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Modern Iraq still has a tradition of "tears of the karkadann," dumiu al-karkadan, which are reddish beads used in the Misbaha, the Muslim prayer beads (subuhat). The accompanying legend says that the rhinoceros spends days in the desert looking for water; when he does, he first weeps "out of fatigue and thirst-pain."
Shâd'havâr (Arabic: شادهافار (Šādhāfār)) or Âras (آرس) is a legendary creature from medieval Muslim bestiaries resembling a unicorn. Al-Qazwini said that it lives in the country of Rūm ( Byzantium ) and that it has one horn with 42 hollow branches which, when the wind passes through them, produces a pleasant sound that makes ...
12.3 Months of the Islamic calendar. 12.4 Pilgrimages. 12.5 Times for Prayer or Remembrance. 12.6 Implied. ... Names and attributes of Allah found in the Quran; Angels
They are said to guard the names of God and assist pious people who perform dhikr. Probably deriving from Medieval cosmographic and esoteric teachings. (Angels, Genie, or Other) [34] Munkar and Nakir, question the dead in their graves. [35] (Angels)
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Mythology [ edit ] It derives from the Greek word μονόκερως ( monokerōs ), a compound word from μόνος ( monos ) which means "only one" / "single" and κέρας ( keras ) ( neuter gender ), which means " horn ".
An equine form of the unicorn was mentioned by the ancient Greeks in accounts of natural history by various writers, including Ctesias, Strabo, Pliny the Younger, Aelian, [2] and Cosmas Indicopleustes. [3] The Bible also describes an animal, the re'em, which some translations render as unicorn. [2] The unicorn continues to hold a place in ...
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