HIZB AL-TAHRIR AL-ISLAMI. Established in Jerusalem in 1953 by Tagi al-Din al-Nabhani (1909-1977), an al-Azhar graduate and religious school teacher and judge from Ijzim in […]
Month: June 2013
HIZB AL-NAHDAH
HIZB AL-NAHDAH. Formerly called al-Ittijah alIslami (Mouvement de la Tendance Islamique, abbreviated MTI), the political movement that in 1988 adopted the name Hizb al-Nahdah (Renaissance […]
HIZB AL-DA`WAH AL-ISLAMIYAH
HIZB AL-DA`WAH AL-ISLAMIYAH. One of the three most important activist ShIN organizations in opposition to Saddam Hussein’s Bath regime in Iraq, and the oldest among […]
HIZB
HIZB. Occuring twice in the Qur’an with positive connotations in the compound term hizaballdh (party of God), the term hizb denotes factions or factionalism in […]
HISTORIOGRAPHY
HISTORIOGRAPHY. The modern-day historians of the Islamic world, particularly those of the Middle East and South Asia, are the heirs of a powerful and sophisticated […]
HISBAH
HISBAH. The word hisbah literally means “sum” or “reward.” Technically, however, it connotes the state institution to promote what is proper and forbid what is […]
HILLI, ALLAMAH IBN AL-MUTAHHAR AL
HILLI, ALLAMAH IBN AL-MUTAHHAR AL- (1250-1325), scholar and jurist of the Imam! (or Ithna `Ashari) Shi is. Hasan ibn Yusuf ibn al-Mutahhar al-Hilli, known as […]
HIJRAH
HIJRAH. The Qur’an identifies the use of the term hijrah (to migrate, abandon, or withdraw; exodus) in reference to the acts of migration of prophets, […]
HIJAB
HIJAB. The English term “veil” is commonly used to refer to Middle Eastern women’s traditional head, face or body covers, but in fact it has […]