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1 day ago · However, following the fall of the Sassanid Persian Empire to Muslim conquerors, Islam began to spread in the area. Eventually, Iran would adopt Shia Islam, separating it from the Sunni Arab world.
8 hours ago · Islam was first introduced to Albania in the 15th century after the Ottoman conquest of the area. [5] [6] [7] During the 17th and 18th centuries, Albanians in large numbers converted to Islam. [8] [5] As Muslims, many Albanians attained important political and military positions within the Ottoman Empire and culturally contributed to the wider ...
8 hours ago · In addition, IS ordered all Christians to convert to Islam, pay “tribute” money, or leave by 19 July. According to their publication Dabiq, IS members ranked themselves at the top of the social hierarchy, followed by other Muslims, then Christians and Jews, with so-called ‘non-believers’ like the Yazidis at the bottom.
8 hours ago · Islam Times - Though Gaza war is happening in a small region, its aspects have swept the international borders and have played a key role in directing the policy of the great powers. The massive street protests in the Western countries in support of Gaza people, which had become the main obsession of the Western officials, left their initial impacts on the British parliamentary elections.
8 hours ago · The area was intended to become a “killing zone”, a source in the Israeli army's Southern Command told Haaretz. An order was also issued hours after the Hamas attack stating that “not a single vehicle can return to Gaza”, which was understood as potentially causing the death of kidnapped Israeli civilians or soldiers.
8 hours ago · The hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam and all Muslims with the means must perform it at least once. It occurs according to the Islamic lunar calendar, shifting forward each year in the Gregorian calendar. Around 1.8 million pilgrims took part this year, 1.6 million of them from abroad, according to Saudi authorities.
8 hours ago · While the word religion is difficult to define, one standard model of religion used in religious studies courses defines it as [a] system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations ...
