However, i ' thar is also still an Islamic ideal to which all Muslims should strive to adhere at all times.

The ideal of chivalry as the ethos of the Christian warrior, and the transmutation of the term knight from the meaning " servant, soldier ", and of chevalier " mounted soldier ", to refer to a member of this ideal class, is significantly influenced by the Crusades, on one hand inspired by the military orders of monastic warriors, as seen retrospectively from the point of view of the beginning Late Middle Ages, and on the other hand influenced by Islamic ( Saracen ) ideals of furusiyya.

* In Islamic literature and discussions, Samarkand has taken on a semi-mythological status and is often cited as an ideal of Islamic philosophy and society, a place of justice, fairness, and righteous moderation.

The Islamic Republic's effort to spread the revolution is considered to have begun in earnest in March 1982, when 380 men from more than 25 Arab and Islamic nations met at the former Tehran Hilton Hotel for a " seminar " on the " ideal Islamic government " and, less academically, the launch of a large-scale offensive to cleanse the Islamic world of the satanic Western and Communist influences that were seen to be hindering the Islamic world's progress.

This categorization was confronted by the ideal of a unified community based upon Islamic piety, an " ummah ;"

One type of ruler not part of the Islamic ideal was the king, which was disparaged in Quran's mentions of the Pharaoh, " the prototype of the unjust and tyrannical ruler " ( 18: 70, 79 ) and elsewhere.

This nostalgia played a major role in the Islamist political ideal of Islamic state, a state in which Islamic law is preeminent.

In the face of the tremendous poverty, corruption and disillusionment with conventional politics, the political ideal of the Islamic state has been criticized by many espousing liberal movements within Islam and for example by Ziauddin Sardar, as being utopian and not offering real solutions.

Others claim the devastating Iran – Iraq War " mortally wounded ... the ideal of spreading the Islamic revolution ," or that the Islamic Republic's pursuit of an ideological rather than a " nationalist, pragmatic " foreign policy has weakened Iran's " place as a great regional power ".

Kısakurek was seen as the pioneer of " ideal Islamic society " by the founders of IBDA-C.

He supported a democratic republic as the best form of government ; however in his ideal model for government, an Islamic jurist acts as a supervisor and advisor, what he, along with Ayatollah Khomeini, termed as velayat-e faqih.

According to mainstream Islamic beliefs, the Second Coming of Jesus and the arrival of the Mahdi will usher in this ideal caliphate / Imamate, which will put an end to the " tyranny of the Antichrist ", and this reign will ensure tranquility and peace for the world.

This instruction which is considered by many Muslims and even non-Muslims as the ideal constitution for Islamic governance involved detailed description of duties and rights of the ruler and various functionaries of the state and the main classes of society at that time.

This story reflects Jamī's idea of the Sufi-king as the ideal medieval Islamic ruler to repent and embark upon the Sufi path to realize his rank as God's ' true ' vicegerent and become closer to God.

He outlined that the democratic ideal of a " government by the people " is compatible with the notion of an Islamic democracy.

Lustreware was a speciality of Islamic pottery, at least partly because the use of drinking and eating vessels in gold and silver, the ideal in ancient Rome and Persia as well as medieval Christian societies, is prohibited by the Hadiths, with the result that pottery and glass were used for tableware by Muslim elites, when Christian medieval elites still normally used metal for both dishes and cups.

`` What is the point '', Charles Adams reports the Pakistanis as asking, `` in demanding an Islamic state and society if no one, not even the doctors of the sacred law themselves, can say clearly and succinctly what the nature of such a state and society is ''??

And while the nation was formerly named `` The Islamic Republic of Pakistan '', it is now simply `` The Republic of Pakistan ''.

Afghanistan ( Persian / Pashto:, Afġānistān ), officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country forming part of South Asia, Central Asia, and to some extent Western Asia.

The Islamic belief in the afterlife as stated in the Qur ' an is descriptive.

