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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 ...
Nation of Islam
Herbert Berg
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Nation of Islam Introduction The Nation of Islam began in 1930 in Detroit with the appearance of a mysterious man known variously as Master W....
Nationalism
Michael B. Bishku
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Nationalism Introduction The term “nationalism” refers to a process by which a group (or groups) of people who possess one or many real or ...
North America, Islam in
Amir Hussain
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Islam in North America Introduction Many North Americans are surprised to learn that Muslims have a long history on their continent. Histor...
Nursi, Said
Zeki Saritoprak
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Said Nursi Introduction Bediüzzaman Said Nursi (b. 1876–d. 1960) is considered by both his admirers and his opponents as one of the most influenti...
Organization of the Islamic Conference
Saad S. Khan
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Organisation of the Islamic Conference Introduction No serious study of the contemporary Muslim world can be completely divorced from an unders...
Orientalism and Islam
Daniel Martin Varisco
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Orientalism and Islam Introduction The term “Orientalism,” later known as “Oriental Studies,” began in reference to the study of languages ...
Ottoman Empire, Islam in the
William Ochsenwald
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Islam in the Ottoman Empire Introduction The Ottoman dynasty’s history can be traced from about 1300 to the end of the Ottoman Empire in 1923. ...
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