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    Bilad al-Sham (Arabic: بِلَاد الشَّام, romanized: Bilād al-Shām), often referred to as Islamic Syria or simply Syria in English-language sources, was a...
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    historically known as Jews of the Bilad al-Sudan (Judeo-Arabic: אַהַל יַהוּדּ בִּלַדּ אַל סוּדָּן, romanized: ʾahal yahūd bilad al-sūdān) describes West African...
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    Syria (region) (redirect from Al-Sham)
    Shām, and under the Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, and Fatimid caliphates, Bilad al-Sham was the name of a metropolitan province encompassing most of the region...
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    Arabs in Arabia called the Greater Syria region al-Sham (Arabic: بِـلَاد الـشَّـام, romanized: Bilād al-Šām, lit. 'the country of Sham') which became the...
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    brought under Arab Muslim rule and developed into the provincial region of Bilad al-Sham. Clashes between the Arabs and Byzantines on the southern Levantine...
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    Ṭarābulus al-Šām (referring to bilād al-Šām, to distinguish it from the Libyan city with the same name). Once, Tripoli was also known as al-fayḥā′ (الفيحاء)...
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  • Ḥizb al-Islāmī al-Turkistānī in Bilād al-Shām: "Dr. 'Abd Allah bin Muḥammad al-Muḥaysinī: A Message to Turkistānīs"". Jihadology. "Ḥizb al-Islāmī al-Turkistānī...
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  • sectarianism, in 2013 or earlier, Alloush in a speech suggested that "Sham" or Bilad al-Sham (the Levant or specifically Damascus) should be "cleansed of the filth"...
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  • about the typology of fear for a population appeared in a book entitled "Bilād al-Šām facing the outside worlds" by Denise Aigle. A study of the diplomacy...
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    Bashar al-Assad (born 11 September 1965) is a Syrian politician who is the current and 19th president of Syria since 17 July 2000. In addition, he is the...
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