The Quran introduced a number of different rights and restrictions on matters of inheritance, including general improvements to the treatment of women and family life compared to the pre-Islamic societies that existed in the Arabian Peninsula at the time.

Natives of the Arabian Peninsula, many Qataris are descended from a number of migratory tribes that came to Qatar in the 18th century to escape the harsh conditions of the neighboring areas of Nejd and Al-Hasa.

The number of military personnel in Yemen is relatively high ; in sum, Yemen has the second largest military force on the Arabian Peninsula after Saudi Arabia.

A number of smaller enclosures visible only from the tram are home Somali wild asses, kiangs ( one of the world's only captive populations of this endangered wild equine ), Arabian oryx, gorals, Japanese serows, black rhinoceroses, and Przewalski's wild horses.

There appears to be some evidence for the presence of matrilineality in pre-Islamic Arabia, in a very limited number of the Arabian peoples ( first of all among the Amirites of Yemen, and among some strata of Nabateans in Northern Arabia ); on the other hand, there does not seem to be any reliable evidence for the presence of matrilineality in Islamic Arabia, although the Fatimid Caliphate claimed succession from the Islamic Prophet Mohammad via his daughter Fatima.

All Arabian fantasy tales were often called " Arabian Nights " when translated into English, regardless of whether they appeared in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, in any version, and a number of tales are known in Europe as " Arabian Nights " despite existing in no Arabic manuscript.

A number of elements from Arabian mythology and Persian mythology are now common in modern fantasy, such as genies, bahamuts, magic carpets, magic lamps, etc.

A number of stories within the One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabian Nights ) also feature science fiction elements.

As in the other games of the series, there are a large number of in-jokes and mythological references, especially, from Arabian Nights.

Most importantly, when the Jesuits first arrived to Beijing 1598, they also met a number of " Mohammedans " or " Arabian Turks "-visitors or immigrants from the Muslim countries to the west of China, who told Ricci that now they were living in the Great Cathay.

These sires and a number of other Arabian stallions contributed to the breeding up of the bloodhorse population prior to 1825.

35, after the Arabian Nights entertainments ( where the heroine is depicted by a violin and whose stories include Sinbad the Sailor ) and any number of orchestral suites from his operas, including The Tale of Tsar Saltan ( which also contains " Flight of the Bumblebee "), The Golden Cockerel, Christmas Eve, The Snow Maiden, and The Legend of The Invisible City of Kitezh.

A number of tales in the One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabian Nights ) also feature damsels in distress.

Buckminster Fuller called 1001 a Scheherezade number in his book " Synergetics ", since Scheherezade was the name of the story-telling wife in the " 1001 Arabian Nights "

A number of stories within the One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabian Nights ) also feature science fiction elements.

Ibn Zeyd al Hassan of Siraf, a 9th century Arabian traveler, reports that in 878 followers of the Chinese rebel leader Huang Chao besieged Canton ( Guangzhou ) and killed a large number of foreign merchants, Arabs, Persians, Christians, and Jews, resident there.

All Arabian fantasy tales were often called " Arabian Nights " when translated into English, regardless of whether they appeared in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, in any version, and a number of tales are known in Europe as " Arabian Nights " despite existing in no Arabic manuscript.

A number of elements from Arabian mythology and Persian mythology are now common in modern fantasy, such as genies, bahamuts, magic carpets, magic lamps, etc.

A number of stories within the One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabian Nights ) also feature science fiction elements.

Among the spoken varieties of Arabic, standard Egyptian Arabic ( based on the dialect of the Egyptian capital ) is the only one to have become a lingua franca in other parts of the Arabic-speaking world for two main reasons: the proliferation and popularity of Egyptian films and other media in the region since the early 20th century ; and the great number of Egyptian teachers and professors who were instrumental in setting up the education systems of various countries in the Arabian Peninsula and who also taught there and in other countries such as Algeria and Libya.

During January – February 2007, Armenia ’ s trade with Russia and other former Soviet republics was $ 205. 6 million ( double the amount from the same period the previous year ), making them the country ’ s number one trading partner.

Suetonius, however, with wonderful resolution, marched amidst a hostile population to Londinium, which, though undistinguished by the name of a colony, was much frequented by a number of merchants and trading vessels.

The 1970s were not much better, with the Indians trading away several future stars, including Graig Nettles, Dennis Eckersley, Buddy Bell and 1971 Rookie of the Year Chris Chambliss, for a number of players who made no impact.

By the 1590s, a number of Dutch companies were formed to finance trading expeditions in Asia.

As the company is free trading the number of shareholders can vary.

In pre-Islamic Arabia, apart from a small number of urban trading settlements, such as Mecca and Medina, located in the Hejaz in the west of the peninsula, most of what was to become Saudi Arabia was populated by nomadic tribal societies or uninhabitable desert.

Around the 1st century AD, according to Funan epigraphy and the records of Chinese historians ( Coedes ), a number of trading settlements of the South appear to have been organized into several Malay states, among the earliest of which are believed to be Langkasuka and Tambralinga.

By the 12th century AD, a number of loosely connected rice-growing and trading states flourished in the upper Chao Phraya Valley.

A number of African kings and merchants took part in the trading of enslaved people from 1440 to about 1833.

Rather than trading at centralised ports with a few large treasure fleets, they began using a larger number of smaller convoys trading at a wide variety of ports.

The French colonists also built a number of cities and towns in Indochina which served various purposes from trading outposts to resort towns.

Financial spread betting is a way to speculate on financial markets in the same way as trading a number of derivatives.

In fact a number of financial derivative trading companies offer both financial spread bets and CFDs in parallel using the same trading platform.

Over time the number of competing trading companies diminished, beginning with Ruge ’ s bankruptcy in 1888 followed by the withdrawal of the DHPG from trading in Tuvalu in 1889 / 90.

This was the time at which the greatest number of palagi traders lived on the atolls, acting as agents for the trading companies.

A number of small trading villages exist throughout the district, and each locality has its periodical fairs for purposes of traffic.

It was one of a number ( about ten ) of Milesian emporia or trading colonies along the shores of the Black Sea.

At the same time the Spain Fund and other closed-end country funds were trading at very substantial premiums, the number of closed-end country funds available exploded thanks to many issuers creating new country funds and selling the IPOs at high premiums.

A number of sources claim that the people of Sheba from Southern Arabia controlled trade in the Red Sea, and expanded at some point from Arabia into Africa to found trading posts in Ethiopia

However, the team has also had a number of dubious distinctions, such as former owner Ted Stepien's tenure, which led the NBA to create a rule regulating the trading of draft picks (" The Stepien Rule "), and a 26 game losing streak in 2010 – 11, which tied the record for the longest losing streak in major American professional sports.

There was as small number of artisans and merchants, mostly trading with the Slavs to the east.