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99 unusual facts about islam


A Way of Life

She is involved in constant confrontations with her Turkish Muslim neighbour Hassan Osman, and is so desperate to support her baby that she will committ the most shocking acts.

Abd al-Rahman al-Rafai

In this book he showed his political views by writing about issues such as constitutional rule and national independence, rule of law and human rights from different aspects of Islam.

Abu Sufyan ibn Harb

He was a staunch opponent of the Islamic prophet Muhammad before accepting Islam and becoming a Muslim warrior later in his life.

Allama

Allamah, an honorary title carried by the highest scholars of Islamic thought.

Andrew Bolt

The blog covers a wide variety of topics, including climate change, Australian politics, the ABC and issues concerned with multiculturalism and Islam.

Ansar al-Islam

On May 4, 2010 Abu Abdullah al-Shafi'i, Ansar al-Islam's leader since Mullah Krekar left for Norway in 2003, was captured by US forces in Baghdad.

Ansar-ul-Islam

Ansar ul-Islam: a Barelvi Sunni Muslim group in the Khyber Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan

Architecture of Kerala

The Arabian Peninsula, the cradle of Islam also had direct trade contact with Kerala coast from very early times, as far as the time of Muhammad or even before.

Aril Edvardsen

Aril Edvardsen was a proponent of reconciliation between Christians and Muslims, and in 2004 directed heavy criticism against Carl I. Hagen, then leader of the Progress Party, for Hagen's derisive comments against the prophet Muhammad.

Benjamin Wiker

In this book, Wiker aims to show how Darwinism by its very nature completely undermines the ethical foundations of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam because its materialist cosmology is incompatible with any concept of natural law.

Berber Dahir

A first formulation appeared under the influence of a group of specialists of Berbers of High Atlas and Middle Atlas, such as Maurice Le Glay (civil Controller and author of Récits de la plaine et des monts, les sentiers de la guerre et de l'amour, la mort du Rougui etc.), a core of professors hostile to Islam and in collaboration with bishop of Rabat.

Bhakti movement

The movement is closely related to Islamic Sufism, which appeared around the same time: both advocated that a personal expression of devotion to God is the way to become at one with him.

Bigamy

According to feminist historian Sarah McDougall, the Christian European insistence on monogamy and its enforcement arose as a consequence of 16th Century Islamic incursions into Central Europe and the advent of European colonialism within the Americas, Africa and Asia, which exposed European Christians to cultures that practised polygamy.

Birth in Benin

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

Bujangga Manik

It displays a marked influence from Javanese but does not contain one word which is tracable to Arabic, the language of Islam.

Chain pump

From the 13th century onwards, the Chinese also used windmills (adopted from the Islamic world) to power square-pallet chain pumps.

Chereshovo, Blagoevgrad Province

As of 2010 it had a population of 270 people all of them Muslim of pomak origin.

Child sexuality

In Islam, mixing between men and women is strongly discouraged, especially when in private.

Christian countercult movement

Some also denounce non-Christian religions such as Islam, Wicca, Paganism, New Age groups, Buddhism, Hinduism, and other polytheistic religions.

Christianity and other religions

For the Catholic Church, there has been a move at reconciliation not only with Judaism, but also Islam.

Christianity in the 15th century

Islam recognized Jesus as a great prophet and tolerated Christians as another People of the Book.

Clee St. Margaret

The main religion in Clee St Margaret and the surrounding area of South Shropshire is Christianity, with Islam and Buddhism following.

Crossway Baptist Church

He has written three books including Mosques and Miracles, a book about Islam written from a Christian perspective and two books on prayer.

Demographics of Albania

In the 2011 census the declared religious affiliation of the population was: 56.7% Muslims, 13.79% undeclared, 10.03% Catholics, 6.75% Orthodox believers, 5.49% other, 2.5% Atheists, 2.09% Bektashis and 0.14% other Christians.

Demographics of Kyrgyzstan

Islam are 85%, Russian Orthodox are 10%, and other are 5% of the Population (1999 census).

