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Adat
Customary law in Muslim regions
Adhan
First call to prayer in Islam
Ahkam
Religious concept
Ahl al-Bayt
Term referring to the family of Muhammad
Akhirah
The afterlife and resurrection in Islam
Alevism
Mystical religious minority
Allah
Arabic word for God
Angels in Islam
Angels in Islamic tradition
Aqidah
Islamic term for denominational practice or theology
Arba'in pilgrimage
Pilgrimage to Imam Hussein shrine
Ash'arism
Sunni Islamic creed
Atharism
Islamic sunni theologic branch
Āyah
Verse of the Qur'an
Badawiyya
Sufi order in Islam
Bektashism
Dervish order with Balkan origins
Bishwa Ijtema
Worldwide Muslim gathering in Bangladesh
Black Stone
Islamic relic at the Kaaba in Mecca
Chishti Order
Sufi order in Islam
Companions of the Prophet
Companion, disciple, scribe or family members of prophet Muhammad
Criticism of Islam
Fasting in Islam
Fasting regulated by Islamic jurisprudence
Fatwa
Nonbinding legal opinion in Islamic law
Fiqh
Islamic jurisprudence
Five Pillars of Islam
Five basic acts in Islam
Glossary of Islam
Hadith
Collections of sayings and teachings of Muhammad
Hafiz (Quran)
Someone who has completely memorized the Quran
Hajj
Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca
Halal
Islamic term for "permissible" things
Hanafi school
School of Islamic jurisprudence
Hanbali school
One of the schools (madhabs) of fiqh (religious law) within Sunni Islam
Haram
An Arabic term meaning something that is forbidden in islam
Ibadah
Worship in Islamic religion
Ibadism
Third-largest branch of Islam
I'jaz
Doctrine which holds that the Qur’ān has a miraculous quality
Ijma
Arabic term of agreement regarding Islamic law
IMAM
1923-1955 aircraft manufacturer in Italy
Iman (Islam)
Belief in the six articles of faith in Islam
Islam by country
List article
Islamic eschatology
Islamic theology concerning life after death
Islamic holy books
Religious scriptures seen by Muslims as holy
Islamic schools and branches
Islamic schools and branches
Islamic studies
Study of Islam, Islamic civilizations and their impact on the world
Ismailism
Branch of Shia Islam
Istihsan
Islamic legal term for juristic discretion
Ja'fari school
School of jurisprudence (fiqh) in Twelver and Ismaili Shia Islam
Jahannam
Hell in Islam
Jannah
Concept of paradise in Islam
Jihad
Islamic term
Judgement Day in Islam
Tenet of faith in Islam
Juz'
Division of the Quran into 30 parts of varying lengths, but more uniform than that into surahs; used to facilitate recitation during Ramadan
Kaaba
Building at the center of Islam's most important mosque, the Masjid al-Haram
Kharijites
Muslim sect
Kutub al-Sittah
Six most highly regarded collections of hadith in Sunni Islam
Madhhab
School of thought within Islamic jurisprudence
Maliki school
One of four major schools of madhhab of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam
Maturidism
School of Sunni Islamic theology
Mevlevi Order
Sufi order in Islam
Mihrab
Niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the direction of prayer
Minaret
Architectural feature of mosques
Minbar
Pulpit in a mosque
Mosque
Place of worship for followers of Islam
Muezzin
Person appointed at a mosque to lead and recite the call to prayer
Mujahideen
Arabic term for people engaged in jihad ("struggle")
Muslim world
Muslim-majority countries, states, districts, or towns
Muslims
Adherents of the religion of Islam
Mu'tazilism
Rationalist school of Islamic theology
Names of God in Islam
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Predestination in Islam
Concept of divine destiny in Islam
Principles of Islamic jurisprudence
Traditional methodological principles used in Islamic jurisprudence for deriving rulings of Islamic law
Prophets and messengers in Islam
Prophets according to Islamic tradition
Qibla
Direction that should be faced when a Muslim prays during salah
Qiyas
Deductive analogy or reasoning by measuring the new situation with the given situation
Quran
The central religious text of Islam
Rashidun
First four caliphs following the death of Muhammad
Ritual purity in Islam
Essential aspect of Islam
Salafi movement
Sunni Islamic reform movement
Salah
Form of daily obligatory prayer in Islam
Shadhili
Sufi mystic order in Sunni Islam
Shafi'i school
The school of Islamic Jurisprudence
Shahada
Islamic oath, one of the Five Pillars of Islam and part of the Adhan
Sharia
Religious law of Islam
Shia Islam
Second-largest branch of Islam
Sīrah
Biographies of Muhammad
Sources of Sharia
Sources of Islamic Law
Sufism
Islamic mysticism
Suhrawardiyya
Sufi order in Islam
Sunnah
Literature on Muhammad's deeds and sayings
Sunni Islam
Branch of Islam
Surah
Chapter of the Quran
Tafsir
Exegesis of the Qur'an
Tajwid
Rules governing pronunciation during recitation of the Quran
Taqlid
Conforming to religious teaching of scholars in Islam without independent reasoning
Tariqa
School or order of Sufism
Tawhid
Core Islamic tenet denoting the unification of God
The ten to whom Paradise was promised
Hadith-based concept in Sunni Islam
Tijaniyyah
Sufi order in Islam
Twelve Imams
Line of successors to Muhammad
Twelver Shi'ism
Branch of Shia Islam
Ulama
Muslim legal scholars
Ummah
Arabic term used to refer to the collective community of Muslim people
Wahhabism
Religious movement within Sunni Islam
Wives of Muhammad
Wives of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
Wudu
Islamic procedure for washing parts of the body using water before formal prayers
Zakat
Form of almsgiving treated in Islam as a religious obligation or tax
Zaydism
Branch of Shia Islam