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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]
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 ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...
Contents. Dhimmi. Dhimmī (Arabic: ذميḏimmī, IPA: [ˈðimmiː], collectively أهل الذمةʾahl aḏ-ḏimmah/dhimmah "the people of the covenant") or muʿāhid (معاهد) is a historical [ 1 ] term for non-Muslims living in an Islamic state with legal protection. [ 1 ][ 2 ]: 470 The word literally means "protected person", [ 3 ...
Jizya (Arabic: جِزْيَة, romanized: jizya), or jizyah, [1] is a type of taxation historically levied on non-Muslim subjects of a state governed by Islamic law. [2] The Quran and hadiths mention jizya without specifying its rate or amount, [3] and the application of jizya varied in the course of Islamic history.
e. Muhammad Ali Jinnah[a] (born Mahomedali Jinnahbhai[b]; 25 December 1876 – 11 September 1948) was a barrister, politician, and the founder of Pakistan. Jinnah served as the leader of the All-India Muslim League from 1913 until the inception of Pakistan on 14 August 1947, and then as the Republic of Pakistan 's first governor-general until ...