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  2. Tandok dance - Wikipedia

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    Tandok dance has a deep message about the close family ties in the Batak land. In addition, the Tandok dance also depicts the Batak people who have always lived as an agrarian nation, a nation that is closely related to planting culture and respecting nature such as respecting their ancestors.

  3. Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires

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    The United Arab States was a short-lived confederation of the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria) and North Yemen from 1958 to 1961. [15]The title of the book refers to Arabs without using the definite article "the" (Arabs instead of the Arabs) because, according to the author, the meaning of the word has repeatedly changed over time, making it "misleading" to use. [16]

  4. Dance in Indonesia - Wikipedia

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    Papuan tumbu tanah dance. Prior to their contact with the outer world the people of the Indonesian archipelago had already developed their own styles of dancing, still somewhat preserved by those who resist outside influences and choose tribal life in the interior of Sumatra (example: Batak, Nias, Mentawai), of Kalimantan/Borneo (example: Dayak, Punan, Iban), of Java (example: Baduy), of ...

  5. Arabization - Wikipedia

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    Arabization or Arabicization (Arabic: تعريب, romanized: taʻrīb) is a sociological process of cultural change in which a non-Arab society becomes Arab, meaning it either directly adopts or becomes strongly influenced by the Arabic language, culture, literature, art, music, and ethnic identity as well as

  6. Saj' - Wikipedia

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    Saj' has an accentual meter, meaning that its meter is defined by the number of stressed syllables per line. [20] The length of one clause or phrase ( sajʿah ) is equal or nearly equal in length to its partner clause, a property that has been called "balance" ( iʿtidāl ), and the number of words in a clause closely corresponds to its number ...

  7. Tortor - Wikipedia

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    Tortor (Batak: ᯖᯬᯒ᯲ᯖᯬᯒ᯲) is a traditional Batak dance originating from North Sumatra, Indonesia.This dance was originally a ritual and sacred dance performed at funerals, healing ceremonies, and other traditional Batak ceremonies.

  8. Nawadir al-Ayk - Wikipedia

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    Nawāḍir ʾal-ʾAyk fī Maʿrifat al-Nayk (Arabic: نواضر الأيك في معرفة النيك, "The Thicket's Blooms of Gracefulness on the Art of the Fleshly Embrace") [1] is an Arabic manuscript allegedly attributed to Islamic scholar Al-Suyuti in the late fourteen century, a summary of an earlier one written by the author, Al ...

  9. Al Thaqafa - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] Al Thaqafa was among the publications which supported Islamic Arab culture in Egypt. [4] It published literary work, cultural articles, translations from Turkish, Persian, English, French and Indian and book reviews. [5] In the 1940s one of the contributors was Mohammad Abd Al Bari who published articles on the political dimensions of ...