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Islam and democracy | Early in the history of the state of Pakistan (March 12, 1949), a parliamentary resolution (the Objectives Resolution) was adopted, stating the objectives on which the future constitution of the country was to be based. It contained the basic principles of both Islam and Western Democracy, in accordance with the vision... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_democracy |
Gaza Strip | In 2010, Gaza inaugurated its first Olympic-size swimming pool at the As-Sadaka club. The opening ceremony was held by the Islamic Society. The swimming team of as-Sadaka holds several gold and silver medals from Palestinian swimming competitions. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip |
Abd Allah ibn Saba' | Tucker, William Frederick (2008). Mahdis and millenarians: Shī'ite extremists in early Muslim Iraq. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-88384-9.
Halm, Heinz (2004-07-21). Shi'ism. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-1888-0. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd_Allah_ibn_Saba%27 |
Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani | Al-Hamadani wrote poetry and many of his letters have survived. He is generally regarded as the originator of the genre known as ‘’maqama"(sing) or ‘’maqamat’’ (pl). Al-Hamadani’s maqama made use of anecdotes collected in the 9th century by earlier writers, such as al-Jahiz and al-Taniikhi, but had a narrator introduce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badi%27_al-Zaman_al-Hamadani |
Bloody Thursday (Bahrain) | The events at the Pearl Roundabout and Salmaniyya Medical Complex marked a turning point in the Bahraini uprising, according to the media; an analysis by The Guardian said it reduced, if not killed, any chance of dialogue. The raid expanded the demands of some protesters from asking for reforms which included writing a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Thursday_(Bahrain) |
2011 Egyptian constitutional referendum | A 13 March poll by the Egyptian government on its Information and Decision Support Center website said that 24,121 Egyptians (57 percent of the total number of voters) would vote against the amendments, while 15,173 Egyptians (37 percent) supported them. Five percent were undecided. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Egyptian_constitutional_referendum |
Tunisian cuisine | Preferred meats include lamb (kosksi bil ghalmi) or chicken (kosksi bil djaj), but regional substitutes include red snapper, grouper (kousksi bil mannani), sea bass (kosksi bil marqua), hare (kosksi bil arnab) or quail (kosksi bil hjall).
Pork consumption is forbidden to Muslims in Tunisia, in accordance with Islamic d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunisian_cuisine |
Aluminium Bahrain | P1020 and higher-grade LME sows are conforming to London Metal Exchange standards and are used in many re-melting and casting applications including fabrication into various end-products such as pressure cookers and the facades of skyscrapers. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_Bahrain |
Sasanian Empire | On a lower level, Sasanian society was divided into Azatan (freemen). The Azatan formed a large low-aristocracy of low-level administrators, mostly living on small estates. The Azatan provided the cavalry backbone of the Sasanian army. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasanian_Empire |
Transitional National Government of Somalia | Somalia National Peace Conference (SNPC) or Djibouti Conference, held in Arta, Djibouti, on April 20 - May 5, 2000. The name Transitional National Government (TNG) was selected for the initiative at this time.
