HEKMATYAR, GULBUDDIN (b. 1947?), leader of Hizb-i Islam! Afghanistan, one of the major Islamic political parties in Afghanistan. Hekmatyar is a Pushtun from a branch […]
Month: June 2013
HEALTH CARE
HEALTH CARE. Healing traditions of the Islamic world exhibit broad historical and sociocultural variation. Although a certain complex of therapeutic conventions is generally associated with […]
HARAM
HARAM. The root h-r-m is among the most important Arabic roots in the vocabulary of Islamic practice. The root meaning is something like “forbidden” or […]
HARAKAT AL-TAWHID AL-ISLAMI
HARAKAT AL-TAWHID AL-ISLAMI. A militant Sunni movement, the Harakat al-Tawhid al-Islam (Islamic Unification Movement) emerged out of the political turmoil of the I98os in the […]
HAMKA
HAMKA (1908-1981), acronym of Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah, Indonesian religious scholar and the most prolific of modern Indonesian Islamic writers. Hamka was born in […]