This is exposed in spectacular cliffs like the site of Petra in Jordan.
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Abd al-Uzza is a theophoric Arabic name that means servant of Al-‘Uzzá, one of the pre-Islamic Arabian divinities.
Ahmed Zaki Yamani (born in 1930), former Saudi Arabian oil minister
He was the leader of Indian contingent, which was invited to Saudi Arabia by the then Saudi Arabian King, Shah Faesal in 1967.
Thematically, the land of Zakhara is a blend of the historical Arabian Empire, the stories of legend, and a wealth of Hollywood cinematic history.
Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabian politician and petroleum and mineral minister
She also served as director of the Arabian Racing Publishing Company, the United Way, and the James Madison Institute.
The Arab Revolt, a revolt against Ottoman rule of the Arabian Peninsula.
The city is famous for its chateau and its stud farm, the Pompadour National Anglo-Arab Stud, headquarters of the French National Stud and France's principal production centre of Anglo-Arabian horses.
The Arabian Leopard is classified as Critically Endangered in the IUCN Red List and listed in CITES Appendix 1.
Beni Ḥassān (Arabic: بني حسان "sons of Ḥassān") were a nomadic group of Arabian origin, one of the four sub-tribes of the Maqil Arabian tribes who emigrated in the 11th century to the Maghreb with the Bani Hilal and Banu Sulaym Arabs.
Another stallion from this purchase was Kuhailan Haifi, sire of the stallion Ofir, who stood at the Polish State Stud at Janów Podlaski and had a far-reaching influence on the breeding of Arabian horses worldwide through his offspring, including his son Witez II and grandson Bask.
Starring the very famous Arab actor Duraid Lahham, it is considered one of the most famous Arabian plays, and been played and broadcast in different Arabian states.
After sacking the port of Aidhab the expedition crossed back over to the eastern (Arabian) shore and attacked ports along the coast from Rabigh (90 miles north of Jeddah) to al-Haura.
Major R. E. Cheesman was the first man to map the Arabian coast from the Gulf of Salwa to Uqair.
GDRT is first mentioned in South Arabian inscriptions as an ally of `Alhan Nahfan, king of Saba, in an inscription at Maḥram Bilqīs, at Ma'rib in Yemen, the temple of the moon god Almaqah /Ilmuqah.
The breeding of the Deutsche Reitpony began around 1965, by crossbreeding various English pony breeds, especially Welsh ponies, on Arabians, Anglo-Arabians and Thoroughbreds.
The western side of the Gilf Kebir was explored in 1932 by the Clayton-Almásy Expedition, headed by Sir Robert East Clayton and Count László E. Almásy, and accompanied by Patrick A. Clayton, Squadron Leader H. W. G. J. Penderel, three Arabian car drivers and a cook.
In a send-up of the "gong show" set in an Arabian palace (similar to the gong show in I Love to Singa), the short opens with a band Timbuk Two Plus 3 playing Sweet Georgia Brown trying to entertain the sultan, with the performance ending with the floor being dropped out from under them, sending the band into a crocodile pit below.
He sometimes played the piano (he was self-taught) and also liked to sing songs of various Arabian artists, such as Umm Kulthum.
By 1940, there were sixteen stallions at this stud farm, among them two Anglo-Arabians and four Anglo-Norman, and others were crosses from Anglo-Norman and Percheron.
The Darley Arabian sired Flying Childers and he was the great-great-grandsire of the stallion Eclipse.
Fred Donner, in his book The Early Islamic Conquests (1981), argues that the standard Arabian practice during the early Caliphates was for the prominent men of a kinship group, or tribe, to gather after a leader's death and elect a leader from amongst themselves, although there was no specified procedure for this shura, or consultative assembly.
It was most prominently achieved during the 7th century Arabian Muslim conquests which spread the Arabic language, culture, and—having been carried out by Arabian Muslims as opposed to Arab Christians or Arabic speaking Jews—the religion of Islam to the lands they conquered.
Her breakthrough role was playing the Arabian genie Majida in the popular CITV Adventure gameshow Knightmare for 2 years (until the shows end) from 1993–1994, taking over from David Learner who played the wood elf "Pickle".
A medium height horse is preferred because tall horses are not quick to maneuver, therefore most suitable ones are Arabian and Turkoman horses.
