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- Khadijah occupies an almost iconic place in Islam. She is often invoked ... For Sunnis, Khadijah is known as one of four perfect women in Islam ...7 KB (1,148 words) - 03:33, 6 October 2022
- Musnad. His is the only school recognized in Saudi Arabia. Ibn Hanbal is considered a defender of orthodoxy, or pure Islam, and ...7 KB (1,052 words) - 06:52, 16 June 2023
- and arch-enemy of Muhammad. He converted to Islam immediately before Mecca ... Rafiq Zakaria, The Struggle within Islam: The Conflict Between Religion ...12 KB (1,857 words) - 06:56, 14 June 2023
- born handmaiden of Abraham's wife Sarah in the Bible. She became Abraham ... According to the account in Genesis, since Sarah could not have children ...12 KB (1,936 words) - 07:22, 16 January 2024
- "Zaqqum" (a thorned tree) grows in Jahannam, which has a bitter ... In Islam, one's degree of punishment in hell depends on one& ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 12:41, 6 November 2021
- Benazir Bhutto (Urdu: بینظیر بھٹو) (June 21, 1953 in Karachi ... head of government of an Islamic state in modern times, pioneering the ...16 KB (2,396 words) - 09:07, 27 September 2023
- In Judaism, Gehenna (or Ge-hinnom) is a fiery place where the wicked ... to the Kidron Valley. It is first mentioned in Joshua 15:8. Originally it ...8 KB (1,334 words) - 06:33, 18 April 2024
- The term polygyny (neo-Greek: poly+gyne woman) is used in related ... |right|250px|Polygyny, the marriagemarital practice in which a man ...15 KB (2,204 words) - 08:44, 24 November 2022
- on 10 Muharram, 61 A.H. (October 10, 680) in Karbala (present day Iraq) ... central to Shi'a Muslim belief. In Shi'a Islam, the martyrdom ...12 KB (2,050 words) - 10:03, 22 September 2023
- by several faiths including Christianity, Islam, and Sikhism. Within Christianity ... The religious act of foot-washing is also practiced in Islam and Sikhism ...15 KB (2,385 words) - 15:11, 5 September 2022
- need for a progressive interpretation of Islam, he stressed its compassion ... He was born in Karachi, in British India (now Pakistan), to Aga Khan ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 06:10, 16 June 2023
- rapprochement with the Shi'a Muslims in the Caliphate and Islamization ... Christians, Jews, Hindus, and Zoroastrians, in addition to the growing Muslim ...15 KB (2,203 words) - 22:55, 18 December 2022
- The Bandiagara Escarpment is a sandstone cliff in the Dogon country ... In 1989 UNESCO listed the Bandiagara Escarpment as a World Heritage ...14 KB (2,194 words) - 03:27, 17 September 2023
- (Born Friday twentieth of Jumada al-akhir in Mecca – fourteenth Jumada ... the Sunni world, such a claim has often, in practice, considerably strengthened ...9 KB (1,417 words) - 01:39, 26 March 2024
- The Five Pillars of Islam refers to "the five duties incumbent ... Sometimes exceptions are made to some of these duties in exceptional ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 20:40, 9 April 2023
- Islamic feminism is a form of feminism concerned with the role of women in Islam. It aims for the full equality of all Muslims, regardless of ...30 KB (4,309 words) - 20:25, 1 April 2023
- Children's Rights Support Association in Iran. On December 10, 2003 ... Ebadi sees herself as reforming Islam from within by helping to reconcile ...17 KB (2,614 words) - 19:59, 21 April 2023
- by some to be the first true saint in the Sufi tradition. Little ... "belongs to that elect company of Sufi women who have surpassed most of ...18 KB (3,164 words) - 16:18, 7 December 2022
- The Fula or Fulani is an ethnic group residing in many countries of ... The Fulani are the largest nomadic group of people in the world and ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 14:26, 3 December 2023
- the Umayyad caliphs. It seized power in 750, when it finally defeated ... From the eighth until the thirteenth century and in some form until ...16 KB (2,377 words) - 07:16, 13 June 2023
