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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 ...
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 ...
The teachings of the Báb refer to the teachings of Siyyid ʻAlí Muḥammad who was the founder of Bábísm, and one of three central figures of the Baháʼí Faith.He was a merchant from Shíráz, Persia, who at the age of twenty-four (on 23 May 1844) claimed to be the promised Qá'im (or Mahdi).
Denis MacEoin, in his book The Sources for Early Bābī Doctrine and History, mentions several points that he deems as flaws in the book, writing "lack of an introduction, the virtual absence of notes, and the failure to indicate identity, provenance, condition, and location of manuscripts used or the reasons for their choice... no indication as to whether a given passage was translated on the ...
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.
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
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