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NNM director to hang up boots after 16 yrs

Edit The Times of India 29 May 2016
Patna ... The Xuanzang memorial (XM) was jointly conceived by India and China in 1950s to pay tribute to the contributions of 7th century AD Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang ... "The people of Bihar have been special to me ... Bookmark or read stories offline - Download the TOI app....

The walking dead – bringing 1500 year-old graves to life (Australian National Maritime Museum)

Edit Public Technologies 28 May 2016
(Source. Australian National Maritime Museum). This is part of a series by Curator Dr Stephen Gapps who received an Endeavour Executive Fellowship from April to July 2016 ... The Wulftheodenas historical re-enactment group recreate the early Anglo-Saxon Age and the Vendel period from the 5th to 7th centuries - from the famous Sutton Hoo ship burial finds in the UK, to the Vendel and Valsgårde sites in Sweden ... (noodl. 33841784) ....

Dinner time stories

Edit Deccan Herald 28 May 2016
FOOD TALK ... Lavaash by Saby, one of the chef’s recent ventures based on the disappearing Armenian cuisine, being one of them ... The rest of the half needs a look back at the 7th century. The back story ... In fact, many anthropologists believe that the phase between 7-13th centuries completely changed the way food tables would be laid across India ... Result — the dish was more Indian that Portuguese or Arabian ... Chinese, especially....

Lines of Thought: Communicating Faith (University of Cambridge)

Edit Public Technologies 27 May 2016
Dating from the second century before Christ, the fragments on display in Cambridge contain the Ten Commandments and until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, it was the oldest surviving manuscript of any part of the Hebrew Bible ... It's now possible, using modern imaging techniques, to get a much more precise image of what this book would have looked like when it was written in the 6th or 7th century....

The story of cities: the tales we missed

Edit The Guardian 27 May 2016
Toward the end of the 16th and 17th centuries, Isfahan became an international city ... it a military outpost for centuries to come ... The late 19th century was a time of growth, entrepreneurship, migration, and industry ... The city first came to prominence under the Arabs in the 7th century, when it served as a base for Islam’s expansion into central Asia....

PM Modi gifts Iranian Supreme Leader a rare 7th century manuscript of the Holy Quran

Edit Topix 24 May 2016
... 7th Century manuscript of the Holy Quran written in Kufic script and attributed to Prophet's son-in-law Hazrat Ali. Modi, who called on Khamenei at his office, gifted the Supreme Leader the specially commissioned reproduction of rare 7th Century manuscript of the Holy Quran attributed to Hazrat Ali, the fourth Islamic caliph and first Shia Imam....

'Scope of Indo-Iran ties very vast'

Edit Kashmir Observer 24 May 2016
'Scope of Indo-Iran ties very vast'. TEHRAN ... "A rare honour, signifying the strength of the unique relationship ... Indian Prime Minister gifted a specially commissioned reproduction of a rare seventh-century manuscript of the Holy Quran attributed to Hazrat Imam Ali to Ayatollah Khamenei ... Kufic – developed around the end of the 7th century in Kufa, Iraq – is the oldest calligraphic form of the various Arabic scripts ... ....

PM Modi gifts Kufic script Quran to Iranian Supreme Leader

Edit DNA India 23 May 2016
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday gifted Iranian Supreme Leader Sayyid Ali Khamenei a rare 7th Century manuscript of the Holy Quran written in Kufic script and attributed to Prophet's son-in-law Hazrat Ali ... Kufic - developed around the end of the 7th century in Kufa, Iraq - is the oldest calligraphic form of the various Arabic scripts....

PM Narendra Modi Gifts Kufic Script Quran To Iranian Supreme Leader

Edit NDTV 23 May 2016
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today gifted Iranian Supreme Leader Sayyed Ali Khamenei a rare 7th Century manuscript of the Holy Quran written in Kufic script and attributed to Prophet's son-in-law Hazr... ....

After migrants, German nationalist party takes aim at Islam

Edit Springfield News-Sun 23 May 2016
Weeks after declaring that there is no place for Islam in Germany, a surging nationalist party has sharpened its rhetoric against prominent Islamic groups and suggested limiting the religious freedom of the more than 4 million Muslims in the country ... "We have common goals." ... Following Monday's meeting with the Central Council of Muslims, AfD's co-chair Frauke Petry claimed that Islam was "stuck in the 7th century." ... ____....

Kolhapur residents demand conservation of ancient Buddhist caves

Edit The Times of India 22 May 2016
On the eve of Buddha Pournima, the residents from Kolhapur district demanded the conservation and development of ancient caves constructed during the 7th century AD located at Masai pathar and Kushire-Pohale area in Panhala taluka....

IS flaunts Indian fighters in new video

Edit DNA India 21 May 2016
--> ... The video was shot last year and a few still images were posted by IS supporters on social media ... that parts of Hind and Sindh (now in Pakistan) were violently conquered by the armies of second Caliph Umar of the Rashidun Caliphate (632-661) to bring people closer to Shariah, whereas Islam is believed to have come to India through peaceful means when Arab traders landed at the Malabar coast in early 7th century AD ... Listen ... ....

Muslims Celebrated Paris

Edit Opposing Views 20 May 2016
Eagles of Death Metal singer Jesse Hughes recently said that he saw "Muslims celebrating in the street" during the infamous terrorist attacks in Paris in November 2015. The band was performing at the Bataclan theatre where 89 people were killed by terrorists. TakiMag.com stated ... I saw it with my own eyes ... Islam is one of the three main Abrahamic religions in the world and is believed to have begun sometime around the 7th century ... None ... ....
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