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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 ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
- 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 ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:58, 10 November 2022
- regarded as the “crown” or the “cream” of the Vedas ... philosophy, meditation, and the nature of God; they form the core spiritual ...28 KB (4,159 words) - 13:11, 3 May 2023
- 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
- thumb|300px|A sixteenth-century depiction of Ptolemy.]] Soter, a Macedonian general who became king of Egypt in 305 B.C.E., or other ...20 KB (3,023 words) - 17:01, 22 December 2022
- A library is a collection of information, sources, resources and services ... In addition, with the collection of media other than books for storing ...31 KB (4,437 words) - 22:31, 25 October 2022
- meaning "a writing") are sacred texts that serve a variety of purposes ... The scriptures of the world's religions have provided humanity ...38 KB (5,920 words) - 17:30, 25 January 2023
- 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 ...24 KB (3,833 words) - 01:39, 8 December 2022
- 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 ...17 KB (2,508 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
- and doctor and the most influential of the Tibbon family who translated ... He also produced the first Hebrew glossary of philosophical and biblical ...21 KB (3,070 words) - 03:04, 23 December 2022
- The Pandyan kingdom was an ancient Tamil state in South India of unknown ... The early Pandyan dynasty went into obscurity during the invasion ...21 KB (3,154 words) - 06:36, 18 November 2022
- 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 ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 01:04, 1 January 2022
- all the objects in the universe are composed of very small, invisible, indestructible ... Traditional atomism is used in two distinct domains: The atoms of ...37 KB (5,618 words) - 06:58, 21 August 2023
- A late 19th-century artist's conception of the Ark of the Covenant, employing ... The Ark of the Covenant (Hebrew: ארון הברית,aron habrit) ...29 KB (4,905 words) - 02:49, 15 August 2023
- 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 ...16 KB (2,525 words) - 08:37, 13 March 2024
- 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 ...20 KB (3,357 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
- 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
- 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 ...30 KB (4,795 words) - 03:53, 27 February 2023
- independently in both the official Records of the Grand Historian and unofficial ... China's long history that the concept of ruler's social obligations ...11 KB (1,756 words) - 18:50, 26 November 2022
- " "origin") is the first book of the Bible, also called The ... The book begins with a description of God's act of creation, ...32 KB (5,356 words) - 06:45, 18 April 2024
- بهاء الله : meaning "Glory of God") (November 12, 1817 ... Mírzá `Alí-Muhammad, who took the title of the Báb (Arabic; meaning ...32 KB (5,101 words) - 05:47, 26 August 2023
- ) 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 music of India includes Indian classical music, multiple varieties ... Indian classical music has one of the most complex and complete musical ...31 KB (4,712 words) - 02:37, 11 March 2023
- 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 ...36 KB (5,554 words) - 19:08, 31 December 2023
- 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 ...32 KB (4,804 words) - 20:55, 4 October 2022
- [[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 ...38 KB (5,454 words) - 00:21, 12 April 2023
- 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 ...24 KB (3,587 words) - 04:28, 29 October 2022
- and physical (including optical) properties of minerals. Specific studies ... Early speculation, study, and theory of mineralogy was written of ...27 KB (3,827 words) - 18:48, 9 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
- Members of the Bahá'í faith understand history as an evolving ... Fundamental to Bahá'í teachings is unity: the unity of God ...50 KB (7,571 words) - 05:42, 26 August 2023
- The Majapahit empire was the last of the major Hindu empires of the ... Little physical evidence of Majapahit remains, Jean Gelman Taylor, ...26 KB (3,833 words) - 05:33, 5 November 2022
- Murder is the unlawful and intentional killing of one human being ... homicide" both involve the killing of an unborn fetus, one being ...16 KB (2,487 words) - 02:36, 11 March 2023
- The music of Africa is as vast and varied as the continent's ... Although there are many different varieties of music in Africa, there ...35 KB (5,601 words) - 21:41, 27 November 2021
- and academic. Bloom championed the idea of "Great Books" education ... Readers Digest article about the University of Chicago and told his parents ...22 KB (3,158 words) - 18:25, 21 July 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
- or event that goes against the ordinary laws of physics, which are especially ... Although many religious followers and texts confirm witnessing "miracles ...43 KB (6,326 words) - 11:08, 10 March 2023
- Tribal Areas and Balochistan provinces of western Pakistan. Their Pashto ... Their unified modern past began with the rise of the Durrani Empire ...61 KB (8,656 words) - 18:55, 23 March 2023
- The Matenadaran or Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts in Yerevan ... Antioch, Alexandria, and other centers of learning to study the Greek ...39 KB (5,646 words) - 09:18, 10 March 2023
- perform other tasks such as keeping records of humans' actions, acting ... beings is an ancient and common feature of most world religions, but only ...37 KB (6,014 words) - 18:04, 27 July 2023
- 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 ...37 KB (5,253 words) - 12:12, 24 January 2023
- Athos comes under the direct jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate ... Though land-linked, the habitable peninsula of Mount Athos is accessible ...27 KB (4,022 words) - 17:04, 10 November 2022
- 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
- Printing is a process for producing texts and images, typically with ... In photography, the process of making a picture on photosensitive ...36 KB (5,772 words) - 18:43, 29 April 2023
- 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 ...41 KB (6,212 words) - 21:02, 25 November 2023
- rabbi, Jewish philosopher, and exegete of the geonic period, known for ... quot; is apparently the Hebrew equivalent of his Arabic name, "Sa& ...22 KB (3,468 words) - 18:29, 22 December 2022
- ) 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 ...21 KB (2,969 words) - 04:27, 18 April 2024
- 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
- 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 Protocols of the Elders of Zion ( "Протоколы сионских ... Scholars generally agree that the Okhrana, the secret police of the ...66 KB (9,730 words) - 23:42, 22 October 2023
- , 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
