Perhaps not surprisingly, the Ismacili Nizari sect led by Hasan al-Sabbah seems to have been far better established in Iraq al-Ajam and northern Syria than in Khurasan.

Start-ups with names like Gobble, Blue Apron, Marley Spoon, HelloFresh, Plated, Peach Dish, Platejoy and Home Chef all offer variations of the same service: Pay a small fee for a box of food that arrives on your doorstep with premeasured, prepicked and (in some instances) precut and precooked ingredients.

Notes provides your Internet domain name (as it appears in the computer's TCP/IP setup and minus the superdomain (org, net, and so on) component) as a default.

The Khotan rug factory, Hotan Rayonluk Gilam Karahanisi, is situated outside the town of Khotan, in Lop county four kilometers east on the bank of the Yurunkash River.