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This is what he calls the ˜way of the veracious™ (sabil al-siddiqin).
Mulla Sadra Rizvi, Sajjad 2009
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Abdel-Khaleq Mokhtar, director of monuments in south Cairo, told Al-Ahram Weekly that the SCA was able to abort the theft of the window at the sabil kuttab of Rokaya Dudu because the monument is under the complete supervision of the SCA, which provides a 24-hour security, while the mosques are under the control of the Ministry of Awqaf.
There is NOTHING Sacred Anymore... Jan 2008
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Thieves were also caught red handed, attempting to make off with a magnificent ironwork grill window from the sabil kuttab of Rokaya Dudu.
There is NOTHING Sacred Anymore... Jan 2008
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At Rokaya Dudu sabil kuttab they succeeded in dismantling the iron grill from a window only to be apprehended by local residents who alerted the police.
Archive 2008-06-01 Jan 2008
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Thieves were also caught red handed, attempting to make off with a magnificent ironwork grill window from the sabil kuttab of Rokaya Dudu.
Archive 2008-06-01 Jan 2008
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At Rokaya Dudu sabil kuttab they succeeded in dismantling the iron grill from a window only to be apprehended by local residents who alerted the police.
There is NOTHING Sacred Anymore... Jan 2008
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Abdel-Khaleq Mokhtar, director of monuments in south Cairo, told Al-Ahram Weekly that the SCA was able to abort the theft of the window at the sabil kuttab of Rokaya Dudu because the monument is under the complete supervision of the SCA, which provides a 24-hour security, while the mosques are under the control of the Ministry of Awqaf.
Archive 2008-06-01 Jan 2008
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Within the Islamic/Muslim context "Jihad fi sabil illah" translates as "Striving in the path of God".
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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Within the Islamic/Muslim context "Jihad fi sabil illah" translates as "Striving in the path of God".
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Other ethical works by al-Farabi, the Epistle of the Guide to the Way of Happiness (Risala fi l-tanbih ˜ala sabil al-sa˜ada) and the Selected Aphorisms (Fusul muntaza˜a), were also both translated into Hebrew, probably around 1300, and quoted by some Jewish philosophers: Shem Tov Ibn Falaquera (Plessner 1956, 179-183),
Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on Judaic Thought Zonta, Mauro 2007
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