94 results for “art”
Clear filter...the angels: 'I am going to place a successive authority on earth.' They said: 'Will You place upon it one who causes corrup...
... task. When the command came, water gushed forth from the earth and fell from the sky. The Great Flood covered the entire ...
...have no deity other than Him. He has produced you from the earth and settled you in it, so ask forgiveness of Him and then ...
...e turned my face toward He who created the heavens and the earth, inclining toward truth, and I am not of those who associa...
... Allah caused the spring of Zamzam to burst forth from the earth — a spring that has never ceased flowing to this day. This...
...e people of their due and do not cause corruption upon the earth after its reformation.'" Shuaib's people responded with c...
... to the sea, Musa struck the water with his staff. The sea parted, the Israelites crossed to safety, and the sea closed ove...
... prophethood at the valley of Tuwa, he immediately made a heartfelt supplication for his brother (Surah Ta-Ha 20:29–32): "A...
...ieving servants." In the Islamic tradition, Ilyas holds a particularly revered place. Some scholars, based on hadith liter...
... essential message: worship Allah alone, avoid associating partners with Him, and live righteously. Alyasa's high praise in...
...d and without Allah's express permission to leave, Yunus departed from his people prematurely. He boarded a ship, and when ...
... Imran 3:37). This encounter inspired Zakariyya to make a heartfelt supplication for an heir, even though he was old and hi...
...gment to confirm the truth of Islam and restore justice on earth. His return is among the major signs of the Hour. Isa is ...
...ssage was unmistakably clear: worship Allah alone, with no partners, no intermediaries, and no rivals. The Quran preserves ...
...ork Paul introduced marked the beginning of a systematic departure from the pure monotheism that Isa AS had taught. The th...
... scripture. Allah says: "And indeed, there is among them a party who alter the Scripture with their tongues so you may thin...
...utionalization of what the Quran calls shirk — associating partners with Allah. The Nicene Creed, promulgated from this cou...
...a, and the edges of the Byzantine world — are an important part of the Quranic picture of the world into which the final re...
...nism. He had sat with the ancient scriptures and kept his heart oriented toward the God of the prophets. And when the final...
... and is drawn to truth, even when it has not yet been fully articulated. Salman's heart recognized something real in the Ch...
... do you command me?" The bishop directed him to a man in a particular city in Syria. Salman traveled there, and found anoth...
...s a mere hardship to be glossed over — it is understood as part of a divine arrangement. It was precisely because he was br...
...iyah. Two of the three signs had been confirmed. Salman's heart was already overwhelmed, but he wanted to complete the veri...
... sacred fire of a Zoroastrian household in Isfahan to the heart of the Islamic caliphate. His grave in al-Mada'in (in prese...
...ly 40,000. The fighting was ferocious — 1,200 Muslims were martyred, including many Huffaz (memorisers of the Quran). Musay...
...ttle of Ullais was fought on the banks of the Euphrates as part of Khalid ibn al-Walid's Iraqi campaign. A combined Persian...
...ng a peace treaty with Abu Ubayda. Damascus was thus taken partly by force and partly by treaty, giving rise to differing r...
...the Persian army. Jalula opened the road into the Persian heartland, and Muslim forces pursued the remnants toward Khurasan...
... Al-Nu'man ibn Muqarrin commanded the Muslim force; he was martyred in battle but his successor Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman pres...
... battle was fierce: Talha and Zubayr were killed (Zubayr departing the battle before being killed away from it), and Aisha ...
... Kufa, who then locked down the city. Husayn, with a small party of family and supporters, was intercepted at Karbala on th...
...amascus, establishing Syria as the political and military heartland of the new empire. His administrative genius was undeni...
...ative rituals. For Sunni Muslims, Husayn remains a beloved martyr and a symbol of standing against injustice, with the day ...
...Byzantine craftsmen and incorporated Byzantine and Sassanid artistic conventions, particularly the use of mosaics and octag...
...ication of the Maghrib under Umayyad generals. The fall of Carthage — the ancient Byzantine administrative capital of the P...
...called and executed by Caliph Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik as part of a purge of al-Hajjaj's associates following the latter's...
...al-Aziz to the caliphate in 99 AH represented a striking departure from Umayyad norms and is remembered by Muslim historian...
...tions with non-Muslim populations. His fiscal reforms were particularly radical: he ordered the cessation of the jizya (pol...
...ic sources as the Battle of Balat al-Shuhada (Court of the Martyrs) — was fought in October 732 CE between the forces of th...
...y in a more effective formation (the kurdus system) that departed from traditional tribal organization. When the Abbasid fo...
... encompassing the regions of modern Iran, Afghanistan, and parts of Central Asia — were the most ethnically and culturally ...
...ew into one of the largest and most cosmopolitan cities on earth, hosting scholars, merchants, physicians, and artisans fro...
...at will. The capital was relocated to Samarra (221–279 AH) partly to keep the Turkish troops away from Baghdad's civilian p...
...ting periods for Sunni Islam politically, as the symbolic heart of the caliphate was ruled by Shia overlords for over a cen...
...leets operated from ports in the eastern Mediterranean and participated in raids and diplomatic missions that extended cali...
...venty more were taken prisoner. Only fourteen Muslims were martyred. The victory established the political credibility of t...
