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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. 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

  5. Origins of ecclesiastical vestments - Wikipedia

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    The liturgical vestments of the Christian churches grew out of normal civil clothing, but the dress of church leaders began to be differentiated as early as the 4th century. By the end of the 13th century the forms used in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches had become established, while the Reformation led to changes in Protestant ...

  6. 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.

  7. Timeline of clothing and textiles technology - Wikipedia

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    c. 50,000 BC – A discovered twisted fibre (a 3-ply cord fragment) indicates thinge likely use of clothing, bags, nets and similar technology by Neanderthals in southeastern France. [1] [2] c. 27000 BC – Impressions of textiles, basketry, and nets left on small pieces of hard clay in Europe. [3] c. 25000 BC – Venus figurines depicted with ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. 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).