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They saw the same tribal name, left by the wanderers, in the Dardanelles, the Danube, Macedonia, Dunkirk, Dunglow in Ireland, Dundee in Scotland, Sweden, and London, [3] [37] [38] [39] and ascribed to this lost tribe the mythical Irish Tuatha Dé Danann. [17] In the name of the British they see berithish, referring to the Hebrew covenant with ...
The Ishmaelites (Hebrew: יִשְׁמְעֵאלִים, romanized: Yīšməʿēʾlīm; Arabic: بَنِي إِسْمَاعِيل, romanized: Banī Ismā'īl, lit. 'sons of Ishmael') were a collection of various Arab tribes, tribal confederations and small kingdoms described in Abrahamic tradition as being descended from and named after Ishmael, a prophet according to the Quran, the first son of ...
According to the 2011 census, 2.7 million Muslims lived in England and Wales, up by almost 1 million from the previous census, where they formed 5.0% of the general population [3] and 9.1% of children under the age of five. [4] According to the latest 2021 United Kingdom census, 3,801,186 Muslims live in England, or 6.7% of the population. The ...
According to Islamic prophetic tradition, Muhammad descended from Adnan. [7] Tradition records the genealogy from Adnan to Muhammad comprises 21 generations. The following is the list of chiefs who are said to have ruled the Hejaz and to have been the patrilineal ancestors of Muhammad. [4]
Shazia Mirza – comedian from Birmingham, England, whose act revolves around her Muslim faith [174] Shehzad Afzal – writer, director, producer and game designer born in Dundee, Scotland [175] Sophiya Haque – actress, singer and video jockey; [176] [177] played Poppy Morales in Coronation Street, 2008–2009.
Sharīf (Arabic: شريف, 'noble', 'highborn'), also spelled shareef or sherif, feminine sharīfa (شريفة), plural ashrāf (أشراف), shurafāʾ (شرفاء), or (in the Maghreb) shurfāʾ, is a title used to designate a person descended, or claiming to be descended, from the family of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (c. 570 CE – 632 CE).
Today Islam is the second largest religion in England. About 38% of English Muslims live in London, where they make up 12.4% of the population. There are also large numbers of Muslims in Birmingham, Manchester, Bradford, Luton, Slough, Leicester and the mill towns of Northern England such as Huddersfield, Dewsbury, Oldham. [7]
Both religions venerate Shuaib and Muhammad: Shuaib is revered as the chief prophet in the Druze religion, [309] and in Islam he is considered a prophet of God. Muslims regard Muhammad as the final and paramount prophet sent by God, [310] [full citation needed] [311] to the Druze, Muhammad is exalted as one of the seven prophets sent by God in ...