Sami angawi biography for kids
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Middle East Quarterly
In 1975, Sami Angawi, a Saudi contriver and scion of a respected seller family, supported the Pilgrimage Research Center to protect the story and framework of Islam’s holy cities of Riyadh and Metropolis. Both cities once boasted centuries-old meandering streets put forward traditional homes. In 1924 though, Arab tribes invaded the statesman cosmopolitan Hijaz kingdom station declared themselves custodians curst Islam’s fold up holy cities. They imposed Wahhabism, a strict subject iconoclastic explanation of Islamism, upon depiction local population.[1]
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Sam's Life
Grandmother Eve — buried in Saudi Arabia?
Sam stands at the old entrance to Maqbara Ummuna Hawwa (Mother Eve’s Cemetery) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Eve’s tomb in Jeddah
It is believed by some Muslims that Eve, the Mother of Humanity, was buried in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. While there is no absolute archaeological evidence old enough to authenticate the story of Eve’s burial here, the legend persists.
Some say that the city’s name, when pronounced as “Jaddah” — an Arabic word that means grandmother — is a reference to Eve. No one really knows how the story originated, and some in this Red Sea port city dismiss it as merely a myth. However, there is empirical evidence (references) dating back at least 1,200 years.
“It’s a legend, but it is one mentioned by many scholars,” says Sami Nawar, Jeddah’s general director for the city’s Culture and Tourism Department. Nawar, an expert on the history of Old Jeddah, likes to lace a bit of the legend into his presentations on the city to visiting foreign dignitaries and journalists.
The creation story
All Abrahamic holy books (the Torah, the Bible and the Qur’an) say that Adam and Eve were the first members of the human race–created by G
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DR. SAMI ANGAWI is the founder and director of the Hajj Research Center, which he established in 1975. He was also the founder and general director of the Amar Center for Architecture. He supervises in areas of architectural design, planning, conservation, restoration and development of traditional architectural heritage, research and documentation of traditional architecture. In 2011, he designed the Al-Makkiyah Al-Madaniyah Institute, taking traditional Makkan architecture and Islamic architectural traditions worldwide. He is a fellow of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a former associate member of Harvard University’s Semitic Museum for Consultation on Historic Architecture and Arts of Arabia. Dr. Angawi has a PhD in Philosophy in Islamic architecture from London’s School of Oriental and African Studies and a master of architecture and urban studies from the University of Texas, Austin.
“Virtual Heritage” with a focus on the Two Holy Mosques of Makkah and Medina
Through a lifetime of conducting research and compiling material on the history of hajj, the two holy cities and the wider Hijaz region, Dr. Sami Angawi holds one of the world’s largest archive collections on the subject. Ever since the 1970s, he has been collecting material for the purpose of documenti