Month: July 2017

Food & Health

SHAME

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

SHALTUT, MAHMUD. (23 April 1893 – 13 December 1963), one of a celebrated number of Azhari shaykhs who undertook the…

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SHAHADAH

SHAHADAH. The Islamic witness of faith is, “There is no god but God, and Muhammad is the Apostle of God”…

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SHAH

SHAH. One of the most common titles used by the dynastic rulers of Iran and the Turko-Persian cultural area, shah…

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SHAFIQ, DURRIYAH

SHAFIQ, DURRIYAH (Doria Shafik; 14 December 1908 – 20 September 1975), Egyptian scholar, teacher, journalist, and feminist activist. The writings…

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SHAFI’I

The Shafi’i madhhab is one of the four schools of Islamic law in Sunni Islam. It was founded by the…

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SHADOW OF GOD

SHADOW OF GOD. The ancient Iranians developed an elaborate concept of sacral kingship. Both Achaemenid (559-33 BCE) and Sassanian (224-651…

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SHADHILIYAH

SHADHILIYAH. Together with the Rifa’iyah, Qadiriyah, and Ahmadiyah, the Shadhiliyah is one of the four oldest tariqahs (Sufi orders) in…

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SEXUALITY

SEXUALITY. In the Muslim world, sexuality is simultaneously more open and more conservative than in other geographic regions. These contradictory…

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SEVENERS

Seveners (Arabic: سبعية‎‎) are a branch of Ismā’īlī Shīʻa. They became known as “Seveners” because they believe that Isma’il ibn…

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SELJUK DYNASTY

SELJUK DYNASTY. A Turkish family of Central Asian origin which ruled much of the eastern Islamic world beginning in the…

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SECULARISM

SECULARISM. The term secularism signifies that which is not religious. It is rooted in the Latin world saeculum, which initially…

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SECLUSION

SECLUSION. The practice of confining women to the exclusive company of other women in their own home or in separate…

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TABATABA’I, MUHAMMAD HUSAYN

TABATABA’I, MUHAMMAD HUSAYN ( 16 March 1903 – 15 November 1981), known to his contemporaries as `Allamah Tabataba’I, one of the…

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PERVEZ HOODBHOY

Pervez Amir Ali Hoodbhoy born 11 July 1950) is a Pakistani nuclear physicist, mathematician and activist who serves as distinguished…

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