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There is no easily discerned plot in the conventional sense, but the central question of the book (the mass religious conversion of the Khazar people) is based on a historical event generally dated to the last decades of the 8th century or the early 9th century when the Khazar royalty and nobility converted to Judaism, and part of the general ...
Pachisi (/ p ə ˈ tʃ iː z i / pə-CHEE-zee, Hindustani: [pəˈtʃiːsiː]) is a cross and circle board game that originated in Ancient India.It is described in the ancient text Mahabharata under the name of "Pasha". [1]
For example, if a double two is rolled and an opponent's piece lies on a cream space two spaces in front of the piece you wish to move the full four, you would move the piece two, and then two again, allowing the opponent's piece to be captured. [1] All die rolls must be taken and may not be voluntarily forfeited by a player. [3]
This was a popular work that played an early role in the development of Literary Hindi and was selected as a Hindustani test-book for military service students in the East India Company. [12] Thus it became the basis of several Hindi editions, and Indian vernacular and English translations; many of these frequently reprinted.
The Kuzari, full title Book of Refutation and Proof on Behalf of the Despised Religion [1] (Judeo-Arabic: כתאב אלרד ואלדליל פי אלדין אלדׄליל; Arabic: كتاب الحجة والدليل في نصرة الدين الذليل: Kitâb al-ḥujja wa'l-dalîl fi naṣr al-dîn al-dhalîl), also known as the Book of the Khazar (Hebrew: ספר הכוזרי: Sefer ha-Kuzari ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Khazar Khaganate, 650–850 The Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry, often called the Khazar myth by its critics, is a largely abandoned historical hypothesis [by whom?] that postulated that Ashkenazi Jews were primarily, or to a large extent, descended from Khazar converts to Judaism. The ...
Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq an-Nadīm (Arabic: ابو الفرج محمد بن إسحاق النديم), also Ibn Abī Yaʿqūb Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Warrāq, and commonly known by the nasab (patronymic) Ibn an-Nadīm (Arabic: ابن النديم; died 17 September 995 or 998), was an important Muslim bibliographer and biographer [2] of Baghdad who compiled the ...
The book is acclaimed for chronicling the accounts of companions, those individuals who met and lived during the age of Muḥammad. The work includes the biography of Muḥammad, his companions' biographies, his wives' biographies, and the biographies of the tābiʿūn, the generation of believers who met and studied under the Ṣaḥābah.