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The Quran, [ c] also romanized Qur'an or Koran, [ d] is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God ( Allah ). It is organized in 114 chapters ( surah, pl. suwer) which consist of individual verses ( ayat ). Besides its religious significance, it is widely regarded as the finest work in Arabic ...
Muhammad used the word Allah to indicate the Islamic conception of God. Allah has been used as a term for God by Muslims (both Arab and non-Arab), Judaeo-Arabic -speaking Jews, and Arab Christians [ 11 ] after the terms " al - ilāh " and "Allah" were used interchangeably in Classical Arabic by the majority of Arabs who had become Muslims.
Waki' ibn al-Jarrah. al-Shafi'i. all Hanafis. Abu Hanifa[ a] ( Arabic: أَبُو حَنِيفَة, romanized : Abū Ḥanīfa; September 699–767) [ 5] was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, theologian, ascetic, [ 3] and eponym of the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence, which remains the most widely practiced to this day. [ 3]
Musical artist. Nur Suhada binti Jebat (born 17 March 1992), better known by her stage name, Ayda Jebat, is a Malaysian singer and actress. [1] She was a participant of the ninth season of Akademi Fantasia. She became known to many through the drama Rindu Awak 200% (2014). Her film credits include Gila-Gila Remaja 2 (2013) and Pinjamkan Hatiku ...
One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabic: أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ ʾAlf Laylah wa-Laylah) [ 1] is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English-language edition ( c. 1706–1721 ), which ...
— Malala Yousafzai, 24 January 2009 BBC blog entry In February 2009, girls' schools were still closed. In solidarity, private schools for boys had decided not to open until 9 February, and notices appeared saying so. On 7 February, Yousafzai and her brother returned to their hometown of Mingora, where the streets were deserted, and there was an "eerie silence". She wrote in her blog: "We ...
All the Light We Cannot See is a 2014 war novel by American author Anthony Doerr.The novel is set during World War II.It revolves around the characters Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a blind French girl who takes refuge in her great-uncle's house in Saint-Malo after Paris is invaded by Nazi Germany, and Werner Pfennig, a bright German boy who is accepted into a military school because of his skills in ...
John Lissauer. " Hallelujah " is a song written by Canadian singer Leonard Cohen, originally released on his album Various Positions (1984). Achieving little initial success, [ 1] the song found greater popular acclaim through a new version recorded by John Cale in 1991. Cale's version inspired a 1994 recording by Jeff Buckley that in 2004 was ...