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    Sultan al-Atrash (Arabic: سلطان الأطرش, romanized: Sulṭān al-ʾAṭrash; 5 March 1891 – 26 March 1982) was a Syrian nationalist revolutionary who led the...
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  • The al-Atrash (Arabic: الأطرش‎ al-Aṭrash), also known as Bani al-Atrash, is a Druze clan based in Jabal Hauran in southwestern Syria. The family's name...
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    destroyed the house of Sultan al-Atrash in Al-Qurayya in late August 1922 in response to his attack on their forces, then Sultan al-Atrash led the Druze rebels...
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    support of Atrash's father, Sultan. In the year Shishakli was overthrown, Atrash was elected to parliament and turned down an offer to serve in Said al-Ghazzi's...
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  • issues, shaping her world view from a young age. Al Atrash also points to her grandfather, Sultan al-Atrash, as a source of inspiration for her work. As a...
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    Asmahan (redirect from Amal al-Atrash)
    Amal al-Atrash (Arabic: آمال الأطرش Āmāl al-Aṭrash, North Levantine Arabic pronunciation: [(ʔ)æːmæːl lˈ(ʔ)ætˤrɑʃ]; November 25, 1912 – July 14, 1944)...
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  • Adib Shishakli removes Sami al-Hinnawi from power The 1954 Syrian coup d'état, former president Atassi and Sultan al-Atrash overthrew the government of...
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    leadership of Sultan al-Atrash, the Druze provided much of the military force behind the Great Syrian Revolt of 1925–27. In 1945, Amir Hasan al-Atrash, the paramount...
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    commemorates anticolonial figures such as Sultan al-Atrash, who was a prominent Druze chieftain. Aymenn Al-Tamimi (13 November 2013). "The Druze Militias...
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  • The Sultan Pasha al-Atrash Battalion (Arabic: كتيبة سلطان باشا الاطرش) was an armed Syrian rebel group affiliated with the Free Syrian Army that operated...
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    Majdal Shams (redirect from Majd-al Shams)
    the Great Syrian Revolt of 1925–1927 that was led by Druze leader Sultan Al-Atrash, who is commemorated by several monuments in the city. Beginning in...
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  • Jabal al-Druze. The other two sheikhs, Mit'ib and Sultan al-Atrash, had refused the invitation, and upon learning of the arrest of his kinsmen, Sultan began...
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    World War, the Ottomans left Jabal al-Druze in peace as they feared rebellion. Sultan al-Atrash, son of Zuqan al-Atrash, was then able to get in touch with...
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    and Bedouin rebels led by Sultan Pasha al-Atrash and a heavily armed French force of the Army of the Levant near the town of al-Mazraa, around 12 kilometres...
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    of his first acts as ruler was to visit Sultan al-Atrash, father of the Aflaqite Ba'athist Mansur al-Atrash, to honor his efforts during the Great Arab...
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    he participated in the Franco-Syrian War in 1920, where he had met Sultan al-Atrash. Khanjar joined a guerrilla band led by famous Syrian revolutionist...
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    began in Jabal al-Druze under the leadership of Sultan al-Atrash, and quickly spread to Damascus and other non-Druze areas outside the Jabal al-Druze region...
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    Druze (redirect from Ahl al-Tawhīd)
    leadership of Sultan Pasha al-Atrash, the Druze provided much of the military force behind the Syrian Revolution of 1925–27. In 1945, Amir Hasan al-Atrash, the...
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    Khanjar Saleh Al-Ali Fawzi al-Qawuqji Ibrahim Hananu Ayyash Al-Haj Sultan Al-Atrash Saleh Al-Ali Hasan al-Kharrat Fawzi al-Qawuqji Wikimedia Commons has...
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  • movement were former President Atassi and the veteran Druze leader Sultan al-Atrash. Colonel Adib Shishakli came to power by a coup in December 1949, forming...
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    1925, Sultan al-Atrash led a revolt that broke out in the Druze Mountain and spread to engulf the whole of Syria and parts of Lebanon. Al-Atrash won several...
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  • The Epistles of Wisdom (Arabic: رَسَائِل ٱلْحِكْمَة, romanized: Rasāʾil al-Ḥikma) is a corpus of sacred texts and pastoral letters by teachers of the Druze...
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    Khidr (redirect from Al Khidr)
    Al-Khidr (/ˈxɪdər/, Arabic: ٱلْخَضِر, romanized: al-Khaḍir; also Romanized as al-Khadir, Khader, Khidr, Hidr, Khizr, Kezr, Kathir, Khazer, Khadr, Khedher...
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    1925, al-Kafr became the site of the Battle of al-Kafr, in which the forces of Sultan al-Atrash routed a French army column sent to defeat Sultan's men...
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  • rebel force led by Sultan al-Atrash. The party was represented at the 6th Congress of the Communist International in 1928 by Fu'ad al-Shimali. It was also...
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  • of 1957 Military history of Syria The revolt was effectively led by Sultan al-Atrash Wall, Irwin M. The United States and the Making of Postwar France,...
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  • by Sultan Pasha, al-Qurayya served as the chief meeting place for the sheikhs of local rebel clans. Sultan al-Atrash Mansur al-Atrash Farid al-Atrash General...
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  • Isma'ilism in Cairo during the reign of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah. According to Hamza, al-Hakim was God made manifest. Despite opposition from...
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    as "Abu al-Kitabayn" ("the father of the two books"; that is, the Bible and the Quran), and Ali is said to have referred to him as "Luqman al-Hakeem"...
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  • Eid al-Adha (Arabic: عيد الأضحى, romanized: ʿĪd al-ʾAḍḥā, lit. 'Feast of Sacrifice') is the second of the two main holidays in Islam alongside Eid al-Fitr...
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