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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. Palestinian traditional costumes - Wikipedia

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    Hafiz al - Siba'i, Tahira Abdul (1987): A Brief Look at Traditional Palestinian Costumes: a Presentation of Palestinian Fashion, T. A. Hafiz, English, French and Arabic text; Needler, Winifred (1949). Palestine: Ancient and Modern — A handbook and guide to the Palestinian collection of the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, Toronto. Royal ...

  4. 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.

  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. History of clothing and textiles - Wikipedia

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    The drafting history of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing; American Women's History: A Research Guide Archived 15 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine Clothing and Fashion; All Sewn Up: Millinery, Dressmaking, Clothing and Costume; Gallery of English Medieval Clothing from 1906 by Dion Clayton Calthrop

  7. Pre-Islamic Arab trade - Wikipedia

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    The Sabaeans had a long history of seafaring and commerce. A Sabaean presence in Africa was noted in antiquity with the founding of the kingdom of Dʿmt in Ethiopia in the 8th century BCE. The 1st-century CE historian Periplus of the Erythraean Sea described how the Arabs controlled the coast of "Ezana" (the East African coast north of Somalia).

  8. Culture of the United Arab Emirates - Wikipedia

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    A dallah is a traditional Arabic coffee pot for serving Arabian coffee.It is a symbol of the Emirati culture, featuring on the United Arab Emirates dirham coin. The culture of the United Arab Emirates is part of the culture of Eastern Arabia. [1]

  9. Islamic Golden Age - Wikipedia

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    The metaphor of a golden age began to be applied in 19th-century literature about Islamic history, in the context of the western aesthetic fashion known as Orientalism.The author of a Handbook for Travelers in Syria and Palestine in 1868 observed that the most beautiful mosques of Damascus were "like Mohammedanism itself, now rapidly decaying" and relics of "the golden age of Islam".