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100 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.

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.

Adem Yze

He is also noted for being one of very few Muslims to play Australian rules professionally, although he does not actively practise Islam.

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

Antisemitism in the Arab world

The rise of political Islam during the 1980s and afterwards provided a new mutation of Islamic antisemitism, which gave the hatred of Jews a religious component.

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.

Awlad Mana

Since the introduction of Islam to the region in the 17th century, most of the Zaghawa have gradually converted to Islam.

Baron Headley

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

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.

Birth in Benin

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

Brian Barron

Amin had been given refuge because of his conversion to Islam; after weeks of negotiation Barron secured the first interview with him since his deposition.

Bujangga Manik

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

Censorship in Islamic societies

When an anti-Islamic movie trailer titled "Innocence of Muslims" was uploaded to YouTube, it was perceived as denigration of the prophet Muhammad and it culminated in demonstrations and violent protests against the video.

Chain pump

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

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.

Church of St. Edmund, Dudley

The school building survives, however, and has been used by Muslims since 1978 as Dudley Central Mosque.

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.

Crypto-Islam

Some mention was made of the concept during the 2008 U.S. Presidential Campaign in accusations directed towards President Barack Obama.

Culture of Kerala

Also important are various performance genres that are Islam- or Christianity-themed.

Daim al-Islam

He served as Dai of four Imams (from Ismaili 11th Imam Mehdi to 14th Imam Aziz the first 4 Fatimd Caliphs of Egypt).

Demographics of Kyrgyzstan

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

Demographics of Yemen

Religion in Yemen consists primarily of two principal Islamic religious groups: 53% of the Muslim population is Sunni and over 45% is Shia, according to the UNHCR.

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.

Diego Muhammad

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Geneive Abdo

Abdo previously worked at the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, a project created under former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to defuse tension between Western and Islamic societies.

Global Mission

There were 5 centers specializing in the study of Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, secularism/postmodernism and Islam, but now only 4, with Buddhism and Hinduism combining to form "East Asian Religions and Traditions".

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.

Ishq

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

Islam and blasphemy

They dispute about whether behavior that is deemed blasphemous amounts to a rejection of Islam, that is, apostasy.

Islam: The Straight Path

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

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

The concepts of welfare and pension were introduced in early Islamic law as forms of Zakat (charity), one of the Five Pillars of Islam, since the time of the Abbasid caliph Al-Mansur in the 8th century.

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

Islam recommends marriage, with the age of marriage being whenever the individuals feel ready, financially and emotionally.

Islamic view of angels

The angel Jibraaiyl (Gabriel) is the most important (prominent) messenger angel, as in Islam, he delivers the message of God (Allah) to the Islamic prophets.

James A. Toronto

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

Javanese name

After the advent of Islam, many Javanese used Arabic names, especially among clerics and the northern coast population, where Islamic influence is strong.

Jews of Hadramaut

The community was very old, and, after the rise of Islam and the expulsion of the Hejazi Jews, the main centers of Jewish population in Arabia were in Hadhramaut and in Aden.

Jonah Blank

He has also extensive knowledge and experience of the traditions and teachings of Hinduism, Islam and other religions in Asia.

Jurhum

Islamic tradition further holds that Hagar and Ishmael found a spring in Mecca, the Zamzam well, from which the Jurhum wanted to drink, and that after their ousting by the Khuza'a tribe, that the Jurhum collected the treasures dedicated to the Kaaba and destroyed the Zamzam well so that nobody would find it.

Kadgaon

Hinduism is largest religion with 20,500 people following Hinduism followed Muslim with 187 and followed by Buddhist with 152 people and with 12 Catholic .

Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies

Being an academician orientalist, a new director made the KazISS analysis receive more academic character, more attention was paid to the issues of Islam.

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.

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.

Mark R. Cohen

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

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.

Maturidi

Both the Ash'aris and Maturidis follow occasionalism, a philosophy which refutes the basis for causality, as David Hume did in Europe many centuries later, but also proves the existence and nature of the Islamic belief of the tawhid (oneness of God) through formal logic.

The Maturidis and Ash'aris are the two principal schools of systematic theology that are recognized by Sunni Islam.

Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam

Meccan Trade And The Rise Of Islam is a book written by scholar and historiographer of early Islam Patricia Crone.

Minorities in Iraq

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.

Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet

The book gives a comparison between the three major monotheistic religions of Islam, Christianity and Judaism.

Mukhdoom Muhammad Hayat Bhatti

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

Makhdoom Noor Muhammad Bhatti, Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai's got his early education in the school of Islam Old Hala Sindh.

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.

Neutopia

He said that gameplay and backgrounds remain varied and that "the fire rod weapon is especially fun to wield", but he noted that the things that keep the game from being better than Zelda were repetitive and frustrating dungeon exploring, boring boss battles, long passwords (for those who do not own a TurboGrafx-CD), and several "head-scratching moments" which include references to Judaism and Islam as well as quotes from Star Wars.

