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- Sùtè) was the ancient civilization of an Iranian people and a ... Asia. They were the main caravan merchants of Central Asia and dominated ...

and died around 850. He worked most of his life as a scholar in the ... His Algebra was the first book on the systematic solution of linear ...

regarded as the “crown” or the “cream” of the Vedas ... philosophy, meditation, and the nature of God; they form the core spiritual ...

the Muslim world, he nominated the leader of the Shi'a community as ... He founded the famous 'Bayt al-Hikmah' (House of Wisdom} ...

thumb|300px|A sixteenth-century depiction of Ptolemy.]] Soter, a Macedonian general who became king of Egypt in 305 B.C.E., or other ...

A library is a collection of information, sources, resources and services ... In addition, with the collection of media other than books for storing ...

meaning "a writing") are sacred texts that serve a variety of purposes ... The scriptures of the world's religions have provided humanity ...

200 books and articles in various fields of science. He was well versed ... Razi's portrait adorns the great hall of the Faculty of Medicine in ...

Jahan comes from Persian meaning "King of the World." He stood as ... to the Mughal throne after the death of Jahangir. He succeeded to the ...

and doctor and the most influential of the Tibbon family who translated ... He also produced the first Hebrew glossary of philosophical and biblical ...

The Pandyan kingdom was an ancient Tamil state in South India of unknown ... The early Pandyan dynasty went into obscurity during the invasion ...

Bahram II was the fifth Sassanid King of Persia in 276–293. He was ... regarding them as their peers. The survival of the Persian empire against ...

all the objects in the universe are composed of very small, invisible, indestructible ... Traditional atomism is used in two distinct domains: The atoms of ...

A late 19th-century artist's conception of the Ark of the Covenant, employing ... The Ark of the Covenant (Hebrew: ארון הברית,aron habrit) ...

Jabir ibn Hayyan (c. eighth and early ninth centuries) was an Islamic ... are from the tenth century. The first, Notes of Abu Suaiman al-Mantiqi al-Sijistani ...

quot; becomes a regular element in the names of angels such as "Gabri·el ... Elyon (God Most High) before the revelation of his name Yahweh to Moses. But ...

Many ascetics believe the action of purifying the body helps to ... Historically, there have been two main categories of asceticism: ...

The Taj Mahal is considered by many to be the finest example of Mughal ... the building has been the source of an admiration that has transcended ...

independently in both the official Records of the Grand Historian and unofficial ... China's long history that the concept of ruler's social obligations ...

" "origin") is the first book of the Bible, also called The ... The book begins with a description of God's act of creation, ...

بهاء الله : meaning "Glory of God") (November 12, 1817 ... Mírzá `Alí-Muhammad, who took the title of the Báb (Arabic; meaning ...

) is an Islamic term referring to the religious duty of Muslims to ... ), the plural of which is mujahideen ( ar|مجاهدين ...

The music of India includes Indian classical music, multiple varieties ... Indian classical music has one of the most complex and complete musical ...

most prominent in the first few centuries of the Common Era. It is also ... The origins of gnosticism are not clearly known, but there is general ...

Judaism is the religious culture of the Jewish people. While far from ... laws and commandments to them in the form of the Torah. Jewish practice ...

[[Image:Imhotep.JPG|right|thumb|Statuette of Egyptian polymath Imhotep ... educated, or who excels, in a wide variety of subjects or fields. It is based ...

can also refer to proficiency in a number of fields, such as art or physical ... Literacy rates are a crucial measure of a region's human capital ...

and physical (including optical) properties of minerals. Specific studies ... Early speculation, study, and theory of mineralogy was written of ...

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 ...

Members of the Bahá'í faith understand history as an evolving ... Fundamental to Bahá'í teachings is unity: the unity of God ...

The Majapahit empire was the last of the major Hindu empires of the ... Little physical evidence of Majapahit remains, Jean Gelman Taylor, ...

Murder is the unlawful and intentional killing of one human being ... homicide" both involve the killing of an unborn fetus, one being ...

The music of Africa is as vast and varied as the continent's ... Although there are many different varieties of music in Africa, there ...

and academic. Bloom championed the idea of "Great Books" education ... Readers Digest article about the University of Chicago and told his parents ...

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 ...

or event that goes against the ordinary laws of physics, which are especially ... Although many religious followers and texts confirm witnessing "miracles ...

