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Rashid ad-Din Sinan was born between the years 1131 and 1135 in Basra, southern Iraq, to a prosperous family. [5] According to his autobiography, of which only fragments survive, Rashid came to Alamut , the fortress headquarters of the Assassins , as a youth after an argument with his brothers, [ 5 ] and received the typical Assassin training.
The full collection, known as the Majmu'ah, contains Bal'ami's version of Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari's chronicle, the Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh, and Nizam al-Din Shami's biography of Timur. These portions of the Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh cover most of the history of Muhammad and the Caliphate, plus the post-caliphate dynasties of the Ghaznavids ...
Growth of the eight largest Wikibooks sites (by language), July 2003–January 2010. Wikibooks (previously called Wikimedia Free Textbook Project and Wikimedia-Textbooks) is a wiki-based Wikimedia project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation for the creation of free content digital textbooks and annotated texts that anyone can edit.
A page of the Book on the Measurement of Plane and Spherical Figures, Columbia University, New York. The Book on the Measurement of Plane and Spherical Figures (Arabic: كتاب معرفة مساحة الأشكال البسيطة والكريّة, Kitāb maʿrifah masāḥat al-ashkāl al-basīṭah wa-al-kuriyyah) [note 1] was the most important of the works produced by the Banū Mūsā ...
Rashid ad-Din Sinan, 12th century Syrian religious figure and leader of resistance to the Crusades Rashid al-Din Vatvat , 12th century Persian royal panegyrist and epistolographer Amin al-Din Rashid al-Din Vatvat , 13th century Persian physician
At Alamut they had "impressive libraries whose collections included books on various religious traditions, philosophical and scientific texts, and scientific equipment". [20] Xishiji （Chinese: 西使記）, a Chinese manuscript completed in 1263, relates a story similar to that of Polo. The sect leaders "ordered to send assassins to hide in ...
The work was executed at the elaborate scriptorium Rab'-e Rashidi at Qazvin, where a large team of calligraphers and illustrators were employed to produce lavishly illustrated books. These books could also be copied, while preserving accuracy, using a printing process imported from China. Hulagu Khan with his Eastern Christian wife, Doquz Khatun.
Open Sources 2.0 is a book published by O'Reilly Media. Following on the popularity of Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, it is a second anthology of essays written by luminaries of the open source and free software movements. The essays explore open source's impact on the software industry and reveal how open-source concepts ...