The Jewish synagogue affords a parallel to the Christian congregation, but Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Confucianism, Taoism, Shintoism, although they have sacred scriptures, priests, spiritual disciplines, and places of prayer, do not have a congregation as a local household of faith and love.

Muslims also believe that Islam is the complete and universal version of a primordial faith that was revealed at many times and places before, including through the prophets Abraham, Moses and Jesus.

In some instances mosques have been established on the places of Jewish or Christian sanctuaries associated with Biblical personalities who were also recognized by Islam.

The officially approved form of Islam in Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, is hostile to any reverence given to historical or religious places of significance for fear that it may give rise to idolatry.

The group as a whole accepted the ethnonym " Tatars " ( finally in the end of 19th century ; although the name Bulgars persisted in some places ; the majority identified themselves simply as the Muslims ) and the language of the Kipchaks ; on the other hand, the invaders eventually converted to Islam.

Note that these are not places of formal pilgrimage ( limited in Islam to religious pilgrimages of the Hadj and Jerusalem ), but are rather places of reflection and inspiration for the pious.

In order to successfully expand Islam, he built a mosque and other " elaborate places ;" requiring baths — an important element of Muslim culture.

In the course of the hostilities, Raynald launched ships on the Red Sea, partly for piracy, but partly as a threat against Mecca and Medina, challenging Islam in its own holy places.

However, Islam didn't hold up those Jews who practiced treachery against Muhammad as archetypes nor did it portray treachery as the embodiment of Jews in all times and places.

The rapidity of this adoption was likely aided by the Arab religious traditions, which predate Islam, of both domed structures to cover the burial places of ancestors and the use of a round tabernacle tent with a dome-like top made of red leather for housing idols.

One of the Islamic names of Jerusalem ( literally " the third of the two holy places ") resolves the tension between the unchallengeable pre-eminence of Mecca and Medina vs. the desire to recognize Jerusalem as having a special status in Islam in a somewhat paradoxical manner.

As proof, more Mutasharidin managed to enter the holy sites of Islam, Mecca and Medina, than any other bay't ; as the sites are the purest places in the Arabic world, it is nearly impossible for any kindred to enter.

Islam also has a strong mystical tradition which places these heavenly delights in the context of the ecstatic awareness of God.

Bihar is one of the most sacred places of various religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism & Islam.

I was referring in my interview to a tiny minority who preach violent jihad, who incite hatred and violence against ' infidels ', apostates, Jews and homosexuals ; who in their speeches and on their websites speak passionately against free thought, pluralism, democracy, unveiled women ; who will tolerate no other interpretation of Islam but their own and have vilified Sufism and other strands of Islam as apostasy ; who have murdered, among others, fellow Muslims by the thousands in the market places of Iraq, Algeria and in the Sudan.

" She believes that " the dhimmi condition can only be understood in the context of Jihad ," and studies the relationship between the theological tenets of Islam and the hardships of Christians and Jews under Islamic rule in different times and places.

To successfully spread Islam, it was necessary to build a mosque and other " elaborate places " requiring baths, an important element of Muslim culture.

Some religions, especially those spearheaded by Chinese ethnic groups, have merged their places of worship with other religions such as Hinduism and Islam.

They were trading routes in ancient times and since the time of the Prophet Mohammed, they are the places where Islam spread and is widely practised.

During the seventh to 13th centuries when Islam arrived it replaced Buddhism as the great cosmopolitan trading religion in many places accompanied by a consolidation of the communal peasant religions of Hinduism.

With the conversion of Ghazan to Islam in 1295, the backlash resulted in the destruction of many Buddhist places of worship and the further migration of monks into Kashmir.

In part as a result of its trade-dependent culture, Ternate was one of the earliest places in the region to which Islam spread, probably coming from Java in the late 15th century.

Constantinople is also of great religious importance to Islam, as the conquest of Constantinople is one of the signs of the End time in Islam.

