Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Arabic calligraphy reading Fatimah az-Zahra. Fatimah was the daughter of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad , and is greatly revered by Muslims, often under the extended name Fatimah az-Zahra' , فاطمة الزهراء , or Fatimah Zahra' , فاطمة زهراء .
The origin of the word is unclear; Walker (1935) suggested the name of the city of Zara in northern Iran, or alternatively the Arabic root z-w-r "to visit" (for the possessing spirit "visiting" the victim). The Encyclopedia of Islam of 1934 favoured an Ethiopian origin of the word. [16]
is the conjunctive form "ruin of" (خربة) of the Arabic word for "ruin" (خرب, khirba, kharab ("ruined")) All pages with titles containing Khirbet; All pages with titles containing Khirbat; All pages with titles containing Khurbet; All pages with titles containing Kharab; Ksar, qsar, plural: ksour, qsour Maghrebi Arabic; See "Qasr"
Al-Zarah was a port town located in the area of the al-Qatif oasis, near the coast of the Persian Gulf. [1] In the early Islamic period it was considered to be part of the region of al-Bahrayn, which then encompassed much of the eastern Arabian shoreline and adjacent territories, [2] and mentions of it were included in accounts of the area by geographers such as Ibn al-Faqih (fl. 902) and Ibn ...
Zara'a (Arabic: الزارة also spelled Zara or Zarah) is a Syrian village located in the Hirbnafsah Subdistrict in Hama District. It is situated along the banks of the Orontes River. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Zara'a had a population of 929 in the 2004 census. [1] The village is mainly inhabited by Alawites. [2]
Al-Zarah (Arabic: الزارة, romanized: al-Zārah, also spelled Zara) is a village in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located west of Homs. Nearby localities include district center Talkalakh to the south, Aridah to the southeast, Hadidah to the east, al-Husn and Anaz to the northeast, Zweitinah to the ...
Shadoof or shaduf comes from the Arabic word شادوف, šādūf. It is also called a lift, [4] well pole, well sweep, or simply a sweep in the US. [2] A less common English translation is swape. [3] Picotah (or picota) is a Portuguese loan word. It is also called a jiégāo (桔槹) in Chinese.
The word alem came to be applied to the decoration at the top of the flagpole. [10] The word also came to be applied to the architectural device which caps a minaret, dome of a mosque or minber (pulpit). [citation needed] It may incorporate an Islamic emblem of the crescent (with star), a tulip or other shape.