Demography of Cumbria

Cumbria is likely to be the only county in the United Kingdom where Buddhists constitute the second largest religion, where most areas of the country have Islam as the second largest religion.

Islam, unlike in most areas of the UK, is not the second most common religion in Cumbria.

Dianne Haskett

One of the speakers was Rev. Miguel Sanchez of the London Gospel Temple, who prayed for deliverance "from the darkness and deception of the spirit of Islam".

Diego Muhammad

Diego converted to Islam in 2013 and took the Islamic name Diego Muhammad bin Robbie Michiels.

Does My Head Look Big in This?

Her mother, Cassandra, is a Brit who converted to Islam, and her father, Tariq, is a Pakistani.

Dolly Shahine

In 2008 speculated by rumours she drew controversy and criticism that she had converted to Islam in order to obtain a divorce from her Catholic husband, Lebanese businessman Sami Qalib.

Dub Yalil

The song was written during a period when Atlas was rediscovering her faith in Islam.

The melody and additional lyrics (the words to the "Adhan" - or Islamic call to prayer - are used in the first half of the song) were written by Atlas and produced by Transglobal Underground for the Atlas' debut album Diaspora (1995).

Enjoining good and forbidding wrong

Enjoining good and forbidding wrong, (Arabic: al-amr bi 'l-maʿruf wa 'n-nahy ʿan al-munkar), is an Islamic doctrine mentioned in the Qur'an.

Expectations from the Muslim Woman

Expectations from the Muslim Woman, also called Our Expectations of the Muslim Woman, is regarded as one of Ali Shariati's most important lectures referring to women's rights in Islam.

Family tree of Shaiba ibn Hashim

Shaiba ibn Hashim was the grandfather of Prophet Muhammad, who was the cousin and father-in-law of Ali ibn Abi Talib, who was the fourth and last of the Rightly Guided Caliphs according to Sunni Muslims and the first Imam according to Shia Muslims.

Fatah al-Islam

The PLO representative in Lebanon, Abbas Zaki also met with official bodies in Lebanon to officially inform them that the group is made up of "extremists" and is not linked with Palestinian agenda.

Fedayeen al-Islam

The group also claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that targeted a Shia mosque in Chakwal, Punjab province.

George II of Georgia

Aghsartan I, king of Kakheti, went to the sultan to declare his submission, and in token of loyalty embraced Islam, thus winning a Seljuk protection against the aspirations of the Georgian crown.

Google Groups

Google Groups was the first of several websites to be blocked by the Turkish Government in rapid succession solely for including material which allegedly offended Islam.

Gordiy Sablukov

Gordiy Semionovich Sablukov (1804-1880) was Russian expert on Islam.

Harun ibn Musa

Abu Abdullah Harun ibn Musa al-'Ataki al-A'war (d. 170AH/786AD) was an early convert from Judaism to Islam and a scholar of the Arabic language and Islamic studies.

Hasan al-Askari

He was very knowledgeable and despite being confined to house arrest for almost his entire life, Hasan al-Askari was able to teach others about Islam, and even compiled a commentary on the Qur'an that would be used by later scholars.

Herman Philipse

His 1995 Atheist Manifesto was republished in an expanded edition in 2004 with a foreword by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who partly credits the book for her shift from Islam to atheism.

Holiest sites in Sunni Islam

Before Mecca and Jerusalem came under Muslim control between 630 CE and 638 CE, the site of the Kaaba, which was established by Prophet Abraham and Ismail, was used by non-Muslim Arabs who worshipped multiple gods.

Independent Albania

The prince would nominate ten representatives and the heads of the all three religions (Islam, Orthodox and Catholic) would be also representatives in the national assembly, which would have four-year terms.

Ishq

In religious context, Ishq, divided into three kinds, is a very important but rather complex concept of Sufi tradition of Islam.

Islam's Response to Contemporary Issues

The address was attended by 800 distinguished guests including Edward Mortimer who presided the session and Hugo Summerson, Member of Parliament.

