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e. 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 other socio-cultural factors.
Islamic studies. v. t. e. In Islam, khums ( Arabic: خُمْس Arabic pronunciation: [xums], literally 'one fifth') refers to the required religious obligation of shia Muslims to pay 20% of their acquired wealth from certain sources toward specified causes. It is treated differently in Shia Islam. This tax is paid to the imam, caliph or sultan ...
The experiences of Muslim women (Arabic: مسلمات Muslimāt, singular مسلمة Muslimah) vary widely between and within different societies. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] At the same time, their adherence to Islam is a shared factor that affects their lives to a varying degree and gives them a common identity that may serve to bridge the wide cultural ...
Abu al-Aswad ad-Duʾali (Arabic: أَبُو ٱلْأَسْوَد ٱلدُّؤَلِيّ, Abū al-ʾAswad al-Duʾalīy; c.-16 BH/603 CE – 69 AH/689 CE), whose full name is ʾAbū al-Aswad Ẓālim ibn ʿAmr ibn Sufyān ibn Jandal ibn Yamār ibn Hīls ibn Nufātha ibn al-ʿĀdi ibn ad-Dīl ibn Bakr, [1] surnamed ad-Dīlī, or ad-Duwalī, was the poet companion of Ali bin Abu Talib and was one ...
The Byzantine sakellarios Theodore, [16] was placed in command of the army, and while in the area of Balqa, Arab tribes were also employed. [15] Meanwhile, Muhammad had sent his emissary to the ruler of Bostra. [17] While on his way to Bostra, he was executed in the village of Mu'tah by the orders of a Ghassanid official Shurahbil ibn Amr. [17]
History of the Arabs. Queen Zenobia, c. 240 – c. 274 CE) was a third-century queen of the Palmyrene Empire in Syria. One of several ancient female rulers in antiquity of Arab origin. Depicted as empress on the obverse of an antoninianus (272 CE). The recorded history of the Arabs begins in the mid-9th century BCE, which is the earliest known ...
t. e. Hadith[ b] ( Arabic: حديث, romanized : ḥadīth) or Athar ( Arabic: أثر, ʾAṯar, lit. 'remnant' or 'effect') [ 4] is a form of Islamic oral tradition containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the prophet Muhammad. Each hadith is associated with a chain of narrators (a lineage of people who reportedly ...
Alanine transaminase ( ALT ), also known as alanine aminotransferase ( ALT or ALAT ), formerly serum glutamate-pyruvate transaminase ( GPT) or serum glutamic-pyruvic transaminase ( SGPT ), is a transaminase enzyme ( EC 2.6.1.2) that was first characterized in the mid-1950s by Arthur Karmen and colleagues. [ 1]