Election of Abdiqasim Salad Hassan as President by clan representatives | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitional_National_Government_of_Somalia |
Marriage in Pakistan | In Pakistan, wedding photography vividly captures the cultural richness and joyous moments of matrimonial celebrations, showcasing vibrant traditions and emotional significance. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_in_Pakistan |
Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty | Pritchard 1969, pp. 199–201: "Treaty between the Hittites and Egypt" – via Internet Archive
Lepsius c. 1859, section III, picture 146: "Theben. Karnak. Grosser Tempel. Mauer der Südseite der grossen Pfeilerhalle." – via University of Halle | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian%E2%80%93Hittite_peace_treaty |
Nabi Musa | During the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, Jordan took over and eventually annexed the West Bank in 1950. The Jordanian authorities were aware of the potential of the Nabi Musa festival of stirring Palestinian nationalist feelings and riots, and immediately after the 1951 assassination of King Abdullah I by a Palestinian Arab c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabi_Musa |
March of loyalty to martyrs | The march of Loyalty to Martyrs rally −1
The march of Loyalty to Martyrs rally – 2
The march of Loyalty to Martyrs rally – 3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_loyalty_to_martyrs |
Ras Al Khaimah | The Ras Al Khaimah Transport Authority currently serves the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah and surrounding areas. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ras_Al_Khaimah |
Rashidun | Fayda, Mustafa (1998). HULEFÂ-yi RÂŞİDÎN - An article published in 18th volume of Turkish Encyclopedia of Islam (in Turkish). Vol. 18. Istanbul: TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi. pp. 324–338. ISBN 978-97-53-89445-6. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashidun |
Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf | Nawr ḥadīqat al-abṣar wa-nūr ḥaqīqat al-Anẓar was a work of Taqī al-Dīn that discussed physics and optics. This book discussed the structure of light, the relationship between light and color, as well as diffusion and global refraction. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taqi_ad-Din_Muhammad_ibn_Ma%27ruf |
Lotfi Bouchnak | Grand Officier of the National Order of Merit of Tunisia
Grand Officier of the Order of the Seventh of November of Tunisia
Grand Star of the Order of Culture, Science and Arts of Palestine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotfi_Bouchnak |
Outline of Bahrain | Bahrain Grand Prix
2004 Bahrain Grand Prix
2005 Bahrain Grand Prix
2006 Bahrain Grand Prix
2007 Bahrain Grand Prix
2008 Bahrain Grand Prix
2009 Bahrain Grand Prix
2010 Bahrain Grand Prix
2011 Bahrain Grand Prix
2012 Bahrain Grand Prix
Bahrain International Circuit | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_Bahrain |
Mustafa IV | Mustafa IV had four known consorts:
Şevkinür Kadın. BaşKadin (first consort). She died in 1812 and was buried in Abdülhamid I's mausoleum.
Peykidil Kadın. She was executed on August 1808 by Mahmud II, accused of plotting against him with Mustafa IV and Alemdar Mustafa Pasha. According to sources, she was tied to a wei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_IV |
Turco-Egyptian Sudan | 'At-Turkiyyah' (Arabic: التركية) was the general Sudanese term for the period of Egyptian and Anglo-Egyptian rule, from the conquest in 1820 until the Mahdist takeover in the 1880s. Meaning both 'Turkish rule' and 'the period of Turkish rule', it designated rule by notionally Turkish-speaking elites or by those they ap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turco-Egyptian_Sudan |
Mass media in Mauritania | "Mauritania: Directory: the Press". Africa South of the Sahara 2003. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2003. ISBN 9781857431315. ISSN 0065-3896. (Includes information about broadcast media)
"Mauritania", Freedom of the Press, United States: Freedom House, 2016, OCLC 57509361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_media_in_Mauritania |
Sudan national football team | CECAFA Cup
Champion (3): 1980, 2006, 2007
Runners-up (2): 1990, 2013
Third place (3): 1996, 2004, 2011
Arab Games
Runners-up (1): 1965
Third place (1): 2023 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan_national_football_team |
Akkadian royal titulary | Titles describing the position of the king relative to the deities of the Ancient Mesopotamian religion. Titles and epithets which relate to the divine position of the king account for about 38.8% of Neo-Assyrian titularies. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkadian_royal_titulary |
Factions in the Somali Civil War | Leaders: Mohamed Farah Abdullahi, Mohamed Rashiid Sheekh also called sheekh malee, Zak Fergason, and Jamac Rabile(SDA)
Area of Operations: Awdal, Somaliland
Tribal Affiliation: Gadabursi
Founded: 1989
Pro-Barre faction. Fought against other liberation movements during Barre's reign. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factions_in_the_Somali_Civil_War |
List of rivers of Sudan | Nile River
Rahad River
Tekezé River - Tiwal River
Umbelasha River
Wadi Howar - White Nile
Yabus River | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rivers_of_Sudan |
Islam and war | During the 1870s, European initiatives against the slave trade caused an economic crisis in northern Sudan, precipitating the rise of Mahdist forces. Muhammad Ahmed Al Mahdi was a religious leader, who proclaimed himself the Mahdi—the prophesied redeemer of Islam who will appear at end times—in 1881, and declared a Jih... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_war |
Kenitra | The history of the city begins with the foundation of a trading post by Carthaginian explorer Hanno. It was known back then as Thamusida. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenitra |
Eritrea | Since independence, Eritrea has constructed 187 dams, each with capacity over 50,000 m3 and with the biggest ones with capacity of 350 million m3 in size. These have been built to combat drought, for agriculture, fishing and energy purposes. In addition, 600 micro-dams have been built. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eritrea |
As-Suwayda | On 7 June 2020, anti-government protests erupted in the city due to the deteriorating economic situation. Protesters demanded the resignation of President Bashar al-Assad for the first time since 2015. As a result of the protests, Prime Minister Imad Khamis was sacked on 11 June and replaced by Hussein Arnous. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As-Suwayda |
Somers Clarke | Nairn, Ian; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1965). Sussex. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 69–71, 155, 427, 438, 433, 436. ISBN 0-14-071028-0.
Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 403, 669, 698 738. ISBN 0-14-071045-0. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somers_Clarke |
Arabic alphabet | The following are not individual letters, but rather different contextual variants of some of the Arabic letters. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_alphabet |
Al-Qalqashandi | Bosworth, C. E. (1978). "al-Ḳalḳas̲h̲andī". In van Donzel, E.; Lewis, B.; Pellat, Ch. & Bosworth, C. E. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume IV: Iran–Kha. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 509–511. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_3832. OCLC 758278456. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qalqashandi |
List of Islamic seminaries | Al-Azhar Madrasa, Cairo
Emir Qurqumas Complex, Cairo
Madrasa of Jamal al-Din, Cairo
Madrassa of Al-Nasir Muhammad, Cairo
Qalawun complex, Cairo
Salihiyya Madrasa, Cairo
Madrasa of Sarghatmish, Cairo
Mosque and Khanqah of Shaykhu, Cairo
Sultan Al-Ghuri Complex, Cairo
Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan, Cairo | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamic_seminaries |
Houthi movement | Noman, Ahmed; Shamsan, Mahmoud (23 August 2022). "Analysis: Origins of the Houthi supremacist ideology". commonspace.eu. Retrieved 3 July 2024. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houthi_movement |
Fertile Crescent | Prehistoric seedless figs were discovered at Gilgal I in the Jordan Valley, suggesting that fig trees were being planted some 11,400 years ago. Cereals were already grown in Syria as long as 9,000 years ago. Small cats (Felis silvestris) also were domesticated in this region. Also, legumes including peas, lentils and c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertile_Crescent |
Jinn | In addition to these representations of jinn in vicinity to kingship, there were also architectural references to jinn throughout the Islamic world. In the Citadel of Aleppo, the entrance gate Bab al-Hayyat made reference to jinn in the stone relief carvings of serpents; likewise, the water gate at Ayyubid Harran house... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinn |
Judeo-Islamic philosophies (800–1400) | Vahid Brown states that the cross-fertilization among Jewish and Islamic philosophical mysticism, including Kabbalah and Sufism, in Al-Andalus, Spain during its Golden Age, apart from its impact on European Renaissance, had a strong influence in later developments in both philosophies in the rest of the Jewish and Musl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judeo-Islamic_philosophies_(800%E2%80%931400) |
Levantine corridor | The distribution of Y-chromosome and mtDNA haplogroups suggests that during the Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods, the Levantine corridor was more important for bi-directional human migrations between Africa and Eurasia than was the Horn of Africa.
The term is used frequently by archaeologists as an area that includes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levantine_corridor |
Shadhili | The Maryamiyya Order was founded by Swiss-German metaphysician Frithjof Schuon, author of The Transcendent Unity of Religions, among other influential books, as an outgrowth of the Alawiyya order. In 1946, the disciples of a group he led in Switzerland declared him to be an "independent master", spurring him to create ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadhili |
Bordj Bou Arréridj | Bordj Bou Arréridj has a team in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1: CA Bordj Bou Arréridj, founded in 1931.
