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/138 AH) was the eldest son of the sixth Shi'a Imam, Ja'far al-Sadiq. Isma'il bin Ja'far is considered to be the seventh Ismaili ...

Qu'ran, but the sayings of Muhammad on Imam Mahdi abounds. For some Muslims ... Twlver Shi’a regard the Mahdi is their twelfth Imam, as evidenced ...

Imam Ahmed ibn Hanbal (Arabic: ‏‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎أحمد بن حنبل‏‎‎‎‏‎‎‎ ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎ Ahmad bin Hanbal ...

Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi (c. 1506 – February 21, 1543) was an Imam and General of Adal who defeated Emperor Lebna Dengel of Ethiopia. Nicknamed ...

#039;a Muslims to be the sixth infallible Imam. He is the last Imam recognized ... other accomplishments. As well as being an imam on the Shi'a chain, his ...

Sultan Mahommed Shah, Aga Khan III, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GCVO, PC (November 2, 1877 – July 11, 1957) was the 48th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims ...

Nizar and his successors as the Ismaili Imam in opposition to the 9th Fatimid ... doctrine. Ismailis believe that their Imam possesses the key to unlock ...

Aga Khan (Persian: آغا خان ) is the hereditary title of the Imam (spiritual and general leader) of the Nizārī Muslims( الطائفة ...

Bayt (family). Shi'as believe that the Imam – their preferred title ... are very similar. Recognition of Ali as Imam is added to the Shahadah ...

to practice ijtihad on behalf of the Hidden Imam. What has been described as ... the "occultation" of the 12th Imam, there was disagreement between ...

. Shi'a Muslims see him as the first imam and the first rightful caliph ... revered by most Shi'a as the second imam; his brother Husayn bin Ali ...

al-Mahdi, known as the twelfth, or "Hidden Imam," destined to return to as the Mahdi in the Shi'a tradition. This has made it a central ...

in A.H. 201 (817 C.E.) al-Ma'mun named Imam Reza the eighth Shi'a ... The appointment of the Imam as his heir was a political move by al ...

by his followers as either the "hidden imam" of Islam or the "Gateway" (Báb) to him. After his death he became a major figure ...

of the time. Later, Khayyám studied under Imam Mowaffak of Nishapur, who ... young man who studied under that eminent Imam would attain honor and happiness ...

believe that, with the exception of one Imam (inspired leader of the community ... for the battle to end. Husayn's son Imam Ali ibn Husayn was with them ...

Messiah, Zoroastrianism Saoshyans, and Islam Imam-Mahdi. This remarkable coincidence of expectations for a saving human intervention, for the sake of ...

are not inclined to hang,"Al-Tirmidhi, Imam Al-Hafidh Abi 'Isa Muhammad ... In a collection by Imam at-Tirmidhi in his "Sunan" (Volume ...

leader, a male descendant of Ali, as "Imam" and believe that the ... or Hanbali. No specific founder, but Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal played a ...

*[http://www.ezsoftech.com/islamic/infallible12a.asp Imam Haadi and Al-Mutawakkil]. *[http://russellmcneil.blogspot.com/2007/08/al-farghani-c ...

"Imam Muqtada al-Sadr launches Iraqi Intifada," Asia News, April 5, 2004, [http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=585 Imam Muqtada ...

crisis, the "Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line," (student proxies of the new Iranian regime) held hostage 63 diplomats and ...

the second advent of Christ as well as the Imam Mahdi and Mujaddid (reformer ... * That the "Messiah" and the "Imam Mahdi" are ...

Shi’a, the Mahdi is associated with the twelfth Imam, who went into heavenly “occultation” around about 874 C.E. and who will return one day to ...

school attached to the shrine of Imam Reza at Mashhad." While ... # Works in which the aging poet idolizes Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib while ...

can be seen. A small room for the Pesh Imam (Prayer Leader) sits at the ... the Shahi Mosque just outside the Pesh Imam's (Prayer leaders) room ...

virtue. She was the wife of the first Shi'a Imam, the mother of the second and third, and therefore the ancestress of all the succeeding Imams. ...

[[File:Iftar Serving for fasting people in the holy shrine of Imam ... Some twelve thousand people attend iftar every night at the Imam Reza ...

with all congregants present, including the imam, participating. Unlike with ... day Iraq, was built around the Shi'ite Imam Hussain Shrine. Isfahan, Iran ...

