F Encyclopaedia of the Orient Subject Encyclopedias

• - Daughter of the messenger of Islam, Muhammad, and Khadija, and married to Ali, and mother of Hassan and Husayn. She is the ancestral mother of the Imams of the Shi'i Muslims.
  
• - Opening chapter in the Koran, that expresses feelings about love, fidelity, births, marriages and burials.
  
• - Political party, illegal since 1992. Central in the militant opposition to the regime of Algeria.
  
• - City in Morocco, situated in the interior of northern region.
  
• - The only legal party of the country from 1962 to 1989.
  
• - Eleventh son of the founder of the Saudi kingdom, Ibn Saud. Proclaimed King at the year 1982.
  
• - Ruler of Egypt from 1936, until he was overthrown in 1952. Died in Rome in 1965.
  
• - Legal statement in Islam, issued by a mufti or a religious lawyer, on a specific issue.
  
• - Conservative group inside Christianity which seeks to preserve the core of the religion and its impact on society.
  
• - Saharan region in Libya, covering altogether 700,000 km². It is met by the coastal zone in the north, the desert in the east, the Tibesti massif of Chad to the south.
  
• - Ruler of Saudi Arabia since 1964, until his death in 1975.
  
• - Exile Palestinian group that was founded in 1957 by Yassir Arafat. Their direct military confrontation was with Israel, and became globally known in the 1960s.
  
• - Lasted from 1947 to 1949, and the parties fought over the control over Palestine.
  
• - Philosopher that worked for the Hamdanid emirs. Also 1introduced Plato and Aristotle to the Muslim philosophy.
  
  

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