They also have two teams in the Algerian Basketball Championship: IRB Bordj Bou Arréridj and OS Bordj Bou Arréridj. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordj_Bou_Arr%C3%A9ridj |
Dawoodi Bohra | The Dawoodi Bohra practice what they call khatna, khafd, or khafz, a practice critics consider female genital mutilation (FGM). The procedure is for the most part performed without anaesthesia by a traditional circumciser when girls reach their seventh year. Non-Bohra women who seek to marry into the community are also... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawoodi_Bohra |
Emirati diaspora | In Australia, there were over 1,700 Emirati students as of 2010. There are also a small number of UAE students in New Zealand. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirati_diaspora |
List of earthquakes in Egypt | Seismic hazard in Egypt is highest at the southern end of the Gulf of Suez, the northern Red Sea and around the Gulf of Aqaba, the location of the active plate boundaries. The highest risk is the southern end of the Dead Sea Transform. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Egypt |
Damascus Securities Exchange | According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), between March 2011 when the uprising began, and May 2012, the value of the Syrian pound has fallen 45 percent and the Damascus stock exchange decreased 40 percent. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_Securities_Exchange |
Shlomo Pines | Pines was born in Charenton-le-Pont near Paris, and grew up in Paris, Riga, Archangelsk, London and Berlin. His father, Meir Pines, was a scholar and businessman whose Sorbonne dissertation comprised the first attempt at a history of Yiddish literature.
Between 1926 and 1934 Shlomo Pines studied philosophy, Semitic lan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Pines |
Qurabiya | The word kurabiye is used to refer to a variety of biscuits in Turkey, not necessarily local ones, although various types of local kurabiye are made; including acıbadem kurabiyesi and un kurabiyesi. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qurabiya |
List of child bridegrooms | Tutankhamun was married before the age of nine years to his half-sister Ankhesenamun (aged about 16). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_child_bridegrooms |
Outline of Bahrain | Military of Bahrain
Command
Commander-in-chief: King Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa
Ministry of Defence of Bahrain
Forces
Army of Bahrain
Navy of Bahrain
Air Force of Bahrain
Royal Guard
Military history of Bahrain
Military ranks of Bahrain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_Bahrain |
Bethlehem Convention Palace | Qal'at al-Burak ('Burak Castle' or 'Castle of the Pools'), also known as Qal'at Murad ('Murad Castle'), is an Ottoman Turkish fortress, built by Suleiman the Magnificent or "the Law-giver" in 1617 near Solomon's Pools, and is part of the tourist complex open to visitors. It features a large museum. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem_Convention_Palace |
Demographics of Saudi Arabia | The Population Department of the United Nations prepared the following estimates. Population estimates account for under numeration in population censuses. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Saudi_Arabia |
Carolingian Empire | The oath of fidelity was a way for Charles to ensure loyalty from all his subjects. As early as 779 he banned sworn guilds between other men so that everyone took an oath of loyalty only to him. In 789 (in response to the 786 rebellion) he began legislating that everyone should swear fidelity to him as king, however in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolingian_Empire |
Indo-Saracenic architecture | Metcalf, Thomas R., An Imperial Vision: Indian Architecture and Britain's Raj, 1989, University of California Press, ISBN 0520062353, 9780520062351 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Saracenic_architecture |
Ibrahim ibn al-Walid | Ibrahim was a son of the Umayyad caliph al-Walid I (r. 743–744). His mother was a slave concubine named Su'ar or Budayra. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_ibn_al-Walid |
National Day (Qatar) | Following the December 2016 end of the Battle of Aleppo in the Syrian Civil War, the government on 18 December announced it would cancel all festivities in solidarity with the people of the city of Aleppo. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_(Qatar) |
Timur | In this period, Timur reduced the Chagatai khans to the position of figureheads while he ruled in their name. Also during this period, Timur and his brother-in-law Amir Husayn, who were at first fellow fugitives and wanderers, became rivals and antagonists. The relationship between them became strained after Husayn aba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur |
Modern history of Syria | Following the San Remo conference in April 1920 and the defeat of King Faisal's short-lived monarchy in Syria at the Battle of Maysalun on 24 July 1920, the French general Henri Gouraud established civil administration in the territory. The mandate region was subdivided into six states. They were the states of Damascus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_history_of_Syria |
Official language | The official language of Nigeria is English, which was chosen to facilitate the cultural and linguistic unity of the country. British colonial rule ended in 1960. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_language |
Bordj Bou Arréridj Province | The province knows an imbalance in the distribution of populations created by the movement of people to the central high plains, one along the highways and urban centers because of natural constraints related to the nature of steppe and mountain areas in the north and south. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordj_Bou_Arr%C3%A9ridj_Province |
Precinct of Amun-Re | Construction of the current pylon began in 30th Dynasty, but was never totally completed. It is 113m wide and 15m thick. There are large numbers of mud bricks piled up against the inside of the pylon, and these give a clue as to how it was constructed. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precinct_of_Amun-Re |
Proto-Semitic language | The Proto-Semitic language was a language of nominative-accusative alignment, which is preserved in most of its descendant languages.
