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B. D. Jatti. Indian National Congress: Acting B.D. Jatti (1912–2002) Karnataka: Chief Minister of Karnataka: 11 February 1977 25 July 1977 164 days – – 6 Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1913–1996) Andhra Pradesh: Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh: 25 July 1977 25 July 1982 5 years 1977: B. D. Jatti
Muslim girl writing her exam in Africa Islam in Africa is the continent's second most widely professed faith behind Christianity . Africa was the first continent into which Islam spread from the Middle East , during the early 7th century CE .
Ahmad ibn Tulun flattens Jewish cemeteries and replaces them with Muslim tombs. 874 Basil I decrees that all Byzantine Jews are to be baptized, by force if necessary. [36] 878–879 Around 120,000–200,000 foreign merchants (including Jews, Muslim Arabs, Muslim Persians, Zoroastrian Persians, and Christians) are slaughtered in Guangzhou, China ...
Shi‘a Islam, also known as Shi‘ite Islam or Shia, is the second largest branch of Islam after Sunni Islam.Shias adhere to the teachings of Muhammad and the religious guidance of his family (who are referred to as the Ahl al-Bayt) or his descendants known as Shia Imams.
The oldest layer of the Egyptian naming tradition is native Egyptian names. These can be either traced back to pre-Coptic stage of the language, attested in Hieroglyphic, Hieratic or Demotic texts (i.e. ⲁⲙⲟⲩⲛ, ⲛⲁⲃⲉⲣϩⲟ, ϩⲉⲣⲟⲩⲱϫ, ⲧⲁⲏⲥⲓ) or be first attested in Coptic texts and derived from purely Coptic lemmas (i.e ...
According to Islamism expert Jonathan N.C. Hill, Boko Haram began kidnapping large numbers of girls and young women for sexual use in 2014. The attacks echoed kidnappings of girls and young women for sexual use by Algerian Islamists in the 1990s and early 2000s, and may reflect influence by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. [3] [6]
There are also reports of Ottoman generals enslaving Mamluk wives and girls in the Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–1517), and in 1786–87, in the region of modern-day Chad, Muslim women and children from the Sultanate of Bagirmi were likewise enslaved by the ruler of Wadai around 1800.
The name Fatima is from the Arabic root f-t-m (lit. ' to wean ') and signifies the Shia belief that she, her progeny, and her adherents (shi'a) have been spared from hellfire. [4] [17] [18] Alternatively, the word Fatima is associated in Shia sources with Fatir (lit. ' creator ', a name of God) as the earthly symbol of the divine creative power ...