) of the suborder (or order) Tricladida of the class Turbellaria. Primarily free-living, planarians are characterized by a soft ...7 KB (1,024 words) - 20:44, 9 April 2023
- Abu Jafar al-Ma'mun ibn Harun (also spelled Almamon and el-Mâmoûn) (September 14, 786 - August 9, 833) (المأمون) was the seventh Abbasid caliph who reigned from ...24 KB (3,663 words) - 05:21, 30 April 2021
- category:image wanted Gagaku (literally "elegant music") is a type of Japanese classical music that has been performed at the Imperial court for several centuries. It ...5 KB (702 words) - 03:46, 18 April 2024
- Osama bin Laden (Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن) (March 10, 1957 - May 2, 2011) was a founder of the militant Islamist al-Qaeda movement, best known ...20 KB (3,020 words) - 04:35, 18 November 2022
- Falcon is the common name for birds of prey comprising the genus Falco in the family Falconidae, characterized by a short, curved, notched beak, and thin, long, tapered and powerful ...17 KB (2,440 words) - 01:46, 29 June 2022
- Asa "Al Jolson" Yoelson (May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was an acclaimed American singer and actor whose career lasted from 1911 until his death in 1950. He was ...14 KB (2,198 words) - 04:22, 17 June 2023
- Adelard of Bath (Latin: Adelardus Bathensis) (1116? - 1142?) was a twelfth century English scholar, best known for translating many important Arabic scientific works of astrology ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 05:50, 15 June 2023
- Lemur is the common name for any of the prosimian primates belonging to the infraorder Lemuriformes, which comprises the families Lemuridae (lemurs), Lepilemuridae (sportive lemurs ...10 KB (1,459 words) - 19:36, 25 October 2022
- Category:Public [[Image:Weatheringcartoon.jpg|thumb|right|400px|This illustration shows various components of space weathering]] Space weathering is a term used for a number of ...10 KB (1,503 words) - 17:14, 14 October 2022
- Colugo is the common name for any of the arboreal gliding mammals comprising the family Cynocephalidae and the order Dermoptera, characterized by a wide, fur-covered membrane ...14 KB (1,971 words) - 07:42, 14 January 2023
- A Mamluk (Arabic: مملوك (singular), مماليك (plural), "owned"; also transliterated mameluk, mameluke, or mamluke) was a slave-soldier who converted to Islam ...13 KB (2,110 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi (c. 1506 – February 21, 1543) was an Imam and General of Adal who defeated Emperor Lebna Dengel of Ethiopia. Nicknamed Gurey in Somali and Gragn in ...15 KB (2,396 words) - 06:52, 16 June 2023
- Rotifers comprise a phylum, Rotifera, of microscopic and near-microscopic, multicellular aquatic animals. The name rotifer is derived from the Latin word for "wheel-bearer ...11 KB (1,517 words) - 21:46, 16 April 2023
- Guarana is the common name for a South American woody vine or sprawling shrub, Paullinia cupana in the Sapindaceae family, with large, pinnately compound evergreen leaves with ...15 KB (2,227 words) - 22:26, 2 December 2021
- Viperinae is a subfamily of terrestrial and arboreal venomous vipers (family Viperidae) characterized by a lack of the heat-sensing pit organs that characterize their sister group ...13 KB (1,863 words) - 00:46, 18 November 2022
- Category:Public Abu Bakr (alternative spellings, Abubakar, Abi Bakr, Abu Bakar) (c. 573 – August 23, 634) ruled as the first of the Muslim caliphs (632–634). Abu Bakr was a ...14 KB (2,336 words) - 06:48, 14 June 2023
- Al Capp (September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979) was an American cartoonist best known for the satiric comic strip, Li'l Abner. He also created the comic strips Abbie and ...16 KB (2,493 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- Zenobia ( زنوبيا ) was a Syrian queen (240-after 274 C.E.). After her husband's death, she became a powerful military leader in her own right, conquering both Egypt ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 05:50, 13 June 2023
- In zoology, ray is the common name for cartilaginous fish comprising the order Rajiformes (or Batoidea), characterized by enlarged and flat pectoral fins continuous with the head ...10 KB (1,328 words) - 19:06, 16 April 2023
- Salmonella (plural salmonellae, salmonellas, or salmonella) are any of the various rod-shaped, gram-negative bacteria that comprise the genus Salmonella (family Enterobacteriaceae ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 01:52, 23 December 2022
- The Euphrates River is the western of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Tigris River. The two rivers have their sources within 50 miles of each ...12 KB (1,782 words) - 04:26, 23 March 2024
- Doha ( الدوحة , Ad-Dawḥah or Ad-Dōḥah ) is the capital, largest city, and the economic center of Qatar. Its metropolitan area is home to more than 80 percent of Qatar’s ...17 KB (2,415 words) - 16:36, 29 January 2024
