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Zaydan the qahramana (Arabic: زيدان القهرمانة 10th-century) was a courtier of the Abbasid harem during the reign of caliph al-Muqtadir (r. 908–932). She was taken as a slave and placed in the Abbasid harem, where she was given the office of qahramana (stewardess). The qahramana's acted as the intermediaries of the women of the ...
Round city of Baghdad. Baghdad was founded on 30 July 762 CE. It was designed by Caliph al-Mansur. [1] According to 11th-century scholar Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi in his History of Baghdad, [2] each course of the city wall consisted of 162,000 bricks for the first third of the wall's height.
Arab scholars at an Abbasid library in Baghdad. Maqamat of al-Hariri Illustration, 1237. Arab scientists and scholars from the Muslim World, including Al-Andalus (Spain), who lived from antiquity up until the beginning of the modern age, include the following.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:10th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate. It includes people from the Abbasid Caliphate that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
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".
Al-ʻIjliyyah bint al-ʻIjliyy (Arabic: العجلية بنت العجلي) [1] was a 10th-century maker of astrolabes active in Aleppo, in what is now northern Syria. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She is sometimes known in modern popular literature as Mariam al-Asṭurlābiyya ( Arabic : مريم الأسطرلابية ) but her supposed first name 'Mariam' is ...
Al-Wishāḥ was written at some point in the late 15th century by Al-Suyuti (c. 1445 – c. 1505).It was a continuation of a pre-existing genre of Arabic sex and marriage manuals tempered for Islamic audiences, a literary form that originated in 10th-century Baghdad under the influence of translations of Greek, Persian, and Indian works on the subjects of medicine and erotology. [5]
The Arabic phrase Ikhwān aṣ-Ṣafāʾ (short for, among many possible transcriptions, Ikhwān aṣ-Ṣafāʾ wa Khullān al-Wafā wa Ahl al-Ḥamd wa abnāʾ al-Majd, [6] meaning "Brethren of Purity, Loyal Friends, People worthy of praise and Sons of Glory") can be translated as either the "Brethren of Purity" or the "Brethren of Sincerity"; various scholars such as Ian Netton prefer "of ...