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unusual facts about Sura


Eulogius of Córdoba

The earliest account of the Quran in a language other than Arabic is credited to Eulogius, who translated Sura al-Ahzab verse 37, around the year 857.


Aaron ibn Sargado

Caleb ibn Sargado, the determined opponent of Saadia, who spent 60,000 zuzim in order to bring about the deposition of the gaon of Sura, was probably identical with Aaron, as Harkavy has shown (see Seder 'Olam Zuṭṭa in "Anecdota Oxoniensia," ii. 83).

Catholic Syrian Bank

In 1994, Sura Chansrichawla, Chairman of the Bangkok-based Siam Vidya Group, had acquired 36.18 percent equity of Catholic Syrian Bank.

Criticism of the Quran

Some early Islamic histories recount that as Muhammad was reciting Sūra Al-Najm (Q.53), as revealed to him by the angel Gabriel, Satan tempted him to utter the following lines after verses 19 and 20: "Have you thought of Al-lāt and al-'Uzzā and Manāt the third, the other; These are the exalted Gharaniq, whose intercession is hoped for."

Lucius Licinius Sura

Lucius Licinius Sura was an influential Roman Senator from Tarraco, a close friend of the Emperor Trajan and three times consul - in a period when three consulates were very rare for non-members of the Imperial family - in AD 93 (or perhaps 97), 102 and 107.

Marcus Petronius Mamertinus

Petronius married an unnamed African Roman noblewoman and they had three children: a son Marcus Petronius Sura Mamertinus who served as consul in 182 who married Annia Cornificia Faustina Minor (one of the daughters of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius), Marcus Petronius Sura Septimianus who served as consul in 190 and a daughter who had married the illustrious Roman Senator Marcus Antoninus Antius Lupus.

Nevasa

Also this area is called Dandakarayna Lord Ram killed Marich near Newasa Village is called Toka because arrow head get inside the ground their so it called Toka before killing Marich Lord Ram through Sura ( Knife)towards him that village called Suregaon after that he throw Bhala ,that place called Bhalgaon , after that He throw arrow that place called Banganga Godavari river turns their like Dhanushaban So this place called BANGANGA.

Poiana Brașov

Two of the better known restaurants are Şura Dacilor (The Dacians' Barn) and Coliba Haiducilor (The Outlaws' Shack).

Prophets and messengers in Islam

Sura Al-A'nam (6:84-86) gives a comprehensive list of Israelite prophets: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Noah, David, Solomon, Job, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Zechariah, John, Jesus, Elias, Ishmael, Elisha, Jonah and Lot (Samuel is called 'A Prophet' elsewhere, but is unnamed).

Pumbedita Academy

Along with the sealing of the Talmud, by Ravina II (at Sura city), the era of the Savora sages has began (years 499-589; ד'ר"ס - ד'שמ"ט Hebrew calendar), in which most part of that period, proper studying on regular basis did not take place in Sura Academy (only in Pumbedeita), due to pogroms against the Jewish community in Sura.

Rav Papa

He led the Talmudical academy in Nehardea (also called Naresh, or Nareš), close to Sura, during the fifth generation of Babylonian amoraim.

Ta-Ha

Sura 20 displays several thematic and stylistic patterns described by Angelika Neuwirth in Jane McAuliffe’s book "The Cambridge Companion to the Qur’an.

TAI/AgustaWestland T129

AGM-114 Hellfire, BGM-71 TOW, Hydra 70, Spike-ER, UMTAS, OMTAS, anti-tank and anti-armor missiles and Sura D/Snora.

Talmudic Academies in Babylonia

Ravina II (R. Abina), a teacher in Sura, is considered by tradition the last amora; and the year of his death (812 of the Seleucidan, or 500 of the common era) is considered the date of the close of the Talmud.

After Raba's death, Papa of Naresh, another of his pupils, founded a college in Naresh, near Sura, which, for the time being, interfered with the growth of the Sura school; but after Papa's death, in 375, the college at Sura regained its former supremacy.


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