Rukūʿ, Arabic ركوع, bowing with the upper body’, is a posture prescribed by ritual law during prayer in Islam. A bow is called: rakʿa(do)
The Islamic prayer. Ar-Rifa’ min Ar-Ruku’, or Inclination.
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Helmet of Boabdil. The last Moorish king
Helmet of Muhammad XII. Abu Abdallah. The last Moorish king.
First Dragoman. Page, messenger of the Turkish Sultan. Ottoman Empire.
First Dragoman, messenger of the Turkish Sultan. Historical Ottoman Empire officials. The costume of Turkey by Octavian Dalvimart.
Resident from Hejaz, Saudi Arabia c.1850
Hejaz was the starting point of Islam in the 7th century under Muhammad, which expanded over large parts of the Middle East and North Africa