QOM. A small provincial town south of Tehran, Qom (or Qum) is the site of Hazrat-i Ma’sumah, the shrine of Fatimah, sister of the eight […]
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QISAS
Qiṣāṣ (Arabic: قصاص) is an Islamic term meaning “retaliation in kind” or revenge, “eye for an eye”, “nemesis” or retributive justice. It is a category […]
QARAMANLI DYNASTY
QARAMANLI DYNASTY. A Turkish dynasty founded by the original Qaramanli, Ahmed Bey, controlled Ottoman Tripolitania and, intermittently, Cyrenaica and Fezzan, from 1711 to 1835. Ahmed […]
QADIRIYAH
QADIRIYAH. Among the better-known names in Islamic mysticism is that of `Abd al-Qadir al-Gilani (or Jilani or Jili), who is associated with the beginnings of […]
QADI
QADI Throughout Islamic history authority to judge cases between Muslims under the shari `ah was vested in the post of qadi, the single judge of […]
PURIFICATION
PURIFICATION. A hadith states, “Purity is half of faith.” This terse statement related from the prophet Muhammad underlines the importance of purity and purification in […]
PARDAH
Pardah is a religious and social practice of female seclusion prevalent among some Muslimand Hindu communities in South Asia. It takes two forms: physical segregation of the sexes and the requirement that […]
PUBLIC LAW
PUBLIC LAW. Concerned with the distribution and exercise of power by the state and the legal relations between the state and the individual, public law […]
PUBERTY RITES
PUBERTY RITES. There is no specific Islamic ritual to mark the onset of puberty; Nevertheless, Muslims celebrate certain rituals to mark the initiation of sexuality, […]
PROPERTY in ISLAM
PROPERTY Islam considers the property as a gift from God. As-Sibâ’î argue that Islam does not justify the existence of poverty, with reference to the […]