The French tourist Jacques Sirat speaks in lectures of how he felt proud riding round the world for five years – until he met an Australian who had been on the road for 27 years.

The earliest surviving Islamic biography is Ibn Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah, written in the 8th century, but known to us only from later quotes and recensions ( 9th – 10th century ).

Al-Khutbat al-Ahmadiya fi ' l Arab wa ' I Sirat al-Muhammadiya: Aligarh, 1900, English translation, London, 1869-70.

* Sirat Antara Ibn Shaddad سيرة عنترة بن شداد

* Sirat al-Zahir Baibars سيرة الظاهر بيبرس

* Sirat Dhat al-Himma, Arabic queen tale سيرة ذات الهمة

* Sirat Sayf Ibn Dhi Yazan سيرة سيف بن ذي يزن

* Sirat al-amirah Dhat al-Himmah سيرة الأميرة ذات الهمة

* Sirat al-shaykh al-ra ' is ( The Life of Ibn Sina ), ed.

It is conceivable that the sources mentioning the Qibla al-Qudsiyya like the Sirat un-Nabi ( 1 ) could in fact be trying to " fill in the gaps " of Muhammad's biography by taking Qur ' anic verses and drawing implicit information from them.

* Colette Sirat, A History of Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages.

A translation of Isḥaq's " Sirat Rasul Allah ", with introduction and notes ( Oxford University 1955 ), xlvii + 815 pages.

The former chief rabbi of France, Rabbi René Samuel Sirat, says he personally witnessed Lustiger entering the synagogue to recite kaddish — the Jewish mourners ' prayer — for his mother.

Sirat al-amirah Dhat al-Himmah, for example, is an Arabic epic with a female warrior as protagonist, and Scheherazade cunningly telling stories in the Thousand and One Nights to save her life.

Both of them wrote biographies of the prophet Muhammad that are important supplements to the " Sirat Rasul Allah " of Prophet Muhammad ibn Ishaq, but al-Waqidi's has survived only in part.

Abdul Satar Sirat held several ministerial positions in the early 1970s.

Sirat later served as envoy for the exiled King and was initially voted leader of the interim government but stepped aside in favour Karzai.

There were rumours in September that Sirat and Mohaqiq had formed a pact with Qanuni, whilst Gailani and Aarian declared their support for Karzai on the last day of campaigning, October 6.

He arrives to Gaza ( where he will be hosted by a man called Al Sirat, who will introduce him to the cult of the Six Goddesses ) and reach Jerusalem.

A more direct Arabic translation of the Alexander romance, called Sirat Al-Iskandar, was discovered in Constantinople, at the Hagia Sophia, and is dated to the 13th century.

As an elderly man, Abu ' Afak Arwan wrote a politically charged poem against Muhammad and his followers that is preserved in the Sira. The affair was recorded by Ibn Ishaq in " Sirat Rasul Allah " ( The Life of the Prophet of God ), the oldest biography of Muhammad.

Among the most precious manuscripts currently housed in the library are volumes from the famous Al-Muwatta of Malik written on gazelle parchment, the Sirat Ibn Ishaq, a copy of the Qur ' an given by Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur in 1602, and the original copy of Ibn Khaldun's book Al -' Ibar.

They believe in an afterlife, a judgment day, the bridge Sirat, heaven and hell, etc.

* Guillaume, Alfred, The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah.

* Nomani, Shibli, Sirat al-Nabi.

Shajar al-Durr is one of the characters of Sirat al-Zahir Baibars ( Life of al-Zahir Baibars ), a folkloric epic of thousands of pages that was composed in Egypt during the early Mamluk era and took its final form at the early Ottoman era.

* Sirat al-Zahir Baibars, Printed by Mustafa al-Saba, Cairo 1923.

* Sirat al-Zahir Baibars, assembled H. Johar, M. Braniq, A. Atar, Dar Marif, Cairo 1986, ISBN 977-02-1747-6

* 2005 – Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.

* 1970 – Fighting between Arab guerrillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan.

* 1970 – Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.

* February 11 – February 12 – Palestinian and Jordanian fighters clash in Amman.

* April 12 – Palestinians retreat from Amman to the north of Jordan.

The Arab summit in Amman in November 1987 focused on the Iran – Iraq War, and the Palestinian issue was shunted to the sidelines for the first time in years.

A temple at Amman ( 1400 – 1250 BC ) excavated and reported upon by J. B. Hennessy in 1966, shows possibility of animal and human sacrifice by fire.

The remaining 40-plus Jewish men – including Rabbi Hutner, Rabbi David, and two students accompanying Rabbi Hutner, Rabbi Meir Fund and Rabbi Yaakov Drillman – and male flight crew continued to be held hostage in and around Amman, Jordan ; Rabbi Hutner was held alone in an isolated location while Jews around the world prayed fervently for his safe release.

Jakob Ammann Jacob Amman, Amann, ( 12 February 1644 – between 1712 and 1730 ) was an Anabaptist leader and namesake of the Amish religious movement.

* Robert Amman ( 1988 – 1994 )

* December 25 – Four men hijack Iraqi Airways Flight 163, a Boeing 737-270C with 106 people on board, during a flight from Baghdad, Iraq, to Amman, Jordan.

Subsequent sessions were held in Cairo ( 1965 ), Gaza ( 1966 ), Cairo ( 1968 – 1977 ), Damascus ( 1979 – 1981 ), Algiers ( 1983 ), Amman ( 1984 ), Algiers ( 1988 ), Gaza ( 1996 and 1998 ), Ramallah ( 2009 )

* Jordan – On November 9, 2005, the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Amman, Jordan was targeted by a series of coordinated terrorist attacks along with a Radisson SAS and a Days Inn hotel.

The first American settlement of the Amish Mennonites — who separated from the main body of Swiss Brethren and followed Jacob Amman — was in Berks County, Pennsylvania, around 1710 – 1720.

1984 – Invited by the King and Queen of Jordan to Amman for the Jerash Festival

The force was formed as a police force to keep order among the tribes of Transjordan and to guard the important Jerusalem – Amman road.

Kamal Suleiman Salibi () ( 2 May 1929 – 1 September 2011 ) was a prominent Lebanese historian, professor of history at the American University of Beirut ( AUB ) and the founding Director ( later Honorary President ) of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies in Amman, Jordan.

The second conference was the 7th World Assembly of the World Conference on Religion and Peace, held in Amman, Jordan, November 25 – 29, 1999.

* 9 November 2005 – 2005 Amman bombings.

Irvin Shortess " Shorty " Yeaworth, Jr. ( February 14, 1926 in Berlin, Germany – July 19, 2004, in Amman, Jordan ) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and theme park builder.