QUR’ANIC RECITATION. The name for the Islamic revealed scripture, al-Qur’an, means “the recitation,” in both informative and performative senses. With respect to the first, the […]
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The Qur’an in Muslim Thought and Practice
The Qur’an in Muslim Thought and Practice Because Muslims view the Qur’an as the very word of God, it naturally occupies the central place in […]
The Qur’an as Scripture
The Qur’an as Scripture The term Qur’an, most often translated as “reading” or “recital,” has been linked etymologically to Syriac qeryana (“scripture reading, lection”) and […]
QOM
QOM. A small provincial town south of Tehran, Qom (or Qum) is the site of Hazrat-i Ma’sumah, the shrine of Fatimah, sister of the eight […]
QISAS
Qiṣāṣ (Arabic: قصاص) is an Islamic term meaning “retaliation in kind” or revenge, “eye for an eye”, “nemesis” or retributive justice. It is a category […]
QARAMANLI DYNASTY
QARAMANLI DYNASTY. A Turkish dynasty founded by the original Qaramanli, Ahmed Bey, controlled Ottoman Tripolitania and, intermittently, Cyrenaica and Fezzan, from 1711 to 1835. Ahmed […]
QAJAR DYNASTY
QAJAR DYNASTY. The last of a series of tribal (or tribally based) dynasties that ruled Iran since the tenth century, the Qajars (1796-1925), like the […]