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A'ishah (Biography)
614 – 678 Third wife of Muhammad A'ishah was the third and youngest wife of the Prophet Muhammad. Born in Mecca, she was the ...
Source: The Islamic World: Past and Present
῾ā'ishah. (Biography)
῾ā'ishah (lit., “the one who lives”) al-ṣiddīiq (the true friend), daughter of Muḥammad's closest companion Abū Bakr, is central to Muslim salvation history. At ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Aa Gym. (Biography)
Abdullah Gymnastiar ( b. 1962 ) is an Indonesian preacher popularly known as Aa (elder brother) Gym. Despite minimal orthodox religious education, Gymnastiar attained ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Abbasid Caliphate (Subject Entry)
The Abbasids were descendants of al-Abbas, an uncle of Muhammad . Abbasid caliphs ruled much of the Muslim world from 750 to 1258 . ...
Source: The Islamic World: Past and Present
῾Abbāsid Caliphate. (Subject Entry)
Succeeding the Umayyad Caliphate in 750 , the ῾Abbāsid dynasty ruled the caliphate until 1258 . Descendants of the Prophet's uncle al‐῾Abbās , the ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
Abd (Subject Entry)
Slave. Common element in Muslim names, followed by one of the divine names of God—for example, Abd al-Rahman, Abd al-Halim, Abdullah. Also an epithet ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Abd al-Aziz, Shah (Biography)
(d. 1824 ) Indian Islamic scholar and son of Shah Wali Allah (d. 1762 ), the foremost alim of eighteenth-century India. Prolific author of ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
῾Abd Al‐῾azīz, Shāh (Biography)
( 1746 – 1824 ), Indian Islamic scholar. In northern India, ῾Abd al‐῾Azīz was a prominent Ṣūfī ῾ ālim of his time, a powerful ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
῾Abd al-ḥalīm Maḥmūd. (Biography)
῾Abd al-ḥalīm Maḥmūd ( 1910 – 1978 ) was Grand Imam of al-Azhar Mosque, a scholar of Sufism, and leading Ṣūfī thinker of twentieth-century ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Abd al-Jabbar, Qadi (Biography)
(d. 1024 ) Prominent Mutazili theologian. An adherent of the Shafii school of law, he was appointed chief justice (qadi) under the Buwayhids. His ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (Biography)
(r. 685 – 705 ) Umayyad caliph responsible for standardizing imperial coinage and collecting a corpus of hadith to be interpreted by appointed faqihs ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim (Biography)
(d. ca. 578 ) Muhammad 's grandfather. Cared for Muhammad after the deaths of his parents. Died when Muhammad was eight. Credited by hadith ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
῾Abd Al‐nāṣir, Jamāl. (Biography)
See Nasser , Gamal Abdel . ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
Abd al-Qadir (Biography)
(d. 1883 ) Algerian independence leader, Sufi mystic, and poet. Born in Algeria to a notable Moroccan family. Became involved in the Algerian independence ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Abd al-Qadir (Biography)
1808 – 1883 Military leader , scholar , poet Abd al-Qadir led Algerian resistance to French colonization for nearly two decades. Born in Algeria ...
Source: The Islamic World: Past and Present
῾Abd Al‐qādir (Biography)
( 1808 – 1883 ), Algerian independence leader, Ṣūfī mystic, and poet. Born Muḥyī al‐Dīn al‐Ḥasanī at Wādī al‐Ḥammām, some 20 kilometers west of ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
῾Abd Al‐raḥmān, ῾Ā'ishah (Biography)
(b. 1913 ), Egyptian writer and professor of Arabic language and literature and Qur'ānic studies. Under the pseudonym Bint al‐Shāṭi' ῾Abd al‐Raḥmān was the ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
Abd al-Rahman, Aisha (Biography)
(b. 1913 ) Also known as Bint al-Shati . Egyptian writer and professor of Arabic language and literature and Quranic studies. Wrote more than ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
῾Abd Al‐raḥmān, ʿʿĀ'ishah (Biography)
( 1913 – 1998 ), Egyptian writer and professor of Arabic language and literature and Qur'ānic studies. Under the pseudonym Bint al‐Shāṭi' , ῾Abd ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Abd al-Raziq, Ali (Biography)
(d. 1966 ) Egyptian qadi, intellectual, and author. Born to a powerful and wealthy landowning family in Minya, Abd al-Raziq received both Western and ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
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