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    Zakariyya' al-Qazwini (full name: Abū Yaḥyā Zakariyyāʾ ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Qazwīnī, Arabic: أبو يحيى زكرياء بن محمد بن محمود القزويني), also known...
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    cosmography by Zakariya al-Qazwini, who was born in Qazwin in 1203 shortly before the Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire. Qazwini's Aja'ib al-Makhluqat...
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    Bahamoot (/bəˈhɑːmuːt/ bə-HAH-moot; Arabic: بهموت), according to Zakariya al-Qazwini, is a monster that lies deep below, underpinning the support structure...
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    remembered". Zakariya, the father of John the Baptist (Yahya) Zakariyya al-Ansari (c.1420–1520), Egyptian historian and Islamic scholar Zakariya al-Qazwini (1203-1283)...
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    al-aʼyan by Ibn Khallikan biography number 349 Lisān al-ʿArab by Ibn Manzur part 10 page 276 The Wonder of Creation by Zakariya al-Qazwini Kitab al-'Ayn...
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    Library Zakariya al-Qazwini. ʿAjā'ib al-makhlūqāt wa gharā'ib al-mawjūdāt (The Wonders of Creation). Original published in 1553 AD Irgam Yigfagna; al-Jabal...
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    Zakarīyā Ibn-Muḥammad al-: Kitāb ʿAǧāʾib al-maḫlūqāt wa-ġarāʾib al-mauǧūdāt". Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum Digitale Biliothek. p. 63r. Qazwini,...
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    Aja'ib al-Makhluqat by Zakariya al-Qazwini, written in the 13th century. In the Book of Wonders compiled in the 14th century by Abd al-Hasan al-Isfahani...
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    Laudate Deum, paragraphs 25-26, accessed 7 June 2024 Zakariya al-Qazwini. ʿAjā'ib al-makhlūqāt wa gharā'ib al-mawjūdāt (The Wonders of Creation). Original published...
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    ethnography, so referred to in the works of Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Al-Gharnati, Zakariya al-Qazwini and Yaqut al-Hamawi (in his Dictionary of Countries). The term is...
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  • jinn, as reported by encyclopedist and scholar of natural scientist Zakariya al-Qazwini. Zadeh, Travis. "Magic, marvel, and miracle in early Islamic thought...
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  • Abdallah Muh. b. Yazid b. Maja al-Rab`i al-Qazwini (fl. 9th century), hadith scholar Abu Yahya Zakariya' ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini (1203–1283), Persian physician...
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    Arabian Sea (redirect from Bahr al-'arab)
    Sea, the Hindu sea, the Makran Sea, the sea of Oman; among them Zakariya al-Qazwini, Al-Masudi, Ibn Hawqal and Hafiz-i Abru. They wrote: "The green sea...
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    them to choose two among them to descent to earth and being tested. Zakariya al-Qazwini (1203–1283) narrates on authority of ibn Abbas, when Adam was cast...
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    Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn al-'Abbās al-Zahrāwī al-Ansari (Arabic: أبو القاسم خلف بن العباس الزهراوي;‎ c. 936–1013), popularly known as al-Zahrawi (الزهراوي)...
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  • Sa'id al-Qaddal (1935–2008, Sudan, nf) Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi (1552/1553–1616, Morocco, f/nf) Ibn al-Qattan (fl. 13th c., Morocco, nf) Zakariya al-Qazwini (1203–1273...
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  • under the direction of Kamāl al-Dīn al-Mawṣilī. Among his students were Najm al-Din al-Qazwini al-Katibi, Abū Zakariya al-Qazwini, and Ibn Khallikān. According...
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    The thirteenth century encyclopedia compiled by Zakariya al-Qazwini (1203–1283) – ʿAjā'ib al-makhlūqāt (The Wonders of Creation) – contained, among many...
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    is carried by different creatures: an angel, a bull and a fish. Zakariya al-Qazwini identified the bull and the fish with the biblical monsters, Behemoth...
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    Iranian scholars: Avicenna, Abu Rayhan Biruni, Zakariya Razi (Rhazes) and Omar Khayyam. A film about the life of Al-Biruni, Abu Raykhan Beruni, was released...
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    remove the barrier. The early Muslim traditions were summarised by Zakariya al-Qazwini (d. 1283) in two popular works called the Cosmography and the Geography...
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    historian Zakariya al-Qazwini King Vishtaspa had been a patron of Zoroaster who planted the tree himself. In his ʿAjā'ib al-makhlūqāt wa gharā'ib al-mawjūdāt...
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    aṭ-Ṭhalīmān), meaning 'the (two male) Ostriches', an appellation Zakariya al-Qazwini had applied to the pair of stars Lambda and Mu Sagittarii; it was...
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    " The 13th century book Ajā'ib al-makhlūqāt wa gharā'ib al-mawjūdāt (The Wonders of Creation) by Zakariya al-Qazwini describes Islamic angelology, and...
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  • Greece. The 14th-century work 'Aja'ib al-makhluqat wa-ghara'ib al-mawjudat by Persian physician Zakariya al-Qazwini is considered to be an early work of...
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    androgynous. The 13th century book Ajā'ib al-makhlūqāt wa gharā'ib al-mawjūdāt (The Wonders of Creation) by Zakariya al-Qazwini describes Islamic angelology, and...
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    from the animal's nose to its brow. The Persian physician Zakariya al-Qazwini (Al-Qazwini, d. 1283) is one of the writers who at the end of the thirteenth...
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    humanity for his punishment. Concerning the fiery origin of Iblis, Zakariya al-Qazwini and Muhammad ibn Ahmad Ibshihi state that all supernatural creatures...
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    historian Zakariya al-Qazwini, King Vishtaspa had been a patron of Zoroaster who planted the tree himself. In his ʿAjā'ib al-makhlūqāt wa gharā'ib al-mawjūdāt...
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  • 1418) (Ref), Yaqut al-Hamawi (died 1229) and Zakariya al-Qazwini (died 1283) (Ref). In modern Arabic al-ghattās is a grebe (a diving waterbird of a different...
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