skip to content
Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim world
ClosePreview this item

Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim world

Author: Richard C Martin
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Reference USA, 2003.
Edition/Format:   eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
This encyclopedia looks at Islam's role in the modern world, doing so in context of the religion's history and development over the last 13 centuries. Contains thematic articles, biographies of key figures, definitions, illustrations, maps and more.
You are not connected to the Portland Community College Library network. Access to online content and services may require you to authenticate with your library. Remote Access
Getting this item's online copy... Getting this item's online copy...

Find a copy in the library

Getting this item's location and availability... Getting this item's location and availability...

WorldCat

Find it in libraries globally
Worldwide libraries own this item

Details

Genre/Form: Encyclopedias
Additional Physical Format: Print version:
Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim world
New York : Macmillan Reference USA, 2003
(DLC) 2003009964
(OCoLC)52178942
Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Richard C Martin
ISBN: 0028659120 9780028659121
OCLC Number: 277164084
Description: 1 online resource (2 v.) : ill., maps.
Contents: v. 1. ʻAbbas I, Shah (1571-1629) --
ʻAbd Al-Bahaʻ (1844-1921)ʻ --
ʻAbd Al-Hamid Ibn Badis (1889-1940) --
ʻAbd Al-Hamid Kishk (Shaykh) (1933-1996) --
ʻAbd Al-Jabbar (935-1025) --
ʻAbd Al-Karim Sorush (1945-) --
ʻAbd Al-Nasser, Jamal (1918-1970) --
ʻAbd Al-Qadir, Amir (1807-1883) --
Abd Al-Rahman Kawakibi (1849?-1902) --
ʻAbd Al-Razzaq Al-Sanhuri (1895-1971) --
ʻAbd Al-Wahhab, Muhammad Ibn (1703-1792) --
ʻAbduh, Muhammad (1849-1905) --
Abu Bakr (573-634) --
Abu Bakr Gumi (1922-1992) --
Abu Hanifa (699-767) --
Abu 'L-Hasan Bani-Sadr (1933- ) --
Abu 'L-Hudhayl Al-ʻAllaf (750-C. 850) --
Abu 'L-Qasem Kashani (1882-1962) --
ʻAda --
Adab --
Adhan --
Afghani, Jamal Al-Din (1839-1897) --
Africa, Islam in --
African Culture and Islam --
Aga Khan --
Ahl Al-Bayt --
Ahl-e Hadis/Ahl-Al Hadith --
Ahl Al-Hadith --
Ahl Al-Kitab --
Ahmad Ibn Ibrahim Al-Ghazi (1506-1543) --
Ahmad Ibn Idris (1750-1837) --
Ahmadiyya --
Ahmad Khan, (Sir) Sayyid (1817-1898) --
Ahmad, Mirza Ghulam (Late 1830s-1908) --
ʻAʻisha (614-678 C.E.) --
Akbar (1542-1605) --
Akhbariyya --
Akhlaq --
ʻAli (600-661) --
Aligarh --
Allah --
American Culture and Islam --
Americas, Islam in the --
Andalus, Al- --
Angels --
Arabia, Pre-Islam --
Arabic Language --
Arabic Literature --
Arab League --
Architecture --
Art --
ʻAsabiyya --
AshʻArites, AshʻAira --
Askiya Muhammad (R. 1493-1529) --
Asnam --
Assassins --
Astrology --
Astronomy --
Atabat --
Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal (1881-1938) --
Awami League --
Ayatollah (Ar. Ayatullah) --
Azhar, Al- --
Babiyya --
Bab, Sayyed ʻAli Muhammad (1819-1850) --
Baghdad --
BahaʻAllah (1817-1892) --
BahaʻI Faith --
Balkans, Islam in the --
Bamba, Ahmad (1853-1927) --
Banna, Hasan Al- (1906-1949) --
Baqillani, Al- (?-1013) --
Basri, Hasan Al- (642-728) --
Baʻth Party --
Bazargan, Mehdi (1907-1995) --
Bedouin --
BidʻA --
Bin Ladin, Usama (1957-) --
Biography and Hagiography --
Biruni, Al- (C. 973-1050) --
Body, Significance of --
