From the Arabic root amara (“to command”) amir is traditionally defined as military commander, leader, governor, or prince. Although the word amir is not found […]
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AMAL
A populist movement of Lebanese Shi’i Muslims that first emerged in 1975, Amal has become an important political force in Lebanon. Political Mobilization of the […]
ALLAH
Islam knows no creed, no formal profession of faith that every Muslim is required to proclaim as a sign of membership in the Islamic community. […]
AL-KHOEI BENEVOLENT FOUNDATION
Established in the late 1980s, the Al-Khoei Benevolent Foundation has centralized religious centers and institutions for Islamic education that were acquired through pious donations managed […]
ALI IBN ABI TALIB
`ALI IBN ABI TALIB (c. 597-66o), the cousin and son-in-law of the prophet Muhammad, the fourth caliph of the Sunni Muslims, and the first imam […]
ALGERIA
At the beginning of the nineteenth century Algeria had been a province of the Ottoman Empirefor four centuries. Like other provinces it evolved through the […]
ALCHEMY
Viewed from the perspective of the history of science, alchemy can legitimately be considered an Islamic creation. Indeed, notwithstanding some development in ancient China, it […]