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70 unusual facts about muslim


Adwan, Syria

It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 21 households and 15 bachelors.

Al-Sahwah

It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 9 households and 4 bachelors.

Allied Democratic Forces

The ADF was formed by puritanical Muslim Ugandans of the Tabliq sect who merged with the remnants of another rebel group, the National Army for the Liberation of Uganda.

Aref al-Dajani

In 1918, after serving for one year as mayor of Jerusalem, al-Dajani joined the Administrative Committee of the Muslim-Christian Association (MCA) and went on to become Jerusalem and then regional president of the organization.

Beit Saber

Medieval Muslim historian Abu'l Fida mentioned Beit Saber in the late 14th-century, during Mamluk rule in Syria.

Bhujakhia Pir

The shrine of Baba Bhujakhira Pir of Balasore stands as a symbol of harmony between Muslim and Hindu.

Bitter Fruit

grandfather's relatives, who are Muslims (although his father Silas, an illegitimate child, is not).

Blum-Viollette proposal

The proposal suggested that a minority of Algerians obtain full French citizenship while still allowing them to be subject to Muslim law on some social issues (such as marriage/divorce, custody, inheritance).

Busra al-Harir

At that time it had an all Muslim population of 42 households and 31 bachelors, who paid taxes on wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and/or beehives.

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In 1879 fighting flared up between the townspeople and the Druze after the Muslim inhabitants of several nearby villages fled to Busra al-Harir as a result of fighting between the al-Atrash family, a leading Druze clan, and the local Bedouin.

Cal Thomas

He further claimed that Muslim immigration posed a danger to the UK and United States.

Cernier

There were three individuals who were Jewish, and 56 (or about 2.92% of the population) who were Muslim.

Churihar

Like other Muslim artisan castes, the community no longer practice their traditional occupations.

Çiçek Hatun

He also requested to have Cem's body for a Muslim funeral, but it was not until four years after Cem's death that his body was finally brought to the Ottoman lands because of attempts to receive more gold for Cem's corpse.

Creighton Lovelace

The original report received widespread international attention and sparked protests in Muslim countries.

Dhawad

The Dhawad are a Muslim community found in the state of Maharashtra in India.

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The Dhawad are strictly endogamous, and the community practice clan exogamous, and are the only Muslim community is Maharashtra to do so.

Eastern Ganga dynasty

The rulers of Eastern Ganga dynasty defended their kingdom from the constant attacks of the Muslim rulers.

Garodi

The Garodi are a Muslim community found in the state of Maharashtra in India.

Gavandi

The Gavandi live in villages with other Muslim communities such as the Attar, Shilkalgar, Maner and Tamboli, as well as other Hindu castes such as the Maratha.

Gavli

According to their tradition following a communal riot between Hindus and Muslims, they left their ancestral village of Kharpa in Kannauj District of Uttar Pradesh.

Germi County

The most historical place in this county is Barzand Castle that was the castle of Afshin who battled with Babak Khorramdin in earlier century of Islamic history.People of this county are Muslim and speak in Azeri.

Guru Arjan

Guru Arjan included the compositions of both Hindu and Muslim saints which he considered consistent with the teachings of Sikhism.

Guru Nanak

His father was a patwari (accountant) for crop revenue in the village of Talwandi, employed by a Muslim landlord of that area, Rai Bular Bhatti.

Guy Bisaillon

A practical consequence of the bill was to withdraw the franchise from Jews, Muslims, and other non-Catholics and non-Protestants.

Hajra

Although the origins of this name mean sunshine or sunlight, this name is the basis for Hajj, the (annual) pilgrimage to Mecca performed by Muslims.

Hayriye, İnegöl

Hayriye was founded in 1877-78 by Georgian families of Muslim faith who migrated to Turkey from the border area between Georgia and Turkey (near Artvin) (situated in the province of Adjara in today's Republic of Georgia).

Hilal railway station

After the Republic of Turkey was formed in 1923, the station's name was changed to Hilal which means 'crescent', due to the majority of the city's population being Muslim.

Imtan

It had an all Muslim population consisting of 7 households and 2 bachelors.

Islamic view of miracles

For Muslim theologians, the laws of nature were only the customary sequence of apparent causes: customs of God.

Jhojha

In terms of religion, they are fairly orthodox Sunni Muslims, and have customs similar to other neighbouring Muslim peasant castes, such as the Kamboh, Garha, and Muley Jat.

Kababish tribe

The main religion of the Kababish is Sunni Muslim, but it is said that due to their nomadic lifestyle where water is short they are not strict followers of their religion's practices.

Kachar

The Kachar intermarry with some neighbouring Muslim communities such as the Attar, Faqir and Pinjara, although most marriages are within the community.

