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56 unusual facts about Muslim


Abtaa

It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 44 households and 20 bachelors.

Aceh Documentation and Information Center

A team from the National Library of Indonesia visiting in January 2005 was able to salvage only three books and one sheet of the genealogy of the Muslim kings of Aceh.

Al-Harra, Syria

In the 1870s the Palestine Exploration Fund visited al-Harra and reported that except for two small Damascus-born Arab Christian families, the town's population of 500 was entirely Muslim.

Allied Democratic Forces

The ADF was formed by puritanical Muslim Ugandans of the Tabliq sect who merged with the remnants of another rebel group, the National Army for the Liberation of Uganda.

Awami Front

Awami Front (Popular Front), was a front of six Muslim political parties in Uttar Pradesh, India.

Bassir

It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 4 households and 3 bachelors.

Bhujakhia Pir

The shrine of Baba Bhujakhira Pir of Balasore stands as a symbol of harmony between Muslim and Hindu.

Canadian Coalition for Democracies

The CCD placed particular emphasis on calling for the Canadian government to adopt a pro-Israel stance, and rejected providing Palestinians with any development or humanitarian assistance and was very critical of the Muslim world and, in particular, of groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.

Creighton Lovelace

The original report received widespread international attention and sparked protests in Muslim countries.

Dahabeah

Indeed, the name derives from the Arabic word for "gold", owing to similar, gilded state barges used by the Muslim rulers of Egypt in the Middle Ages.

Dama, Syria

It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 74 households and 28 bachelors.

Deir al-Bukht

It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 15 households and 6 bachelors.

Dhawad

The Dhawad are strictly endogamous, and the community practice clan exogamous, and are the only Muslim community is Maharashtra to do so.

Does My Head Look Big in This?

Sixteen year old, Amal Mohamed Nasrullah Abdel-Hakim is an Australian Palestinian-Muslim girl who lives in Melbourne with her father, doctor Mohamed, and mother, dentist Jamila.

The story revolves around (and is told from the view point of) a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who decides to wear the hijab, a religious veil, full-time.

Fathers of the Holy Sepulchre

The convent is accessible only from the basilica, which under Ottoman rule was in charge of Muslim guards.

Gavandi

The Gavandi live in villages with other Muslim communities such as the Attar, Shilkalgar, Maner and Tamboli, as well as other Hindu castes such as the Maratha.

Ghasm

It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 25 households and 12 bachelors.

Gopal Chandra Mukhopadhyay

In 1947, Mohandas Gandhi came to Kolkata and urged the Hindus to harbour any ill feeling towards the Muslims and appealled to them to surrender all their arms to him.

Guru Arjan

Guru Arjan included the compositions of both Hindu and Muslim saints which he considered consistent with the teachings of Sikhism.

Guru Nanak

His father was a patwari (accountant) for crop revenue in the village of Talwandi, employed by a Muslim landlord of that area, Rai Bular Bhatti.

Hemchandra Kanungo

He believed that the religious symbols, which were being used by revolutionary groups in Bengal during the first decade of the twentieth century, had kept the Muslim participants aloof from the revolutionary activities of the Indian freedom struggle.

Hilal railway station

After the Republic of Turkey was formed in 1923, the station's name was changed to Hilal which means 'crescent', due to the majority of the city's population being Muslim.

Islamic Society of Western Maryland

This building has served as a place of worship for Muslims for over a decade.

Islamic view of miracles

For Muslim theologians, the laws of nature were only the customary sequence of apparent causes: customs of God.

Javanese cuisine

Almost 90% of Javanese are Muslim, and consequently, much of Javanese cuisine omits pork.

Jolo

Known as the Bates treaty, the agreement provided for the exercise of American authority over the Sulu archipelago in exchange for the recognition of Muslim culture and religion.

Kabaria

The Kabaria, sometimes pronounced as Kabariya are a Muslim community found in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India, mainly in the Awadh region.

Kachar

The Kachar are a Muslim community found in the state of Maharashtra in India.

Kalapahad

Kalapahad or Kala Pahar (Black Mountain) was the title of an Iconoclast Muslim general of Mughal governor Sultan Sulaiman Karrani of Bengal.

Kankali

The Kankali are a Muslim community found in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India.

However, there is little interaction with neighbouring Muslim communities such as the Muker and Baghban.

