Adab may refer to:
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Adab (city)
Adab or Udab ( Sumerian: ''Adab''ki, spelled UD.NUNKI) was an ancient Sumerian city between Telloh and Nippur. It was located at the site of modern Bismaya or Bismya in the Wasit Province of Iraq.
Archaeology
The site consists of a number of ...
, a city of ancient Sumer
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`Adab, a village in Yemen
; Literary and cultural use
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Adab (gesture)
Adab ( Hindustani: آداب ( Nastaleeq), आदाब (Devanagari)), from the Arabic word Aadaab (آداب), meaning respect and politeness, is a hand gesture used in the Indian subcontinent, by the Urdu-speaking while greeting, as well as many no ...
, a greeting gesture traditionally used by Muslims of South Asia
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Adab (Islam)
Adab ( ar, أدب) in the context of behavior, refers to prescribed Islamic etiquette: "refinement, good manners, morals, decorum, decency, humaneness". Al-Adab ( ar, الﺁداب) has been defined as "decency, morals".
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, the category of Islamic law dealing with etiquette
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Adab (literature)
Islamic literature is literature written by Muslim people, influenced by an Islamic cultural perspective, or literature that portrays Islam. It can be written in any language and portray any country or region. It includes many literary forms incl ...
, the classical Islamic literature of medieval Asia
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Al Adab
''Al Adab'' (Arabic: مجلة الأداب; ''Majalla al ʾādāb''; "literary magazine") was an Arabic avant-garde existentialist literary print magazine published in Beirut, Lebanon, in the period 1953–2012. It was restarted in 2015 as an onl ...
'', Arabic online literary magazine in Beirut, Lebanon
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Misbaholdiwan Adab, a Kurdish poet
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