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79 unusual facts about Muslim


Adwan, Syria

It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 21 households and 15 bachelors.

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.

Aref al-Dajani

In 1918, after serving for one year as mayor of Jerusalem, al-Dajani joined the Administrative Committee of the Muslim-Christian Association (MCA) and went on to become Jerusalem and then regional president of the organization.

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.

Beit Saber

Medieval Muslim historian Abu'l Fida mentioned Beit Saber in the late 14th-century, during Mamluk rule in Syria.

Bhujakhia Pir

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

Bitter Fruit

grandfather's relatives, who are Muslims (although his father Silas, an illegitimate child, is not).

Blum-Viollette proposal

The proposal suggested that a minority of Algerians obtain full French citizenship while still allowing them to be subject to Muslim law on some social issues (such as marriage/divorce, custody, inheritance).

Busra al-Harir

At that time it had an all Muslim population of 42 households and 31 bachelors, who paid taxes on wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and/or beehives.

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.

Cernier

There were three individuals who were Jewish, and 56 (or about 2.92% of the population) who were Muslim.

Çiçek Hatun

He also requested to have Cem's body for a Muslim funeral, but it was not until four years after Cem's death that his body was finally brought to the Ottoman lands because of attempts to receive more gold for Cem's corpse.

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.

Day by Day Christian Ministries

What is the more priority of the church is the expansion in the Middle East, where majority of the people are Muslim.

Dhawad

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

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.

During the winter break before her second semester at McCleans Preparatory School, Amal debates wearing the hijab (the religious Muslim head covering) as a full timer (meaning that she would have to wear it in front of males who weren't immediate family).

Garodi

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

Gavli

According to their tradition following a communal riot between Hindus and Muslims, they left their ancestral village of Kharpa in Kannauj District of Uttar Pradesh.

Germi County

The most historical place in this county is Barzand Castle that was the castle of Afshin who battled with Babak Khorramdin in earlier century of Islamic history.People of this county are Muslim and speak in Azeri.

Ghasm

The Sunni Muslim al-Miqdad clan has been the predominant family in Ghasm and a number of nearby towns since the Ottoman Empire era.

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.

Guy Bisaillon

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

Hayriye, İnegöl

Hayriye was founded in 1877-78 by Georgian families of Muslim faith who migrated to Turkey from the border area between Georgia and Turkey (near Artvin) (situated in the province of Adjara in today's Republic of Georgia).

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.

Imtan

It had an all Muslim population consisting of 7 households and 2 bachelors.

Islamic view of miracles

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

Jamla

In the late 19th-century Jamla was described as an impoverished village of 36 hut-like houses and a population of 160 Muslims.

Jeteur de pierres

The song concludes with the note: "Si à tes yeux on prend position, comprend bien / Qu'on parle pas en tant que musulman rien qu'en tant qu'être humain." ("If in your eyes we take sides, you should understand / That we don't speak as Muslims, only as human beings".)

Jhojha

In terms of religion, they are fairly orthodox Sunni Muslims, and have customs similar to other neighbouring Muslim peasant castes, such as the Kamboh, Garha, and Muley Jat.

Jogi Faqir

Like other Muslim communities in North India, they are undergoing social change, and become more orthodox.

Kachar

The Kachar intermarry with some neighbouring Muslim communities such as the Attar, Faqir and Pinjara, although most marriages are within the community.

Kanmailia

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

The Kanmailia are Sunni Muslims, but still incorporate many folk beliefs and traditions.

Kauman

Kauman is a typical village name used by some regencies and municipalities in Central and East Java to name an area where pious Muslim communities are concentrated.

Kerala Muslim Cultural Centre

The Kerala Muslim Cultural Centre (KMCC) is a global organization of Muslims from the Indian state of Kerala.

Koka and Vikoka

The names and deeds of these demon brothers are comparable to Gog and Magog in the Bible and ya'jooj wa ma'jooj (يأجوج و مأجوج) of Muslim tradition as they are mentioned in the Qur'an.

Lebanese National Movement

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

Leo Frankowski

: Lady Francine, a French woman known as one of the two most beautiful women in Poland (the other lives with Conrad, but as an heretical Muslim can't or won't marry him) maneuvers Conrad into marrying her.

Maarrat al-Ikhwan

Following his death in 1640, Sultan Murad ordered the construction of a shrine over his tomb in Ma'arrat al-Ikhwan where it is still visited by both Muslims and Druze to receive blessings.

Mahajjah

It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 40 households and 24 bachelors.

Local Muslim tradition holds that the prophet Muhammad had sat on or leaned against a stone at Mahajjah and that the stone would ease the pain of childbirth.

Malaysia–Syria relations

As a fellow nation where most of the population is Muslim, Malaysia has been a particular beneficiary of these efforts.

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.

Milkana G. Palavurova

Milkana G. had become known for her article on yoga and religion, where she made a comparison between Muslim prayers and yoga positions.

Morris Schinasi

He was treated by a Muslim physician named Şinasi (Shinasi or Schinasi in European languages) and regained his health.

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.

Multani Lohar

Like other Gujarati Muslim groups, they have a caste council, the Multani Lohar Jamat, which is responsible for the welfare of the community.

Muslim Barhai

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

Muslim Burial Ground, Horsell Common

The Muslim Burial Ground, Horsell Common was the original resting place of two dozen Muslim soldiers who died during World War I and World War II.

Muslim-Christian Associations

In 1923 the chief secretary to the high commissioner, Colonel Wyndham Deedes, ordered investigations into some of the leaders of the Muslim National Associations.