Kumara Rama

Kumara Rama died at a very young age battling the Muslim armies of Tughlaq and was the basis for the foundation of the Vijayanagar empire.He belonged to the Nayaka community and was a cousin of Harihara and Bukka.

Lebanese National Movement

In most cases, their small, poorly disciplined, ill-equipped militia establishments were ad hoc formations made of lightly armed and largely untrained Christian or Muslim youths that rarely surpassed the 100-300 fighters’ mark – about the size of an understrength company or battalion.

However, to say that the LNM was a Muslim organization would be a gross oversimplification.

Luton Town MIGs

In 2001 it was reported that tensions were running high in Luton, a town with a 30,000 Muslim community accounting for 20% of the towns population.

Marca Hispanica

The Marca Hispanica resulted from the expansion south of the Frankish realm from their heartland in Neustria and Austrasia starting with Charles Martel in 732 and after various decades fighting between the Franks and Muslims (Moors) in the Iberian Peninsula.

Moses Capsali

The sultan thought so much of the rabbi that he assigned to him a seat in the divan beside the mufti, the religious head of the Muslims, and above the patriarch of the Christians.

Muhammad ibn al Uthaymeen

Sheikh Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Saalih ibn Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymeen at-Tamimi (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن صالح بن محمد بن سليمان بن عبد الرحمن العثيمين التميمي) (March 9, 1925 – January 10, 2001) was one of the most prominent Sunni Muslim Islamic scholars of the latter half of the twentieth century.

Muslim Bandhmati

Like other Muslim communities of the Doab, they are undergoing a process of Islamization, and this has led to the abandonment of clan exogamy.

Muslim Barhai

The Muslim Barhai, or sometimes pronounced Badhai are Muslim community, found in North India.

Muslim Dhagi

But like other Muslim artisan communities, they have seen a severe decline in their traditional occupation, as a result of mechanism.

Musunuri Nayaks

After the fall of Warangal, Muslim armies marched forward and captured Kondapalli, Kondaveedu, Rajahmundry, Nidadavole, Nellore, and Kolanuveedu forts.

Naisrín Elsafty

Naisrín grew up in a multicultural and multi-religious household, celebrating both Christmas and the Muslim festival of Eid ul-Fitr (the end of Ramadan).

Operation Pitsford

On 26 April 2013, eleven British Muslims were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 40 months to life imprisonment.

Polkovnik Savovo

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Qanawat

It had a Christian population consisting of 5 households and a Muslim population of 12 households; the inhabitants included a settled group of beduins.

Ragheb Harb

Sheikh Ragheb Harb (1952–1984) was a Lebanese resistance leader and Muslim cleric.

Saiqalgar

The Saiqalgar generally marry within the community but there are instances of marriage with neighbouring Muslim groups such as the Attar, Maner, Patwager and Tamboli.

Sheikh Khalid Hafiz

As the Imam for the capital Sheikh Khalid Hafiz played an important role in the development of both the local urban Muslim community and the broader New Zealand Islamic minority the 1980s and 1990s.

Sheikh Sarvari

Sheikh Sarwari are a Muslim community found in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India.

Susila Budhi Dharma

Although the author described himself as a conventional Muslim, the book's name chimes with ancient Indian wisdom.

Tafas

It had a population of 73 households and 40 bachelors, all Muslim.

Temanggung Regency

The majority of the population of the Temanggung Regency is Muslim.

Usman Enclave, Lucknow

As a Muslim, he became a symbol of India's inclusive secularism.

Vievo

During the First Balkan War, the village was set on fire by the local Bulgarian militia to ethnically cleanse the Muslim Turks from the region.


Ajume Wingo

Hailing from Nso, a kingdom located in the North West Province of Cameroon, Ajume Wingo received much of his early education from Christian and Muslim missionaries, and from a Bedouin teacher (whose title of Mallam Gargari translates to "invincible teacher") known for his toughness and draconian style of discipline.

Ali Mitayev

In 1919 he forged an alliance with the Bolsheviks against Denikin’s White forces provided the Bolsheviks would guarantee Chechen autonomy and Muslim religious practices within a Soviet system.

Azahara

Medina Azahara, the ruins of an Arab Muslim medieval palace in Córdoba, Spain

Birth in Benin

Religions practiced in Benin include the following: Christian (42.8%), Muslim (24.4%), Vodoun (17.3%), and “other” (15.5%).

