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Astrolabe with angular scale : The astrolabe, originally invented some time between 200 and 150 BC, was further developed in the medieval Islamic world, where Muslim astronomers introduced angular scales to the design, [10] adding circles indicating azimuths on the horizon.
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Head-office Building, Jeddah. The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC; Arabic: منظمة التعاون الإسلامي, romanized: Munaẓẓamat at-Taʿāwun al-ʾIslāmī; French: Organisation de la coopération islamique), formerly the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, is an intergovernmental organization founded in 1969.
Knight fought for a press free of prior restraint or intimidation, frequently resisting the attempts by governments, business interests and cultural spokesmen, and led the paper to national prominence. [30] [31] In the 19th century, this newspaper company employed more than 800 people and had a sizeable circulation in India and Europe.
The Conica of Apollonius of Perga, "the great geometer", translated into Arabic in the ninth century Chemistry. 801 – 873: al-Kindi writes on the distillation of wine as that of rose water and gives 107 recipes for perfumes, in his book Kitab Kimia al-'otoor wa al-tas`eedat (Book of the Chemistry of Perfumes and Distillations.) [citation needed]
Compact (stylized COMPACT, published with the subtitle "Magazine for Sovereignty" (German: Magazin für Souveränität) since October 2013) is a German media outlet, based on a monthly magazine. Compact is a popular magazine of the far-right in Germany. It united different right-wing political milieus through strategic topic setting. [1]
In England, there are only five state-funded Muslim schools; this is in contrast to 4,716 state-funded Christian schools. [44] However, there are around 100 private Muslim schools which can instruct on religious education independent of the National Curriculum. In France, on the other hand, there are only two private Muslim schools.
Charlie Hebdo (French: [ʃaʁli ɛbdo]; French for 'Charlie Weekly') is a French satirical weekly magazine, [4] featuring cartoons, [5] reports, polemics, and jokes. The publication has been described as anti-racist, [6] sceptical, [7] secular, libertarian [8] and within the tradition of left-wing radicalism, [9] [10] publishing articles about the far-right (especially the French nationalist ...
Mawlid (Arabic: مولد) is an annual festival and holiday commemorating the birthday of Muhammad on the traditional date of 12 Rabi al-Awwal, the third month of the Islamic calendar.