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• Muslim - Definition
• Muslim - Etymology
• Muslim - Pronunciation and spelling
• Muslim - Other words for Muslim
• Muslim - Arabic terms describing Muslim identity
• Muslim - Disagreements

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Muslim, Muslim - Definition, Muslim - Etymology, Muslim - Pronunciation and spelling, Muslim - Other words for Muslim, Muslim - Arabic terms describing Muslim identity, Muslim - Disagreements

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Al-Andalus - Non-Muslims Dhimmi under the Caliphate. See also: Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain The treatment of non-Muslims (specifically Jews) in the Caliphate has been a subject of considerable interest from scholars and commentators, especially those interested in drawing parallels to the co-existence of Muslims and non-Muslims in the modern world. Some argue that - for at least part of the history of Al-Andalus - Jews were treated significantly better in Muslim-controlled Spain tha ...

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Al-Andalus, Al-Andalus - History, Al-Andalus - Conquest and early years, Al-Andalus - The Emirate and Caliphate of Córdoba, Al-Andalus - The First Taifa Period, Al-Andalus - Almoravids Almohads and Marīnids, Al-Andalus - The Emirate of Granada, Al-Andalus - Aftermath, Al-Andalus - Culture, Al-Andalus - Non-Muslims Dhimmi under the Caliphate, Al-Andalus - Philosophy, Al-Andalus - Etymology of al-Andalus, Al-Andalus - Vandalícia, Al-Andalus - Atlántida, Al-Andalus - Landahlauts

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• Isa - Summary of Muslim beliefs regarding Isa
• Isa - Isa's birth
• Isa - Isa as a prophet
• Isa - Isa not the Son of God
• Isa - Isa neither crucified nor killed
• Isa - Isa to return
• Isa - Isa's physical appearance
• Isa - Isa's miracles
• Isa - Etymology

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This article is in need of attention. You can help Wikipedia by editing it into a better article. Please also consider changing this notice to be more specific. Armed religious warfare in Islam can be categorised into two levels, namely the defensive jihad and the offensive jihad. This article discusses jihad as a kind of warfare . (For discussion of aspects of jihad not related to warfare, see the main article, jihad.) Combative jihad - Etymology. ...

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• Combative jihad - Etymology
• Combative jihad - Defensive jihad
• Combative jihad - Contemporary defensive jihad in Muslim countries
• Combative jihad - Contemporary defensive jihad in occupied territories
• Combative jihad - Who can authorize defensive jihad?
• Combative jihad - Offensive jihad
• Combative jihad - Offensive jihad as a means of propagating the Islamic faith
• Combative jihad - Who can authorize offensive Jihad?

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• Sharia - Etymology
• Sharia - General
• Sharia - History and Background
• Sharia - Sections of Sharia law
• Sharia - Contemporary Practice of Sharia Law
• Sharia - Dietary laws
• Sharia - The role of women under Sharia
• Sharia - Dress code
• Sharia - Domestic justice
• Sharia - Circumcision
• Sharia - Muslim apostates
• Sharia - Freedom of Speech

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Mosques were known to the English-speaking world well before the word to describe them was established. However, in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, variations of the word began to be used. Moseak, muskey, moschy, and mos'keh were just some of the variations that came into use until it was decided that mosquee, imitating Middle French, Italian, and Old Spanish, would become the standard [1]. In the early eighteenth c ...

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• Mosque - Etymology
• Mosque - The first mosques
• Mosque - Functions
• Mosque - Prayers
• Mosque - Other functions
• Mosque - Appearance of mosques
• Mosque - The qibla wall
• Mosque - Types of mosques
• Mosque - Traditional mosques
• Mosque - Modern-day mosques
• Mosque - Notable mosques
• Mosque - Men and women in the mosque
• Mosque - Women as imams
• Mosque - Separation in the mosque
• Mosque - Non-muslims in mosques

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Idolatry is the worship of an image, idea or object, as opposed to the worship of a supreme being. It is forbidden by some major religions such as the Abrahamic religions. Some religious authorities and groups have used the term to describe other religions apart from their own. Idolatry - Etymology. The word idolatry comes (by haplology) from the Greek word eidololatria, a compound of eidolon, "image" or "figure", and latreia, "worship". Although the Greek appears to be a loan tr ...

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• Idolatry - Etymology
• Idolatry - Idolatry in many forms
• Idolatry - Idolatry in the Hebrew Bible
• Idolatry - Did idolators really worship idols?
• Idolatry - Were ancient Israelites ever henotheistic?
• Idolatry - Idolatry in Jewish thought
• Idolatry - Christian views of idolatry
• Idolatry - Muslim views of idolatry
• Idolatry - Eastern religions and idolatry
• Idolatry - Hindu views of idolatry
• Idolatry - Shinto views of idolatry
• Idolatry - Christian views regarding Confucianism as idolatry
• Idolatry - Buddhist views of idolatry
• Idolatry - Polytheistic views of idolatry in general
• Idolatry - Notes

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Sin has been a term most usually used in a religious context, and today describes any lack of conformity to the will of God; especially, any willful disregard for the norms revealed by God is a sin. The word is from the old English synn, presumed to be from Germanic *sun(d)jō (lit: "it is true"). [1] It is recorded in use as early as the 9th century. The most common formal definition is an infraction against religious or moral l ...