In Islam, the Qur ' an describes Elijah as a great and righteous prophet of God, and one who powerfully preached against the worship of Ba ' al.

However, in the Western thought, it is generally supposed that it was a specific area peculiar merely to the great philosophers of Islam: al-Kindi ( Alkindus ), al-Farabi ( Abunaser ), İbn Sina ( Avicenna ), Ibn Bajjah ( Avempace ), Ibn Rushd ( Averroes ), and Ibn Khaldun.

Neo-Platonism and the ideas of Plotinus influenced medieval Islam as well, since the Sunni Abbasids fused Greek concepts into sponsored state texts, and found great influence amongst the Ismaili Shia.

* Part three goes on to say that the Catholic Church regards the Muslims with esteem, and then continues by describing some of the things Islam has in common with Christianity and Catholicism: worship of One God, the Creator of Heaven and Earth, Merciful and Omnipotent, Who has spoken to men ; the Muslims ' respect for Abraham and Mary, and the great respect they have for Jesus, whom they consider to be a Prophet and not God.

" Less extreme leaders decry this sort of preaching, calling it a " distortion of Islam itself, the abuse and misuse of this great faith ".

Gibbon was echoed a century later by the Belgian historian Godefroid Kurth, who wrote that the Battle of Poitiers " must ever remain one of the great events in the history of the world, as upon its issue depended whether Christian Civilization should continue or Islam prevail throughout Europe.

The view that the battle has no great significance is perhaps best summarized by Franco Cardini says in Europe and Islam

Under Islam, Egypt continued to be a great source of literary endeavour, now in the Arabic language.

In Islam, doves and the pigeon family in general are respected and favoured because they are believed to have assisted the final prophet of Islam, Muhammad, in distracting his enemies outside the cave of Thaw ' r in the great Hijra.

Uthman was an early convert to Islam and is said to have spent a great amount of his wealth on charity, therefore he gained the epithet " Uthman Ghani ", which means " Uthman the giver ".

In Islam, the rights of the parents are great and are emphasized greatly in the Quran and Hadiths.

Van Agt lectured in May 2006 in Cairo at the invitation of the Egyptian electronic magazine Arab-West Report about great changes in the cultural climate of north-western Europe in the past decades, becoming more hostile to religion, including Islam.

Islam is central to the political sociology of Senegal: the religious elite carry great weight in national politics ; political discourse is replete with references and appeals to Islam.

Most often, we are satisfied by pointing out that Islam gives great value to science or establishes progressive rights for women.

This Angel has great importance in Islam as he is being narrated in various Hadiths about his role of delivering messages from ' Allah the Almighty ' to the Prophets.

He is the founder of the Tanzeem-e-islami, an off-shoot of the Jamaat-e-Islami. A great Scholar of Islam and Quran.

In Istanbul, modern-day Turkey, these " 100, 000 parchment scrolls " (" perhaps they left out the plays and poetry ") once were " the light of the Dark Ages for 800 years " and had " the books from the great libraries of Islam " added to them over time, but Scrooge and the nephews find they were destroyed in the 1204 Sack of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade.

However, in the Western thought, it is generally known that it was a specific area peculiar merely to the great philosophers of Islam: al-Kindi ( Alkindus ), al-Farabi ( Alfarabi ), İbn Sina ( Avicenna ), Ibn Bajjah ( Avempace ), Ibn Rushd ( Averroes ), and Ibn Khaldun.

In 1315 they invaded and conquered a great part of Nubia, but the power remained with a Nubian prince converted from Coptic Orthodox Christianity to Sunni Islam.

According to Mayer, features found in conflict include severe deficiencies in criminal procedure, harsh criminal penalties causing great suffering, discrimination against women and non-Muslims, and prohibition against abandoning the Islam religion.

Many consider themselves more cosmopolitan because Hejaz was for centuries a part of the great empires of Islam from the Umayyads to the Ottomans.