* Fahd Umr Abd Al Majid Al Sharif ( born 1976 ), Saudi held in Guantanamo

Omar Mukhtar ( Arabic: عمر المختار Omar Al-Mukhtār ) ( 1862 – September 16, 1931 ), of the Mnifa, was born in the small village of Janzour, near Tobruk in eastern Barqa ( Cyrenaica ) in Libya.

Daher el-Omar ( also: Dhaher, Dhahar ) ( Arabic ظاهر آل عمر الزيداني ẓāhir Āl ʿumar az-zaydānī, ca.

Zayd ibn Umar ( Arabic: زيد بن عمر ) was the son of the second caliph of Sunni Islam Umar ibn al-Khattab

Ibn al-Farid or Ibn Farid ; Arabic, عمر بن علي بن الفارض (` Umar ibn ` Alī ibn al-Fārid ) ( 1181-1235 ) was an Arab poet.

The English word guitar, the German, and the French were adopted from the Spanish, which comes from the Andalusian Arabic, itself derived from the Latin, which in turn came from the Ancient Greek, and is thought to ultimately trace back to the Old Persian language Tar, which means string in Persian.

The Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, also commonly known as Shriners and abbreviated A. A. O. N. M. S., established in 1870, is an appendant body to Freemasonry, based in the United States.

In 2010, the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, as well as Shriners North America, changed its name to Shriners International, now covering nearly 200 temples ( chapters ) across North America, South America, Europe and Southeast Asia.

Fleming took the ideas supplied by Florence and converted them into what would become the " Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine ( A. A. O. N. M. S .)".

Uncertain is the etymology of the name, that undergo various modifications from the Ancient Greek Kouroullounè to the Arabic Kurulliùn

It is renowned as the site of the ancient Greek city of Akragas ( also known as Acragas ( Ἀκράγας ) in Greek, Agrigentum in Latin and Kirkent or Jirjent in Arabic ), one of the leading cities of Magna Graecia during the golden age of Ancient Greece.

Nebuchadnezzar II (; ; ; Ancient Greek: Ναβουχοδονόσωρ ; Arabic: ن ِ ب ُ وخ َ ذن ِ ص َّ ر ; c 634 – 562 BCE ) was king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, who reigned c. 605 BCE – 562 BCE.

Haifa al -' Atiqa ( Arabic: " Ancient Haifa ") is another name used by locals to refer to Tell es-Samak, as it was the site of Haifa when it was a hamlet of 250 residents, before it was moved in 1764-5 to a new fortified site founded by Daher el-Omar one and half miles to the east.

The Latin Myrrha originated from the Ancient Greek múrrā, but, ultimately, the word is of Semitic origin, with roots in the Arabic murr, the Hebrew mōr, and the Aramaic mūrā, all meaning " bitter " as well as referring to the plant.

Ancient Hebrew and Arabic did use spaces, partly to compensate in clarity for the lack of vowels.

Canon from From Latin canōn, from Ancient Greek κανών ( kanón, “ measuring rod, standard ”), akin to κάννα ( kanna, “ reed ”), perhaps from Semitic ( compare Arabic قانون ( Qānūn, “ law ”) Hebrew קנה ( qaneh, “ reed ”)).

Several languages are found on these pieces, including Greek, Latin, Arabic, and the Ancient Egyptian writing language of hieroglyphs.

The word " citara " is derived from the Greek word kithara, an instrument from classical times used in Ancient Greece and later throughout the Roman Empire and in the Arab world ( Arabic قيثارة ); the word " guitar " derives from " qithara " as well.

Geomancy, from Ancient Greek geōmanteía translates literally to " foresight by earth "; it is a translation of the Arabic term ‛ ilm al-raml, or the " science of the sand ".

In general, the mythology and cultures of the King's Quest world is derived from that of the Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Egyptian, Arabic, Biblical, Mesopotamian, and Celts.

Pre-Islamic Arabic music was similar to that of Ancient Middle Eastern music.

Though it would be incorrect to call it a modal system, the Arabic system is more complex than that of the Ancient Greek harmoniai.

Some examples of strong informal and to some degree institutionalized folk medicine traditions are: Traditional Korean medicine, Arabic indigenous medicine ( source of Unani medicine, along with Ancient Greek medicine ), Haitian folk medicine, Uyghur traditional medicine, Various African herbal folk remedies, Celtic traditional medicine ( in part practiced by the Irish medical families ), Japanese Kampō medicine, Traditional Aboriginal Bush medicine, Georgian folk medicine, and other.

* Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine

Meroë ( also spelled Meroe ) ( Meroitic: Medewi or Bedewi ; Arabic: and Meruwi, Ancient Greek: Μερόη, Meròe ) is an ancient city on the east bank of the Nile about 6 km north-east of the Kabushiya station near Shendi, Sudan, approximately 200 km north-east of Khartoum.