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• Sin - Etymology
• Sin - Jewish views of sin
• Sin - Jewish conceptions of atonement for sin
• Sin - Hebrew Concept of Sin
• Sin - Christian views of sin
• Sin - In General
• Sin - Roman Catholic Views
• Sin - Eastern/Oriental Orthodox Views
• Sin - Protestant Views
• Sin - Christian teachings on Atonement or the Remedy for Sin
• Sin - Muslim views of sin
• Sin - Hindu views of sin
• Sin - Atheist views of sin
• Sin - Notes and references

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Al-Andalus - Conquest and early years. In 711 AD, a Moorish Islamic army from North Africa invaded Visigoth Hispania. Under their leader Tariq ibn-Ziyad, a small force landed at Gibraltar on April 30, 711. After a decisive victory at the Battle of Guadalete on July 19, 711, Tariq ibn-Ziyad brought most of the Iberian Peninsula under Islamic rule in a seven-year campaign. They moved northeast across the Pyrenees but were defeated by the Frank Charles Martel at the Battle of Tours in 732. The Iberian peninsula, exc ...

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• Al-Andalus - History
• Al-Andalus - Conquest and early years
• Al-Andalus - The Emirate and Caliphate of Córdoba
• Al-Andalus - The First Taifa Period
• Al-Andalus - Almoravids Almohads and Marīnids
• Al-Andalus - The Emirate of Granada
• Al-Andalus - Aftermath
• Al-Andalus - Culture
• Al-Andalus - Non-Muslims Dhimmi under the Caliphate
• Al-Andalus - Philosophy
• Al-Andalus - Etymology of al-Andalus
• Al-Andalus - Vandalícia
• Al-Andalus - Atlántida
• Al-Andalus - Landahlauts

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• Ulema - Etymology
• Ulema - Role
• Ulema - History
• Ulema - Works
• Ulema - Reference

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Anti-Semitism (alternatively spelled antisemitism) is hostility toward or prejudice against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group, which can range from individual hatred to institutionalized, violent persecution. The highly explicit ideology of Adolf Hitler's Nazism was the most extreme example of this phenomenon. Anti-Semitism has historically taken different forms: Religious anti-Semitism, or anti-Judaism. Before the 19th century, most anti-Semitism was primarily religious in nature, based on Christian or ...

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• Anti-Semitism - Etymology and usage
• Anti-Semitism - Definitions of the term
• Anti-Semitism - Earliest Antisemitism
• Anti-Semitism - Religious Antisemitism
• Anti-Semitism - Anti-Judaism in the New Testament
• Anti-Semitism - Early Christianity
• Anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism in the Middle Ages
• Anti-Semitism - Disabilities and Restrictions
• Anti-Semitism - The Crusades
• Anti-Semitism - The expulsions from England France Germany and Spain
• Anti-Semitism - Anti-Judaism and the Reformation
• Anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism in 19th and 20th century Catholicism
• Anti-Semitism - Passion plays
• Anti-Semitism - Racial anti-Semitism
• Anti-Semitism - The rise of racial anti-Semitism
• Anti-Semitism - Elites and the use of Anti-semitism
• Anti-Semitism - Dreyfus Affair
• Anti-Semitism - Pogroms
• Anti-Semitism - Anti-Jewish Legislation
• Anti-Semitism - The Holocaust and Holocaust Denial
• Anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitic conspiracy theories
• Anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism and the Muslim world
• Anti-Semitism - Anti-semitism and specific countries
• Anti-Semitism - United States
• Anti-Semitism - Europe
• Anti-Semitism - Asia
• Anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism
• Anti-Semitism - New anti-Semitism
• Anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism in the 21st century

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In Islam, the houri (ﺣﻮﺭﻳﺔ), Ḥour-ul-`Ein or ḥawra’ in Arabic, are described as "fair women of Paradise" awaiting devout Muslims. According to the Qur'an (55.56), the houri are pure, having never been touched by man or jinn and so they are virgins who marry the devout in the Jannah, the paradise, of afterlife. The word 'virgin' in Arabic does not translate perfectly into English. A closer translation is 'pure being'. The use of the word is not always sexual. The usual etymology derives houri from the word ḥawira, to be black-eyed, like a gazell ...