Kankali

The Kankali are a Muslim community found in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India.

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However, there is little interaction with neighbouring Muslim communities such as the Muker and Baghban.

Kauman

Kauman is a typical village name used by some regencies and municipalities in Central and East Java to name an area where pious Muslim communities are concentrated.

Khabab

It had a Muslim population consisting of 45 households and 30 bachelors, and a Christian population consisting of 3 households and 2 bachelors.

Kitáb-i-Íqán

By extension the same method of interpretation can be used for a Muslim to see the validity of the claims of the Báb.

Koka and Vikoka

The names and deeds of these demon brothers are comparable to Gog and Magog in the Bible and ya'jooj wa ma'jooj (يأجوج و مأجوج) of Muslim tradition as they are mentioned in the Qur'an.

Kumara Rama

Kumara Rama died at a very young age battling the Muslim armies of Tughlaq and was the basis for the foundation of the Vijayanagar empire.He belonged to the Nayaka community and was a cousin of Harihara and Bukka.

Lebanese National Movement

However, to say that the LNM was a Muslim organization would be a gross oversimplification.

Leo Frankowski

: Lady Francine, a French woman known as one of the two most beautiful women in Poland (the other lives with Conrad, but as an heretical Muslim can't or won't marry him) maneuvers Conrad into marrying her.

Maarrat al-Ikhwan

Following his death in 1640, Sultan Murad ordered the construction of a shrine over his tomb in Ma'arrat al-Ikhwan where it is still visited by both Muslims and Druze to receive blessings.

Mahajjah

It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 40 households and 24 bachelors.

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Local Muslim tradition holds that the prophet Muhammad had sat on or leaned against a stone at Mahajjah and that the stone would ease the pain of childbirth.

Milkana G. Palavurova

Milkana G. had become known for her article on yoga and religion, where she made a comparison between Muslim prayers and yoga positions.

Morris Schinasi

He was treated by a Muslim physician named Şinasi (Shinasi or Schinasi in European languages) and regained his health.

Moses Capsali

The sultan thought so much of the rabbi that he assigned to him a seat in the divan beside the mufti, the religious head of the Muslims, and above the patriarch of the Christians.

Mukhayriq

The Battle of Uhud was fought between a force from the Muslim community of Medina, led by the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and a force led by Abu Sufyan ibn Harb from Mecca on March 19, 625.

Muslim Barhai

Although they live in close proximity to other Muslim groups, such as the Shaikh, Gaddi, Ansari, Rajput Muslim and Qassab in Doab, and the Muslim Teli, Muslim Banjara, Baghban and Rohilla in Rohilkhand, there is very little interaction, and virtually no intermarriage.

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According to their own traditions, they are descended from early Muslim settlers to India.

Muslim Burial Ground, Horsell Common

The Muslim Burial Ground, Horsell Common was the original resting place of two dozen Muslim soldiers who died during World War I and World War II.

Muslim-Christian Associations

In 1923 the chief secretary to the high commissioner, Colonel Wyndham Deedes, ordered investigations into some of the leaders of the Muslim National Associations.

Musunuri Nayaks

After the fall of Warangal, Muslim armies marched forward and captured Kondapalli, Kondaveedu, Rajahmundry, Nidadavole, Nellore, and Kolanuveedu forts.

Naisrín Elsafty

Naisrín grew up in a multicultural and multi-religious household, celebrating both Christmas and the Muslim festival of Eid ul-Fitr (the end of Ramadan).

Najran, Syria

It had a population of 65 households and 25 bachelors, all Muslim.

Operation Pitsford

On 26 April 2013, eleven British Muslims were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 40 months to life imprisonment.

Polkovnik Savovo

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Qanawat

It had a Christian population consisting of 5 households and a Muslim population of 12 households; the inhabitants included a settled group of beduins.

Ragheb Harb

Sheikh Ragheb Harb (1952–1984) was a Lebanese resistance leader and Muslim cleric.

Rayeen

The Arain/Rain are a Sunni Muslim community and are present mainly in Western part of the state of Uttar Pradesh in India.

Sabarmati Express

It has been alleged that the attack was the result of a conspiracy hatched by local Muslims.

Saiqalgar

The Saiqalgar are a Muslim community found in the state of Maharashtra in India.

Sheikh Khalid Hafiz

As the Imam for the capital Sheikh Khalid Hafiz played an important role in the development of both the local urban Muslim community and the broader New Zealand Islamic minority the 1980s and 1990s.

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He also provided important spiritual and religious guidance and leadership to the growing Muslim community - especially in areas without full-time ulema - that often required lateral thinking and patience.

