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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. ...
People of the Book
Frank Peters
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
People of the Book Introduction The issues represented by the phrase “People of the Book” surface under a number of different headings in t...
Philosophy, Islamic
Oliver Leaman
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Islamic Philosophy Introduction The term “Islamic philosophy” is in itself controversial, since there are many ways of identifying the discipli...
Pilgrimage and Religious Travel
Yousef Meri
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Pilgrimage and Religious Travel Introduction Pilgrimage and travel in Islam are distinct yet interrelated phenomena, which anthropologists an...
Political Islam
John O. Voll, Tamara Sonn
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Political Islam Introduction The term Political Islam refers generally to any interpretation of Islam that serves as a basis for political i...
Pre-Islamic Arabia/The Jahiliyya
Gerald Hawting
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-04-14
Pre-Islamic Arabia/The Jahiliyya Introduction Although sometimes used synonymously, the phrase “pre-Islamic Arabia” and the Arabic al-jahiliyya
Purity
Sukidi
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Purity Introduction The idea of purity has been one of the most central doctrines and practices in Islam. It has been prescribed in the Qur...
Qaeda, al-
Natana DeLong-Bas
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Al-Qaeda Introduction Al-Qaeda, meaning “The Base,” refers broadly to a group fighting a declared global jihad of holy war against the West, Zi...
Qaradawi, Yusuf al-
Jeffry R. Halverson
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Yusuf Al-Qaradawi Introduction Yusuf al-Qaradawi (b. 1926) is an Egyptian-born Sunni alim who graduated from Al-Azhar University in Cairo and a...
Qur'an
Andrew Rippin
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Qurʾan Introduction For Muslims, the Qurʾan is the revelatory word of God, dictated by the angel Gabriel to the prophet Muhammad in segment...
Qutb, Sayyid
William Shepard
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2010-02-15
Sayyid Qutb Introduction Sayyid Qutb (1906–1966) (sometimes spelled Sayed and Qutub or Kotb) was one of the leading Islamist ideologues...
Russia, Islam in
Janis Eshots
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Islam in Russia Introduction Islam in Russia has a history more than a thousand years long. It can be divided into five major periods: (1) the ...
Sadra, Mulla
Ibrahim Kalin
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Mulla Sadra Introduction Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Yahya al-Qawami al-Shirazi (b. 1571–d. 1640), sometimes referred to as Sadr al-Din Shirazi and...
Safavids
Andrew J. Newman
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Safavids Introduction The Safavid period is conventionally dated from the capture of Tabriz in 1501 by Ismail I (d. 1524) to the fall of the c...
Salafism
Jonathan A.C. Brown
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Salafism Introduction News reports often mention the “Wahhabi movement” or “Wahhabi Islam” without providing any context. This controversial mo...
Sarekat Islam
Fred von der Mehden
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Sarekat Islam Introduction Sarekat Islam (Islamic Union, or SI) was the largest pre-independence Muslim political organization in the Dutch...
Science and Medicine
Anna Akasoy
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Science and Medicine Introduction Scholarship in the history of texts on science and medicine written in Arabic and other languages of the ...
Shafiʿis
Ahmed el Shamsy
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Shafiʿis Introduction Shafiʿis are adherents of the Sunni school of legal thought based on the legal paradigm of Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafiʿi ...
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