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    Al-Kahf (Arabic: الكهف, lit. 'the Cave') is the 18th chapter (sūrah) of the Qur'an with 110 verses (āyāt). Regarding the timing and contextual background...
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    Seven Sleepers (redirect from Ashab al-Kahf)
    Christendom as Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, and in Islam as Aṣḥāb al-Kahf (اصحاب الکهف, aṣḥāb al-kahf, lit. Companions of the Cave), is a late antique Christian...
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  • Mohja Kahf (Arabic: مهجة قحف, born 1967) is a Syrian-American poet, novelist, and professor. She authored Hagar Poems, which won honorable mention in the...
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  • Ashab al-Kahf (Arabic: أصحاب الکهف, lit. 'People of the Cave') is an Iraqi Shia extremist militant group that has been described as a proxy formation...
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    Al-Kahf Castle or the Castle of the Cave (Arabic: قلعة الكهف, romanized: Qalʻat al-Kahf) is a medieval Nizari Isma'ili castle located around 30 kilometres...
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    The Cave of the Seven Sleepers (Arabic: كهف الرقيم, Kahf ar-Raqīm) is an archaeological and religious site in ar-Rajib, a village to the east of Amman...
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    Khidr (redirect from Al Khidr)
    a figure not mentioned by name in the Quran. He is described in Surah Al-Kahf, as a righteous servant of God possessing great wisdom or mystic knowledge...
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    Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq (AAH; Arabic: عصائب أهل الحق Aṣaʾib ʾAhl al-Haqq, "League of the Righteous"), also known as the Khazali Network (Arabic: شبكة الخزعلي)...
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    Assassin power, and included Syrian strongholds at Masyaf, Abu Qubays, al-Qadmus and al-Kahf. The Western world was introduced to the Assassins by the works...
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    qarˈnajn]; lit. "The Owner of Two-Horns") appears in the Qur'an, Surah al-Kahf (18), Ayahs 83–101, as one who travels to the east and west and sets up...
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    Qa'im and the removal of Islamic law. Based at the Nizari strongholds al-Kahf and later Masyaf, he controlled the northern Syrian districts of Jabal...
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    University Press. p. 148. ISBN 978-0-231-70094-8. Malik Ghulam Farid, et al. Al-Kahf, The Holy Quran with English Translation and Commentary Vol. III, p.1479...
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    is recounted by Islam and appears in a famous Sura of the Quran, Sura Al-Kahf. The version recalls a group of young monotheists escaping from persecution...
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    part of the pairing of Gog and Magog (Arabic: Ya'juj wa Ma'juj). In sura Al-Kahf ("The Cave", 18:83–98) of the Quran (early 7th century AD), an individual...
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    militants including a senior commander of the Nujaba Movement, Mushtaq Talib al-Saidi. In February 2024, following U.S. airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, militia...
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    blamed "Zionist-American aggression" for Nasrallah's death while Ashab al Kahf warned that any participants or backers of the attack were part of its...
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  • Kahf), is a 1997 Iranian television series directed by Farajollah Salahshoor. It depicts the story of the Seven Sleepers (mentioned in Surah al-Kahf)...
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    them. — Surah Al-Kahf 18:22 The reason being God declaring He Himself is relating what needs to be verified in another verse of al-Kahf: We relate to...
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    in the Quran in chapter Al-Kahf as Yajuj and Majuj, primitive and immoral tribes that were separated and barriered off by Dhu al-Qarnayn ("He of the Two...
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    frequently identified with Dhu al-Qarnayn (Arabic: ذو القرنين; lit. "The Two-Horned One"), a figure that appears in Surah Al-Kahf in the Quran, the holy text...
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    Kathir. Tafsir Ibn Kathir Juz' 15 (Part 15): Al-Israa (or Bani Isra'il) 1 to Al-Kahf 74. p. 10. al-Masjid al Aqsa is also the sacred house which is in Jerusalem...
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  • surah 18 (Al-Kahf), ayah 22 The reason being God declaring He Himself is relating what needs to be verified in another verse of surah Al-Kahf (18:13) We...
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  • Qitmir (dog) (redirect from Al Rakim)
    the king’s chef, who accepted the Ashābul-Kahf's religious views, and brought Qitmir with him. In Al-Kahf, the following is mentioned: And you would...
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    Dhu al-Qarnayn (in Arabic ذو القرنين, literally "The Two-Horned One"; also transliterated as Zul-Qarnain or Zulqarnain) is mentioned in Surah al-Kahf of...
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    Quran Surah Al-Kahf "Surat Al-Kahf (18:9–26)". The Holy Qur'an – القرآن الكريم. Renda, G'nsel (1978). "The Miniatures of the Zubdat Al- Tawarikh". Turkish...
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  • Resistance (Persian: محور مقاومت Mehvar-e Moqâvemat; Arabic: محور المقاومة Miḥwar al-Muqāwamah) is a network of Iranian-backed militias and political groups in...
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    Companions of the Cave," Moses and His Servant, and Dhū 'l-Qarnayn in Sūrat al-Kahf". Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association. 6 (1): 146–147...
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    "Surah Al-Kahf - 60". Quran.com. Retrieved 2023-07-14. Tabari, History of the Prophets and Kings, Vol. I: 414–429, 498–499, 503–516 Muhammad Al-Munajjid...
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    the only ones named in the version of the story appearing in Quran Sura al-Kahf (The Cave) 18:89, while the 14th-century work The Travels of Sir John Mandeville...
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  • Thumbnail for Eshab-ı Kehf Cave
    is named after the Persian word اصحاب کهف ("Ashāb-i Kahf") itself from the Arabic "aṣḥāb al-kahf", "people of the cave", for the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus...
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