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  2. Jahiliyyah - Wikipedia

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    The meaning of jahiliyyah experiences a similar evolution in exegeses of the Quran as they do in Arabic dictionaries. In the eighth-century commentary by Muqatil ibn Sulayman, the jahiliyyah describes the recent pre-Islamic past instead of pre-Islamic times in its entirety. In the commentaries of Al-Tabari, the word describes a period between ...

  3. Women in pre-Islamic Arabia - Wikipedia

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    There is very scarce information regarding women in pre-Islamic Arabia.Most of it originates from Hadith and historical traditions, pre-Islamic poetry, and early biographical accounts, or from conclusions from Qur'anic statements, which can be biased, as Islamic sources describe pre-Islamic Arabia as "Jahiliyyah" Meaning age of ignorance.

  4. Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations

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    The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) [1] is a non-governmental privately held national-level [2] [3] board of school education in India that conducts the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) Examination for Class X and the Indian School Certificate (ISC) for Class XII. [4]

  5. Pre-Islamic Arabia - Wikipedia

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    Pre-Islamic Arabia is the Arabian Peninsula and its northern extension in the Syrian Desert before the rise of Islam.This is consistent with how contemporaries used the term Arabia or where they said Arabs lived, which was not limited to the peninsula.

  6. Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion - Wikipedia

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    The definitions of dress, apparel and fashion are the starting point and the principal focus of the various contributions: dress is analyzed as a body modification, apparel is connected to history or the exhibition in a museum, and fashion corresponds to the changes related to body alterations and ornamentation, over short periods of time.

  7. Category:History of clothing - Wikipedia

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    The history of clothing encompasses the clothes worn in various places at various times and the methods by which those clothes were made or acquired. Subcategories organized by date: Category:African clothing covers Clothing worn in north Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, from paleolithic to the pre-modern era; Category:History of Oceanian ...

  8. Mashru - Wikipedia

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    Silk merchants in the 19th century. Mashru (also historically spelled mashroo, misru, mushroo or mushru) is a woven cloth that is a blend of silk and cotton.It was historically a hand-woven satin silk fabric variety found in the Indian subcontinent, and its proper use is described in the 16th-century Ain-i-Akbari.

  9. Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia - Wikipedia

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    Muslim sources regarding Arabian polytheism include the eighth-century Book of Idols by Hisham ibn al-Kalbi, which F.E. Peters argued to be the most substantial treatment of the religious practices of pre-Islamic Arabia, [10] as well as the writings of the Yemeni historian al-Hasan al-Hamdani on South Arabian religious beliefs. [11]