The basic word order of Proto-Semitic was VSO (verb — subject — direct object), and the modifier usually followed its head. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Semitic_language |
Attack on Fatima's house | In his Dala'il al-imama, Ibn Rustam (4/11 century) includes a tradition from Ja'far al-Sadiq on the authority of Abu Basir, a prolific transmitter of hadith and a close companion of the sixth Imam. The rest of the chain of transmission includes some of the most prominent Shia authorities, and this hadith is thus viewed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Fatima%27s_house |
Abdullah II of Jordan | Robins, Philip (2004). A History of Jordan. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521598958.
George, Alan (2005). Jordan: Living in the Crossfire. Zed Books. ISBN 978-1842774717.
Shlaim, Avi (2009). Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace. Vintage Books. ISBN 978-1400078288. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_II_of_Jordan |
Louvre Abu Dhabi | In a late-2021 joint interview, Louvre President-Director Laurence des Cars and Centre Pompidou President Laurent Le Bon, both recently appointed to their positions, cited the Louvre Abu Dhabi as "the great model" for their planned endeavor to develop more initiatives in common between their respective institutions and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louvre_Abu_Dhabi |
Tunisia national football team | Tunisia have appeared in the finals of the FIFA World Cup on six occasions, the first in 1978 where they finished ninth of 16. Between 1998 and 2006 they qualified for three straight World Cups, but wouldn't qualify again until 2018. However, Tunisia have never advanced from the group stage. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunisia_national_football_team |
Astarte | The earliest record of ʿAṯtart is from Ebla in the 3rd millennium BC, where her name is attested in the forms 𒀾𒁯𒋫 (Aštarta) and 𒅖𒁯𒋫 (Ištarta). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astarte |
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra | Tammuz in the City (Tammuz fi al-madinah, 1959)
Anguish of the Sun (Law'at al-shams, 1979)
Closed Circle (al-Madar al-mughlaq, 1981) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabra_Ibrahim_Jabra |
Marakkar | The Islamized Arabs who arrived on the Coromandel and Malabar Coast brought Islamic values and customs and inter-married with the indigenous women who followed the local Buddhist, Jain & Hindu customs. Naturally, their children will have embedded Islamic and local values and transmitted them to their descendants. From ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marakkar |
Batroun | The people of Batroun are mainly Maronite, Melkite, and Greek Orthodox Christians. Batroun is a Roman Catholic (Latin rite) Titular See. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batroun |
Holiest sites in Islam | Similar to Sunni Islam and other sects, the Holiest sites in Shia Islam are Mecca, followed by Medina and then Al Aqsa.
After these two sites, most importance is put upon the following sites according to Shia: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holiest_sites_in_Islam |
Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria | Holmes, Amy Austin (2024). Statelet of Survivors: The Making of a Semi-Autonomous Region in Northeast Syria. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-762103-5. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_Administration_of_North_and_East_Syria |
Hama Governorate | As per the 2004 Syrian census the population was 1,385,000. A 2011 UNOCHA estimate put the population at 1,628,000, though this has likely changed since the start of the war.
