Tag Archives: History
Cairo initiative to repatriate stolen artifacts Posted by Transparent Language on Apr 17, 2010
Egyptian lead initiative to repatriate stolen archeological artifacts.
Avicenna Posted by aziza on Feb 12, 2010
Avicenna (ابن سینا) is a famous Muslim physician and philosopher. His full name is (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله بن الحسن بن علي بن سينا). He was born around 980 in Afghanistan and started to learn medicine, logic, philosophy and literature at a very early age.He completed learning the Qur’an before the age of…
The Abbasid Caliphate Posted by aziza on Jul 13, 2009
The Abbasid Caliphate (الخلافة العباسية) was the third Islamic dynasty following the Umayyad Dynasty (الخلافة الأموية). The word Abbasid is derived from the name of prophet Muhammad’s uncle, Al-‘Abbas ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib. The Abbasids opposed the Umayyads and tried to weaken their power by gaining the favor of groups who opposed them, especially the Shiites…