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Urdu Daira Maarif Islamiya or Urdu Encyclopaedia of Islam ( Urdu: اردو دائرہ معارف اسلامیہ) is the largest Islamic encyclopedia published in Urdu by University of the Punjab. Originally it is a translated, expanded and revised version of Encyclopedia of Islam. Its composition began in the 1950s at University of the Punjab.
This is a list of Islamic texts.The religious texts of Islam include the Quran (the central text), several previous texts (considered by Muslims to be previous revelations from Allah), including the Tawrat revealed to the prophets and messengers amongst the Children of Israel, the Zabur revealed to Dawud and the Injil (the Gospel) revealed to Isa (), and the hadith (deeds and sayings ...
An Introduction to Shi'i Islam: The History and Doctrines of Twelver Shi'ism. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-03531-5. Levy, Reuben (1957). The Social Structure of Islam. UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-09182-4. Muhammad Husayn Tabatabaei (2002). Islamic teachings: An Overview and a Glance at the Life of the Holy Prophet of ...
Jizya ( Arabic: جِزْيَة, romanized :jizya ), or jizyah, [ 1 ] is a type of discriminative taxation historically levied on non-Muslim subjects of a state governed by Islamic law. [ 2 ] The Quran and hadiths mention jizya without specifying its rate or amount, [ 3 ] and the application of jizya varied in the course of Islamic history.
The Khalīfatul Masīh (Arabic: خليفة المسيح; Urdu: خلیفہ المسیح; English: Successor of the Messiah), sometimes simply referred to as Khalifah (i.e. Caliph, successor), is the elected spiritual and organizational leader of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and is the successor of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who had taken ...
Islamic calligraphy is the artistic practice of handwriting and calligraphy, in the languages which use Arabic alphabet or the alphabets derived from it. It includes Arabic, Persian, Ottoman, and Urdu calligraphy. [ 2][ 3] It is known in Arabic as khatt Arabi ( خط عربي ), which translates into Arabic line, design, or construction. [ 4]
Tarana-e-Milli. " Tarana-e-Milli " ( Urdu: ترانۂ ملی) or "Anthem of the Community" is an enthusiastic poem in which Allama Mohammad Iqbal paid tribute to the Muslim Ummah (nation) and said that Islam is the religion of the world. He recognized all Muslims anywhere in the world as part of a single nation, [ 1][ 2] whose leader is ...
Tanvir (also spelled Tanbir, Tanveer, Tanweer, Tanver or Tanwir) (Arabic: تنوير, romanised: Tanweer; Pashto/Persian/Urdu: تنویر, romanised: Tanveer; Bengali: তানবীর, romanised: Tanbeer) is a unisex given name and surname, derived from Arabic تنوير meaning 'enlightenment', [1] also derived from Hindi and Punjabi languages in India meaning 'strong in body, brave from ...