Night Journey

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

Noor TV

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

November 1828

Sun also draws on similarities between the liberation of the village and the Indonesian revolution, with representation by the Indonesian military and Islamic figures; both groups played a key role in the revolution.

Nursing in Islam

This undertaking had started during the development of Islam as a religion, a culture, and civilization.

Pandi, Bulacan

Other religious groups with strong presence in the municipality are the following: Members Church of God International or Ang Dating Daan, Iglesia ni Cristo, Jehovah's Witness, Jesus Is Lord Church, Iglesia Evangelica Metodista En Las Islas Filipinas and other evangelical or "born-again" groups, Pentecostal, Islam, and others.

Patrice Lumumba Ford

He studied for three semesters in China, where he eventually converted to Islam.

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.

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.

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.

Rebecca Brooke

Porn star Jamie Gillis has said that Brooke converted to Islam shortly after retiring, which is highly unlikely in view of the facts.

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.

Robert Daborne

A Christian Turn'd Turk (1612) is the tragic story of a pirate who converts to Islam after falling in love with a Muslim girl.

Sabria Jawhar

She also argues for Saudi authorities to loosen male guardianship restrictions on women, but her position on women’s rights is framed within the context of Islam.

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.

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.

About this time, four adherents were arrested for the crime of renouncing Islam, but they were later freed since as ex-Muslims Malaysia's sharia court no longer has jurisdiction over them.

Somali Bantu

The majority of Bantus have converted to Islam, which they first began embracing in order to escape slavery.

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.

Timbrel

Timbrel or tabret (the tof of the ancient Hebrews, the deff of Islam, the adufe of the Moors of Spain), the principal musical instrument of percussion of the Israelites, similar to the modern tambourine.

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.

Umm Waraqa

Umm Waraqah was a contemporary of Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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.

Thus there was no single definition of the roles played, and rights held, by women prior to the advent of Islam.

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.


Ahmad Shah Durrani

He declared a jihad (Islamic holy war) against the Marathas, and warriors from various Pashtun tribes, as well as other tribes such as the Baloch, Tajiks, and Muslims from South Asia answered his call.

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.

Alfred Taban

On 30 October 2006, Taban was summoned and stated that he was liable for the content of a newspaper article dated 14 September 2006, which claimed that foreign minister, state minister for foreign affairs and the director of information and public relations, Lam Akol, are mouthpieces and perpetrators of genocide as well as Islamic extremists etc.

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.

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.

Christianity in Saudi Arabia

Christians and other non-Muslims are prohibited from entering the cities of Mecca and Medina, Islam's holiest cities.

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".

Edwin Samuel Montagu

On this subject, at the Council of Four on 17 May 1919, he introduced representatives of Muslim India (including the Aga Khan) and urged that Muslim peoples were beginning to see the Conference as "taking sides against Islam".

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.

Ibn Selim el-Aswani

He was dispatched to the court of Georgios II by the Egyptian General Jawhar on behalf of the Caliph to demand the resumption of the baqt payments and to encourage the Makurians to convert to Islam.

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).

Independent films of Bangladesh

Some other good independent films of Bangladesh are: Chaka (1993) and Khelaghar (2006) by Morshedul Islam, Chitra Nadir Pare (1999) and Lalsalu (2001) by Tanvir Mokammel, Shankhonaad (2004) and Nirontor (2007) by Abu Sayeed, Muktir Gaan (1995), Ontarjatra (2006) by Tareque Masud and Catherine Masud, Swapnodanai (2007) by Golam Robbani Biplob.

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).

Islamic Academy

The Islamic Foundation Bangladesh, an autonomous organization under the Ministry of Religious Affairs in Bangladesh working to disseminate values and ideals of Islam and carry out activities related to those values and ideals

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."

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.

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".

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.

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.

Milhan

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

Mukhdoom Muhammad Hayat Bhatti

Makhdoom Ishaq Bhatti Abbasi Kalhora Dynasty education Quran and Sunnah in the school of Islam Hyderabad Old Hala Sindh.

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.

Olympic Charter

There has been a suggestion from lawyers that, in the UK, those with a strong belief in Olympism could benefit from protection against discrimination in exactly the same way that followers of Islam, Christianity, Judaism or any other religion are protected.

Osceola County, Florida

15.87% are Catholic; 1.22% are Mormons; 4.83% are Baptist, 3.53% are Pentecostal, 7.92% are members of other Christian faiths, 0.05 are Jewish, 0.18% affiliate with an eastern faith, and 3.12% affilitate with 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.

Principles of Intelligent Urbanism

Islam Nazrul (2000): Urban Governance in Asia, Pathak Samabesh, Dhaka.

Qazi Syed Rafi Mohammad

Barkhurdar Khan II was Mansabdar Punj Hazari (5,000) and also entitled 'Islam Khan' by Shah Alam and had Mansab 'Darogha Dīwān-e-Khās' (Superintendent of the Diwan-i-Khas) and Khalat-e Fakhra and Khalat-e Barani.

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).

Rahsaan Islam

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

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.

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