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Muslims, Christians, and the Challenge of Interfaith Dialogue. Mission to America: Five Islamic Sectarian Communities in North America. Jane Idleman Smith is an American scholar of Islam and former professor of Comparative Religion at Harvard University. [1] She is currently Professor Emerita of Islamic studies at Hartford Seminary.
Abu al-Qasim Abbas ibn Firnas ibn Wirdas al-Takurini ( Arabic: أبو القاسم عباس بن فرناس بن ورداس التاكرني; c. 809/810 – 887 A.D. ), known as Abbas ibn Firnas ( Arabic: عباس ابن فرناس) was an Andalusi polymath: [ 1][ 2][ 3] an inventor, astronomer, physician, chemist, engineer, Andalusi musician ...
A postman collecting mail for delivery. The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels. [ 1] A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems. Since the mid-19th century, national postal systems have generally been established as a government ...
Islamic manuscripts. Islamic manuscripts had a variety of functions ranging from Qur'anic recitation to Scientific notation. These manuscripts were produced in many different ways depending on their use and time period. Parchment ( vellum) was a common way to produce manuscripts. [1]
The usual shape of a postage stamp is a rectangle, this being an efficient way to pack stamps on a sheet. A rectangle wider than tall is called a "horizontal design", while taller than wide is a "vertical design". A number of additional shapes have been used, including triangles, rhombuses, octagons, circles, and various freeform shapes ...
Types of postal stamps. There are six types [ 4] postal stamps are in circulation in India: Commemorative stamp of Mahatma Gandhi. Commemorative stamps: A commemorative stamp is often issued on a significant date such as an anniversary, to honour or commemorate a place, event, person, or object.
In 1911, the "Moroccan Telegraph Company" was given the task of organizing the national post office and establishing postage stamps instead of stamps. The new postal service was inspired by a European model and started its activity on 1 March 1912 under the name of the Cherifian Administration of Telegraph and Telephone Posts.
The physicist Abdus Salam believed there is no contradiction between Islam and the discoveries that science allows humanity to make about nature and the universe; and that the Quran and the Islamic spirit of study and rational reflection was the source of extraordinary civilizational development.