Agate is a type of quartz (silica), chiefly chalcedony, characterized by its fine grain and bright colors. Although agates may be found in various ...

Muhammad and from the seventh Shi'a Imam, Musa. For generations, they ... Service, [http://www.irib.ir/worldservice/imam/speech/16.htm Khomeini's ...

an agreement with the Padri leader Tuanku Imam Bonjol to halt hostilities ... * Dobbin, Christine. "Tuanku Imam Bondjol, (1772-1864)" ...

son of Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan the Imam (spiritual leader) of the ... his father, who was the 48th hereditary Imam of the Nizari Ismaili Muslims ...

| predecessor6 = Zafar Imam | successor6 = Sayeed Iskander ... | predecessor8 = Zafar Imam | successor8 = Muhammad ...

a tendency for fundamentalists to attack “Imam Ghazali and [to belittle] ... *Al-Ghazali. Kitab al-Wagiz fi fiqh madhab al-imam al-Safi’i, (translated ...

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of the region. Installing his son Ahmadu Tall as imam of Ségou, Umar Tall marched down the Niger, on the Massina imamate of Hamdullahi. More than 70 ...

Mahdi will be the long awaited Hidden Imam. The identity of the Hidden ... the arrival of the Enlightened One, Imam Madhi, followed by natural ...

Karbala, a defining moment in Islamic history, when Imam Hussain, along with his family and friends were martyred, occurred at the banks of Euphrates River. ...

the Safavid rulers claimed to be descended from Imam Ali, the cousin of the Prophet Muhammad and his wife Fatimah, daughter of the Prophet Muhammad ...

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 ...

is a fourteenth century collection by Imam Zarkashi called (in English ... *Zarkashi, Imam. 1980. Al-Ijaba Li 'irad ma Istadrakathu A'aish ...

households around a central mosque. An imam presided over the religious ... circumstances, with the approval of an imam. Smoking and the consumption ...

to commemorate the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain Alla hiss salam, grandson ... the martyrdom and valor of Hazrat Imam Hussain and his comrades of ...

especially scripturaries and advised the Imam to prosecute war only when ... be carried out under the leadership of the Imam. However, "struggles ...

Although Muslims do not formally ordain religious leaders, the imam serves as a spiritual leader and religious authority. Traditionally and generally ...

groups consider "Allegiance to the Imam" to be the so-called ... figure of al-Mahdi (the twelfth Shi'a Imam) is also eschatological. When ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

culminated in the rebellion of Ibrahim the Imam, the fourth in descent from Abbas, who, supported by the province of Khorasan, achieved considerable ...

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 ...

scholars from all over the Islamic World, including Imam Sahnun (776–854), and Asad ibn al-Furat (759-828). The Aghlabites built palaces, fortifications ...

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 ...

ever received the award, SS Obersturmführer Imam Halim Malkoč, was granted the Iron Cross (Second Class) in October 1943 for his role in suppressing ...

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 ...

Imam Shamil (1797-1871), an Avar political and religious leader of ... A descendant of the legendary rebel leader Imam Shamil, Israilov had been ...

75 years. Rulers of the first Saudi state were: Imam Mohammed Ibn Saud (1726 –1765), Imam Abdul Aziz Ibn Mohammed Ibn Saud (1765 – 1803), Imam Saud ...

the community, and by a "teungku imam," a religious leader. In each gampong there is a building called a "meunasah," which ...

here. The most prominent Islamic scholar known as Imam al-Bukhari, who gathered most authentic sayings (hadiths) of Prophet Muhammad, was born in this ...

of Cairo was founded in the year 969 by the Fatimid Imam-Caliphs who were ancestors of the Aga Khan. [http://www.akdn.org/press-release/aga-khan ...

* The Telyashayakh Mosque (Khast Imam Mosque), which contains the Uthman Qur'an, considered to be the oldest extant Qur'an in the world ...

# Uthman (or Usman) dan Fodio, 1804 – 1817 (used the title Imam, and sarkin musulmin, possible caliph but usually listed as the first Sultan). ...

