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The Mashriq ( / məˈʃriːk /; Arabic: ْاَلْمَشْرِق, romanized : al-Mashriq, lit. 'the east'), also known as the Arab Mashriq ( Arabic: اَلْمَشْرِقُ الْعَرَبِيُّ ), sometimes spelled Mashreq or Mashrek, is a term used by Arabs to refer to the eastern part of the Arab world, as opposed to the Maghreb (western ...
892/.736 20. LC Class. PJ7846.A46 R513 1992. The Journey of Ibn Fattouma (Arabic:رحلة ابن فطومة) is an intermittently provocative fable written and published by Nobel Prize -winning author Naguib Mahfouz in 1983. [1] It was translated from Arabic into English in 1992 by Denys Johnson-Davies and published by Doubleday.
Iqbal's 1924 publication, the Payam-e-Mashriq پیامِ مشرق (The Message of the East), is closely connected to the West-östlicher Diwan by the German poet Goethe. Goethe bemoans the West having become too materialistic in outlook, and expects the East will provide a message of hope to resuscitate spiritual values.
Maghrebi script or Maghribi script ( Arabic: الخط المغربي) refers to a loosely related family of Arabic scripts that developed in the Maghreb (North Africa), al-Andalus ( Iberia ), and Bilad as-Sudan (the West African Sahel ). Maghrebi script is directly derived from the Kufic script, [ 1][ 2][ 3] and is traditionally written with a ...
Urdu inscription on an obelisk in Barton about the First World War. Urdu in the United Kingdom ( Urdu: برطانیہ میں اردو) is the fourth most commonly spoken language. It is seen as the lingua franca for around two million British South Asians. [ 1] According to the 2021 census, 270,000 people (0.5% of UK residents) listed Urdu as ...
Abī ’l-Faḍl Jaʿfar b. al-Muʿtamid ( Arabic: أبو القاسم هبة الله بن أبي الفضل جعفر بن المعتمد ), known as Ibn Sanāʾ al-Mulk ( ابن سناء الملك ), was a 12th-century Egyptian qāḍi, poet, scholar interested in the Andalusi muwaššaḥ. [1] [2] He published Dār aṭ-ṭirāz fī ʿamal ...
The term Maghrib is used in opposition to Mashriq in a sense near to that which it had in medieval times, but it also denotes simply Morocco when the full al-Maghrib al-Aqsa is abbreviated. Certain politicians seek a political union of the North African countries, which they call al-Maghrib al-Kabir (the grand Maghrib) or al-Maghrib al-Arabi ...
Message from the East. Payam-i-Mashriq ( Persian: پیامِ مشرق, or Message from the East, published in Persian) is a philosophical poetic work written by Muhammad Iqbal and published in 1923 as a reply to Goethe 's West-östlicher Diwan .