The term Allāh is derived from a contraction of the Arabic definite article al- "the" and ilāh "deity, god" to al-lāh meaning "the deity, God" (? θε?? μ?νο?, ho theos monos). Cognates of ...
Jabir ibn Abdullah al-Ansari was born in Yathrib (now known as Medina) 15 years before the Hijra. He belonged to a poor family of Yathrib. He was from the tribe of Khazraj. His mother was Nasiba bint ...
In Islam, there are three types of Sahabah:As Sabiqoon Al Awaloon (Badriyans) The people who were Muslims at the time of Badr. They are further classified into two:Muhajreen (immigrants - from Mecca)A ...
Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi was born on Sunday, 24 Jumadi' al-Thani, 392 A.H/May 10, 1002, Julian Calendar in Hanikiya, a village south of Baghdad. He was the son of a preacher of Darzidjan and he began stu ...
The word muslim (Arabic: ?????, IPA: ; English /?m?zl?m/, /?m?zl?m/, /?m?sl?m/ or moslem /?m?zl?m/, /?m?sl?m/) is the participle of the same verb of which islām is the infinitive, ...
The major imperial Muslim dynasties of Ottoman Turkey (Sunni) and Persia (Shia) each established systems of authority around traditional Islamic institutions. In the Ottoman empire, the concept of gha ...
The beginnings of Jihad are traced back to the words and actions of Muhammad and the Quran. This encourages the use of Jihad against non-Muslims. The Quran, however, never uses the term Jihad for figh ...
The concept is shared by many religious traditions, is found in a number of independently-derived conceptualizations, and each of these has culturally distinct terminology. Some of the various relevan ...
The Darqawiyya or Darqawa Sufi order was a revivalist branch of the Shadhiliyah brotherhood. The Darqawa comprised the followers of Sheikh Muhammad al-Arabi al-Darqawi (1760–1823). The movement, whic ...
He was born of a sharif family in the Anjra tribe that ranges from Tangiers to Tetuan along the Mediterranean coast of Morocco. As a child he developed a love of knowledge, memorizing the Qur'an and s ...
A study conducted by the NGO Freedom House found Wahhabi publications in mosques in the United States. These publications included statements that Muslims should not only "always oppose" infidels "in ...
According to Saudi writer Abdul Aziz Qassim, it was the Ottomans who "first labelled Abdul Wahhab's school of Islam in Saudi Arabia as Wahhabism". The British also adopted it and expanded its use in t ...
The Senussi order has been historically closed to Europeans and outsiders, leading reports of their beliefs and practices to vary immensely. Though it is possible to gain some insight from the lives o ...
Some Salafi Muslims often preach disengagement from Western activities, and advocate being apolitical and being against any form of extremism, "even by giving them an Islamic slant." Instead, it is th ...
The popular hadith that quotes Muhammad as saying 'The people of my own generation are the best, then those who come after them, and then those of the next generation,' is seen as a call to Muslims to ...
