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Al-Ghazali was born in c. 1058 in Tus, then part of the Seljuk Empire. [ 48] He was a Muslim scholar, law specialist, rationalist, and spiritualist of Persian descent. [ 49][ 50] He was born in Tabaran, a town in the district of Tus, Khorasan (now part of Iran ), [ 48] not long after Seljuks entered Baghdad and ended Shia Buyid Amir al-umaras.
Al-Hallaj was popularly credited with numerous supernatural acts. He was said to have "lit four hundred oil lamps in Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre with his finger and extinguished an eternal flame in a Zoroastrian fire temple with the tug of a sleeve." [ 14] Among other Sufis, al-Hallaj was an anomaly.
Ibn al-Samʿānī (Arabic: إبن السمعاني, 1113–1166), full name Abū Saʿd ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Abī Bakr Muḥammad ibn Abi ʾl-Muẓaffar Manṣūr al-Tamīmī al-Marwazī al-Shafiʿī al-Samʿānī, [a] nicknamed Tāj al-Islām (Crown of Islam) [b] and Qiwām al-Dīn (Support of the Faith), was an Arab Muslim scholar of biography, history, hadith, Shafi'i jurisprudence and ...
The Artuqid ruler Nasr al-Din Mahmud (r. 1201–1222) is known to have commisionned the first edition of Al-Jāmi‘ fī ṣinā‘at al-ḥiyal of Ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari, in April 1206 at the Artuqid court. [20] [21] This manuscript is known as Ahmet III 3472, now in the Topkapı Sarayı Library.
Tomb of Imam al-Maturidi, Samarkand. Abu Mansur al-Maturidi ( Arabic: أبو منصور الماتريدي, romanized : ʾAbū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī; 853–944) was an Islamic scholar and theologian who is the eponym of the Maturidi school of theology in Sunni Islam. A follower of the Hanafi school of jurisprudence, al-Maturidi was a leading ...
July 19, 2024 at 8:37 AM. Policies and practices used by Israel in its occupation of Palestinian territories are in breach of international law, the United Nations ’ top court said in a landmark ...
El Al also converted some of their Boeing 787 Dreamliner airplanes to serve as cargo flights to transport medical goods from China to Europe through Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport. El Al also offered some passenger flights to get stranded Israeli citizens home. These flights went from Tel Aviv to Miami, New York, London, Paris, and more.
In Arabic, al-Qaeda has four syllables (/alˈqaː.ʕi.da/). However, since two of the Arabic consonants in the name are not phones found in the English language, the common naturalized English pronunciations include / æ l ˈ k aɪ d ə /, / æ l ˈ k eɪ d ə / and / ˌ æ l k ɑː ˈ iː d ə /. Al-Qaeda's name can also be transliterated as ...