- ilite
- is·ma·ilite;
English syllables. 2014.
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ilite — facilite habilite milite réhabilite … Dictionnaire des rimes
ilité — acceptabilité accessibilité adaptabilité admissibilité affabilité agilité aliénabilité altérabilité amabilité amovibilité applicabilité appréciabilité audibilité aéromobilité biodégradabilité calculabilité cessibilité civilité coagulabilité… … Dictionnaire des rimes
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Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn al- — ▪ Persian scholar in full Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al Ḥasan al Ṭūsī born Feb. 18, 1201, Ṭūs, Khorāsān [now Iran] died June 26, 1274, Baghdad, Iraq outstanding Persian philosopher, scientist, and mathematician. Educated first in Ṭūs … Universalium
assassin — /euh sas in/, n. 1. a murderer, esp. one who kills a politically prominent person for fanatical or monetary reasons. 2. (cap.) one of an order of Muslim fanatics, active in Persia and Syria from about 1090 to 1272, whose chief object was to… … Universalium
Niẓām al-Mulk — orig. Abū ʽAlī Ḥasan ibn ʽAlī born с 1018/19, Ṭūs, Khorāsān, Iran died Oct. 14, 1092, Nahāvand Persian vizier of the Turkish Seljūq dynasty sultans. He worked for the rulers of the Ghaznavid dynasty before serving Alp Arslan as governor of… … Universalium
Ḥasan-e Ṣabbāḥ — ▪ Islamic religious leader died 1124, Daylam, Iran leader of an Islamic sect, the Nizārī Ismāʿīlites, and commonly believed to be the founder of the order known as the Assassins (Assassin). Ḥasan studied theology in the Iranian city… … Universalium
Shīʿite — ▪ Islam Introduction Arabic Shīʿī, collective Shīʿah member of the smaller of the two major branches of Islam, distinguished from the majority Sunnis (Sunnite). Early development Early in the history of Islam, the Shīʿites were a… … Universalium
Arabia, history of — Introduction history of the region from prehistoric times to the present. Some time after the rise of Islam in the first quarter of the 7th century AD and the emergence of the Arabian (Arab) Muslims as the founders of one of the great … Universalium
Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, Abū Mūsā — ▪ Arabian alchemist Introduction born c. 721, Ṭūs, Iran died c. 815, Al Kūfah, Iraq alchemist (alchemy) known as the father of Arab chemistry. He systematized a “quantitative” analysis of substances and was the inspiration for Geber, a… … Universalium