... of Uhud was fought one year after Badr when the Quraysh, smarting from their defeat, returned with an army of approximatel...
...a'far ibn Abi Talib, and Abdullah ibn Rawaha — all fell as martyrs in battle. Command passed to Khalid ibn al-Walid, who ha...
...sing their excuses and honouring the sincere believers who participated despite hardship. The famous 'three who were left b...
...ory came at immense cost: approximately 1,200 Muslims were martyred, including around 360-700 companions who had memorised ...
...pened the lower Euphrates region to Muslim control and was part of the rapid series of victories through which Khalid demon...
...ive formations and elephant corps. Nu'man ibn Muqarrin was martyred in the fighting but his deputy, Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman,...
...aintain silence about the conflict, acknowledging that all parties were sincere believers who made ijtihad, erred in some c...
... calling for arbitration by the Book of Allah. Ali's army, particularly the Kharijite faction within it, insisted on accept...
...o Kufa and then Damascus. Ahl us-Sunnah regard Husayn as a martyr, mourn his killing as a great wrong, and fast on Ashura a...
...oitiers, known in Arabic as Balat al-Shuhada (Plain of the Martyrs), halted the northward expansion of Muslim forces into t...
...cally significant side effect was that Chinese paper-making artisans captured during the battle transmitted that technology...
... exploiting widespread discontent with Umayyad governance, particularly the marginalisation of non-Arab Muslims. The last U...
...h. Roger of Salerno, regent of Antioch, chose to engage the Artuqid army of Il-Ghazi despite the advice of his vassals to w...
The Battle of Arsuf was fought during the Third Crusade, when Richard I of England marched his army from Acre south along the coast toward Jaffa. Saladin's forc
...the Crusader remnants who allowed safe passage but did not participate. At the Spring of Goliath in the Jezreel Valley, the...
...plications, invaded with a large Ottoman army equipped with artillery and firearms. The Safavid cavalry, despite its except...
...ghting — reportedly of a stroke induced by the shock of the artillery. Syrian cities fell rapidly, and within a year Selim ...
...re news of the victory reached him. The Byzantine commander Artabanus assembled a substantial force to push back the Muslim...
...forming what had been a core Byzantine territory into the heartland of what would become the Ottoman Empire.
...ongol forces out of Syria. The engagement near Ain Tab was part of a series of battles in which Baybars methodically disman...
... period. The Ottoman forces, consisting of a large raiding party sent to extend pressure on the Serbian principalities, wer...
...r 250 years as the last Muslim polity in Iberia, sustained partly by internal Castilian conflicts and partly by tributes an...
...gendary. Suleiman assembled an enormous force and a massive artillery train. After six months of brutal siege warfare, incl...
...rcements, attacked the Ottoman centre directly. The Ottoman artillery and infantry absorbed the Hungarian charge, then the ...
...ar-powered warship (galleass) carrying heavy forward-firing artillery, devastated the Ottoman fleet. Ali Pasha was killed a...
...masterstroke was deploying firearms — matchlock muskets and artillery — against an army that had never encountered them in ...
The Battle of Walaja was fought in 12 AH / 633 CE as part of Khalid ibn al-Walid's campaign through southern Iraq. Th...
...to command in Iraq. The Persians, emboldened by Khalid's departure, launched a major counter-offensive under Bahman Jadhuyi...
...rj al-Saffar was fought in 13 AH / 634 CE near Damascus as part of the early Syria campaign. After the Muslim victory at Aj...
... greatest extent under the Rashidun, conquered Armenia and parts of North Africa, and built the first Muslim navy. His grea...
...water for three days, Husayn and 72 of his companions were martyred on the 10th of Muharram. This event profoundly shaped I...
The Frankish army under Charles Martel defeated the Muslim forces of Abd ar-Rahman al-Ghafiqi ne...
...ordinary advances in science, philosophy, medicine, and the arts.
...ted Chinese expansion westward and secured Central Asia as part of the Muslim world. Chinese prisoners introduced papermaki...
...orld, predominant in Turkey, Central Asia, South Asia, and parts of the Middle East.
...chool became predominant in North Africa, West Africa, and parts of the Arabian Peninsula.
...and became predominant in East Africa, Southeast Asia, and parts of the Middle East.
...he controversial Sufi mystic, was executed in Baghdad. His martyrdom became a central event in Sufi history and literature.
...came the dominant creedal tradition among Hanafi scholars, particularly in Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and the O...
Ibn Tumart, the founder of the Almohad movement in North Africa, died....
Muhammad al-Idrisi, the celebrated cartographer, died in Sicily. He created the Tabula Rogeriana, t...
...n of Arabic scientific and philosophical texts into Latin, particularly through Muslim Spain and Sicily. Works of al-Khwari...
...ms (earning the title 'the Lawgiver'), his patronage of the arts, and the construction of magnificent mosques by his archit...
...ver) in the Islamic world, he codified laws, patronized the arts, and oversaw the construction of great mosques by the arch...
...s divided Muslim lands between Britain and France, creating artificial borders that remain sources of conflict. This marked...
British India was partitioned into India and Pakistan, creating the largest Muslim...
The UN voted to partition Palestine. The subsequent 1948 war led to the establis...
...an rights remains a central concern for Muslims worldwide, particularly regarding the status of al-Aqsa Mosque.