039;fari" in honor of the sixth Shi'a imam Ja'far al-Sadiq. He banned certain Shi'a practices which were particularly offensive to ...

The Mughal Emperor Humayun ordered the crushing by elephant of an imam he mistakenly believed to be critical of his reign. Abraham Eraly, Mughal ...

also had to declare that he was a just ruler, imam-i-'adil (Qureshi, 62). However, in practice Akbar was not qualified to act as an Islamic judge ...

mihrab stands the mimbar or pulpit from where the Imam presides over the proceedings. An elevated platform, usually a minaret from where the caller ...

had been certified in Cairo, Egypt as a Sunni Muslim Imam, and had placed himself beneath the spiritual tutelage of an African imam, whom Malcolm had ...

thinkers such as Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Imam Musa Sadr do not accept the importance of this classification, but there is a general consensus ...

Mawdudi; often referred to as Maulana Maududi and Imam Maududi) (September 25, 1903 – September 22, 1979) founded the Jamaat-e-Islami (The Islamic Party ...

Safavid rulers claimed to be descended from Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib and his ... Muslim Students Following the Line of the Imam, Tehran Militant Clergy Association ...

Carey the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Sheikh Tanwaty, who is widely recognized as the premier scholar in the Islamic world ...

ulum-aldeen (احياء علوم الدين), Imam Nawawi's Bustan al-Arifeen etc.). Almost all the famous Sufi masters of the Islamic Caliphate ...

by the Iranian government. A publication called Imam, published by the Iranian embassy in London, quoted extensively from the Protocols in its issues ...

al-Zawahiri (1887–1944), the 34th Grand Imam of al-Azhar. ... was traveling under the pseudonym Abdullah Imam Mohammed Amin, and trading ...

Islam was introduced to Korea by an Imam who accompanied military troops from Turkey during the Korean War. There are now eight Muslim temples ...

Nazrul's father, Kazi Fakir Ahmed was the imam and caretaker of the local mosque and mausoleum. Nazrul's mother was Zaheda Khatun. Nazrul ...

In general discussion, a nation-state is variously called a "country," a "nation," or a "state." But technically ...

(chapter IV of the book depicts the character of an Imam in exile who returns to incite revolt from the people of his country with no regard for their ...

Dubai (in Arabic: دبيّ, Dubayy, /dʊ'baɪ/ in English) is one of the seven emirates that constitute the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in ...

are bound together in Muslim communities. An imam (spiritual leader) delivers a weekly sermon at a mosque on Fridays. ===Language=== ...

daughter of the 4th Caliph, the first Shi'a imam, Ali, and granddaughter of Muhammad. Hundreds of thousands of Shi'a Muslims visit it every year. ...

*The number of followers to fight alongside Jesus Christ and Imam Mehdi against the anti-Christ/dajjal is 313. the sum 0f 3+1+3=7. ...

giving the government power to appoint the grand imam instead of having him elected by the Al-Azhar scholars. In 1969, after a group of reformers ...

** Ekattorer Dinguli – memoir by Jahanara Imam ** Ma – novel by Anisul Haque ** Jochhna o Janani'r Galpo – novel by Humayun Ahmed ...

from all over the world visit the shrine of Hazrat Imam Hussain, a replica of the Iraqi original. The place, famous for the rituals called Hajri, has ...

that Zarqawi was "a soldier, a hero, an imam and the prince of martyrs, [and his death] has defined the struggle between the crusaders and Islam ...

Imam Shamil followed them. He led the mountaineers from 1834. In 1845, Shamil's forces achieved their most dramatic success when they withstood ...

follow the Hanbali and Shafii schools. The Twelver Imam legal school of Shia Muslims also has adherents. Punishments include flogging and stoning to death. ...

are bound together in Muslim communities. An imam (spiritual leader) delivers a weekly sermon at a mosque on Fridays. ===Language=== ...

conversion to Islam. Nasreddin is a Muslim imam. The Turkic peoples had first become an Islamic people sometime around the ninth or tenth century ...

like tourism, industry, and electrical work, Imam-Hatip high schools, which educate imams, and private high schools established by private enterprises ...

heaven and will return to Earth in the flesh with Imam Mahdi to defeat the dajjal (the anti-Christ in Islamic belief), once the world has become filled ...