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Dahna

(Encyclopedia)Dahna: see Rub al Khali.

Alhazen

(Encyclopedia)Alhazen: see Ibn al-Haytham.

Azizia

(Encyclopedia)Azizia: see Al Aziziyah, Libya.

Hillah

(Encyclopedia)Hillah: see Al Hillah, Iraq.

Kairouan

(Encyclopedia)Kairouan: see Qayrawan, Al, Tunisia. ...

Abu Muslim

(Encyclopedia)Abu Muslim äˈbo͞o mo͝osˈlĭm [key], c.728–755, Persian leader of the Abbasid revolution. By political and religious agitation he raised (747) the black banners of the Abbasids against the rulin...

Obeid, El

(Encyclopedia)Obeid, El: see Al Ubayyid, Sudan. ...

Hajj Omar

(Encyclopedia)Hajj Omar: see Hajj Umar, al-.

Simon, Théodore

(Encyclopedia)Simon, Théodore: see Binet, Alfred. ...

Sebald, W. G.

(Encyclopedia)Sebald, W. G. (Winfried Georg Maximilian Sebald), 1944–2001, German novelist, grad. Freiburg Univ. (1965). Sebald's novels are dense, elegiac, and meditative. They mingle fiction with history and th...