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Early Islamic Philosophy

Moder Islamic Philosophy

Contemporay Islamic Philosophy

Islam
Shahada
Ummah
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  • The dwelling places and wanderings of the Arabian tribes, by Heinrich Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, in German

See also

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Abu Bakr
Muhammad
Muhammad in Islam
Aisha
Sahabah
Sunnah
Khadija bint Khuwaylid
Farewell Sermon
Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib
Caliphate
Rashidun Caliphate
Yazid ibn Mazyad al-Shaybani
Banu al-Munajjim

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Criticism of Twelver Shia Islam
The Fourteen Infallibles
Hasan ibn Ali
Husayn ibn Ali
Yazid I
Family tree of Ali
Descendants of Ali ibn Abi Talib
Ahl al-Bayt
Hind bint Utbah
Abu Sufyan ibn Harb
Muawiyah I
Hejaz
Prophets and messengers in Islam
First Ftna
Second Fitna
Byzantine Empire
Islamic schools and branches
Sharia
Sahih al-Bukhari
Hadith
Sunni Islam
Isma'ilism
Imam
Kufa
Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah
Hajj
Fiqh
Islamic calendar
Ottoman Empire
Mamluk
Levant
Iran
Egypt
Syria
Alevi history
Alevism
Ahmadiyya
Yazidis
Jamaat-e-Islami
Al-Muhajiroun
Salafi jihadism

Islamic Order

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  1. Afaq Khoja
  2. Al-Milal wa al-Nihal
  3. History of Shia Islam
  4. Occultation (Islam)
  5. Ya Muhammad
  6. Ghurabiya
  7. Bazighiyya Shia
  8. Khashabiyya Shia
  9. Sufism
  10. Al-Ghazali
    1. Ghazali
  11. Maliki
  12. Mevlevi Order
  13. Madhhab
  14. Alawites
  15. Naqshbandi
  16. Shabak
  17. Mysticism
  18. Mikalids
  19. Abdul-Qadir Gilani
  20. Shadhili
  21. Chishti Order
  22. Qadiriyya
  23. Hanbali
  24. Tazkiah
  25. Amman Message
  26. Muraqaba
  27. Sufi whirling
  28. Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani
  29. Zaidiyyah

Islamic Empire and Dynasties

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Dabuyid dynasty
Paduspanids
Safavid dynasty
Sasanian Empire
House of Sasan
Derafsh Kaviani
Parthian Empire
Persian Empire

Islam Geopolitical

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Islamization of Albania
Islam in Afghanistan
Islam in Africa
Tuareg people
Islam in Algeria
Islam in Angola
Islam in Australia
Islam in Azerbaijan
Shirvanshah
Islam in Bulgaria
Islam in Egypt
Islam in Germany
Islam in Ghana
Islam in Indonesia
Indonesian Mujahedeen Council
Islamization of Iran
Islam in Iran
Greater Khorasan
Iraq
Islamic Principlism in Iran
Baghdad
  1. One Thousand and One Nights
  2. Basra
Islam in Kyrgyzstan
Islam in Lithuania
Islam Hadhari
Islam in Kuwait
Islam in Malaysia
Islam in Mali
Islam in Myanmar
Islam in Niger
Islam in Qatar
Religion in Qatar
Islam in Nigeria
Islam in Oman
All Pakistan Ulema Council
Islam in Taiwan
Islam in Turkey
Shia Islam in Algeria
Shia Islam in Benin
Shia Islam in Somalia
Shia Islam in Kenya
Shia Islam in Lebanon
Religion in Lebanon
Shia Islam in Uzbekistan
Tajikistan
Islam in Tajikistan
Ahmadiyya by country
20th-century radical Islam in Egypt
Darul Islam (Nigeria)
Islam in Yemen
Islam in Zambia
Islam in Bangladesh
Islam in the Solomon Islands
Islam in Pakistan
Islam in Karachi
Islam in Saudi Arabia
Islam in the Marshall Islands
Islam in Mongolia
Islam in Norway
Islam in Syria
Islam in India
Jamiah Islamiah Talimuddin Dabhel
Islamism in the United Kingdom
Palestine
Palestinian National Authority
Turkey

Chinese Islam

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Islam in China
History of Islam in China
Islam in China (1911–present)
Han Kitab
Gedimu
Islam during the Yuan dynasty
Islam during the Ming dynasty
Sailaifengye
Xidaotang
Ngolok rebellions (1917–49)
Kashgar
Islam during the Tang dynasty

American Islam

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Practicing Islam

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Practices - the Pillars of Both Sunni and Shiat Islam

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Wahhabism
Taqiya
The Twelve Imams
Salafi movement
Ahl-i Hadith
Islamic Modernism
Aqidah
Adalah
Imamate (Twelver doctrine)
Islamic eschatology
Tolu-e-Islam
Abu Sayyaf
Yihewani
Shi'ite Islam (book)
Mahdavia
Kaysanites
Apostasy in Islam
Political quietism in Islam
Schools of Islamic theology
Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam
Women in Islam
Nuqtavi
Political aspects of Islam
King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Quran
Pasban e Islam
Gender roles in Islam
Jaysh al-Islam
Ibadi (disambiguation)
Karramiyya
Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam
Berbers and Islam
Aniconism in Islam
Glossary of Islam

Islamic Battles

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  1. Battle of the Camel
  2. Treaty of Kerden
  3. Battle of Hunayn
  4. Battle of Yamama
  5. Battle of Uhud
  6. Shafi'i
  7. Battle of Mu'tah
  8. Battle of Badr
  9. Battle of Dhi Qar
  10. Succession to Muhammad
  11. Conquest of Mecca
  12. Battle of Siffin
  13. Rabigh
  14. Hudna

Islamic Historical Personalities

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  1. Harun al-Rashid
  2. Amjad Jauhari
  3. Wahiduddin Khan
  4. Ja'far al-Sadiq
  5. Ahmad ibn Sahl
  6. Yazdegerd III
  7. Shahriyar
  8. Khosrow II
  9. Gog and Magog
  10. Ma malakat aymanukum
  11. Rebecca Masterton
  12. Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq's Islamization
  13. Lists of Muslims
  14. Charlemagne

Sufis exist in both Orders of Islam

 
Diagram showing the branches of Sunnism, Shi'ism, Ibadism, Quranism, Non-denominational Muslims, Mahdavia, Ahmadiyya and Sufism.

