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“A means of balancing the centripetal and centrifugal forces” (Berkey, 146). Ijma is a doctrine of the practice of law in Sunni Islam, and is seen as…

The most accurate translation of Ilm would be “religious knowledge”. Different forms of Islamic power during the Middle Period put different emphasis…

A passage from old Arabian poetry which speaks about "fortresses", and regardless of how long these places have been around, they will some day be…

A couplet written by a famous Sufi author goes, "What is to be done, O Muslims? for I do not recognize myself. I am neither Christian, nor Jew, nor…

A Jawari is precisely defined as a slave woman in Arabic society. The rights and rules around being a slave woman changed with different eras in…

Mazalim is the way in which ruling elites began to directly become involved in the legal matters among their subjects by use of this jurisdiction…

Christianity and Judaism, while mainly stationed on opposite sides of the Arabian peninsula, played significant roles in the devilment of monotheistic…

As the widely considered founder of Islam, obviously Muhammed's role in the expansion of the religion cannot be stressed enough. The part of his…

In the 3 centuries after the Abbasid Revolution, non-Muslims became the minority in most places of the Near East for the first time. Different…

For a while, Arabia was not part of the interactions between the many Empires in the fertile crescent such as the Sassanians or Byzantines. It was a…