• The Jewel of Medina is a historical novel by Sherry Jones that recounts the life of Aisha, one of Muhammad's wives, from the age of six, when she was...
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    Denise Spellberg (category Middle Eastern studies in the United States)
    over Sherry Jones's (author) historical novel The Jewel of Medina. Random House, which intended to publish the novel later that year, had sent Spellberg galley...
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    The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History is a 1978 book by the American author Michael H. Hart. Published by his father's publishing...
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  • The Satanic Verses is the fourth novel of British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie. First published in September 1988, the book was inspired by the life of...
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  • Aisha (redirect from Event of Ifk)
    cemetery. Islam portal Biography portal List of people related to Quranic verses Muhammad's wives The Jewel of Medina (fictional work based loosely on Aisha's...
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  • Ved Prakash Upadhyay (category Academic staff of Panjab University)
    1947) is an Indian scholar of Sanskrit language and Hinduism, author, professor and social activist. He is the author of many books on Sanskrit literature...
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    "Hell") is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. The Inferno...
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  • being forced to migrate to Medina, the early Muslims began raiding Pagan caravans to weaken their economy and to regain some of what was lost from their...
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  • competition of biographies of Muhammad held in Mecca in 1979. The title of the book means "The Sealed Nectar", a reference to verse 25 of Surah 83 (Mutaffifin)...
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    controversy The Satanic Verses controversy, also known as the Rushdie Affair, was a controversy sparked by the 1988 publication of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic...
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