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وُلِدَ محمّد في هذه سنّة و في هذه المنتقة (Muhammad was born in this year and in this region)
What is ca. ٥٧٠/٥٧١ في منتقة مكّة
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كمْ سورة في القرآن
What is ١١٤ سورة
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في هذه سنّة إنتقل محمد من مكّة إلى يثرب (مدينة
What is 622
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The fundamental principles of Islam are called in English... and in Arabic...
What is the 5 pillars and أركان الإسلام/الدين
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من هو علي؟
What is إبن عمّ محمّد و زوج بنت محمد،فاطمة و رابع خليفة و أبحس، وحسين
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Muhammad was raised by his grand-father, named...
What is عبد المطلب
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The chapters of the Qur'an are organized in this way...
What is from shortest to longest. من ال أقصر إلى الأطول
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هي الخمسة اركان الإسلام
What is الشهاذة، صلات، الزكات، صوم شهر رمضان، الحجّ (لمن يستطيع إليه السبيلة The shahada or statement of faith in one God and that Muhammad is his prophet; the Salaat or 5 prayers, zakaat or charity/sharing with the poor, Sawm or fasting during the month of Ramadan, and the Hajj or pilgrimage to Mecca, if one is able.
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These are the main differences between Shi'a (Shiite) and Sunni.
What is the Sunnis chose Abu Bakr as the successor to Muhammad, based on the principle that the leader should be the best person for the job chosen/elected by the community, while the Shiites preferred Ali and base the choice of the imam or religious leader on blood descent from Muhammad appointed by God.
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Muhammad worked for this widow as her caravan -trading ( تاجر في قافلة) manager and married her when he was this age and she was
What is Muhammad was 25 and Khadija was 40?
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In addition to the chapter division (Surah), the Qur'an is also divided into 30 juz' for this purpose
What is to read one each night of Ramadan?
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This was the first direction of prayer and the reasons why it was changed in this year...
What is Jerusalem but when the Jewish tribes of yathrib resisted Muhammad's message, the direction of prayer was changed to Mecca in 624.
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The direction of prayer is known by this name and is facing in this direction.
What is the qibla,and facing toward الكعبة the Kaaba in Mecca?
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The Kaaba was used in these ways before the rise of Islam and in these other ways as part of Islamic practice.
In the pre-Islamic period bedouin tribes would come in a period of truce, suspending conflicts, to worship their pagan gods (idols) in the Kaaba, trade with each other, and some say that the mu'allaqat, the pre-Islamic classic odes were suspended there.
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Muhammad experienced inspiration ( واحي) as coming from beyond himself and described it with this metaphor or transmission...
What is the angel Gabriel
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The Qur'an is a non-unified composition, including a number of different styles and genres, such as...
What is disjointed, not a unified composition, asseverative (as of a positive, earnest declaration), rhapsodical; including genres such as rhymed prose (verses of varying length marked by rhyme or assonance, narratives, parables, slogans for public use, dramatic scenes, metaphors; and most surahs begin with the bismile.
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He founded the Umayyad Caliphate and its capital was...
What is Mu'awiyya ibn Abi Sufyan, long-time governor of Syria, with its capital in Damascus (661-744).
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The two orthodox holidays in Islam are...
What is Aïd al-Kabir (Aid al-Udha عيد الأضحى) at the end of the Hajj, and Aïd aS-Saghiir (Aïd al-fitr عيد الفطر) at the end of Ramadan. ُThe Prophet's birthday has traditionally been celebrated in Tunisia but the recent Salafist conservative have objected to it
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A hadith ( حديث) is...
What is a teaching of Muhammad، words or exemplary actions from his life that is not incorporated into the Qur'an, whose veracity is the subject of the science of the chain of transmission (isnad). Different branches of Islam have different collections of hadith
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مات محمّد في هذه السنّة... (Muhammad died in this year:)
What is ٦٣٢ (632)
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The surahs were delivered in these two locations and tend to focus on these two kinds of topics...
What is Mecca 610-622 - exhortations to faith and repentance and Medina 622-632 - focused on organizing a community
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The dynasty that followed the Umayyads was ... and it moved the capital of the Islamic empire to ... but this dynasty was not accepted in parts of North Africa ruled by the Almohads or in the Umayyad Iberian peninsula.
What is Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad in 750-1258.
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A Marabout is
What is a religious leader and teacher, often a Qur'anic scholar, a leader of a religious community called a zaouia. Often venerated as a saint whose tomb (also called a marabout) is visited by those seeking intersession with God for their prayers, usually women and the uneducated. Cities names after saints begin with the word 'sidi' (سيدي )
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The word (شريعة ) (shari'a) means...
What is the system of jurisprudence that Muslims believe is divine law as revealed in the Qur'an and the Sunnah (the teachings and practices fostered by Muhammad)