Razi or Al-Razi is the title of several Iranian scholars who were born in the town of Rey, Iran. "Razi" in Persian denotes a person that is from Rey, Iran. Some of the scholars with the al-Razi includ ...
Main article: Brethren of Purity § IdentitiesAuthorship of the Encyclopedia is usually ascribed to the mysterious "Brethren of Purity" (Persian: akhavan al-Safa), a group of Persian scholars placed i ...
Main article: Battle of Basra (2003)In March through to May 2003, the outskirts of Basra were the scene of some of the heaviest fighting in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. British forces, led by the 7th Ar ...
The city was called by many names throughout its history, Basrah being the most common. In Arabic the word basrah means 'the overwatcher', which might have been an allusion to the city's origin as an ...
The Arabic phrase Ikhwan al-Safa (short for, among many possible transcriptions, Ikhwān a?-?afā? wa Khullān al-Wafā wa Ahl al-?amd wa abnā? al-Majd, meaning "Brethren of Purity, Loyal Friend ...
History of Muslim historians Science of biography, science of hadith, and Isnad Further information: Science of hadith, Hadith terminology, Prophetic biography and Biographical evaluationMuslim histor ...
Rabanus was born of noble parents in Mainz. The date of his birth remains uncertain, but in 801 he received a deacon's order at Fulda in Hesse, where he had been sent to school. In the following year, ...
Traditional historiography has seen the Carolingian assumption of kingship as the product of a long rise to power, punctuated even by a premature attempt to seize the throne through Childebert the Ado ...
Etymologiae presents in abbreviated form much of that part of the learning of antiquity that Christians thought worth preserving. Etymologies, often very far-fetched, form the subject of just one of t ...
Isidore was probably born in Cartagena, Spain to Severianus and Theodora. His father belonged to a Hispano-Roman family of high social rank while his mother was of Visigothic origin and apparently, wa ...
In the year of 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius erupted in one of the most catastrophic and famous eruptions of all time. Historians have learned about the eruption from the eyewitness account of Pliny the Young ...
Vesuvius has a long historic and literary tradition. It was considered a divinity of the Genius type at the time of the eruption of 79 AD: it appears under the inscribed name Vesuvius as a serpent in ...
According to the founding myth of Rome, the city was founded on 21 April 753 BC by twin brothers Romulus and Remus, who descended from the Trojan prince Aeneas and who were grandsons of the Latin King ...
The beginnings of the modern idea of the general-purpose, widely distributed printed encyclopedia precede the 18th century encyclopedists. However, Chambers' Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Ar ...
Ancient times Encyclopedias have existed for around 2,000 years.Marcus Terentius Varro Marcus Terentius Varro (/?mɑrk?s t??r?n??s ?v?ro?/; 116 BC – 27 BC) was an ancient Roman scholar and ...
