59 results for “pre-Islamic”
...s an extraordinary statement: the Prophet ﷺ affirmed that a pre-Islamic, pagan Arabian covenant was so aligned with the principle o...
...ficant speeches in Islamic history: describing the state of pre-Islamic Arabia, the Prophet's message, and the Islamic position on ...
...ost significant speeches in Islamic history: describing the pre-Islamic condition of Arabia, the nature of the Prophet's message, a...
... this call — it is vile. It is the call of Jahiliyyah.' The pre-Islamic tribal identity, buried but not eliminated, had reasserted ...
...nd, or surrender to the judgment of Sa'd ibn Mu'adh — their pre-Islamic tribal ally, chief of the Aws. They chose unconditional sur...
...connected to a specific legal purpose: the abolition of the pre-Islamic Arab custom that treated adopted sons as biological sons in...
...Islamic da'wah speeches to a non-Muslim ruler. He described pre-Islamic Arabia — the idol worship, the killing of daughters, the ex...
...ajj after this year; naked circumambulation of the Kaaba, a pre-Islamic practice, was ended; existing treaties that had been honore...
The first woman, wife of Prophet Adam AS, created from him and the mother of all humanity.
The jinn who refused to prostrate to Adam AS and became the arch-enemy of humanity until the Day of Judgment.
Son of Adam AS, the first person to die and the first martyr in human history.
Son of Adam AS who committed the first murder in human history by killing his brother Habil.
The tyrannical king who threw Prophet Ibrahim into the fire and claimed to be god.
First wife of Prophet Ibrahim AS and mother of Prophet Ishaq AS.
Father (or paternal uncle) of Prophet Ibrahim AS, an idol-maker who refused to accept the truth.
The Pharaoh of Egypt who enslaved the Israelites and was drowned by Allah after rejecting Musa AS.
Wife of Pharaoh who believed in Allah, protected baby Musa, and was martyred for her faith. One of the four greatest women in Islam.
The immensely wealthy Israelite who was swallowed by the earth after rejecting Musa and claiming his wealth was by his own skill.
The successor of Prophet Musa AS who led the Israelites into the Holy Land. Considered a prophet in Islamic tradition.
The mysterious servant of Allah whom Musa AS traveled with, possessing divine knowledge beyond apparent wisdom.
The man who fashioned the golden calf for the Israelites to worship while Musa AS was away on Mount Sinai.
The wife of the Egyptian minister al-Aziz who tried to seduce Prophet Yusuf AS and later acknowledged his innocence.
Mother of Prophet Isa AS, one of the four greatest women in Islamic history, the only woman named in the Quran.
The Queen of Saba who submitted to Sulayman AS and accepted Islam after witnessing his kingdom and wisdom.
The giant Philistine warrior killed by the young Dawud AS with a sling, as narrated in the Quran.
The king chosen by Allah to lead the Israelites against the Philistines, under whom Dawud AS rose to prominence.
The son of Nuh AS who refused to board the ark and was drowned — the Quran's most poignant example that family ties cannot save those who reject Allah.
The wife of Lut AS who betrayed him by informing his people of his guests and was destroyed with the people of Sodom.
The righteous man from whose family both Maryam and Isa AS descend, giving his name to Surah Ali Imran.
The mother of Maryam AS who dedicated her unborn child to Allah's service — an act the Quran honors as the foundation of Isa's lineage.
The minister of Sulayman AS who transported the throne of Bilqis in the blink of an eye through divine knowledge.
The wife of Prophet Nuh AS who disbelieved and was destroyed in the flood, a Quranic example of how proximity to a prophet does not guarantee salvation.
Son of Nuh AS who boarded the ark; considered in Islamic and Biblical tradition the ancestor of the Semitic peoples including the Arabs and Israelites.
Son of Nuh AS who boarded the ark; considered in Islamic and Biblical tradition as the ancestor of the African and Hamitic peoples.
Son of Nuh AS who boarded the ark; considered in Islamic and Biblical tradition as the ancestor of the Turkic, European, and northern peoples.
The mother of Prophet Musa AS who received divine revelation to place him in the river, and was reunited with him as his own wet nurse.
The sister of Musa AS who followed his basket on the Nile and orchestrated his return to their mother.
Daughter of Prophet Shuayb and wife of Prophet Musa AS, whose family sheltered Musa when he fled Egypt.
The full brother of Prophet Yusuf AS, son of Yaqub and Rachel, who was kept by Yusuf in Egypt as part of the plan to reunite their father's family.
The Israelite prophet who appointed Talut (Saul) as king at the request of the Israelites, as narrated in Surah al-Baqarah.
The Abyssinian viceroy of Yemen who marched with elephants to destroy the Ka'bah and was destroyed by Allah's army of birds — in the year the Prophet ﷺ was born
The righteous king who journeyed to the east and west of the earth and built the iron barrier against Ya'juj and Ma'juj — as narrated in Surah al-Kahf.
The wise man honored in the Quran (Surah Luqman) for his counsel to his son — a model of tawحid, gratitude, prayer, and character.
The group of young men who took refuge in a cave from a pagan king and were caused to sleep by Allah for 309 years — narrated in Surah al-Kahf.
A righteous man whom Allah caused to die for 100 years and then resurrected as a sign, mentioned in the Quran and venerated by some Jews as the son of God — a c
The Egyptian minister who purchased Yusuf AS from the slave traders and gave him a position of trust in his household.
The beloved wife of Prophet Yaqub AS and mother of Yusuf and Binyamin — the wife for whom Yaqub worked fourteen years.
The dedicated companions of Prophet Isa AS who declared 'We are the helpers of Allah' — mentioned in the Quran as a model of full commitment to a prophet.
...he Prophet ﷺ. He lived to approximately 120 years, spanning pre-Islamic and Islamic eras.
Son of the pre-Islamic poet Zuhayr ibn Abi Sulma. He initially lampooned the Proph...
Mother of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. She died when he was approximately six years old.
Pre-Islamic poet who converted to Islam and wrote the famous qasida Ban...
...gorous classical biographies of the Prophet. It covers from pre-Islamic Arabia through the Prophet's death.
...ahabi's era, written from an Islamic perspective. It covers pre-Islamic prophets, the seerah, the Rashidun caliphate, the Umayyads,...
...hirk) in its various forms, analyzing its manifestations in pre-Islamic Arabia and contemporary societies, with detailed proofs of ...