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Abd al-Qadir (Biography)
(d. 1883 ) Algerian independence leader, Sufi mystic, and poet. Born in Algeria to a notable Moroccan family. Became involved in the Algerian independence ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Abd al-Qadir (Biography)
1808 – 1883 Military leader , scholar , poet Abd al-Qadir led Algerian resistance to French colonization for nearly two decades. Born in Algeria ...
Source: The Islamic World: Past and Present
Abd el-Krim, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi (Biography)
(d. 1963 ) Moroccan leader of the Rif Rebellion and Islamic reformer. Eldest son of a notable family in a Berber-speaking tribe of northern ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Adl wa'l-Hasan, al- (Biography)
See Yasin, Abd al-Salam ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Afa Ajura, Yussif (Biography)
Hajj Yussif Salih Afa Ajura, ( d. 2007 ), a firebrand preacher, education reformer, and social and political activist, is among the most prominent ...
Source: Oxford Islamic Studies Online
Africa (Subject Entry)
Continent second only to Asia in size with a total area of 29,800,000 sq. km and a total population of 900 million people (UN ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Africa (Map)
1. Map of the southern Islamic lands; those countries and sites with separate entries in this encyclopedia are distinguished by Cross-reference type ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Africa (Image)
2. Illuminated frontispiece in a typical Koran manuscript, from sub-Saharan Africa, Nigeria, 18th–19th centuries (private collection); photo credit: Werner Forman/Art Resource, NY; see Africa, ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Africa (Image)
2. Djenné, Mali, Great Mosque, eastern façade, founded 14th century; reconstructed 1907; photo credit: Werner Forman/Art Resource, NY ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Africa (Image)
3. Hausa decorated house, Kano, Nigeria; photo credit: Werner Forman/Art Resource, NY ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Agha (Subject Entry)
In Algeria, chief officer of the Janissaries, who eventually undermined Ottoman-appointed provincial governors. In 1659 the Agha became the ruler of Algeria. Tribute was ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Aghlabid (Image)
Mosque of the Three Doors, Kairouan, Tunisia, 866; photo credit: Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Aghlabid (Subject Entry)
Islamic dynasty that governed Tunisia, Algeria and Sicily from 800 to 909 . The province of Ifriqiya, roughly corresponding to modern Tunisia, had been ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Aghlabids (Subject Entry)
Hereditary Islamic dynasty of the ninth and early tenth centuries in North Africa, centered in Qayrawan. Came to power in 800 when Ibrahim ibn ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
al-Hajj, Messali (Biography)
See Parti du Peuple Algérien ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Al-Qaʿida (Subject Entry)
See Qaʿida, al- . ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
῾Alawi (Subject Entry)
[῾Alawī; Filālī]. Islamic dynasty and rulers of Morocco since 1631 . Like their predecessors the Sa῾dis, the ῾Alawis are sharīfs (descendants of the Prophet ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Alawi, Abu Abbas Ahmad ibn Mustafa al- (Biography)
(d. 1934 ) Algerian Sufi and poet. Joined the Darqawi tariqah during a period of intense French colonization. By 1916 , established an independent ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Alawi Dynasty (Subject Entry)
Also known as Filalis or Filalians. Family of religious notables who became the royal house of Morocco from the seventeenth century through the present. ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Alawi, Mawlay Muhammad ibn al-Arabi al- (Biography)
(d. 1964 ) Moroccan reformist, educator, and opponent of the French colonial regime. Major figure in the spread of the Salafi reform movement, which ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
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