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Bacha bāzī ( Persian: بچه بازی, lit. 'boy play') [1] is a practice in which men (sometimes called bacha baz) buy and keep adolescent boys (sometimes called dancing boys) for entertainment and sex. [2] [3] It is a custom in Afghanistan and in historical Turkestan [citation needed] and often involves sexual slavery and child prostitution ...
Habib ( Arabic: حبيب, romanized :ḥabīb; Arabic pronunciation: [ħabiːb ] ), sometimes written as Habeeb, is an Arabic masculine given name, occasional surname, and honorific, with the meaning "beloved" [1] [2] or "my love", or "darling". [3] It also forms the famous Arabic word ‘ Habibi’ which is used to refer to a friend or a ...
Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī ( Persian: جلالالدین محمّد رومی ), or simply Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, Hanafi faqih (jurist), Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian ( mutakallim ), [9] and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran.
Muhammad [a] ( / moʊˈhɑːməd /; Arabic: مُحَمَّد, romanized :Muḥammad [mʊˈħæm.mæd]; c. 570 – 8 June 632 CE) [b] was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. [c] According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the monotheistic teachings of Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other prophets. [2] [3] [4] He ...
‘Abdu عبدُ as a prefix of names of God Following are names consisting of the appellation ʿabd al-, 'servant of' followed by one of the names associated with God in the Qur'an.
Islamic traditional use of the name goes back to the Islamic leader Ali ibn Abi Talib, but the name is also present among some pre-Islamic Arabs (e.g. Banu Hanifa, and some rulers of Saba and Himyar ). It is identical in form and meaning to the Hebrew: עֵלִי, Eli, which goes back to the High Priest Eli in the biblical Books of Samuel.
Omar / Umar / Omer is a masculine given name that has different origins in Arabic, Hebrew and German. Umar or Omar is a common name ( Arabic: عمر) in Arabic-speaking and Muslim populations in general. Omar is represented in Islamic traditions, meaning 'flourishing, long lived'. The name dates back to the emergence and military success of ...
Malik, Maleek, Malek or Malyk ( Arabic: مَالِك or مَلِك) ( Urdu & ( Persian ): مالک) ( / ˈmælɪk /) is a given name of Semitic origin. [1] It is both used as first name and surname originally mainly in Western Asia by Semitic speaking Christians, Muslims and Jews of varying ethnicities, before spreading to countries in the Caucasus, South Asia, Central Asia, North Africa and ...