Black Sea Region

Though the overwhelming majority is Turkish, the east of the region is also inhabited by the Laz, a people who speak a Georgian dialect and converted to Islam from Georgian Orthodoxy in the late Ottoman period as well as Muslim Georgians, also the Hemsin, Armenian converts to Islam, and Pontic Greeks, who converted to Islam in 17th century.

Chadian coup of 1975

This distrust came in part from the Chadian Armed Forces (FAT) incapacity to deal with the rebellion that was inflaming the Muslim north from when the rebel insurgent group FROLINAT had been formed in 1966.

Derby sex gang

This case occurred after other incidents in Rochdale, Preston and Rotherham, where Asian gangs, usually Muslim Pakistani men, had been convicted of child grooming and rape.

Eulogius of Córdoba

Again, during the Muslim persecution, in 850, after reading a passage of the works of St. Epiphanius he decided to refrain for a time from saying Mass that he might better defend the cause of the martyrs; however, at the request of his bishop, Saul of Córdoba, he put aside his scruples.

Flying while Muslim

The issue was brought to media attention in 2006 (Flying Imams controversy) when six Muslim imams were removed from a US Airways flight after they allegedly engaged in suspicious behavior reminiscent of that of the 9/11 hijackers.

In 2009 AirTran Airways removed nine Muslim passengers, including three children, from a flight and turned them over to the FBI after one of the men commented to another that they were sitting right next to the engines and wondered aloud where the safest place to sit on the plane was.

Guy Bisaillon

A practical consequence of the bill was to withdraw the franchise from Jews, Muslims, and other non-Catholics and non-Protestants.

History of Karnataka

In the early 14th century, the Vijayanagara Empire with its capital at Hosapattana (later to be called Vijayanagara) rose to successfully challenge the Muslim invasions into the South.

History of Rajasthan

Following the Mughal tradition and more importantly due to its strategic location Ajmer became a province of British India, while the autonomous Rajput states, the Muslim state (Tonk), and the Jat states (Bharatpur and Dholpur) were organized into the Rajputana Agency.

Ibn Hamdis

"Abd, al-Jabbar Ibn Hamdis left his native Sicily in 1078 at the age of twenty-four, and for the rest of his long life wandered in al-Andalus and North Africa as a court poet, singing the praises of his Arab hosts and lamenting the loss of his home and the demise of Muslim culture in the wake of the Norman invasion of Sicily and the Reconquista in Spain." (Gabriel Levin, To These Dark Steps, 2012, p.77)

Islam in Malaysia

At certain Malaysian institutions such as the International Islamic University, wearing of the tudung is mandatory; however for non-Muslim students this usually amounts to a loosely worn piece of cloth draped over the back of the head.

Islamic pottery

The first centre was Malaga, producing wares in traditional Islamic styles, but from the 13th century Muslim potters migrated to the reconquered Christian city of Valencia, outlying suburbs of which such as Manises and Paterna became the most important centres, manufacturing mainly for Christian markets in styles increasingly influenced by European decoration, though retaining a distinct character.

Jean Mohamed Ben Abdejlil

Born into a family of Muslim notables of Fez, Mohamed Ben Abdejlil, who had made the Hajj to Mecca with his father, converted to Catholicism and was baptized in April 7, 1928 in the chapel of Franciscan college of Fontenay-sous-bois, taking the Christian name Jean, with sponsor of French orientalist Louis Massignon.

Johannesburg Muslim School

Johannesburg Muslim School is a partly private school situated in Fordsburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Khalil Gibran International Academy

The BBC reports that some attendees have joined to reconnect with their families' culture and homeland; others, with no Arab or Muslim background, because they believe learning the language will give them a valuable skill.

Lauren Green

After a 2013 interview with Muslim-American scholar Reza Aslan, Green received heavy criticism for her line of questions.

Marca Hispanica

The Muslim forces however continued to raid their Gaul neighbours to the north, reaching as far as Autun.

Mecca2Medina

They have worked with many new artists including with The Blind Alphabets and Mohammed Yahya, Missundastood of the USA, Poetic Pilgrimage, Pearls of Islam, Masika Feesibillah and Muslim Bilal.

