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A map of divided Yemen with its north and south. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA-3.0. The modern state of Yemen was created when the northern and southern parts of the country were forcibly united in 1990. The state brought together two elements...

ISIS suicide bombers kill 80 and injure more than 230 at Afghan protest: nainawa: ceciliadavidson: nainawa: A brief statement on the group’s Amaq agency read: “Two fighters from Islamic State detonated explosive belts at a gathering of Shi'ites in...

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SHAFAQNA- Sheikh Tusi, (d. 460 A.H.) introduced his mentor Sheikh al Mufid, in his al Fihrist thus: “Muhammad b. Muhammad b. al-No’man, al-Mufid, had the kunya Abu Abdillah, and was well known as Ibn-al-Muallim. He was among the Imamiyya theologians...

Khoja communities such as the Ithnashari (“Twelver Shia”) and Agakhani use a convention for transliterating Arabic into the Gujarati script. It consists of adding diacritics to Gujarati letters which most closely approximate the Arabic sound...