Year of the Elephant: A Moroccan Woman's Journey Toward Independence (Modern Middle East Literature in Translation Series) (Modern Middle Eastern Literatures in Translation Series)

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Kistler, John M.; foreword by Richard Lair (2007). "The Year of The Elephant". War elephants. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. p.177. ISBN 978-0803260047. Archived from the original on 9 January 2016. The lead elephant, named Mahmud, stopped and knelt down, refusing to go further. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) Al-Fil ( Arabic: الفيل, "The Elephant") is the 105th chapter ( surah) of the Quran. It is a Meccan sura consisting of 5 verses. The surah is written in the interrogative form. Circus Myths: The true cruelty under the big top". Humane Society of the United States. 25 September 2009. Archived from the original on 5 September 2015 . Retrieved 24 October 2012. Al-Qullays gained widespread fame, even gaining the notice of the Byzantine Empire. [1] The Arab people of the time had their own center of religious worship and pilgrimage in Mecca, the Kaaba. [1] Abraha attempted to divert their pilgrimage to al-Qullays and appointed a man named Muhammad ibn Khuza'i [6] to Mecca and Tihamah as a king with a message that al-Qullays was both much better than other houses of worship and purer, having not been defiled by the housing of idols. [1]

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More people are reading the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs than ever but advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. Our independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our perspective matters – because it might well be your perspective, too. Elephant Life Cycle". ElephantsForever.co.za. Archived from the original on 29 September 2014 . Retrieved 21 June 2014. The next day, as they prepared for battle, they discovered that their elephant (called Mahmud) refused to approach Mecca. Even worse, birds came from the sea, each of which brought three small stones, which they dropped on the soldiers of Abraha. Everyone hit by these stones was killed. Abraha was hit repeatedly and slowly dismembered. By the time he reached Sanaa, he was nothing but a miserable stump of a body. His heart burst from his chest, and he died. So the year of the War of the Elephant was a year of death. But it was also a year of life, for in that same year Muhammad was born. [14] a b William Montgomery Watt (1961). Muhammad: Prophet and Statesman, Oxford: Oxford University Press, p.7. Campos-Arceiz, A.; Blake, S. (2011). "Mega-gardeners of the forest – the role of elephants in seed dispersal" (PDF). Acta Oecologica. 37 (6): 542–553. Bibcode: 2011AcO....37..542C. doi: 10.1016/j.actao.2011.01.014. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 June 2013 . Retrieved 22 November 2012.

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Munro-Hay dates his death to some time after 553 based on the inscription at Murayghän. [1] Islamic tradition places his death immediately after his expedition to Mecca. He was succeeded on the throne by two of his sons, Yaksum and Masruq, whose mother was Raihäna, a Yemenite noblewoman whom Abraha had abducted from her husband. [8] Roca, Alfred L.; Ishida, Yasuko; Brandt, Adam L.; Benjamin, Neal R.; Zhao, Kai; Georgiadis, Nicholas J. (2015). "Elephant Natural History: A Genomic Perspective". Annual Review of Animal Biosciences. 3 (1): 139–167. doi: 10.1146/annurev-animal-022114-110838. PMID 25493538. a b b. Ishaq (1967). Guillaume (ed.). The Life of Muhammad. New York: Oxford University Press. p.22. ISBN 0-19-636033-1. a b Van Riper; A. B. (2002). Science in Popular Culture: A Reference Guide. Greenwood Press. pp.73–75. ISBN 978-0-313-31822-1. Harris, M.; Sherwin, C.; Harris, S. (10 November 2008). "Defra Final Report on Elephant Welfare" (PDF). University of Bristol. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 November 2014 . Retrieved 16 November 2011.

The birth of El Imam Ali related to the year of the elephant". balaghah.net . Retrieved 24 July 2018. Contemporary Moroccan fiction is both vibrant and varied. It is a young literature, still in the process of testing boundaries and searching for its voice. At one end of the spectrum there are the consciously literary novels of authors working in French, including Driss Chraibi, Abdelhak Serhane and Tahar Ben Jelloun, winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt.

The Arabs [ who?] describe the year in which this event took place as the Year of the Elephant, and in the same year, Muhammad was born. The traditionists and historians almost unanimously state that the event of the people of the elephant had occurred in Muharram and Muhammad was born in Rabi' al-awwal. A majority of them states that he took birth 50 days after the event of the elephant. [12] Period of revelation [ edit ] Gobush, K. S.; Edwards, C. T. T.; Maisels, F.; Wittemeyer, G.; Balfour, D. & Taylor, R. D. (2021). " Loxodonta cyclotis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T181007989A181019888 . Retrieved 25 March 2021. Sunan Abu Dawood 2765 In-book reference: Book 15, Hadith 289 English translation: Book 14, Hadith 2759 Reynolds, Gabriel Said "The Qur'an and the Bible: Text and commentary" Yale University Press, 2018, p. 929.