trail
trail 1. An anterior extension of some brachiopod (
Brachiopoda) shells, usually at a large angle to the general plane of the posterior part of the shell.
2. A
biogenic sedimentary structure formed by the movement of snails, clams, or perhaps snakes over the
sediment surface, and classified with
tracks under the Scoyenia assemblage of
trace fossils.
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Dawn. (short story) (Indian Literatures: In the Fifth Decade of Independence)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 3/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...out victorious every time. One day, on returning from school, he asked, "Grandpa, do you know of Mahmud of Ghazna?" "Mahmud of Ghazna?" I stared at him, digging hard into my memory. He immediately struck a hard blow: "So, you don...
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Les saisons en enfer du jeune Ayyaz.(Review)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...two historical characters: Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna (d. 1030 A.D.) and his slave...legends began to develop about Mahmud and Ayaz, and soon in Persian Sufi...occurs when Ayaz falls in love with Mahmud and becomes "passive," turning...
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A tangled history.(The Shade of Swords: Jihad and tge Conflict Between Islam and Christianity)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Commonweal; 1/17/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...title, Akbar digresses to survey the history of jihad in India. Here he details the victories of warlords, such as Mahmud of Ghazna, over Hindu populations. In the context of Indian history, the author makes the briefest reference--a single...
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Fools Are Everywhere: The Court Jester around the World.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of World History; 12/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...court jester for the Qin dynasty (221-207 B.C.); the Persian jester Abu Bakr-e Robadi in the court of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna (r. 998-1030); the Song dynasty jester Ding Xianxian, "Immortal Revelation Ding," in the court of Emperor...
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The Experience of Islamic Art on the Margins of Islam
Magazine article from: The Muslim World; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...this narrative developed - beginning in 1,025 with Mahmud of Ghazna's destruction of the Shaiva temple at Somanatha and...Mosque at Ayodha in 1992. He shows how the memory of Mahmud's act of destruction as the "symbolic appropriation...
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Mahmud of Ghazna
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Mahmud of Ghazna , 971?-1030, Afghan...at Somnath in Gujarat. Mahmud's territorial gains lay...Afghanistan and in the Punjab. At Ghazna (see Ghazni ), his capital...Ghaznavid dynasty, which Mahmud founded, ruled over a reduced...
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Mahmud of Ghazni
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Reading The outstanding work on Mahmud and his times is Clifford Edmund...Nazim, The Life and Times of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna (1931). Edward G. Browne, A...1924), gives information on Mahmud's scholars. □
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Ghazni
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...inhabitants are Tajiks. The city, named Ghazna in ancient times, was flourishing...the Turkish Ghaznavid dynasty. Mahmud of Ghazna built a magnificent mosque, the...completed its downfall in 1221; Mahmud's tomb and two high columns outside...
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sultanate
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...x201D; is used in the KORAN and the traditions of the Prophet MUHAMMAD to mean “authority”. MAHMUD OF GHAZNA was the first Muslim ruler to be addressed as sultan by his contemporaries. The term thereafter became a general...
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Afghanistan
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...Arab conquest from the 7th century. The territory was converted to Islam and the most important Muslim ruler was Mahmud of Ghazna. The country was overrun by Mongols in 1222, only becoming united under an Afghan leader in 1747, when Ahmad Shah...
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