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Al-Mardini ( ar, المارديني) denotes an origin from Mardin, Upper Mesopotamia. Al-Mardini may refer to: * Masawaih al-Mardini, 11th-century physician * Sibt al-Mardini, 15th-century Egyptian-born astronomer and mathematician See also *Mardini, a related surname {{DEFAULTSORT:Mardini Arabic-language surnames Mardini Mardini is a surname derived from Al-Mardini (Arabic: المارديني), which denotes an origin from Mardin, Upper Mesopotamia. People with the surname include: * Bahia Mardini (fl. 2000s–2020s), Syrian Kurdish researcher in international l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sibt Al-Mardini
Sibt al-Maridini, full name Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Abū ʿAbd Allāh Badr hamsal‐Dīnal‐Miṣrī al‐Dimashqī (1423 – 1506 AD), was an astronomer and mathematician. () His father came from Damascus. The word "Sibt al-Maridini" means "the son of Al-Mardini's daughter". His maternal grandfather, Abdullah al-Maridini, was a reputed astronomer of the eighth century AH. He was a disciple of the astronomer Ibn al-Majdi (d. 850/1506), according to tradition. () Sibt al-Maridini taught mathematics and astronomy in the Great Mosque of al-Azhar, Cairo. He was also a timekeeper (muwaqqit) of the mosque. He wrote treatises in astronomy ( sine quadrants, sundials A sundial is a horological device that tells the time of day (referred to as civil time in modern usage) when direct sunlight shines by the apparent position of the Sun in the sky. In the narrowest sense of the word, it consists of a flat p ..., ) () and wrote at least twenty-three mathematics te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mardini
Mardini is a surname derived from Al-Mardini (Arabic: المارديني), which denotes an origin from Mardin, Upper Mesopotamia. People with the surname include: * Bahia Mardini (fl. 2000s–2020s), Syrian Kurdish researcher in international law * Masawaih al-Mardini (died 1015), Assyrian physician * Robert Mardini (born 1972), Lebenese-born Swiss Red Cross director * Yusra Mardini (born 1998), Syrian Olympic swimmer portrayed in the 2022 biographical film, ''The Swimmers'' * Sarah Mardini (born 1995), Syrian former competition swimmer, lifeguard and human rights activist, portrayed in the 2022 biographical film, ''The Swimmers.'' See also * Mardin (surname), Turkish surname * ''Mahishasura Mardini'', 1959 Indian Kannada-language film * Martini (surname) Martini is an Italian surname. Geographical distribution As of 2014, 33.1% of all known bearers of the surname ''Martini'' were residents of Italy (frequency 1:1,079), 22.1% of Indonesia (1:3,494), 13.0% of Brazil (1:9,197), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mardin
Mardin ( ku, Mêrdîn; ar, ماردين; syr, ܡܪܕܝܢ, Merdīn; hy, Մարդին) is a city in southeastern Turkey. The capital of Mardin Province, it is known for the Artuqid architecture of its old city, and for its strategic location on a rocky hill near the Tigris River that rises steeply over the flat plains. The old town of the city is under the protection of UNESCO, which forbids new constructions to preserve its façade. History Antiquity and etymology The city survived into the Syriac Christian period as the name of Mt. Izala (Izla), on which in the early 4th century AD stood the monastery of Nisibis, housing seventy monks. In the Roman period, the city itself was known as ''Marida'' (''Merida''), from a Neo-Aramaic language name translating to "fortress". Between c. 150 BC and 250 AD it was part of the kingdom of Osroene, ruled by the Abgarid dynasty. Medieval history During the early Muslim conquests, the Byzantine city was captured in 640 by the Musl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upper Mesopotamia
Upper Mesopotamia is the name used for the Upland and lowland, uplands and great outwash plain of northwestern Iraq, northeastern Syria and southeastern Turkey, in the northern Middle East. Since the early Muslim conquests of the mid-7th century, the region has been known by the traditional Arabic name of ''al-Jazira'' ( ar, الجزيرة "the island", also transliterated ''Djazirah'', ''Djezirah'', ''Jazirah'') and the Syriac language, Syriac variant ''Gāzartā'' or ''Gozarto'' (). The Euphrates and Tigris rivers transform Mesopotamia into almost an island, as they are joined together at the Shatt al-Arab in the Basra Governorate of Iraq, and their sources in eastern Turkey are in close proximity. The region extends south from the mountains of Anatolia, east from the hills on the left bank of the Euphrates river, west from the mountains on the right bank of the Tigris river and includes the Sinjar plain. It extends down the Tigris to Samarra and down the Euphrates to Hit, Iraq. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masawaih Al-Mardini
Masawaih al-Mardini (Yahyā ibn Masawaih al-Mardini; known as Mesue the Younger) was a Assyrian physician. He was born in Mardin, Upper Mesopotamia. After working in Baghdad, he entered to the service of the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah. He died in 1015 in Cairo at the age of ninety. Masawaih al-Mardini was a Nestorian Christian. He is known due to his books on purgatives and emetics (''De medicins laxativis'') and on the complete ''pharmacopoeia'' in 12 parts called the ''Antidotarium sive Grabadin medicamentorum'', which remained for centuries the standard textbook of pharmacy in the West. He also described methods of distillation of empyreumatic oils. A method of extracting oil from "some kind of bituminous shale", one of the first descriptions of extraction of shale oil Shale oil is an unconventional oil produced from oil shale rock fragments by pyrolysis, hydrogenation, or thermal dissolution. These processes convert the organic matter within the rock (kerogen) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic-language Surnames
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a 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 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 language—i.e., Literary Arabic: Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Classical Arabic—and diverse vernacular varieties, which serve as 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 the language of literature, official documents, and formal written medi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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