His commentaries were greatly esteemed among the Arabs, who translated many of them, and he is heavily quoted by Maimonides.

The reason the digits are more commonly known as " Arabic numerals " in Europe and the Americas is that they were introduced to Europe in the 10th century by Arabs of North Africa, who were then using the digits from Libya to Morocco.

Arab people, also known as Arabs (, ʿarab ), are a panethnicity as are about half of Arabs in Australia who come particularly from Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian territories.

Critics of the 18th century — Guichard Folard and the Prince de Ligne — were unanimous in thinking Aelian greatly inferior to Arrian, but Aelian exercised a great influence both on his immediate successors, the Byzantines, and later on the Arabs, ( who translated the text for their own use ).

The Algarve was dominated completely by a muladí coalition led by Sa ' id ibn Mal, who had expelled the Arabs from Beja, and the lords of Ocsónoba, Yahya ibn Bakr, and of Niebla, Ibn Ufayr.

This name was applied by the Arabs to the asterism of α, β, and γ Aquilae and probably goes back to the ancient Babylonians and Sumerians, who called α Aquilae the eagle star.

After being conquered by the Arabs in the early 8th century, it was reconquered in 801 by Charlemagne's son Louis, who made Barcelona the seat of the Carolingian " Hispanic March " ( Marca Hispanica ), a buffer zone ruled by the Count of Barcelona.

The Arabs who conquered large parts of the land that once belonged to the Eastern Roman Empire issued their own Gold dinar.

It is also suggested that the Arabs, who reached Lakshadweep and Maldives around 900 AD, may have visited the Chagos, and that Zheng He may have sailed close in 1413 – 1415, since it is documented on a Ming Dynasty map.

The Qaysite party represented the Ḥijaz and Bedouin Arabs who were regarded as inferior by the Yemenites who were earlier and more cultured emigrants into Syria from southern Arabia.

Possibly the earliest and nearest approach to the discovery of the identity of lightning, and electricity from any other source, is to be attributed to the Arabs, who before the 15th century had the Arabic word for lightning ( raad ) applied to the electric ray.

After the 1932 release of MGM's adaptation of The Mask of Fu Manchu, which featured the Asian villain telling an assembled group of " Asians " ( consisting of caricatural Indians, Persians and Arabs ) that they must " kill the white men and take their women ", a Harvard University student group petitioned MGM producer William Randolph Hearst ( who had also serialized the novel in his Cosmopolitan magazine ) to cease making further films based on the property.

And thousands who are Middle Easterner descendants: Arabs, Lebanese, Palestinians, Syrians, Europeans, Armenians, Italians, Greeks and Turks came to Guatemala after World War I.

During the Middle Ages, giraffes were only known to Europeans through contact with the Arabs, who revered the giraffe for its peculiar appearance.

Within a generation, Syria, Palestine and Egypt had fallen to the Arabs, who in ca.

The usage of the word Hindu was popularized for Arabs and further west by the Arabic term al-Hind referring to the land of the people who live across river Indus and the Persian term Hindū referring to all Indians.

75. 3 percent of them are Jewish ( about 5, 865, 300 individuals ), 20. 5 percent are Arabs ( about 1, 597, 300 individuals ), while the remaining 4. 3 percent ( about 318, 200 individuals ) are defined as " others " ( family members of Jewish immigrants who are not registered at the Interior Ministry as Jews, non-Arab Christians, non-Arab Muslims and residents who do not have a religious classification ).

They attacked both British and Jews as well as some Palestinian Arabs who supported a Pan-Arab option.

As an Orientalist who spoke fluent Arabic, Prufer was especially concerned with relations with the Arabs.

In the 8th and 9th centuries, portions of southern Kazakhstan were conquered by Arabs, who introduced Islam.

Under Seyyid Said, the Omani sultan who moved his capital to Zanzibar in the early 19th century, the Arabs created long-distance trade routes into the interior.

Kanem was a Muslim scholar and non-Sayfawa warlord who had put together an alliance of Shuwa Arabs, Kanembu, and other seminomadic peoples.

Thus, Muhammad, by saying this, clearly made it a point to the Arabs to not make any distinction between the great apostles of God.

