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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 ...
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  • Al-Mutawakkil ˤAlā Allāh Jaˤfar ibn al-Muˤtasim (Arabic المتوكل على الله جعفر بن المعتصم; March 821 – December 861) was the tenth Abbasid caliph ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Category:Media Organizations Category:Image wanted [[Image:Al Jazeera mews room under construction by ashour jsc.jpg|thumb|300px|Al Jazeera newsroom under construction.]] ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • #REDIRECT Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri أيمن محمد ربيع الظواهري|translit=ʾAyman Muḥammad Rabīʿ aẓ-Ẓawāhirī Al-Zawahiri is also sometimes transliterated ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 – ...
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  • #REDIRECT Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi ...
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  • Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi al-Qurayshi أبو بكر البغدادي ; born Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai, ar|إبراهيم عواد إبراهيم علي محمد ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakarīya al-Rāzi (Arabic: ابو بکر محمد بن زكريا الرازی; Persian: زكريای رازی Zakaria ye Razi; Latin: Rhazes or Rasis ...
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  • #REDIRECTMuhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • #REDIRECTMuhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • 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 ...
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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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Imam Ahmed ibn Hanbal (Arabic: ‏‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎أحمد بن حنبل‏‎‎‎‏‎‎‎ ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎ Ahmad bin Hanbal ) (780 C.E./ 164 AH - 855 C.E./ ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Al-Mutawakkil ˤAlā Allāh Jaˤfar ibn al-Muˤtasim (Arabic المتوكل على الله جعفر بن المعتصم; March 821 – December 861) was the tenth Abbasid caliph ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • ad-Dajjal sometimes spelled Dajal, (Arabic: الدّجّال, ad-dajjāl) ("The Deceiver/impostor"), also known as the false Messiah (see also: Antichrist) is an evil ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Orthoptera ("straight wings") is a widespread order of generally large- or medium-sized insects with incomplete metamorphosis (hemimetabolism), chewing/biting mouthparts ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Physiology (Greek Φυσιολογία, physis, meaning "nature") can refer either to the parts or functions (mechanical, physical, and biochemical) of living organisms ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Khalil Gibran (born Gibran Khalil Gibran, Arabic: جبران خليل جبران, Syriac: ܓ̰ܒܪܢ ܚܠܝܠ ܓ̰ܒܪܢ) (January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) was an artist, poet ...
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  • The Almohad Dynasty (From Arabic الموحدون al-Muwahhidun, i.e. "the monotheists" or "the Unitarians"), was a Berber, Muslim dynasty that was founded ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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