Bourghiba, Habib (1901-2000) --
Bukhara, Khanate and Emirate of --
Bukhari, Al- (810-870) --
Buraq --
Cairo --
Caliphate --
Calligraphy --
Capitalism --
Cartography and Geography --
Central Asia, Islam in --
Central Asian Culture and Islam --
Childhood --
Christianity and Islam --
Circumcision --
Clothing --
Coinage --
Colonialism --
Communism --
Conflict and Violence --
Conversion --
Crusades --
Dar al-Harb --
Dar al-Islam --
Daʻwa --
Dawla --
Death --
Deoband --
Devotional Life --
Dhikr --
Dietary Laws --
Disputation --
Divorce --
Dome of the Rock --
Dreams --
Duʻa --
East Asia, Islam in --
East Asian Culture and Islam --
Economy and Economic Institutions --
Education --
Empires --
Empires: Abbasid --
Empires: Byzantine --
Empires: Mongol and Il-Khanid --
Empires: Mogul --
Empires: Ottoman --
Empires: Safavid and Qajar --
Empires: Sassanian --
Empires: Timurid --
Empires: Umayyad --
Erbakan, Necmeddin (1926-) --
Ethics and Social Issues --
Ethiopia --
Ethnicity --
Eunuchs --
European Culture and Islam --
Europe, Islam in --
Expansion --
Fadlallah, Muhammad Husayn (1935- ) --
Falsafa --
Farrakhan, Louis (1933- ) --
Fasi, Muhammad ʻAllal Al- (1910-1974) --
Fatima (C. 605-633) --
Fatwa --
Fedaʻiyan-e Islam --
Feminism --
Fez --
Fitna --
Fundamentalism --
Futuwwa --
Gasprinskii, IsmaʻIl Bay (1851-1914) --
Gender --
Genealogy --
Ghannoushi, Rashid Al- (1941- ) --
Ghayba(t) --
Ghazali, Al- (C. 1059-1111) --
Ghazali, Muhammad Al- (1917-2001) --
Ghazali, Zaynab Al- (1917-) --
Globalization --
Grammar and Lexicography --
Greek Civilization --
Hadith --
Hajj Salim Suwari, Al-(C. 1300) --
Haj ʻUmar Al-Tal, Al-(1797-1864) --
Hallaj, Al-(858-922) --
HAMAS --
Harem --
Haron, Abdullah (1924-1969) --
Hasan (624-670) --
Hashemi-Rafsanjani, ʻAli-Akbar (1934-) --
Healing --
Heresiography --
Hijra --
Hijri Calendar --
Hilli, ʻAllama Al- (1250-1325) --
Hilli, Muhaqqiq Al- (1205-1277) --
Hinduism and Islam --
Hisba --
Historical Writing --
Hizb Allah --
Hojjat Al-Islam --
Hojjatiyya Society --
Holy Cities --
Homosexuality --
Hosayniyya --
Hospitality and Islam --
Hukuma Al-Islamiyya, Al-(Islamic Government) --
Human Rights --
Humor --
Husayn (603-661) --
Husayni, Hajj Amin Al- (1895-1974) --
Husayn, Taha (1889-1973) --
ʻIbadat --
Ibn Al-ʻArabi (1165-1240) --
Ibn Battuta (1304-1368) --
Ibn Hanbal (780-855) --
Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) --
Ibn Maja (824-887) --
Ibn Rushd (1126-1198) --
Ibn Sina (980-1037) --
Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328) --
Identity, Muslim --
Ijtihad --
Ikhwan Al-Muslimin --
Ikhwan Al-Safa --
Imam --
Imamate --
Imamzadah --
Internet --
Intifada --
Iqbal, Muhammad (C. 1877-1938) --
Iran, Islamic Republic of --
Ishraqi School --
Islam and Islamic --
Islam and Other Religions --
Islamicate Society --
Islamic Jihad --
Islamic Salvation Front --
Islamic Society of North America --
Ismaʻil I, Shah (1487-1524) --
Jaʻfar Al-Sadiq (C. 701-765) --
Jahannam --
Jahiliyya --
Jamaʻat-e Islami --
Jamiʻ --
Jamil Al-Amin, Imam (1943- ) --
Jamʻiyat-e ʻUlama-e Hind --
Jamʻiyat-e ʻUlama-e Islam --
Jamʻiyat-e ʻUlama-e Pakistan --
Janna --
Jevdet Pasha (1822-1895) --
Jihad --
Jinnah, Muhammad ʻAli (1876-1948) --
Judaism and Islam --
Kalam --
Kano --
Karaki, Shaykh ʻAli --
Karbala --
Kemal, Namek (1840-1888) --
Khalid, Khalid Muhammad (1920-1996) --
KhamaneʻI, Sayyed ʻAli (1939- ) --
Khan --
Khanqa (Khanaqa, Khanga) --
