QĀḌĪ AL-NUʿMĀN. Abū Ḥanīfah al-Nuʿmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥayyūn al-Tamīmī (d. AH 363/974 CE), ...

Q (or Query) fever is a disease that is caused by the bacterium Coxiella burnetii. The bacterium is passed to humans by contact with infected animals such as sheep, cattle, and goats, which are the main reservoirs of the microorganism. The...

Qaboos ibn Sa'id (born 1940), ruler of Arabia's strategically important Sultanate of Oman, defeated a Communist-inspired insurgency and guided an extensive socio-economic modernization of his once backward realm. Qaboos ibn Sa'id headed Ar...

Qadiriya refers to a Sufi tariqa (mystic way or order) named after ʿAbd al-Qadir ibn Abi Salih Jangidost al-Jilani (1077–1166), born in the province of Jilan in Persia, a stronghold of Hanbalism (the Sunni school of law attri...

Kariz (also known as kareze or qanat) is an ancient underground channel irrigation system invented in Persia (Iran). It is a sloping tunnel that brings water from an underground source in a range of hills down to a dry plain at the foot of...

(1998 est. pop. 190,000). Karshi, in the southern part of the republic of Uzbekistan in Central Asia, is an ancient city on the old trade route between Afghanistan and Samarqand. Situated in a fertile oasis of the Kashka Darya River, today...

However one reads it, "QB VII" induces tranquility, because a mind absorbed is a body at rest. The question is, How does Leon Uris do it? How does he manage to make so few demands on us in 500 pages? There is art to it. Mr. Uris explains pa...

QI , standing for Quite Interesting, is a comedy panel game shown on BBC Two and BBC Four and hosted by Stephen Fry, with permanent panellist Alan Davies. Contents 1 Series One [A] 1.1 Episode A.01 1.2 Episode A.02 1.3 Episode A.03 1.4 Epi...

Qianlong (1711-1899) was the emperor of China and an ideal Confucian ruler during the height of the last dynasty, the Qing (Ch'ing). Qianlong (Ch'ien-lung, Hung-li) was born into the Aisin Gioro clan of the Manchu people, a semi-nomadic ra...

According to the Shiji, the First Emperor was born in 259 BC. He was the illegitimate son and the king of Qin's concubine (one of many wives). No one knew his real father was a merchant, so in time he became king of Qin. Most of what we kn...

With the conclusion of the Arrow War (1860), China realized that her position was challenged by new forces from the West. Her supreme power was shattered, her material resources were limited and her territories were exposed to foreign aggre...

Having a multiplicity of meanings in Chinese culture, the term qingke (guest hospitality) refers both to an overt strategy employed in guanxi (interpersonal relationships) management and, more generally, to the entertainment of guests. The...

The Qinling mountain range runs 1,500 kilometers from the borders of Gansu and Qinghai provinces in the west to the middle of Henan Province in the east. In China the term particularly refers to the section located in Shaanxi Province in c...

QIYᾹS ("analogy") is a method of reasoning that entails the extension of a precedent to an essentially similar situation. One of the four principal sources of law among Sunnī Muslims, qiyās was the last t...

Qoriniasi Bale is a Fijian political leader, who has served as his country's Minister for Justice and Attorney-General since 2000, when he joined what was then the interim government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase in the wake of the fai...

A quadratic equation is an equation of the second degree, meaning that for an equation in x, the greatest exponent on x is 2. Quadratics most commonly refer to vertically oriented parabolas—that is, parabolas that open upward or dow...

Quadriplegia A complete paralysis of the arms, legs, and trunk, usually occurring after a severe injury to the spinal cord between the fifth and seventh vertebrae. Spastic quadriplegia is a condition present at birth often accompanied by v...

In jalousie I rede eek thou hym bynde And thou shalt make him couche as doeth a quaille. The song-birds leave us at the summer's close, Only the empty nests are left behind, And pipings of the quail among the sheaves. Here's Agamemnon, an ...

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently . . . This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten. The true...

Marsha Qualey's young adult (YA) novels present average teenagers struggling with unusually challenging situations. Nearly all of her works are set in her home state of Minnesota, and their plots are often driven by intergenerational confl...

Qualitative models describe structure and metamorphoses among things or events or among properties of things or events. Sociologists have several ways of formulating qualitative models. Qualitative modeling based on logic involves the foll...

Quality can refer to: A specific characteristic of an object ( the qualities of ice - i.e. its properties) The achievement or excellence of an object ( good quality ice - i.e. not of inferior grade) The essence of an object ( the quality o...

Quality management (QM), also called total quality management (TQM), evolved from many different management practices and improvement processes. Quality management is not specific to managing people, but rather is related to improving the ...

Although the concept of quality of life (QL) is not new, quality of life as an area of research and scholarship dates back only to the 1960s. Schuessler and Fisher (1985) noted that President Dwight Eisenhower's 1960 Commission on N...