Tribal Areas and Balochistan provinces of western Pakistan. Their Pashto ... Their unified modern past began with the rise of the Durrani Empire ...

The Matenadaran or Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts in Yerevan ... Antioch, Alexandria, and other centers of learning to study the Greek ...

perform other tasks such as keeping records of humans' actions, acting ... beings is an ancient and common feature of most world religions, but only ...

The Gospel of Luke (literally, according to Luke; Greek, Κατά ... stories on these themes, such as the Parable of the Prodigal Son and the Parable ...

Athos comes under the direct jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate ... Though land-linked, the habitable peninsula of Mount Athos is accessible ...

sense, it is a three-dimensional example of the more general structure ... interior volume is considered to be part of the polyhedron, sometimes only ...

Printing is a process for producing texts and images, typically with ... In photography, the process of making a picture on photosensitive ...

023.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Executions of the Third of May by Francisco Goya]] Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted ...

rabbi, Jewish philosopher, and exegete of the geonic period, known for ... quot; is apparently the Hebrew equivalent of his Arabic name, "Sa& ...

) is a province of the People's Republic of China located in ... Gansu has a unique role in China. Sitting on the terminus of the Silk ...

Urdu: کشمیر) is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Historically ... Kashmir, and the Chinese administered region of Aksai Chin. ...

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 ...

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion ( "Протоколы сионских ... Scholars generally agree that the Okhrana, the secret police of the ...

, trans. Urdū, historically spelled Ordu) is an Indo-Aryan language ... Standard Urdu has approximately the twentieth largest population of ...

payment for goods and services and repayment of debts, such as taxes, in a ... The primary functions which distinguish money are as a medium of exchange ...

Libya is a country in North Africa 90 percent of which is desert. ... , R'bw (Libu), which refers to one of the tribes of Berber peoples ...

A virtue is a trait or disposition of character that leads to good ... and Aristotle dealt with virtues in terms of character traits of the soul ...

quot;) refers to an esoteric collection of Jewish mystical doctrines about ... Historically, the term Kabbalah was first used in Jewish Talmudic ...

[[Image:Stećak.jpg|thumb|250px|Radimlja necropolis of stećak in ... place. Apart from the occasional application of the word to modern cemeteries ...

The Talmud (Hebrew: תלמוד) is a record of rabbinical discussions ... (c. 200 C.E.), the first written compendium of Judaism's Oral Law; and ...

School, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United ... after those at Oxford and Cambridge. Each of 12 residential colleges houses ...

is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates ... Mesopotamia is the site of the earliest developments of the Neolithic ...

Many ancient cultures speculated on the nature of the human mind, ... method, which revolutionized the treatment of psychological disorders. ...

The Republic of India (Hindi: भारत गणराज्य ... name for the Indus River. The Constitution of India and common usage in Hindi ...

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, ... The long reign of monarchs came to an end in 1974, when a pro-Soviet ...

, Krḗtē) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands ... The island is first referred to as Kaptara in texts from the Syrian ...

]); formerly known as Cochin), a city in the Indian state of Kerala ... north of the state capital, Thiruvananthapuram. It has an estimated ...

Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia called "Vlad the Impaler" ... The very different portrayals of Vlad in various bodies of tradition ...

The United States of America—also referred to as the United States ... or (archaically) Columbia–is a federal republic of 50 states and ...

quot; or "creating") is a form of art in which language is used ... Poetry, and discussions of it, have a long history. Early attempts ...

) (1666-1708) was the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs. He was born in Patna ... He is fondly remembered by Sikhs as a defender of the faith and a ...

in most cases, a constitutional declaration of belief in a Supreme Being. recognize each other through a process of landmarks and regularity. There ...

(香|香 港|港), is one of the two special administrative regions ... Hong Kong was a crown colony of the United Kingdom from 1842 until ...

developed. Buddhism was the primary theme of traditional Thai sculpture ... In ancient Thailand, as in most parts of Southeast Asia, artists typically ...

site in Istanbul, Turkey. The last of three church buildings to be ... Eastern Orthodox until the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. It ...

Tibetan people. With an average elevation of 16,000 feet, (4,900 meters ... Songtsän Gampo united numerous tribes of the region. From 1578, leadership ...

revolutionary and a founding father of the People's Republic ... Born the son of a wealthy farmer in Shaoshan, Hunan, Mao adopted a ...

in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of Macedonia ... ) or "co-reigning" city of the Byzantine Empire alongside ...