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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 ...
Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Abi Sahl Abu Bakr al-Sarakhsi (Persian: محمد بن احمد بن ابي سهل ابو بكر السرخسي), was a Persian jurist and also an Islamic scholar of the Hanafi school of thought. He was traditionally known as Shams al-A'imma (شمس الأئمة; transl. The sun of the leaders). [1]
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.
Radd al-Shams (Arabic: ردّالشمس; returning of the Sun ) is believed by Muslims to be a miracle in which Muhammad asked God to return the sun to its position before sunset, so that Ali could have enough time to say his Asr prayer. According to some sources Radd al-shams also took place in the time of some other prophets .
The Damascus Gate is one of the main Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem. [1] It is located in the wall on the city's northwest side and connects to a highway leading out to Nablus, which in the Hebrew Bible was called Shechem or Sichem, and from there, in times past, to the capital of Syria, Damascus; as such, its modern English name is the Damascus Gate, and its modern Hebrew name is Sha'ar ...
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 .
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
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]