Islamic ethics

Many muslim theologians see the Golden Rule implicit in some verses of the Qur'an and in the Hadith.

Muslims believe that Muhammad, like other prophets in Islam, was sent by God to remind human beings of their moral responsibility, and challenge those ideas in society which opposed submission to God.

Islamic marital jurisprudence

In Shia jurisprudence, the contract is transformed into a nikah mut'ah.

Islamic view of angels

Similarly, angels also came to ʾIbrāhīm (Abraham) in human form, and he was not aware that they were angels until they told him so.

Lūṭ (Lot) also had angels come to him to warn him of the impending doom of his people.

Israfil or Israafiyl (Judeo-Christian, Raphael), is an archangel in Islam who will blow the trumpet twice at the end of time.

James A. Toronto

James Albert Toronto (born 1951) is a professor of Arabic language and Islamic religion at Brigham Young University (BYU).

Jangnama

In Kashmiri, jangnama refers to epic poetry generally; but jangnama also identifies a specific genre of poetry that deals with Islamic conquests.

Jaysh al-Islam

On 11 December 2013, al-Nusra Front and Jaysh al-Islam fighters entered the industrial town of Adra and targeted minority civilians, killing at least 32 Alawites, Christians, Druze and Ismailites.

Ketura Sun

These values are prominent in the three main monotheistic religions (Christianity, Islam, and Judaism), and in other religions and cultures worldwide.

Koinadugu District

The district is mainly muslim (over 85% of the population) and Islam dominates the religious and cultural practices in the district.

Kurt Krenn

Krenn argued against Turkey's entrance into the European Union, warning against the 'islamisation' of Europe and calling Islam a "very aggressive kind of religion" that will not easily allow for the political unity with the Christian faith.

LGBT rights in the Netherlands

Recent crime rates involving LGBT citizens have risen and have recently been cited as being motivated by increasing Islamic minorities as well as immigrants of Moroccan descent.

Liberal movements within Islam

As such, they believe in the basic tenets of Islam, such as the Six Elements of Belief and the Five Pillars of Islam.

Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder

One chapter is dedicated to his criticisms of radical Islam, which he calls "Islamofascism".

Malcolm MacColl

MacColl maintained a large house at Kirby Overblow, south of Harrogate, and continued to devote himself to political pamphleteering and newspaper correspondence, the result of extensive European travel, a wide acquaintance with the leading personages of the day, strong views on ecclesiastical subjects from a high-church standpoint, and particularly on the politics of the Eastern Question, the uprising in Crete, then still an Ottoman province, the cause of the Armenians and Islam.

Maria ter Meetelen

Her spouse died, and to avoid being taken to the harem of the sultan, Abdallah of Morocco, she refused to convert to Islam and married the spokesperson of the sultan's slaves, Pieter Janszn.

Marriage in Islam

In addition to the usual marriage until death or divorce, there is a different fixed-term marriage known as zawāj al-mutʻah ("Temporary marriage") permitted only by Twelvers (a branch of Shia Islam) for a pre-fixed period.

Maude Cary

The outcome looked bleak as there was no Christian church founded and Islam was still the primary belief system within the whole of Morocco.

Minorities in Iraq

Although they are Muslims and Arabic-speakers, Afro-Iraqis also retain some cultural and religious traditions from their ancestral homeland.

When Saddam Hussein embarked on a war with Iran he dredged the Shi'i and Mandaean inhabited marshes of Southern Iraq, causing damage to the ancient culture of the Mandaean people who have lived amongst the reeds since Sumerian times.

Mukhayriq

The Battle of Uhud was fought between a force from the Muslim community of Medina, led by the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and a force led by Abu Sufyan ibn Harb from Mecca on March 19, 625.

Mukhdoom Muhammad Hayat Bhatti

A Makhdoom is generally a respectable person who dedicated his whole life to Islam, the Quran and the Sunnah.