Khan, Reza of Bareilly (1856-1921) --
Kharijites, Khawarij --
Khidr, Al- --
Khilafat Movement --
Khirqa --
Khiva, Khanate of --
Khoʻi, Abo ʻL-Qasem (1898-1992) --
Khojas --
Khomeini, Ruhollah (1902-1989) --
Khutba --
Kindi, Al- (801-866) --
Knowledge --
Komiteh --
Kunti, Mukhtar Al- (1729-1811) --
Law --
Lebanon --
Liberalism --
Liberation Movement of Iran --
Libraries. v. 2. Madani, ʻAbbasi (1931- ) --
Madhhab --
Madrasa --
Mahdi --
Mahdi, Sadiq Al- (1936- ) --
Mahdist State, Mahdiyya --
Mahr --
Majlis --
Majlisi, Muhammad Baqir (1627-1698) --
Makassar, Shaykh Yusuf (C. 1626-1699) --
Malcolm X (1925-1965) --
Malik, Ibn Anas (C. 708-795) --
MaʻMun, Al- (786-833) --
Manar, Manara --
Manicheanism --
Mansa Musa (? -1337) --
Marjaʻ Al-Taqlid --
Marriage --
Martyrdom --
Marwa, Muhammad (D. 1980) --
Marwan (623-685 C.E.) --
Masculinities --
Mashhad --
Masjid --
Maslaha --
Material Culture --
Maturidi, Al- (?-944) --
Maududi, Abu L-Aʻlaʻ (1903-1979) --
Mazalim --
Mazrui, Mazruʻi --
Medicine --
Mihna --
Mihrab --
Military Raid --
Minbar (Mimbar) --
Minorities --
Minorities: Dhimmis --
Minorities: Offshoots of Islam --
Miracles --
Miʻraj --
Modernism --
Modernity --
Modernization, Political --
Administrative, Military, And Judicial Reform --
Authoritarianism and Democratization --
Constitutionalism --
Participation, Political Movements, and Parties --
Modern Thought --
Mojahedin-e Khalq --
Mojtahed-Shabestari, Mohammad (1937- ) --
Molla --
Mollabashi --
Monarchy --
Moravids --
Mosaddeq, Mohammad (1882-1967) --
Motahhari, Mortaza (1920-1979) --
Muʻawiya (?-680) --
Mufti --
Muhammad (570-632 C.E.) --
Muhammad Ahmad Ibn ʻAbdullah (1844-1885) --
Muhammad ʻAli, Dynasty of --
Muhammad Al-Nafs Al-Zakiyya (D. 762 C.E.) --
Muhammad, Elijah (1897-1975) --
Muhammadiyya (Muhammadiyah) --
Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlevi (1919-1980) --
Muhammad, Warith Deen (1933- ) --
Muharram --
Muhasibi, Al- (781-857) --
Muhtasib --
Mujahidin --
Mulla Sadra (C. 1572-1640) --
MurjiʻItes, Murjiʻa --
Music --
Muslim Ibn Al-Hajjaj (C. 817-875) --
Muslim Student Association of North America --
Muʻtazilites, Muʻtazila --
Nader Shah Afshar (1688-1747) --
Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) --
Naʻini, Mohammad Hosayn (1860-1936) --
Najaf --
Nar --
Nasaʻi, Al- (830-915) --
Nationalism --
Nationalism: Arab --
Nationalism: Iranian --
Nationalism: Turkish --
Nation of Islam --
Nawruz --
Nazzam, Al- (782-C. 840) --
Networks, Muslim --
Nikah --
Niyabat-e ʻAmma --
Nizam Al-Mulk (C.1018-1092) --
Nizari --
Nur Movement --
Nuri, Fazlallah (1843-1909) --
Nursi, Said (1876-1960) --
Organization of the Islamic Conference --
Orientalism --
Pakistan, Islamic Republic of --
Pan-Arabism --
Pan-Islam --
Pan-Turanism --
Pasdaran --
Persian Language and Literature --
Pilgrimage --
Pilgrimage: Hajj --
Pilgrimage: Ziyara --
Pluralism --
Pluralism: Legal and Ethno-Religious --
Pluralism: Political --
Political Islam --
Political Organization --
Political Thought --
Polygamy --
Property --
Prophets --
Purdah --
Qadhdhafi, Mumar al- (1943- ) --
Qadi (Kadi, Kazi) --
Qaida, Al- --
Qanun --
Qibla --
Qom --
Qurʻan --
Qutb, Sayyid (1906-1966) --
Rabiʻa of Basra (C. 714-801) --
Rahman, Fazlur (1919-1988) --
Rashid, Harun Al- (C. 763 or 766-809) --
Rashidun --
Rawza-Khani --
Refah Partisi --
Reform --
Reform: Arab Middle East and North Africa --
Reform: Iran --
