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Abdali Dynasty (Subject Entry)
See Durrani Dynasty ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Adat (Subject Entry)
One of the most important elements of Islamic society in Southeast Asia is adat (Ar., ʿādāt ), which denotes refined culture and more specifically ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Adat (Subject Entry)
One of the most important structural elements of Islamic society in Southeast Asia is adat (Ar., ῾ ādāt ), which denotes refined culture and ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
Aesthetic Theory (Subject Entry)
The absence of a body of written systematic aesthetic theory in Islam before the nineteenth century may be attributed in part to the traditional ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Aesthetic Theory (Subject Entry)
The absence of a body of written aesthetic theory in Islam before the nineteenth century may be attributed in part to the traditional Islamic ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
Afghanistan (Subject Entry)
In the nineteenth century Afghanistan emerged as a buffer state between the contending British Indian and tsarist Russian colonial empires. This overwhelmingly Muslim (more ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Afghanistan (Subject Entry)
In the nineteenth century Afghanistan emerged as a buffer state between the contending British Indian and tsarist Russian colonial empires. This overwhelmingly Muslim (more ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
Afghanistan, Islam in (Subject Entry)
Approximately 88 percent of modern-day Afghanistan's population is Sunni; 12 percent is Shii. Islam arrived in the eighth century during the expansion of the ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
African-Americans (Subject Entry)
See Nation of Islam ; America, Islam in ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Aga Khan (Subject Entry)
Title of the Nizari Ismaili imams since Hasan Ali Shah (d. 1881 ). The Aga Khan represents direct lineal descent and succession from the ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Agra (Subject Entry)
City and administrative seat of the district of the same name, in Uttar Pradesh, India. Situated on the Yamuna River in the fertile north ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Agriculture (Subject Entry)
There are thirty-four countries with both significant agricultural sectors and majority Muslim populations. They form a broad band running from west to east across ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Agriculture (Subject Entry)
There are thirty‐four countries with both significant agricultural sectors and majority Muslim populations. They form a broad band running from west to east across ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
Ahl Al‐Ḥall Wa‐al‐῾aqd (Subject Entry)
Those who are qualified to act on behalf of the Muslim community in electing a caliph are known as ahl al‐ḥall wa‐al‐῾aqd (less frequently, ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
Ahl al-Ḥall Wa-al-ʿAqd (Subject Entry)
Those who are qualified to act on behalf of the Muslim community in electing a caliph are known as ahl al-ḥall wa-al-ʿaqd (the people ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Ahl al-Hall wa'l-Aqd (Subject Entry)
Those qualified to elect or depose a caliph on behalf of the Muslim community. In medieval political theory, the term refers to legal scholars ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Ahl al-Sunnah wa'l-Jamaah (Subject Entry)
People of the Prophet's Way and the Community. Also known as Barelvis and Barelwis. Founded in northern India in 1880s, based on the writings ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Ahl-i Haqq (Subject Entry)
People of the truth. Also known as Ali Ilahis, “deifiers of Ali .” Members of a sect centered in northwest Iran, incorporating certain Shii ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Ahmadi (Subject Entry)
Ahmadi refers to a messianic movement in modern Islam. The Ahmadis have been controversial since their beginnings in British-controlled India in 1889 . Nevertheless, ...
Source: The Islamic World: Past and Present
Ahmadis (Subject Entry)
Controversial messianic movement founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, Punjab (British-controlled India), in 1889 . Founder claimed to be a “nonlegislating” prophet (thus ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
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