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    al-Masʿūdī (full name Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Masʿūdī, أبو الحسن علي بن الحسين بن علي المسعودي), c. 896–956, was a historian, geographer...
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  • Masudi or Masoodi may refer to: Al-Masudi (c. 896–956), Arab historian, geographer and traveler, Arab historian Masudi, Khuzestan, a village in Khuzestan...
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    Alain Masudi Ekakanga (born 12 February 1978) is a Congolese former professional footballer who played as a striker or midfielder. He was part of the Congolese...
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  • not mention him, and other claims in Mirat-i-Masudi are also of doubtful historicity. The Mirat-i-Masudi narrates the legend of Salar Masud as follows:...
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  • Juma Masudi (born 30 August 1977 in Bujumbura) is a Burundian footballer who plays for Inter Star as a striker. He was member of both the Rwanda and Burundi...
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    Suheldev was a legendary king from Shravasti. Persian Hagiography Mirat-i-Masudi, written in 17th century, popularly mentions him to have defeated and killed...
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    but usually appeared female to lure on male travelers to devour them. Al-Masudi reports that on his journey to Syria, Umar slew a ghoul with his sword....
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    Abbott 1946, pp. 149–50. al-Tabari & Bosworth 1989, pp. 327–28. Masudi 2013, p. 276. Masudi 2013, p. 94. Bobrick 2012, p. 45. Bobrick 2012, p. 62. Bobrick...
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  • Masudi (Persian: مسعودي, also Romanized as Mas‘ūdī) is a village in Darkhoveyn Rural District, in the Central District of Shadegan County, Khuzestan Province...
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  • wa-Maʿādin al-Jawhar) is a 9th century history book by an Abbasid scholar al-Masudi. Written in Arabic and encompassing the period from the beginning of the...
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    the Prophets and Kings, 2, 53–54 Tabari, Tafsir, V, 266 (old ed. ii, 365) Masudi, Murudj, i, 103ff. K. al-Badwa l-tarikh, iii, 4/5 and 98/100, Ezechiel Abdullah...
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    Ève Bazaiba Masudi (née Ève Bazaiba) (born 12 August 1965) is a Congolese lawyer, politician, and human rights activist. As of May 2019, she served as...
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    Arabic and Pahlavi texts of Zoroastrian tradition, like the 10th century Al-Masudi who cited a prophecy from a lost Avestan book in which Zoroaster foretold...
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  • taxes. The Najashi is of the Jacobite Christian faith." The historian al-Masudi refers to Kubar in his The Meadows of Gold, describing it as a "great city"...
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    the Islamic conquest of Bengal. The writings of Al-Idrisi, Ibn Hawqal, Al-Masudi, Ibn Khordadbeh and Sulaiman record the maritime links between Arabia, Persia...
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  • Masudi-ye Do (Persian: مسعودي دو, also Romanized as Mas‘ūdī-ye Do; also known as Mas‘ūdīyeh-ye Do) is a village in Darkhoveyn Rural District, in the Central...
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  • Masudi Al Safar (Persian: مسعودي ال صفر, also Romanized as Mas‘ūdī Āl Şafar and Mas‘ūdī-ye Āl-e Şafar; also known as Sa‘ūdī Al Safar) is a village in Darkhoveyn...
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    the nation's largest daily newspaper, and its pro-Shah publisher, Abbas Masudi, were against him, calling the defeat "humiliating". During the following...
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    and raised to the throne (24 April 934). The contemporary historian al-Masudi describes him as pleasing in appearance, using scents in large amounts,...
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    of the historical encyclopedia by the tenth-century Abbasid scholar al-Masudi dedicated to FitzClarence Earl of Munster. In his preface the Austrian orientalist...
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    foreign source to mention one of the co-rulers is the Arab historian Al-Masudi. According to him, "king al-Dir [Dayr] was the first among the kings of...
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  • Mwalimu Masudi Mwahima (1 November 1949 – 25 August 2020) was a Kenyan politician. He belonged to the Orange Democratic Movement and was elected to represent...
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    race) from which many Rajputs claim descent. The great Muslim historian Masudi writes that Qandahar was a separate kingdom with a non- Muslim ruler and...
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  • Masudi (Persian: مسعودي, also Romanized as Mas‘ūdī and Mas‘oodi) is a village in Arabkhaneh Rural District, Shusef District, Nehbandan County, South Khorasan...
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    [citation needed] Even the earliest pro-Shia accounts of al-Masudi are more balanced. Al-Masudi's Ibn Hisham is the earliest Shia account of Muawiyah. He...
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    sea, the Makran Sea, the sea of Oman; among them Zakariya al-Qazwini, Al-Masudi, Ibn Hawqal and Hafiz-i Abru. They wrote: "The green sea and Indian sea...
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    Arabic sources include Shirazad (Arabic: شيرازاد, romanized: Šīrāzād) in al-Masudi, and Shahrazad in Ibn al-Nadim. The name appears as Šahrazād in the Encyclopaedia...
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  • echoed the words spoken by his predecessors alongside his itineraries. Al-Masudi, an Arab historian from Baghdad who was a descendant of Abdullah Ibn Mas'ud...
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    he would not partake in the building. The 10th-century Muslim historian Masudi recounts a legend making the Nimrod who built the tower to be the son of...
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    Balami, tr. Zotenberg, i, 95-99 Tabari, Tafsir Tabari, xvi, 63ff., xvii, 52 Masudi, Murudj, i, 73 D. Chwolsson, Die Ssabier und der Sabismus, St. Petersburg...
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