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Fidyah or
fidya (Arabic: الفدية) and
kaffara or
kaffarah (Arabic: كفارة) are
religious donations made in
Islam when a fast (notably in Ramadan) is missed...
- Sadd el-
Kafara ("Dam of the Infidels") was a
masonry embankment dam on Wadi al-Garawi 10 km
southeast of
Helwan in Cairo, Egypt. The dam was
built in the...
- romanized: kāfir; plural: كَافِرُون kāfirūn, كُفَّار kuffār, or كَفَرَة
kafara; feminine: كَافِرَة kāfira;
feminine plural: كَافِرَات kāfirāt or كَوَافِر...
- Jordan,
dating to 3,000 BC.
Egyptians also
built dams, such as Sadd-el-
Kafara Dam for
flood control. In modern-day India,
Dholavira had an
intricate water-management...
-
building infrastructure to use
rivers for
thousands of years. The Sadd el-
Kafara dam near Cairo, Egypt, is an
ancient dam
built on the Nile 4,500
years ago...
- or a
storm drain. An
early diversion dam is the
Ancient Egyptian Sadd el-
Kafara Dam at Wadi Al-Garawi,
which was
located about twenty five
kilometres south...
- The
Quranic verse Al-Ma'idah 5:73: 5:73 ("Certainly they
disbelieve [
kafara] who say: God is the
third of three"),
among other verses, has been traditionally...
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hostile to
Christians in particular,
suggesting that they both
disbelieve (
kafara) and are
guilty of shirk."
Oliver Leaman (2006). The Qur'an: An Encyclopedia...
- Pyramid. Also
during this
period (between 2686 and 2498 BC) the Sadd el-
Kafara dam,
which used an
estimated 100,000
cubic meters of rock and rubble, was...
- and its
diurnal average temperature variation is
slightly larger. Sadd el-
Kafara, one of the
earliest prehistoric man-made dams in the world.
Harold Knox-Shaw...
