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unusual facts about Muadamiyat al-Sham


Muadamiyat al-Sham

During the Syrian civil war Moadamiyah was encircled and besieged by pro-government forces from April 2013, and was one of the areas of Damascus hit by a sarin attack on 21 August 2013 (Ghouta chemical attack).


Abd al-Rahman al-Awza'i

The reason why the people of Morocco took up the madhhab of Imam Malik, is that the people of Morocco and Spain were originally upon the madhhab of al-Awza’i, and likewise the Sham, from where they were conquered.

Abu al-Misk Kafur

Abu al-Misk Kafur (905–968), also called al-Laithi, al-Suri, al-Labi was a dominant personality of Ikhshidid Egypt and Syria.

Al-Kawthari

After the fall of the Ottoman Empire Kawthari moved to Cairo, then Sham, then returned to Cairo where he edited and brought back into circulation countless classical books of fiqh, hadith, and usul.

Al-Suyuti

As-Suyuti traveled to Sham, Tihamah, Hijaz, Yemen, India and Morocco, and settled down towards the end of his life in his homeland of Egypt.

Albert Cossery

In 1998, he told Abdallah Naaman: "We are the "Shawams" (Syro-Lebanese, referring to the Bilad al-Sham) of Egypt. My father is a Greek Orthodox native of the village of al-Qusayr, near Homs, in Syria. Upon arriving in Cairo at the end of the 19th century, our surname's pronunciation was simplified to "Cossery" (from "Qusayri")."

Battles of New Ulm

William Watts Folwell, a Minnesota historian Bill Peterson, remarked, "This was no sham battle, no trivial affair, but an heroic defense of a beleaguered town against a much superior force."

Biełastok

The accused were subjected to sham trials, sentenced to death and murdered in the nearby Krivosheino.

Brad Sham

In addition to this, Sham has done NFL play-by-play for the NFL on Westwood One, the NFL on Fox and TNT Sunday Night Football.

Castle Hill, Filleigh

This was built in 1992 by Lady Margaret Fortescue, on the site of the former Sham Village, in memory of her only brother Viscount Ebrington, who was killed in action with the Royal Scots Greys at the Battle of El Alamein in Egypt, in 1942, aged 21, and whose mural memorial marble tablet can be seen in the Fortescue Chapel in Filleigh Church.

Committee on Judicial Accountability

Anil B. Divan said "The aforementioned new bill is worse than the old Judges Inquiry Act and it needs to be scrapped in toto. This new bill is nothing but a sham".

Geoffry Northcote

Meanwhile, the Japanese army also started encroaching upon Sham Chun (Shenzhen), leading the Hong Kong government to adopt various measures to cope with the emergency, such as the construction of air-raid shelters and blackout practices.

Henry IV of Castile

One of Henry's detractors, the historiographer Alfonso de Palencia wrote that the marriage had been a sham and accused Henry of despising his wife and planning to commit adultery to bear children.

Huang Qi

Following Huang's imprisonment, fellow human rights activist and pundit Liu Dan authored a piece on Huang's Tianwang website condemning Chinese President Hu Jintao's Harmonious Society ideology, saying that it was a "sham" in the face of Huang Qi's sentencing.

IDate a Bad Boy

This episode features two parodies: The Sham-Pow is a parody of the ShamWow and Pee-Wee Babies are a parody of Beanie Babies.

Illusions perdues

Lucien is about to commit suicide when he is approached by a sham Jesuit priest, the Abbé Carlos Herrera: this, in another guise, is the escaped convict Vautrin whom Balzac had already presented in Le Père Goriot.

Kanao Inouye

Made a sergeant, he was assigned to Sham Shui Po prison camp in Hong Kong, which housed Canadian prisoners of war from the Hong Kong Garrison.

Lee Ka Yiu

Lee joined Yokohama FC Hong Kong in July 2012, alongside former Sham Shui Po manager Lee Chi Kin and other Sham Shui Po players.

Malik ibn al-Haytham al-Khuza'i

After the suppression of the revolt of Abdallah ibn Ali against Caliph al-Mansur (r. 754–775) in Syria in 754, the long-simmering tension between Abu Muslim—who had come to rule Khurasan as a near-sovereign prince, practically independent of the Abbasid family—and al-Mansur came to the fore.

Maronites

A number of Maronite historians claim that their people were the descendants of the Canaanites or Phoenicians, or also the Mardaites, residents in parts of Caliphate province of Bilad al-Sham, who kept their identity under both Byzantine and Arab authorities.

Mock Mayor

Examples of this practice can be found in Penzance, Cornwall; Polperro, Cornwall; Mylor, Cornwall; St Germans, Cornwall; Woodstock, Oxfordshire; Barton, Gloucester; and Helston, Cornwall (where the Mock or Sham Mayor was known as the Mayor of St Johns).

Pancho Martin

Martin, portrayed by actor Nestor Serrano, is shown laying personal insults on the Secretariat team, and proclaiming during a press conference that the horse is not worthy to compete with Sham.

Petr Beckmann

Dr. Beckmann spoke at ISIL's San Francisco Conference in 1990 where he received a standing ovation for his speech in which he attacked "sham environmentalists".

Richard Engel

Engel and his crew said they believed that a Shabiha group loyal to al-Assad were behind the abduction, and that the crew was freed by the Ahrar al-Sham groups five days later.

Sagitta

α Sge: also known as Sham, this yellow bright giant star of spectral class G1 II (with 4.37m) lies at a distance of 610 light-years and together with β Sge (also 4.37m) forms either the feathers of the shaft or the two-pointed arrow once used in the Roman army.

Sham Chaurasia gharana

Sharafat Ali Khan and Shafqat Ali Khan, who continue the Sham Chaurasia tradition today.

Sham Pistols

At what was intended to be Sham 69's final concert at the Glasgow Apollo Theatre on June 29, 1979 Jones and Cook had joined Sham onstage for the encore of "Pretty Vacant", "White Riot", "If the Kids Are United" and "What Have We Got".

Sham Shui Po Ferry Pier

There were a number of bus routes terminated at Sham Shui Po Ferry Pier Bus Terminus before it was closed in 1999.

Shim Sham, Flim Flam

Shim Sham, Flim Flam is a live recording of Adam Duritz, David Immerglück of Counting Crows and assorted friends.

Singh Krora Misl

Karora Singh confined his activities to the tract lying south of the Karigra hills in Hoshiarpur district, and had seized several important towns such as Hoshiarpur, Hariana and Sham Chaurasi before he died in 1761.

Sovet gospod

Valentin Yanin has argued that the Council of Lords was the real governing body in Novgorod and that it controlled the veche, which was merely a sham through which the common people were tricked into thinking they were participating in government.

Tankiz

Tankiz was appointed Viceroy of Syria (Na'ib al-Saltana al-Sham) by al-Nasir Muhammad, the Mamluk sultan of Cairo, in 1312.

The Complete Sham 69 Live

The Complete Sham 69 Live is a live album by punk band Sham 69, released in 1989 (see 1989 in music).

Two Curious Puppies

In Prest-O Change-O, their second cartoon, they are pursued by a dog catcher and must hide in a house that is owned by the magician Sham Fu and his pet rabbit, a prototype Bugs Bunny.

Vigevano

The town's main street enters through a sham arcaded façade that preserves the unity of the space as at the Place des Vosges.

William John Fitzpatrick

In 1866, in The Sham Squire, he followed up the story of Lord Edward Fitzgerald's betrayal.


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