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This article includes a list of successive Islamic states and Muslim dynasties beginning with the time of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (570–632 CE) and the early Muslim conquests that spread Islam outside of the Arabian Peninsula, and continuing through to the present day. [citation needed]
t. e. In Islam, Jahannam is the place of punishment for unbelievers and evildoers in the afterlife, or hell. [ 1] This notion is an integral part of Islamic theology, [ 1] and has occupied an important place in the Muslim belief. [ 2] It is often called by the proper name Jahannam. [ a] However, "Jahannam" is simultaneously a term specifically ...
Hārūn (brother) Mūsā ibn ʿImrān ( Arabic: موسى ابن عمران, lit. 'Moses, son of Amram ') [ 1] is a prominent prophet and messenger of God and is the most frequently mentioned individual in the Quran, with his name being mentioned 136 times and his life being narrated and recounted more than that of any other prophet. [ 2][ 3] He ...
Harem ( Arabic: حَرِيمٌ, romanized : ḥarīm, lit. 'a sacred inviolable place; female members of the family') [ 1][ 2] refers to domestic spaces that are reserved for the women of the house in a Muslim family. [ 3][ 4][ 5] A harem may house a man's wife or wives, their pre-pubescent male children, unmarried daughters, female domestic ...
Bilal ibn Rabah. Bilāl ibn Rabāḥ ( Arabic: بِلَال بِن رَبَاح) (5 March 580 – 2 March 640) was one of the Sahabah (companions) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He was born in Mecca and is considered to have been the first mu'azzin in history, chosen by Muhammad himself. [ 1][ 4][ 5][ 6] He was a former slave and was known ...
Urdu Daira Maarif Islamiya or Urdu Encyclopaedia of Islam ( Urdu: اردو دائرہ معارف اسلامیہ) is the largest Islamic encyclopedia published in Urdu by University of the Punjab. Originally it is a translated, expanded and revised version of Encyclopedia of Islam. Its composition began in the 1950s at University of the Punjab.
The metaphor of a golden age began to be applied in 19th-century literature about Islamic history, in the context of the western aesthetic fashion known as Orientalism.The author of a Handbook for Travelers in Syria and Palestine in 1868 observed that the most beautiful mosques of Damascus were "like Mohammedanism itself, now rapidly decaying" and relics of "the golden age of Islam".
Islam. Islam ( / ˈɪzlɑːm, ˈɪzlæm / IZ-la (h)m; [ 7] Arabic: ٱلْإِسْلَام, romanized : al-Islām, IPA: [alʔɪsˈlaːm], lit. 'submission [to the will of God]') is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.