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... Israelite prophetic tradition was born, a blessing that culminated in the mission of Isa ibn Maryam before the final prophe...
...:12–15), Allah says: "O Yahya, take the Scripture with determination. And We gave him judgement while still a child. And aff...
...d jinn until the Day of Judgment. His prophethood is the culmination of the entire prophetic chain stretching from Adam thro...
...uable in containing fragments of the original truth and illuminating the moral teachings of Isa AS, but no longer the preser...
...verted to Arianism before Trinitarian Christianity became dominant. These communities, while not preserving the pure monothe...
...er that implied he was a believer. This single incident illuminates the existence of Christians who were, in their hearts, m...
... prominent family in Isfahan, Persia, in a region and era dominated by Zoroastrianism — one of the oldest organized monothei...
...ed Muslim Arabs to access government positions previously dominated by Hellenized and Persian-educated secretaries. The post...
...g with Amr ibn al-As's subjugation of Egypt in 20 AH and culminating in the complete pacification of the Maghrib under Umayy...
...his brother Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik. It represented the culmination of decades of Umayyad ambition to fulfill what some Ara...
...ntain of Tariq) with approximately seven thousand men, predominantly Berber converts. The Visigothic king Roderic (Rodrigo) ...
...s (mawali) with full equality as Muslims, cutting the discriminatory tax policies that had fueled resentment in Persia and K...
...hecked expansion into the Caucasus, and the continued discrimination against non-Arab Muslims — despite the reforms of Umar ...
...ang dynasty at times, while simultaneously taxing and discriminating against the local population in ways that alienated pot...
...This period of Abbasid weakness foreshadowed the eventual domination of the caliphate by foreign military dynasties — first ...
In 334 AH, the Buyid dynasty — a Shia Persian military confederation from the Daylam region — entered Baghdad and seized control of the Abbasid caliphate, leavi
...Buyid dynasty and ending over a century of Shia political dominance over the Abbasid caliphate. The Abbasid caliph al-Qa'im ...
...ttab. The conquest secured the northern flank of Medina, eliminated a major base of opposition, and provided significant mat...
...and the sanctuary purified. The Conquest represented the culmination of the Prophetic mission and opened the door to mass ac...
...ents in world history, effectively ending Sasanid Persian dominance in Mesopotamia. Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas commanded a Muslim f...
... relatively small force, winning a series of engagements culminating in the Battle of Heliopolis in 640 CE. After capturing ...
...Crusaders and Syrian Ayyubid princes who opposed Egyptian dominance. The battle near Gaza was a comprehensive Muslim victory...
...osovo was the pivotal engagement that established Ottoman dominance in the Balkans. Sultan Murad I led an Ottoman army — wit...
...hia Islam as the state religion, forcibly converting a predominantly Sunni population and executing those who refused. Sulta...
...itorial consolidation established the Mamluk state as the dominant power of the eastern Mediterranean and the defender of Su...
...heir activities. The fall of Rhodes secured Ottoman naval dominance of the eastern Mediterranean.
...diers together to prevent retreat, demonstrating their determination to hold the line. The Persian satrap Hurmuz ibn Hurmuz ...
...for mosques with its monumental courtyard, prayer hall, and minarets.
...l became the most widely followed in the Muslim world, predominant in Turkey, Central Asia, South Asia, and parts of the Mid...
...mpilation of hadith and fiqh. The Maliki school became predominant in North Africa, West Africa, and parts of the Arabian Pe...
...approaches of the Medinan and Iraqi schools and became predominant in East Africa, Southeast Asia, and parts of the Middle E...
... traditional Sunni beliefs. The Ash'ari school became the dominant theological school in Sunni Islam, adopted by the majorit...
...ogy, died in Samarkand. His theological school became the dominant creedal tradition among Hanafi scholars, particularly in ...
...d brother of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, died. His Sawanih is a seminal work on divine love in the Sufi tradition.
Suhrawardi, founder of the Illuminationist school of Islamic philosophy, was executed in Aleppo...
...ttle marked the beginning of the decline of Ottoman naval dominance in the Mediterranean. However, the Ottoman Empire remain...
... mechanically. The press eventually revolutionized the dissemination of Islamic knowledge across the Muslim world.
...First Saudi State. His call to return to pure Tawhid and eliminate innovations and tomb veneration reshaped the religious la...
...anautawi and Rashid Ahmad Gangohi established the Deoband seminary in India. This institution pioneered Islamic education in...