SHAME. The concept of shame (Ar., hashm; Pers., sharm) is an aspect of social status often paired with honor as…
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SHALTUT, MAHMUD. (23 April 1893 – 13 December 1963), one of a celebrated number of Azhari shaykhs who undertook the…
Read More »SHAHADAH. The Islamic witness of faith is, “There is no god but God, and Muhammad is the Apostle of God”…
Read More »SHAH. One of the most common titles used by the dynastic rulers of Iran and the Turko-Persian cultural area, shah…
Read More »SHAFIQ, DURRIYAH (Doria Shafik; 14 December 1908 – 20 September 1975), Egyptian scholar, teacher, journalist, and feminist activist. The writings…
Read More »The Shafi’i madhhab is one of the four schools of Islamic law in Sunni Islam. It was founded by the…
Read More »SHADOW OF GOD. The ancient Iranians developed an elaborate concept of sacral kingship. Both Achaemenid (559-33 BCE) and Sassanian (224-651…
Read More »SHADHILIYAH. Together with the Rifa’iyah, Qadiriyah, and Ahmadiyah, the Shadhiliyah is one of the four oldest tariqahs (Sufi orders) in…
Read More »SEXUALITY. In the Muslim world, sexuality is simultaneously more open and more conservative than in other geographic regions. These contradictory…
Read More »Seveners (Arabic: سبعية) are a branch of Ismā’īlī Shīʻa. They became known as “Seveners” because they believe that Isma’il ibn…
Read More »SELJUK DYNASTY. A Turkish family of Central Asian origin which ruled much of the eastern Islamic world beginning in the…
Read More »SECULARISM. The term secularism signifies that which is not religious. It is rooted in the Latin world saeculum, which initially…
Read More »SECLUSION. The practice of confining women to the exclusive company of other women in their own home or in separate…
Read More »TABATABA’I, MUHAMMAD HUSAYN ( 16 March 1903 – 15 November 1981), known to his contemporaries as `Allamah Tabataba’I, one of the…
Read More »Pervez Amir Ali Hoodbhoy born 11 July 1950) is a Pakistani nuclear physicist, mathematician and activist who serves as distinguished…
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