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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 ...12 KB (1,857 words) - 06:56, 14 June 2023
- ) 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 ...13 KB (1,852 words) - 23:51, 26 February 2023
- 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 ...14 KB (2,336 words) - 06:48, 14 June 2023
- Axum, or Aksum, is a city in northern Ethiopia named after the Kingdom ... The ancient African civilization of Axum flourished for over a thousand ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 07:23, 23 August 2023
- 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 ...14 KB (2,380 words) - 01:16, 4 February 2023
- The mosque displays an excellent example of Mughal era architecture. The ... 1566, by Mughal emperor Akbar. The symbolism of building the aesthetically ...10 KB (1,530 words) - 05:38, 26 August 2023
- 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 ...11 KB (1,714 words) - 21:53, 3 May 2023
- 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 ...15 KB (2,110 words) - 06:37, 5 November 2022
- Bar-Hebraeus (1226 - July 30, 1286) was catholicos (bishop) of the ... science and history represent compendia of the state of learning in these ...19 KB (3,000 words) - 19:08, 10 February 2023
- (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. ...20 KB (3,020 words) - 04:35, 18 November 2022
- ), 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 ...37 KB (5,500 words) - 01:48, 11 March 2023
- 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 ...15 KB (2,210 words) - 06:01, 13 June 2023
- 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
- The Moors were the medieval Muslim inhabitants of al-Andalus (the ... The Fall of Granada in 1492 saw the end of the Muslim presence in ...36 KB (5,672 words) - 21:18, 9 November 2022
- Many ascetics believe the action of purifying the body helps to ... Historically, there have been two main categories of asceticism: ...22 KB (3,334 words) - 03:51, 18 August 2023
- are a list of religious and moral laws, which, according to biblical ... Sinai, and to share them with the people of Israel in the third month after ...37 KB (5,883 words) - 02:58, 19 April 2023
- is said to have begun as an offshoot of the Ismaili sect of Islam, ... . The Druze call themselves Ahl al-Tawhid ("People of Monotheism ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 21:14, 30 January 2024
- ) is an Islamic term referring to the religious duty of Muslims to ... ), the plural of which is mujahideen ( ar|مجاهدين ...48 KB (7,155 words) - 12:39, 1 August 2022
- the Fair (French: le Bel), son and successor of Philip III, reigned as King ... A member of the House of Capet, Philip was born at the Palace of Fontainebleau ...23 KB (3,671 words) - 22:38, 28 March 2023
- |Place of Birth: |Thessaloníki (Selânik) |- |Death: |November 10, 1938 ... |Place of Death: |Istanbul |- |Political Party: |As PM: Republican ...25 KB (3,912 words) - 02:38, 11 March 2023
- - Sùtè) was the ancient civilization of an Iranian people and a ... Asia. They were the main caravan merchants of Central Asia and dominated ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
- in Pakistan after Karachi, and the capital of Punjab province. It is popularly ... Much of Lahore's architecture from the Mughal and colonial eras ...30 KB (4,227 words) - 05:36, 4 March 2023
- Abuja is both a Federal Capital Territory within the nation of Nigeria ... Nigeria, is two and half times the size of Lagos city, the former capital ...14 KB (2,053 words) - 07:06, 14 June 2023
- true to the Genesis account, this is one of the most famous depictions ... covenants underpin the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and ...23 KB (3,861 words) - 20:30, 28 May 2020
- Guinea, officially Republic of Guinea, is a nation in West Africa ... The name Guinea is used for the region of most of Africa's west ...23 KB (3,314 words) - 23:40, 25 March 2024
- small city in the Niger Inland Delta of south-central Mali. It is just ... architecture, most notably the Great Mosque of Djenné, considered by many ...20 KB (2,929 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
- The Qutb complex refers to an array of monuments and buildings at ... to construct the minar and other monuments of the complex. That resulted ...14 KB (2,079 words) - 16:04, 7 December 2022
- Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers ... Born into a lower middle-class Muslim family in the Gamaleyya quarter ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 23:15, 10 November 2022
- Yerushalmi, was born August 1, 1932 (29th of Tamuz) – and assassinated ... views, exemplified in his promotion of a theocratic "Greater ...20 KB (3,012 words) - 04:16, 9 November 2022
- the Muslim world, he nominated the leader of the Shi'a community as ... He founded the famous 'Bayt al-Hikmah' (House of Wisdom} ...24 KB (3,663 words) - 05:21, 30 April 2021
- Male Circumcision is a surgical procedure that removes some or all ... it include that circumcision is a form of ritual sacrifice or offering ...30 KB (4,501 words) - 22:23, 10 December 2023
- sense, it is a three-dimensional example of the more general structure ... interior volume is considered to be part of the polyhedron, sometimes only ...42 KB (6,082 words) - 00:20, 12 April 2023
- Brunei, officially the State of Brunei, Abode of Peace (Negara Brunei ... world not holding elections. A long period of political stability has been ...30 KB (4,444 words) - 04:42, 22 November 2023
- Saint Francis of Assisi (1182 – October 4, 1226) is for many people ... in secular life. He is the patron saint of animals, merchants, Italy, ...33 KB (5,300 words) - 04:52, 9 April 2024
- city in Syria after Damascus, and one of the oldest inhabited cities ... city in the world. Aleppo was the capital of the Amorite kingdom of Yamkhad ...14 KB (2,080 words) - 05:11, 17 June 2023
- accepted to refer to the northernmost region of the African continent, stretching ... * The inclusion of Western Sahara in the U.N. list is highly controversial ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 06:36, 16 November 2022
- red") is a palace and fortress complex of the Moorish monarchs of Granada ... Mohammed I, the first king of the Nasriden—a Moorish dynasty in ...22 KB (3,517 words) - 00:37, 9 January 2023
- the Latin or Turkish), is the founder of Islam—the world's second ... and Medina are cities in the Hejaz region of present day Saudi Arabia. He ...64 KB (10,057 words) - 01:48, 11 March 2023
- The term Indian philosophy may refer to any of several traditions ... All the schools of Indian philosophy are characterized by some common ...22 KB (3,133 words) - 22:02, 4 February 2023
- The Baroque Churches of the Philippines refers to four Spanish-era ... the Portuguese, ventured over vast stretches of ocean to reach new countries ...20 KB (2,841 words) - 08:18, 20 September 2023
- The Ayyubid or Ayyoubid Dynasty was a Muslim dynasty of Kurdish ... or Ayyoubides. Under Saladin, founder of the dynasty, Egypt became the ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 07:28, 23 August 2023
- Islamic feminism is a form of feminism concerned with the role of ... Muslim majority countries have produced more than seven heads of state ...30 KB (4,309 words) - 20:25, 1 April 2023
- The Islamic Republic of Mauritania, or Mauritania, is a country in ... and barren soil located on the western flank of the Sahara Desert. Mauritania ...28 KB (4,027 words) - 09:19, 10 March 2023
- 24, 1775 – November 7, 1862) was the last of the Moghul emperors in India ... as an Urdu poet. He is recognized as one of the greatest poets in this ...15 KB (2,445 words) - 05:45, 26 August 2023
- A papal bull is a special kind of patent or charter issued by a pope ... Papal bulls were originally issued by popes for various reasons of ...15 KB (2,289 words) - 07:29, 18 November 2022
- communications, and economic center of Ghana. Located on the Gulf ... Among the attractions of Accra are the National Museum, with a display ...15 KB (2,198 words) - 07:30, 14 June 2023
- Matchmaking is the process of introducing a couple as potential partners ... Historically, in many cultures parents would request the assistance ...21 KB (3,273 words) - 16:48, 7 November 2022
- The Third Council of Constantinople, also known as the Sixth Ecumenical ... for opposing Monothelitism during the reign of Emperor Constans II. ...14 KB (2,156 words) - 18:35, 30 April 2023
- The relationship between church and state is the institutional form ... " (Mark 12:17) fostered the development of separate rival Church and State ...41 KB (6,339 words) - 21:58, 10 December 2023