Sunni Muslims form the majority at 61%, followed by Alawites (19%), Ismailis (12%), Christian (7%) and Twelver (1%). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hama_Governorate |
Outline of Bahrain | Al Muntada
Sawsan Al Sha'er
Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa
Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society
Economists Bloc
We Have A Right
Women's political rights in Bahrain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_Bahrain |
Islamic geometric patterns | Zellij (Arabic: الزَّلِيْج) is geometric tilework with glazed terracotta tiles set into plaster, forming colourful mosaic patterns including regular and semiregular tessellations. The tradition is characteristic of Morocco, but is also found in Moorish Spain. Zellij is used to decorate mosques, public buildings and wea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_geometric_patterns |
List of moths of Sudan and South Sudan | Chrysamma purpuripulcra Karsch, 1896
Coenobasis postflavida Hampson, 1910
Gavara caprai Berio, 1937
Macroplectra iracunda Hering, 1928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_moths_of_Sudan_and_South_Sudan |
Aceh | The Acehnese revolted soon after its inclusion into an independent Indonesia, a situation created by a complex mix of what the Acehnese regarded as transgressions against and betrayals of their rights.
Sukarno, the first president of Indonesia, had reneged on his promise made on 16 June 1948 that Aceh would be allowed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aceh |
Turks in Palestine | Once Ottoman Algeria came under French rule in 1830, many Turkish Algerians were forced to leave the region. Although the majority who fled were shipped off to Turkey, many others migrated to other regions of the Ottoman Empire, including Palestine, Syria, Arabia, and Egypt. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turks_in_Palestine |
2011 Bahraini uprising | Reprieve a human rights defender organisation published an investigative report about British involvement in the Bahrain regime's atrocities in 2016. The report says that seven innocent men are facing the death penalty in Bahrain after being tortured into the false confessions of crimes. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Bahraini_uprising |
Outline of Qatar | Head of state: Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani
Head of government: Prime Minister of Qatar,
Cabinet of Qatar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_Qatar |
Gabès | This site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List on May 28, 2008, in the Cultural category. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab%C3%A8s |
List of countries and territories where Arabic is an official language | In 2014, Gambian president Yahya Jammeh announced that The Gambia would drop English as the official language because it is a "colonial relic". He replaced Gambia's official language English with Arabic in 2014. However, such change was not enacted. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_where_Arabic_is_an_official_language |
Vicia faba | The first experimental demonstration that the pattern of replication of eukaryotic chromosomes follows the semiconservative DNA replication scheme proposed in 1953 by Watson and Crick was reported in 1957 using V. faba root cells. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicia_faba |
1983–1988 Kuwait terror attacks | On 14 June 1985, TWA Flight 847 was hijacked en route from Athens to Rome. One of the demands of the hijackers was the release of the 17 prisoners held in Kuwait. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983%E2%80%931988_Kuwait_terror_attacks |
International Islamic University | The Faculty of Sciences (founded in 2003) teaches physics and nanotechnology, Mathematics and Statistics, environmental sciences, biotechnology and bioinformatics. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Islamic_University |
Clifford Edmund Bosworth | UNESCO Avicenna Silver Medal, 1998
Dr Mahmud Afshar Foundation Prize for contributions to Iranian Studies, 2001
Prize by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Tehran, for contributions to Iranian historical studies, 2003
Triennial Award, 2003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Edmund_Bosworth |
Souk Ahras | Souk Ahras
Hamma-Loulou
An-Nasser
Diar Ezzarga
1er Novembre 1954
5 Juillet
17 Octobre
20 Août
26 Avril 1958
El-Allaouia
Ibn Rochd
Kouicem Abdelhak
Sidi Messaoud
Sidi Okba
Et-Tagtaguia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souk_Ahras |