During his tenure as Europe Editor of BusinessWeek, Rossant took a year’s sabbatical in order to write a biography of the Saudi Arabian businessman and investor Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal.
After a short spell at the Cathedral School in Trondheim, he returned to Christiania to study Semitic languages, in particular Akkadian, Arabian and Hebrew, the latter of which he also gave lectures on.
Al Khamsa, a bloodline for Arabian horses that traces back to five mares
The economy required a more powerful pony than was found in the area, so in 1944 the Arabian, Yili, Hequ, Kabarda and small type Ardennes were introduced.
During the time that Michael Brown, of Hurricane Katrina fame served as the judge's and stewards commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association (now the Arabian Horse Association, Boggs was accused of participating in unnecessary cosmetic surgery on a number of horses, including surgery on the throatlatch on Magnum Psyche, which Boggs claimed was not cosmetic, but necessary to address a cribbing problem.
In 1812, when the Junqueira family moved to São Paulo state, the topography, the forest, the local culture and the different species of deer to hunt, forced them to seek for a horse with different characteristics, by the selection or crossing, and so they started to breed the Mangalarga horse with Thoroughbred, Arabian, and American Saddlebred stallions plus a Saddlebred mare and one Lusitano stallion.
The Minnesota Arabian Horse Association (MAHA) was founded in 1955 for anyone associated with the Arabian Horse in Minnesota.
Publisher William Randolph Hearst had an extensive Arabian breeding program and a short-lived, but important, Morgan program, which included a program of breeding Morabs.
As English renderings of great eastern classics these are in the same league as Fitzgerald’s Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, "Arabian Nights" of Richard Francis Burton or Edwin Arnold’s "Light of Asia".
Ali Al-Naimi, Saudi Arabian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources
The two parts were British Forces Arabian Peninsular, which was based at Aden, and the rump of Middle East Command which was based in Cyprus and which on 1 March 1961 was renamed Near East Command.
The Old South Arabian languages were originally classified (partly on the basis of geography) as South Semitic, along with Arabic, Modern South Arabian and Ethiopian Semitic; more recently however, a new classification has come in use which places Old South Arabian, along with Arabic, Ugaritic, Aramaic and Canaanite in a Central Semitic group; leaving Modern South Arabian and Ethiopic in a separate group.
One of the largest populations of Arabian oryx exists on Sir Bani Yas Island in the United Arab Emirates.
After the prophet Mohammed and his testator heir and successor Abu Bakr (+634) established the theocratic rule of Islam on the mostly of the sparsely populated Arabian peninsula, the armies of the next caliphs victoriously planted the green banner of the new religion in the vast territories conquered from the neighboring giaur (infidel) empires of Persia and Byzantium.
Khat or Qat, a flowering plant native to the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula
Her short story "One Thousand Braids and a Governess" has been translated into English and published in "Voices of Change: short stories by Saudi Arabian women writers" edited by Abubaker Bagader, Ava M. Heinrichsdorff, Deborah Akers Her birth in Mecca and her family background is highly influential to her work and outlook.
Cheesman was the first man to map the Arabian coast from the Gulf of Salwa to Uqair.
They left behind many inscriptions in the monumental Musnad (Old South Arabian) alphabet, as well as numerous documents in the cursive Zabūr script.
She has Saudi Arabian and American dual nationality and is currently a student at Pepperdine University in Los Angeles County, California.
Colotis evagore, a species of Colotis endemic to tropical Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and Spain
While the Arabian Tahr of Oman and the Nilgiri Tahr of South India both have small ranges and are considered endangered, the Himalayan Tahr remains relatively widespread in the Himalayas, and has been introduced to the Southern Alps of New Zealand.
He married Kathleen Elizabeth Ray on November 18, 1937 shortly before heading off to Saudi Arabia by himself for what ended up being three years exploring potential oil sites in the Saudi Arabian desert along with fellow American geologists Max Steineke, Jerry Harriss, Ernie Berg and others as well as a group of Bedouin guides headed by Khamis bin Rimthan of the Ajman tribe.
The Trans-Arabian Pipeline (Tapline), was an oil pipeline from Qaisumah in Saudi Arabia to Sidon in Lebanon.
Wadd is the pre-Islamic Arabian god of love and friendship.