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• Houri - Alternative etymology

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See anti-Semitism for etymology and semantics of the term. This article is concerned with the relationship between Islam and anti-Semitism. It covers: The prevalence of anti-Semitism amongst Muslims - and whether it is more or less common than amongst people of other religions. The positions of the various branches of Islam on anti-Semitism and Jews. Accusations of anti-Semitism made against Islam, and their consequences Islam and anti-Semitism - Historic events of Muslim persecution ...

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• Islam and anti-Semitism - Historic events of Muslim persecution of Jews
• Islam and anti-Semitism - Islamic claims that certain Jews had been transformed into lowly animals
• Islam and anti-Semitism - 20th century anti-Semitism by Islamic clerics
• Islam and anti-Semitism - Anti-Semitism by terrorist groups
• Islam and anti-Semitism - Jewish-Muslim dialogue
• Islam and anti-Semitism - Muslim denunciation of Anti-Semitism
• Islam and anti-Semitism - Reference

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A bazaar is a market, often covered, typically found in areas of Muslim culture. The word derives from the Persian bāzār, whose etymology goes back to the Pahlavi word baha-char meaning "the place of prices". Examples of great near-Eastern bazaars include: The Grand Bazaar, Istanbul Bazaar of Isfahan, Iran Bazaar of Tabriz, Iran Qisa Khwani Bazaar (market of story tellers) Peshawar, Pakistan Anarkali Bazaar Laho ...

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Dhul-Kifl (Arabic ذو الكفل ) is considered by Muslims to be either a prophet of Islam or simply a righteous man mentioned in the Qur'an. Dhul-Kifl - Etymology. The name Dhul-Kifl probably means "the man from Kifl", where Kifl is the Arabic pronunciation of Kapilavastu, where Gautama Buddha spent thirty years of his life, but it could mean many things, among which that he protected a prophet from his people, or that he guaranteed upon himself to be a just qadi (judge). Including:

• Dhul-Kifl - Etymology
• Dhul-Kifl - Qur'anic reference
• Dhul-Kifl - Dhul-Kifl in other religions

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• Islam - Etymology
• Islam - Beliefs
• Islam - Six articles of belief
• Islam - The tenets of Islam
• Islam - God
• Islam - The Qur'an
• Islam - Islamic eschatology
• Islam - Other beliefs
• Islam - Organization
• Islam - Religious authority
• Islam - Islamic law
• Islam - Islamic calendar
• Islam - Schools denominations
• Islam - Religions based on Islam
• Islam - Islam and other religions
• Islam - History
• Islam - Contemporary Islam
• Islam - The demographics of Islam today
• Islam - Symbols of Islam
• Islam - Notes

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Islam sees sin (dhanb ذنب) as anything that goes against the will of Allah. Muslims believe that God is angered by sin and punishes some sinners with the fires of Hell (jahannam), but that He is also the Merciful (ar-rahman) and the Forgiving (al-ghaffar), and forgives those who repent and serve Him: Say: "O my Servants who have transgressed against their souls! Despair not of the Mercy of Allah: for Allah forgives all sins: for He is Oft-Forg ...

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Sin, Sin - Etymology, Sin - Jewish views of sin, Sin - Jewish conceptions of atonement for sin, Sin - Hebrew Concept of Sin, Sin - Christian views of sin, Sin - In General, Sin - Roman Catholic Views, Sin - Eastern/Oriental Orthodox Views, Sin - Protestant Views, Sin - Christian teachings on Atonement or the Remedy for Sin, Sin - Muslim views of sin, Sin - Hindu views of sin, Sin - Atheist views of sin, Sin - Notes and references

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Followers of Islam, known as Muslims, believe that God (or, in Arabic, Allāh; also in Aramaic Alaha) revealed his direct word for mankind to Muhammad (c. 570–632) and other prophets, including Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus. Muslims believe that Muhammad is the last or the seal of the prophets. Thus, his preachings for humankind will last until qiyamah (The Day of the Resurrection). Muslims assert that the main written record of revelation to humankind is the Qur'an (see below), which they believe to be ...

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Islam, Islam - Etymology, Islam - Beliefs, Islam - Six articles of belief, Islam - The tenets of Islam, Islam - God, Islam - The Qur'an, Islam - Islamic eschatology, Islam - Other beliefs, Islam - Organization, Islam - Religious authority, Islam - Islamic law, Islam - Islamic calendar, Islam - Schools denominations, Islam - Religions based on Islam, Islam - Islam and other religions, Islam - History, Islam - Contemporary Islam, Islam - The demographics of Islam today, Islam - Symbols of Islam, Islam - Notes

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The ulema in most nations consider themselves to represent the consensus (or ijma) of the community of Muslims (or ummah), or to represent at least the scholarly or learned consensus. Many efforts to modernize Islam focus on the re-introduction of ijtihad, and empowerment of the ummah to form their own ijma. Some of the scholars have written widely accepted religious works including transla ...

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Ulema, Ulema - Etymology, Ulema - Role, Ulema - History, Ulema - Works, Ulema - Reference

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