Mehmed Fuad Pasha

In addition to administration councils’ structures being reformed, a Cadastral Department in each province was responsible for registering every male resident, whether they be Muslim or non-Muslim, Ottoman or foreign resident.

Muhammad Zafarullah Khan

In the 1953 bloody Lahore riots, religious extremists called for Zafarullah Khan's expulsion due to his adherence to the Ahmadiyya Muslim faith.

Mukhsha

The ruins (bricked building, bath, Muslim graves) are situated in Penza Oblast near the modern town of Narovchat in the upper stream of Moksha River.

Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadi'i

After his death, reports continued to surface of changes in curriculum and power struggles at the Dar al-Hadith, though these rumors were dispelled a few years later by contemporary Muslim scholar Rabee Al-Madkhali.

Muslim Atayev

Muslim Atayev (1974 – January 27, 2004), also known as Emir Sayfullah, was the founder of the Yarmuk Jamaat, which later became part of the Caucasus Front's Kabardino-Balkarian Sector in the Russian-held Caucasian Muslim state Kabardino-Balkaria of the Second Chechen War.

Muslim Nationalist Party

The Muslim Nationalist Party was a political party in pre-independence India by M. C. Chagla.

Muslims of Uttar Pradesh

Famous Muslims from Uttar Pradesh include the famous writer and poet Javed Akhtar, actress Shabana Azami, Vice President of India Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Maolana Dr. Kalbe Sadiq Vice President of Muslim Personal Law Board, actor and director Muzaffar Ali, Journalist Saeed Naqvi, Persian Scholar Dr. Naiyer Masud Rizvi, Governor Syed Sibtey Razi, historian Irfan Habib, politician Salman Khursheed and cricketer Mohammad Kaif.

Nihad Awad

He is featured in "Silent No More" (ISBN 1590080017) by former United States Representative Paul Findley, a book chronicling the history of the American Muslim community.

North Ossetia–Alania

The Ossetian population of North Ossetia is predominantly Christian with a Muslim minority, speaking Ossetian and Russian.

P. K. Abdu Rabb

Abdu Rabb was born to Muslim League Leader and former Deputy Chief Minister of Kerala Late K. Avukader Kutty Naha and Kunhibiriyam Umma.

Qutbism

Qutbism (also called Kotebism, Qutbiyya, or Qutbiyyah) is a faction within Sunni Islam, with roots to the thoughts of the late Sayyid Qutb, a Muslim, and figurehead of the Muslim Brotherhood (he was executed in 1966).

Rabiu Ibrahim

Ibrahim is a practising Muslim, and observes fasting during the Islamic month of Ramadan.

Rahman Syed

Rahman Anwar Syed was born into a Muslim family of the village of Alawalpur, Punjab, British India, the eldest of seven children.

Sacchidananda Bharati III

His spiritual greatness commanded the veneration of the Muslim and Hindu rulers of Mysore, Peshwa Madhava Rao and Peshwa Bajirao, Mahadji Sinde, Nizam Ali Khan and the governors of the East India Company.

Saint Roderick

Tradition states that he was a Christian priest of Cabra who had two brothers: one was a Muslim, the other had no religion.

Sarbloh Warriors

In 2006, Singh complained that the game was unfairly stereotyped by the BBC as being anti-Muslim, stating that it was meant to educate the youth on the complicated history of Sikh-Muslim tension.

Sheila Klein

In 2013 Klein received a GAP award from the Artist Trust to assist with travel and living for a project in Ahmedabad, India, creating an architectural textile together with Muslim women who are members of the Sarkhej Roza Mosque community.

Sydney gang rapes

Ethnic community group leaders, including Keysar Trad of the Lebanese Muslim Association, complained that Carr was smearing the entire Lebanese Muslim community with the crimes of a few of its members, and that his public comments would stir up ethnic hatred.

The New Islander

Among some of the magazine's more personal pieces is a young man's recollection of the lessons learned while growing up in a Hispanic immigrant household, a young woman's reflection on an internship experience at the National Immigrant Justice Center, a young man's first-hand account of a Muslim protest in the streets of Paris, and an intoxicated student's unstable stream of consciousness.

United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan

Meanwhile, elections were held in Indian administered Jammu & Kashmir, which brought up the popular Muslim leader Sheikh Abdullah, who with his party National Conference, generally supported India.