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- proper noun Islam the
grotto orcave , inSaudi Arabia , whereMuhammad first received theQur'an fromGabriel
Etymologies
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Examples
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“There is upon the top of one of them a cave, which they term Hira,17 i.e. Blessing; into which
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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He called Hira sharply to order, and told him the question wasn't relevant.
The Braidwood Chronicles: the Chairman puts his foot down 2009
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When he was forty years old he went one day to a mountain called Hira which was not far from Mecca.
A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. Clayton Edwards
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He called Hira sharply to order, and told him the question wasn't relevant.
Liblogs News Feed 2009
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The man was identified as Sanjiv alias Hira, who belonged to Samastipur in Bihar and who was presently residing in Delhi.
India eNews 2009
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The girl, for she was barely seventeen years old, was a concubine in her uncle Saif Khan’s harem, called Hira Bai.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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The girl, for she was barely seventeen years old, was a concubine in her uncle Saif Khan’s harem, called Hira Bai.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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The girl, for she was barely seventeen years old, was a concubine in her uncle Saif Khan’s harem, called Hira Bai.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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The most famous of all the Baghdad translators, Hunayn ibn Ishāq, was born in the ancient Christian city of Hira and never converted to Islam.
When Baghdad was centre of the scientific world Jim al-Khalili 2010
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I read this week something about an "wolf" with "scars" (To refer to Julias "panther" and to refer to some of your descriptions of Marc in "Craving Beauty".) * g* and - of course - I enjoyed Hira ` s story.
Friday Book Club Nalini Singh 2009
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