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Na῾in (Image)
Na῾in, interior vaults in the Safavid palace, c. 1560; photo credit: Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Na῾in (Subject Entry)
Town in central Iran. Na῾in lies on the edge of the central desert to the east of Isfahan on the route from Qum to ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Nā'īnī, Muḥammad Ḥusayn (Biography)
( 1860 – 1936 ), the leading theoretician of the 1905 – 1909 Persian constitutional movement and the leading clergyman who granted legitimacy to ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
Nabawiyyah (Subject Entry)
See Prophethood ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Nabhani, Taqi al-Din al- (Biography)
(d. 1977 ) Palestinian judge from Ijzin in northern Palestine. Founder and theoretician of Hizb al-Tahrir al-Islami (Islamic Liberation Party), established in 1953 . ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Nabhānī, Taqī al-Dīn al- (Biography)
Muḥammad Taqī al-Dīn bin Ibrahīm al-Nabhānī ( 1905 – 1977 ), was born in Ijzim, a village near Haifa, and died 20 December 1977 ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics
Nabi (Subject Entry)
Prophet; one who announces. Person called by God to communicate a divinely given message in the form of general moral teachings to humankind and ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Nabi al-Ummi, al- (Subject Entry)
A term used to refer to the Prophet Muhammad and variably translated as “the unlettered prophet,” “the prophet sent to a people without a ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Nabidh (Subject Entry)
See Intoxicants ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Nadhir (Subject Entry)
One who warns; Muhammad 's self-described ( Quran 22:49 ) position as messenger of the God of Jews and Christians who was called to ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Nadir Shah Afshar, Muhammad (Biography)
(r. 1736 – 47 ) Founder of the Afsharid dynasty in Iran. Known for an attempt to end the sectarian hostilities between the Sunnis ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Nadwat al-Ulama (Subject Entry)
Reformist school founded in India by Sayyid Muhammad Ali Mongiri in Lucknow in 1894 . It aimed to train ulama who would promote traditional ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Nadwat al-ʿUlamāʾ (Subject Entry)
Nadwat al-ʿUlamāʾ is an Islamic seminary-cum-ideological orientation ( maslak ) that originated in 1894 and was formally established as an institution of higher learning ...
Source: The [Oxford] Encyclopedia of Islam and Law
Nadwat al-ʿUlamāʾ (Subject Entry)
Nadwat al-ʿUlamāʾ (Council of Muslim Religious Scholars was originally a convention of Indian Muslim scholars and subsequently a leading religious seminary based in Lucknow, ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics
Nadwatul Ulama (Subject Entry)
See Nadwat al-Ulama ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Nadwī, Abū al-Ḥasan (Biography)
Sayyid Abūl Ḥasan ʿAlīal-Ḥasan al- Nadwī ( 1914 – 1999 ) was a transnational Indian ʿālim , author, and educator. ʿAlī Miyān, as he ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics
Nadwi, Abul Hasan Ali (Biography)
(d. 2000 ) A leading religious scholar and Muslim public intellectual of contemporary India and the author of numerous books on history, biography, contemporary ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Nadwi, Sayyid Sulayman (Biography)
(d. 1953 ) A leading religious scholar of twentieth-century South Asia. He is the author, together with his teacher, Shibli Numani , of the ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Nafaqah (Subject Entry)
Constitutes the financial obligation of a husband toward his wife during marriage and for a time after he divorces her. While married, a husband ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Nafisa, al-Sayyida (Biography)
(d. 824 ) Greatgranddaughter of Hasan , the older of the Prophet Muhammad 's two grandsons. Wife of Ishaq al-Mutamin , son of the ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
