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Azazeel

عزازيل

Youssef Ziedan's IPAF-winning novel about a fifth-century Egyptian monk accompanying Nestorius — theological fiction that stirred church controversy.

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1990200020102020

LiteratureIslam and Christianity

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al-Qullays (the Yemeni Kaaba)· al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant· Arab naming of children after plants· The delegation of Banu Tamim and the boasting contest· The delegation of Najran· Adi ibn Hatim's flight to Syria, his coming to the Prophet and his conversion· Ka'b ibn Zuhayr's pardon and recitation of Banat Su'ad· Khuza'a's appeal to Medina

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al-Qullays (the Yemeni Kaaba)

The church Abraha built in Yemen to divert the Arabs’ pilgrimage from Mecca — the ambition that led to the elephant campaign. Al-Hamdani's native tradition names it, with Ghumdan, the twin monument of Sana'a and ascribes its building to Bilqis.