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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. ...
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 ...
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