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Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Alawi ibn al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Aziz (1944–2004), also known as Muhammad ibn Alawi al-Maliki, (Arabic: محمد بن علوي المالكي) was one of the foremost traditional Sunni Islamic scholar of contemporary times from Saudi Arabia. [2]
Quvvathul Islam Senior Madrassa, Taliparamba, India This is a madarasa of the Jamia Masjid mosque in Srirangapatna, India. This mosque dates back to the 1700s and is where Tipu Sultan used to pray. In 2008, India's madrassas were estimated to number between 8000 and 30,000, the state of Uttar Pradesh hosting most of them, estimated by the ...
The Cambridge History of Islam is a two volume history of Islam published by Cambridge University Press in 1970 [1] and edited by Peter Holt, Ann K.S. Lambton, and Bernard Lewis. It was reprinted in 1977 with amendments and each volume divided into two for ease of use. It was replaced by the six-volume New Cambridge History of Islam in 2010. [2]
The increased integration of world societies as a result of enhanced communications, media, travel, and migration makes meaningful the concept of a single Islam practiced everywhere in similar ways, and an Islam which transcends national and ethnic customs. [8] But not necessarily transnational political or social organisations: