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  • Her public even took to calling her "abla," or "elder sister," an affectionate sign of their total acceptance of her gender.

    Archive 2008-01-01 2008

  • Her public even took to calling her "abla," or "elder sister," an affectionate sign of their total acceptance of her gender.

    Music Is Blind Too? 2008

  • Now in semi-retirement, she is celebrated as an “abla”, a casual term for an older woman.

    Body polemics ala Turka 2006

  • Then come the names of four witnesses and the clerk, the date and place of writing, and the statement that the deed was indented in the presence of Bissâ, the daughter of Iqisa-abla.

    Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs 1889

  • Iqisa-abla, the son of Kudurru, the son of Nur-Sin, has, therefore, of his own free will, cancelled the deed of adoption, and by a sealed deed has given Rimanni-Bel to wait upon

    Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs 1889

  • Whoever shall change these words and shall destroy the deed which Iqisa-abla has drawn up and given to Ê-Saggil-ramat and

    Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs 1889

  • Iqisa-abla accordingly had the legal right to break it also on his side.

    Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs 1889

  • A member of the World Economic Forum's Council of 100 Leaders initiative for Islamic-Western understanding, Ezzat is also a co-founder of IslamOnline and consults on many contemporary issues facing the Muslim world. kahlawi, prof. dr 'abla mohammed Kahlawi is the dean of Islamic and Arabic Studies at Al Azhar University Women's College.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows AlHaqqNetwork 2010

  • And either the three above-mentioned perfons were not found in the Je-vijh public genealogies of the kings of Judah; or the evangelift, de - fining, for memory's fake, tocaft Chrirt's anceftor's into three fourteens. might chufe to emit the offspring of the deteft - abla Chap. Matthew paraphrafed.

    The practical expositor, or, An exposition of the New Testament, in the form of a paraphrase : with occasional notes... and serious recollections 1797

  • This girl has lost her father her brother ahmad and her sister abla, she’s the only survivor , but she doesn’t know it yet.

    Monday, July 31, 2006 As'ad 2006

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