The Encyclopedia Of Islam And The Muslim World, 2nd Edition, is a two-volume set containing over 540 alphabetically-arranged entries designed to support students of religion and world history at the high school
World reflects the breadth and depth of contemporary scholarship in Islamic studies, with coverage of topics such as the Islamic state, pilgrimage, law, marriage, social and political movements, women, Muslim minorities, human rights, Islam in the West, interreligious affairs, and foreign relations...
Islam has two primary branches of belief, based largely on a historical disagreement over the succession of authority after Muhammad's death; these are known as Sunni and Shi'ite.The basis of Muslim belief is found in the shahādatān ("two statements"): lā ilāhā illā-llāhu; muhammad...
The word "Islam" represents the infinitive, the noun of action, of the factitive stem of the Arabic root "salam," and is rightly compared (Zunz, "Literaturgesch." p. 641; comp. Steinschneider, "Polemische und Apologetische Literatur," p. 266, note 56) with the use of the "hif'il...
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Islam encourages believers to indulge in different forms of worships in which we have offering Nawafils, Quran recitation and making Dua are some different ways of additional worshiping. There are many Duas from the Holy Quran that we can use to make our faith stronger; many such Quranic ...
Shi'a Islam (Arabic شيعى follower; English has traditionally used Shiite or Shi'ite) is the second largest Islamic denomination; some 20-25% of all Muslims are said to follow a Shi'a tradition. Sunni Muslims make up the rest....
Muslims quite naturally seek to understand the nature of reality using the formal procedures of philosophy, and they often wish to see how they can encapsulate that reality using both philosophy and the various bases of religious authority in Islam. As one would expect, there is not just one ...
became the focus of cultural activity during the Stalinist period. Separate Tajik institutions, organized on the All- Union model, labored to use valley dialects, history, and especially archaeology to create a Tajik history delinked from Islam and distinct from other Central Asian culture. Thawing...
MAHOMMEDAN LAW.The legal situation in the Moslem world is of the highest complexity, and can be made intelligible only by tracing its historical development. First came the system (filth, shari`a) which takes the place in Islam of canon law in Roman Christendom. It begins with Mahomet sitti...