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Qasim Amin
Qasim Amin (قاسم أمين, 1863 to 1908) was an Egyptian judge and writer known for advocating women's emancipation in The Liberation of Women and The New Woman.
Qasim Barid I
Qasim Barid I (قاسم برید اول), died 1504, was a Bahmani minister who seized control of the capital Bidar and founded the Barid Shahi dynasty, one of five Deccan successor states.
Qasim Haddad
Qasim Haddad (قاسم حداد), born 1948, is a Bahraini poet who moved from metered verse to the prose poem and is considered its foremost pioneer in the Gulf.
Qasim Khan
Qasim Khan, son of the Golden Horde khan Ulugh Muhammad, served Vasily II of Moscow and ruled a small Tatar khanate on the Oka until his death in 1469.
Qasim Zia
Qasim Zia (قاسم ضیاء), Pakistani field hockey full back born 1961 in Lahore; 1984 Olympic gold medalist, 1982 World Cup and Asian Games champion, later 22nd president of the Pakistan Hockey Federation and PPP Punjab politician.
Qasim-i Anvar
Qasim-i Anvar (قاسم انوار) was a Sufi poet and missionary of the Timurid period, born near Tabriz in 1356, exiled from Herat in 1426, and died in 1433.
Qasr al-Abd
Qasr al-Abd, Arabic for "Castle of the Slave," is a monumental Hellenistic building of the early 2nd century BC at Iraq al-Amir, west of Amman, Jordan, traditionally attributed to the Tobiad Hyrcanus.
Qasr al-Bint
Qasr al-Bint, also known as the Temple of Dushares, is a freestanding Nabataean temple at Petra, Jordan, regarded as the capital's main temple, built around the 1st century AD.
Qasr al-Gib
Qasr al-Gib (قصر الجب), a small late Roman mud-brick fort in northern Kharga Oasis, Egypt; with Qasr al-Sumayra 2 km away it controlled the oasis's northern access in the fourth century AD.
Qasr Al-Kharanah
Qasr Al-Kharanah (قصر الخرانة), also Qasr Kharana, an Umayyad desert palace about 55 km east of Amman, Jordan; two-storey square fortress-like building dated before AD 710, non-military, likely a tribal meeting place and caravan stop.
Qasr al-Mshatta
Qasr al-Mshatta (قصر المشتى), an unfinished Umayyad desert palace near Amman, Jordan, built c. 743–744 under al-Walid II; its carved south facade was gifted to Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1903 and now stands in Berlin's Museum für Islamische Kunst.
Qasr al-Sumayra
Qasr al-Sumayra (Qasr el-Sumayra) is a Late Roman fortlet in Egypt's Kharga Oasis, part of the Gib/Sumayra Complex with Qasr al-Gib, a provisioning station served by aqueduct Q3 with industrial remains and vaulted tombs.
Qasr el-Banat (Lebanon)
Qasr el-Banat (قصر البنات), the Harf Chlifa sanctuary near Btedai, Lebanon: a Roman distyle in antis temple with Byzantine apsidal remains in a temenos, restudied as Ionic in 2023; distinct from the Qsarnaba temple of the same name.
Qasr el-Ghueita
Qasr el-Ghueita, also known as Ghueita temple, is a small sandstone temple in Kharga Oasis, Egypt, begun under Darius I and enlarged under Ptolemy III.
Qasr el-Hallabat
Qasr al-Hallabat, Jordanian desert castle in Zarqa Governorate: Roman fort (107 CE), Ghassanid monastery-palace, Umayyad palace with mosque, mosaics, 146 Greek inscriptions from Anastasius's edict, and Hammam as-Sarah bathhouse.
Qasr el-Sagha
Qasr el-Sagha is an unfinished, uninscribed Middle Kingdom stone temple in Egypt's northern Faiyum Desert, north of Lake Qarun, with seven shrines and a probable dedication to the crocodile god Sobek.
Qasr el-Zayan
Qasr el-Zayan, also written Qasr Al Zayyan, is a small sandstone temple of Amun of Hibis in the Kharga Oasis, Egypt, rebuilt under Antoninus Pius in AD 140.
Qasr Ibrim
Qasr Ibrim, known in antiquity as Primis, is a fortified citadel on a bluff above the Nile in Lower Nubia, occupied from the eleventh century BC to 1812.
Qasr Ibrim archive
The Qasr Ibrim archive is the body of documents recovered at Qasr Ibrim, a fortress in Lower Nubia, Egypt, occupied from the eleventh century BC to 1812.
Qasr Libya, West Church
Qasr Libya West Church (Theodorias): sixth-century Byzantine church in Cyrenaica, Libya, built on an inscribed cross plan with apse to the east; better preserved than the East Church, with a surviving cross-between-two-deer mosaic from Psalm 42.
Qasr Oil and Gas Field
Qasr Oil and Gas Field is a large gas-condensate field in Egypt's Western Desert, about 525 km west of Cairo. Discovered in 2003, it is the largest known field in the Western Desert.
Qaşr Qaddās
Qaşr Qaddās (Qasr Qaddas) is a ruined Roman fort in Libya, possibly the road station Thebunte of the Antonine Itinerary, 30 miles from Base and Auxiqua, at 31.69 N, 15.03 E.
Qasr Qarun
Qasr Qarun, the ancient town of Dionysias, is a Ptolemaic and Roman temple and town site at the western edge of the Faiyum oasis in Egypt, about 42 km northwest of Medinet el-Faiyum.
Qasr Wurtij
Qasr Wurtij (Gasr Uertig), a fortified Roman fort near Khawlan in the djebel al-Akhdar, Cyrenaica, Libya, with a 4th-century AD church, part of the Roman frontier system.
Qasrawet
Qasrawet (Tell Qasrawet) is an archaeological site in north-western Sinai, Egypt, a Nabataean settlement founded in the 2nd century BCE and a late Roman fortified camp.
Qassam rocket
The Qassam rocket, also called the Qassam missile, is an unguided, homemade artillery rocket made by Palestinian armed groups in the Gaza Strip, first fired at Israel in 2001.
Qassaman
Qassaman (قَسَمًا, "we pledge"; also spelled Kassaman) is the national anthem of Algeria. Poet Moufdi Zakaria wrote it in prison, and it was adopted at independence on July 5, 1962.
Qataban
Qataban (Qatabān) was a major ancient South Arabian kingdom in Yemen, centered on Wadi Bayhan, from the 7th century BC to the 2nd century AD.
Qatada ibn Di'ama
Qatada ibn Di'ama (قتادة بن دعامة) was a blind Arab scholar of the tabi'un in Basra, a prolific transmitter of tafsir and hadith who died at Wasit in 735–736.
Qatada ibn Idris
Qatada ibn Idris (قتادة بن إدريس) was the emir of Mecca who seized the city in 1200 and founded the Banu Qatadah dynasty, which ruled Mecca for centuries afterward.