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COIN FROM ABBASID ERA OF HAROUN AL-RASHID DISCOVERED
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According to IINA, a gold Dinar going back to the Abbasid era of
Haroun Al-Rashid has been discovered. It is was minted in year 181 of
the Hijri calendar, and bears the name of the First Minister of the
Abbasid State, Ja'afar bin Yahya Al-Barmaky. The secretary-general of
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COIN FROM ABBASID ERA OF HAROUN AL-RASHID DISCOVERED
Info-Prod Research (Middle East)
; According to IINA, a gold Dinar going back to the Abbasid era of Haroun Al-Rashid has been discovered. It is was minted in year 181 of the Hijri calendar, and bears the name of the First Minister of the Abbasid State, Ja'afar bin Yahya Al-Barmaky. The secretary-general of the Supreme Council of
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Unearthed in Iraq: (WILD ART).(World)
The Washington Times
; Muayed Said Damerji, Iraq's antiquities director, shows an intricately carved jar discovered at Tikrit. The jar, which went on display yesterday in Baghdad, is from the Abbasid era, starting in A.D. 750.
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Sculptor at work in war-torn Iraq.(WORLD)
The Christian Science Monitor
; Byline: Sam Dagher Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Baghdad -- Nida Kadhim's eight statues of physicians from the Abbasid era - a golden age that spanned five centuries beginning in AD 750 - once adorned Baghdad hospitals. Along with many of his other distinctive bronze works, they
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The Construction of Knowledge in Islamic Civilization: Qudama b. Ja'far and his Kitab al-kharaj wa-sina'at al-kitaba.(Book Review)
The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; The Construction of Knowledge in Islamic Civilization: Qudama b. Ja'far and his Kitab al-kharaj wa-sina'at al-kitaba. By PAUL L. HECK. Leiden: BRILL, 2002. Pp. 283, $124. In this work, Paul Heck offers an important contribution to our understanding of the emergence of the scribal class during the
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Arabs, Persians, and the advent of the Abbasids reconsidered.
The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; The Abbasid revolution, as R. Stephen Humphreys has observed, is one of the very few topics in Islamic historical studies to have engendered a substantial scholarly literature. (1) That literature continues to expand rapidly, as evidenced directly or indirectly by a wealth of recent publications,
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Reconstituting women's lives: Gender and the poetics of narrative in medieval biographical collections
The Muslim World
; The two well-known biographical works used in this study are the Kitab al-Tabaqat al-kubra by Muhammad Ibn Sa'd (d. 230/844-45)1 and al-Isaba fi tamyfz al-sab aba by Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani (d. 852/1449).2 A third biographical work occasionally referred to in this study is al-Ista'ab fi ma'rifat
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Arabic Poet Al-Mutanabbi: A Maslovian Humanistic Approach
PSYART
; ... Baghdad, revealed that he had written her to announce his return after a long absence, and she had died upon receiving this joyful news: Oh how you are bereaved of your beloved Victim of a passion that carries no disgrace. I forbid my heart happiness, for her death ...
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Excellence and Precedence: Medieval Islamic Discourse on Legitimate Leadership.(Excellence and Precedence: Medieval Islamic Discourse on Legitimate Leadership, Islamic History and Civilizations, Studies and Texts, vol. 36)(Book Review)
The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; Excellence and Precedence: Medieval Islamic Discourse on Legitimate Leadership. By ASMA AFSARUDDIN. Islamic History and Civilizations, Studies and Texts, vol. 36. Leiden: BRILL, 2002. Pp. x + 310. $124. Scholars of Islamic history should breathe a communal sigh of relief with the appearance of
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Shari'a and Islamic family law: transition and transformation.(Critical essay)
Ahfad Journal
; Abstract This paper is an introduction to the book Islamic family law in a changing world edited by professor Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im. The introduction offers an overview of the nature and development of Shari'a in general and a clarification of the context in which the terms Shari'a and 'Islamic
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THE WEST, MEDITERRANEAN ISLAM AND THE SEARCH FOR A NEW BEGINNING.
Middle East Policy
; ... Much of the return to an activist religious faith by Muslims worldwide should be understood by American conservatives to be good news. The Islamic revival has largely purged Muslim countries (with the notable exceptions of Syria and Iraq) of the socialist nationalism ...
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