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Qadi al-Maristan
Qadi al-Maristan (قاضي المارستان) was a Baghdad Hanbali scholar of inheritance law, arithmetic, and geometry, born in 1050 and died in 1141, who examined the endowment matters of the Adudi bimaristan.
Qadi Iyad
Qadi Iyad (القاضي عياض) was a Maliki jurist and hadith scholar who served as judge of Ceuta and Granada under the Almoravids and died in Marrakesh in 1149.
Qadi of Cordoba
The Qadi of Cordoba (قضاء قرطبة), titled qadi al-jama'a, was the senior judicial office of Muslim al-Andalus from the 8th century; its holders included Abu al-Walid Ibn Rushd, and hudud cases required his approval.
Qadi of Mecca
The Qadi of Mecca (قاضي مكة) was the judicial office of Mecca, held by a Muslim judge applying Islamic law, with added administrative duties under Ottoman rule from 1517.
Qadi-zade al-Rumi
Qadi-zade al-Rumi (قاضیزاده رومی) was an Anatolian-born astronomer and mathematician who headed the Samarkand madrasa and observatory under Ulugh Beg, contributing to the Zij-i Sultani star catalog.
Qadir Ismail
Qadir Ismail (born 2000) is an American football tight end, son of NFL receiver Qadry Ismail; played QB at Villanova and WR at Samford, then Ravens, Raiders, and Bears practice squads without a regular-season game.
Qadir Yar
Qadir Yar, also spelled Qadaryar, was a Punjabi-language poet of the nineteenth century best known for his Qissa Puran Bhagat, the most popular verse telling of the Puran Bhagat legend.
Qadiri Creed
The Qadiri Creed (الاعتقاد القادري), also called al-risala al-qadiriyya, is a Sunni doctrinal decree issued by Abbasid caliph al-Qadir (r. 991–1031) and recited in Baghdad's mosques.
Qadiri order
The Qadiri order (سلسلہ قادریہ) is a Sufi tariqa attributed to Abd al-Qadir Jilani, spreading from Iraq to India, where it took root in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Qadiriyya
The Qadiriyya is one of the earliest and most widespread Sufi orders, named after the Persian preacher Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani and organized as a brotherhood after his death.
Qadiriyya in the Sudan
The Qadiriyya in the Sudan (القادرية) is the Sudanese branch of the Qadiriyya, a Sunni Sufi order attributed to Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, introduced in the sixteenth century.
Qadirpur Oil and Gas Field
Qadirpur is a large natural gas field in Sindh Province, Pakistan, operated by OGDCL and for years the country's second largest gas field after Sui.
Qadirpur Ran
Qadirpur Ran (قادِرپُور راں) is a Town Committee town in Multan District, Punjab, Pakistan, at 30.29N 71.67E; 2023 census population 27,278, growth 2.23%, household size 5.14.
Qahedjet
Qahedjet, or Horus Qahedjet, is the Horus name of an Egyptian king of the late Third or early Fourth Dynasty, known chiefly from a limestone stela in the Louvre.
Qahtanite
Qahtanite (قحطان, Qaḥṭān): in Arab genealogy, the southern Arabian or Yemeni tribes, the 'Pure Arabs' (al-Arab al-Ariba), descended from Qahtan, identified with biblical Joktan; contrasted with the northern Adnanite 'Arabized Arabs'; tribes include Himyar, Kinda, Tayy.
Qaidam Basin
Qaidam Basin (柴达木盆地), hyperarid closed basin of ~120,000 km² on the NE Tibetan Plateau, China's highest desert (~2,800 m); salt flats, ~27 salt lakes, and nearly 80% of China's brine lithium.
Qaidan
Qaidan (FEOW ecoregion 632) is a Palearctic freshwater ecoregion of temperate upland rivers in the Qaidam Basin, northeastern Tibetan Plateau, China, delineated by The Nature Conservancy and WWF (2008).
Qais Al‐Awqati
Qais Al-Awqati is a Professor of Medicine and of Physiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, known for identifying the kidney's two intercalated cell types and hensin, whose deletion causes distal renal tubular acidosis.
Qaiser Ahmed Sheikh
Qaiser Ahmed Sheikh is a Pakistani politician and businessman serving as Federal Minister for Board of Investment, having previously been President of the Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry.
Qaitbay
Qaitbay (الأشرف قايتباي) was a Mamluk sultan of Egypt from 1468 to 1496, known for financial reforms and for building the Alexandria citadel on the ancient lighthouse's site.
Qajar coffeehouse painting
Qajar coffeehouse painting (نقاشی قهوهخانهای), also called khayali-sazi, is a genre of narrative oil painting made for Iranian coffeehouses by self-taught painters in the late Qajar era, depicting Shahnameh heroes, romances, and Shiʿi martyrdom scenes.
Qajar coinage: toman, qeran and rial
Qajar coinage was the monetary system of Iran under the Qajar dynasty from 1794 to 1925, built on the silver qeran, the gold toman, and copper small change.
Qajar court
The Qajar court (دربار, darbar) was the royal household and ceremonial apparatus of the Qajar shahs of Iran, built on the Perso-Turkish model inherited from the Safavid and Zand courts.
Qajar dynasty
Qajar dynasty: Turkmen-origin Iranian ruling house, 1779/1796 to 1925, founded by Aqa Mohammad Khan; lost Caucasus to Russia, saw the Constitutional Revolution, ended by Reza Khan Pahlavi.
Qajar Iran
Qajar Iran (ایران قاجاری), the Iranian state under the Turkoman-origin Qajar dynasty, 1794-1925; capital Tehran, founded by Agha Mohammad Khan, marked by Russo-Persian territorial losses, Anglo-Russian influence, and the 1906 Constitutional Revolution.
Qajar painting
Qajar painting is the painting tradition of Qajar Iran (1789–1925), known for lifesize royal oil portraits commissioned by Fath-Ali Shah and for Kamal al-Mulk's academy, Iran's first, opened in 1911.
Qajar tilework
Qajar tilework is the polychrome ceramic tile decoration produced in Iran during the Qajar dynasty (1779–1924), used on mosques, palaces, and city gates and increasingly shaped by European motifs through the nineteenth century.
Qajar translation movement
The Qajar translation movement was the sustained translation of European works into Persian in Iran from about 1807 to 1906, helping inspire the Constitutional Revolution.
Qajar tribe
The Qajar tribe (ایل قاجار) was a Turkoman tribal confederation of Iran, settled in Transcaucasia and Mazandaran, that provided Iran's ruling dynasty from the late 18th to the early 20th century.
Qakma Corona
Qakma Corona is a 130-km-diameter corona on Venus at 35.5°N, 207.1°E in quadrangle V-14, IAU-named in 2006 after a Bella Coola/Nuxalk creator figure, with radial and concentric faults extending westward.