Recent studies make clear no significant genetic differences exist between Arabic and non-Arabic speaking populations, highlighting that in common with most of the Arab World, Arabization was mainly via acculturation of indigenous populations over time and intermarriage between Arabs and Berbers.

Kahane also believed that a Jewish democracy with non-Jewish citizens was self-contradictory because the non-Jewish citizens might someday become a numerical majority and vote to make the state non-Jewish: " The question is as follows: if the Arabs settle among us and make enough children to become a majority, will Israel continue to be a Jewish state?

In July 1987, Ze ' evi presented his ideas at a forum in Tel Aviv, describing the plan as a voluntary transfer and the only way to make peace with the Arabs.

Other 4th century military reports make no mention of Arabs but refer to as Saracens groups ranging as far east as Mesopotamia ( modern Iraq ) that were involved in battles on both the Persian and Roman sides.

" The blow was struck ," Robert-Houdin said, "... henceforth the interpreters and all those who had dealings with the Arabs received orders to make them understand that my pretended miracles were only the result of skill, inspired and guided by an art called prestidigitation, in no way connected with sorcery.

Hurst was about to leave on a trip to Jerusalem to scout locations when Korda cancelled the trip, saying the Palestinian government refused to permit large gatherings of Arabs and they could not make the film without Arab extras .< ref > Kelly, Alexander ; Richards, Jeffrey ; & Pepper, James.

Only those sand fields or stone mountains that would require the investment of hard labor and great expense to make them good for planting remain uncultivated and that's because the Arabs do not like working too much in the present for a distant future.

This is how, my dear friend, we must make war against Arabs: kill all men over the age of fifteen, take all their women and children, load them onto naval vessels, send them to the Marquesas Islands or elsewhere.

It was common British army practice to make local Arabs ride with military convoys to prevent mine attacks and sniping incidents: soldiers would tie the hostages to the bonnets of lorries, or put them on small flatbeds on the front of trains.

Neither Tabari nor the early historical works of the Arabs which have come down to us in general make any mention of this ; however, Athir's statement is completely confirmed by the Chinese History of the Tang Dynasty.

Palestinian citizens of Israel ( who are officially referred to by Israel as " Israeli Arabs ") generally make a distinction between the land ( Palestine ) and the political structures governing it ( Israel, Palestinian Authority ).

As they attempt to make their way back to the camp, they are caught by the two Arabs, Amon and Tasza, who demand they lead them to the base.

While later Arabic sources make the conquest of Hispania a singular event undertaken at the orders of the governor Musa ibn Nosseyr of Ifriqiya, according to the Chronicle, which was written much nearer in date to the actual events, the Arabs began disorganised raids and only undertook to conquer the peninsula with the fortuitous death of Roderic and the collapse of the Visigothic nobility.

In a response op-ed, Russell Robinson, CEO of JNF-US wrote, " Asking us to make a declaration against any evictions -- of Arabs or Jews -- is beyond our mission.

Daniel Pipes asserts that “ No ' Palestinian Arab people ' existed at the start of 1920 but by December it took shape in a form recognizably similar to today's .” Pipes argues that with the carving of the British Mandate of Palestine out of Greater Syria the Arabs of the new Mandate were forced to make the best they could of their situation, and therefore began to define themselves as Palestinian.

Yet another approach was proposed by a number of parties inside and outside Israel: a " binational solution " whereby Israel would formally annex the Palestinian territories but would make the Palestinian Arabs citizens in a unitary secular state.

Kurds speaking Kurmanji makeup approximately 37 % of the population, Persian speakers make up 29 %, Khorasani Turks makeup 27 % and Turkmenas makeup 5 %, while the rest of the population is composed of Baluchs, Lurs and Arabs

Empress Zoe wanted to swiftly make a peace settlement with the Arabs and to engage the whole army of the East in a war with Simeon and destroy him.

Normally Arabs in the Gulf States use it to make a distinction between themselves and other Arabs or other Muslims who just settled recently in their countries, or don't belong to one of the old and often noble families.

The governor of Khuzestan is not an Arab " while " Arabs make up 35-45 percent of the three million inhabitants of Khuzestan province in the southwest of Iran.

Iranian Arabs make the majority of its population.