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Abbas Assadi
Abbas may refer to: People * Abbas (name), list of people with the name, including: **Abbas ibn Ali (645–680), popularly known as ''Hazrat-e-Abbas'', the son of Ali ibn Abi Talib (the first imam in Shia Islam) **Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib (567–653), uncle of Muhammad ** Abbas ibn Firnas (810–887), an Andalusian polymath, mathematician, physician, astronomer, inventor, poet, and reported to have experimented with a form of flight ** Abbas the Great (1571–1629), Fifth Safavid Shah of Iran (r. 1587–1629) ** Wazir Abbas (Died 1545), Grand Vizier of the Adal Sultanate ** Abbas II of Persia (1632–1666), Seventh Safavid Shah of Iran (r. 1642–1666) ** Abbas I of Egypt (1812–1854), founder of the reigning dynasty of Egypt and Sudan at the time (r. 1849–1854) ** Abbas II of Egypt (1874–1944), last Khedive of Egypt and Sudan (r. 1892–1914) ** Mahmoud Abbas (born 1935), president of the Palestinian National Authority ** Abbas (actor) (born 1975), Indian actor ** Abbas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbas (name)
ʿAbbās () is an old Arabic name that means "Lion". The name traces back to Al-‘Abbas ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib in 536 CE (an uncle of Muhammad) and Abbas ibn Ali, a son of Ali ibn Abi Talib, who participated in the battle of Karbala alongside his brother Husayn ibn Ali. Abbas ibn Ali is revered by Muslims, some of whom are named Abbas in remembrance and tribute to him. There is an Arabian tribe of the same name, the Banu Abbas. The word 'Abbas' is also used as part of a place name (for example, the English villages of Compton Abbas and Milton Abbas). The name usually relates to land previously owned by an abbess (the head of an abbey of nuns). Notable people with the name include: Historical figures * Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib (565–653), uncle of Muhammad and forefather of the Abbasids * Abbas ibn Ali (647–680), son of Ali, Ali ibn Abi Talib, died at the Battle of Karbala in an attempt to bring water for the thirsty children of his brother Husayn ibn Ali, Husayn. * Al-Abbas i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Abbas Mosque
The Al-Abbas Shrine () is the mausoleum of Abbas ibn Ali and a mosque, located near the Imam Husayn Mosque in Karbala, Iraq. Abbas was son of Ali ibn Abi Talib and the half-brother of Imam Hasan and Imam Husayn. He was Husayn's flag-bearer in the Battle of Karbala and chief of his caravans. The shrine is revered by the Shia Muslims who visit it every year, especially in the month of Muharram. Environmental effects over the years have caused the Euphrates river to change course. Nearly 1,400 years after the Battle of Karbala, the river flows across the grave of Abbas and encircles it. It is said that the Euphrates has come to ‘Abbās now. In recent years the shrine has undergone a series of enhancements and additions, such as the re-gilding of the dome, and more recently covering the former courtyard with a roof to accommodate pilgrims better. Each year the shrine is visited by millions of pilgrims coming from all over the world. History and design Emperors and kings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbury Abbas
Melbury Abbas is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in north Dorset, England. It is situated at the edge of the Blackmore Vale under the scarp of Cranborne Chase, south-southwest of the town of Shaftesbury. The parish includes West Melbury and part of Cann Common. In the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census the parish had 147 dwellings, 134 households and a population of 305. History In 1086 Melbury Abbas was recorded in the Domesday Book as ''Meleberie''. It was in Sixpenny Handley Hundred, Sixpenny Hundred and had 47 households, 12 ploughlands and 4 mills. The lord and tenant-in-chief was Shaftesbury Abbey. Church of St Thomas This is on the south side of the village and as well as a square tower at the south west end, has a large spire mounted on the SW corner of the top of the tower. The original stone church of Norman times had a tower with three bells, at least one transept, and a west door. It survived until 1852 when it was in poor co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Itchen Abbas
Itchen Abbas is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Itchen Valley, in the Winchester district, in the county of Hampshire, England. The village is on the River Itchen about north-east of Winchester. Parish church The Church of England parish church of St John the Baptist was originally Norman and retains an original Norman doorway and chancel arch.Pevsner & Lloyd, 1967, page 308 St. John's was rebuilt in 1867 to a Norman Revival design by the architect William Coles. It is a charming Victorian Church with a barrel-vaulted roof. The church lost all remaining Victorian fittings when it was re-ordered in 2009; the pews replaced with stackable chairs, and the original floor covered with carpeting, leaving the church with a much-impaired acoustic, and a rather bland interior. History The Domesday Book in 1086 recorded that the manor of Icene (Itchen) was held by Hugh son of Baldri ( Hugh fitzBaldric), that it had previously been held by St Mary's Abbey, Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compton Abbas
Compton Abbas is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It .... It lies south of the town of Shaftesbury. It is sited on greensand (geology), greensand strata on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, below the chalk downland, downs of Cranborne Chase. On top of these hills is Compton Abbas Airfield. The A350 road between Wiltshire and Poole, the south coast passes through the village. In the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census the civil parish had a population of 216. The name ''Compton Abbas'' derives from the Anglo-Saxons, Saxon "cumb-ton", meaning 'village in a narrow valley', plus "abbas" which refers to Shaftesbury Abbey (the land was owned by the abbess). The church, St. Mary's, was built in 1866 to replace the older st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerne Abbas
