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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...
Ibn Khaldun
Michael Leezenberg
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Ibn Khaldun Introduction Ibn Khaldun (b. 732/1332–d. 808/1406) is often described as a precursor or ancestor of sociology, although he does not...
Ibn Rushd (Averroës)
Oliver Leaman
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-27
Ibn Rushd (Averroës) Introduction Ibn Rushd is considered by many to be the greatest of the Islamic philosophers within the Peripatetic tra...
Ibn Sīnā
Oliver Leaman
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Ibn Sīnā Introduction Ibn Sīnā (370–429 ah/980–1037 ce) is generally considered to be one of the most creative thinkers within the Peripate...
Ibn Taymiyya
Jon Hoover
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Ibn Taymiyya Introduction Taqi al-Din Ahmad Ibn Taymiyya (also Taymiyah or Taymiyyah) was born in 1263 in Harran—in modern southeastern Turkey—...
Ijtihad
Junaid Quadri
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Ijtihad Introduction To medieval Muslim scholars, ijtihad had a very specific technical meaning relating to the activity of an appropriately q...
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