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The word can also refer to a decadent moral state. In this sense, people have called their own times jahiliyyah to convey a sense of moral decline reminiscent of the pre-Islamic age. [12] Islamists have used this concept of jahiliyyah to criticize un-Islamic conduct in the Muslim world. [13]
Some postmodernists have found at least one sahih (authentic) hadith on hell unacceptable—the tradition of Muhammad stating, "most people in hell are women" has been explained as an attempt to "legitimate social control over women" (Smith and Haddad), [203] or perpetuate "the moral, social, political, sectarian hierarchies" of medieval Islam ...
Shah Jalal Mazar Mosque. Jalal was said to have been born on May 25, 1271. Various traditions and historical documents differ in his place of birth, and there is a gap of two centuries between the life of the saint and literature which attempted to identify his origin.
Judah Aristobulus I, or Aristobulus I (/ ˌ æ r ɪ s t ə ˈ b j uː l ə s /; Greek: Ἀριστόβουλος, romanized: Aristóboulos), was the High Priest of Israel and the first Hasmonean king of Judaea, reigning from 104 BCE until his death the following year.
The White House released a statement in March 2024 that President Joe Biden proposed a 25% minimum tax on the unrealized gains of people who own $100 million or more in assets. Were this to ...
The Zealots were a "fourth sect", founded by Judas of Galilee (also called Judas of Gamala) in 6 CE against the Census of Quirinius, shortly after the Roman Empire declared what had most recently been the tetrarchy of Herod Archelaus to be a Roman province. According to Josephus, they "agree in all other things with the Pharisaic notions; but ...
The group he leads is among the more organized of the many rebel factions who took part in the offensive, having spent the past few years governing 4 million people in Idlib through a semi ...
Ochlocracy comes from Latin ochlocratia, from Greek ὀχλοκρατία (okhlokratía), from ὄχλος (ókhlos, "mass", "mob", or "common people") and κράτος (krátos, "rule"). [2] [3] An ochlocrat is one who is an advocate or partisan of ochlocracy. The adjective may be either ochlocratic or ochlocratical.