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Sheikh Abubakr Ahmad Musliyar receiving an Award by OIC Today, Malaysia Grand Mufti of India Incumbent Assumed office 24 February 2019 (2019-02-24) Preceded by Akhtar Raza Khan Personal Born A. P. Aboobacker (1931-03-22) 22 March 1931 (age 93) [a] Kanthapuram, Malabar District, Madras Presidency, British India (present-day Kozhikode, Kerala, India) Religion Islam Nationality Indian Home town ...
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]
A Muslim ( مُسْلِم ), the word for a follower of Islam, [14] is the active participle of the same verb form, and means "submitter (to God)" or "one who surrenders (to God)". In the Hadith of Gabriel, Islam is presented as one part of a triad that also includes imān (faith), and ihsān (excellence). [15] [16]
This period is traditionally understood to have begun during the reign of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid (786 to 809) with the inauguration of the House of Wisdom, which saw scholars from all over the Muslim world flock to Baghdad, the world's largest city by then, to translate the known world's classical knowledge into Arabic and Persian.
(with around 1%), non-denominational Muslims, Quranist Muslims and Wahhabis (with around 1–2% of the world's total Muslim population) also exist. A study from the Pew Research Center in 2012 found that many Muslims (one out of five in 22 Muslim majority countries) identify as non-denominational or "Just a Muslim".
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 ...
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 ...
861763859. Islam and the West is a 1993 book written by Middle-East historian and scholar Bernard Lewis . The book deals with the relations between Islam and Western civilization. It is divided into 3 sections. The first section treats the history of the interactions between Europe and the Islamic world. The second section is concerned with the ...