The population of the Banda Islands prior to Dutch conquest is generally estimated to have been around 13, 000-15, 000 people, some of whom were Malay and Javanese traders, as well as Chinese and Arabs.

Allah was associated with companions, whom pre-Islamic Arabs considered as subordinate deities.

This is the unmistakable stamp of a Fascist party for whom terrorism ( against Jews, Arabs, and British alike ), and misrepresentation are means, and a " Leader State " is the goal.

In order to keep Arabs, whom he stated would never accept Israel as a Jewish state, from becoming a numerical majority in Israel, he proposed a plan allowing Arabs to voluntarily leave Israel and receive compensation for their property, and forcibly removing Arabs who refused.

He also undertook a mission to the Arabs with whom, according to the " Vita ", he held discussions.

But even in the 14th century, the North African traveller Ibn Battuta visiting Qatif around 1331, found it inhabited by Arabs whom he described as " extremist Shi ' is " ( rafidiyya ghulat ), which Cole presumes is how a 14th century Sunni would describe Ismailis.

One account identifies his tutor as a monk by the name of Cosmas, who had been kidnapped by Arabs from his home in Sicily, and for whom John's father paid a great price.

Haifa is a mixed city: 90 % are Jews, more than a quarter of whom are immigrants from the former Soviet Union, while 10 % are Arabs, predominantly of the Christian religion.

Hagiographers and chroniclers of the first centuries of the Islamic Hegira quickly identified Hermes Trismegistus with Idris, the nabi of surahs 19. 57 and 21. 85, whom the Arabs also identified with Enoch ( cf.

Disputes between Israelis, some of whom are Jews, with Palestinians, some of whom are Arabs, for control of the area go back at least to the beginning of significant Zionist immigration in 1881, a result in part of Russian persecution of Jews who were wrongly blamed for the assassination of Alexander II.

The islands were already known to the Arabs, from whom they get their name.

Jewish traditions are split between those, like Josephus, who consider Ishmael the ancestor of the Arabs, and those, like Maimonides, who believe that the northern Arabs are descended from the sons of Keturah, whom Abraham married after Sarah's death.

At the end of 16th century, mathematics was placed under the dual aegis of the Greeks, from whom they borrowed the tools of geometry, and the Arabs, who provided procedures for the resolution.

In retaliation, the Arabs ' dwellings were destroyed and 15 or 16 adult males were shot, 14 of whom died.

How we act toward the Arabs will determine what kind of people we become – either oppressors and racists in our turn like those from whom we have suffered, or a nobler race able to transcend the tribal xenophobias that afflict mankind. 1 ( I. F.

Usually after a siege of a few weeks or months the Arabs gained a city through the intervention of heads of mercantile houses with whom subsequent treaties and agreements would be settled.

These were considered to be a small proportion of the majority of Arabs and Syrians whom it was believed, disappeared from the Ottoman army, into the towns and villages of Palestine and Transjordan.

After his meeting with Faisal, Weizmann reported that Faisal was " contemptuous of the Palestinian Arabs whom he doesn't even regard as Arabs ".

As the party did not allow Israeli Arabs to be members at the time, it had also set up an Arab list, the Popular Arab Bloc, to contest the elections ( a tactic also used by Mapai, with whom the Democratic List of Nazareth were affiliated ).

The Arabs for instance employed a variety of incendiary substances similar to the Byzantine weapon, but they were never able to copy the Byzantine method of deployment by siphon, and used catapults and grenades instead.

Many Arabs from nearby countries are employed in the kingdom.

This was not the way we hoped to settle the country — this old way with Jews on top and Arabs working for them ; anyway, we thought that there shouldn't be employers and employed at all.

Like other Maratha leaders, Appa Shaeb employed Arabs in his army.

The Byzantines and Arabs also employed horse-transports ( hippagōga ), which were either sailing ships or galleys, the latter certainly modified to accommodate the horses.

While the military effectiveness of these " Afghan Arabs " was marginal, Azzam's group is said to have organized paramilitary training for more than 20, 000 Muslim recruits, from about 20 countries around the world.

Palestinian Arabs were not one of these Arab peoples.

The founding of these various posts effectively shifted the slave trade in Malawi from the Portuguese in Mozambique to the Arabs of Zanzibar.

In the 6th century, Arabs succeeded in repelling encroachments of these ethnic groups ; the conversion of Arab tribes to Islam in the 7th century resulted in the displacement of the settlers from Iran.

To take one example, the nation now known as Iraq intentionally joined together three Ottoman vilayets, uniting Kurds in the north, Sunni Arabs in the center, and Shia Arabs in the south, in an effort to present a strong national buffer state between Turkey and Persia: over these was placed a foreign king from the Hashemite dynasty native to the Hijaz.

However, these incursions and epochs, though pivotal, did not shape the region's history as the invasions of two later invading groups: Muslim Arabs and the Oghuz Turks.

The medieval Arabs adopted the distillation technique of the Alexandrian Greeks, and written records in Arabic begin in the 9th century, but again these were not distillations of alcohol.

In Niger and Mali, these peoples are also known as the Azawagh Arabs, after the Azawagh region of the Sahara.

In light of these developments, Arabs began calling for both their own state in the British Mandate of Palestine and an end to the British support of the Jewish homeland's creation and to Jewish immigration.

" He went on to say, " The Arabs doubtless yielded to these arguments, for henceforth I was on the most friendly terms with them.

The highest point of these ruins, a conical hill rising about 30 m above the level of the surrounding plain, northeast of the canal bed, is called by the Arabs Bint el-Amiror " prince's daughter.

It is believed that these Arabs were settled here during the 18th century by the Ottoman Empire.

Not all of the victims of these attacks were Israeli Jews ; some were Israeli Arabs and Druze.

The first of these poems was " Street Arabs ", which preceded the production of Heavy Traffic in 1972.

In 913 and 944, the Rus ' plundered the Arabs in the Caspian Sea during the Caspian expeditions of the Rus ', but it's not clear whether Igor had anything to do with these campaigns.

The Arabs of pre Islamic days also believed in this concept, so it was easy for them to accept these ideas.

The conference provided the political blueprint for British administration in both Iraq and Transjordan, and in offering these two regions to the sons of Sharif Hussein ibn Ali of the Hedjaz, Churchill stated that the spirit, if not the letter, of Britain's wartime promises to the Arabs might be fulfilled.

Throughout the civil parish there are scattered remains of these early communities ; the Phoenicians, Romans and Arabs selected this area for its strategic place in Western Europe.

Those expelled included individuals who had refused to sign so-called " nationality correction " forms, introduced by the authorities prior to the 1997 population census, requiring members of ethnic groups residing in these districts to relinquish their Kurdish or Assyrians identities and to register officially as Arabs.

' We Arabs think that Zionism, not the Jews, is the cause of all of these acts of sabotage.

The Prophet Muhammad was of these Arabs.

Maurice's manual notes the appropriate equipping of Imperial cavalry: " the saddles should have large and thick clothes ; the bridles should be of good quality ; attached to the saddles should be two iron steps, a lasso with a thong ...." Dennis notes that the lack of specific Greek word for stirrup evidences their novelty to the Byzantines, who are supposed to have adopted these from their bitter enemy the Avars, and subsequently passed them on to their future enemies, the Arabs.

My reasons for restricting myself to specific mention of Damascus, Hama, Homs and Aleppo in that connection in my letter were: 1 ) that these were places to which the Arabs attached vital importance and 2 ) that there was no place I could think of at the time of sufficient importance for purposes of definition further South of the above.