- a failed political and military intervention in the affairs of the early Muslim ... Aisha played a key role in the emergence of Islam, a faith and life ...25 KB (4,166 words) - 07:12, 16 June 2023
- Banu Begum, an Indian-Persian Empress in the Mughal Dynasty. She was ... She died in Burhanpur in the Deccan (now in Madhya Pradesh) during ...10 KB (1,493 words) - 18:21, 10 November 2022
- or Lal Qila, meaning the Red Fort, located in Delhi, India, has been awarded ... Shahjahanabad, the seventh Muslim city in the Delhi site. ...10 KB (1,606 words) - 02:24, 8 December 2022
- Jaʿfar al-Sadiq (in accurate transliteration, Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq; ... a unifying function within the world of Islam, since his scholarship has ...14 KB (2,157 words) - 08:33, 13 March 2024
- Islam in India constitutes the second-most practiced religion after ... Islam in India has had a fascinating, and powerful impact. Indeed ...25 KB (3,703 words) - 06:10, 8 March 2024
- In Islam, the word Houri (Arabic: حورية, also ḥūr or ḥūrīyah ... or celestial virgins who await the saved in paradise after death; ...18 KB (2,560 words) - 21:26, 7 January 2023
- for annulment is that there was a defect in the marriage contract, usually ... Situations in which annulments are declared are in all cases unfortunate ...12 KB (1,862 words) - 05:11, 31 July 2023
- |Periods in Office: |October 23, 1923 to November 10 1938 ... rose to prominence during World War I, in which Turkey allied with Germany ...25 KB (3,912 words) - 02:38, 11 March 2023
- [[Image:Village school in Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Sudan.jpg|thumb ... to a female college student, particularly in the United States. Before the ...16 KB (2,354 words) - 22:24, 7 January 2024
- religious foundation were quite influential in nineteenth-century Europe. ... Barthélemy Prosper Enfantin was born in Paris, France, on February ...10 KB (1,464 words) - 10:59, 20 September 2023
- spiritual leader who played a seminal role in re-articulating Hinduism for ... Swami Vivekananda was born to Bengali Kayastha (in Bengal the Kayastha ...10 KB (1,573 words) - 15:56, 18 June 2022
- a 1939 paper, Purdah and the Status of Women in Islam. He would have objected ... * Maududi, Sayyid Abul A'la. Purdah and the Status of Women in ...26 KB (4,137 words) - 17:08, 23 December 2022
- and arché meaning rule) refers to a society in which male members predominate ... around the world, and at different times in history, have attempted to ...28 KB (4,138 words) - 18:57, 23 March 2023
- consider apostasy to be a serious sin. In some religions, an apostate ... Apostasy is distinguished from heresy in that the latter refers to ...23 KB (3,595 words) - 15:51, 11 August 2023
- internal and external belief systems in an holistic approach to life ... women in Islam Islam does not prohibit women from working, but emphasizes ...36 KB (5,852 words) - 19:56, 21 April 2023
- history, although each remains controversial in certain sects of modern society. ... isolation, have begun to find their place in the world. In fact, it may ...21 KB (3,227 words) - 12:55, 7 February 2023
- religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) that claim the prophet Abraham ... while his son Ishmael (Isma'il) is seen in Muslim tradition as the ancestor ...30 KB (4,716 words) - 23:04, 8 April 2021
- in the village of Rāi Bhōi dī Talvaṇḍī, now called Nankana ... Sahib), also wrote about Nanak's life in his vārs. However, these too ...16 KB (2,463 words) - 00:15, 5 March 2024
- from 1991 to 1996, the first woman in the country's history ... During her period in office, the leader of the official opposition ...24 KB (3,377 words) - 23:03, 30 January 2023
- In an arranged marriage, the marital partners are chosen by parents ... been utilized to cement political alliances. In more recent times, Reverend ...25 KB (3,836 words) - 02:27, 9 January 2023
