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- (from the article "Pakistan") ...and the prime minister's office vacant, it was the army that ensured a smooth transition to still another caretaker government. Senate chairman Wasim Sajjad assumed the office of president, and ...
- qurra'
- ', professional class of reciters of the text of the Muslim sacred scripture, the Qur'an. In the early Islamic community, Muhammad's divine revelations had often been memorized by his Companions ...
- Qusayr 'Amra
- (from the article "astronomical map") ...celestial map, which furnishes a remarkable connecting link between the classical representation of the constellations and the later Islamic forms, is painted in the dome of a bath house at ...
- Qusayy ibn Kilab
- (from the article "Arabia, history of") ...hands of Jurhum, a people living on the central west coast recorded in Greco-Latin sources as Gorrhamites. But sometime about AD 500 ("five generations before the Prophet Muhammad") Qusayy ibn ...
- Qushayri
- (from the article "Islamic arts") ...language (thereby contributing to the profundity of Arabic vocabulary), and the handbooks of religious teaching produced in eastern Arab and Persian areas (Sarraj, Kalabadhi, Qushayri, and, in Muslim India, al-Hujwiri) ...
- qussa
- (from the article "Islamic arts") ...sermons, which were delivered by governors of the provinces. In these khutbahs, however, political considerations frequently overshadow the religious and literary aspects. The qussas (storytellers), who interpreted verses from the ...
- Qutaybah ibn Muslim
- Arab general under the caliphs 'Abd al-Malik and 'Abd al-Walid I whose conquests in Afghanistan and Central Asia helped bring the Umayyad caliphate to the height of its power.
- Qutb Minar
- (from the article "South Asian arts") ...was built in front to give the building an Islamic aspect, but its rich floral decoration and corbelled (supported by brackets projecting from the wall) arches are Indian in character. ...
- Qutb Shahi Dynasty
- (1518-1687), Muslim rulers of the kingdom of Golconda in the southeastern Deccan of India, one of the five successor states of the Bahmani kingdom. The founder was Quli Qutb Shah, ... [3 Related Articles]
- Qutb, Sayyid
- (from the article "Islamic world") ...the Jama'at-i Islami, opposed both secular and religious nationalism and argued for the Islamization of society and an Islamic alternative to nationalism. In Egypt, Sayyid Qutb and Hasan al-Banna', who ...
- Qutb-ud-Din Aybak
- a founder of Muslim rule in India and an able general of Mu'izz-ud-Din Muhammad of Ghur. [4 Related Articles]
- Quthing
- village, southern Lesotho. The surrounding area, which borders South Africa (southeast and west) and the Orange River (north), is predominantly agricultural (with subsistence farming of wheat, corn [maize], and sorghum) ...
- Quthing
- (from the article "Quthing") ...and goats), which produce wool and mohair for export. A large portion of the adult male population may be absent from the region at any given time, working in the ...
- Qutlugh Inanj
- (from the article "Eldeguzid Dynasty") ...their territories in Iran as far south as Isfahan and northward in the Caucasus to the borders of Shirvan and Georgia. In 1191 the Seljuq sultan Toghril III defeated and ...
- Qutuz, al-Muzaffar Sayf al-Din
- (from the article "Baybars I") Having angered the first Mamluk sultan, Aybak, Baybars fled with other Mamluk leaders to Syria and stayed there until 1260, when they were welcomed back to Egypt by the third ...
- Quwat-ul-Islam mosque
- (from the article "South Asian arts") ...of Islamic architecture to survive in the subcontinent date from the closing years of the 12th century; they are located at Delhi, the main seat of Muslim power throughout the ...
- quxiang pipa
- (from the article "pipa") The direct ancestor of the contemporary pipa is the quxiang ("curved-neck") pipa, which traveled from Persia by way of the Silk Road and reached western China in ...
- Quyunjik
- (from the article "Nineveh") ...British Museum and discovered the site of the palace of Ashurnasirpal II. In 1931-32, together with M.E.L. (later Sir Max) Mallowan, Thompson for the first time dug a shaft from ...
- Quzhou
- city, western Zhejiang sheng (province), China. Quzhou has been a natural transportation centre since ancient times, being situated on the upper stream of the Fuchun River-there known ...
- Qwaqwa
- former nonindependent Bantustan, Orange Free State, South Africa, designated for the southern Sotho (often called Basuto) people. Located in a section of the Drakensberg, Qwaqwa was a glen among mountains ... [1 Related Articles]
- Qyzylorda
- (from the article "Kazakhstan") ...industrialized areas, such as Qaraghandy province, because Soviet authorities never seriously made environmental protection a high priority. In the vicinity of the Aral Sea, and especially in Qyzylorda (Kzyl-Orda) and ...
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