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Bâ, Amadou Hampâté (Biography)
Amadou Hampâté Bâ ( 1900 – 1991 ), a Malian scholar, writer, and public intellectual, was one of the major cultural figures of twentieth-century ...
Source: Oxford Islamic Studies Online
Ba῾th Parties (Subject Entry)
The Arab Socialist Ba῾th Party ( Ḥizb al‐Ba῾th al‐῾Arabī al‐Ishtirākī ) was founded in Syria in the early 1940s by militants of the Iḥyā' ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
Bab (Biography)
See Shirazi, Sayyid Ali Muhammad ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Bāb (Subject Entry)
In the middle of the nineteenth century, Iranian Shiism underwent radical changes. Among these was a marked improvement in the status and power of ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Bāb (Subject Entry)
In the middle of the nineteenth century, Iranian Shiism underwent radical changes. Among these was a marked improvement in the status and power of ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
Bab-i Ali (Subject Entry)
Ottoman Sublime Porte. Term refers to palace, court, and government of ruler; initially referred to the dwelling of the grand vizier. The Porte housed ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Babism (Subject Entry)
A revivalist Shi'i movement of the 1840s, Babism was founded by an Iranian merchant named Sayyid Ali Muhammad Shirazi . In 1844 at the ...
Source: The Islamic World: Past and Present
Babism (Subject Entry)
Nineteenth-century militant Iranian Shii messianic movement for radical religious and social change, led by Sayyid Ali Muhammad Shirazi (d. 1850 ), self-proclaimed bab (gate) ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Bābism (Subject Entry)
See Bahāʾī . ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics
Bābism (Subject Entry)
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, several important revivalist movements appeared throughout the Islamic world. Only one of these—but by no means the least ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Bābism (Subject Entry)
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, several important revivalist movements appeared throughout the Islamic world. Only one of these—but by no means the least ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
Babur, Zahir al-Din Muhammad (Biography)
First Mughal ruler of India (r. 1526 – 30 ). Descended from Timur , he fought most of his life for tribal holdings in ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Back to the Qur'an (Primary Source)
Muhammad Akram Khan (Bengal-Pakistan, 1868–1968) was a controversial reformer and journalist. Born near Calcutta, Khan began his higher education at an English-medium school, then ...
By: Muhammad Akram Khan
Badawah (Subject Entry)
See Bedouin ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Badawi, al-Sayyid Ahmad (Biography)
(d. 1276 ) Moroccan-born founder of Ahmadi Sufi order, one of the four largest in Egypt. Influenced by Ahmad al-Rifai and Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Badawi, Jamal (Biography)
Dr. Jamal Badawi is Professor Emeritus at Saint Mary's University in Canada and recipient of an honorary doctorate from the same institution. He earned ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women
Badr al-Din Lu῾lu῾ (Biography)
Ruler of Mosul from 1222 to 1259 . He was a freed slave, as his name Lu῾lu῾ (“Pearl”) indicates, and became regent (Turk. atabeg ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Badr, Battle of (Subject Entry)
Badr refers to Badr Ḥunayn, a small market center near the Red Sea coast, lying southwest of Medina on the caravan route from Mecca ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Badr, Battle of (Subject Entry)
Battle fought in 624 by Muhammad and followers against the larger Meccan army led by Abu Sufyan . Seen as a symbol of the ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Badran, Margot (Biography)
An accomplished and prolific scholar of Middle Eastern and Islamic history focusing on gender issues, Margot Badran is a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women
