bilad

Parts of the country demonstrated allegiance by the payment of taxes and the provision of troops, and were known as the bilad al-makhzan (“government lands”).

1757-90 2001

Through various means of transit-plane, train, new model suburbans, taxi cabs, chartered 50 passenger buses-my family of 5 and I dragged eight full-size pieces of luggage and sleep deprived eyelids along with us as we visited five cities (Amman, Damascus, Latakia, Aleppo, in the region known as "the Levant" or in Arabic, "bilad as-sham" in an abbreviated two weeks time.

iToot Stream 2010

But it was better and easier in bilad al-kufar, the lands of unbelief.

Islam's Nowhere Men 2010

On the other hand, in the bilad al-siba (“the lands of no authority”), government control remained tenuous.

1757-90 2001

The noun balad “place” has the plural form bilad; 13 gild “hide” forms the plural gulud; ragil “man, ” the plural rigal; shibbak “window, ” the plural shababik.

Chapter 4. Form in Language: Grammatical Processes 1921

[6] The same words are repeated in the Infak el Maysur fl Tarikh bilad el

First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855

But it was better and easier in bilad al-kufar, the lands of unbelief.

Pak Tea House 2010

The earliest Muslim account of slaves crossing the Sahara from the Fezzan in southern Libya to Tripoli on the Mediterranean coast was written in the seventh century, but from the ninth century to the nineteenth there are a multitude of accounts of the pillage by military states of the Sahel, known to North African Muslims as bilad al-sudan, ( 'land of the blacks'), of pagan Africans who were sold to Muslim merchants and marched across the desert as a most profitable commodity in their elaborate commercial networks.

Israelated - English Israel blogs 2009