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- acute, self-limited, systemic disease caused by the rickettsia Coxiella burnetii. Q fever spreads rapidly in cows, sheep, and goats, and in humans it tends to occur in localized outbreaks. The clinical symptoms are those of fever, chills, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Q source
- (from the article "biblical literature") ...and Luke used Mark, both for its narrative material as well as for the basic structural outline of chronology of Jesus' life. Matthew and Luke use a second source, which is called Q (from German Quelle, "source"), not extant, for ...
- Q-sort
- (from the article "personality assessment") Another method of self-report called the Q-sort is devised for problems similar to those for which rating scales are used. In a Q-sort a person is given a set of sentences, phrases, or words (usually presented individually on cards) and ...
- Q.R.S. Company
- (from the article "Raytheon Company") ...In 1925 the company changed its name to Raytheon Manufacturing Company and began marketing its rectifier, under the Raytheon brand name, with great commercial success. In 1928 Raytheon merged with Q.R.S. Company, an American manufacturer of electron tubes and switches, ...
- qa
- ancient Babylonian liquid measure equal to the volume of a cube whose dimensions are each one handbreadth (3.9 to 4 inches, or 9.9 to 10.2 cm) in length. The cube held one great mina (about 2 pounds, or 1 kg) ... [1 Related Articles]
- Qa'ani
- (from the article "Islamic arts") In Iran, the situation to a certain extent resembled that in Turkey. While the last "classical" poet, Qa'ani (died 1854), had been displaying the traditional glamorous artistry, his contemporary, the satirist Yaghma (died 1859), had been using popular and comprehensible ...
- Qa'it Bay
- (from the article "Egypt") ...Indian trade, along with the sultans' inability to keep their refractory Mamluk corps under control, gradually sapped the strength of the state. The best efforts of such a vigorous sultan as Qa'it Bay (reigned 1468-96) failed to make Egypt strong ...
- Qabacha, Nasir-ud-Din
- (from the article "India") ...for the latter's conflict with the Mongol armies of Genghis Khan. Again Iltutmish waited while refugees, including the heir to the Khwarezm-Shahi throne, poured into the Punjab and while Nasir al-Din Qabacha, another of Muhammad of Ghur's former slaves, maintained ...
- Qabbani, Abu Khalil al-
- (from the article "Arabic literature") ...in the 1860s. The Naqqash family troupe and others moved to Egypt, where the cultural and political atmosphere was more conducive to theatre; prominent among the other troupes was that of Abu Khalil al-Qabbani, whose performances in Damascus had been ...
- Qabbani, Nizar
- Syrian diplomat and poet whose subject matter, at first strictly erotic and romantic, grew to embrace political issues as well. Written in simple but eloquent language, his verses, some of which were set to music, won the hearts of countless ... [2 Related Articles]
- qabili
- (from the article "Arabia") ...In Yemen, the fertile southwestern corner of Arabia containing more than one-third of its total population, the same antagonistic feelings exist between city dwellers and qabilis, arms-bearing tribes mostly settled in villages. Until after World War I ...
- Qabis River
- (from the article "Gabes") town in southeastern Tunisia. Situated on a Mediterranean oasis along the Gulf of Gabes, the town is located at the mouth of the Wadi Qabis (Oued Gabes), which has its source 6 miles (10 km) upstream at the Ras al-Oued ...
- Qaboos bin Said
- sultan of Oman. [7 Related Articles]
- Qabus ibn Voshamgir
- (from the article "Iran") ...in 935, but his Ziyarid descendants sought Samanid protection. They adhered to Sunnism and maintained themselves in the region southeast of the Caspian Sea. The Ziyarid Qabus ibn Voshamgir (reigned 978-1012) built himself a tomb tower, the Gonbad-e Qabus (1006-07), ...
- Qadarif, Al-
- town, east-central Sudan. It is situated about 120 miles (200 km) southwest of Kassala town. Located at an elevation of 1,975 feet (608 metres), it is a commercial centre for the cotton, cereals, sesame seeds, and fodder produced in the ...
- Qadariyah
- in Islam, adherents of the doctrine of free will (from qadar, "power"). The name was also applied to the Mu'tazilah, the Muslim theological school that believed that humankind, through its free will, can choose between good and evil. But as ...
