33 results for “political”
Clear filter...ent to the fact that divine favor, extraordinary gifts, and political authority can be combined with deep personal piety and cons...
...ne revelation with human speculation, shaped by the social, political, and philosophical pressures of the Greco-Roman world.
...ng which texts to include in an official canon was itself a political and ecclesiastical act, not a divine one. Many texts that c...
...seeking to recover the pure teaching of a prophet; it was a political convocation called by an emperor seeking religious unity fo...
...ious belonging is also family loyalty, social identity, and political membership. His father's chains were not mere obstruction —...
...shed the theological precedent that companions could err in political matters.
...he capital from Kufa to Damascus, establishing Syria as the political and military heartland of the new empire. His administrativ...
...e day of Ashura retained as a day of voluntary fasting. The political and theological repercussions of Karbala reverberated acros...
... Dome is not a mosque but a shrine housing the sacred rock. Politically, some classical historians noted that Abd al-Malik may ha...
... medieval period, blocking the further expansion of Islamic political authority into southeastern Europe along this route.
...ance capable of stopping the subsequent Muslim advance. The political structure of the Visigothic kingdom, which had been central...
...assical sources and reveals a sophisticated theological and political mind. He died after only two and a half years in office (99...
...olution (al-dawla al-'Abbasiyya) was the most consequential political upheaval in early Islamic history, toppling the Umayyad dyn...
...dalus through a combination of military campaigns and adept political management, defeating a series of challenges from local Ara...
...he great mosque at its center, Baghdad was conceived as the political, economic, and intellectual capital of the Islamic world. I...
... marked one of the most humiliating periods for Sunni Islam politically, as the symbolic heart of the caliphate was ruled by Shia...
...ousting the Buyid dynasty and ending over a century of Shia political dominance over the Abbasid caliphate. The Abbasid caliph al...
...religious legitimacy to the Mamluk sultans but held no real political power. It nonetheless preserved the symbolic continuity of ...
...fourteen Muslims were martyred. The victory established the political credibility of the Muslim state in Medina, demonstrated tha...
...Sunnah regards all parties as sincere Muslims in error on a political question, and refrains from cursing any companion.
...n independent Umayyad emirate there. The battle shifted the political centre of the Muslim world eastward, with the new capital B...
...tian population escaped by sea. The fall ended the Crusader political project in Palestine and Syria definitively. The Mamluks sy...
...profound consequences for the Islamic world's religious and political geography that persist to this day. Shah Ismail I had rapid...
... medieval history, permanently altering the demographic and political map of Anatolia. The Seljuk Sultan Alp Arslan faced the Byz...
...nquest marked the effective end of the Sassanid Empire as a political entity, though resistance continued in Iran for another dec...
...ed in Damascus. He made fundamental contributions to logic, political philosophy, and music theory.
... and 1025 CE. These campaigns significantly expanded Muslim political influence in South Asia, brought enormous wealth to Ghazni,...
...ing the Ottoman-Safavid border and deepening the Sunni-Shia political divide.
...mal al-Din al-Afghani, the influential Islamic reformer and political activist, died in Istanbul. He promoted Pan-Islamic unity a...
...ile. This left the Muslim world without a central religious-political authority for the first time in 1,300 years.
...mic republic under Ayatollah Khomeini. While a Twelver Shia political event, it had profound implications for the entire Muslim w...
...d, toppling several authoritarian regimes and reshaping the political landscape of the Muslim world.
...rael and the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco, reshaping geopolitical alliances in the Middle East.