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Ja῾far (Biography)
( b. Tabriz ; fl. 1412 – 31 ). Persian calligrapher . According to the Safavid chronicler Dust Muhammad , Ja῾far was trained in ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Ja῾farī (Subject Entry)
See Law , article on Legal Thought and Jurisprudence . ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
Jabarti, Abd al-Rahman al- (Biography)
(d. 1826 ) Last of the traditional Egyptian Muslim historiographers. Witnessed and wrote about the self-destruction of the Mamluk regime in the eighteenth century, ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Jabhat al-Inqādh al-Islāmī (Subject Entry)
See Islamic Salvation Front . ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Jabhat Al‐inqādh Al‐islāmī (Subject Entry)
See Islamic Salvation Front . ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
Jabhat al-Nusra (Subject Entry)
is a militant group linked to al-Qaida active in Syria and Lebanon. When protests against President Bashar al-Assad began in March 2011 , there ...
Source: Oxford Islamic Studies Online
Jābir ibn Aflaḥ (Biography)
Nothing is known about his biography. Our knowledge of his chronology is based on a remark by Maimonides ( 1135 – 1204 ), who ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam
Jābir ibn Ḥayyān (Biography)
Jābir ibn Ḥayyān (d. c. early ninth century) lived during the eighth century and his full name was Abū ʿAbd Allāh Jābir ibn Ḥayyān ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam
Jabir ibn Hayyan, Abu Musa (Biography)
(d. ca. 815 ) Muslim alchemist. Synthesized cosmological and scientific ideas, including the Neoplatonic theory of emanation of the world and depiction of the ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Jabiri, Muhammad Abid al- (Biography)
(b. 1936 ) Moroccan intellectual, writer, and professor of Arab and Islamic philosophy. Wrote over a dozen books and numerous articles focusing on contemporary ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Jabr (Subject Entry)
Destiny. The Quran is not decisive on the question of free will and predestination. Many passages uphold the former and many passages uphold the ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Jabriyyah (Subject Entry)
Compulsionists. Name given to early Muslim theologians who denied human freedom of will. They held that all human acts occur under the compulsion of ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Jacob (Biography)
Arabic Yaqub . Mentioned in the Quran sixteen times, as a righteous man, servant of God, son of Isaac , and grandson of Abraham ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Jadd al-Haqq Ali Jadd al-Haqq (Biography)
See Gadd al-Haqq ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Jade (Subject Entry)
Descriptive term rather than the name of a specific material that in the West refers to two silicate minerals, nephrite and jadeite, which are ...
Source: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Jadidism (Subject Entry)
Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Russian Muslim intellectual movement, inspired by Ismail Bey Gasprinksi , that developed in response to colonial hegemony and the modern age. ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Jadīdism (Subject Entry)
The nineteenth- and early twentieth-century movement called Jadīdism developed among Russian Muslim intellectuals in response to colonial hegemony and the modern age. The name ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Jadīdism (Subject Entry)
The nineteenth‐ and early twentieth‐century movement called Jadīdism developed among Russian Muslim intellectuals in response to colonial hegemony and the modern age. The name ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
Jafar al-Sadiq (Biography)
died ca. 765 Founder of Jafari school of law Jafar al-Sadiq, a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, was the sixth imam of Shi'i Islam ...
Source: The Islamic World: Past and Present
Jafari: Shii Legal Thought and Jurisprudence (Subject Entry)
Named after the sixth imam (in this case, descendant of Muhammad through the appropriate line), Jafar al-Sadiq (d. 748 ). Recognizes four sources of ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
