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Ka`aba
Yousef Meri
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Kaʿaba Introduction A cubical structure located in the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) in Mecca which Muslims venerate as the original sanc...
Kharijites
Tamara Sonn, Adam Farrar
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Kharijites Introduction The Kharijites (Arabic: khawarij; sing. khariji) were the first identifiable sect of Islam. Their identity emerged ...
Khatami, Muhammad
Nader Entessar
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Muhammad Khatami Introduction Muhammad Khatami was born on 14 October 1943 in the city of Ardakan in the Yazd Province in central Iran. He is a...
Khomeini, Ruhollah Mousavi
Nader Entessar
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini Introduction The Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini (b. 1902–d. 1989) was a senior Shiʿa theologian and the fo...
Kurds, The
Michael M. Gunter
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
The Kurds Introduction The twenty-five to thirty million Kurds straddling the mountainous borders where Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria converge ...
Law, Islamic Criminal
Christie S. Warren
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Islamic Criminal Law Introduction Although criminal law in other legal systems tends to be organized according to the nature of crimes,...
Literature and Muslim Women
Marcia Hermansen
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Literature and Muslim Women Introduction This bibliography entry will cover Muslim women writers and poets including, wherever possible, their ...
Martyrdom (Shahada)
David Cook
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2012-10-25
Martyrdom (Shahada) Introduction The word shahid (plural shahada) has the meaning of “martyr” and is closely related in its development to the...
Mawdudi, Sayyid Abuʾl-Aʾla
SherAli Tareen
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Sayyid Abuʾl-Aʾla Mawdudi Introduction Sayyid Abuʾl-Aʾla Mawdudi (b. 1903–d. 1979) is a towering figure in the intellectual and political histo...
Method in the Study of Islam
Aaron W. Hughes
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Method in the Study of Islam Introduction Method, broadly conceived, refers to the techniques employed in the production and dissemination of k...
Middle East and North Africa, Islam in
David Commins
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Islam in the Middle East and North Africa Introduction Scholarship on Islam in the Middle East and North Africa spans a range of disciplines in...
Modernism
John O. Voll
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Modernism Introduction The term modernism refers to efforts to create a synthesis combining existing and continuing traditions of culture a...
Moses
Brannon Wheeler
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Moses Introduction Moses is mentioned by name some 137 times in the Qurʾan, more than any other figure in the text. Because he is often associa...
Mu`tazilites
Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Muʼtazilis Introduction The Muʼtazilis are of theologians who argued for the importance of reason in religion and theology. Historiographers us...
Muhammad
Frank Peters
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Muhammad Introduction: The Biographical Enterprise For the first half of his life, Muhammad lived in obscurity, first as an orphan raised b...
Muhammad, Elijah
Herbert Berg
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Elijah Muhammad Introduction Elijah Muhammad, born Elijah Poole in 1897, led the Nation of Islam from the time of the disappearance of its fou...
Muharram
Karen Ruffle
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Muharram Introduction Before the advent of Islam in 610 ce, the pre-Islamic Arabs held the lunar month of Muharram to be sacred. Today, all Mus...
Muslim Brotherhood
Marion Boulby
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Muslim Brotherhood Introduction The Muslim Brotherhood was established in Egypt in 1928 by a schoolteacher, Hasan al-Banna, with an educational...
Muslim Nonviolence
Jeffry R. Halverson
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Muslim Nonviolence Introduction Nonviolence is the principled and strategic abstention from violence to bring about political or social change...
Mutʿa
Karen Ruffle
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Mutʿa Introduction A practice that predates Islam, mutʿa is a form of temporary marriage. Indications exist that Iranian Zoroastrian auxiliary ...
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