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  2. Enjoining good and forbidding wrong - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] This expression is the base of the classical Islamic institution of ḥisba, the individual or collective duty (depending on the Islamic school of law) to intervene and enforce Islamic law. It forms a central part of the Islamic doctrine for Muslims. The injunctions also constitute two of the ten Ancillaries of the Faith of Twelver Shi'ism.

  3. Symbols of Islam - Wikipedia

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    [11] [12] However, the symbol only came into widespread use after it was associated with the Ottoman Empire, who took it from being the symbol of Constantinople after their takeover of the city. [13] [14] By extension from the use in Ottoman lands, it became a symbol also for Islam as a whole, as well as representative of western Orientalism.

  4. Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought

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    Cook receiving the Farabi International Award in 2008, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad presiding. The book has been reviewed by Donna Robinson Divine [7] and Ulrike Freitag. [8]Fred Donner praises the book as the pinnacle of classical philological orientalism, Christopher Melchert, Paul R. Powers, and Andrew Rippen all give positive assessments, and Michael Chamberlain calls it a "masterpiece".

  5. List of flags with Islamic symbolism - Wikipedia

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    bears a star and crescent and the green represents Islam [7] Flag of Iran the center emblem is a stylized form of the Arabic word Allah and its five parts represent the Five Pillars of Islam ; the red and green bands bear the Takbir [ 8 ]

  6. Rub el Hizb - Wikipedia

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    'quarter of the party') is an Ancient Arab symbol in the shape of an octagram, represented as two overlapping squares ۞. While its main utility today is to mark a division inside some copies of the Quran to facilitate recitation , it has originally featured on a number of emblems and flags in the past and continues to do so today.

  7. Logos (Islam) - Wikipedia

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    The concept of the logos exists in Islam, where it was definitively articulated primarily in the writings of the classical Sunni mystics and Islamic philosophers, as well as by certain Shi'a thinkers, during the Islamic Golden Age. [1] [2] In Sunni Islam, the concept of the logos has been given many different names by the denomination's ...

  8. Category:Islamic symbols - Wikipedia

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  9. Esoteric interpretation of the Quran - Wikipedia

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    In Islam, this "primordial covenant" is the metahistorical foundation between God and humankind. [10] The Quran first mentions an 'inner meaning' (ta'wil) in Q18:65–82 in the story of Moses and Khidr, a mystical figure of the ancient Middle East who reluctantly accepts Moses as his traveling student. When Khidr performs strange acts, Moses ...