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A Abbad Abbas (name) Abd al-Uzza Abdus Salam (name) Abd Manaf (name) Abd Rabbo Abdel Fattah Abdel Nour Abdi Abdolreza Abdu Abdul Abdul Ahad Abdul Ali Abdul Alim Abdul Azim Abd al-Aziz Abdul Baqi Abdul Bari Abdul Basir Abdul Basit Abdul Ghaffar Abdul Ghani Abdul Hadi Abdul Hafiz Abdul Hai Abdul Hakim Abdul Halim Abdul Hamid Abdul Haq Abdul Hussein Abdul Jabbar Abdul Jalil Abdul Jamil Abdul ...
However, not all Arab countries use the name in its full length, but conventionally use two- and three-word names, and sometimes four-word names in official or legal matters. Thus the first name is the personal name, the middle name is the father's name and the last name is the father's family name.
Khalil or Khaleel (Arabic: خليل) means friend and is a common male first name in the Middle East, the Caucasus, the Balkans, North Africa, West Africa, East Africa, Central Asia and among Muslims in South Asia and as such is also a common surname. It is also used amongst Turkic peoples of Russia and African Americans.
Where girls' tahýas were softer and decorated with different colorful patterns, men's tahýas had restrained, simple patterns. Men put the tahýa on their shaved heads. [citation needed] Among Iranian Turkmens, specially in Turkmensahra, it is called بوریک (börük) and is now only used by men. Most wear a completely white cap in everyday ...
Although the concept of "Islamic art" has been put into question by some modern art historians as a construct of Western cultural views, [9] [10] [11] the similarities between art produced at widely different times and places in the Muslim world, especially in the Islamic Golden Age, have been sufficient to keep the term in wide use as a useful ...
The Third Intermediate Period generally sees a return to archaic Egyptian styles, with particular reference to the art of the Old and Middle Kingdom. [60] The art of the period essentially consists in traditional Egyptian styles, reintroduced for unknown reasons as early as Shoshenq V or Osorkon III, [61] sometimes with the inclusion of some ...
In the post-colonial era, artists working in North Africa and the Middle East transformed Arabic calligraphy into a modern art movement, known as the Hurufiyya movement. [35] Artists working in this style use calligraphy as a graphic element within contemporary artwork. [36] [37] The term, hurufiyya is derived from the Arabic term, harf for letter.
In North Africa and the Middle East, eyelet stitch is made using a spoked wheel pattern of stitches, or in the Algerian form without an enclosing circle. In Turkmenistan, hook and tulip motifs could be worked in buttonhole stitch. In Afghanistan, men's shirts could be embroidered with herringbone and buttonhole stitches in white silk on white ...