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A programmable material that the Transformers are made from. Tritanium: Star Trek: The fictional metal tritanium was referred to in many episodes as an extremely hard alloy used in starship hulls and hand-held tools. Eve Online: A versatile material; the primary material used in the construction of virtually all star ships and star ship components.
Al-Risalah al-Kamiliyyah fil Siera al-Nabawiyyah (The Treatise of Kamil on the Prophet's Biography), known in English as Theologus Autodidactus, written by the Arabian polymath Ibn al-Nafis (1213–1288), is one of the earliest known science fiction novels. While also being an early desert island story and coming of age story, the novel deals ...
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of literature during the 6th through 9th Centuries. The list is chronological, and does not include epigraphy or poetry. For poetry, see: 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th century in poetry. For early epigraphy, see List of languages by first written accounts.
This list of historical fiction is designed to provide examples of notable works of historical fiction (in literature, film, comics, etc.) organized by time period.. For a more exhaustive list of historical novels by period, see Category:Historical novels by setting, which lists relevant Wikipedia categories; see also the larger List of historical novels, which is organized by country, as well ...
Early Bronze Age: 3rd millennium BC (approximate dates shown). The earliest written literature dates from about 2600 BC (classical Sumerian ). [ 1 ] Certain literary texts are difficult to date, such as the Egyptian Book of the Dead , which was recorded in the Papyrus of Ani around 1240 BC, but other versions of the book probably date from ...
Middle-East: A dramatised documentary film charting the first real-life journey made by the Islamic scholar Ibn Battuta from his native Morocco to Mecca for the Hajj The Name of the Rose: 1986: 1327: Italy: set in an Italian monastery: The Name of the Rose: 2019: 1327: Italy: Miniseries set in an Italian monastery.
Arabic literature (Arabic: الأدب العربي / ALA-LC: al-Adab al-‘Arabī) is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language.The Arabic word used for literature is Adab, which comes from a meaning of etiquette, and which implies politeness, culture and enrichment.
For example, authors of the Middle Kingdom could set fictional wisdom texts in the golden age of the Old Kingdom (e.g. Kagemni, Ptahhotep, and the prologue of Neferti), or they could write fictional accounts placed in a chaotic age resembling more the problematic life of the First Intermediate Period (e.g. Merykare and The Eloquent Peasant). [70]