- also general council) is a conference of the bishops of the whole Church ... inhabited," and was originally a figure of speech referring to the territory ...25 KB (3,755 words) - 21:55, 5 October 2020
- also spelled "Djawa") is an island of Indonesia and the site of its ... Formed mostly as the result of volcanic events, Java is the 12th largest ...34 KB (5,087 words) - 01:03, 9 February 2023
- Crusade was started in response to the fall of the County of Edessa in 1144 ... be reissued when it was clear that Louis VII of France would be taking part ...44 KB (6,838 words) - 00:35, 6 March 2024
- it is usually distinguished form other kinds of determinism such as fate, karma ... Given the difficult nature of the tension of omnipotence and free ...26 KB (4,098 words) - 22:20, 30 November 2022
- Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is an emirate in the Middle ... long, and is slightly smaller than the state of Connecticut in the United States. ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 21:09, 14 April 2023
- (1981), which won the Booker Prize. Much of his early fiction is set on ... The title refers to several verses of the Qur'an that were later ...35 KB (5,157 words) - 01:51, 23 December 2022
- Abdülhamid II His Imperial Majesty, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire ... for the massacres of Ottoman Armenians which occurred throughout his ...27 KB (4,219 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
- Byblos (Βύβλος)is the Greek name of the Phoenician city Gebal ... , referring to the nationality of the builders of Solomon's Temple ...14 KB (1,996 words) - 19:08, 24 November 2023
- quot;) are sacred texts that serve a variety of purposes in the individual ... The scriptures of the world's religions have provided humanity ...38 KB (5,920 words) - 17:30, 25 January 2023
- == Evolution of the glyph == Image:Evolution5glyph.png The evolution of our modern glyph for five cannot be neatly traced ...21 KB (2,981 words) - 06:46, 13 June 2023
- The Nilgiris District is in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Nilgiri ... The Nilgiris district has been the homeland of native tribal peoples ...15 KB (2,206 words) - 04:44, 15 November 2022
- The Song of Roland ( La Chanson de Roland ) is the oldest major work of French literature. It exists in various ...19 KB (2,962 words) - 17:33, 30 April 2023
- , also commonly known as al-Shām) is the capital and largest city ... Damascus was the capital of the Aramean Kingdom beginning in the eleventh ...36 KB (5,471 words) - 18:07, 24 January 2024
- , trans. Urdū, historically spelled Ordu) is an Indo-Aryan language ... Standard Urdu has approximately the twentieth largest population of ...53 KB (7,869 words) - 13:44, 3 May 2023
- The Cretan War, or War of Candia, as the sixth Turkish–Venetian ... Four and a half centuries of Venetian rule in Crete thus came to an ...20 KB (3,128 words) - 19:12, 7 May 2020
- Fasting refers to the act of willingly abstaining from the consumption ... Fasting for religious and spiritual reasons has been a part of human ...36 KB (5,745 words) - 00:43, 25 March 2024
- Sir Moses Haim Montefiore (October 24, 1784-July 28, 1885) was one ... throughout Europe. A devout Jew and defender of the Jewish position, he was ...14 KB (2,182 words) - 16:59, 10 November 2022
- scientific, and governmental center of the Republic of Croatia. It ... but obeyed the kings and emperors of various neighboring powers ...25 KB (3,575 words) - 05:19, 13 June 2023
- Urdu: کشمیر) is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Historically ... Kashmir, and the Chinese administered region of Aksai Chin. ...52 KB (7,879 words) - 07:24, 5 October 2022
- and Aqmola), has been the capital city of Kazakhstan since 1997 and is ... being deported under Stalin at the beginning of World War II when Nazi Germany ...14 KB (2,138 words) - 05:07, 18 August 2023
- ; (July 28, 1971 – October 27, 2019) was the Iraqi-born leader ... by the Shura Council, who were representing those members of the Islamic ...67 KB (8,996 words) - 06:52, 14 June 2023
- #039;s equator, and the apparent position of the Sun at that moment. are taken to be used in the definition of a celestial coordinate system—see ...25 KB (4,132 words) - 19:17, 13 February 2024
