Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn ِAbdullah Al Lawati Al Tanji Ibn Battuta (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد ابن عبد الله اللواتي الطنجي ابن بطوطة) was a Muslim Marinid Berber scholar and …
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Paul Kriwaczek was a British historian and television producer. In 1970 he joined the BBC full-time and wrote, produced and directed for twenty-five years. A former head of Central Asian Affairs at th…
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هو أحمد بن العباس بن راشد بن حماد البغدادي، عالم إسلامي من القرن العاشر الميلادي . كتب وصف رحلته كعضو في سفارة الخليفة العباسي إلى ملك الصقالبة (بلغار الفولجا)سنة 921 م.
Hamza Yusuf is a co-founder of Zaytuna College, located in Berkeley, California. He is an advisor to Stanford University’s Program in Islamic Studies and the Center for Islamic Studies at Berkeley’s G…
Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger, KBE, DSO, MA, DLitt, FRAS, FRSL, FRGS, FBA, was a British explorer and travel writer born in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.
"Jehan de Mandeville", translated as "Sir John Mandeville", is the name claimed by the compiler of a singular book of supposed travels, written in Anglo-Norman French, and published between 1357 and 1…
أحد الكتاب المصريين المشهورين وفارس الرومانسية عرف السباعي ككاتب وضابط ووزير فعلى الرغم من انضمامه إلى كلية حربية صقلت شخصيته بالصارمة في عمله العسكري إلا أنه كان يمتلك قلباً رقيقاً تم…
فهد عامر الأحمدي الحربي هو كاتب سعودي صاحب عامود حول العالم في جريدة الرياض. بدأ كتابة المقالة في جريدة المدينة، وفي 17 أغسطس 1991م نشر أول مقال له بعنوان "انف.جار سيبيريا" قبل أن ينتقل إلي جريدة الري…
ابومعین ناصر بن خسرو بن حارث قبادیانی بلخی، معروف به ناصرخسرو (۳۹۴–۴۸۱ ه. ق) از شاعران بزرگ فارسیزبان، فیلسوف، حکیم و جهانگرد ایرانی و از مبلغان مذهب اسماعیلی بود. وی در قبادیان از تواب…
روائي وكاتب مصري بدأ مشواره الادبي في عام ٢٠١٠ وتنوعت اعماله ما بين الرواية ومجموعات قصصية دائما ما تواجدت بين الكتب الاكثر مبيعا في مصر وقد ترشحت رواية جرافيت علي القائمة الطويلة للجائزة العالمية للر…
Mathias Énard studied Persian and Arabic and spent long periods in the Middle East. A professor of Arabic at the University of Barcelona, he won the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie and the…
He was a Saudi Arabian politician, diplomat, technocrat, poet, and novelist. He was an intellectual and a member of the Al Gosaibi family that is one of the oldest and riche…
علي بن يحيى بن جابر الفيفي يعمل كمحاضر في قسم الشريعة و اللغة العربية في كلية البرامج المشتركة بالمحالة ، و قد ألتحق بالجامعة عام 1435 هجريا ، و هو حاصل على بكالوريوس في تخصص العودة ، هذا إلى جانب حصو…
I grew up in Texas in the seventies, and although I really wanted to go into writing and film from an early age, my parents (Cuban-American) were NOT on board.
