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What Can Parents Do?

Improve Your Memory-ch2 What Can Parents Do? There are probably even more dedicated parents out there than dedicated students, since the first phone call at […]

Improve Your Memory

Improve Your Memory -ch 1 If it weren’t for the fact that reading is the absolute underpinning of every other study skill, I could make […]

TAWHID

TAWHID. An Arabic term meaning literally “making one” or “unifying,” is considered by many twentieth century Islamic activists to be the axial or defining doctrine […]

TAQWA

TAQWA. A crucial Islamic concept, taqwa essentially signifies “god-consciousness” and “godfearing” and, by extension, “piety,” with which it seems to have a partially comparable semantic […]

TAQLID

TAQLID. Discussions of reform movements in modern Islam frequently depict these movements as aimed primarily at the eradication of a frame of mind called taghd […]

TAQIYAH

TAQIYAH is the precautionary dissimulation of religious belief and practice in the face of persecution. All Muslims recognize the personal duty of affirming right and […]

TANZIMAT

TANZIMAT. The Turkish term Tanzimat (“regulation”) denotes a period of social and political reform that transformed the Ottoman Empire by integrating into it institutions deliberately […]

TANZANIA

TANZANIA. Although Islam was practiced in East African coastal enclaves and off-shore islands such as Zanzibar (that are now part of Tanzania) as early as […]

TALEQANI, MAHMUD

TALEQANI, MAHMUD (1910-1979), Iranian cleric and political activist, a key ideologue of the Islamic Revolution Of 1978-1979. Talegani (or Taliqani) was born into a family […]