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Ajami (surname)
The surname Ajami or al-Ajami (Arabic: عجمي ʿajamī) has origins in the Middle East and is prevalent in Arabic speaking countries. Derived from Ajam (عجم) it is an Arabic word meaning mute, which today refers to someone whose mother tongue is not Arabic. List of people with the surname * Fouad Ajami - Lebanese-born scholar, author and professor * Ismail al-'Ajami - Persian leader of the Order of Assassins (Nizari Isma'ili sect) * Newsha Ajami - Iranian-American hydrologist * Habib al-Ajami - Muslim Sufi (mystic), saint, and traditionalist of Persian descent * Jocelyn Ajami - Lebanese-American artist and filmmaker of the 20th and 21st centuries * Mohammed al-Ajami - Qatari poet * Mary Ajami - Syrian Christian academic, was a feminist and pioneering Arabic-language writer See also *Ajami (other) Ajami is the Arabic adjective applied to an Ajam, a Persian or (relative to Arabic speakers) alien. Ajami may also refer to: * Ajami Nakhchivani, a Muslim architect fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston, 2011. Having emerged in the 1st century, it is named after the Arabs, Arab people; the term "Arab" was initially used to describe those living in the Arabian Peninsula, as perceived by geographers from ancient Greece. Since the 7th century, Arabic has been characterized by diglossia, with an opposition between a standard Prestige (sociolinguistics), prestige language—i.e., Literary Arabic: Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Classical Arabic—and diverse vernacular varieties, which serve as First language, mother tongues. Colloquial dialects vary significantly from MSA, impeding mutual intelligibility. MSA is only acquired through formal education and is not spoken natively. It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ajam
''Ajam'' ( ar, عجم, ʿajam) is an Arabic word meaning mute, which today refers to someone whose mother tongue is not Arabic. During the Arab conquest of Persia, the term became a racial pejorative. In many languages, including Persian, Turkish, Urdu–Hindi, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Kurdish, Gujarati, Malay, Punjabi, and Swahili, ''Ajam'' and ''Ajami'' refer to Iran and Iranians respectively. Etymology According to traditional etymology, the word ''Ajam'' comes from the Semitic root ''ʿ-j-m''. Related forms of the same root include, but are not limited to: * ''mustaʿjim'': mute, incapable of speech * ''ʿajama'' / '' ʾaʿjama'' / ''ʿajjama'': to dot – in particular, to add the dots that distinguish between various Arabic letters to a text (and hence make it easier for a non-native Arabic speaker to read). It is now an obsolete term, since all modern Arabic texts are dotted. This may also be linked to ''ʿajām'' / ''ʿajam'' "pit, seed (e.g. of a date or grape)". * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fouad Ajami
Fouad A. Ajami ( ar, فؤاد عجمي; September 18, 1945 – June 22, 2014) was a MacArthur Fellowship winning, Lebanese-born American university professor and writer on Middle Eastern issues. He was a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Ajami was an outspoken supporter of the Bush Doctrine and the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which he believed to have been a "noble war" and a "gift" to the people of Iraq. Early life and education Ajami was born in Arnoun, a rocky hamlet in the south of Lebanon into a Shia Muslim family. His Shia great-grandfather had immigrated to Arnoun from Tabriz, Iran in the 1850s. In Arabic, the word "''Ajam''" means "non-Arab" or "non-Arabic-speaker"; specifically in this context, it means "Persian" or " Persian-speaker." Ajami arrived in the United States in the fall of 1963, just before he turned 18. He did some of his undergraduate work at Eastern Oregon State College (now Eastern Oregon University) in La Grande, Oregon. He did his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ismail Al-'Ajami