Multiperspectivalism

In his view, the marketplace of ideas is full of worldviews competing for the allegiance of each individual, and for some people, final allegiance to a system is due to sense experience, emotions, or political affiliation, while for others it is their particular religious tradition (Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Bahá'í Faith, etc.) or secular philosophy (empiricism, rationalism, Marxism, postmodernism, etc.).

Nawab ud din Ramdasi

Nawab ud Din Ramdasi (1870–1946) was an Indian Sufi scholar and preacher of Islam.

Noor TV

Noor TV (UK), an Islam religious satellite television network based in the UK

Noor TV Pakistan, an Islam religious television network available and based in Pakistan

Pazend

Following the fall of the Sassanids, after which Zoroastrianism came to be gradually supplanted by Islam, Pazend lost its purpose and soon ceased to be used for original composition.

Philip Jenkins

Jenkins went on to state that Islam, Judaism and Christianity had undergone a process he refers to as "holy amnesia" in which violence in sacred texts become symbolic action against one's sins.

Pieter Jansz

He encountered constraining influences from Islam throughout the area, recognizing the lack of religious freedom to become a Christian.

Portuguese Inquisition

In Portuguese India, the Goa Inquisition also turned its attention to Indian converts from Hinduism or Islam who were thought to have returned to their original ways.

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).

Rafiq Tağı

Rafiq Tağı, born Rafig Nazir oglu Taghiyev (5 August 1950, Khoshchobanly, Masally District, Azerbaijan — 23 November 2011, Baku, Azerbaijan) was an Azerbaijani journalist who worked for Sanat newspaper until police arrested him and Sanat editor Samir Sadagatoglu for "Europe and Us", an article that was deemed to be critical of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad.

Religion in Latin America

Practitioners of the Judaism, Mormonism, Jehovah's Witness, Buddhist, Islamic, Hinduism, Bahá'í Faith, and Shinto denominations and religions also exercise in Latin America.

Riyad-us Saliheen Brigade of Martyrs

Riyad-us Saliheen (Russian: Риядус-Салихийн, also transliterated as Riyadus-Salikhin, Riyad us-Saliheyn or Riyad us-Salihiin) is the name of a small "martyr" (shahid) force of Islamic suicide attackers.

Sacred

As God alone is considered to be the ultimate source of all true purification and guidance in Islam, all holiness is his alone too.

Sheihantaur

He arrived in Tashkent with a mission to disseminate Islam.

Southern Ohio Correctional Facility

The main causes apparently were serious overcrowding and mismanagement of the facility and discontent in the general population that the authorities were going to force Muslim prisoners to undergo tuberculosis vaccinations in violation of their religious beliefs.

Starye Chechkaby

Mordvinians (Agish side) and Chuvashеs also lived in the village, but later gradually moved out or became Tatars under the influence of Islam.

Sudan Revolutionary Front

The declaration of the SRF's formation was delayed until a disagreement between JEM and the other factions on the role of Islam in a post-revolutionary federal government was resolved.

Tamil Nadu under the Vijayanagar Empire

The Vijayanagar kingdom was founded by two brothers Harhara and Bukka who were ncaptured by the Emperor of Delhi, Muhammad bin Tughlaq and forcibly converted to Islam but later escaped and renounced their new faith and launched a crusade against the Muslim invaders.

Tarana-e-Milli

After a few years of writing Tarana-e-Hind, Iqbal presented the poem Tarana-e-Milli based on national patriotism but this time, he said that Islam is the land and Muslim is the nation.In the “Tarna-e-Hind” to “Tarana-e-Milli”, he also praised and complimented the Muslim community of all over the world.

The Legend of Suram Fortress

After he had lost his mother due to his master's cruelty, he killed his master, fled, and embraced Islam to avoid persecution.

Tor Andræ

As a historian of religion, his particular interest lay in the early history of Islam, particularly its Jewish and Christian origins, and in the psychology of religion, but he also combined these interests in the study of early Islamic mysticism.

Turkic migration

As these peoples were founding states in the area between Mongolia and Transoxiana, they came into contact with Muslims, and most gradually adopted Islam.