Ancient cognate equivalents for the word " God " include proto-Semitic el, Hebrew elohim ( God or / of gods ), Arabic ' ilah ( a or the God ), and Biblical Aramaic Elaha ( God ).

Postel was adept at Arabic, Hebrew, and Syriac and other Semitic languages, as well as the Classical languages of Ancient Greek and Latin, and soon came to the attention of the French court.

Most usefully, she speaks a large number of languages, including Ancient Greek and Latin ( learned for her theology degree ), Hebrew, French, German, Arabic, and Hindi.

The sīrat rasūl allāh ( Life of the Messenger of God ; ) or al-sīra al-nabawiyya ( Prophetic biography ; ) or just al-sīra, is the Arabic term used for the various traditional Muslim biographies of Muhammad from which, in addition to the Qur ' an and Hadith, most historical information about his life and the early period of Islam is derived.

Tel Hai (, meaning " Hill of Life " in Hebrew ; Tal-ha in Arabic ) is a name of a former Jewish settlement in northern Israel, the site of an early battle in the Arab – Israeli conflict, and of a noted monument, tourist attraction, and a college.

* Gist of a Life Time ( in Arabic ), 2004.

Muir's contemporary reviewers of Life uniformly praised him for his knowledge of Arabic ; the only competing work in Britain at the time was a book by Harrow schoolmaster Reginald Bosworth Smith, who had no Arabic language skills.

In the Yemenite variation, Dhul-Qarnayn is identified with an ancient king of Yemen named Tubba ', rather than Alexander the Great, but the Arabic story still describes the story of Alexander's Wall against Gog and Magog and his quest for the Water of Life.

As a separate example of this influence on Arabic literature, the legend of Alexander's search for the Water of Life is found in One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folktales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age.

By the turn of the first millennium C. E., the romance of Alexander in Arabic had a core centered on the Greek legendary material ... Interwoven later into this narrative in the Tales of the Prophets literature were episodes of an apparent Arab-Islamic elaboration: the construction of a great barrier to keep the people of Gog and Magog from harassing the people of the civilized world until Judgement Day, the voyage to the end of the Earth to witness the sun set in a pool of boiling mud, and Dhu al-Qarnayn's expedition into the Land of Darkness in search of the Fountain of Life accompanied by his companion Khidir (" the Green-One ").

In 1972 he resigned from the Knesset in order to write his first novel: The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist, which became a classic in modern Arabic literature.

The most widely spoken Afroasiatic language is Arabic ( including all its colloquial varieties ), with 230 million native speakers, spoken mostly in the Middle East and North Africa.

The earliest known alphabet in the wider sense is the Wadi el-Hol script, believed to be an abjad, which through its successor Phoenician is the ancestor of modern alphabets, including Arabic, Greek, Latin ( via the Old Italic alphabet ), Cyrillic ( via the Greek alphabet ) and Hebrew ( via Aramaic ).

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

Adobe (, ; Arabic: الطوب ) is a natural building material made from sand, clay, water, and some kind of fibrous or organic material ( sticks, straw, and / or manure ), which the builders shape into bricks ( using frames ) and dry in the sun.

For instance, according to Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic, the Arabic root ( to sacrifice ) can be derived the forms ( he sacrificed ), ( you ( masculine singular ) sacrificed ), ( he slaughtered ), ( he slaughters ), and ( slaughterhouse ).

The word used in the Arabic language for allegiance is bay ' at ( Arabic: بيعة ), which means " taking hand ".

Abdul is a common Arabic name component ( but never a name by itself ; additionally the ending-ul and the beginning Al-are redundant ), but Alhazred may allude to Hazard, a pun on the book's destructive and dangerous nature, or a reference to Lovecraft's ancestors by that name.

They generally have other terms specific to U. S. nationals, such as German US-Amerikaner, French étatsunien, Japanese 米国人 beikokujin, Arabic أمريكاني amriikaanii ( as opposed to the more-common أمريكي amriikii ), and Italian statunitense, but these may be less common than the term American.

Known to the Iranians by the Pahlavi compound word kah-ruba ( from kah “ straw ” plus rubay “ attract, snatch ,” referring to its electrical properties ), which entered Arabic as kahraba ' or kahraba, it too was called amber in Europe ( Old French and Middle English ambre ).

), Anatho ( Isidore Charax ), Anatha ( Ammianus Marcellinus ) by Greek and Latin writers in the early Christian centuries, Ana ( sometimes, as if plural, Anat ) by Arabic writers.

In his book The Lost Ark of the Covenant ( 2008 ), Parfitt also suggests that the Ark was taken to Arabia following the events depicted in the Second Book of Maccabees, and cites Arabic sources which maintain it was brought in distant times to Yemen.

* History of Arabic language ( 1894 ), Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.