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    Fakir, faqeer, or faqīr (/fəˈkɪər/; Arabic: فقیر (noun of faqr)), derived from faqr (Arabic: فقر, 'poverty'), is an Islamic term traditionally used for...
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    Azan Faqir (redirect from Hazrat Azan Fakir)
    Malik states that Azan Fakir was a preacher with profound mastery over the Qur’an, the Hadith and Islamic philosophy. Azan Fakir was a disciple of Khwaja...
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  • and Telugu. Lorenzen, D.N. (1978). "Warrior Ascetics in Indian History". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 98 (1). American Oriental Society: 617–75...
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    Fakir Chand College in Diamond Harbour, West Bengal, India, is a liberal arts, science and commerce college, situated 45 kilometres (28 mi) from Kolkata...
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    Instituto Camões 2006: National Geographic Society 2007: Nature and Science journals 2008: Google 2009: National Autonomous University of Mexico 2010: Alain...
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  • Fakir Syed Aijazuddin OBE is a Pakistani historian, academic and business executive. From November 2007 to April 2008, he served as Punjab's interim Minister...
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  • Fakir Abdul Mannan (1901, Gazipur - 1994) was a Bangladeshi lawyer and the former Minister of Agriculture of East Pakistan. Mannan was involved in the...
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    1918), also known as Shirdi Sai Baba, was an Indian spiritual master and fakir, considered to be a saint, revered by both Hindu and Muslim devotees during...
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  • Fakir Baykurt or born Tahir Baykurt (15 June 1929 – 11 October 1999) was a Turkish author and trade unionist. Fakir Baykurt was born Tahir on 15 June...
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    noted for the bestselling French novel The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe, which has been translated into English...
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  • good amounts of agricultural land and some of them became local zamindars. Fakir Mohan Senapati, while quoting Abul Fazal, mentioned Khandayats as a landowning...
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    Tropical Cyclone Fakir was a short-lived yet damaging tropical cyclone that affected Réunion and Mauritius in late April 2018. The eighth tropical system...
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    suspensions in the 70s and 80s, including hanging himself between skyscrapers, Fakir Musafar (Roland Loomis), and singer Miguel. The process is very delicate...
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    Archaeologist, 1895, pp. 1–3. —. 1897 – "Life History of an Aghori Fakir". Journal of the Anthropological Institute, May 1897, pp. 340–57. —. 1898 – "Notes...
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    Work" (connoting work on oneself) and is additional to the ways of the Fakirs (Sufis), Monks and Yogis, so that his student P. D. Ouspensky referred to...
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    authority. The Fakir brothers were trusted personal advisors and assistants as well as close friends to Ranjit Singh, particularly Fakir Azizuddin, who...
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    hdl:10603/45142. Retrieved May 15, 2020. "Fakir Alamgir performs live on RTV". The Daily Star. February 26, 2010. "Fakir Alamgir holds sway". The Daily Star...
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    and colleges and the Fakir Mohan University, named after novelist Fakir Mohan Senapati who hails from this town of Odisha. Fakir Mohan Medical College...
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    "François Ozon et son Amant Double, virtuose schizophrénie" (in French). Le Journal des femmes. Retrieved 16 March 2024. Frey, Meaghan (27 February 2020)....
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    language. Some of its founding members were Madhusudan Rao, Radhanath Ray, Fakir Mohan Senapati, Gopal Chandra Praharaj, and Mrutunjay Rath. Radhanath Ray...
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  • Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 2024-07-21. Farber, Jim (22 July 2024). "Duke Fakir, Last Surviving Member of the Four Tops, Dies at 88". The New York Times...
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    honorable to die fighting than surrender without a struggle. Conversely, Fakir Azizuddin recommended appeasement to avoid hostilities. The Maharajah ultimately...
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    and his two wives, Navbahaar and Dilbahaar, who are childless; soon, a fakir (Muhammad Wazir Khan) tells the king that the former wife will give birth...
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  • Cultural Heritage of [Orissa]: pts. 1-2. Katak. State Level Vyasakabi Fakir Mohan Smruti Samsad. 2002. ISBN 978-81-902761-5-3. Williams, Joanna Gottfried...
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    Comics character and companion to Thor, is based on Falstaff. "Falstaff, Fakir" is the alter ego of author Axel Wallengren, a name chosen to juxtapose...
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    Commons has media related to Dervishes. Derviş, a variant of the spelling Fakir Qalandariyya The Tale of the Four Dervishes Qissa Chahar Dervish Death and...
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    Orissa Historical Research Journal. Superintendent of Research and Museum. 1993. Harish Chandra Das; State Level Vyasakabi Fakir Mohan Smruti Samsad (2003)...
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    tie-off or fishing line method. In 1997 she was featured on the cover of Fakir Musafar's Body Play Magazine. A sideshow performer named Erik Sprague, known...
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    before the album Half and Half was released. He told the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 2009, "I had had it up to here with the traveling and changing clothes...
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    nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the...
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