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On January 16, the Palestinian Authority created a formal village council for Bab al-Shams. [2] The Israeli government intended to remove the tent outpost, claiming that it was illegal, but the activists received an injunction from the Supreme Court of Israel prohibiting the government from doing so for 6 days. The following day, the occupants ...
Shams (deity), a solar deity in the ancient South Arabian religion; Shams (name), a list of people with the name; Shams al-Ma'arif, a 13th-century Arabic book; Ain Shams University, a university located in Cairo, Egypt; Ash-Shams, the 91st surah of the Quran; Shams, a kind of decorative pillow; The Shams, an all-female folk pop trio from New York
Before al-Nasir's restoration, the gate was already described by the Andalusian traveler Ibn Jubayr in 1185. It was mentioned in the accounts of the Mongols' 1258 Siege of Baghdad. A polo field in front of the gate was inaugurated in 1086 by Seljuk Sultan Malik Shah. [7] Bab al-Wastani is located north of where Bab al-Talsim once stood. [8]
Al-Shams is the Arabic word for "the sun" (الشمس) and may refer to: Ash-Shams, the 91st Sura of the Quran; Shamash, the Semitic Sun god; Ain Shams University, a university located in Cairo, Egypt; Majdal Shams, a Druze town in the Golan Heights (Migdal Shemesh in Hebrew) Al-Shams (newspaper), a Libyan newspaper in Arabic
Of Turkic descent, [7] adh-Dhahabi was born in Damascus.His name, Ibn adh-Dhahabi (son of the goldsmith), reveals his father's profession. He began his study of hadith at age eighteen, travelling from Damascus to Baalbek, Homs, Hama, Aleppo, Nabulus, Cairo, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Hijaz, and elsewhere, before returning to Damascus to teach and write.
Al-Jazari was born in Damascus on Friday 26 November 1350 (25 Ramadan 751 AH). [4] By the time he was fifteen or sixteen years old, he had not only learnt the entire Qur'an by heart, but also the well-known Shafi'ī law book Tanbīh and two works on qirā’ah, the Shātibiyyah and al-Taysīr.
Ash-Shams (Arabic: الشمس, "The Sun") is the 91st surah of the Qur'an, with 15 ayat or verses. It opens with a series of solemn oaths sworn on various astronomical phenomena, the first of which, "by the sun", gives the sura its name, then on the human soul itself. It then describes the fate of Thamud, a formerly prosperous but now extinct ...
Construction of the main gate was finished by Abu al-Hasan, as evidenced by an inscription on it which dates its completion to July 1339 (Dhu al-Qadah 739 AH) and refers to the complex as a "ribat". [5] [6] During Abu al-Hasan's lifetime one of his wives, Shams al-Ḍuḥa (the mother of Abu Inan), was buried here in 1349.