19 results for “ummah”
Clear filter... to two peoples: the people of Madyan (a prosperous trading community in the Hejaz-Sinai region near the Gulf of Aqaba) and the c...
...Islamic calendar. In Medina he established the first Muslim community — a model of governance, brotherhood, and justice unlike an...
...ns, a profound theological rupture began to form within the community of his followers. The central figure in this divergence was...
... not [all] the same; among the People of the Scripture is a community standing [in obedience], reciting the verses of Allah durin...
... of their condemnation. Salman did not leave. He asked the community to appoint him a new bishop to follow, and they did. This s...
...tory became part of the public teaching of the early Muslim community, a testimony to the unbroken chain of divine guidance from ...
...d immediately became one of the most beloved members of the community around the Prophet ﷺ. His status in the early Muslim commu...
...he Islamic world transformed both the country and the wider umma.
...the original wound of the first Fitna, splitting the Muslim community in a way that shaped Islamic politics for centuries. The qu...
...onflict remained unresolved. Siffin permanently divided the community into factions that would shape the trajectory of Islamic hi...
... of death. Ali confronted them, offering them return to the community; only a small number accepted. In the subsequent battle, th...
...the first major armed engagement between the nascent Muslim community of Medina and the Quraysh of Mecca. On 17 Ramadan, 2 AH, ap...
..., and provided significant material resources to the Muslim community. Several companions, including Ja'far ibn Abi Talib who had...
...— a near-bloodless recapture of the sacred city by the same community that had been expelled from it years earlier. After the Qur...
...hurches were seized, no civilians harmed. The city's Jewish community, expelled by Byzantine rule, was permitted to return. The c...
... that followed shocked even some contemporaries. The Jewish community who had taken refuge in a synagogue were burnt alive. The M...
... traders settled in Chinese port cities, and the Hui Muslim community grew along the Silk Road. Today, tens of millions of Muslim...
...iffin, and the emergence of the Khawarij divided the Muslim community. Ali was assassinated by the Kharijite Ibn Muljam while pra...
...itnah) in Islam and had lasting consequences for the Muslim community.