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Medina, [a] officially Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah (Arabic: المدينة المنورة, romanized: al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah, lit. 'The Luminous City', Hejazi Arabic pronunciation: [al.maˈdiːna al.mʊˈnawːara]) and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah (المدينة, al-Madina), is the capital of Medina Province (formerly known as Yathrib) in the Hejaz region of western Saudi ...
The Constitution of Medina (Arabic: وثيقة المدينة, romanized: Waṯīqat al-Madīna; or صحیفة المدينة, Ṣaḥīfat al-Madīna; also known as the Umma Document), [1] is a document dealing with tribal affairs during the Islamic prophet and later Statesman Muhammad's time in Medina [2] and formed the basis of a multi-religious state under his leadership.
A Medinan surah (Arabic: سورة مدنية, romanized: Surah Madaniyah) of the Quran is one that was revealed at Medina after Muhammad's hijrah from Mecca. They are the latest 28 Suwar. The community was larger and more developed, in contrast to its minority position in Mecca. [1]
Al Madina was founded as a weekly publication, under the name of Al Madinah al Munawarah (Arabic: Madinah the Radiant) by Hisham Hafiz's uncles, Othman and Ali Hafiz, [3] as a weekly newspaper. [4] [5] Its first issue appeared on 8 April 1937. [6] Later, it became semi-weekly.
Hamad Al-Ansari (Arabic: حماد الأنصاري, 1925–1997) was a Muslim scholar of the 20th century who served as a faculty member at the Islamic University in Madinah. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Al-Ansari specialized in the Islamic science of hadith , but his academic contributions spanned all Islamic sciences, and he was influential over many current ...
The Seven Fuqaha of Medina (Arabic: فقهاء المدينة السبعة), commonly referred to as The Seven Fuqaha (Arabic: الفقهاء السبعة), are seven experts in Islamic jurisprudence who lived around the same time in the Islamic holy city of Medina. [1]
The owners of Al-Dar Al-Shamiya (Arabic: الدار الشامية) in Syria owned the rights to print the first copy of the Quran that Uthman Taha wrote for them in 1970. [ 9 ] This Mus'haf was again printed in Medina for the first time, after minor repairs to the first edition of Al-Dar Al-Shamiyya , by the Quran Review Committee , which took ...
The siege of Medina lasted from 10 June 1916 to 10 January 1919, when Hejazi Arab rebels surrounded the Islamic holy city, which was then under the control of the Ottoman Empire.