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The book is a scholarly exploration of the complex and often misunderstood concept of jihad in Islamic tradition. Presented in a question-and-answer format, answering 90 major questions concerning jihad, the book seeks to provide a nuanced understanding of jihad through historical, theological, legal, and ethical lenses and dispel common misconceptions.
libzip is an open-source library for handling zip archives. It is written in portable C and can thus be used on multiple operating systems. It is based on zlib. It is used by PHP's zip extension for zip file support [2] and MySQL Workbench. [3] It is also used by KDE's ark archiving tool for zip archive support.
Some Western scholars suppose that Al-Shāfi'ī was the founder of Islamic legal theory and prior to his work, the Shafi'i theory, called uṣūl al-fikh or the 'common classical theory', Islamic law was based on personal opinion, that is, ra'y and Umayyad practice.
ʿAbd (عبد) (for male) ʾAmah (أمة) (for female) Servant or worshipper. Muslims consider themselves servants and worshippers of God as per Islam.Common Muslim names such as Abdullah (Servant of God), Abdul-Malik (Servant of the King), Abdur-Rahmān (Slave of the Most Beneficent), Abdus-Salām (Slave of [the originator of] Peace), Abdur-Rahîm (Slave of the Most Merciful), all refer to ...
The Quran is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims believe to be a revelation from God (Arabic: الله, Allah). [3] The Quran is divided into chapters (), which are then divided into verses ().
Zandaqa was viewed as a threat to Islam, to Muslim society, and to the state. [7] In the eighth century, Islamic norms were still under development and had not yet crystallized, and Muslims were still a small minority in the vast territories ruled by the caliphate, and even those who had converted were perceived to have been only "imperfectly ...
[4] [5] In contrast, Islam teaches that God does not share divine attributes with anyone, as it is disallowed according to the Islamic doctrine of tawhid. [6] [7] The Quran, the central religious text of Islam, states in 4:48 that God will not forgive shirk if one dies without repenting of it. [8] [7] [9] The one who commits shirk is called a ...
Jabriyya Arabic: جبرية, romanized: Jabriyyah̅n rooted from j-b-r; was an Islamic theological group based on the belief that humans are controlled by predestination, without having choice or free will, in the sense which gives the meaning of someone who is forced or coerced by destiny. [1]