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Sheikh Khalid Hafiz (Sheikh Khalid Kamal Abdul Hafiz; 1 December 1938 – 6 December 1999) was an Indian-born Imam who served as the senior religious advisor to the New Zealand Muslim minority over 1982 to 1999.

Susila Budhi Dharma

Although the author described himself as a conventional Muslim, the book's name chimes with ancient Indian wisdom.

Tafas

It had a population of 73 households and 40 bachelors, all Muslim.

Vievo

During the First Balkan War, the village was set on fire by the local Bulgarian militia to ethnically cleanse the Muslim Turks from the region.

Zahira College Mawanella

It is currently the one of the largest Muslim educational institution in Sri Lanka with more than 4000 students studying there.


Aaj Tak

During 2002 Gujarat violence, Aaj Tak decided not to show the news about Hindus planting small statues of Hanuman known as Hulladia Hanumans in Muslim places of worship.

Abtaa

It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 44 households and 20 bachelors.

Ali Mitayev

In 1919 he forged an alliance with the Bolsheviks against Denikin’s White forces provided the Bolsheviks would guarantee Chechen autonomy and Muslim religious practices within a Soviet system.

Alwar district

During the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, Rao raja Bane Singh sent a force consisting mainly of Muslims and Rajputs, to relieve the British garrison in Agra.

Birth in Benin

Religions practiced in Benin include the following: Christian (42.8%), Muslim (24.4%), Vodoun (17.3%), and “other” (15.5%).

Black Sea Region

Though the overwhelming majority is Turkish, the east of the region is also inhabited by the Laz, a people who speak a Georgian dialect and converted to Islam from Georgian Orthodoxy in the late Ottoman period as well as Muslim Georgians, also the Hemsin, Armenian converts to Islam, and Pontic Greeks, who converted to Islam in 17th century.

Deir al-Bukht

It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 15 households and 6 bachelors.

Derby sex gang

This case occurred after other incidents in Rochdale, Preston and Rotherham, where Asian gangs, usually Muslim Pakistani men, had been convicted of child grooming and rape.

Edwin Samuel Montagu

On this subject, at the Council of Four on 17 May 1919, he introduced representatives of Muslim India (including the Aga Khan) and urged that Muslim peoples were beginning to see the Conference as "taking sides against Islam".

Fermi Project

Fermi and its projects have made national headlines when they asked Eboo Patel, a Muslim leader and thinker, to present to their ambitious Christian audience.

Flying while Muslim

The issue was brought to media attention in 2006 (Flying Imams controversy) when six Muslim imams were removed from a US Airways flight after they allegedly engaged in suspicious behavior reminiscent of that of the 9/11 hijackers.

Ibn Hamdis

"Abd, al-Jabbar Ibn Hamdis left his native Sicily in 1078 at the age of twenty-four, and for the rest of his long life wandered in al-Andalus and North Africa as a court poet, singing the praises of his Arab hosts and lamenting the loss of his home and the demise of Muslim culture in the wake of the Norman invasion of Sicily and the Reconquista in Spain." (Gabriel Levin, To These Dark Steps, 2012, p.77)

Ifat

Ifat Sultanate, a Muslim kingdom in the northern Horn of Africa.

Invasion of Buwat

After the safe return of the Muslim force to Madīnah led by Ḥamzah ibn ‘Abdu’l-Muṭṭalib, Muḥammad personally led 200 mounted men including both al-Muhājirūn and al-Anṣār to Buwāṭ. This expedition took place a month after the expedition at al-Abwā’.

Islam: The Straight Path

Muslim fundamental tenets of belief and practices are also discussed as is the development of Islamic theology, law and Sufism.

Islamic studies

In a non-Muslim context, Islamic studies generally refers to the historical study of Islam: Islamic civilization, Islamic history and historiography, Islamic law, Islamic theology and Islamic philosophy.

Jinnah Muslim School

Jinnah Muslim School & College is a school situated at Park Road, Chak Shahzad, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Johannesburg Muslim School

Johannesburg Muslim School is a partly private school situated in Fordsburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Jolo

Known as the Bates treaty, the agreement provided for the exercise of American authority over the Sulu archipelago in exchange for the recognition of Muslim culture and religion.

Kabaria

The Kabaria, sometimes pronounced as Kabariya are a Muslim community found in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India, mainly in the Awadh region.

Kalapahad

Kalapahad or Kala Pahar (Black Mountain) was the title of an Iconoclast Muslim general of Mughal governor Sultan Sulaiman Karrani of Bengal.