Reform: Muslim Communities of the Russian Empire --
Reform: South Asia --
Reform: Southeast Asia --
Religious Beliefs --
Religious Institutions --
Republican Brothers --
Revolution --
Revolution: Classical Islam --
Revolution: Islamic Revolution in Iran --
Revolution: Modern --
Reza Shah (1878-1944) --
Riba --
Rida, Rashid (1865-1935) --
Ritual --
Rumi, Jalaluddin (1207-1273) --
Rushdie, Salman (1947- ) --
Sadat, Anwar Al- (1918-1981) --
Sadr --
Sadr, Muhammad Baqir Al- (1930-1980) --
Sadr, Musa Al- (1928-1978?) --
Sahara --
Saint --
Saladin (1137 or 1138-1193) --
Salafiyya --
Saleh Bin Allawi (C. 1844-1935) --
Saudi Dynasty --
Sayyid --
Science, Islam and --
Secularism, Islamic --
Secularization --
Shafiʻi, al- (C. 767-820) --
Shaltut, Mahmud (1893-1963) --
Shariʻa --
Shariʻati, ʻAli (1933-1977) --
Sharif --
Shariʻat-Shangalaji, Reza-Qoli (1890-1943) --
Shaykh Al-Islam --
Shaykhiyya --
Shiʻa --
Shiʻa: Early --
Shiʻa: Imami (Twelver) --
Shiʻa: IsmaʻIli --
Shiʻa: Zaydi (Fiver) --
Shirk --
Sibaʻi, Mustafa Al- (1915-1964) --
Silsila --
Sirhindi, Shaykh Ahmad (1564-1624) --
Socialism --
South Asia, Islam in --
South Asian Culture and Islam --
Southeast Asia, Islam in --
Southeast Asian Culture and Islam --
Succession --
Suhrawardi, Al- (C. 1154-1191) --
Sukayna (671-737) --
Sultanates --
Sultanates: Ayyubid --
Sultanates: Delhi --
Sultanates: Ghaznavid --
Sultanates: Mamluk --
Sultanates: Modern --
Sultanates: Seljuk --
Sunna --
Suyuti, Al- (1445-1505) --
Tabari, Al- (839-923) --
Tablighi Jamaʻat --
Tafsir --
Tahmasp I, Shah (1514-1576) --
Tajdid --
Taliban --
Tanzimat --
Taqiyya --
Taqlid --
Tariqa --
Tasawwuf --
TaʻZiya (TaʻZiyeh) --
Terrorism --
Thaqafi, Mukhtar Al- (C. 622-687) --
Timbuktu --
Touba --
Traditionalism --
Translation --
Travel and Travelers --
Tribe --
Turabi, Hasan Al- (1932- ) --
Tusi, Muhammad Ibn Al-Hasan (Shaykh Al-TaʻIfa) (995-1067) --
Tusi, Nasir Al-Din (1201-1274) --
Ulema --
ʻUmar (C. 581-644) --
Umma --
Umm Kulthum (1904?-1975) --
United States, Islam in --
Urdu Language, Literature, and Poetry --
Usuliyya --
ʻUthman Dan Fodio (1754-1817) --
ʻUthman Ibn ʻAffan (R. 644-656) --
Veiling --
Velayat-e Faqih --
Vernacular Islam --
Wahdat Al-Wujud --
Wahhabiyya --
Wajib Al-Wujud --
Wali Allah, Shah (1703-1762) --
Waqf --
Wazifa --
Wazir --
West, Concept of in Islam --
Women, Public roles of --
Yahya Bin ʻAbdallah Ramiya (1856-1931) --
Young Ottomans --
Young Turks --
Youth Movements --
Yusuf Ali, ʻAbdullah (1872-1953) --
Zand, Karim Khan (c. 1705-1779) --
Zanzibar, Saʻidi Sultanate of --
Zar --
Zaytuna.
Responsibility: edited by Richard C. Martin.

Abstract:

This encyclopedia looks at Islam's role in the modern world, doing so in context of the religion's history and development over the last 13 centuries. Contains thematic articles, biographies of key figures, definitions, illustrations, maps and more.
Retrieving notes about this item Retrieving notes about this item

Reviews

Editorial reviews

Publisher Synopsis

"This set is recommended for all public libraries."

 
User-contributed reviews
Retrieving GoodReads reviews...

Tags

Be the first.

Similar Items

Related Subjects:(1)

User lists with this item (2)

Confirm this request

You may have already requested this item. Please select Ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway.

Close Window

Please sign in to WorldCat 

Don't have an account? You can easily create a free account.