Umm Shareek

Umm Shareek, a lady who accepted Islam, was made to stand under the hot sun for three days and was not allowed to drink water.

United States Air Force Chaplain Corps

Air Force chaplains come from a variety of religious backgrounds including Buddhism, Catholicism, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Protestantism, and any other religious organization with an endorser that has been recognized by the Armed Forces Chaplains Board.

Wayang

This newly developed form is used by teachers of Islam to show the principles of Muslim ethics and religion to the natives of Java and Bali.

Women in Arab societies

At the time Islam began, the conditions of women were terrible - they had no right to own property, were supposed to be the property of the man, and if the man died everything went to his sons.

The Hadiths in Bukhari suggest that Islam improved women's status, by the second Caliph Umar saying "We never used to give significance to ladies in the days of the Pre-lslamic period of ignorance, but when Islam came and Allah mentioned their rights, we used to give them their rights but did not allow them to interfere in our affairs", Book 77, Hadith 60, 5843, and Vol.

Ziyarat

Ziyārat can also refer to a form of supplication made by the Shia, in which they send salutations and greetings to Muhammad and his family.


2006 in Bangladesh

April 24: A PT-6 training aircraft of Bangladesh Air Force crashes in Jhenaidah District, killing the 20 year old trainee pilot Taniul Islam.

Abdul Ahad

Abd ul-Aḥad Dāwūd, name adopted by David Benjamin Keldani (1867–c.1940), Persian Catholic priest who converted to Islam

Abdulrazak Eid

Islam and ModernismMuhammad Abduh's Experience – The Iraqi Strategic Research Centre – Beirut and Baghdad, 2006.

Abu Taha al-Sudan

He is believed to have traveled to Southern Lebanon along with Saif al-Adel, Sayful Islam al-Masri, Abu Ja`far al-Masri and Abu Salim al-Masri, where he trained alongside Hezbollah.

Akhsitan I ibn Minuchihr III

He was married several times, firstly to his cousin - Ismat ad-Din Safvat ad-Din Safvat al-Islam, granddaughter of David IV of Georgia (died in 1192 earthquake.), secondly a daughter of Rusudan.

Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri

But first, through the Prior of Zion, he threatened the Pope that if he did not check Ferdinand and Manuel I of Portugal in their depredations on the Indian Seas, he would destroy all Christian holy places, and treat Christians as they were treating the followers of Islam.

Baby Pals

According to news reports, a mother who purchased the game for her child reported that the babies in the game say something that sounds like "Islam is the light" under certain circumstances.

Baron Headley

His cousin, the fifth Baron, was a prominent convert to Islam.

Battle of Mogadishu

Battle of South Mogadishu, a two-day armed clash in February, 2009, between the TFG and Hizbul Islam

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.

Exceptional circumstances

The term has also been used to refer to other extraordinary circumstances which might result in a person acting in a manner not ordinarily accepted as common practice, such as the circumstances described by Dr. Muhammad Hedayetullah in relation to the Islamic prayer, salat.

Fatah al-Islam

On December 7, 2006 Le Monde reported that a top UN official had been informed by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) representative in Lebanon, Abbas Zaki, of a plot by Fatah al-Islam to assassinate 36 anti-Syrian figures in Lebanon.

Henry Stanhope Freeman

Freeman agreed with the former explorer Richard Burton, who visited Lagos, that the blacks were more likely to be converted by Islam than by Christianity.

Hizbul Islam

Sheikh Omar Iman Abubakar - Chairman of Hizbul Islam until 26 May 2009 when he stepped down, handing over his position to Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys.

Humayun Faridi

Humayun was born in Dhaka in 29 May 1952 to ATM Nurul Islam and Begaum Farida Islam.

Ibtihaj Muhammad

As a Muslim female growing up in an athletic household, Muhammad always wore long clothing under her athletic uniforms to conform with Islam's emphasis on modesty.

Idris Muhammad

In 1966, he married Dolores "LaLa" Brooks (former member of the Crystals; she converted to Islam with him and went for a time under the name Sakinah Muhammad).

