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53 minutes ago · Prophet’s Persian companion has conducted a both spiritual and geographic odyssey and has become a symbol of initiation. He reached the pinnacle of Shiʿa gnosis and was connected to Ali, the archetype of the righteous ruler, knight, and ascetic. Salman was among very few who rebelled against Abu Bakr’s nomination as caliph.
53 minutes ago · The issue of rationality and the approach to it emerges as one of the challenges within “Italian Shiʿism”. The approach to rationality is shaped by the imperatives that have led converts down this path. Shiʿism has drawn newcomers due to its perceived potential to disrupt the norms of the modern world. Consequently, the “minor Islam ...
9 hours ago · The Bahrain-Yamama-Makkah Hajj route was significant, as it crossed central parts of the Arabian Peninsula and connected many countries and regions. It linked the Hejaz and Iraq, the centre of the Abbasid caliphate. Early Muslim geographers stated that the Yamama road met the Basra pilgrimage route. Yamama had two roads to Makkah.
53 minutes ago · Al-Ghazali was born in c. 1058 in Tus, then part of the Seljuk Empire. [49] He was a Muslim scholar, law specialist, rationalist, and spiritualist of Persian descent. [50] [51] He was born in Tabaran, a town in the district of Tus, Khorasan (now part of Iran ), [49] not long after Seljuks entered Baghdad and ended Shia Buyid Amir al-umaras.
1 day ago · In Najaf, he visited the mausoleum of Ali, the Fourth Caliph. Then, instead of continuing to Baghdad with the caravan, Ibn Battuta started a six-month detour that took him into Iran. From Najaf, he journeyed to Wasit, then followed the river Tigris south to Basra. His next destination was the town of Isfahan across the Zagros Mountains in Iran.
- The Islamic Marco Polo, Ibn battuta al-Tanji
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1 day ago · Ja'far al-Barmaki (803) – Vizier executed on the orders Caliph Harun al-Rashid (r. 786–809). Al-Amin, the sixth Abbasid Caliph (813) – beheaded on 27 September 813 during the conflict. Al-Musta'in, the twelfth Abbasid caliph (866) – beheaded on the orders of his cousin al-Mu'tazz. Modern
1 day ago · Experiencer of Bij. Location. The Netherworld. Yesterday at 11:00 PM. #4,127. Kuja said: George should've had Greedo shoot Han and kill him and then edited him out of the rest of the movie so that it looked like Chewie did everything. Hey, you spoiled the surprise of the Extra Extra Special Edition version of the Star Wars trilogy, where their ...