Cerne Abbas () is a village and civil parish in Dorset in southern England. It lies in the Dorset Council administrative area in the Cerne Valley in the Dorset Downs. The village lies just east of the A352 road north of Dorchester. At the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 858. In 2008 it was voted Britain's "Most Desirable Village" by estate agent Savills. It is the location of the Cerne Abbas Giant, a chalk figure of a giant naked man on a hillside. Etymology River Cerne means "the stony stream", with the name Cerne being derived from the Primitive Welsh ''carn'', "cairn, pile of stones". It is suggested that the pronunciation with soft 'c' instead of the more logical "chern" (Old English ''ċēarn'') is due to Anglo-Norman influence. ''Abbas'' is the graecised form of the Aramaic ''aba'' ("my father"), as used in the Septuagint and in the New Testament, which resulted in the English word ''abbot''. History The village of Cerne Abbas grew up around the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradford Abbas
Bradford Abbas is a village and civil parish in north-west Dorset, England, on the border with Somerset. The village is south-east of Yeovil and south-west of Sherborne. The parish includes the small settlement of Saxon Maybank to the north, and had a population of 975 at the 2011 Census. The name of the village signifies the "Abbot's broad ford" on the River Ivel, the abbot in question being that of Sherborne; the land was given to Sherborne Abbey by King Alfred the Great. In the dry summer of 2010 cropmarks in sun-parched fields of barley, visible from the air, revealed the existence of a previously unsuspected 1st-century temporary Roman camp, one of only four detected in southwest Britain. In the 19th century five Roman kilns were found in a field to the east of the village. Also found at the site were pottery, roof slates, bracelets and querns. Parish Church of St Mary The oldest part of the church is the chancel, dating from the 12th century, though the main co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbas Hall
Abbas Hall is a small country house in Great Cornard, a village located near the town of Sudbury, Suffolk in England, the Elizabethan exterior of which masks a medieval two-bay aisled hall of c.1290, from which two massive oak posts with moulded capitals and two arches of the screens passage survive. The inserted floor in the great hall was put in about 1548–49. The house was originally the house of West Malling Abbey's manorial steward here. The house, from the grounds of which Thomas Gainsborough painted his celebrated view of Great Cornard Wood, was restored by the present owner, Stefan Kosciuszko, Chief of Staff Hinduja Group Hinduja Group is an Indian Conglomerate (company), conglomerate. The group is present in eleven sectors including automotive, oil and specialty chemicals, banking and finance, IT and ITeS, cyber security, healthcare, trading, infrastructure proj ..., and chief executive AMAS-IPS, the project development company for the Group, after 1995. Abbas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbas Combe
Templecombe is a village in Somerset, England, situated on the A357 road five miles south of Wincanton, east of Yeovil, and west of Salisbury. It is in the Blackmore Vale. Templecombe is the main settlement in the civil parish of Abbas and Templecombe, along with the hamlet of Combe Throop. Historically, Temple Combe was the southern part of the village and Abbas Combe the northern part, but in modern usage Templecombe is the common name for the whole settlement. The parish had a population of 1,657 at the 2021 census,Table PP002 - Sex, from up from 1,560 in 2011. History Before the Norman Conquest Combe was held by Leofwine Godwinson. Abbas Combe was recorded in the ''Domesday Book'' of 1086–7 as ''Cumbe'', when it was held by the church of St Edward, Shaftesbury. The other manor within the parish was held by Godwinson, but after the Norman Conquest, was given to Bishop Odo of Bayeux. It was his descendant Serlo FitzOdo who granted it to the Knights Templar. The pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbey
An abbey is a type of monastery used by members of a religious order under the governance of an abbot or abbess. Abbeys provide a complex of buildings and land for religious activities, work, and housing of Christians, Christian monks and nuns. The concept of the abbey has developed over many centuries from the early monastic ways of religious men and women where they would live isolated from the lay community about them. Religious life in an abbey may be monastic. An abbey may be the home of an enclosed religious order or may be open to visitors. The layout of the church and associated buildings of an abbey often follows a set plan determined by the founding religious order. Abbeys are often self-sufficient while using any abundance of produce or skill to provide care to the poor and needy, refuge to the persecuted, or education to the young. Some abbeys offer accommodation to people who are seeking retreat (spiritual), spiritual retreat. There are many famous abbeys across ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbas-e Kalpat
Abbas-e Kalpat (, also Romanized as ‘Abbās-e Kalpat, ‘Abbās-e Galpat, and ‘Abbās Kolpat) is a village in Veysian Rural District, Veysian District, Dowreh County, Lorestan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort .... As of the 2006 census, it had a population was 98 individuals comprising 20 families. References Populated places in Dowreh County {{Dowreh-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbas Barfi
Abbas Barfi (, also Romanized as ‘Abbās Barfī; also known as Abbās Bar, ‘Abbās Barfī-ye Soflá, and ‘Abbās Barqī) is a village in Pishkuh-e Zalaqi Rural District, Besharat District, Aligudarz County, Lorestan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort .... At the 2006 census, its population was 203, in 38 families. As of 2020, the population was 504. References Populated places in Aligudarz County {{Aligudarz-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
