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Islam portal. v. t. e. Salah ( Arabic: ٱلصَّلَاةُ, romanized : as-Ṣalāh ), is the principal form of worship in Islam. Facing Mecca, it consists of units called rak'a (specific set of movements), during which the Quran is recited, and prayers from the Sunnah are typically said. The number of rak'a varies from prayer to prayer.
Betawi people, or Batavians [3] [4] [5] ( Orang Betawi in Indonesian, meaning "people of Batavia "), are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the city of Jakarta and its immediate outskirts, as such often described as the native inhabitants of the city. [6] They are the descendants of the people who inhabited Batavia (the colonial name of ...
Sunan Ampel. Sunan Ampel (born Raden Ahmad Rahmatullah or Sayyid Ali Rahmatullah; 1401–1481) [1] was one of the Javanese nine revered saints Wali Songo, credited for the spread of Islam in Java. According to local history around Demak the mosque of Demak Masjid Agung Demak was built by Sunan Ampel in 1479 CE, [2] but other sources credited ...
A group of Kubu people in the 1930s in Jambi, Sumatra. The Orang Batin Sembilan, Orang Rimba or Anak Dalam are mobile, animist peoples who live throughout the lowland forests of southeast Sumatra. Kubu is a Malay exonym ascribed to them. In the Malay language, the word Kubu can mean defensive fortification, entrenchment, or a place of refuge.
Islam. Prophets in Islam ( Arabic: ٱلْأَنْبِيَاء فِي ٱلْإِسْلَام, romanized : al-anbiyāʾ fī al-islām) are individuals in Islam who are believed to spread God 's message on Earth and serve as models of ideal human behaviour. Some prophets are categorized as messengers ( Arabic: رُسُل, romanized : rusul; sing.
Tarawih ( Arabic: تَّرَاوِيح, romanized : tarāwīḥ) are special Sunnah prayers involving reading long portions of the Quran, and performing up to 20 rakahs (cycles of prostrations required in Islamic prayer), which are performed only in the Islamic month of Ramadan. The entire Quran is recited in the Tarawih prayers at a mosque ...
Orang-Outang, sive Homo Sylvestris. Orang-Outang, sive Homo Sylvestris: or, the Anatomy of a Pygmie Compared with that of a Monkey, an Ape, and a Man (1699) is a book by the British natural philosopher Edward Tyson. Regarded as a seminal work on anatomy, this volume led to Tyson being known as the father of comparative anatomy.
Orang Seletar (also known as Selitar or Slitar) are one of the 18 Orang Asli ethnic groups in Malaysia. [4] They are classified under the Proto-Malay people group, which forms the three major people group of the Orang Asli. [5] The Orang Seletar are also considered as part of the Orang Laut, [6] natives of the Straits of Johor; separating ...