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Arabian Peninsula: Encyclopedia - Arabian Peninsula

The Arabian Peninsula is a peninsula in Southwest Asia at the junction of Africa and Asia consisting mainly of desert. The Arabian peninula is an important part of the greater Middle East, and plays a critically important geopolitical role due to its vast reserves of oil and natural gas. The coasts of the peninsula touch, on the (south)west, the Red Sea and Gulf of Aqaba; on the south(eastern) coast, the Arabian Sea (part of the Indian Ocean); and on the northeast, the G ...

Arabian Peninsula: Encyclopedia - Arabian horse The Arabian horse first appeared in the Arabian Peninsula at least 2,500 years B.C.E. They were carefully bred to maintain desirable features (e.g. stamina, soundness, strength, and beauty), and are therefore one of the oldest, if not the oldest breeds in the world (this has been contested with the Barb and the Akhal Teke.) Arabian horse - Early history. According to the Bedouins, God created the Arabian horse from the South Wind, saying "I call you Horse; I make you ...

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Arabian horse - Arabian as a Sport Horse

Arabian Peninsula: Encyclopedia II - History of Sufism - Sufism in Indian subcontinent

Muslims of the Indian subcontinent prominently follow Chistiyya, Naqshbandiyya, Qadiriyya and Suharabardiyya orders. Of them the Chisti order is the most visible. Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, a disciple of Khwaja Abu Abdal Chishti, the propounder of this order introduced it in India. He came to India from Afghanistan with the army of Shihab-ud-Din Ghuri in 1192 AD and started living permanently in Ajmer since 1195. Centuries later, with the support of Mughal rulers, his shrine became a place of pilgrimage. Akbar used to visit the shrine every year ...

History of Sufism, History of Sufism - Sufism in Arabian peninsula, History of Sufism - Sufism in Persia, History of Sufism - Sufism in Turkey, History of Sufism - Sufism in Central Asia, History of Sufism - Sufism in Indian subcontinent, History of Sufism - Sufism in North Africa, History of Sufism - Sufism in Muslim Spain, History of Sufism - Sufism in East Asia, History of Sufism - Sufism in the west, History of Sufism - Sufism in 21st century, History of Sufism - Notes

Arabian Peninsula: Encyclopedia - Arabian Plate

The Arabian Plate is a continental tectonic plate covering the Arabian peninsula and extending northward to Turkey. The plate borders are: East, with the Indo-Australian Plate South, with the African Plate to the west and the Indo-Australian Plate to the east West, divergent boundary with the African Plate forming the northern part of the Great Rift Valley and the Red Sea rift zone. North, with the Eurasian Plate Other related archivesAfrican Pla

Arabian Peninsula: Encyclopedia - Arabian Sea

The Arabian Sea (Latin: Mare Erythraeum) is the part of the Indian Ocean bounded on the east by India, on the north by Baluchistan and Sind provinces of Pakistan and part of the southern Persian littoral, on the west by Arabian Peninsula, on the south, approximately, by a line between Cape Guardafui, the north-east point of Somalia, and Kanyakumari (Cape Comorin) in India. It was known as the Sindhu Sagar

Arabian Peninsula: Encyclopedia - Kathiawar

Kathiawar is a peninsula in western India. It is part of Gujarat state, bounded on the north by the great wetland of the Rann of Kutch, on the northwest by the Gulf of Kutch, on the west and south by the Arabian Sea, and on the southeast and east by the Gulf of Cambay. A person from Kathiawar is called Kathiawadi. The major cities of Kathiawar are Jamnagar on the Gulf of Kutch, Rajkot in the center of the peninsula, Bhavnagar on the Gulf of Cambay, Porbandar on the west coast, historic city of Junagadh on the South. Diu, an isl ...

Arabian Peninsula: Encyclopedia - Levant

Levant is an imprecise geographical term historically referring to a large area in the Middle East south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea on the west, and by the northern Arabian Desert and Upper Mesopotamia to the east. The Levant does not include the Caucasus Mountains, any part of the Arabian Peninsula proper, or Anatolia — although at times Cilicia may be included. The Sinai Peninsula may also be included, but may be excluded as a marginal area forming a land bridge between the Levant and northern Egypt. ...

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Arabian Peninsula: Encyclopedia - Iram of the Pillars

Iram of the Pillars (إرَم ذات العماد, Iram dhāt al-`imād), also called Ubar or Wabar or the City of a Thousand Pillars, is a lost city on the Arabian Peninsula. Ubar was mentioned in ancient records and was spoken of in folk tales as a trading center of the Rub al Khali Desert in the southern part of the Arabian peninsula. It is estimated that it lasted from about 3000 B.C to the first century A.D. It became, according to legends, fabulously wealthy from trade of the coastal regions to ...

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Iram of the Pillars - Re-Discovery of Ubar/Iram

Arabian Peninsula: Encyclopedia - Arabian mythology

Arabic Mythology is the ancient beliefs of the Arabs. Prior to the arrival and initial codification of Islam on the Arabian Peninsula in 622 CE, year one of the Islamic calendar, the physical centre of Islam, the Kaaba of Mecca, did not hold only the single symbol of "the God" as it does now. The Kaaba was instead covered in symbols representing the myriad demons, djinn, demigods and other assorted creatures which represented the profoundly polytheistic environment of pre-Islamic Arabia. We can infer from this plurality an exceptional ...

