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    2 days ago · The Druze (/ ˈdruːz / DROOZ; [ 19 ] Arabic: دَرْزِيّ, darzī or دُرْزِيّdurzī, pl.دُرُوز, durūz), who call themselves al-Muwaḥḥidūn (lit. ' the monotheists ' or 'the unitarians'), [ 20 ] are an Arab esoteric religious group 21 22 23 24 from West Asia who adhere to the Druze faith, an Abrahamic, monotheistic, and syncretic religion whose main tene...

  2. 2 days ago · Varieties of Arabic (or dialects or vernacular languages) are the linguistic systems that Arabic speakers speak natively. [ 2 ] Arabic is a Semitic language within the Afroasiatic family that originated in the Arabian Peninsula. There are considerable variations from region to region, with degrees of mutual intelligibility that are often ...

  3. 2 days ago · Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini[b](17 May 1900 or 24 September 1902[a] – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian Islamic revolutionary, politician, and religious leader who served as the first Supreme Leader of Iranfrom 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iranand the main leader of the Iranian Revolution, which overthrew ...

  4. 5 days ago · Al-Qaeda, broad-based militant Islamist organization founded by Osama bin Laden in the late 1980s. It began as a logistical network to support Muslims fighting against the Soviet Union during the Afghan War and transformed into the active terrorist organization known for carrying out the September 11 attacks of 2001.

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  5. 4 days ago · Epigraphic Old Arabic is the name given to those pre-Islamic texts in the Arabic language that — unlike the pre-Islamic Arabic poetry and the Ayyām al-ʿArab — have survived independently, rather than being transmitted through the scholars of the Islamic period.

  6. 5 days ago · Osama bin Laden (born 1957, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia—died May 2, 2011, Abbottabad, Pakistan) was the founder of the militant Islamist organization al-Qaeda and mastermind of numerous terrorist attacks against the United States and other Western powers, including the 2000 suicide bombing of the U.S. warship Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden and the ...

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  8. 1 day ago · Hamas, militant Palestinian nationalist and Islamist movement dedicated to the establishment of an independent Islamic state in historical Palestine. The group won an electoral majority in the 2006 legislative elections, but the legislature was dissolved the following year with Hamas left in control of the Gaza Strip.

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