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Gabae (Subject Entry)
See Isfahan . ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Gabriel (Biography)
Arabic, Jibril . According to the Quran ( 2:97–98 ), archangel sent by God to reveal the Quran to Muhammad . Also mentioned as ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Gabriel, Albert(-Louis) (Biography)
( b. Cérisières , 2 Aug. 1883 ; d. Bar-sur-Aube , 23 Dec. 1972 ). French architectural historian and archaeologist . He obtained a ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Gadd al-Haqq (Biography)
(d. 1996 ) Egyptian shaykh of al-Azhar who issued a fatwa declaring female circumcision (clitoridectomy) part of the legal body of Islam and a ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Galiyev, Sultan Mir Said (Biography)
(d. ca. 1930 ) Tatar Muslim Communist intellectual from Volga who reinterpreted Communism for the Muslim context during the 1917 Bolshevik revolution in Russia. ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Gambia (Subject Entry)
The history of Islam in the present Republic of the Gambia goes back to the days of the medieval empires of Ghana and Mali. ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
Gambia (Subject Entry)
The Republic of the Gambia has had the highest percentage of Muslim inhabitants in West Africa for a long time. According to a survey ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Gambia, A Constitution for the Second Republic of The (1996) (Primary Source)
The political success of Dawda Jawara—the first leader of The Gambia following the country’s independence—was partly attributable to his manipulation of Islamic symbols and ...
Gambia, Islam and Politics in the (Subject Entry)
Located as a miniature state enclaved within Senegal, the Gambia has a population of approximately 1.6 million, of which about 95 percent is Muslim. ...
Source: Oxford Islamic Studies Online
Gambia, Islam in (Subject Entry)
Gambia became a Muslim state largely because of the efforts of nineteenth-century Muslim proselytizers and because of the state of peace brought about by ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Gambling (Subject Entry)
The Quranic expression is maysir ( 2:119 , 5:90 ), but the term often used in Islamic law is qimar . All activities involving ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Games and Sport (Subject Entry)
Islam recognizes that human beings need to eat, drink, relax, and enjoy themselves. Hanẓalah , a companion and scribe of the Prophet, said “there ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
Games and Sports (Subject Entry)
Islam has long recognized the value of physical activity and recreation as a way to relax the mind and refresh the body. Until recently, ...
Source: The Islamic World: Past and Present
Games and Sports (Subject Entry)
Islamic civilization recognizes that human beings need to eat, drink, relax, and enjoy themselves. Hanẓalah, a companion and scribe of the Prophet, said, “There ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Games and Sports (Subject Entry)
Islamic tradition recognizes that human beings need to eat, drink, relax, and enjoy themselves. Hanzalah, a companion of the Prophet, said, “There is a ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women
Gandja (Subject Entry)
[ Ganja ; formerly Elizavetpol and Kirovabad ]. Town in Azerbaijan. Located on the Gyandza-chay, a tributary of the Kura River in the Transcaucasus, ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Garden (Image)
1. Patio de la Acequia, Generalife, Granada, 13th century and later; photo credit: Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Garden (Image)
2. Bagh-i Fin, near Kashan, Iran, 16th century and later; photo credit: Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Garden (Image)
4. Chār-bāgh garden, looking back towards gatehouse, Tomb of I῾timad al-Dawla, Agra, 1622–8; photo credit: Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Garden (Subject Entry)
Relatively small space of ground, usually out of doors, distinguished from the surrounding terrain by some boundary or by its internal organization or by ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
