This feast commemorates Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son Ishmael in obedience to God. The Eid al-Adha celebration commences with a congregational prayer and sermon, or khutba, at the mosque. This is followed by the sacrifice of an animal in remembrance of the angel Gabriel’s substitution of a lamb as Abraham’s offering. One-third of the meat is given to the poor, and the rest is shared with friends and family. Celebrated with gifts and merrymaking, the festival lasts three days. It is celebrated as Tabaski in Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, the Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger and Senegal and as Hari Raya Hajj in Southeast Asia.
On this day in 1780 Fitnat Hanım, a renowned female Ottoman poet, passed away. Fitnat Hanım was educated privately in the house of her father, Şeyhülislam Ebu İshakzade Mehmet Esad Efendi, the highest religious authority of the Ottoman state. Fitnat Hanım is certainly a contradiction of Western views of the role of women in Ottoman culture. She was from a religious family but used to joke with poets and paşas of the opposite gender. Many jokes were later made up and attributed to her. She used colloquial Turkish to produce highly esteemed Ottoman poetry.
On this day in 1989 President Ahmed Abdallah Abderemane of the Comoros was assassinated. Abderemane (b. 1919) served as the president of the Comoros, an island nation in the Indian Ocean, from 1978 until his death.
Today is the birthday of Chaim Azriel Weizmann (1874-1952), the former president of the World Zionist Organization (WZO) and the first president of the state of Israel. Weizmann, a world-renowned chemist, was influential in winning the support of the United Kingdom for the establishment of Israel. He was elected president of the newly independent country in 1949 and served until 1952. His birthday is observed by the WZO as Weizmann Day.
On this day in 1895, at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), the Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and inventor of dynamite, signed his last will and testament, setting aside his estate for the establishment of the Nobel Prize after his death.
Today is the birthday of Bruce Lee (1940-1973). Lee was an American-born actor and martial artist from San Francisco. He was raised in Hong Kong, but he returned to the US in 1959 and opened a martial arts school. He was widely regarded as the most influential martial artist of the 20th century and a Chinese cultural icon. Bruce Lee’s name is synonymous with martial arts in Turkey, with his “one-inch punch” being the symbol of the highest level of physical fitness and controlled power.
The city of Lalapaşa in the northwestern province of Edirne was liberated from Greek occupation on this day in 1922.
Gregorian Calendar: 27 November 2009 C.E.
Hijri Calendar: 10 Dhul-Hijjah 1430 A.H.
Hebrew Calendar: 10 Kislev 5770
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