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Postage stamp of the USSR, issued on the 1100th anniversary of the birth of Al-Farabi (1975). Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi (Arabic: أبو نصر محمد الفارابي, romanized: Abū Naṣr Muḥammad al-Fārābī; c. 870 [1] [H] — 14 December 950–12 January 951), [2] known in the Latin West as Alpharabius, [3] [I] was an early Islamic philosopher and music theorist. [4]
Benjamin Franklin — George Washington The First U.S. Postage Stamps, issued 1847. The first stamp issues were authorized by an act of Congress and approved on March 3, 1847.[20] The earliest known use of the Franklin 5¢ is July 7, 1847, while the earliest known use of the Washington 10¢ is July 2, 1847.
James Montgomery Flagg (2001) Illustrator [5] Henry Ford on a 1968 stamp. Father Edward J. Flanagan (1986) Orphan advocate. Henry Fonda (2005) Actor [15] Lynn Fontanne (1999) Actress [3][38] Betty Ford (2024) First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977 [52] Gerald Ford (2007) President of the United States [49][51] Henry Ford (1968 ...
The U.S. Postal Service said on Friday it will not hike stamp prices in January for the first time since January 2022 after a series of price hikes in recent years. USPS in July hiked the price of ...
e. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan KCSI, FRAS (17 October 1817 – 27 March 1898), also spelled Sayyid Ahmad Khan, was an Indian Muslim reformer, [1][2][3] philosopher, and educationist [4] in nineteenth-century British India. [5][6] Though initially espousing Hindu–Muslim unity, he later became the pioneer of Muslim nationalism in India and is widely ...
Islamic calendar stamp issued at King Khalid International Airport on 10 Rajab 1428 AH (24 July 2007 CE). The Hijri calendar (Arabic: ٱلتَّقْوِيم ٱلْهِجْرِيّ, romanized: al-taqwīm al-hijrī), or Arabic calendar also known in English as the Muslim calendar and Islamic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days.
v. t. e. Ibn Sina (Persian: ابن سینا, romanized: Ibn Sīnā; c. 980 – 22 June 1037 CE), commonly known in the West as Avicenna (/ ˌævɪˈsɛnə, ˌɑːvɪ -/), was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world, [4][5] flourishing during the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers. [6]
Muslim scholars were endowed and separated from the state, which they became very critical of. The state needed the scholars to legitimize their rule while the scholars did not need the state. Thus, the scholars were generally independent, with some bumps in history like the mihna being the exception rather than the rule.