The Order of Assassins or simply the Assassins ( fa, حَشّاشین, Ḥaššāšīn, ) were a Nizārī Ismāʿīlī order and sect of Shīʿa Islam that existed between 1090 and 1275 CE. During that time, they lived in the mountains of Persia and in Syria, and held a strict subterfuge policy throughout the Middle East through the covert murder of Muslim and Christian leaders who were considered enemies of the Nizārī Ismāʿīlī State. The modern term assassination is believed to stem from the tactics used by the Assassins. Nizārī Ismāʿīlīsm formed in the late 11th century after a succession crisis within the Fatimid Caliphate between Nizār ibn al-Mustanṣir and his half-brother, caliph al-Musta‘lī. Contemporaneous historians include Arabs ibn al-Qalanisi and Ali ibn al-Athir, and the Persian Ata-Malik Juvayni. The first two referred to the Assassins as ''batiniyya'', an epithet widely accepted by Ismāʿīlīs themselves. Overview The Nizari Isma'il ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of Assassins
The Order of Assassins or simply the Assassins ( fa, حَشّاشین, Ḥaššāšīn, ) were a Nizārī Ismāʿīlī order and sect of Shīʿa Islam that existed between 1090 and 1275 CE. During that time, they lived in the mountains of Persia and in Syria, and held a strict subterfuge policy throughout the Middle East through the covert murder of Muslim and Christian leaders who were considered enemies of the Nizārī Ismāʿīlī State. The modern term assassination is believed to stem from the tactics used by the Assassins. Nizārī Ismāʿīlīsm formed in the late 11th century after a succession crisis within the Fatimid Caliphate between Nizār ibn al-Mustanṣir and his half-brother, caliph al-Musta‘lī. Contemporaneous historians include Arabs ibn al-Qalanisi and Ali ibn al-Athir, and the Persian Ata-Malik Juvayni. The first two referred to the Assassins as ''batiniyya'', an epithet widely accepted by Ismāʿīlīs themselves. Overview The Nizari Isma'il ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nizari Isma'ilism
The Nizaris ( ar, النزاريون, al-Nizāriyyūn, fa, نزاریان, Nezāriyān) are the largest segment of the Isma'ilism, Ismaili Muslims, who are the second-largest branch of Shia Islam after the Twelvers. Nizari teachings emphasize independent reasoning or ''ijtihad''; pluralism—the acceptance of racial, ethnic, cultural and inter-religious differences; and social justice. Nizaris, along with Twelvers, adhere to the Jaʽfari jurisprudence, Jaʽfari school of Fiqh, jurisprudence. The Aga Khan, currently Aga Khan IV, is the spiritual leader and Imamate in Nizari doctrine, Imam of the Nizaris. The global seat of the Ismaili Imamate is in Lisbon, Portugal. Early history Nizari Isma'ili history is often traced through the unbroken hereditary chain of guardianship, or ''walayah'', beginning with Ali, Ali Ibn Abi Talib, who was declared Muhammad, Muhammad's successor as Imam during the latter's Farewell Pilgrimage, final pilgrimage to Mecca, and continues in an unbroke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newsha Ajami
Newsha K. Ajami is a hydrologist specializing in urban water policy and sustainable water resource management. Though trained as a scientist and engineer, her work is interdisciplinary in nature and combines science with its social counterparts. She is currently a senior scholar at Stanford University and manages the university's Urban Water program. Early life and education Ajami was born and raised in Tehran, Iran. From a young age she was fascinated by math and problem solving games, and spent much of her time playing with Legos. Ajami credits her inspiration to become an engineer to her maternal grandfather who was a railroads engineer in Iran. Ajami later went on to earn her B.S. in Civil Engineering from Tehran Polytechnic. During her time as an undergraduate she had the opportunity to intern with a consulting company that helped develop decision support tools to aid in dam operation and reservoir management in Iran. This opportunity sparked Ajami's interest in the envir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Habib Al-Ajami
Habib ibn Muhammad al-‘Ajami al-Basri ( ar, حبيب بن محمد العجمي البصري) known also as Habib al-Ajami () and Habib al-Farsi () was a Muslim Sufi mystic, saint, and traditionalist of Persian descent. Different dates for his death are given in the sources, such as 113 AH (731 CE), 120 (738), 125 (743), and 130 (747-48). Habib-i Ajami settled in Basra, where his shrine is. He is a disciple of Hasan al-Basri. His disciple is Dāwūd al-Tai. According to Ibn Hajar, Habib is a solid hadith narrator. Hasan al-Basri, Ibn Sirrin, Abu Tamima al-Hujaymi and Bakir bin Abdullah narrated hadiths from him, and Sulayman al-Taymi, Hammad bin Salama, Jafar bin Sulayman and Mu'tamir bin Sulayman reported from him. Bukhari also mentioned him in ''al-Adab al-Mufrad'' (I, 366) and ''al-Tarikh al-Kabir'' (II, 326). Although Ibn al-Jawzi says that Habib, the narrator of the hadith, is another person, this information should be viewed with caution unless it is confirmed by other so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jocelyn Ajami
