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The Muslim World League(MWL; Arabic: رابطة العالم الاسلامي, romanized: Rabitat al-Alam al-Islami[ra:bitˤatalʕa:lamialisla:mij]) is an international Islamic[1]NGObased in Mecca, Saudi Arabiathat promotes what it calls the true message of Islam by advancing moderate valuesthat promote peace, tolerance and love. [2][3][4]
The terms Muslim world and Islamic world commonly refer to the Islamic community, which is also known as the Ummah. This consists of all those who adhere to the religious beliefs, politics, and laws of Islam [1] or to societies in which Islam is practiced. [2] [3] In a modern geopolitical sense, these terms refer to countries in which Islam is ...
Equating the end of the golden age with the end of the caliphates is a convenient cut-off point based on a historical landmark, but it can be argued that Islamic culture had entered a gradual decline much earlier; thus, Khan (2003) identifies the proper golden age as being the two centuries between 750 and 950, arguing that the beginning loss ...
The House of Wisdom ( Arabic: بَيْت الْحِكْمَةBayt al-Ḥikmah ), also known as the Grand Library of Baghdad, was believed to be a major Abbasid -era public academy and intellectual center in Baghdad. In popular reference, it acted as one of the world's largest public libraries during the Islamic Golden Age, [1] [2] [3] and was ...
The Muslim Philanthropy Digital Library (MPDL) is an online project by the American University in Cairo's John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement and the Center of Excellence for the Middle East and Arab Cultures, AUC Library) and Indiana University (The Center on Philanthropy), that makes all forms of information on philanthropy available through original documents ...
Islamic world contributions to Medieval Europe. A Christian and a Muslim playing chess, illustration from the Book of Games of Alfonso X (c. 1285). [1] During the High Middle Ages, the Islamic world was at its cultural peak, supplying information and ideas to Europe, via Al-Andalus, Sicily and the Crusader kingdoms in the Levant.
Prince William and Kate Middleton visited the Hayes Muslim Centre this morning, to highlight the work the community center has done to fundraise for victims of the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.
Associated Press 3 hours ago 3 hikers die in Utah parks as triple-digit temperatures linger in western US. Three hikers died over the weekend in suspected heat-related cases at state and national ...