Author: Batoota

DHIKR

DHIKR. Most commonly associated with Sufism, dhikr (“remembrance, reminder, evocation”) is both a concept and a meditative practice. It is also a unifying theme across […]

DEVOTIONAL POETRY

DEVOTIONAL POETRY. The creation of religious verse seems to be a latecomer in the Islamic world. An aversion to poetry, especially religious poetry, is palpable […]

DEVOTIONAL MUSIC

DEVOTIONAL MUSIC. The most characteristic sounds of devotional expression in Muslim communities may be the call to prayer (adhan) and the recitation of the Qur’an […]

DESTOUR

DESTOUR. At the beginning of the twentieth century an organization known as the Young Tunisians cradled a new sense of Tunisian nationalism. Drawn primarily from […]

DEOBANDIS

DEOBANDIS. The `ulama’ associated with the Indo-Pakistani reformist movement centered in the Dar al`Ulum of Deoband are known by the name Deobandis. The school at […]

DEMOKRAT PARTI

DEMOKRAT PARTI.Turkeywas ruled by the Demokrat Parti (DP) from 1950 until its overthrow by a military coup on 27 May 1960. Its founders, Celal Bayar […]

DA’WAH ACADEMY

Da‘wah Academy was established in March, 1985, in order to launch educational, training and research programmes for Da‘wah purposes addressing the needs of Muslim communities […]

DEMOCRACY

DEMOCRACY. Around the middle of the nineteenth century, new ways of thought began to emerge in theMiddle East, owing primarily to contact with European industry, […]