• The Jewel of Medina is a historical novel by Sherry Jones that recounts the life of Aisha, one of Muhammad's wives, from the age of six, when she was...
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    Denise Spellberg (category Middle Eastern studies in the United States)
    over Sherry Jones's (author) historical novel The Jewel of Medina. Random House, which intended to publish the novel later that year, had sent Spellberg galley...
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    The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History is a 1978 book by the American author Michael H. Hart. Published by his father's publishing...
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  • The Satanic Verses is the fourth novel of British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie. First published in September 1988, the book was inspired by the life of...
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  • Aisha (redirect from Event of Ifk)
    cemetery. Islam portal Biography portal List of people related to Quranic verses Muhammad's wives The Jewel of Medina (fictional work based loosely on Aisha's...
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    controversy The Satanic Verses controversy, also known as the Rushdie Affair, was a controversy sparked by the 1988 publication of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic...
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    "Hell") is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. The Inferno...
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    Madinah (المدينة, al-Madina), is the capital of Medina Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia. It is one of the oldest and most important places...
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  • being forced to migrate to Medina, the early Muslims began raiding Pagan caravans to weaken their economy and to regain some of what was lost from their...
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  • Ved Prakash Upadhyay (category Academic staff of Panjab University)
    1947) is an Indian scholar of Sanskrit language and Hinduism, author, professor and social activist. He is the author of many books on Sanskrit literature...
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  • competition of biographies of Muhammad held in Mecca in 1979. The title of the book means "The Sealed Nectar", a reference to verse 25 of Surah 83 (Mutaffifin)...
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  • the close advent of Muhammad. Muslim historians and hagiographers (such as Ibn Ishaq) maintained that the people of Medina accepted Islam because of their...
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  • Paraclete (redirect from The Holy Parachute)
    term occurring five times in the Johannine texts of the New Testament. In Christian theology, the word commonly refers to the Holy Spirit and is translated...
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    Hadith (redirect from Collections of hadith)
    to Medina with Muhammad, the Medina residents who welcomed and supported the muhajirun (the ansar) and the people of the desert. According to the scholars...
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  • The Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ (Arabic: قصص الأنبياء) or Stories of the Prophets is any of various collections of stories about figures recognised as prophets and...
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    یونیورسٹی اور مسجد نبوی کا معلم بن گیا" [How did a Hindu of Azamgarh became professor of the Medina University and Masjid Nabawi]. Baseerat Online (in Urdu)...
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  • of an estimated 100 hectares (250 acres) was built near the city of Qom. The set resembled sixth-century Mecca and Medina during the early years of the...
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    Siyer-i Nebi (category Manuscripts in the Chester Beatty Library)
    to Medina from a raid by companions of Muhammad. ‘Ubayd ibn Harith and Hamza ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib lead troops against Abu Jahl Qisas al-Anbiya ""The Angel...
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    awaits Jesus. When Saud bin Abdul-Aziz took Medina in 1805, Muhammad's tomb was stripped of its gold and jewel ornamentation. Adherents to Wahhabism, Saud's...
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  • Talaʽ al-Badru ʽAlayna (category Muhammad in Medina)
    traditional Islamic poem known as nasheed that the Ansar sang for the Islamic prophet Muhammad upon his arrival at Medina. Many sources claim it was first sung...
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    Satyarth Prakash (category Cultural depictions of Muhammad)
    The Light of Truth) is an 1875 book written originally in Hindi by Dayanand Saraswati (Swami Dayanand), a religious and social reformer and the founder...
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  • The History of the Prophets and Kings (Arabic: تاريخ الرسل والملوك Tārīkh al-Rusul wa al-Mulūk), more commonly known as Tarikh al-Tabari (تاريخ الطبري)...
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  • Hassan ibn Thabit (category Poets of the early Islamic period)
    c. 563, Medina died 674) was an Arabian poet and one of the Sahaba, or companions of Muhammad, who was best known for poems in defense of the Islamic...
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    Maitreya (redirect from Cult of Maitreya)
    full head of hair, fine flowing robes and jewels. Gandharan style images present him with a distinctive long hair loop folded at the top of the head. Maitreya...
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  • veneration. The sīrah also includes a number of written documents, such as political treaties (e.g., Treaty of Hudaybiyyah or Constitution of Medina), military...
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    Kurt Westergaard (category People associated with the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy)
    cartoonist. In 2005 he drew a cartoon of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, wearing a bomb in his turban as a part of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons, which...
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    was killed and beheaded in Éragny-sur-Oise, a suburb of Paris, France, by an Islamist terrorist. The perpetrator, Abdoullakh Abouyezidovich Anzorov, an...
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  • conquests, the emergence of the Mu'tazili and the emergence of the plight of the creation of the Quran, and Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal confronted them. The series...
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  • Fetih 1453 (category Cultural depictions of Mehmed the Conqueror)
    Turks during the reign of Sultan Mehmed II. The film opens in Medina during the time of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, 627 AD. Abu Ayyub tells other sahabas...
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  • Omar (TV series) (category Episode list using the default LineColor)
    Moreover, the sets of ancient Mecca and Medina and other sites in Arabia and elsewhere in the post classical era were also produced by the Soora Studio...
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