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- baghdadi-islamic-state-caliph-many-names-al-qaeda.html The many names of Abu ... Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), also known as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) ...67 KB (8,996 words) - 06:52, 14 June 2023
- ) (October 20, 1966 – June 7, 2006) led Al-Qaeda in Iraq until his ... and is believed responsible for dispatching numerous Al-Qaeda suicide ...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 ...14 KB (2,157 words) - 08:33, 13 March 2024
- Abu ‘Ali Mansur Tāriqu l-Ḥākim, called bi Amr al-Lāh ( الحاكم بأمر الله ; literally "Ruler by God's Command" ...28 KB (4,430 words) - 04:12, 17 June 2023
- ( محمد بن موسى الخوارزمي ) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and geographer. He was born around 780 in Khwārizm ...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 ...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 ...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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- for who and what may have inspired Al-Qaeda discovered Qutb and found ... and later a mentor of Osama bin Laden and a leading member of al-Qaeda. ...31 KB (4,669 words) - 02:31, 21 April 2023
- Ameru' al-Qays, or Imru'u al Quais, Ibn Hujr Al-Kindi, Arabic (امرؤ القيس بن حجر بن الحارث الكندي), was ...9 KB (1,439 words) - 12:38, 4 March 2024
- lessons as preparation, or were selected by Al-Qaeda based partly on flying skills. In one case the official pilot hijacked the plane: In October, 1998 ...26 KB (3,897 words) - 15:49, 25 January 2023
- category:image wanted Michel Aflaq (Arabic: ميشيل عفلق Mīšīl `Aflāq) (1910 – June 23, 1989) was the ideological founder of Ba’athism ...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 ...15 KB (2,253 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- Imam Ahmed ibn Hanbal (Arabic: أحمد بن حنبل Ahmad bin Hanbal ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...8 KB (1,342 words) - 05:27, 5 November 2022
- Category:Public Mu'tazilah (Arabic المعتزلة al-mu`tazilah) is a theological school of thought within Islam originating in the eighth ...9 KB (1,426 words) - 17:53, 10 November 2022
- Hassan-i Sabbāh, or Hassan aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ (c. 1034 - 1124), was a Persian Nizārī Ismā'īlī missionary who converted a community in ...21 KB (3,293 words) - 08:37, 25 January 2023
- 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 ...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 ...7 KB (1,139 words) - 18:07, 31 October 2023
- Wars: American Secret History From Hitler to al-Qaeda. New York, NY: New York Review Books, 2004. ISBN 978-1590170984. == External links == ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 01:52, 26 March 2024
- Recombinant DNA is a form of genetically engineered DNA that is created by taking DNA strands from one organism and combining or inserting these ...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 ...11 KB (1,624 words) - 01:44, 13 January 2023
- hotels in Amman. The Islamist organization, al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility, and Jordanian terrorist leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who has since been ...17 KB (2,613 words) - 00:55, 9 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Organized crime or criminal organizations refer to centralized enterprises established in order ...12 KB (1,649 words) - 10:42, 11 March 2023
- Abū Nasr Muhammad ibn al-Farakh al-Fārābi (in Persian: محمد فارابی) or Abū Nasr al-Fārābi (in some sources, known as Muhammad ...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. ...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 ...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 ...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, ...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 ...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 ...15 KB (2,203 words) - 22:55, 18 December 2022
- ad-Dajjal sometimes spelled Dajal, (Arabic: الدّجّال, ad-dajjāl) ("The Deceiver/impostor"), also known as the false Messiah ...8 KB (1,233 words) - 16:34, 21 January 2024
- years in prison for providing material support to al-Qaeda, after an earlier plot to destroy the bridge by cutting through its support wires with blowtorches ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 04:35, 22 November 2023
- The Kaabah, Kaaba or Ka'bah (Arabic: الكعبة meaning: "Cube") is a building located inside Islam's holiest mosque (al ...10 KB (1,571 words) - 21:48, 4 October 2022
- by such organizations as Islamic Jihad and Al-Qaeda, use extra-constitutional means including terrorist activities, to pursue their agenda which ...27 KB (4,335 words) - 13:53, 28 April 2023
- Amphibole defines an important group of generally dark-colored, rock-forming silicate minerals. Some are constituents of igneous rocks, and others ...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 ...11 KB (1,480 words) - 10:41, 9 March 2023
- the USS Cole, in Aden's harbor in 2000 by Al-Qaeda followers. == Economy == Development in a country where virtually no modern structures ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 00:57, 17 April 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 ...5 KB (690 words) - 01:58, 26 March 2024
- Arabia began, believed to be conducted by al-Qaeda affiliates. This consisted ... Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia and al-Qaeda. The Movement for Islamic ...57 KB (8,635 words) - 17:04, 23 December 2022
- United States accused Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda group of responsibility and launched cruise missile attacks (August 20) on the al-Shifa pharmaceutical ...22 KB (3,228 words) - 22:57, 3 March 2023
- The Second Sudanese Civil War started in 1983, largely a continuation of the First Sudanese Civil War of 1955 to 1972. Although it originated ...27 KB (3,989 words) - 21:31, 26 February 2023
- Orthoptera ("straight wings") is a widespread order of generally large- or medium-sized insects with incomplete metamorphosis (hemimetabolism ...13 KB (1,770 words) - 10:49, 11 March 2023
- According to a July 2007 report by the BBC, Al-Qaeda have also condemned ... [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6289110.stm Al-Qaeda ...35 KB (5,157 words) - 01:51, 23 December 2022
- In Islam, the word Houri (Arabic: حورية, also ḥūr or ḥūrīyah) refers to heavenly angels, splendid beings, Surah Al-Waqiah (56): ...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 ...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 ...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 ...6 KB (856 words) - 05:11, 24 November 2022
- and claimed by some to have been linked to al-Qaeda. Several of those convicted for their roles in the bombings escaped by tunneling out of their prison. ...20 KB (2,766 words) - 14:16, 29 November 2023
- Brine shrimp is the common name for any of the small, salinity tolerant, aquatic crustaceans comprising the genus Artemia, the only genus in ...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 ...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 – ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...5 KB (710 words) - 13:04, 10 March 2023
- ( محمد بن موسى الخوارزمي ) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and geographer. He was born around 780 in Khwārizm ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:58, 10 November 2022
- Hārūn ar-Rashīd (Arabic هارون الرشيد also spelled Harun ar-Rashid, Haroun al-Rashid or Haroon al Rasheed (English: Aaron the Upright ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...5 KB (702 words) - 03:46, 18 April 2024
- Falcon is the common name for birds of prey comprising the genus Falco in the family Falconidae, characterized by a short, curved, notched beak ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...13 KB (2,110 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- Sayyid Qutb, Abdullah Azzam, Ruhollah Khomeini, Al-Qaeda and others, many if not all of those self-proclaimed jihad fighters believe defensive global ...48 KB (7,155 words) - 12:39, 1 August 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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...16 KB (2,493 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- Islamic fundamentalist groups, including the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization. *An Imamah in Shia Islam—This is essentially the Shia version ...41 KB (6,339 words) - 21:58, 10 December 2023