Sentence examples for arab rule from inspiring English sources

But around Irbil he sometimes forgoes the traditional Arab dress because some Kurds view it as a sign of the decades of Arab rule and efforts to "Arabize" the Kurds, he said.

The city declined under later Byzantine and Arab rule.

After a stunning drive through Granada you reach the Alhambra palace, a striking memorial to Arab rule in Spain.

We'll create a new independent state for Jews who want to live here freely, not under Arab rule".

Then, having restored the city to Arab rule, he would go to his rest in the sacred soil of the grounds of the Al Aksa Mosque.

It fell under Arab rule in the 7th century ad, under the Ṣaffārid dynasty in the 9th, and under the Ghaznavid dynasty in the 10th.

That may be wise, from America's own point of view, and welcome to the Arab rulers, if not necessarily to the Arab ruled.

Society was traditionally divided into two broad categories: the mpanombily (or tompomenakely), who were nobles said to be descended from Arabs from Mecca, and the menakely, composed of the working and slave classes, who were said to have descended from the local Malagasy who submitted to the Arabs' rule, or alternately from slaves that the Arabs had brought with them.

Whereas early Islam had confirmed the pre-Islamic democratic Arab principle of rule by consultation (shūrā) and some form of democratic election of the leader, those practices soon gave way to dynastic rule with the advent of the Umayyads.

Today Isis fundamentalists – enemies of secular Arab nationalism – rule in Mosul, and the Kurds – the largest ethnic losers from the 1918 settlements – still make their neighbours nervous of their ambitions for a fully-independent state.

Mostly coming under Arab Muslim rule, Byzantine Greeks either fled their former lands or subdued to the new Muslim rulers, receiving the status of Dhimmi.