Month: August 2017

Sufi orders represent one of the most important forms of personal piety and social organization in the Islamic world. In…

SUFISM. [This entry comprises three articles: Sufi Thought and Practice Sufi Orders Sufi Shrine Culture The first provides an overview…

Katrina Kaif is unarguably one of the fittest actors in the Indian film industry these days. The Bollywood beauty has…

“No, I’m not pregnant. I’m just bloated.” Has this ever happened to you? If you have IBS or experience bloating,…

To match the continuing shift to cloud as a method of accelerating agility when delivering companies, the architectures supporting these…

The new z14 mainframe computer offers a chance to re-evaluate what a mainframe can do for an organization. Gone are…

SUDAN. Islam entered the region of the Sudan, as it is known today, decisively in the sixteenth century CE. Today…

SUAVI, ALI (1839-1878), a popular reformist figure of the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. Suavi exemplifies the ideas of conservative Ottomans who…

STEREOTYPES IN MASS MEDIA. Numerous Americans come to know approximately 250 million Arabs and more than one billion Muslims from…

SOUTH AFRICA. The 1993 South African apartheid census figures divided the population into four categories: Africans, 32 million; Coloureds, 5…

SOMALIA. The Muslims of Somalia constitute almost 99 percent of an estimated population of eight to ten million. Four Sufi…

SOKOTO CALIPHATE. Founded in the early nineteenth century by Usuman Dan Fodio, the Sokoto Caliphate continues to exert strong cultural…

SOCIAL SCIENCES. A strong interest in the social order was manifested from the earliest period of Islamic history. Society was…

The world loves the OnePlus 5. It gets so many things right: It has a lengthy battery life, speedy performance…

Do you ever struggle with things like distraction, insomnia, easy weight gain or energy crashes? I sure have, at various…