Khamsa (Arabic, lit. "five") may refer to:
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Hamsa
The ''hamsa'' ( ar, خمسة, khamsa) is a palm-shaped amulet popular throughout North Africa and in the Middle East and commonly used in jewellery and wall hangings.Bernasek et al., 2008p. 12Sonbol, 2005pp. 355–359 Depicting the open right h ...
, a popular amulet in the Middle East and North Africa, also romanized as ''khamsa''
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Al Khamsa
"Al Khamsa" is a designation applied to specific desert-bred bloodlines of the Arabian horse considered particularly "pure" by Arabian horse breeding, horse breeders, who sometimes also describe such lines with by use of the Arabic word ''asil'', ...
, a bloodline for Arabian horses that traces back to five mares
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Al Khamsa (organization)
Al Khamsa is a nonprofit organization in the United States that supports the preservation breeding of certain strains of purebred Arabian horses, specifically lines tracing exclusively to those pedigrees providing a detailed chain of evidence to ...
, a nonprofit organization in the United States that supports the breeding of Al Khamsa bloodline horses
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Khamseh
The Khamseh ( fa, ایلات خمسه) is a tribal confederation in the province of Fars in southwestern Iran. It consists of five tribes, hence its name ''Khamseh'', "''the five''". The tribes are partly nomadic, Some are Persian speaking Bass ...
, a tribal people of Iran
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''Khamsa'' (film), a 2008 film
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Khamsa of Nizami
The ''Khamsa'' ( fa, خمسه, 'Quintet' or 'Quinary', from Arabic) or ''Panj Ganj'' ( fa, پنج گنج, 'Five Treasures') is the main and best known work of Nizami Ganjavi.
Description
The ''Khamsa'' is in five long narrative poems:
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, a quintet of five long Persian poems, such as those of
Nizami Ganjavi
Nizami Ganjavi ( fa, نظامی گنجوی, lit=Niẓāmī of Ganja, translit=Niẓāmī Ganjavī; c. 1141–1209), Nizami Ganje'i, Nizami, or Nezāmi, whose formal name was ''Jamal ad-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Ilyās ibn-Yūsuf ibn-Zakkī'',Mo'in, ...
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See also
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Khamsa of Nizami (British Library, Or. 12208), the manuscript of the five poems of Nezami Ganjavi
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Melikdoms of Karabakh
The Five Melikdoms of Karabakh, also known as Khamsa Melikdoms (), were Armenian feudal entities on the territory of modern Nagorno-Karabakh and neighboring lands, from the dissolution of the Principality of Khachen in the 15th century to the a ...
, also known as ''Khamsa Melikdoms'', the five Armenian Melikdoms of
Karabakh
Karabakh ( az, Qarabağ ; hy, Ղարաբաղ, Ġarabaġ ) is a geographic region in present-day southwestern Azerbaijan and eastern Armenia, extending from the highlands of the Lesser Caucasus down to the lowlands between the rivers Kura (Caspia ...
, from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Age.
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Hamsa (disambiguation)
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Khansa (disambiguation) al-Khansa was a 7th-century female Arabic poet.
Khansa(a) may also refer to:
* ''al-Khansaa'' (magazine), a women's online magazines published by al-Qaeda
* al-Khansaa Brigade, an all-women police force of the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and ...
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