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Kamal Al Taweel (1922–2003), [31] one of her distinguished collaborators, indicated in a TV interview that as far as music composers were concerned Nagat El Saghira was the best performer in the Arab world. [23] [32] Mohamed Abdel Wahab, the most prominent 20th-century Egyptian composer, felt his works were safest with Nagat. He described her ...
Yahya (Arabic: يحيى, romanized: Yaḥyā), also spelled Yehya, is an Arabic male given name.It is an [a] Arabic form of the given name John, originally Aramaic Yohanan (Yəhôḥānān יְהוֹחָנָן "YHWH is gracious"), i.e. primarily John the Baptist, who is known as Yahya ibn Zakariyya in Islam, and is considered a prophet in Islam.
Lamiyyat al-'Arab. The Lāmiyyāt al-‘Arab (the L-song of the Arabs) is the pre-eminent poem in the surviving canon of the pre-Islamic 'brigand-poets' (sa'alik). The poem also gained a foremost position in Western views of the Orient from the 1820s onwards. [1] The poem takes its name from the last letter of each of its 68 lines, L (Arabic ل ...
Najat Abdul Samad, alternative spelling Najat Abed Alsamad, ( Arabic: نجاة عبد الصمد, romanized: Najāt ʻAbd al-Ṣamad, born 1967, As-Suwayda, Syria ), is a Syrian Druze fiction writer, poet and gynecologist. She has published several novels, including La Ma' Yarweeha ( No Water to quench their Thirst), winner of the 2018 Katara ...
Al-Nijat min al-Qarq fi Bahr al-Zalalaat ( Arabic: النجاة من الغرق في بحر الضلالات, transl. salvation from falling into the sea of misguidances) known as Al-Nijat is one of the most famous philosophical works of the Persian sage Avicenna (ibn Sīnā, 980-1037). The general theme of the book is philosophy and includes ...
In 850 C.E. Al-Mutawakkil brought Yahya from one of the Abbasid provinces in order to punish him, after he had reportedly assembled a group of supporters. Umar ibn Faraj al-Rukhkhaj Al-Sijistani [4] (one of the Abbasid's official secretaries who had purchased land for the founding of Samarra) [5] flogged him 18 lashes and he was incarcerated in ...
Hamas. Al-Qassam Brigades. Yahya Abd-al-Latif Ayyash (Arabic: يحيى عياش, romanized: Yaḥyā ʿAyyāš, pronounced [jaħjaː ʕajːaʃ]; 6 March 1966 – 5 January 1996) was the chief bombmaker of Hamas and the leader of the West Bank battalion of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. In that capacity, he earned the nickname " the Engineer ...
Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (1801–1873). Egyptian scholar Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (1801–1873) is widely seen as the pioneering figure of the Nahda. He was sent to Paris in 1826 by Muhammad Ali's government to study Western sciences and educational methods, although originally to serve as Imam for the Egyptian cadets training at the Paris military academy.