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    The Monastery in Ghazali is a medieval Christian monastery in the Bayuda Desert in northern Sudan. Probably founded by the Makurian king Merkurios in the...
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    the Blue and White Niles (in Khartoum in central Sudan), and the area between the first cataract of the Nile (south of Aswan in southern Egypt) or more...
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    the distorted letters 'IHS'. In 2016 a 1,300-year-old corpse, was found in a cemetery near a medieval monastery in Ghazali, Sudan, whose right foot bore...
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    Kandake (category Nubian women in warfare)
    derived from the way the word is used in the New Testament (Acts 8:27). A kandake who ruled in her own right bore in addition the title qore, the same title...
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    Kingdom of Kush (category States and territories established in the 8th century BC)
    Kûsi, in LXX Χους or Αἰθιοπία; Coptic: ⲉϭⲱϣ Ecōš; Hebrew: כּוּשׁ Kūš), also known as the Kushite Empire, or simply Kush, was an ancient kingdom in Nubia...
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    used in central Sudan from time immemorial. Hafirs were an important feature of the Meroitic civilization in the Butana and were often built in the immediate...
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    Qore (title) (category Monarchs in Africa)
    Qore was the title of rulers in the Kingdom of Kush, specifically during the Meroitic Period, in the land of Nubia (present-day Sudan). Kandake Ngola...
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    Elephantine (category Archaeological sites in Egypt)
    forming part of the city of Aswan in Upper Egypt. The archaeological digs on the island became a World Heritage Site in 1979, along with other examples...
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    Republic of the Sudan and the state of South Sudan, which became independent in 2011. The territory of Sudan is geographically part of a larger African region...
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    Kushite religion (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    dedicated to indigenous Kushite deities were replaced with churches and monasteries dedicated to Yahweh. Burial practices also changed from Kerman-style...
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    Dotawo was a Christian kingdom in Lower Nubia (northern Sudan and southern Egypt) in the Middle Ages. It is attested in Old Nubian documents from the 12th...
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    places of religious importance, such as the monastery in Ghazali. The language was apparently widely used in those contexts until the fifteenth century...
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  • Peter Shinnie (category British expatriates in Canada)
    Niles in 2004. Medieval Nubia (1954) Excavations at Soba (1955) Ghazali, a monastery in the northern Sudan 1961, concerning the Monastery in Ghazali Meroë:...
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    between the Atbara and the Nile in the Sudan. South of Khartoum it is bordered by the Blue Nile and in the east by Lake Tana in Ethiopia. It should not be...
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    Kingdom of al-Abwab (category States and territories established in the 13th century)
    The kingdom of al-Abwab was a medieval Nubian monarchy in present-day central Sudan. Initially the most northerly province of Alodia, it appeared as an...
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  • defended by the great mystic and scholar, Al-Ghazali who happened to be in Jerusalem during this period. Ghazali's defense of the Daris' right to the property...
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  • In Our Time is a radio discussion programme exploring a wide variety of historical, scientific, cultural, religious and philosophical topics, broadcast...
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  • Wadi Abu Dom (category Rock art in Africa)
    Several archaeological sites, e.g. Umm Ruweim and the monastery of Ghazali are located at Wadi Abu Dom. In 2011, rock art, some of which is at least 5,000 years...
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    classical mysticism of divine love, as promoted by al-Ghazali and Attar of Nishapur, and finally emerging in the institutionalized form of today's network of...
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    Makuria (category Countries in medieval Africa)
    of 2013 and 2014 in the Ghazali monastery". Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean. 26/1. Obłuski, Arthur (2019). The Monasteries and Monks of Nubia...
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    purposes of marriage which is to have children, as mentioned by Abu Hamid al-Ghazali in his Ihya’ Ulum al-Din. Furthermore, sterilization is considered a form...
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    theological writing, eschatological manuals, whose authors include al-Ghazali, Ibn Kathir, Ibn Majah, Muhammad al-Bukhari, and Ibn Khuzaymah. According...
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    former Pope of Alexandria & Patriarch of the See of St. Mark Mohammed al-Ghazali, Islamic Scholar Hassan Shehata, football manager Karim Hafez, footballer...
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    he was raised in a Muslim environment. His early life he spent in Baghdad, where he became a disciple of the Muslim mystic Ahmad Ghazali, among his fellow...
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  • distinguished philosopher and theologian, al-Ghazali, as a professor. Other Nizamiyyah schools were located in Nishapur, Balkh, Herat, and Isfahan. While...
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    D. 644-656/A.H. 24-35. SUNY press. p. 285. ISBN 978-0-7914-0154-5. Al Ghazali (2015). Muawiyah – Sebuah Biografi Awal. PTS Publications & Distributors...
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  • Bayazid Bastami in Bistam Al-Ghazali Mausoleum in Tus Saadi (poet) Mausoleum in Shiraz Farid-al-Din Attar's Mausoleum in Nishapur Mazare Shahmir Shazdeh...
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    Haruniyeh Dome (category Buildings and structures in Razavi Khorasan province)
    exist today. Next to this building a black stone as the memorial of Al-Ghazali, one of the Iranian mystics of the 13th century. Haruniyeh was built on...
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  • Memorials, list of pyramid mausoleums in North America. This is a list of tombs and mausoleums that are either notable in themselves, or contain the remains...
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    frequently among Isma'ili traditions. In fact, Isma'ilism has been often criticised as non-Islamic.[citation needed] Al-Ghazali characterized them as a group...
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