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In the province of Ontario, St. Lawrence is a prominent, historic neighbourhood in old centre of Toronto (formerly named York), now most known for the expansive St. Lawrence Market. The Laurentian Mountains gave rise to the name for the Laurential Plateau, or the Canadian Shield.
The first written references to ascetic Muslim saints in Africa, "popularly admired and with followings," [1] appear in tenth-century hagiographies. [1] [44] As has been noted by scholars, however, "the phenomenon may well be older," [1] for many of the stories of the Islamic saints were passed down orally before finally being put to writing. [1]
The mausoleum of Ahmad Yasawi who was also considered a Sufi saint and poet in Turkistan, current day Kazakhstan.. Sufi saints or wali (Arabic: ولي, plural ʾawliyāʾ أولياء) played an instrumental role in spreading Islam throughout the world. [1]
' Peace be upon her ', for female persons) are used when the name of each of the fourteen infallibles saints is mentioned or written in Islamic world and the most especially in the Shia Islam world, [30] its abbreviation is also given in parentheses as «ع» in Arabic and "AS" in English after the name of the fourteen infallibles.
The Seal of the Saints. Prophethood and Sainthood in the Doctrine of Ibn 'Arabi. The Islamic Texts Society. 1993. Gerald T. Elmore. Islamic Sainthood in the Fullness of Time: Ibn al-'Arabi's Book of the Fabulous Gryphon. Koninklijke Brill, The Netherlands, 1998. ISBN 90-04-10991-9 (Chapter VI. The Seal of the Saints.) Google books; A. E. Affifi.
St. John the Baptist pictured with a halo.In Christian iconography, saints may also be depicted with wreaths, palm branches, white lilies or other attributes.. In Christian belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness, likeness, or closeness to God.
The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence, a sculpture of 1617 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence .
A Fatimid medallion depicting the Purity of Ahl al Bayt. Welayah or Walaya (Arabic: وَلاية, meaning "guardianship" or "governance") is a general concept of the Islamic faith and a key word in Shia Islam that refers, among other things, to the nature and function of the Imamate.