- the role of Islamic fundamentalism in social and political change ... Kotb, etc. Qutb was arrested and imprisoned in 1955 following publication ...31 KB (4,669 words) - 02:31, 21 April 2023
- is regarded as one of the Five Pillars of Islam and lasts twenty-nine to ... According to numerous hadiths, Ramadan is one of the names of God ...25 KB (3,551 words) - 00:32, 8 December 2022
- is the capital of the Kairouan Governorate in the nation of Tunisia, about ... Kairouan was founded in 670 C.E., when the Arab Umayyad general Uqba ...17 KB (2,480 words) - 06:50, 28 February 2023
- Virginity is a term used to describe the state of never having engaged ... experiences has been held as the standard in most cultures. The world's ...20 KB (2,940 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2023
- Kazi Nazrul Islam ( কাজী নজরুল ইসলাম national poet of Bangladesh and commemorated in India. Scholars credit him ...34 KB (5,210 words) - 22:44, 14 September 2023
- original intent sas to help with expenses in the creation of the new family ... Today, the practice has decreased in developed countries and urban ...20 KB (3,330 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- A mosque is a place of worship for Muslims (followers of Islam). Muslims ... "to bow" or "to kneel") in reference to the prostrations ...42 KB (6,416 words) - 12:31, 7 May 2024
- a Berber, Muslim dynasty that was founded in the twelfth century, and conquered ... after defeat at the Battle of Las Navas in 1212 by a coalition of Christian ...15 KB (2,322 words) - 08:17, 23 July 2023
- on the western flank of the Sahara Desert. In the eleventh and twelfth centuries ... Once magnificent settlements, these ksour began their decline in the ...17 KB (2,566 words) - 04:37, 4 March 2023
- by followers of the Zoroastrian religion in their rituals surrounding death ... At one time, the most widely practiced religion in the world, Zoroastrianism ...11 KB (1,659 words) - 04:48, 1 May 2023
- ), fought March 17, 624 C.E. (17 Ramadan 2 AH in the Islamic calendar ... in Mecca. The battle has been passed down in Islamic history as a ...28 KB (4,414 words) - 11:31, 20 September 2023
- Moghul Empire from the time of his accession in 1556 until 1605. He is considered ... his policies clearly had pragmatic benefits in attracting the loyalty of non ...23 KB (3,546 words) - 07:14, 16 June 2023
- his non-violent opposition to British Rule in India. A lifelong pacifist ... Gandhi ("Frontier Gandhi"). In 1985, he was nominated for ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 22:34, 3 March 2023
- dedicated to one or more articles listed in the Declaration. ... to receive an education, to participate in government, to work, and to ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 12:00, 3 May 2023
- the ongoing fallen state of humanity bound in enduring, irremediable alienation ... Christians derive the idea of original sin in part from the Old Testament ...17 KB (2,619 words) - 02:15, 18 November 2022
- the coming of the Savior"), a term used in Christian tradition, refers ... Advent (and adventism) has its roots in Hebrew and Christian prophetic ...6 KB (939 words) - 14:01, 7 May 2024
- gained a major following among world Jewry in the mid-late seventeenth century ... Born in Smyrna in today's Turkey he became interested in Kabbalistic ...24 KB (3,736 words) - 10:16, 26 January 2023
- as either the "hidden imam" of Islam or the "Gateway" ... the messianic deliverer of Shi'a Islam. However, sources differ ...17 KB (2,919 words) - 05:23, 26 August 2023
- principles of its faith, usually resulting in a denouncement of alternative ... Historically, the term "fundamentalism" was first used in ...27 KB (4,004 words) - 07:21, 15 April 2024
- #039;s micro-finance model around the globe. In 2006, Yunus and the bank were ... World Food Prize and the Sydney Peace Prize. In March 2011, the Bangladesh ...18 KB (2,630 words) - 01:49, 11 March 2023
