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ʿUmāra Ibn Wathīma
Abū Rifāʿa ʿUmāra ibn Wathīma ibn Mūsā ibn al-Furāt al-Fārisī d. was a Muslim historian from Egypt. Born in Fusṭāṭ, he was a son of the historian and silk trader Wathīma ibn Mūsā, a native of Fasā in Persia. The year of his birth is unknown, but his father died in 851. Works ʿUmāra wrote at least two works in Arabic. His only surviving work is what was, before the discovery of Abū Ḥudhayfa Isḥāq ibn Bishr Qurashī's ''Mubtadaʾ al-dunyā wa-qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ'', thought to be the oldest surviving book of the ''Qisas al-Anbiya, qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ'' genre. Entitled ''Kitāb badʾ al-khalq wa-qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ'' ('Book of the Beginnings of Creation and the Stories of the Prophets'), it is a collection of didactic stories of those considered Prophets and messengers in Islam, prophets in Islam. It is the earliest source to cite the enigmatic Abu al-Hasan Bakri, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Bakrī. It was itself never widely cited. Of its original two volume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fusṭāṭ
Fustat (), also Fostat, was the first List of historical capitals of Egypt, capital of Egypt under Muslim rule, though it has been integrated into Cairo. It was built adjacent to what is now known as Old Cairo by the Rashidun Caliphate, Rashidun Muslim general 'Amr ibn al-'As immediately after the Muslim conquest of Egypt in AD 641, and featured the Mosque of Amr, the first mosque built in Egypt. The city reached its peak in the 12th century, with a population of approximately 200,000.Williams, p. 37 It was the centre of administrative power in Egypt, until it was ordered burnt in 1168 by its own vizier, Shawar, to keep its wealth out of the hands of the invading Crusades, Crusaders. The remains of the city were eventually absorbed by nearby Cairo, which had been built to the north of Fustat in 969 when the Fatimid Caliphate, Fatimids conquered the region and created a new city as a royal enclosure for the Caliph. The area fell into disrepair for hundreds of years and was used as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wathīma Ibn Mūsā
Wathīma ibn Mūsā (died 9 December 851), nicknamed ''al-Washshāʾ'' ('trader in embroideries'), was a Persian Muslim historian and silk trader. Born in the city of Fasā, Wathīma moved first to Baṣra, then to Egypt and to al-Andalus before returning to Egypt, where he settled in the city of Fusṭāṭ. He studied ''ḥadīth'' (traditions) and, according to Ibn al-Faraḍī, this was the purpose of his travels to the West. He wrote a ''Kitāb fī Akhbār al-ridda'', an Arabic account of the great apostasy of 632. It is a lost work, although at least 110 passages from it are quoted by other authors, including Ibn Khallikān, Ibn Shākir al-Kutubī, Yāqūt al-Rūmī and Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī. It was praised for its literary quality and its breadth by Ibn al-ʿImād. Wathīma died in Fusṭāṭ. He had a son, ʿUmāra ibn Wathīma Abū Rifāʿa ʿUmāra ibn Wathīma ibn Mūsā ibn al-Furāt al-Fārisī d. was a Muslim historian from Egypt. Born in Fusṭāṭ, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fasā
FASA Corporation was an American publisher of role-playing games, wargames and board games between 1980 and 2001, after which they closed publishing operations for several years, becoming an IP holding company under the name FASA Inc. In 2012, a wholly owned subsidiary called FASA Games Inc. went into operation, using the name and logo under license from the parent company. FASA Games Inc. works alongside Ral Partha Europe, also a subsidiary of FASA Corporation, to bring out new editions of existing properties such as Earthdawn and Demonworld, and to develop new properties within the FASA cosmology. FASA first appeared as a '' Traveller'' licensee, producing supplements for that Game Designers' Workshop role-playing game, especially the work of the Keith Brothers. The company went on to establish itself as a major gaming company with the publication of the ''Star Trek'' RPG, then several successful original games. Noteworthy lines included ''BattleTech'' and ''Shadowrun''. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic
Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns language codes to 32 varieties of Arabic, including its standard form of Literary Arabic, known as Modern Standard Arabic, which is derived from Classical Arabic. This distinction exists primarily among Western linguists; Arabic speakers themselves generally do not distinguish between Modern Standard Arabic and Classical Arabic, but rather refer to both as ( "the eloquent Arabic") or simply ' (). Arabic is the List of languages by the number of countries in which they are recognized as an official language, third most widespread official language after English and French, one of six official languages of the United Nations, and the Sacred language, liturgical language of Islam. Arabic is widely taught in schools and universities around the wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prophets And Messengers In Islam
Prophets in Islam () are individuals in Islam who are believed to spread God in Islam, God's message on Earth and serve as models of ideal human behaviour. Some prophets are categorized as messengers (; sing. , ), those who transmit Revelation, divine revelation, most of them through the interaction of an Islamic view of angels, angel. Muslims believe that many prophets existed, including many not mentioned in the Quran. The Quran states: "And for every community there is a messenger." Belief in the Islamic prophets is one of the Iman (concept)#The Six Articles of Faith, six articles of the Islamic faith. Muslims believe that the first prophet was also the first human being Adam in Islam, Adam, created by God. Many of the revelations delivered by the 48 prophets in Judaism and many prophets of Christianity are mentioned as such in the Quran with the Arabic versions of their names; for example, the Jewish Elisha is called Elisha in Islam, Alyasa', Job (biblical figure), Job is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abu Al-Hasan Bakri
Abū al-Ḥasan Bakrī is the purported author of several Islamic literature, Islamic works in Arabic, most notably a Prophetic biography, biography of Muḥammad entitled ''Kitāb al-anwār'' ('Book of Lights'). There is no consensus regarding his historicity (whether he lived) or his floruit (when he lived). Life Franz Rosenthal, Boaz Shoshan and Frederick Colby all accept that Bakrī existed, at least as a working hypothesis. The question of his existence is unresolved because many of the works attributed to him remain unpublished and unanalyzed. The main competing eras for Bakrī's life are the ninth and thirteenth centuries AD. The earliest Islamic biographical dictionary to have an entry on Bakrī is that of al-Dhahabī, who died in 1348. The ''Anwār'' cites authors who wrote in the second half of the 13th century, and there is a dated manuscript of the work from 1295. Accepting that Bakrī was the final compiler or ''rāwī'' (transmitter) of the ''Anwār'', Rosenthal argue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
