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2 days ago · Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī ( Persian: جلالالدین محمّد رومی ), or simply Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century poet, Hanafi faqih (jurist), Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian ( mutakallim ), [9] and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran.
4 days ago · In February 1922 the movement seemed to be on the crest of a rising wave, but, alarmed by a violent outbreak in Chauri Chaura, a remote village in eastern India, Gandhi decided to call off mass civil disobedience.
5 days ago · Story by Maan Jalal • 10m. I t was June 21, 2001, when Soad Hosny fell six floors from the balcony of a friend’s home at the Stuart Tower in London’s Maida Vale neighbourhood. On this day 23 ...
2 days ago · Aztec Stories. For your interest and delight. The photo (right) is of the Nahuatl-speaking town of San Miguel Canoa near Puebla. Both photo and phrase in Nahuatl, Spanish and English come thanks to and courtesy of Scott Hadley, and are inspired by the book of Nahuatl stories compiled by Pablo Rogelio Navarrete Gómez, Cuentos Náhuatl de la ...
4 days ago · J alal-e-Din Mohammad Molavi Rumi was born in 1207 CE at Balkh in the north-eastern provinces of Persia (present day Afghanistan), to a Persian-speaking family. His father Baha al-Din was a renowned religious scholar. Under his patronage, Rumi received his early education from Syed Burhan-al-Din.
5 days ago · Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-Sadiq ( Arabic: جَعْفَر بْن مُحَمَّد ٱلصَّادِق, romanized : Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣādiq; c. 702 –765 CE) was a Shia Muslim scholar, jurist, and theologian, and the sixth imam of the Twelver and Isma'ili branches of Shia Islam. [3] Known by the title al-Sadiq ("The Truthful"), Ja'far was ...
5 days ago · Donald Sutherland was on an early hot streak in his career when he agreed to play maverick tank commander Oddball in Clint Eastwood’s Second World War heist movie, Kelly’s Heroes.
