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Munro-Hay dates his death to some time after 553 based on the inscription at Murayghän. [1] Islamic tradition places his death immediately after his expedition to Mecca. He was succeeded on the throne by two of his sons, Yaksum and Masruq, whose mother was Raihäna, a Yemenite noblewoman whom Abraha had abducted from her husband. [8] Sahih Muslim 1355 a In-book reference: Book 15, Hadith 509 USC-MSA web (English) reference: Book 7, Hadith 3142 (deprecated numbering scheme) Report Error | Share More people are reading the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs than ever but advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. Our independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our perspective matters – because it might well be your perspective, too. Drunken elephants trample village". BBC News. 21 October 1999. Archived from the original on 26 December 2007 . Retrieved 16 June 2007.O'Connell-Rodwell C. E.; Arnason, B.; Hart, L. A. (2000). "Seismic properties of Asian elephant ( Elephas maximus) vocalizations and locomotion". Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 108 (6): 3066–3072. Bibcode: 2000ASAJ..108.3066O. doi: 10.1121/1.1323460. PMID 11144599. Herbest, C. T.; Stoeger, A.; Frey, R.; Lohscheller, J.; Titze, I. R.; Gumpenberger, M.; Fitch, W. T. (2012). "How Low Can You Go? Physical Production Mechanism of Elephant Infrasonic Vocalizations". Science. 337 (6094): 595–599. Bibcode: 2012Sci...337..595H. doi: 10.1126/science.1219712. PMID 22859490. S2CID 32792564.

There are almost 7 divisions in the entire Qur'an according to Themes. [27] [28] The final of these 7 sections starts from surah Al-Mulk [surah number 67] to surah Al-Nas [surah number 114]. [29] This final part [last 7th of the Quran] focuses on; sources of Reflection, People, their final scenes they will face on Judgment Day and Hellfire and Paradise in general [30] and Admonition to the Quraysh about their fate in the Herein and the Hereafter if they deny Muhammad, specifically. [31]

Year of the Elephant

The idea of textual relation between the verses of a chapter has been discussed under various titles such as nazm and munasabah in non-English literature and coherence, text relations, intertextuality, and unity in English literature. Hamiduddin Farahi, an Islamic scholar of the Indian subcontinent, is known for his work on the concept of nazm, or coherence, in the Quran. Fakhruddin al-Razi (died 1209 CE), Zarkashi (died 1392) and several other classical as well as contemporary Quranic scholars have contributed to the studies. [34] [35] [36] Connection with previous surahs [ edit ] Charles, Michael (2018). "The Elephants of Aksum: In Search of the Bush Elephant in Late Antiquity". Journal of Late Antiquity. 11 (1): 166–192. doi: 10.1353/jla.2018.0000. S2CID 165659027. As Zahra struggles to find a place for herself in this new Morocco, her efforts reflect Moroccan society's attempt as a whole to chart a path in the conflict between tradition and modernism. When published in English in 1989, Year of the Elephant was the first novel by a Moroccan woman to be translated from Arabic into English. Roca, Alfred L.; Ishida, Yasuko; Brandt, Adam L.; Benjamin, Neal R.; Zhao, Kai; Georgiadis, Nicholas J. (2015). "Elephant Natural History: A Genomic Perspective". Annual Review of Animal Biosciences. 3 (1): 139–167. doi: 10.1146/annurev-animal-022114-110838. PMID 25493538.

In contrast to the novella's immediate and relaxed style, the short stories also included in the volume are brief but powerful sketches, displaying a range of subtle humor, cold and detached observation, and ominous plots, all conveyed with an admirable economy of language that is one of the charms of Moroccan writing. The events of these stories are simple but profound, and Abouzeid often leaves the reader the task of explaining the character's motivations. While entertaining, these stories are not intended solely for entertainment's sake. Year of the Elephant provides a perspective not often found in writing from and about Morocco. Abouzeid's text is deceptively simple, and readers will have plenty to ponder while savoring the book. One can only hope that this first novel by a Moroccan woman to be translated from Arabic to English is not the last. a b William Montgomery Watt (1961). Muhammad: Prophet and Statesman, Oxford: Oxford University Press, p.7. El-Awa, Salwa (2005). Textual Relations in Qur'an: Relevance, Coherence and Structure. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-22747-1. Kellogg, M.; Burkett, S.; Dennis, T. R.; Stone, G.; Gray, B. A.; McGuire, P. M.; Zori, R. T.; Stanyon, R. (2007). "Chromosome painting in the manatee supports Afrotheria and Paenungulata". Evolutionary Biology. 7: 6. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-7-6. PMC 1784077. PMID 17244368.Year of the Elephant is the First novel by a Moroccan woman to be translated from Arabic to English. Esposito, John L. (1995). The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World: Libe-Sare. Oxford University Press. p. 154. ISBN 978-0195096149. Lohanan, Roger (February 2001). "The elephant situation in Thailand and a plea for co-operation". FAO. Archived from the original on 4 April 2016 . Retrieved 31 January 2016.

Rogers, Rebekah L.; Slatkin, Montgomery (2 March 2017). Barsh, Gregory S. (ed.). "Excess of genomic defects in a woolly mammoth on Wrangel island". PLOS Genetics. 13 (3): e1006601. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006601. ISSN 1553-7404. PMC 5333797. PMID 28253255. Iannucci, Alessio; Sardella, Raffaele (28 February 2023). "What Does the "Elephant- Equus" Event Mean Today? Reflections on Mammal Dispersal Events around the Pliocene-Pleistocene Boundary and the Flexible Ambiguity of Biochronology". Quaternary. 6 (1): 16. doi: 10.3390/quat6010016. ISSN 2571-550X.Ibid. As already mentioned in the introductory note, the particular chastisement to which the above verse alludes seems to have been a sudden epidemic of extreme virulence: according to Waqidi and Muhammad ibn Ishaq - the latter as quoted by Ibn Hisham and Ibn Kathir - "this was the first time that spotted fever (hasbah) and smallpox (judari) appeared in the land of the Arabs". It is interesting to note that the word hasbah - which, according to some authorities, signifies also typhus - primarily means "pelting [or smiting"] with stones" (Qamus)