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Topic: House of Banu Khalid


  
  Islamic History
This is what Khalid ibn al-Walid would grant to the inhabitants of Damascus if he enters therein: he promises to give them security for their lives, property and churches.
Later a director of the House of Wisdom, Hunayn also wrote at least twenty-nine original treatises of his own on medical topics, and a collection of ten essays on ophthalmology which covered, in systematic fashion, the anatomy and physiology of the eye and the treatment of various diseases which afflict vision.
The scholars at the House of Wisdom, unlike their modern counterparts, did not "specialize." Al-Razi, for example, was a philosopher and a mathematician as well as a physician and al-Kindi, the first Muslim philosopher to use Aristotelian logic to support Islamic dogma, also wrote on logic, philosophy, geometry, calculation, arithmetic, music, and astronomy.
www.ajjur.net /islamic%20history.htm   (21015 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Ibn Khaldun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
However, the autobiography has little to say about his private life, so that little is known about his family background.
Generally known as Ibn Khaldun after a remote ancestor, he was born in Tunis in 732 A.H. (1332 C.E.) into an upper-class Andalusian family, the Banu Khaldun.
His family, which held many high offices in Andalucia, had emigrated to Tunisia after the fall of Seville at the beginning of the Reconquista, around the middle of the 13th century.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Ibn_Khaldun   (2833 words)

  
 Phoenicia, Phoenician Christians, The First Converts Outside the Jews
In 634 the Arab forces won a decisive victory at Ajnadayn, and Damascus surrendered to Khalid ibn-al-Waleed in September 635.
The Christian tribes of Banu Tanuh, which counted 5000 fighters, were forced to embrace Islam.
Christians and Jews were enjoined to affix wooden images of devils to their houses, level their graves even with the ground, wear outer garments of yellow color, and ride only on mules and asses with wooden saddles marked by two pomegranates-like balls on the cantle.
www.phoenicia.org /xtian.html   (8539 words)

  
 Urdu Encyclopedia Article @ QuiltPlace.com (Quilt Place)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The best-known afsāna writers, or afsāna nigār, in Urdū are Saadat Hasan Manto, Qurat-ul-Ain Haider, Munshi Premchand, Ismat Chughtai, Krishan Chander, Ghulam Abbas, Banu Qudsia and Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi.
Munshi Premchand, became known as a pioneer in the afsāna, though some contend that his were not technically the first as Sir Ross Masood had already written many short stories in Urdū.
A house divided: The origin and development of Hindi-Hindustani.
www.quiltplace.com /encyclopedia/Urdu   (4940 words)

  
 Welcome to IslamVision.org
Once, when his Ansaari friend came to his house and knocked at his door so he could get in, 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) inquired of his friend if the Gassanids had attacked Madinah.
When the Prophet (Peace be upon him) encamped at al-Hjir, the land of Thamud, he told the companions that it was the country of those who were being tortured for their sins.
All the three felt forsaken and abandoned, and were confronted with loneliness that strikes one who's in a foreign land, for they themselves were treated as aliens in their own country.
www.islamvision.org /BattleofTabuk.asp   (4843 words)

  
 THE DOCTRINE OF Ahl Asunna -Fajr
Al-Shaykh Jamil Effendi al-Siqdi al-Zahawi was the son of the Mufti of Iraq and a descendant of Khalid ibn al-Walid.
Abu Bakr said concerning the Banu Hanifa (the tribe of Musaylima the Liar): "Their valley [Najd] will not cease to be a valley of dissensions until the end of time, and the religion will never recover from their liars until Judgment Day," and in another version: "Woe to al-Yamama without end."
There will not remain one house of the Arabs except that confusion will enter it.
www.sunnah.org /publication/fajr/fajr.htm   (8520 words)

  
 Jihad-Sakina Sources
As the Prophet's revelations granted permission for his marriages, the outspoken Aisha remarked (according to oral tradition), "It seems that God is hastening to satisfy your desires"-demonstrating Aisha's remarkable freedom as a woman.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, wife, servants, or cattle (a wife having intermediate status between cattle and property).
The commission had threatened to subpoena the documents, which cover daily briefings to the White House by the Central Intelligence Agency at around the time of the attacks two years ago.
www.dhushara.com /book/genesis/3in1/jihad2.htm   (10754 words)

  
 ISMM-Seminars 96-98
23/5/1997: Amnon Cohen (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), "Marginal milieu: the coffee houses of 18th century Jerusalem"
Khalid Fahmy (Princeton University), "Lawmakers and lawbreakers in 19th century Egypt: the role of the majlis al-ahkam (1850-1880)
Laura Bottini (Rome University), "Une famille imamite a Alep : les Banu Hashshab"
www.hf.uib.no /smi/eurames/ismm96-98.html   (7424 words)

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