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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.
In Arabic, Islam (Arabic: إسلام, lit. 'submission [to God]') [12] [13] [14] is the verbal noun of Form IV originating from the verb سلم (salama), from the triliteral root س-ل-م (), which forms a large class of words mostly relating to concepts of submission, safeness, and peace. [15]
The history of Islam is believed by most historians [1] to have originated with Muhammad's mission in Mecca and Medina at the start of the 7th century CE, [2] [3] although Muslims regard this time as a return to the original faith passed down by the Abrahamic prophets, such as Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon, and Jesus, with the submission (Islām) to the will of God.
Islamic architecture is the entire range of architecture that has evolved within Muslim culture in the course of the history of Islam. Hence the term encompasses religious buildings as well as secular ones, historic as well as modern expressions and the production of all places that have come under the varying levels of Islamic influence.
The term ahl as-sunna designated in this situation whose, who stayed away from heretic teachings of the different warring parties. [21] The term ahl as-sunna was always a laudatory designation. Abu Hanifa (d. 769), who sympathized with Murdshia, insisted that this were "righteous people and people of the Sunnah" (ahl al-ʿadl wa-ahl as-sunna). [22]
Sunni Muslims are the largest denomination of Islam and are known as 'Ahl as-Sunnah wa’l-Jamā‘h' or simply as 'Ahl as-Sunnah'. The word Sunni comes from the word Sunnah, which means the teachings and actions or examples of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Therefore, the term "Sunni" refers to those who follow or maintain the Sunnah of Muhammad.
Quran Aur Ilm-e-Jadeed (Urdu: قرآن اور علم جدید) is a 1959 Urdu book by Muhammad Rafiuddin. The book was first published by the Institute of Islamic Culture, Lahore. The book has been translated into English under the title Quran and Modern Knowledge and has been included in the master's degree course at the University of Punjab. [1]
Islam and Modernism (Urdu: اسلام اور جدت پسندی) is a book originally written in Urdu by Pakistani scholar Taqi Usmani on Islam and modernity. The original title is "Islam aur Jiddat Pasandi". Two years later it was translated into English with the title Islam and Modernism. It was first published in 1990. [1]