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The United States Postal Service (USPS) has issued several Eid postage stamps, across several years—starting in 2001—honoring "two of the most important festivals in the Islamic calendar: Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha." Eid stamps were released in 2001–2002, 2006–2009, 2011, and 2013. They are also being issued as Forever Stamps.
The United States Postal Service issued a 34-cent stamp on the 1 September 2001 at the annual Islamic Society of North America's convention in Des Plaines, Illinois. It features gold Arabic calligraphy on a lapis background that commemorates two of the most important Muslim festivals: Eid ul-Fitr , marking the end of the month-long fast of ...
The first Moroccan postal stamps were produced in 1891 by private companies which managed courier services between cities. The system was replaced after a reorganization in 1911, the Sherifian post was created to handle local mail, and produced two series of stamps which were valid for use until 1915 and until 1919 in Tangier. [citation needed]
An 1866 stamp of Egypt. Carlo Meratti, an Italian, set up the first postal system in Egypt in 1821. This was a private enterprise which in 1842 was named "POSTA EUROPEA". The Egyptian Government, in 1857, sanctioned it to carry on all inland postal services. This concession was purchased by the Egyptian Government and on 1 January 1865 it took ...
From Israel's first stamp series, featuring a shekel from the first Jewish-Roman War. From May 16, 1948, stamps have been issued by the State of Israel by the Israel Postal Authority. The first set of stamps were entitled Doar Ivri (lit. "Hebrew postage"), as pictured, while later stamps were issued for Israel.
Baba Farid. Farīdudddīn Masūd Ganjshakar ( c. 4 April 1173 – 7 May 1266), commonly known as Bābā Farīd or Sheikh Farīd (also in Anglicised spelling Fareed, Fareed ud-Deen, Masood, etc.), was a 13th-century Muslim [3] mystic, poet and preacher [4] flourishing in Punjab, India.
The last stamps bearing her name were issued in 1902 with inscription: "H.H. Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam". (The state postal service of Bhopal issued its own postage stamps until 1949; from the second issue of stamps in 1908 official stamps were issued until 1945 and these had the inscriptions "Bhopal State" or "Bhopal Govt."
The stamps are in the form of small sheets, consisting of 8 stamps in total. The stamps include the Tashkent International Business Center, the Senate building, the Oliy Majlis building, the Turkiston Palace, the Temuriylar History State Museum, the Hazrati Imam complex, the Qatagʻon Martyrs Memorial Museum, the Baroqxon madrasa and a fragment ...
Sunni Islam. Nawab Sir Khwaja Salimullah Bahadur KCSI GCIE (7 June 1871 – 16 January 1915) was the fourth Nawab of Dhaka and one of the leading Muslim politicians during the British rule in India. [1] On 30 December 1906, the All-India Muslim League was officially founded at the educational conference held in Dhaka. [2]
Bharat Ratna (1963) Padma Vibhushan (1954) Zakir Husain Khan (8 February 1897 – 3 May 1969) was an Indian educationist and politician who served as the third president of India from 13 May 1967 until his death on 3 May 1969. Born in Hyderabad in an Afridi Pashtun family, Husain completed his schooling in Etawah and went on to study at the ...