• Arabic. In Islamic historical writing fitna is a term for civil war within a Muslim state, especially the five civil wars of the Islamic Caliphate during...
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  • Fitna (Arabic: فِتْنَة) is a 2008 short film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders. Approximately 17 minutes in length, the film attempts to demonstrate that...
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    Islam (/ˈɪzlɑːm, ˈɪzlæm/ IZ-la(h)m; Arabic: ٱلْإِسْلَام, romanized: al-Islām, IPA: [alʔɪsˈlaːm], lit. 'submission [to the will of God]') is an Abrahamic...
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    The First Fitna was the first civil war in the Islamic community. It led to the overthrow of the Rashidun Caliphate and the establishment of the Umayyad...
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  • Look up fitna in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fitna or Fitnah may refer to: Fitna (word), an Arabic term meaning 'trial' or 'civil strife'; also used...
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    The Second Fitna was a period of general political and military disorder and civil war in the Islamic community during the early Umayyad Caliphate. It...
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  • Umar ibn Sa'd (category People of the Second Fitna)
    Second Islamic Civil War (Second Fitna). His wife was the sister to Mukhtar al-Thaqafi, who ruled Iraq from 685 to 687, during the Second Fitna. He had...
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  • international reaction to Fitna consisted of condemnation from Muslims, several fatwa against Geert Wilders, and attempts by many Islamic countries to censor...
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    after the end of the First Fitna in 661. After Mu'awiya's death in 680, conflicts over the succession resulted in the Second Fitna, and power eventually fell...
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    The Third Fitna (Arabic: الفتنة الثاﻟﺜـة, romanized: al-Fitna al-thālitha), was a series of civil wars and uprisings against the Umayyad Caliphate. It...
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  • and material deemed provocative by Muslims, such as Geert Wilder's film Fitna. While Islamist networks earlier had a strong local base of support centered...
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  • others. Islamic apocalyptic literature describing Armageddon (or fitna) is often known as Al-Malhama Al-Kubra (The Great Epic), or (in Shia Islam) Ghaybah...
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    questioning is the first test (fitna) of humans after death. The believer will answer to this test: "God is my Lord, Islam is my religion and Mohammed is...
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  • Islamic ethics that Muslims view as being anything that goes against the commands of God or breaching the laws and norms laid down by religion. Islam...
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  • ʿAlī's rule over the early Islamic empire, between 656 CE to 661 CE, was often contested. Tensions eventually led to the First Fitna, the first major civil...
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    broke away from both the Shīʿas and the Sunnīs during the First Fitna (the first Islamic Civil War); they were particularly noted for adopting a radical...
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    In Islam, nikah (Arabic: نِكَاح, romanized: nikāḥ) is a contract exclusively between a man and woman. Both the groom and the bride are to consent to the...
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    like Ghamidi Center Of Islamic Learning, Al Mawrid Hind,Javed Ahmad Ghamidi Some books highly critical of Ghamidi are, Fitna-e-Ghamdiyat (فِتنئہ غامدیت)...
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    Traditional Sunni and Shia Islamic marital jurisprudence allows Muslim men to be married to multiple women (a practice known as polygyny). Men can have...
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    case. In the early history of Islam, examples of notable female Muslims who fought during the Muslim conquests and Fitna (civil wars) as soldiers or generals...
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  • from the fitan of the early Islamic civil wars (First Fitna (656–661 CE), Second Fitna (c. 680/683–c. 685/692 CE), Third Fitna (744–750/752 CE)), where Muhammad's...
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    Ulama (redirect from Doctorate in Islam)
    In Islam, the ulama (/ˈuːləˌmɑː/; Arabic: علماء, romanized: ʿulamāʾ, lit. 'the learned ones'; singular Arabic: عالِم, romanized: ʿālim; feminine singular...
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  • public disobedience and disorder (fitna). Apostasy is called irtidād (which means relapse or regress) or ridda in Islamic literature. An apostate is called...
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    (Arabic: الإسماعيلية, romanized: al-Ismāʿīliyya) is a branch or sect of Shia Islam. The Isma'ili (/ˌɪzmɑːˈɪliː/) get their name from their acceptance of Imam...
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  • (Arabic: غَيْبَة, ghayba) in Shia Islam refers to the eschatological belief that the Mahdi, a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, has already been...
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    group of instigating fitna—sedition—by instituting slavery under its rule in contravention of the anti-slavery consensus of the Islamic scholarly community...
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    Voice of Abu El Alaa 1945 Osman "The first Part of the Greater Sedition Al-Fitna al-Kubra ("The Great Upheaval") 1947 Spring Journey 1948 The Stream Of Days...
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  • authority in hadith and law. He remained neutral during the events of the first Fitna (656–661). Abd Allah ibn Umar (kunya Abu Abd al-Rahman : 156 ) was born...
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    Funerals and funeral prayers in Islam (Arabic: جنازة, romanized: Janāzah) follow fairly specific rites, though they are subject to regional interpretation...
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    Islam concerns the political, social, economic, military, and cultural developments of the Islamic civilization. Most historians believe that Islam originated...
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