- Qaddafi, Muammar al-
- de facto leader of Libya from 1969 and a controversial Arab statesman. [13 Related Articles]
- qadi
- a Muslim judge who renders decisions according to the Shari'ah, the canon law of Islam. The qadi hears only religious cases such as those involving inheritance, pious bequests (waqf), marriage, and divorce, though theoretically his jurisdiction extends to both civil ... [7 Related Articles]
- Qadi, 'Isam al-
- (from the article "Sa'iqah, al-") ...chief of al-Sa'iqah, Zuhayr Muhsin, was a member of the PLO executive committee until his assassination in 1979. He was replaced by another Syrian protege, 'Isam al-Qadi. Al-Sa'iqah opposed the Israeli-Palestinian peace process of the 1990s.
- Qadiani
- (from the article "Ahmadiyah") On the death of the founder, Mawlawi Nur-ad-Din was elected by the community as khalifah ("successor"). In 1914, when he died, the Ahmadiyah split, the original, Qadiani, group recognizing Ghulam Ahmad as prophet (nabi) and his son Hadrat Mirza Bashir-ad-Din ...
- Qadir, Abdul
- Afghan warlord and political official (b. 1954?, Sorkh Rod, Afg.-d. July 6, 2002, Kabul, Afg.), was one of the few Pashtun leaders in the Tajik-dominated government of Pres. Hamid Karzai. Qadir's power base lay in eastern Afghanistan, where he was ...
- Qadiri, Abdullah
- (from the article "Uzbekistan") ...in their style but continued to revere it in their literary history. In the Jadid era (1900-20) the foremost modern poets and prose writers included Abdalrauf Fitrat, Sadriddin Ayni, and Abdullah Qadiri, each of whom was bilingual in Uzbek and ...
- Qadiriyah
- probably the oldest of the Muslim mystic (Sufi) orders, founded by the Hanbali theologian 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani (1078-1166) in Baghdad. Al-Jilani may have intended the few rituals he prescribed to extend only to his small circle of followers, but his ... [4 Related Articles]
- Qadisiyya, Battle of Al-
- (from the article "Iran, ancient") ...Iran. The door was open to a newly emerging force that challenged both states and religions-the Arabs. After several encounters, the fate of the Sasanian empire was decided in the battle of Al-Qadisiyyah (636/637)-on one of the Euphrates canals, not ...
- Qaeda of Mesopotamia, al-
- (from the article "chemical weapon") ...in 2001. In addition to other documents showing ongoing research on chemical weapons, al-Qaeda planned and then aborted a chemical attack on the New York City subway system in 2005. Furthermore, al-Qaeda of Mesopotamia (also known as al-Qaeda of Iraq) ...
- Qaeda, al-
- broad-based Islamic militant organization founded by Osama bin Laden in the late 1980s. [56 Related Articles]
- Qafzeh
- paleoanthropological site south of Nazareth, Israel, where some of the oldest remains of modern humans in Asia have been found. More than 25 fossil skeletons dating to about 90,000 years ago have been recovered. The site is a rock shelter ...
- Qahtan
- (from the article "Arabia") According to tradition, Arabs are descended from a southern Arabian ancestor, Qahtan, forebear of the "pure" or "genuine" Arabs (known as al-'Arab al-'Aribah), and a northern Arabian ancestor, 'Adnan, forebear of the "Arabicized" Arabs (al-'Arab al-Musta'ribah). A tradition, seemingly derived ...
- Qaidam Basin
- northeastern section of the Plateau of Tibet, occupying the northwestern part of Qinghai province, western China. The basin is bounded on the south by the towering Kunlun Mountains-with many peaks in the western part exceeding 20,000 feet (6,000 metres) above ... [4 Related Articles]
- Qajar Dynasty
- the ruling dynasty of Iran from 1794 to 1925. [5 Related Articles]
- Qal'eh-ye Sarkari
- (from the article "Afghanistan") ...Many coal deposits have been found in the northern slopes of the Hindu Kush. Major coal fields are at Ma'dan-e Karkar and Eshposhteh, between Kabul and Mazar-e Sharif, and Qal'eh-ye Sarkari, southwest of Mazar-e Sharif. In general, however, Afghanistan's energy ...
- Qala'un
- Mamluk sultan of Egypt (1279-90), the founder of a dynasty that ruled that country for a century. [1 Related Articles]
- Qala'un complex
- building complex, including a mausoleum, a madrasah, and a hospital, built in 1283-85 on the site of present-day Cairo by the fifth Mamluk sultan, Qala'un. The hospital, now in ruins, was one of the most remarkable buildings of the Mamluk ... [1 Related Articles]
- qalam
- ancient reed pen still used in Arabic calligraphy and formerly used for all writing. The qalam was cut from between two nodes of the stem of a reed chosen for its straight fibres. As thick as a finger and 8 ... [1 Related Articles]
- qalamkari textile
- painted textile of a type produced during the 17th century at various centres in India, notably at Golconda. The material was called qalamkari ("brushwork") because of the technique employed in executing it and was chiefly made into prayer carpets, hangings, ...
