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Nabataean dedication: "from Hawyru son of Geram to al-Kutbay." In the Hellenistic era, al-Kutbay was associated with Hermes and Mercury. This Hermes...

Arabs regarded her as one of the daughters of Allah, alongside Al-Lāt and Manāt. Al-Kutbay was one of the lesser-known deities of the Nabataeans, believed...

Omoikane, Shinto god of wisdom and intelligence Tenjin, god of scholarship Al-Kutbay, Nabataean god of knowledge and writing Enki, Sumerian god of intelligence...

Eastern style. These dancers came to be known as Al-Andalusian dancers. It is theorized that the fusion of the Al-Andalus style with the dances of the Romani...

dhāt). Attested in archaeological and/or epigraphic evidence Attested in al-Kalbi's Book of Idols Hoyland 2002, p. 139. Robin, Christian Julien, "South...

palaces and desert castles at Qusayr 'Amra, Hammam al-Sarah, Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi, and Khirbat al-Majfar. Shortly after this period, archaeology reveals...

been introduced to Morocco during the reign of both Abd al-Malik and Ahmad al-Mansur and Abd al-Malik's brief reign opened a period which continued under...

attributed to the 10th-century Arabic writer Abū al-Farāj al-Isfahānī (also known as al-Isbahānī). Abū al-Farāj claimed to have taken 50 years in writing...

roc. The story collection One Thousand and One Nights includes tales "Abd al-Rahman the Maghribi's Story of the Rukh" and "Sinbad the Sailor", both of...

The Kufic script (Arabic: الخط الكوفي, romanized: al-khaṭṭ al-kūfī) is a style of Arabic script, that gained prominence early on as a preferred script...

historically associated with house and palace architecture in the Maghreb and al-Andalus. Its classic form is a rectangular garden divided into four quadrants...

time in the treatises written in the fourteenth century by al-Sheikh al-Safadi and Abdulqadir al-Maraghi, and has since been used as a technical term in...

elsewhere. The Sirdāb of Caliph al-Mahdi (r. 775–785) is preserved in Samarra, Iraq under a golden dome that was presented by Naser al-Din Shah Qajar and that...

from Mshatta in Jordan, c.740, now in the Pergamon Museum (Berlin) Pyxis of al-Mughira, 10th century, in the Louvre Panel with horse heads, 11th century...

various deities and spirits, such as the god Hubal and the goddesses al-Lāt, al-‘Uzzā, and Manāt. Worship was centred around local shrines and temples...

Jasmine Ra's al Ghul Sindbad Talia al Ghul Spirituality North Arabian deities Allah Al-‘Uzzá Al-Lat Manāt Dushara Chaabou Manaf Nuha Al-Kutbay Asira Awal...

occasion. The origin of this type of institution is widely credited to Nizam al-Mulk, a vizier under the Seljuks in the 11th century, who was responsible...

Islamic architecture which developed in the western Islamic world, including al-Andalus (on the Iberian peninsula) and what is now Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia...

(2007). The Culture of Al Jazeera: Inside an Arab Media Giant. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. Code of Ethics Al Jazeera English. Al Jazeera Media Network...

Jasmine Ra's al Ghul Sindbad Talia al Ghul Spirituality North Arabian deities Allah Al-‘Uzzá Al-Lat Manāt Dushara Chaabou Manaf Nuha Al-Kutbay Asira Awal...