Najran, Syria

It had a population of 65 households and 25 bachelors, all Muslim.

Neyyire Neyir

In the Ottoman Empire, acting of Muslim women in movies was not allowed for reasons of religion.

Operation Pitsford

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

Pocong

Known in Indonesia/Malaysia as kain kafan, the shroud is the prescribed length of cloth used in Muslim burials to wrap the body of the dead person.

Police v. City of Newark

Two Muslim members of the police asserted a religious belief that required them to maintain beards, and filed a lawsuit complaining that their freedom of religion was being violated.

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.

Rayee

With rapid urbanization, many Rayee have also taken unskilled jobs as rickshaw pulling, and form an important part of the Bihari Muslim population in Calcuta.

Rayeen

The Arain/Rain are a Sunni Muslim community and are present mainly in Western part of the state of Uttar Pradesh in India.

Sabarmati Express

It has been alleged that the attack was the result of a conspiracy hatched by local Muslims.

Saham al-Jawlan

It had a Muslim population consisting of 22 households and 15 bachelors.

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.

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

Little is known as to the origin of this community, other than the fact that they are one of a number of Muslim artisan groups found in Maharashtra.

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.

He also provided important spiritual and religious guidance and leadership to the growing Muslim community - especially in areas without full-time ulema - that often required lateral thinking and patience.

Sheikh Khalid Hafiz (Sheikh Khalid Kamal Abdul Hafiz; 1 December 1938 – 6 December 1999) was an Indian-born Imam who served as the senior religious advisor to the New Zealand Muslim minority over 1982 to 1999.

Temanggung Regency

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

The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf

Along with her brother Eyad and her African American friends, Hakim and Hanifa, she bikes the Indianapolis streets exploring the fault lines between Muslim and American.

Usman Enclave, Lucknow

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

Wayang

This is home to some of the oldest Muslim kingdoms in Java and it is likely the wayang golek grew in popularity through telling the wayang menak stories of Amir Hamza, the uncle of Muhammad.

Zahira College Mawanella

It is currently the one of the largest Muslim educational institution in Sri Lanka with more than 4000 students studying there.


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.

All-India Jamhur Muslim League

The All India Jamhur Muslim League was formed in 1940, to counter the Lahore resolution, passed by the All-India Muslim League, for a separate Pakistan based on Muhammad Ali Jinnah's Two nation theory.

Alwar district

During the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, Rao raja Bane Singh sent a force consisting mainly of Muslims and Rajputs, to relieve the British garrison in Agra.

Azad Maidan riots

The indigenous Bodo community of Assam alleged that the Muslim population is increasing in Assam due to the large influx of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, while the local Muslim community brushed it aside saying that they migrated to Assam during the British Raj.

Azahara

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

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.

Blasphemy law in Pakistan

On 30 July 2009, hundreds of members of Sipah-e-Sahaba and International Khatm-e-Nabuwat 'IKNM' the banned Muslim organisations, torched the Christian homes and killed Christians in the Punjabi city of Gojra Faisalabad and in the nearby village of Korian, District Faisalabad.

Deir al-Bukht

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

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.

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.

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.

Hussainiwala

The village is named after the Muslim Peer Baba Hussainiwala ji (Saint Hussaini wala or Saint "who is of Husain"), whose tomb is in the Border Security Force headquarters at Hussainiwala.

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.

Islam: The Straight Path

Muslim fundamental tenets of belief and practices are also discussed as is the development of Islamic theology, law and Sufism.

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.

Islamic Supreme Council of America

According to an unidentified blogger of the weblog "Sufi Muslim Council Exposed", in 2005 Kabbani told UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw: “We are glad to see changes taking place in the political mechanisms in the Middle East. We hope to see an end to tyranny and we are happy to observe a strong upsurge in freedom of speech, freedom of belief and political openness in the region.”

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.

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.

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.

Macassar Dunes Conservation Area

In the 1600s under colonial rule, the first Muslim community in South Africa was founded here by Sheikh Yusuf of Indonesia, who named the area after his home in Indonesia – the original Khoi name for the area was not recorded.

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.

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.

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.

Religion in Haiti

In 2000, Nawoon Marcellus, a member of Fanmi Lavalas from San Raphael, became the first Muslim elected to the Chamber of Deputies of Haïti.

Rohingya conflict in Western Burma

On 7 November 2012, one soldier from the Burmese Army was reportedly beheaded and three others were captured by the Muslim rebels, by an armed group of the Rohingya Solidarity Organization (RSO), in their guerrilla offensive against the Burmese army in northern Maungdaw township on the Burma-Bangladesh border.

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.

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.

Sayeed Salahudeen

He then joined Hizbul Mujahideen founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar alias "Master" who later parted from Hizbul Mujahideen was replaced by Muhammad Yousuf Shah who then adopted nom de guerre "Sayeed Salahudeen", named after Saladin, the 12th century Muslim political and military leader, who fought in the Crusades.

Secularism in Bangladesh

However, the Bangladesh Army with its close ideological association of center-right and conservative political parties led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, have stated that the term Bangladeshi nationalism refers to the country as an Islamic nation given that 89% of the population is Muslim.

Siddique

alternate spelling of Siddiqui, last name common among some Muslim groups in South Asia and the Middle East

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.

UCOII

In her defence UCOII claims that such ties are limited to the personal militancy of part of her leadership and management and that UCOII related more actually to the European Council for Fatwa and Research, to scholars like the Mufti of Egypt Ali Gomaa, to European Islam, to Tariq Ramadan, to the scholarship of Islamic feminists and to the writings of Italian converts and Muslim youngs and students in Italy.

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.