make and mend
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
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make and mend, a half-day's holiday on board ship. The term originates from the custom of relieving men from ship's duties on one afternoon each week to give them a chance to make and mend their clothing.
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sailors' dress.
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Islamic modernism in South Asia: A reassessment
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Orthodoxy; As churches are bombed and children perish, our academics remain treasonously silent.
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The image of the prophet as found in missionary writings of the late nineteenth century
Magazine article from: The Muslim World; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Indian regions. Such Westerners as A. Sprenger and Sir William Muir utilized the manuscripts found in libraries...as well as through the writings of such scholars as Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan and Sayyid Amir 'Ali. T. P. Hughes Although no scholarly...
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Philosophy and Religion--Rethinking Tradition in Modern Islamic Thought
Magazine article from: The Middle East Journal; 7/1/1997; ; 700+ words
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Rethinking Tradition in Modern Islamic Thought
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Introduction
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The British Raj in India: An Historical Review.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 9/22/1997; ; 700+ words
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Contemporary Muslim understanding of the miracles of Jesus
Magazine article from: The Muslim World; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words
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Gender in an Allegorical Life of Muhammad: Mahfouz's Children of Gebelawi
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Contemporary Debates In Islam
Newspaper article from: Domes; 12/31/2002; ; 700+ words
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Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Ahmad Khan, Sir Sayyid
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
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Pakistan
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
...largely through reformers such as Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan and Muhammad Iqbal , organizations...University of Aligarh (founded by Khan), and the Muslim League . Under...death of Jinnnah and then Liaquat Ali Khan , so that Pakistan continued to be...
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Khaliq Ahmad Nizami
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...group of works devoted to Sayyid Ahmad Khan, the founder of the Aligarh...life and times of Sayyid Ahmad and the history of the...collection of poems about Sayyid Ahmad and some of his associates...served as director of the Sir Syed Academy, one of whose
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