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Abdus Salam (Biography)
An unsophisticated home environment notwithstanding, he rapidly outpaced his teachers, who recognized and respected the young boy’s talent for physics and mathematics. Winning a ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam
Acudoğu (Biography)
( b. Istanbul , 1898 ; d. Istanbul , 1957 ). Turkish sculptor . After military service in World War I, in 1918 he ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Afghānī, Jamāl al-Dīn al- (Biography)
Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī ( 1838 / 39 – 1897 ) was a writer and Pan-Islamist political activist. Controversial during his lifetime, al-Afghānī has become ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Aflaton (Biography)
See Plato ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Aga Khan (Biography)
The Nizārī Ismāʿīlī imams since the time of Ḥasan ʿAlī Shāh ( d. 1881 ) have borne the title Aga Khan. The present imam, ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Aga Khan Foundation (Subject Entry)
A private philanthropic institution founded by the Aga Khan in 1967 to provide “the Muslim ethic of care and compassion for those of society ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Aga Khan Foundation (Subject Entry)
The Aga Khan Foundation is a private, nondenominational, philanthropic institution established in 1967 by the Aga Khan, the Ismāʿīlī imam, to put into practice ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Aghlabids (Subject Entry)
Hereditary Islamic dynasty of the ninth and early tenth centuries in North Africa, centered in Qayrawan. Came to power in 800 when Ibrahim ibn ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Ahmet Ali (Biography)
( b. Üsküdar, Istanbul , 1841 ; d. Istanbul , 1907 ). Turkish painter . In 1859 he became an assistant teacher of painting ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
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-Qaʿida (Subject Entry)
See Qaʿida, al- . ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Albania (Subject Entry)
Albania, the only country within the European continent with a majority Muslim population, regained its basic freedoms in 1992 after almost 50 years of ...
Source: The Islamic World: Past and Present
Alevis (Subject Entry)
[ This entry contains two subentries: Overview Turkey ] Overview The Alevis are a group whose members stem from Anatolia and, to a lesser ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Alexander the Great (Biography)
Alexander lived from 356 to 323 b.c.e. and ruled from 336. In the Middle East he generally is known as Alexander the Macedonian. He ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Alhambra (Subject Entry)
Al-Qasr al-Hamra, “red castle,” fourteenth-century palace of the Nasrid dynasty in Granada, Spain. Set atop the Sabikah hill along with the Alcazaba fortress and ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Alhambra (Subject Entry)
The Alhambra is the name given to the Red Castle ( al-Qasr al-Hamrāʿ ) built by fourteenth-century rulers of the Nasrid dynasty atop the ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Almohad (Image)
2. Almohad mosque, interior, Tinmal, Morocco, 1153–4; photo credit: Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom; see Almohad ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Almohad (Subject Entry)
[al-Muwaḥḥidūn]. Islamic dynasty that ruled parts of northwest Africa and Spain from 1130 to 1269 . Muhammad ibn Tumart ( d. 1130 ), a ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Almoravid (Image)
Almoravid congregational mosque, view of dome over the mihrab, Tlemcen, Algeria, 1136; photo credit: Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Almoravid (Subject Entry)
[al-Murābiṭūn]. Islamic dynasty that ruled parts of the Sahara, Morocco, Algeria and Spain from 1056 to 1147 . The Sanhaja Berber chief Yahya ibn ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
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