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Map of Arabia from the Kitab al-Masalik wa'l-Mamalik by al-Istakhri (copy dated to c. 1306 CE). The Book of Roads and Kingdoms (Arabic: كتاب المسالك والممالك, Kitāb al-Masālik waʿl-Mamālik [1]) is a group of Islamic manuscripts composed from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. [2]
The Bradford Grand Mosque, or Al-Jamia Suffa-Tul-Islam Grand Mosque, is the largest mosque by capacity in the United Kingdom. [1] It is located Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. [2] [3] It was founded in 1983, [4] building began in 2002 and it opened in 2012 or 2014.
The Grand Mosque of Bradford is the largest mosque by capacity in the United Kingdom.. Islam in England is the second largest religion after Christianity. [1] Most Muslims are immigrants from South Asia (in particular Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India) or descendants of immigrants from that region.
The Al Mahdi Mosque is an Ahmadi Muslim mosque in Bradford, England. The mosque was built at a cost £2.5 million entirely from voluntary donations of British Ahmadi Muslims. The mosque was opened on 7 November 2008 by Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the current and fifth caliph of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. [1]
Part one describes the Western world-Islam interactions throughout history, [1] and how they were viewed by Muslims. [5] Part two describes how the groups communicated and entities that were go-betweens. Several specalties of this theme are described in the third part. [3] The book does not use chronological order. [6]
In June 2009 Bradford became the world's first UNESCO City of Film and became part of the Creative Cities Network since then. [54] The city has a long history of producing both films and the technology that produces moving film—including the invention of the Cieroscope in Manningham in 1896. [55]
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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. [4]: 194