In terms of religious jurisprudence (fiqh), Sunnism contains several schools of thought (madhhab) such as:

The Salafi movement, is a reform branch or revivalist movement in Sunni Islam that does not believe in strictly following one particular madhhab. They include the Wahhabi movement, an Islamic doctrine and religious movement founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and the Ahle Hadith movement whose followers call themselves Ahl al-Hadith while others consider them to be a branch of the Salafi or Wahhabi movement.

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The major Shia school of jurisprudence is the Ja'fari or Imāmī school. It is further divided into two branches, the Usuli school, which favors the exercise of ijtihad, and the Akhbari school, which holds the traditions (aḵbār) of the Imams to be the main source of religious knowledge. Minor schools include the Ismāʿīlī school (Mustaʿlī-Fāṭimid Ṭayyibi Ismāʿīlīyah), and the Zaydī school, which have closer affinity to Sunni jurisprudence.

Ibadi

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The fiqh or jurisprudence of Ibadis is relatively simple. Absolute authority is given to the Qur'an and hadith; new innovations accepted on the basis of qiyas (analogical reasoning) were rejected as bid'ah (heresy) by the Ibadis. That differs from the majority of Sunnis but agrees with most Shi'ites and the Zahiri and early Hanbali schools of Sunnism.

Four ages of Sufism

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Shari’a is Islamic law or Islamic jurisprudence as revealed in the Qur'an and Sunna. The first step in Sufism is following every aspect of the law perfectly. The purpose of this is to prove their love for God, by rigorous self-discipline and constant attention to their conduct. When the Sufi fully lives his or her life according to the Shari’a he or she is ready to progress to the second stage. This conformity to earthly rules is important because it recognizes that the spirit of a man or woman is affected by the actions of the body. In this way, bringing the body under the will of God also purifies the spirit and a pure spirit is essential for the second step.

Tariqa in Arabic means path and it denotes a Sufi brotherhood or chain or order. The orders are governed by shaykhs, spiritual leaders that mentor Sufis. Shaykhs are identified by the signs of God's grace that are evident, such as the ability to perform miracles. They take on people, usually male, that are committed to the Sufi lifestyle and want to progress further in their spiritual education. It is common for the shaykh to test a new disciple by ignoring them, assigning humiliating tasks or being rude to them. When the disciple has passed these tests, he is introduced to the awrad, a series of prayers particular to that order. These prayers must be studied before they are recited, because mistakes made in the prayer are sins. When the disciple has studied and recited the awrad for an indeterminate amount of time, he is expected to experience visions and revelation from God. Sufis believe that at this point the disciple is able to see spiritual things that are veiled from most people.

In Universal Sufism, tariqat is the "phase" during which a seeker becomes increasingly aware of and responsive to inner guidance. His spiritual path through life begins to appear more clearly as a palimpsest of views and behavioral options which become available as his consciousness expands. This phase generally ensues after initiation in a Sufi order has been taken.

Haqiqa is a difficult concept to translate. The book Islamic Philosophical Theology defines it as "what is real, genuine, authentic, what is true in and of itself by dint of metaphysical or cosmic status", which is a valid definition but one that does not explain haqiqa's role in Sufism. Haqiqa may be best defined as the knowledge that comes from communion with God, knowledge gained only after the tariqa is undertaken. For instance, a shaykh that has advanced through tariqa has haqiqa and can see into the lives of his disciples in a spiritual sense. He has knowledge of pregnancies and sicknesses before his disciples tell him. He can see beyond the physical world because of his proximity to God and possession of haqiqa. Haqiqa is less a stage in itself and more the marker of a higher level of consciousness, which precedes the next and final stage, marifa.

In Universal Sufism, Haqiqat is the "phase" in which the central ongoing question/concern of the seeker is subsistent (as opposed to transient) reality. The life of the seeker becomes a fathoming device in which what is timeless, formless, weightless etc, is recognized and valued above all.

Marifat (Arabic: المعرفة‎), which literally means knowledge, is the term used by Sufi Muslims to describe mystical intuitive knowledge of spiritual truth reached through ecstatic experiences, rather than revealed or rationally acquired.

Entering into marifat in Universal Sufism, the seeker no longer asserts or defines anything. Talking about anything, such as "the four stages" of realization, is of little interest to the Sufi who has reached this stage. Or better said, all conversation topics are of equal interest. The seeker's life is then, itself, revelation.

Sufi music is the devotional music of the Sufis, inspired by the works of Sufi poets, like Rumi, Hafiz, Bulleh Shah, Amir Khusrow and Khwaja Ghulam Farid.

Mouride

Kitab al-Musiqa al-Kabir

Eminent Sufi Personalities in Islamic History

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Not to be confused with Christian Ibad

Ibadi theology

Kharijites

Unsorted

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Berbers
Islam and secularism
Religious conversion
Talib Jauhari
Governmental lists of cults and sects
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
Islam and Jainism
Encyclopaedia of Islam
Index of Islamic and Muslim-related articles