Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Bab al-Shams (Arabic: باب الشمس Bāb aš-Šams: Gate of the Sun) was a Palestinian encampment in the West Bank that housed 250 Palestinian and foreign activists for two nights in January 2013. They erected 25 tents on private Palestinian land [1] in the E1 area where Israel has decided to build more than 3500 housing units. [2]
Bab al-Mu'adham (Arabic: باب المعظم), also known as Bab al-Sultan, [2] was located at the beginning of the Al-Muadi Street nearby the Abu Hanifa Mosque in Adhamiyah district. The remains of the gate no longer exist as they were demolished after the Allied capture of Baghdad.
Bab al-Wastani is located north of where Bab al-Talsim once stood. [8] When Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent ordered a map to be made of Baghdad in 1534, Bab al-Talsim wasn't included despite the details of the map. [4] In 1638, Ottoman Sultan Murad IV conquered Baghdad, he entered through the gate and had it sailed and closed off. [9] During ...
The Gate of Sun (Arabic: باب الشمس, translit. Bab el shams, French: La Porte du soleil) is a 2004 French-Egyptian war film directed by Yousry Nasrallah and based on the novel by Elias Khoury. It was screened out of competition at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. [1]
Bilad al-Sham (Arabic: بِلَاد الشَّام, romanized: Bilād al-Shām), often referred to as Islamic Syria or simply Syria in English-language sources, was a province of the Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, and Fatimid caliphates. It roughly corresponded with the Byzantine Diocese of the East, conquered by the Muslims in 634–647. Under ...
Bab al-Sheikh (Arabic: باب الشيخ, romanized: The Gate of the Sheikh) is an old neighborhood in the Rusafa side of Baghdad, Iraq. It is notable for being the location of the mausoleum of Sufi Sheikh Abd al-Qadir al-Gilani, founder of the Qadiriyya Order. The area is located in Bab al-Sharqi and next to al-Khilani Square.
The Umm Burayrah inscription (also known as the Abd Shams inscription) is a Paleo-Arabic inscription discovered in the Tabuk Province of northwestern Saudi Arabia.Among Paleo-Arabic inscriptions it contains a unique invocation formula, a prayer for forgiveness, and the personal name ʿAbd Shams (ʿAbd Šams).
The Mashhad Radd al-Shams (Arabic: مشهد رد الشمس, romanized: Mashhad Radd al-Shams, lit. 'Shrine of the Return of the Sun' is a mosque located in Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq. It marks the spot where, according to local tradition, the sun stopped for Ali ibn Abi Talib when his followers missed the obligatory Asr prayer. [1] [2] [3] [4]