Companions, family, scholars, opponents, prophets preceding the Prophet ﷺ.
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Īmān, Tawḥīd, Amānah, Jihād, Akhlāq al-Nabī — the theological landscape.
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ʿUlūm al-Qurʾān, Muṣṭalaḥ al-Ḥadīth, Isnād, Tafsīr, Qirāʾāt.
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Joseph Schacht was a British-German scholar of Islamic law and one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century Islamic studies. Born in Ratibor, Upper Silesia (now Racibór...
Juddah (Jeddah) is a historic port city situated on the eastern coast of the Red Sea in the western Ḥijāz region of the Arabian Peninsula. Owing to its strategic location, the city...
Julius Wellhausen was a German Orientalist, historian, and biblical scholar whose work exercised a profound influence on the modern academic study of early Islam and sīrah. Althoug...
Jumuʿah, meaning “gathering” or “assembly,” refers to the congregational Friday prayer that holds a central place in Islamic religious and social life. Instituted during the lifeti...
Juwayriyyah bint al-Ḥārith was one of the wives of Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ and a respected member of the Banū al-Muṣṭaliq tribe. Born around 610 CE, she was the daughter of al-Ḥārith ib...
G. H. A. Juynboll (Gautier Hendrik Albert Juynboll, 1935–2010) was a Dutch scholar of Islam and one of the most influential Western specialists in ḥadīth studies during the late tw...
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