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Arabian mythology - Sources

Arabian Peninsula: Encyclopedia - Wasil ibn Ata

Wasil ibn Ata (700 - 748) was a Muslim theologian, and by some accounts is considered the founder of the Mutazilite school of Islamic thought. Born around the year 700 in the Arabian Peninsula, he initially studied under Jafar as-Sadiq. Later he would travel to Basra in Iraq to study under Hasan al-Basri. In Basra he began to develop the ideologies that would lead to the Mutazilite school. These stemmed from conflicts that many scholars had in resolving theology and politics. His main contribution to the Mutazilite school was in planting the seeds for the formation of its doctrine.

Arabian Peninsula: Encyclopedia - Bab-el-Mandeb

The Bab-el-Mandeb, alternatively Bab el Mandab, Bab al Mandab, or Bab al Mandeb means "Gate of Tears" in Arabic (باب المندب), is the strait separating the continents of Asia (Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula) and Africa (Djibouti, north of Somalia on the Horn of Africa), connecting the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean (Gulf of Aden). Note that some English maps simply state Mandab Strait to save space. It derives its name from the dangers attending its navigation, or, according to an Arab legend, f ...

Arabian Peninsula: Encyclopedia - Yemen

The Republic of Yemen (Arabic: الجمهورية اليمنية), composed of former North and South Yemen, is a country on the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia and is a part of the Middle East, bordering the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden on the south and the Red Sea on the west. It borders Oman to the northeast and Saudi Arabia elsewhere. Its territory includes the remote island of Socotra, about 350 km to the south off the coast of East Africa. Yemen - History. Main article: History of Yemen ...

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Yemen - Holidays

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Arabian Peninsula: Encyclopedia - Arabization

Arabization is the gradual transformation of an area into one that speaks Arabic and is part of the Arab culture. It can also mean the replacement or displacement of a native population with Arabs, although this rarely happened in ancient times, as there weren't nearly sufficient numbers of original Arabs to replace or displace existing populations. There were significant pre-Islamic Arab migrations out of the Arabian Peninsula (see: Ghassanids, Nabataeans); however, full Arabization of the Middle East took place after the coming of I ...

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Arabization - In modern times

Arabian Peninsula: Encyclopedia - Bountiful Book of Mormon

In the First Book of Nephi in the Book of Mormon, Bountiful is a lush land in the south of the Arabian peninsula where Lehi and his party settle temporarily before building their ship. After the ship is completed, they depart Bountiful and sail to the Americas. Today, in Mormon culture, the most popular traditional location of Bountiful is Dhofar in modern Oman. This association is not widely disputed, th ...

Arabian Peninsula: Encyclopedia - Shaikh

Shaikh (Arabic: شيخ ),(also rendered as Sheik, Shaykh or Sheikh) is a word in the Arabic language meaning elder of tribe, lord or a revered old man. The term linguistically means a man of old age, and is used in that sense in Qur'anic Arabic. Later it came to be a title meaning leader, elder or noble, especially in the Arabian Peninsula, where shaikh became a traditional title of a Bedouin tribal leader in recent centuries. The title is also used by Arab Christians for elder men of stature ...

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Arabian Peninsula: Encyclopedia - Calandra Lark

The Calandra Lark, Melanocorypha calandra, breeds in warm temperate countries around the Mediterranean and eastwards through Turkey into northern Iran and southern Russia. It is replaced further east by its relative, the Bimaculated Lark. It is mainly resident in the west of its range, but Russian populations of this passerine bird are more migratory, moving further south in winter, as far as the Arabian peninsula and ...

Arabian Peninsula: Encyclopedia - Arab

The Arabs (Arabic: عرب ʻarab) are a large and heterogenous ethnic group found throughout the Middle East and North Africa, originating in the Arabian Peninsula of southwest Asia. Arab - Who is an Arab?. The definition of who an Arab is has several aspects: Ethnic identity: someone who considers himself to be an Arab (regardless of racial or ethnic origin) and is recognized as such by others. Linguistic: someone whose first language is Arabic (including any of its varieties); this d ...

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Arabian Peninsula: Encyclopedia - United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates (also called the UAE) is an oil-rich Middle Eastern country situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia on the Persian Gulf, comprising seven emirates: Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah and Umm Al Quwain. Before 1971, they were known as the Trucial States or Trucial Oman, in reference of a nineteenth-century truce between the British and some Arab Sheikhs. It borders Oman and Saudi Arabia. United Arab Emirates - History. Including:

United Arab Emirates - Exclaves and enclaves

United Arab Emirates - Holidays

Arabian Peninsula: Encyclopedia - Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri

Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri (also known by the alias Mullah Bilal) (Arabic: عبد الرحمن النشيري) is a senior leader of Osama bin Laden's terrorist group al-Qaida. He is alleged to be the mastermind of the USS Cole bombing and other terrorist attacks, and was the head of al-Qaida operations on the Arabian peninsula. Born in Saudi Arabia, al-Nashiri travelled to Afghanistan to participate in attacks against the Russians in the region. In 1996 he travelled to Tajikistan and then Jalalabad, where he first met Osam ...

Arabian Peninsula: Encyclopedia - Middle East

The Middle East is a political and cultural subregion of Asia, or of Africa-Eurasia. The core of the region comprises the lands between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf along with the Anatolian, Arabian and Sinai peninsulas. Sometimes, it is used in a broader sense which can include areas stretching from North Africa in the west to Pakistan in the east and the Caucasus and/or Central Asia in the north. The media and various international organizations (such as the United Nations) usually considers the Middle East to be Southwest A ...