Muslim - History Lab https://historylab.es Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:38:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Muslim - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Islam and Gender in Europe https://historylab.es/islam-and-gender-in-europe/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=islam-and-gender-in-europe Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:42:29 +0000 https://historylab.es/islam-and-gender-in-europe/ Article by Fabio Giomi published in the Encyclopédie d'histoire numérique de l'Europe (2020)

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]]> Europe is today home to major Muslim populations because of a modern history in which the Ottoman presence over a part of the continent was accompanied by colonial domination of European powers, with its subsequent effects on economic migrations. Here we will examine three aspects of the relation between gender, Islam, and Europe. First, we will concentrate on the systems of representation built by European cultural elites with respect to Muslims, as well as their variation according to class, race, and gender. Second, we will broach the policies of nation states toward their Muslim populations, which have fluctuated between assimilation and stigmatization depending on the period and location, in addition to the responses of Muslim elites who juggled between religion-based community building and integration within broader national. Finally, we will concentrate on the ability to act of Europe’s Muslims, which is reflected in the variety of their gender discourses and practices.

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]]> Islam, the Quran, and the Five Pillars https://historylab.es/islam-the-quran-and-the-five-pillars/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=islam-the-quran-and-the-five-pillars Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:42:13 +0000 https://historylab.es/islam-the-quran-and-the-five-pillars/ Video in which John Green teaches you the history of Islam.

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]]> Video in which John Green teaches you the history of Islam, including the revelation of the Qu’ran to Muhammad, the five pillars of Islam, how the Islamic empire got its start, the Rightly Guided Caliphs, and more. Learn about hadiths, Abu Bakr, and whether the Umma has anything to do with Uma Thurman (spoiler alert: it doesn’t). Also, learn a little about the split between Sunni and Shia Muslims, and how to tell if this year’s Ramadan is going to be difficult for your Muslim friends. Let’s try to keep the flame wars out of this reasoned discussion.

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]]> Estimated distribution of Sunni Muslims in Middle East https://historylab.es/estimated-distribution-of-sunni-muslims-in-middle-east/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=estimated-distribution-of-sunni-muslims-in-middle-east Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:42:06 +0000 https://historylab.es/estimated-distribution-of-sunni-muslims-in-middle-east/ Map Showing the estimated distribution of Sunni Muslims in Middle East

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]]> The great majority of the world’s more than 1.5 billion Muslims are Sunnis – estimates suggest the figure is somewhere between 85% and 90%. In the Middle East, Sunnis make up 90% or more of the populations of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Sunnis regard themselves as the orthodox branch of Islam.
The name “Sunni” is derived from the phrase “Ahl al-Sunnah”, or “People of the Tradition”. The tradition in this case refers to practices based on what the Prophet Muhammad said, did, agreed to or condemned.

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]]> Estimated distribution of Shia Muslims in Middle East https://historylab.es/estimated-distribution-of-shia-muslims-in-middle-east/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=estimated-distribution-of-shia-muslims-in-middle-east Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:42:06 +0000 https://historylab.es/estimated-distribution-of-shia-muslims-in-middle-east/ Map Showing the estimated distribution of Shia Muslims in Middle East

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]]> Shia constitute about 10% of all Muslims, and globally their population is estimated at between 154 and 200 million. In early Islamic history, the Shia were a movement – literally “Shiat Ali” or the “Party of Ali”. They claimed that Ali was the rightful successor to the Prophet Muhammad as leader (imam) of the Muslim community following his death in 632.

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]]> A common Word between us and you https://historylab.es/a-common-word-beetween-us-and-you/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-common-word-beetween-us-and-you Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:42:06 +0000 https://historylab.es/a-common-word-beetween-us-and-you/ On October 13th 2006, one month to the day after Pope Benedict XVI’s Regensburg address of September 13th 2006, 38 Islamic authorities and scholars from around the world, representing all denominations and schools of thought, joined together to deliver an answer to the Pope in the spirit of open intellectual exchange and mutual understanding. In their Open Letter to the Pope , for the first time in recent history, Muslim scholars from every branch of Islam spoke with one voice about the true teachings of Islam.

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]]> Exactly one year after that letter, on October 13th 2007 Muslims expanded their message. In” A Common Word Between Us and You”, 138 Muslim scholars, clerics and intellectuals have unanimously come together for the first time since the days of the Prophet ( صلى الله عليه وسلم ) to declare the common ground between Christianity and Islam. Like the Open Letter, the signatories to this message come from every denomination and school of thought in Islam. Every major Islamic country or region in the world is represented in this message, which is addressed to the leaders of all the world’s churches, and indeed to all Christians everywhere.

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]]> Beliefs: Nature, Magic and Religion https://historylab.es/beliefs-nature-magic-and-religion/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=beliefs-nature-magic-and-religion Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:41:52 +0000 https://historylab.es/beliefs-nature-magic-and-religion/ Virtual exhibition at the archaelogical Museum of Linares (Jaén) about rites, objects and materials linked to beliefs, magic, religion in the Mediterranean area.

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]]> The thematic exhibition, based on unique mediterranean objects, shows the diversity and interconnection of the Mediterranean imaginary in relation to religion in the last three thousand years.

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]]> The Noble Quran https://historylab.es/the-noble-quran/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-noble-quran Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:41:52 +0000 https://historylab.es/the-noble-quran/ Full text of the Quran

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]]> The website aims to make it easy for anyone to read, study, and learn the Quran.

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]]> Digital Islamic humanities project https://historylab.es/digital-islamic-humanities-project/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=digital-islamic-humanities-project Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:41:52 +0000 https://historylab.es/digital-islamic-humanities-project/ A research initiative of the Middle East Studies program at Brown University.

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]]> The site contains a working bibliography, useful resources, a frequently updated blog, and information about recent topics related to the Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies

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