Khalil Gibran International Academy

The BBC reports that some attendees have joined to reconnect with their families' culture and homeland; others, with no Arab or Muslim background, because they believe learning the language will give them a valuable skill.

Lamido

Bibemi, since its 1770 foundation, until the higher Muslim title Sultan was assumed

Lauren Green

After a 2013 interview with Muslim-American scholar Reza Aslan, Green received heavy criticism for her line of questions.

Macassar Dunes Conservation Area

In the 1600s under colonial rule, the first Muslim community in South Africa was founded here by Sheikh Yusuf of Indonesia, who named the area after his home in Indonesia – the original Khoi name for the area was not recorded.

Muhammad ibn al Uthaymeen

Sheikh Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Saalih ibn Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymeen at-Tamimi (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن صالح بن محمد بن سليمان بن عبد الرحمن العثيمين التميمي) (March 9, 1925 – January 10, 2001) was one of the most prominent Sunni Muslim Islamic scholars of the latter half of the twentieth century.

Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan

Sajeel Shahid, a British Muslim widely described as a founder or leader of an organization of British Muslims who supported or engaged in Jihad, said he befriended Noor Khan whil they were bothe held in Lahore.

Nihad Awad

He is featured in "Silent No More" (ISBN 1590080017) by former United States Representative Paul Findley, a book chronicling the history of the American Muslim community.

Orihuela Cathedral

It was built above a pre-existing Muslim mosque as a simple parish church, and was later converted into a main church by order of King Alfonso X of Castile in 1281.

P. K. Abdu Rabb

Abdu Rabb was born to Muslim League Leader and former Deputy Chief Minister of Kerala Late K. Avukader Kutty Naha and Kunhibiriyam Umma.

Rabiu Ibrahim

Ibrahim is a practising Muslim, and observes fasting during the Islamic month of Ramadan.

Rama Varma VIII

During Rama Varma's reign, the Muslim general Sardar Khan captured the city of Cochin and established his residence at Thrissur.

Religion in Haiti

In 2000, Nawoon Marcellus, a member of Fanmi Lavalas from San Raphael, became the first Muslim elected to the Chamber of Deputies of Haïti.

Rohingya conflict in Western Burma

On 7 November 2012, one soldier from the Burmese Army was reportedly beheaded and three others were captured by the Muslim rebels, by an armed group of the Rohingya Solidarity Organization (RSO), in their guerrilla offensive against the Burmese army in northern Maungdaw township on the Burma-Bangladesh border.

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The Burmese central government refused to grant a separate Muslim state in the Mayu region where two townships (Buthidaung and Maungdaw) lie.

Saint Roderick

Tradition states that he was a Christian priest of Cabra who had two brothers: one was a Muslim, the other had no religion.

Sarbloh Warriors

In 2006, Singh complained that the game was unfairly stereotyped by the BBC as being anti-Muslim, stating that it was meant to educate the youth on the complicated history of Sikh-Muslim tension.

Sectarian violence

Obasanjo sacked governor Joshua Dariye, accusing him of failing to act to end a cycle of violence between the Plateau State's Muslim and Christian communities.

Secularism in Bangladesh

However, the Bangladesh Army with its close ideological association of center-right and conservative political parties led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, have stated that the term Bangladeshi nationalism refers to the country as an Islamic nation given that 89% of the population is Muslim.

Sheikh Sarvari

Sheikh Sarwari are a Muslim community found in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India.

Sheila Klein

In 2013 Klein received a GAP award from the Artist Trust to assist with travel and living for a project in Ahmedabad, India, creating an architectural textile together with Muslim women who are members of the Sarkhej Roza Mosque community.

Songhai people

Following Sonni Ali's death, Muslim factions rebelled against his successor and installed Soninke general, Askia Muhammad (formerly Muhammad Toure) who was to be the first and most important ruler of the Askia dynasty (1492–1592).

Sydney gang rapes

Ethnic community group leaders, including Keysar Trad of the Lebanese Muslim Association, complained that Carr was smearing the entire Lebanese Muslim community with the crimes of a few of its members, and that his public comments would stir up ethnic hatred.

The Statesman

BBC reported that the Muslims were upset with The Statesman for reproducing Johann Hari's article "Why should I respect these oppressive religions?" from the UK's The Independent daily in its February edition.

United States–Israel Strategic Partnership Act of 2013

Coogan believes that the program would allow Israel to discriminate against Palestinian Americans, Arab Americans and Muslim-Americans who travel to Israel.

Usman Enclave, Lucknow

As a Muslim, he became a symbol of India's inclusive secularism.

Zinda Rood

Zinda Rood is a 4 volume biographical work of Justice Javed Iqbal on Muhammad Iqbal, the famous Muslim poet-philosopher.