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Abu Dujana was born as Simak ibn Kharasha, a member of the Banu Sa'idah tribe from the Ansar. [1]Abu Dujana participated in the Expedition of Hamza ibn 'Abdul-Muttalib, where he faced the forces of Amr ibn Hishām, but the two sides did not engage in battle due to the intervention of a third party named Majdi ibn Amr.
The geographers of this school, such as Istakhri, al-Muqaddasi and Ibn Hawqal, wrote extensively of the peoples, products, and customs of areas in the Muslim world, with little interest in the non-Muslim realms, [3] and produced world atlases, each one featuring a world map and twenty regional maps.
Al-Idrisi's world map from 'Ali ibn Hasan al-Hufi al-Qasimi's 1456 copy. This is an example of the circular world maps inserted into the manuscript in later editions. The book, written in Arabic, is divided into seven "climatic zones" each of which is subdivided into ten sections. Each section is given its two-page spread map, for a total of 70 ...
Greater Khorasan [2] (Middle Persian: 𐬒𐬊𐬭𐬀𐬯𐬀𐬥, romanized: Xwarāsān; Persian: خراسان, [xoɾɒːˈsɒːn] ⓘ) is a historical eastern region in the Iranian Plateau in West and Central Asia that encompasses western and northern Afghanistan, northeastern Iran, the eastern halves of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, western Tajikistan, and portions of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.
Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi (25 December 1977 – 30 December 2009) was a Jordanian doctor and a triple agent suicide bomber, who was loyal to Islamist extremists of al-Qaeda, and who carried out the Camp Chapman attack, which was a suicide attack against a CIA base near Khost, Afghanistan on 30 December 2009.
Tus was taken by the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik and remained under Umayyad control until 747, when a subordinate of Abu Muslim Khorasani defeated the Umayyad governor during the Abbasid Revolution. [3] In 809, the Abbasid Caliph Harun al-Rashid fell ill and died in Tus, on his way to solve the unrest in Khorasan. [4] His grave is located in ...
The Piri Reis map is a world map compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. Approximately one third of the map survives, housed in the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul . After the empire's 1517 conquest of Egypt , Piri Reis presented the 1513 world map to Ottoman Sultan Selim I ( r.
English: The map of the known world by al-Khwarizmi (c. 780 – c. 850), reconstructed from the coordinate data available in languages I know. The sources are works by Hubert Daunicht, Hans von Mžik, Reinhard Wieber and Károly Czeglédy. Part of Europe is missing because I could not find data that were accessible to me.