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Ibadiyya
Martin Custers
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
IbadiyyaIntroductionHistorically, the Ibāḍīs (Ibadhis, Abadites, Abadhites, al-Ibāḍiyya, Ibadhiyah) constitute the only surviving branch of the Khawār...
Ibn al-ʿArabī
Alexander Knysh, Ali Hussain
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
Ibn Al-ʿarabiIntroductionIbn al-ʿArabi (often called “Ibn ʿArabi”), Muhyi al-Din Muhammad (b. 560/1165–d. 638/1240), was born in Murcia (present-day S...
Ibn Bâjjah
Josep Puig Montada
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Ibn BâjjahIntroductionAbû Bakr Muhammad Ibn al-Saʾigh Ibn Bâjjah was known as Avempace by the medieval Latin philosophers. He was born in Zaragoza aro...
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 KhaldunIntroductionAlthough Ibn Khaldun (b. 732/1332–d. 808/1406) does not appear to have exerted any constitutive influence on any of the founder...
Ibn Rushd (Averroës)
Oliver Leaman
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2010-12-27
Ibn Rushd (Averroës)IntroductionIbn Rushd is considered by many to be the greatest of the Islamic philosophers within the Peripatetic tradition, and h...
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—...
Ibn Ṭufayl
Marco Lauri
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2017-05-24
Ibn TufaylIntroductionAbu Bakr Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al‐Malik ibn Muḥammad ibn Tufayl al‐Qaysi (al-Andalusi, al- Ishbili) (c. 1110–1185), also known in th...
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...
Indonesia, Islam in
Fred von der Mehden
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Islam in IndonesiaIntroductionIndonesia has the largest Muslim population in the world, composing approximately 85 percent of its more than 255 millio...
Inheritance
David Powers
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2015-06-29
InheritanceIntroductionThere is arguably no field of Islamic law that reflects the situation in the Hijaz during the lifetime of Muhammad as well as t...
Internet, Islam and the
Göran Larsson
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Islam and the Internet Introduction The development of the global system of interconnected computer networks that we generally call the Interne...
Iqbal, Muhammad
Mustansir Mir
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Muhammad Iqbal Introduction Muhammad Iqbal (b. 1877–d. 1938) was a preeminent Muslim poet, thinker, and statesman of India. He was educated at ...
Iran, Islam in
Andrew A. Newman
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-04-14
Islam in Iran Introduction The terms “Persia” and “Persians” are seldom used in the early 21st century except in the United Kingdom or in ref...
Iranian Revolution, The
Nader Entessar
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
The Iranian Revolution Introduction The Iranian revolution of 1978–1979 has been one of the most significant sociopolitical developments in th...
Islam in Ethiopia and Eritrea
Alessandro Gori
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2018-07-24
Islam in Ethiopia and EritreaIntroductionAccording to the official figures of the national census conducted in 2007, there were about twenty-five mill...
Islam, Nature, and the Environment
Natana DeLong-Bas
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
Islam, Nature, and the EnvironmentIntroductionThe field of environmental studies from an Islamic perspective has been building gradually since the 197...
Islamic Aesthetics
Valerie Gonzalez
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Islamic AestheticsIntroductionThe broad subject of Islamic aesthetics covers several subtopics that correspond to the multiple intellectual fields and...
Islamic Exegesis, Christians and Christianity in
Clare Wilde
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Christians and Christianity in Islamic ExegesisIntroductionThe Qur’an assumes its auditors’ familiarity with Christianity—especially doctrines such as...
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