IntelCenter

2 April 2008: An online audiofile, in which Al-Zawahiri called the United Nations an enemy of Islam, was released via IntelCenter by As-Sahab (according to IntelCenter).

Islam: The Straight Path

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

Karloo, Western Australia

The most popular religious affiliations in descending order in the 2001 census were Roman Catholic, no religion, Anglican and Islam.

Kathleen Christison

The last seven years before her resignation from the agency in 1979 saw her work there centered on the Middle East; and according to Robert Dreyfuss's 2005 book Devil's Game: How The United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam (p.160), "Kathy Christison...headed the CIA's Egypt desk from 1973 to 1977."

Manolya Onur

She was also a granddaughter-in-law of His Imperial Majesty Sultan Abdülmecid II, Emperor of the Ottomans, Commander of the Faithful and "Successor of the Prophet of the Lord of the Universe and Caliph of Islam".

Mark R. Cohen

He is a leading scholar of the history of Jews in the Middle Ages under Islam.

Marriage in Islam

According to the Qur'an, a man may have up to four legal wives at any one time the restriction on the number was not customary before the advent of Islam in Arabia.

Milhan

Rumaysa bint Milhan (medieval period), one of the earliest women converts to Islam in Yathrib

Muhammad's views on Jews

Banu Qurayza were appointed Sa'd ibn Mua'dh, a leading man among the allied Aws, a tribe that converted to Islam, whom they believed would judge in their favour.

Nasi Lemak 2.0

an article by Fauziah Arof dated 21 September 2011 condemned Namewee for insulting the national anthem Negaraku, Islam and Malay race as a whole.

Nathan Ellington

In 2005, Ellington married a Bosnian woman, Alma from Tuzla, and adopted the religion of Islam, his wife's faith, before they married.

Night Journey

Isra and Mi'raj, a Night Journey taken by the Prophet Muhammad in 621, an event of major importance in Islam

Peace Mala

It consists of 16 beads, forming a double rainbow, which represent Christianity, Buddhism, Sikhism, Islam, Judaism, Bahá'í, ISKCON, Zoroastrianism, Tribal and Native Religions, Jainism, Earth Religions, Taoism, Hinduism and Yungdrung Bön.

Rahsaan Islam

In 2013, Islam made his debut in international cinema with NEQUA Studio's Simanaheen opposite Ismat Alamgir.

Sky Kingdom

Sky Kingdom attracted worldwide mass media attention in mid-2005, over concerns about efforts by the Malaysian government to suppress its followers as apostates from Islam.

Taza Jol Islam

It is used to describe the pure or correct way of practicing Islam, amongst Turkistani, Kazaks.

The Secrets of the Self

Showing that the purpose of the Muslims 's like is to exalt the Word of Allah, and that the Jihad(to strive or to struggle), if it be prompted by land-hunger, is unlawful in the religion of Islam

Timeline of the 2007 Lebanon conflict

The police and the army had conducted the raid after allegations that Fatah al-Islam members tried to rob a bank on Sunday and "take control of several security strongholds in the North" according to Ahmad Fatfat, Lebanese Minister of Youth and Sports in Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's cabinet.

Turkic migration

Thus the ethnonym "Turk" for the diverse Islamized Turkic tribes somehow served the same function as the name "Tajik" did for the diverse Iranian peoples who converted to Islam and adopted Persian as their lingua-franca.

Vaccination and religion

Mainstream Islam and Judaism, religions with dietary prohibitions that regard particular animals as unclean, make exceptions for medical treatments derived from those animals.

Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews

This monograph is divided into four sections with each comprising various chapters: Through Ancient Paganism (Sumer, Egypt, Canaan, Babylonia), Through Classical Paganism (Greece, Rome, Palestine), Through Islam and Christianity (Islam, Christianity), Inside Modern Paganism (Secularism).

Yaqeen

This is the repository of liberating experience in Islam.

YMA

Young Muslim Association, an organization for people of all ages that promotes Islam in America