Encyclopedia of Islam

an overly favorable view of Islam, its peoples, and its history. See also edUcation; stUdent. Further reading: Elizabeth Barrow, ...

aspects of social life. The events these nonsci- entific accounts describe purportedly took place during the primordium, at the ...

day and night, the Sun, the moon, and the signs of the zodiac (Q 21:33; 25:61–62). The Quran also states in several places that ...

attributes to God the power not only to create, but also to create again. The resurrection of the dead is portrayed as a new cre ...

the Teaching of the Quran (Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1985); Annemarie Schimmel, “Creation and Judgment in the Koran and in ...

Islamization policies. These countries include saUdi arabia, iran, pakistan, and sUdan. Islamist groups and movements usually pl ...

Further reading: Francesco Gabrieli, Arab Historians of the Crusades (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984); P. M. Hol ...

177 J:AF daawa (Arabic: invitation, religious call, summons) (also dawa, Persian dawat, or Indonesian/Malaysian dakwah) Daawa is ...

Nizari Ismailis in Iran, known as the assassins, also made extensive use of daawa on behalf of their leaders. Today, some branch ...

Oxford University Press, 1992); Jane I. Smith, Islam in America (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), 160–167. Daawa Part ...

ist, Nouri al-Maliki (b. 1950), in May 2006. The Daawa Party favors the creation of a government based on Islamic law but no lon ...

Byzantine Empire up until the Muslim conquest in 635 c.e. During the rule of the Umayyad caliph- ate (662–750), Damascus became ...

Both Abd al-Aziz and Shaykh Khalid of Jordan gave Daoud a charter to establish Islamic work in North America. By this time, he h ...

by sayyid ahmad barelWi (d. 1831). Other jurists, however, ruled that as long as Muslims were secure and allowed to fulfill thei ...

Further reading: Muhammad Dara Shikuh, Majmaa al-bahrayn, or The Mingling of the Two Oceans. Edited and translated by M. Mahfouz ...

mate that he lived during the late 11th and early 10th century b.c.e. According to the narratives given in 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, a ...

Varied interpretations of death by Muslims throughout the centuries have produced a com- plex eschatology that can be divided in ...

Source: After Gavin Hambly, Cities of Mughal India ...

(r. 1628–58) built Delhi’s most spectacular Isl- amicate urban complex, which he called Shahja- hanabad (Shah Jahan City). It wa ...

Delhi Sultanate (1211–1526) The Delhi Sultanate is the collective name given to the first rulers and dynasties to conquer and es ...