2012–2013 Iraqi protests | Saudi Arabia – Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal warned that the Iraqi government needed to address the issue of sectarian extremism in order to restore peace, on January 5 at a press conference in Riyadh. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%E2%80%932013_Iraqi_protests |
Multinational Force in Lebanon | France lost more than 89 soldiers out of which 58 French Paratroopers in the barracks bombing and many other soldiers from French regular and Foreign Legion regiments, mainly conducting combat operations, demining and training the Lebanese Armed Forces along with the 17th Parachute Engineer Regiment. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_Force_in_Lebanon |
Al-Aqsa | The Dome of al-Khalili is a small domed-building located north of the Dome of the Rock. The Dome of al-Khalili was built in the early 18th century during Ottoman rule of Palestine in dedication to Shaykh Muhammad al-Khalili, a scholar of fiqh who died in 1734. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Aqsa |
Al-Juwayni | Ibn Asakir said: "the Glory of Islam, absolute Imam of all imams, main authority in the Law, whose leadership is agreed upon East and West, whose immense merit is the consensus of Arabs and non-Arabs, upon the like of whom none set eyes before or after." Al-Kawthari said: "whose work forms the connecting link between t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Juwayni |
Israr Ahmed | In 1982 Ahmad generated controversy by asserting that women should 'be barred from all professions except medicine and teaching". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israr_Ahmed |
Arab Argentines | Jorge Antonio
Julio Asad
Omar Asad
Yamil Asad
Alfredo Avelín
Alejandro Awada
Juliana Awada
Carlos Balá
Elias Bazzi
Lucia Caram
Yamila Díaz
Basilio Lami Dozo
Eduardo Falú
Juan Falú
Daniel Hadad
Omar Hasan
Alberto Hassan
Claudio Husaín
Darío Husaín
Juan Luis Manzur
Carlos Menem
Eduardo Menem
Antonio Mohamed
Daniel Mustaf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Argentines |
Al Bahah | All of the Saudi citizens of Al Baha are Sunni Muslim, who in the past practiced Shafi`i, a school of fiqh that was dominant in the Hejaz. The largest mosque here is the King Fahad Mosque (Arabic: جَامِع ٱلْمَلِك فَهْد, romanized: Jāmiʿ Al-Malik Fahd). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Bahah |
Al-Azhar University | Al-Azhar is one of the relics of the Isma'ili Shi'a Fatimid dynasty, which claimed descent from Fatimah, daughter of Muhammad and wife of Ali, son-in-law, and cousin of Muhammad. Fatimah was called al-Zahra (the luminous), and the institution was named in her honor. It was founded as a mosque by the Fatimid commander J... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Azhar_University |
LGBT rights in Lebanon | Men who have had sexual contact with another man are permanently banned from donating blood in Lebanon. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Lebanon |
Imamate in Twelver doctrine | Ali ibn Abi Talib
Hasan ibn Ali
Husayn ibn Ali
Ali ibn Husayn
Muhammad al-Baqir
Jafar al-Sadiq
Musa al-Kadhim
Ali al-Rida
Muhammad al-Jawad
Ali al-Hadi
Hasan al-Askari
Muhammad al-Mahdi | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imamate_in_Twelver_doctrine |
2019 Egyptian protests | European Parliament
According to the European Parliament (EP), as of 23 October 2019, there had been "no official, strong and united public response [forthcoming] from the [European Union] and its Member States to the September–October 2019 crackdown in Egypt". In Resolution 2019/2880(RSP), the EP strongly condemned th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Egyptian_protests |
Supercars Championship | In December 2014, Supercars released details concerning the future of the category. New regulations, dubbed Gen2 Supercar, were introduced in 2017 to allow the use of two-door coupé body styles and turbocharged four- or six-cylinder engines. However, no teams elected to build cars to these alternate engine specificatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercars_Championship |
Dictionary | Histories and descriptions of the dictionaries of other languages on Wikipedia include:
Arabic dictionaries
Chinese dictionaries
Dehkhoda Dictionary (Persian Language)
Dutch dictionaries
French dictionaries
German dictionaries
Japanese dictionaries
Polish dictionaries
Scottish Gaelic dictionaries
Scottish Language Dic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary |
Islam in Indonesia | This is a data table of the percentage of Muslims in Indonesia, provided by the Ministry of Religious Affairs: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Indonesia |
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