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Thatcham is truly an ancient town with archaeological finds covering every period from the Palaeolithic over 12,000 years ago, right up to today. It is unknown if Palaeolithic people settled in the area. However, it is know that Mesolithic (circa 8,500BC – 4,000BC) people did settle here. The settlers would have been semi-nomadic and occupied ...
A caliph is the supreme religious and political leader of an Islamic state known as the caliphate. [1] [2] Caliphs led the Muslim Ummah as political successors to the Islamic prophet Muhammad, [3] and widely-recognised caliphates have existed in various forms for most of Islamic history.
Apr 30, 2009 · BBC Berkshire Website, P.O Box 104.4, Reading, RG4 8FH. Telephone: 0118 946 4200 | E-mail: berkshire.online@bbc.co.uk. Thatcham Historical Society uncover one fascinating fact about its town for ...
Within the Archbishop of Canterbury's 100-hide manor of Harrow (4), for example, the demesne and the men's holdings account for only 60 hides 2 virgates 13 acres. On the 70-hide manor of Isleworth (80), there is, a deficiency of 40 hides 3 virgates. At Fulham (17), which is assessed at 40 hides there is, on the other hand, a surplus of 9 hides.
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When Islam first emerged in Arabia during the mid-seventh century, there was little indication that within 150 years the movement would come to dominate the entire Middle East, as well as northern Africa and Spain. The early spread of Islam was directly linked to the revelations and work of the Prophet Muhammad who preached religious and moral refo...
Requirements for participation in the religion of Islam were not extreme compared to some Jewish and Christian practices. The Muslim theological notion that people tended to be "forgetful" of Allah (God) seemed to be reinforced by directives for prayer five times a day (salat) and a month-long season of fasting (sawm) during the season of Ramadan. ...
Islamic presence in Spain appeared at a very early juncture during the evolution of the major Muslim dynasties. The presence of the Umayyad Dynasty, which began in Damascus in the middle eighth century and continued in Spain until the eleventh century, put Muslim Spain (known as al-Andalus or Andalusia) into commercial contact with the North Africa...
There were no priests with sacramental powers in Islam, as individuals were considered accountable directly to Allah and needed no spiritual intermediaries. Any devout Muslim could lead prayer, so that all were regarded as equal in the eyes of Allah. However, certain dynasties subscribed to the notion of a mahdi (that is, a divinely guided savior o...
During the first several centuries of Muslim control over the Holy Land, Christian pilgrims were able to visit the sacred sites with relative freedom. Their overland route usually took them across southeastern Europe, through Hungarian territory, Greece, Anatolia (Turkey), and Syria. Those who traveled by sea landed in Egypt or directly in Palestin...
Carole Hillenbrand, The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives (New York: Routledge, 2000). Marshall Hodgson, The Venture of Islam (Chicago: University of ChicagoPress, 1974). P. M. Holt, Ann K. Lambdon, and Bernard Lewis, eds., The Cambridge History of Islam (Cambridge, England: Cambridge UniversityPress, 1977). The Koran Interpreted. Trans. A. J. Arberry...
t,hat eight virgates nmade a hide, which I have discussed elsew-here, Mr. Salzmann rests his case (1) on the occurrence in the Domes-day of Sussex of such collocations as ' half a hide and 2 virgates,' ' 3 hides less 2 virgates,' '4 hides and 5 virgates; ' (2) on four instances in which the sum of the hides and virgates assigned to
May 3, 2021 · The first Indian restaurant in London was established by a Muslim surgeon in 1810, and the first purpose-built mosque was opened in 1889. “I feel each generation thinks that they’re ‘the ...
