Print
EmailBrowse All
| All (507) | Subject Entries (326) | Biographies (152) | Chaptered Works (29) | Primary Sources (0) | Images & Maps (38) |
 Previous |
Next |
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Displaying: a i - ahl
A'ishah (Biography)
614 – 678 Third wife of Muhammad A'ishah was the third and youngest wife of the Prophet Muhammad. Born in Mecca, she was the ...
Source: The Islamic World: Past and Present
Abbasid (Image)
Muqarnas vault in the so-called Abbasid palace, Baghdad, early 13th century; photo credit: Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Abbasid (Subject Entry)
Islamic dynasty that ruled from several capitals in Iraq between 749 and 1258 . The Abbasids traced their descent from al-῾Abbas, the uncle of ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Abbasid Caliphate (Subject Entry)
The Abbasids were descendants of al-Abbas, an uncle of Muhammad . Abbasid caliphs ruled much of the Muslim world from 750 to 1258 . ...
Source: The Islamic World: Past and Present
Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (Biography)
(r. 685 – 705 ) Umayyad caliph responsible for standardizing imperial coinage and collecting a corpus of hadith to be interpreted by appointed faqihs ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Abd Allah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab (Biography)
(d. 693 ) Companion of the Prophet Muhammad and son of the second caliph, Umar ibn al-Khattab . Prominent authority in hadith and law. ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Abu al-Tayyib Ahmad ibn al-Husayn (Biography)
See Mutanabbi, al- ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Abu ῾Ali Muhammad ibn ῾Ali ibn Muqla (Biography)
See Ibn muqla . ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Abū Dharr al-Ghifārī (Biography)
Abū Dharr al-Ghifārī ( d. 652 ), was a companion of the prophet Muḥammad and a focus of modern ideological debate. As in the ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Abu Hanifah (Biography)
699 – 767 Scholar and jurist Legal scholar Abu Hanifah is celebrated as the founder of the Hanafi, considered by many to be the ...
Source: The Islamic World: Past and Present
Abu Hanifah, al-Numan ibn Thabit ibn Zuta (Biography)
(d. 767 ) Founder of Hanafi school of Islamic law. Native of Kufa, Iraq, although of Persian descent. Studied jurisprudence under a student of ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Abu Muslim al-Khurasani (Biography)
(d. 755 ) Semilegendary Iranian revolutionary who led the rebellion that toppled the Umayyad caliphate in 750 and brought the Abbasid dynasty to power. ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Abu Yusuf (Biography)
(d. 798 ) Nickname for Yaqub ibn Ibrahim al-Ansari . Student of legist Abu Hanifah . Spread influence of Hanafi school through his writings ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Adab (Subject Entry)
Medieval anecdotal form of prose designed to be both edifying and entertaining. Can include Quranic verses, poetry, and the traditions of Muhammad (hadith). Often ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
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, 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
Aghlabid (Image)
Mosque of the Three Doors, Kairouan, Tunisia, 866; photo credit: Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Aghlabid (Subject Entry)
Islamic dynasty that governed Tunisia, Algeria and Sicily from 800 to 909 . The province of Ifriqiya, roughly corresponding to modern Tunisia, had been ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
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
Ahl al-Adl wa'l-Tawhid (Subject Entry)
See Mutazilis ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
| Previous |
Next |