- qalandar
- (from the article "Persian literature") ...the transcendental, which later became characteristic of this genre, can be seen. An important motif introduced by Sana'i is the idealization of the qalandar, a type of outlaw who defies all rules of good behaviour and abandons ...
- Qalandariyah
- loosely organized group of wandering Muslim dervishes who form an "irregular" (bi-shar') or antinomian Sufi mystical order. The Qalandariyah seem to have arisen from the earlier Malamatiyah in Central Asia and exhibited Buddhist and perhaps Hindu influences. The adherents of ...
- Qalyub
- town at the apex of the Nile River delta, in Al-Qalyubiyah muhafazah (governorate), Lower Egypt. It lies just north of Cairo, near the right bank of the Nile and Barrage Al-Khayriyah, which controls the division of the Nile's waters into ...
- Qalyubiyah, Al-
- small muhafazah (governorate), just north of Cairo at the apex of the Nile River delta, Lower Egypt. It is bounded on the northeast by Ash-Sharqiyah muhafazah and on the northwest by the Damietta Branch of the Nile. It is densely ...
- Qamar-ud-Din Khan
- (from the article "India") ...Sayyid 'Abd Allah Khan as vizier; after Amin Khan's death (January 1720), the office was occupied by the Nizam al-Mulk for a brief period until Amin Khan's son Qamar al-Din Khan assumed the title in July 1724 by a claim ...
- Qamar-ud-Din Shah
- (from the article "Jhunjhunu") ...India. It is a local trade centre for wool, cattle, hides, and gram (chick-pea). The city's major industries include a dye factory and woolen mills. Jhunjhunu houses the mausoleum of Qamar-ud-Din Shah, patron saint of the Kamkhani sect, as well ...
- Qamdo
- (from the article "Qamdo") Most of the area is uninhabited, and large parts remain virtually unexplored. The city of Qamdo, in the northern section of the region, is a communications hub for eastern Tibet and a gateway providing access to the Chengdu Plain in ...
- Qamdo
- mountainous area in the far eastern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, western China. It borders the provinces of Qinghai, Yunnan, and Sichuan to the north, east, and southeast, respectively. Myanmar (Burma) and the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh lie ...
- Qamishli, Al-
- town in northeastern Syria. It lies along the Turkish border. The border divides the Syrian town of Al-Qamishli from the Turkish town of Nusaybin. The town was founded in 1926 as a station on the Taurus railway. Its mixed population ...
- qanat
- ancient type of water-supply system developed and still used in arid regions of the world. A qanat taps underground mountain water sources trapped in and beneath the upper reaches of alluvial fans and channels the water downhill through a series ... [5 Related Articles]
- Qangule, Z. S.
- (from the article "African literature") ...(1940; The Wrath of the Ancestors) that set the principal theme of later Xhosa prose: how to retain the strengths of tradition in the face of inevitable change. Some writers, such as Z.S. Qangule and K.S. Bongela, set the rural-versus-urban ...
- Qantarah, Al-
- (from the article "building construction") ...were public works in conquered provinces, such as the late 1st-century-BC Pont du Gard, a many-arched bridge and aqueduct spanning 22 metres (72 feet) near Nimes, in France, or the fine bridge over the Tagus River at Alcantara in Spain, ...
- Qantas Airways Limited
- Australian airline, the oldest in the English-speaking world, founded in 1920 as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Ltd. (from which the name Qantas was derived). Its first operations were taxi services and joy flights. By the late 20th century, ... [5 Related Articles]
- qanun
- (from the article "stringed instrument") Medieval Arab authors (including Ibn Khaldun) mention a plucked trapezoidal zither, the qanun (derived from Greek kanon, "rule"). The present-day instrument has a range of three octaves with three strings to each pitch, and a complex system of levers by ...
- Qapaghan Qaghan
- (from the article "An Lushan") ...the Chinese emperor Taizong at the beginning of the Tang dynasty but had made themselves independent and were enjoying renewed prosperity at the time of An Lushan's birth. The death of their ruler, Qapaghan Qaghan, in 716, however, led to ...
- Qaqortoq
- principal town in southwestern Greenland, on Julianehab Bugt, an inlet in the Davis Strait. Founded in 1755 by Anders Olsen, a Norwegian merchant, and named for Queen Juliana Maria of Denmark, it is a seaport and trading station supported by ...
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