- The Bornu Empire (1396-1893) was a medieval African state of Niger ... After decades of internal conflict, rebellions and outright invasion ...14 KB (2,148 words) - 19:44, 20 November 2023
- Bahrain, officially the Kingdom of Bahrain (Arabic: مملكة البحرين ... a wealthy nation. With a per capita GDP of $25,300 in 2006, Bahrain was ...38 KB (5,603 words) - 05:46, 26 August 2023
- ), is the second-largest city in Uzbekistan and the capital of Samarqand ... rulers in 1365, and became the capital of the empire of Timur, during ...15 KB (2,116 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- islands are included, it covers six percent of Earth's total surface ... the scientific community to be the origin of humans and the Hominidae tree ...46 KB (6,657 words) - 06:01, 16 June 2023
- 15, 1950), a political and social leader of India, played a major role ... Sardār), which means Chief in many languages of India. ...64 KB (9,693 words) - 19:34, 15 September 2022
- The Bangladesh War of Independence or the Bangladesh Liberation War ... the 'two-nation' thesis that Muslims and Hindus in India were ...42 KB (6,477 words) - 03:31, 17 September 2023
- and physician who served as the second emir of al-Qaeda from June 16, 2011 ... and eventually attained the rank of emir. He was imprisoned from ...80 KB (10,642 words) - 07:25, 23 August 2023
- strong). Officially known as the Union of Myanmar, (also as Burma or ... this nation is the largest in Southeast Asia, and has a population ...33 KB (4,741 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- speakers (not necessarily native speakers) of the Arabic language. It does ... Arabic literature emerged in the sixth century with only fragments ...44 KB (6,658 words) - 21:28, 11 August 2023
- Guangzhou is the capital and the sub-provincial city of Guangdong ... The site of Guangzhou has been continuously occupied since Panyu ...22 KB (2,966 words) - 03:09, 5 March 2023
- Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, which studies fundamental ... existing or possible theories and practices of social, political matters, ...23 KB (3,233 words) - 08:37, 24 November 2022
- 2004, with an epicenter off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The earthquake ... The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, and series of catastrophic tsunamis ...44 KB (6,499 words) - 06:40, 13 June 2023
- Ahmadābād), the largest city in the state of Gujarat and the seventh-largest ... Founded in 1411, the city served as the capital of the Sultanate of ...41 KB (5,921 words) - 06:54, 16 June 2023
- is the capital and the largest city of Kyrgyzstan. Though the city ... At the same time, it maintains the charm of a Central Asian city, with ...16 KB (2,289 words) - 02:47, 8 March 2023
- Abidjan is the largest city, chief port, and de facto capital of Côte ... between an old man, with an armful of branches, and a lost European ...16 KB (2,261 words) - 04:48, 14 June 2023
- Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a mountainous ... and 660,000 displaced, and all but 25,000 of the more than 400,000 ethnic ...43 KB (6,221 words) - 00:52, 21 April 2023
- – January 9, 1873) was the first President of the French Republic and the ... moral failings. The leaders and the people of Post-revolutionary France lacked ...48 KB (7,305 words) - 01:24, 11 November 2022
- Bosnia and Herzegovina is a republic of the western Balkans Peninsula ... northern areas which are roughly four fifths of the entire country, while Herzegovina ...64 KB (9,164 words) - 19:47, 20 November 2023
- , Syriac: ܒܝܪܘܬ) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. ... Prior to 1975, the country was considered the banking capital of the ...27 KB (4,043 words) - 18:41, 11 January 2023
- ) is the capital, largest city, and the economic center of Qatar. ... Education has been a major focus of the Qatari government for many ...17 KB (2,415 words) - 16:36, 29 January 2024
- , earlier known as Saloth Sar, was leader of the Communist movement known ... 1970s, Pol Pot became the prime minister of "Democratic Kampuchea ...22 KB (3,417 words) - 08:30, 24 November 2022
- James II of England (also known as James VII of Scotland; October ... He was the last Roman Catholic monarch to reign over the Kingdom of ...32 KB (4,831 words) - 21:40, 8 February 2024
