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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
