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Safaitic
Safaitic is an ancient alphabet and Old Arabic dialect of tens of thousands of rock inscriptions carved by nomads in the basalt deserts of Syria and Jordan.
Safaniya field
Safaniya field (السفانية) is an offshore oil field in the Arabian Gulf off Saudi Arabia, discovered in 1951 and regarded as the world's largest offshore oil field.
Safar (सफर)
Safar (सफर) is a 1970 Hindi romantic drama directed by Asit Sen, starring Rajesh Khanna, Sharmila Tagore, Feroz Khan, and Ashok Kumar; a remake of Sen's Bengali Chalachal (1956), it won the Filmfare Best Director award.
Safar Dar Safar
Safar Dar Safar (سفر در سفر, "Journey within Journey") is a 1981 Urdu travelogue by Pakistani writer Ashfaq Ahmed, recounting a journey from Lahore to Kaghan and blending travel narrative with Sufism.
Safar Partners
Safar Partners is a Cambridge, Massachusetts venture capital firm founded around 2018 that invests in startups with ties to MIT, Harvard, and the University of Rochester.
Safaree Samuels
Safaree Samuels (Safaree Lloyd Samuels, born 1981), also known as Scaff B or SB, is an American rapper and Love & Hip Hop reality-TV personality, formerly Nicki Minaj's hype man and co-writer of "Did It On'em".
Safari
Safari: expedition to observe or hunt African wildlife; photographic and trophy-hunting forms; trophy hunting spans 23 African countries on over 1,394,000 km2, generating roughly $200 million yearly.
Safari (web browser)
Safari is a web browser developed by Apple, first unveiled in 2003 as the default browser on macOS, iPhone, and iPad, built on the WebKit engine.
Safari Park More
Safari Park More (Safari parks "More") is Latvia's first private deer garden, operating since 1995 at Saulstari, More parish, Sigulda district; 170 ha of red deer, fallow deer, and white deer, a 1.5 km hand-feeding trail, breeding farm, and guest house.
Safari Park Shenzhen
Safari Park Shenzhen (深圳野生动物园) is a zoo by Xili Lake in Shenzhen, China, opened in 1993 as the first in China to keep animals uncaged.
Safari Rally
The Safari Rally is Kenya's international rally, first run in 1953 as the East African Coronation Rally and known for decades as the toughest event in world rallying.
Safari Rally in the World Rally Championship
The Safari Rally is Kenya's round of the World Rally Championship, a gravel event based at Naivasha held from 1973 to 2002 and again from 2021.
Safaricom
Safaricom PLC is a Kenyan telecommunications and financial-services company, launched in 2000, that runs Kenya's largest mobile network and the M-PESA mobile money service, launched in 2007.
Safaricom Jazz
Safaricom Jazz, formally the Safaricom International Jazz Festival, was a jazz festival in Nairobi, Kenya, first staged in February 2014 and founded by Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore.
Safarilink Aviation Flight 053
Safarilink Aviation Flight 053 (F2-53), a Dash 8-315 5Y-SLK Nairobi Wilson–Ukunda flight, collided midair on 5 March 2024 over Nairobi National Park with a Ninety Nines Cessna 172M; two died, all 44 aboard the Dash 8 survived.
Safarnama
Safarnama (سفرنامه), also called Siyahat-nameh-ye Nasir Khusraw, is a Persian travelogue by the poet Nasir Khusraw, recording his seven-year journey through Iran, Arabia, and Egypt.
Safarnama-yi Ibrahim Beyg
Safarnama-yi Ibrahim Beyg, also Siyahatnameh-ye Ebrahim Beg, is a three-volume fictional travelogue satirizing Qajar Iran, written by Zayn ol-Abedin Maraghe'i and published abroad in the 1890s and 1900s.
Safarnamah of Naser al-Din Shah
The Safarnamah of Naser al-Din Shah (سفرنامههای ناصرالدین شاه) is the set of travel diaries that Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, wrote about his three journeys to Europe.
Safatba'al inscription
The Safatba'al inscription (KAI 7) is a Phoenician royal inscription from Byblos, around the tenth century BCE, in which King Shipitbaal records rebuilding a wall for the Mistress of Byblos.
Safavid album painting
Safavid album painting, known in Persian as muraqqa', is the tradition of independent single-page paintings made in Safavid Iran, peaking at Isfahan in the seventeenth century.
Safavid animal-silk carpets of Kashan
The Safavid animal-silk carpets of Kashan are sixteenth-century Persian carpets woven entirely in silk, their fields filled with real and fantastic animals, often in combat.
Safavid architecture of Isfahan
Safavid architecture of Isfahan is chiefly the Naqsh-e Jahan ensemble of mosques, pavilions, bazaar, and bridges begun under Shah Abbas I, who made Isfahan his capital in 1597–98.
Safavid artillery corps
The Safavid artillery corps (توپخانه صفوی) was the cannon branch of Safavid Iran's army, reorganized as a standing salaried unit under Shah Abbas I with European assistance.
Safavid coinage reform
The Safavid coinage reform (اصلاحات سکهای عباس اول) was Shah Abbas I's monetary reorganization of Safavid Iran, which introduced the silver abbasi, valued at 200 dinars.
Safavid crown lands (khalisa)
The Safavid crown lands (khalisa, خالصه) were lands in Safavid Iran owned by the shah and yielding revenue to his treasury, distinct from tiyul and vaqf lands.
Safavid dynasty
Safavid dynasty, ruling dynasty of Persia 1501-1722, also called Safavids; founded by Shah Esmail I from the Ardabil Sufi order of Safi al-Din; made Twelver Shiism Iran's state religion, peaked under Abbas I at Isfahan, fell to Afghan conquest in 1722.
Safavid figural tilework panels
Safavid figural tilework panels are large compositions of painted stonepaste tiles made in seventeenth-century Iran, chiefly Isfahan, depicting figures, animals, and garden scenes in palace pavilions.
Safavid Grand Vizierate
The Safavid Grand Vizierate headed the bureaucracy and financial administration of Safavid Iran, becoming the state's highest office after Shah Abbas I abolished the vakil regency.
Safavid historiography
Safavid historiography is the body of Persian historical writing produced under the Safavid dynasty of Iran (1501–1722/36), chiefly court chronicles and dynastic histories, growing out of the Timurid tradition of Herat.
Safavid hunting carpet
A Safavid hunting carpet is a knotted-pile Persian court carpet of the 16th century, filled with mounted hunters, animals in combat, and flowering plants around a central medallion.