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An ongoing dispute concerns the identity of the second male Muslim, that is, the first male who accepted the teachings of Muhammad. [3] [2] Shia and some Sunni sources identify him as Muhammad's cousin, Ali ibn Abi Talib, aged between nine and eleven at the time. [4] For instance, this is reported by the Sunni historian Ibn Hisham (d.
"No Nobels for the Muslim World" by Aziz Akhmad, The Express Tribune, October 6, 2011 "Abdus Salam, 'First Muslim Nobel Laureate'", The Culture Trip. (Abdus Salam was a theoretical physicist who became the first Pakistani and the first Muslim to be awarded the Nobel Prize in the sciences.) "Dr. Abdus Salam: Nobel Laureate in Physics"
First Muslim Female convert: Khadija [5] 610 [5] When Muhammad reported his first revelation from the Angel Gabriel , Khadija was the first female and first person to convert to Islam. However, Shia Muslims claim Ali was the first to convert to Islam. Ibn Hisham & Ibn Ishaq [5] 3. First Muslim Male convert: Ali Ibn Abi Talib [6] 610 [6]
The epitaph on his tomb initially read "First Muslim Nobel Laureate". The Pakistani government removed "Muslim" and left only his name on the headstone. They are the only nation to officially declare that Ahmadis are non-Muslim. [112] The word "Muslim" was initially obscured on the orders of a local magistrate before moving to the national ...
Nineteen women have won the Nobel Peace Prize, more than any other Nobel Prize. [7] Only two recipients have won multiple Peace Prizes: the International Committee of the Red Cross has won three times (1917, 1944 and 1963) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has won twice (1954 and 1981). [6]
She fought against many serious issues including honour killing, sexual harassment and acid attacks which are too common in the male-dominating society of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. She won the U.S. State Department's 2015 International Women of Courage Award for her work on behalf of Pakistani women. [181] International Women of Courage Award: Jalila ...
According to Tabassum, who described herself as a "first-generation South Asian-American Muslim," USC officials refused in an April 14 meeting with her to share details of the university's ...
Bilal ibn Rabah was born in Mecca in the Hejaz in the year 580. [5] There are differing accounts to the racial identity of his father according to historians. One account states that his father was an Abyssinian prisoner of war who had been given the name of Rabah, in Arabic meaning profitable, he had been handed over as a slave to the Quraishi Arab clan of Banu Jumah, this account is highly ...