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Al-Qayrawani relates that at the time of the conquest of Hippo Zaritus (Arabic: Bizerta) by Hasan ibn al-Nu'man in 698 the governor of that district was a Jew. When Tunis came under the dominion of the Arabs , or of the Arabian caliphate of Baghdad , another influx of Arabic-speaking Jews from the Levant into Tunis took place.
Al-Lawatia. Al-Lawatia ( Arabic: اللواتية; Sindhi: لا واٽي, sing. Lawati) is a prominent merchant tribe mainly based in the province of Muscat, Oman who are the speakers of the Luwati language, which is a Sindhi based language. There are around 30,000 Luwatis (or 1% of Omanis) in Oman. [1]
The House of Busaid ( Arabic: آل بوسعيد, Arabic pronunciation: [aːl buː sa.ʕiːd] ), also known as Al Said dynasty, is the current ruling royal house of the Oman, and former ruling royal house of the Omani Empire (1744–1856), Sultanate of Muscat and Oman (1856–1970) and the Sultanate of Zanzibar (1856–1964). [1]
Habib Umar bin Hafiz ( Arabic: حبيب عمر بن حفيظ, romanized : Ḥabīb ʿUmar bin Ḥafīẓ; Arabic pronunciation: [ħabiːb ʕumar bin ħafiːðˤ]; born 27 May 1963) is a Yemeni Sunni and Sufi Islamic scholar, teacher, and founder and dean of Dar al-Mustafa Islamic seminary. [3] He also a member of the Supreme Advisory Council ...
Khasab ( Arabic: خَصَب, romanized :Ḫaṣab) is a town and local capital of the Musandam Governorate which is an exclave of Oman bordering the United Arab Emirates at the tip of the Musandam Peninsula by the Strait of Hormuz. It has been dubbed the " Norway of Arabia " because of its extensive fjord -like craggy inlets and desolate ...
Bank Al Habib Limited ( بینک الحبیب لمٹیڈ) is a Pakistani commercial bank owned by the Dawood Habib Family and is based in Karachi, Pakistan. It is one of the largest banks in Pakistan. [2] The bank has a branch network of over 1,100 branches in 400+ cities across Pakistan, with six branches in countries across the world.
The Jebel Akhdar War (Arabic: حرب الجبل الأخضر, romanized: Ḥarb al-Jebel el-ʾAkhḍar, lit. 'the Green Mountain War'), also known as the Jebel Akhdar Rebellion or the Oman War (Arabic: حرب عمان, romanized: Ḥarb ʻumān), broke out in 1954 and again in 1957 in Oman, as an effort by the local Omanis in the interior of Oman led by their elected Imam, Ghalib al-Hinai, to ...
The Aflaj Irrigation Systems of Oman are ancient water channels from 500 AD located in the regions of Dakhiliyah, Sharqiyah and Batinah. However, they represent a type of irrigation system as old as 5,000 years in the region named as qanat or kariz as originally named in Persia .