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  2. List of Muslim Nobel laureates - Wikipedia

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    Islam, Orientalism and Intellectual History: Modernity and the Politics of Exclusion since Ibn Khaldun (Library of Middle East History) by Mohammad R. Salama ISBN 1-84885-005-0, 1848850050. [4] Orhan Pamuk and the Politics of Turkish Identity: From Islam to Istanbul by Erdag Goknar, ISBN 0-415-50538-0, 978-0415505383, Routledge Publication. [5]

  3. Geography and cartography in the medieval Islamic world

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    Islamic geography began in the 8th century, influenced by Hellenistic geography, [2] combined with what explorers and merchants learned in their travels across the Old World (Afro-Eurasia). [1]

  4. al-Maqdisi - Wikipedia

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    Al-Maqdisi made his first Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca) in 967. [3] During this period, he became determined to devote himself to the study of geography. [5] To acquire the necessary information, he undertook a series of journeys throughout the Islamic world, [5] [6] ultimately visiting all of its lands with the exception of al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula), Sindh and Sistan. [6]

  5. Abu Hanifa Dinawari - Wikipedia

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    Of Persian stock, [a] Dinawari was born in the (now ruined) town of Dinawar in modern-day western Iran.It had some importance due to its geographical location, serving as the entrance to the region of Jibal as well as a crossroad between the culture of Iran and that of the inhabitants on the other side of the Zagros Mountains.

  6. Adalah (Islam) - Wikipedia

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    In other word Adalah has a wide meaning as putting everything in their right places, so being The Most Merciful or The Sustainer get their meaning from Adalah. 2. Eschatology and Prophecy and Imamah as principles of the Shia Theology are closely related to Adalah. 3. At the beginning of Islam there was a conflict regarding the meaning of justice.

  7. Hisham ibn al-Kalbi - Wikipedia

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    Hishām ibn al-Kalbī (Arabic: هشام بن الكلبي), 737 AD – 819 AD/204 AH, also known as Ibn al-Kalbi (إبن الكلبي), was an Arab historian. [1] His full name was Abu al-Mundhir Hisham ibn Muhammad ibn al-Sa'ib ibn Bishr al-Kalbi.

  8. Islamic culture - Wikipedia

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    Islamic cultures or Muslim cultures refers to the historic cultural practices that developed among the various peoples living in the Muslim world.These practices, while not always religious in nature, are generally influenced by aspects of Islam, particularly due to the religion serving as an effective conduit for the inter-mingling of people from different ethnic/national backgrounds in a way ...

  9. Hasan al-Basri - Wikipedia

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    Farqad as-Sabakhi (d. 729), was an Armenian Christian convert to Islam. [15] Together with figures like as-Sabakhi and Rabia Basri (d. 801), Hasan began to publicly denounce the accumulation of riches by the wealthy; and it is said that he personally despised wealth to such a degree that he even "rejected a suitor for his daughter's hand who ...