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243. Awards. International Booker Prize. ISBN. 1912240165 (Sandstone Press) Celestial Bodies ( Arabic: سيدات القمر, romanized : Sayyidat al-Qamar, lit. 'Ladies of the Moon') is a 2010 novel by Omani author Jokha Alharthi. The novel follows the lives of three sisters and their unhappy marriages in al-Awafi, Oman. [ 1][ 2]
Al-Kindi was born in Kufa to an aristocratic family of the Arabian tribe of the Kinda, descended from the chieftain al-Ash'ath ibn Qays, a contemporary of Muhammad. [19] The family belonged to the most prominent families of the tribal nobility of Kufa in the early Islamic period, until it lost much of its power following the revolt of Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath. [20]
The general consensus among 14th-century Arab genealogists is that Arabs are of three kinds: . Al-Arab al-Ba'ida (Arabic: العرب البائدة), "The Extinct Arabs", were an ancient group of tribes in pre-Islamic Arabia that included the ‘Ād, the Thamud, the Tasm, the Jadis, thelaq (who included branches of Banu al-Samayda), and others.
Jinn ( Arabic: جِنّ ), also romanized as djinn or anglicized as genies, are invisible creatures in early pre-Islamic Arabia and later in Islamic culture and beliefs. [ 1] Like humans, they are accountable for their deeds and can be either believers ( Muslims) or disbelievers ( kafir ), depending on whether they accept God 's guidance.
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 ...
A. Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib; Abd al-Muttalib; Abu al-As ibn Umayya; Abu Bara; Abu Lahab; Abu Quhafa; Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib; Abu Ya'fur ibn Alqama; Affan ibn Abi al-As
The Mu'allaqat ( Arabic: المعلقات, [al-muʕallaqaːt]) is the name given to a series of seven Arabic poems or qasida that originated before the time of Islam. Each poem in the set has a different author, and is considered to be their best work. Mu'allaqat means "The Suspended Odes" or "The Hanging Poems," and comes from the poems being ...
Costco’s crackdown on non-members comes after the company announced last month that it was raising its membership fees by $5 to $65 in the US and Canada – the first time since 2017. The change ...