- Bin Laden's name is transliterated in several ways. Most English ... against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in 1979. There, he met the Egyptian ...20 KB (3,020 words) - 04:35, 18 November 2022
- , or lawlessness (Greek: ανομια), in theology, is the idea that ... one hand, religious rules/laws have been set in motion for the purpose of helping ...21 KB (3,237 words) - 06:34, 31 July 2023
- the father of Jacob and Esau, as described in the Hebrew Bible. His story ... The historicity of Isaac's story in the Bible has come under ...18 KB (3,040 words) - 13:27, 6 March 2024
- The term polygamy (literally many marriages in late Greek) is used ... and world levels is not to be found in polygamy, but rather in individuals ...37 KB (5,815 words) - 17:42, 30 November 2023
- [[Image:NSRW Africa Hottentot.png|thumb|Portrait listed in the 1914 ... The Khoikhoi ("men of men") or Khoi, in standardised Khoekhoe/Nama ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 03:58, 6 October 2022
- duty of Muslims to strive, or “struggle” in ways related to Islam, both ... ). The word jihad appears frequently in the Qur’an, often in the ...48 KB (7,155 words) - 12:39, 1 August 2022
- indigenous to the highlands of West Sumatra, in Indonesia. The architecture ... of standing alone. The arrangement of rooms in the house is seen as a reflection ...19 KB (2,924 words) - 18:12, 22 December 2022
- A loyal son of Empire, Lord Cromer served in India and Egypt and became ... perhaps second only to Lord Curzon in terms of his public reputation ...10 KB (1,464 words) - 04:54, 23 March 2024
- Religion plays a major role in life in Indonesia, which has the largest ... only recognizes six religions, namely Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism ...26 KB (3,688 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- Sir William Muir, KCSI (April 27, 1819 – July 11, 1905) was born ... His writing on Islam pioneered, in the English-speaking world, use ...26 KB (3,916 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- Elizabeth (Lisa) Najeeb Halaby was born in Washington, DC, of Arab ... King Hussein held a unique position in the Middle East, being a pan ...15 KB (2,137 words) - 15:44, 7 December 2022
- to be over 300 million people living in the Arab world. There are 22 ... of the faith founded by the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century. There ...32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
- or former nomadic lifestyle. Reductions in their grazing ranges and increases ... Bedouins spread out over the pastures of the Arabian Peninsula in ...21 KB (3,226 words) - 10:21, 26 September 2023
- Shi'a Islam or Shi`ism (from the Arabic word شيعة, Persian: ... Dynasty it has been the State religion in Iran, where this status has ...24 KB (3,795 words) - 14:11, 27 January 2023
- woman for the right to marry their daughter. In anthropological literature ... A famous example of brideservice occurs in the Book of Genesis, when Jacob ...14 KB (2,300 words) - 02:03, 12 January 2023
- diabolos, which means "accuser." In Christianity, God and the Devil ... God whose job is to test humankind. However, in the Jewish apocrypha and rabbinical ...20 KB (3,299 words) - 10:16, 29 January 2024
- of the ruler's power. The dancers, in three groups, approach the ... Traditionally, the dance was performed by young women only in the ...12 KB (1,955 words) - 10:21, 26 September 2023
- distinguished by their practice of Islam. The Hui form the third largest ... Most Hui are similar in culture to Han Chinese except that they practice ...26 KB (3,824 words) - 15:11, 9 February 2024
- caliph who reigned from 813 until his death in 833. He had been designated ... He founded the famous 'Bayt al-Hikmah' (House of Wisdom} ...24 KB (3,663 words) - 05:21, 30 April 2021
- for the purpose of ritual purification in conjunction with prayer within ... Ablutions of one sort or another are practiced in nearly every religious ...20 KB (3,118 words) - 04:49, 14 June 2023
