Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus: Islam came to Central Asia and the Caucasus not long after its birth in the seventh century. The […]
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Islam in the Middle East and North Africa
Islam in the Middle East and North Africa Revelation in the Middle East comes in a variety of versions. Islam is one of them and, […]
ISLAM
ISLAM. [This entry consists of an overview of the origins and development of the classical Islamic tradition and eight historical surveys that trace the spread […]
ISLAH
ISLAH. The Arabic term for “reform,” islah has come to denote the reform movement in the Islamic world in the last three centuries. In a […]
INTIZAR.
INTIZAR. Until `All Shari`ati (d. 1977) introduced it in his presentation of Shiism, the term intizar (lit. “waiting”), had not been used as a specific […]
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND DIPLOMACY
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND DIPLOMACY. Muslim writers argue that the international and diplomatic realms are incorporated in the very comprehensiveness of Islam, and analogues to the […]
INTERFAITH DIALOGUE
INTERFAITH DIALOGUE. See Muslim-Christian Dialogue; Muslim-Jewish Dialogue.
INHERITANCE
INHERITANCE. The Islamic law of inheritance, mirdth, constitutes the single most distinctive and complicated part of shari`ah law. It is particularly closely tied to the […]