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Pages in category "History of Islam templates" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... Template:Historians of the Islamic period; I.
Pennsylvania's most populous city is Philadelphia. Pennsylvania was founded in 1681 through a royal land grant to William Penn, the son of the state's namesake. Before that, between 1638 and 1655, a southeast portion of the state was part of New Sweden, a Swedish colony.
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Paul M. Cobb (born 1967) is an American historian of the medieval Islamic world.He is currently a Professor of Islamic History at the University of Pennsylvania.His areas of interest include Islamic relations with the West, historiography, and the history of travel and exploration.
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The diversity of Muslims in the United States is vast, and so is the breadth of the Muslim American experience. Relaying short anecdotes representative of their everyday lives, nine Muslim Americans demonstrate both the adversities and blessings of Muslim American life.
Jewish traders were operating in southeastern Pennsylvania long before William Penn. Furthermore, Jews in Philadelphia took a prominent part in the War of Independence. Although the majority of the early Jewish residents were of Portuguese or Spanish descent, some among them had emigrated from Germany and Poland. About the beginning of the 19th ...
The history replaced the original Cambridge History of Islam which was published in 1970. [2] As well as being greatly expanded from the earlier history, which was of two volumes, the new history introduces more thematic sections and covers wider ground by, for instance, a detailed examination of Sufism. It also cautiously questions the ...