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Qurnet Murai
Qurnet Murai is a hillside necropolis in the Theban necropolis at Luxor, used mainly in the New Kingdom to bury high officials and Deir el-Medina workmen.
Qurra ibn Sharik al-Absi
Qurra ibn Sharik al-Absi (قرة بن شريك العبسي) was an Umayyad governor of Egypt under Caliph al-Walid from 709 to 714, whose preserved papyrus letters illuminate early Islamic administration.
Qurratulain Hyder
Qurratulain Hyder, known as Annie Aapa, was an Urdu novelist whose 1959 novel Aag ka Darya (River of Fire) is revered in India and Pakistan alike.
Qus
Qus, known in pharaonic times as Gesa, is a town on the eastern bank of the Nile in Upper Egypt, once a Nile port for Red Sea trade.
Qusai (aka Don Legend the Kamelion)
Qusai, also known as Don Legend the Kamelion, is a Saudi rapper, producer, and television personality born in 1978, considered the first professional rapper from Saudi Arabia.
Qusay Hussein
Qusay Hussein (قصي حسين), second son of Saddam Hussein, directed Iraq's Special Security Organization and supervised the Republican Guard; seen as heir apparent, he was killed with brother Uday in the 22 July 2003 US raid in Mosul.
Qusayy ibn Kilab
Qusayy ibn Kilab (قصي بن كلاب) was a chieftain of the Quraysh of Mecca who won custody of the Ka'ba and gathered the Quraysh clans in the city.
Quseir Amra (Jordan)
Quseir Amra (Qusayr 'Amra) is an early 8th-century Umayyad desert palace in Jordan, celebrated for its figurative frescoes and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1985.
Quss ibn Sa'ida al-Iyadi
Quss ibn Sa'ida al-Iyadi (قس بن ساعدة الإيادي) was a legendary pre-Islamic Arabian orator and bishop of Najran, remembered as the most eloquent speaker of the Jahiliyya.
Qusta ibn Luqa
Qusta ibn Luqa (قسطا بن لوقا) was a Christian physician and translator of Greek origin who moved Greek scientific works into Arabic, dying in Armenia around 912.
Qustul
Qustul is a submerged Lower Nubian site near the Sudan border, known for its elite A-Group tombs and the incense burner bearing the earliest image of a pharaoh.
Qustul Cemetery L
Qustul Cemetery L, also called Cemetery L at Qustul, is a late A-Group elite cemetery in Lower Nubia, excavated in 1964 and holding the Qustul incense burner.
Qustul incense burner
The Qustul incense burner is a carved limestone incense burner from tomb 24 at Qustul in Lower Nubia, dated to 3200-3000 BC and held at the University of Chicago.
Qutalmish
Qutalmish (قتلمش, also spelled Qutlumush or Kutalmış) was a Seljuk prince and cousin of Tughril Beg who claimed the sultanate after Tughril's death in 1063 and was defeated and killed by Alp Arslan.
Qutayba Hamid
Qutayba Hamid (1953–2026) was an Iraqi-born respiratory immunologist at McGill University best known for showing that Th2 cytokines are associated with asthma, work credited as the basis for the accepted hypothesis of allergic disease.
Qutayba ibn Muslim
Qutayba ibn Muslim (قتيبة بن مسلم) was an Arab commander and governor of Khurasan from 705 to 715 who led the Umayyad conquest of Transoxiana.
Qutb al-Din Aibak
Qutb al-Din Aibak (قطب الدین ایبک) was a Turkic slave of the Ghurid sultans who became the first Muslim king of India, ruling from 1206 to 1210.
Qutb al-Din al-Nahrawali
Qutb al-Din al-Nahrawali (قطب الدين النهروالي) was a Muslim scholar, jurist, and historian of Mecca, born in Lahore in 1511, who wrote Arabic accounts of Ottoman Mecca and Yemen.
Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi
Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (قطبالدین شیرازی) was a Persian physician, astronomer, philosopher, and Sufi poet of the Ilkhanid period, born in Shiraz in 1236 and died in Tabriz in 1311.
Qutb al-Din Mawdud
Qutb al-Din Mawdud (قطب الدين مودود) was the Zengid atabeg of Mosul from 1149 until his death in 1170, the youngest son of Imad al-Din Zengi.
Qutb al-Din Muhammad
Qutb al-Din Muhammad (قطبالدین محمد) was Khwarazmshah of Khwarazm from 1097 to 1127, ruling as a faithful vassal of the Seljuk sultan Ahmad Sanjar and succeeding his father Anushtegin.
Qutb Minar
Qutb Minar (क़ुतुब मीनार), also spelled Qutub Minar, is a 72.5 m sandstone minaret in Mehrauli, Delhi, begun by Qutbu'd-Din Aibak around 1199-1202, India's tallest masonry tower, part of the 1993 UNESCO Qutb complex.
Qutb Minar complex
The Qutb Minar complex, also called the Qutb Complex, is a group of mosques, minarets, and tombs at Mehrauli in Delhi, built from the late 12th century onward.
Qutb Shahi coinage
Qutb Shahi coinage (قطب شاہی سکہ) is the money of the Qutb Shahi dynasty of Golconda; its official gold coin was the hun, also called the ashrafi.
Qutb Shahi dynasty
The Qutb Shahi dynasty (قطب شاہی سلطنت) was a Shia Turkoman dynasty that ruled Golkonda from Golconda fort and later Hyderabad until its 1687 Mughal conquest.
Qutb Shahi Tombs
The Qutb Shahi Tombs (قطب شاہی مقبرات) are the royal necropolis of the Qutb Shahi dynasty, at the foot of Golconda Fort in Hyderabad, Telangana, with tombs of its sultans built from 1543 to 1672.
Qutb-i Alam
Qutb-i Alam (قطب عالم), born Sayyid Burhan al-Din Abdullah, was a Suhrawardi Sufi saint of Gujarat who died in 1453 at his khanqah in Vatva near Ahmedabad.
Qutb-ud-din Mubarak Shah
Qutb-ud-din Mubarak Shah (قطب الدین مبارک شاہ) was the last Khalji sultan of Delhi, reigning from 1316 to 1320; his murder by Khusrau Khan ended the dynasty.
Qutban
Qutban (कुतुबन), also Shaikh Qutban Suhravardi, was a Sufi poet of the late fifteenth century who wrote the Awadhi romance Mirigavati, completed in 1503 for Sultan Husain Shah of Jaunpur.
Quthbullapur
Quthbullapur, a residential and commercial suburb in North Hyderabad, Telangana, in Medchal-Malkajgiri district; former municipality merged into GHMC in 2007; pin codes 500055 and 501505; population about 226,000.