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Ka`aba
Yousef Meri
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Kaʿaba Introduction A cubical structure located in the Sacred Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) in Mecca which Muslims venerate as the original sanc...
Karbala in Shiʿi Ritual
Afsar Mohammad
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2021-03-24
Karbala in Shiʿi RitualIntroductionThe ten-day battle of Karbala that occurred in 7th-century Iraq has remained a key event in the history of Islam, a...
Khaled Al Siddiq
Alia Yunis
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2020-04-22
Khaled Al SiddiqIntroductionKhaled Mohamad Al Siddiq (also known as Kaled Mohamad Sidik) was born in Kuwait in 1945. He is best recognized as the dire...
Kharijites
Tamara Sonn, Adam Farrar
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Kharijites Introduction The Kharijites (Arabic: khawarij; sing. khariji) were the first identifiable sect of Islam. Their identity emerged ...
Kharijites and Contemporary Scholarship, The
Adam Gaiser
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2013-06-25
The Kharijites and Contemporary Scholarship Introduction The Kharijites (khawarij, sing. khariji), meaning the “secessionists,” is a blanket t...
Khatami, Muhammad
Nader Entessar
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Muhammad Khatami Introduction Muhammad Khatami was born on 14 October 1943 in the city of Ardakan in the Yazd Province in central Iran. He is a...
Khomeini, Ruhollah Mousavi
Nader Entessar
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini Introduction The Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini (b. 1902–d. 1989) was a senior Shiʿa theologian and t...
Kurds, The
Michael M. Gunter
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
The KurdsIntroductionThe more than thirty million Kurds straddling the mountainous borders where Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria converge in the Middle ...
Law, Islamic Criminal
Christie S. Warren
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Islamic Criminal LawIntroductionAlthough criminal law in other legal systems tends to be organized according to the nature of crimes, criminal offense...
Literature and Muslim Women
Marcia Hermansen
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Literature and Muslim Women Introduction This bibliography entry will cover Muslim women writers and poets including, wherever possible, their ...
Maḥmūd Gāvān
Meia Walravens
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2022-03-23
Maḥmūd GāvānIntroductionMaḥmūd Gāvān (b. c. 1411–d. 1481) was the principal political figure in the Central Indian sultanate of the Bahmanis (1347–152...
Malcolm X
James A. Tyner
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Malcolm X Introduction Malcolm X was one of the most iconic figures of the 20th century; now well into the 21st century, his legacy continues ...
Malikis
Delfina Serrano
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2014-07-30
Malikis Introduction Mālikīs are the adherents of one of the four Sunni schools of law owing their name to the Medinese jurist and traditionis...
Marriage
Hina Azam
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2014-07-30
Marriage Introduction A central feature of society and history, and a salient theme in religious discourse, marriage in Islam and in Muslim so...
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...
Mary in Islam
Zeki Saritoprak
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2015-10-26
Mary in Islam Introduction Mary (also Maryam, Mariam, and Meryem [Turkish]) is considered by Islam to be one of the preeminent women to have e...
Māturīdī
Recep Alpyağıl
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2016-11-28
MāturīdīIntroductionAbū Manṣūr Māturīdī (d. 944) is one of the most influential thinkers in Sunnī theology, which has widely been followed by the Musl...
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...
Medina
Harry Munt
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2016-11-28
MedinaIntroductionMedina is a town in the Hijaz, a region that runs alongside the Red Sea in what is today the west of Saudi Arabia. It is approximate...
Medina, The Constitution of
Michael Lecker
Subject: Islamic Studies »
Date Added: 2014-08-26
The Constitution of Medina Introduction The so-called “Constitution of Medina” (henceforward, “the treaty”) is the most significant document ...
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