Jocelyn Ajami (born 1950) is a Lebanese-American artist and filmmaker. Early life Jocelyn Ajami was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela to a Lebanese Greek Orthodox family. She emigrated to the United States as a child in 1961. She graduated from Manhattanville College with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, and later earned master's degrees in painting and art history from the arm of Rosary College located at Villa Schifanoia in Italy, near Florence. Career Ajami began her career as a fine artist. Her abstract geometric paintings and drawings, which included large works such as the by "Eros-Thantos", has been exhibited at Studio 36 (a studio gallery in Boston she founded), as well as Chapel Gallery, Clark Gallery, Mercury Gallery, the Brockton and Fitchburg art museums, and at solo exhibitions in Boston, New York City, and Florence, Italy. Ajami turned to producing and writing documentary films and experimental videos in 1991. Her first video, the experimental "The Ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammed Al-Ajami
Mohammed al-Ajami (also known as "Mohammed Ibn al-Dheeb"; ar, محمد بن الذيب العجمي; born in Qatar), is a Qatari poet who was imprisoned between 2011 and 2016 on state security charges. Prior to his arrest, he was a literature student at Cairo University. On 29 November 2012, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, a sentence commuted in March 2016 through royal pardon. Arrest and detention Al-Ajami was summoned to meet with state security officials on 16 November 2011 in Doha, and was arrested when he arrived for the meeting. He was charged with insulting Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and "inciting to overthrow the ruling system". Under Qatari law, the latter charge is punishable by death. As of 29 October 2012, al-Ajami's trial had been postponed five times; he also spent five months in solitary confinement. On 29 November 2012, al-Ajami's lawyer, Najeeb Al Nuaimi, reported that al-Ajami had been sentenced to life imprisonment in a secret trial. The court hear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Ajami
Mary Ajami (Arabic: ماري عجمي) (1888 – December 25, 1965) was a Syrian feminist and pioneering Arabic-language writer who launched the first women's periodical in Western Asia and North Africa called ''Al Arus'' (Arabic: the Bride). Biography Ajami was born to a large Greek Orthodox Christian family in 1888 and raised in Damascus, modern-day Syria. Her father was Abdallah al-Ajami, a prominent Damascene landowner, businessman and influential figure of the church, whilst her mother was a woman of Greek descent. She spent her formative years in Damascus, where she received an education from Irish and Russian missionary schools, before studying nursing and graduating from the Syrian Protestant College in Beirut in 1906. Even while she was a student at the Syrian Protestant College, she began teaching as a visiting teacher in Zahlé, Lebanon. After graduation, she began teaching in Port Said, Egypt. The following year she moved to a school in Alexandria, Egypt before re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ajami (other)
Ajami is the Arabic adjective applied to an Ajam, a Persian or (relative to Arabic speakers) alien. Ajami may also refer to: * Ajami Nakhchivani, a Muslim architect from Azerbaijan and founder of the Nakhchivan school of architecture * Ajami (surname) * Ajami (film), ''Ajami'' (film), a 2009 film * Ajami, Iran (other), villages in Iran * Ajami, Jaffa, a neighborhood in Israel * Ajami dialect, a dialect of Persian * Ajami script, one of the Arabic-based orthographies used for writing African languages * Ajami Turkic * Ajami Iraq See also *Ajam (other) *Agami, a district of Alexandria, Egypt {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
