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Farangī Maḥall
Francis Robinson
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Farangī Maḥall Introduction Farangī Maḥall (the European Palace) was the name of a family of ulama that flourished in India from 1700 to c. 195...
Fatima
Mary Thurkill
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Fatima Introduction Fatima was the daughter of the prophet Muhammad and his first wife, Khadija. The date of her birth is disputed, with 60...
Finance, Islamic
Clement M. Henry, Jennifer E. Lamm
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Islamic Finance Introduction The term “Islamic finance” generally refers to a corpus of theoretical economics and the practice of banking a...
Fiqh Al-Aqalliyyat
Alexandre Caeiro
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Fiqh Al-Aqalliyyat Introduction The Muslim jurisprudence of minorities (fiqh al-aqalliyyat or minority fiqh) has emerged as a distinctive field...
Five Pillars of Islam, The
Natana DeLong-Bas
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
The Five Pillars of Islam Introduction Central to faith and practice in Islam are the five pillars outlined in the Hadith of Gabriel, recor...
Ghadir Khumm
Arzina Lalani
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Ghadir Khumm Introduction Ghadir Khumm is well known in the history of Islam as the site where Muhammad pronounced a significant declaration in...
Ghazali, al-
Oliver Leaman
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2010-11-01
Al-Ghazali Introduction Al-Ghazali (c. 1058–1111) is widely regarded as one of the most impressive thinkers in the Sunni Islamic world, enc...
Gülen, Muhammed Fethullah
Alparslan Açıkgenç
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Muhammed Fethullah Gülen Introduction Gülen (pronounced as ‘geulan’, “eu” as in French “u”) is a religious leader from Turkey. He was born in a s...
Hadith
Jonathan A.C. Brown
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Hadith Introduction A Hadith (Arabic plural aHadith; the word “Hadith” is used as both a singular and a collective plural in English) is a ...
Hamas
Chrystie Flournoy Swiney
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-04-14
Hamas Introduction The Islamic Resistance Movement, or حركة المقاومة الاسلامية (Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamat al-Islāmiyyah) in Arabic, is a national li...
Hasan
Diana Steigerwald
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Hasan Introduction Hasan ibn ʿAli ibn Abi Talib, the son of ʿAli (the cousin of Muhammad) and Fatima (the daughter of Muhammad), was born on 15...
Hijaz
William Ochsenwald
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Hijaz Introduction The Hijaz (Hejaz, Hedjaz), the holy land of Islam, is a geographical region that comprises most of the western part of modern...
Hijaz Railway
William Ochsenwald
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Hijaz Railway Introduction In 1900–1908, under the leadership of Sultan Abdülhamid II, the Ottoman Empire built the main line of the Hijaz (als...
Hilli, al-
Sukidi
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Al-Hilli Introduction Hasan ibn Yusuf ibn ʿAli ibn al-Mutahhar al-Hilli, commonly known as al-ʿAllama al-Hilli (d. 1325), was a prominent S...
Historiography
Andrew Marsham
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Historiography Introduction Historiography literally means “the writing of history.” It has two main, related, meanings: (1) the actual pr...
Hizb al-Nahdah
Allen Fromherz
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Hizb Al-Nahdah Introduction Hizb al-Nahdah, which translates to “Renaissance Party” in English or “Parti de la Renaissance” in French (the sec...
Human Rights
Abdulkader Tayob
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Human Rights Introduction The study of Islam and human rights looks at the relationship between a specific culture and way of life on the o...
Husayn
Diana Steigerwald
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Husayn Introduction Husayn b. ʿAli b. Abi Talib, the son of ʿAli (the cousin of Muhammad) and Fatima (the daughter of Muhammad), was born, acco...
Ibadiyya
Martin Custers
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Ibadiyya Introduction Historically, the Ibāḍīs (Ibadhis, Abadites, Abadhites, al-Ibāḍiyya, Ibadhiyah) constitute the only surviving branch of t...
Ibn Baṭṭūṭa
Yousef Meri
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Ibn Baṭṭūṭa Introduction Ibn Baṭṭūṭa was a Maghribi Amazighi (Berber) traveler, Mālikī scholar, judge, and ṣūfī from Tangier (in present-day Mo...
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