- for short: الغزالى ) (born 1058 C.E. in Tus, Khorasan province of Persia ... He asserted that philosophy had no role in the discovery of truth. One ...28 KB (4,307 words) - 07:21, 16 June 2023
- cousin, and, after marrying Fatima, his son-in-law as well. Thus, he is a ... recognition of different legal schools in Islam. Many Sunni regard Shi’a ...25 KB (4,139 words) - 18:19, 21 July 2023
- a thousand years, the Somali and Afar tribes in this region became among the ... Ethiopia. Two-thirds of the inhabitants live in the capital city. ...32 KB (4,757 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
- the map and not strictly defined as to where in the shifting desert sands it ... be due to its having been a country divided in two for the better part of ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 00:57, 17 April 2023
- or because the subject is incapacitated in some way such as intoxication ... #039;s being, violating their very purpose in the deepest way. Until all ...32 KB (4,983 words) - 17:22, 16 April 2023
- philosopher, and politician, whose poetry in Persian and Urdu is regarded ... After studying in England and Germany, Iqbal established a law practice ...34 KB (5,166 words) - 17:56, 10 November 2022
- Nubia is a region in Southern Egypt along the Nile River and in what ... well as written records from Egypt and Rome. In antiquity, Nubia was a land ...24 KB (3,779 words) - 10:09, 11 March 2023
- and most often refers to a rare trait found in certain human personalities ... must be present within an individual in order for the person to be ...16 KB (2,186 words) - 01:46, 4 December 2023
- and commercially important small city in the Niger Inland Delta of south ... is the largest mud brick or adobe building in the world. Though the current ...20 KB (2,929 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
- ) is used in Islam to mean a "chapter" of the Holy Qur& ... Each Surah is named for a word or name mentioned in an ayah (section ...13 KB (1,852 words) - 23:51, 26 February 2023
- portrait with his statue following his death in 1861.]] Mourning is in the simplest sense synonymous with grief over the death ...23 KB (3,744 words) - 01:46, 11 March 2023
- thumb|right|200px|A [[Bagpipes|bagpiper]] in Scottish military clan-uniform ... particularly with males or females in a given social group or system ...23 KB (3,388 words) - 20:48, 23 October 2022
- free=19 teams in 11 sports| colors=Oxford Blue and Forest Green| ... Drew University is a private university located in Madison, New Jersey ...19 KB (2,571 words) - 17:43, 30 January 2024
- nation consisting of a group of atolls in the Indian Ocean. The country ... Holding the record for being the flattest country in the world, with ...34 KB (4,966 words) - 06:36, 5 November 2022
- of the fatwa. Mahfouz was well read in Western literature and embraced ... Born into a lower middle-class Muslim family in the Gamaleyya quarter ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 23:15, 10 November 2022
- was a battle that took place at Basra, Iraq in 655 C.E. between forces allied ... that the ill-fated battle demonstrates why women should not be allowed to ...27 KB (4,726 words) - 02:43, 26 September 2023
- Ibn Hazm (November 7, 994 – August 15, 1064 456 AH) in full Abū ... historian, jurist and theologian born in Córdoba, present day Spain ...15 KB (2,253 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- and 16th Ismaili imam (996-1021). Born in 985, Abu ‘Ali “Mansur” ... state. However, after the latter’s removal in 1000, Hakim held the reins ...28 KB (4,430 words) - 04:12, 17 June 2023
- In the Hebrew Bible, Jethro (Hebrew: יִתְרוֹ, Yitro; "His ... flocks that Moses famously encountered God in the burning bush and received ...13 KB (2,051 words) - 02:58, 1 August 2022
- The Tuareg (sometimes spelled Touareg in French, or Twareg in English ... and strife for them with various resolutions in the different nations. As humankind ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 18:38, 2 May 2023
