The Miracle of Pharaoh in the Qur’an...
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The Lost City of Iram Only Mentioned in Qur’an...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJqw0geyOSs[/youtube] The Qur’an (1,400 years ago) mentions a certain city by the name of Iram (a city of pillars) [Qur’an: The Dawn 89:7], which was apparently not known in ancient history and non-existent as far as historians were concerned. But the December 1978 edition of the National Geographic Magazine records that in 1973, the city of Ebla was excavated in Syria. The city was discovered to be 4,300 years old. Researchers found in the library of Ebla a record of all of the cities with which Ebla had done business. On the list was the specific name of the city of “Iram” (and not the name of the general region of Ubar). The people of Ebla had apparently...
Of Cordoba: Averroes and Maimonides in Their Time and Ours...
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Baghdad’s Golden Age and Its Legacy...
January 19, 2006 Washington, D.C. A new book, When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam’s Greatest Dynasty, takes readers back more than ten centuries to a very different time in the city’s history — when it was a place of magnificent palaces, intellectual innovation and far reaching political influence Much has been written about historical figures like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar. But Hugh Kennedy, who teaches history at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, believes far less information is available to readers outside the Middle East about the Abbasid caliphate that once made Baghdad a global power. He says the dynasty was as pivotal to world history in the 8th...
Al-Andalus, Islamic World in Medieval Spain...
May 20, 2004 Washington, D.C. After crossing from North Africa in the early seven-hundreds, Muslims ruled in southern Spain for almost eight centuries, interacting with the populations they found there. VOA’s Zlatica Hoke reports today analysts study the golden age of al-Andalus as a possible model for a modern pluralist society. Many medieval Spanish songs combine Jewish, Christian European and Arabic music traditions. A convergence of three distinct cultures marked almost every aspect of life in Islamic Spain: from economy, technology, science and medicine to philosophy, literature, art and architecture. Al-Andalus, or Andalusia, originated in 711, when an army of Arabs and Berbers crossed the Straits of Gibraltar to depose Visigothic ruler Roderic. They came as liberators, but...
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