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Abdülhamid II (Biography)
Abdülhamid II ( 1842 – 1918 ) was the thirty-fourth Ottoman sultan ( r. 1876 – 1909 ). A profound political and economic crisis ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Aitmatov, Chingiz (Biography)
Chingiz Torekulovich Aitmatov ( b. 1928 ) (also spelled Aytmatov) was an important figure in late Soviet culture and is the best-known Kyrgyz author ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Al-Jazeera (Subject Entry)
See Jazeera, al- . ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Al-Qaʿida (Subject Entry)
See Qaʿida, al- . ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Azerbaijan, Islam in (Subject Entry)
Conquered by the Russian Empire in the early 1800s, Azerbaijan remained under Russian rule until 1918 . The first Republic of Azerbaijan ( 1918 ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Basmachis (Subject Entry)
The term “Basmachi” was applied by Russians to opponents of the Bolsheviks who were active in Central Asia between the Russian Revolution and the ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Bin Laden, Osama (Biography)
Global jihadist, Saudi militant, and founder of al-Qaʿida, Osama bin Laden ( 1957 –2011) remains an icon for Islamic extremism and violent opposition to ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Carpets (Subject Entry)
Carpet weaving constitutes one of the most well-known Islamic art forms, whether manifested in the more familiar knotted-pile carpets or the larger variety of ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Caucasus (Subject Entry)
The Caucasus, also known as Caucasia, refers to a mountainous region that lies between the Caspian and Black Seas. The Caucasus Mountains are traditionally ...
Source: The Islamic World: Past and Present
Communism and Islam (Subject Entry)
Interaction between communism and Islam can be found in three areas: theories of human society, competing social structures, and political organizations, which claim the ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Crimean Khanate (Subject Entry)
From ancient times the Crimea has been a crossroads for various peoples ranging from Scythian and Sarmatian nomads to Goth and Hun invaders, and ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Diaspora and Exile (Subject Entry)
The terms diaspora and exile are sometimes used interchangeably to refer to people forced to leave traditional homelands or otherwise violently dispersed. Diaspora was ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Europe, Islam in (Subject Entry)
In the late twentieth century there were about eighteen million Muslims in Europe, with approximately nine million each in the western and southeastern parts ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Fakhreddin, Rizaeddin (Biography)
Rizaeddin Fakhreddin ( 1859 – 1936 ) was a Volga-Ural Muslim religious scholar and reformist. One of the most prominent Muslims of the Volga-Ural ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
First Steps toward Civilizing the Russian Muslims (Primary Source)
Ismail Bey Gasprinskii (Crimea, 1851–1914), Tatar reformer, educator, and publicist, was the most influential architect of Islamic modernism among the Turkic subjects of the ...
By: Ismail Bey Gasprinskii
Hazāra (Subject Entry)
The Hazāra are an ethnic group concentrated in the region of central Afghanistan known as the Hazārajāt. Hazāra are also found in smaller numbers ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Hizb ut-Tahrir (Subject Entry)
See Hizb al-Tahrīr al-Islāmī . ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Homosexuality (Subject Entry)
The Qurʿān is generally taken to condemn homosexual acts and in particular sodomy ( liwāṭ ). There are references to the people of Lot ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Houses (Subject Entry)
Although scholars and architects in the past sought to identify an essential “Islamic house,” the dwellings that Muslims have actually constructed and occupied are ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (Subject Entry)
First launched in 1978 and incorporated in London in 1983 , the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs ( IMMA ) was established with the ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
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