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Arabic languages

(Encyclopedia) Arabic languages, members of the West Semitic group of the Semitic subdivision of the Afroasiatic family of languages (see Afroasiatic languages). The Arabic languages comprise North…

Measuring Years

The word for the longest measurement of time is kalpa, Hindi for 432 billion years. A year is the time it takes for the earth to revolve around the sun once. A calendar…

Back to School at the Movies

Lights! Camera! Learning! History lesson: Real heroes on film by Beth Rowen Patton George C. Scott as Old Blood and Guts This unforgettable biopic explores the hot-headed military genius…

State Department Notes on Oman

U.S. Department of State Background Note A mosque in Muscat, Oman, June 9, 2007. [© AP Images] PROFILEOFFICIAL NAME:Sultanate of OmanGeographyArea: About 309,500 sq. km. (approximately the size of…

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

singerBorn: 10/13/1948Birthplace: Lyallpur, Punjab Province, Pakistan Called “Shahen-Shah-e-Qawwali” (The Brightest Star in Qawwali), Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was a world music superstar and the…

Mohammed Zahir Shah Biography

Afghan KingDied: July 20, 2007 (Kabul, Afghanistan) Best Known as: former King of Afghanistan Former king of Afghanistan, who earned the title “father of the…

Farid ad-Din Attar

(Encyclopedia) Farid ad-Din AttarFarid ad-Din Attarfärēdˈ äd-dēn ät-tärˈ [key], 1142?–1220?, b. Nishapur, Persia, one of the greatest Sufi mystic poets of Islam. His masterpiece is the Mantiq ut-Tair…

Hud

(Encyclopedia) HudHudh&oomacr;d [key], a pre-Qur'anic prophet of Islam. Hud unsuccessfully exhorted his South Arabian people, the Ad, to worship the One God. The Qur'an mentions that their…