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  • During this time, he worked as a custodian of the Imam Ali Shrine ... lighter at the Bektashi convent in the Imam Husayn Shrine in Karbala.Ayfer ...
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  • is a fourteenth century collection by Imam Zarkashi called (in English ... *Zarkashi, Imam. 1980. Al-Ijaba Li 'irad ma Istadrakathu A'aish ...
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  • households around a central mosque. An imam presided over the religious ... circumstances, with the approval of an imam. Smoking and the consumption ...
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  • to commemorate the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain Alla hiss salam, grandson ... the martyrdom and valor of Hazrat Imam Hussain and his comrades of ...
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  • especially scripturaries and advised the Imam to prosecute war only when ... be carried out under the leadership of the Imam. However, "struggles ...
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  • Although Muslims do not formally ordain religious leaders, the imam serves as a spiritual leader and religious authority. Traditionally and generally ...
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  • groups consider "Allegiance to the Imam" to be the so-called ... figure of al-Mahdi (the twelfth Shi'a Imam) is also eschatological. When ...
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  • Al-Risalah al-Dhahabiah by Ali al-Ridha, the eighth Imam of Shia Muslims ... *Fadhlallah, Muhammad Jawad. Imam Ali ibn Musa al-Ridha. Yasin Publications ...
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  • from Shi'a Islam the return of the Third Imam, Imam Husayn; from Sunni Islam, the return of Jesus, Isa; and from Bábism, He whom God shall make ...
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  • and the interior but also the sultan and the imam, the Ibadhist spiritual leader. The British slowly brought about a collapse of Muscat and Oman ...
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  • Jabir with his teacher, the sixth shi'ite imam, Jafar ibn Muhammad al-Sadiq, who lived between 700 and 765. Others say his teacher was another ...
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  • the sixth Fatimid caliph and 16th Ismaili imam (996-1021). Born in 985, Abu ... was conducted for the 36-year-old caliph-imam; only his riding donkey and ...
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  • their heresy, and acknowledge the sinless Imam Mahdi. If they respond to your call, then they are your brothers; what they have will be yours ...
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  • Saladin, Salah ad-Din, or Salahuddin al Ayyubi (so-lah-hood-din al-aye-yu-be) (c. 1138 – March 4, 1193), was a twelfth century Kurdish Muslim ...
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  • culminated in the rebellion of Ibrahim the Imam, the fourth in descent from Abbas, who, supported by the province of Khorasan, achieved considerable ...
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  • of the Mu'tazili school of Kalam, founded by Imam Wasil ibn Ata, are often called the Mu'attili, because they are frequent users of the ta ...
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  • scholars from all over the Islamic World, including Imam Sahnun (776–854), and Asad ibn al-Furat (759-828). The Aghlabites built palaces, fortifications ...
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  • Caucasus, until Avar political and religious leader Imam Shamil (1797-1871) was captured in 1864. In the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878), Dagestan and Chechnya ...
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  • ever received the award, SS Obersturmführer Imam Halim Malkoč, was granted the Iron Cross (Second Class) in October 1943 for his role in suppressing ...
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  • years by gaining independence from the ruling imam. In an attempt to secure the trade route to India, the British occupied the port of Aden, overlooking ...
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