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Muslim scholars
ULAMA Muslim religious scholars. The term ulama literally means those who possess knowledge (ilm ), particularly of Islam. The ulama emerged as the first interpreters of the Qur Read more |
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Dar al-Islam
DAR AL-ISLAM An abode, country, territory, or land where Islamic sovereignty prevails. In Dar al-Islam, the citizenry abide by the ordinances, rules, edicts, and assembly of Islam. The Muslim state guarantees the safety of life, property, and religious status (only if the religion is not... Read more |
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Muhammad Abduh
Muhammad Abduh 1849-1905, Egyptian Muslim religious reformer. His encounter in 1872 with Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani, in the Cairo mosque-university of al-Azhar, led to his transition from asceticism to an activism seeking the renaissance of Islam and the liberation of the Muslims from colonialism.... Read more |
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Ibn Tumart
Ibn Tumart , c.1080-1130, Berber Muslim religious leader, founder of the Almohads . He went to the East in his youth and returned convinced that he was the Mahdi and that he was destined to reform Islam. He was a rigorist and purist in doctrine and morality. Believing in a mystical concept of the... Read more |
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Egyptian Islamic Jihad
ISLAMIC JIHAD Palestinian Islamic fundamentalist resistance movement. Islamic Jihad emerged from the Islamic revivalist tradition of the association of Muslim Brotherhood in Israeli-occupied Gaza and was formed by Palestinians studying in Egypt. Rather than pursue the Brotherhood's policy... Read more |
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Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden , 1957?-, Saudi-born leader of Al Qaeda [Arab.,=the base], a terrorist organization devoted to uniting all Muslims and establishing a transnational, strict-fundamentalist Islamic state. The youngest son of a wealthy Yemeni-born businessman, bin Laden was trained as a civil engineer... Read more |
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Muslim
Muslim [Arab.,=one who surrenders (himself to God), an agent form of the verb of which Islam is a verbal noun], one who has embraced Islam, a follower of Muhammad . The form Moslem is also common in English; the term Mussulman is now rarely used.... Read more |
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Muhammad Gaafur al-Nimeiry
Nimeiri, Gaafar Muhammad al- (1930– ) Sudanese statesman. He led campaigns against rebels in the southern Sudan in the 1950s and joined in leftist attempts to overthrow the civilian government. Following a coup, he became Prime Minister in 1969 and Chairman of the Revolutionary Command... Read more |
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Muslim League
Muslim League political organization of India and Pakistan, founded 1906 as the All-India Muslim League by Aga Khan III. Its original purpose was to safeguard the political rights of Muslims in India. An early leader in the League, Muhammad Iqbal , was one of the first to propose (1930) the... Read more |
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Pan-Islamism
PAN-ISLAMISM. A term of European origin, pan-Islamism denotes the intellectual and institutional trends toward Islamic unity that emerged among Muslim peoples, starting in the mid–nineteenth century and continuing throughout the twentieth century. The need for a unified Islamic identity was... Read more |
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