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39 Did the Islamic daily prayers have any equivalent in Judaism or Christianity at the time of early Islam in terms of the repetition of fixed body positions - standing, bowing, prostration?
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During Prohibition in the United States did use of other psychoactive drugs rise in correspondence to the fall in alcohol consumption?
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I've heard that the Mongols destroyed Mesopotamia's ancient irrigation networks leading to Iraq being less cultivated compared to the pre-1200s. Did this really happen, were no attempts made to repair or rebuild them and does modern Iraq have less irrigated land than ancient Mesopotamia?
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Despite Hasan being the elder of Muhammad's two grandsons, Shia leadership has seemingly been firmly in the lineage of his younger grandson, Hussein's, descendants. Have Hasanids ever tried to reclaim Shia religious primacy?
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In Medieval Europe and the Near East, was Astrology considered a form of natural prognostication similar to Meteorology or a form of supernatural prognostication? If it was considered supernatural, how did astrologers deal with laws against witchcraft?
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How did the term squire go from meaning a knight-in-training to a landowner with tenant farmers in England?
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How were Ataturk's Turkish language reforms received by Turkish minorities outside Turkey? Were they adopted or did Turkish-speaking minorities in e.g. Bulgaria, Syria, Iraq retain Ottoman Turkish vocabulary and writing systems?
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