The Islamic word for Paradise is jannat and Hell is jahannam.

Today Ahmed I is remembered mainly for the construction of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque ( also known as the Blue Mosque ), one of the masterpieces of Islamic architecture.

The Islamic law of inheritance ( Sura 4, ayah 11 ) defines exactly how the estate is calculated after death of an individual.

The Latin name Aelia is the source of the Arabic term Iliyā ' ( إلياء ), an early Islamic name for Jerusalem.

* Amputation is used as a legal punishment in a number of countries, among them Iran, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Islamic regions of Nigeria.

It contains a mass of information as to the life and customs of the early Arabs, and is the most valuable authority we have for their pre-Islamic and early Islamic days.

Following the retirement of the F-14 by the US, the weapon's only current operator is Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force.

It also is a member of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ( OIC ), the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC ) forum and the Commonwealth of Nations.

Aluma is remembered for his military skills, administrative reforms, and Islamic piety.

The second noteworthy characteristic is that the country borders on very different parts of the African continent: North Africa, with its Islamic culture and economic orientation toward the Mediterranean Basin ; West Africa, with its diverse religions and cultures and its history of highly developed states and regional economies ; Northeast Africa, oriented toward the Nile Valley and Red Sea region ; and Central or Equatorial Africa, some of whose people have retained classical African religions while others have adopted Christianity, and whose economies were part of the great Congo River system.

* A lunar calendar is synchronized to the motion of the Moon ( lunar phases ); an example is the Islamic calendar.

An example is the Islamic calendar.

An astronomical calendar is based on ongoing observation ; examples are the religious Islamic calendar and the old religious Jewish calendar in the time of the Second Temple.

The Islamic calendar or Muslim calendar or Hijri calendar is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days.

It is used to date events in most of the Muslim countries ( concurrently with the Gregorian calendar ), and used by Muslims everywhere to determine the proper day on which to celebrate Islamic holy days and festivals.

With an annual drift of 11 or 12 days, the seasonal relation is repeated approximately each 33 Islamic years.

During the late 1770s and the early 19th century, the Fulani, a pastoral Islamic people of the western Sahel, conquered most of what is now northern Cameroon, subjugating or displacing its largely non-Muslim inhabitants.

The first autobiographical work in Islamic society was written in the late 11th century, by Abdallah ibn Buluggin, last Zirid king of Granada.

A passage in Muhtasar kitab al-buldan illustrates the division of Islamic society into strata: " First are the rulers, whom their deserts has placed in the foremost rank ; second are the viziers, distinguished by wisdom and understanding ; third are the wealthy upper classes, lifted by their possessions ; fourth are the middle classes who are attached to the upper three by culture ( ta ' addub ); the remainder are the lowest classes that are filthy refuse, a torrent of scum, none of whom thinks of anything but food and sleep.

Advocates of the movement seek to highlight the deeply rooted teachings of equality in the Quran and encourage a questioning of the patriarchal interpretation of Islamic teaching through the Quran ( holy book ), hadith ( sayings of Muhammad ) and sharia ( law ) towards the creation of a more equal and just society.

* " the ideology that guides society as a whole and that law must be in conformity with the Islamic sharia ",

Their ideas included the creation of a truly Islamic society under sharia law, and the rejection of taqlid, the blind imitation of earlier authorities, which they believed deviated from the true messages of Islam.

Maududi also believed that Muslim society could not be Islamic without Sharia, and Islam required the establishment of an Islamic state.

The significance of the ulema ( the body of Islamic religious leaders and jurists ) is derived from the central role of religion in Saudi society.

Islamic shari ' a has traditionally played a significant part in Somali society.

Slavery was known in almost every ancient civilization, and society, including Sumer, Ancient Egypt, Ancient China, the Akkadian Empire, Assyria, Ancient India, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, the Islamic Caliphate, the Hebrews in Palestine, and the pre-Columbian civilizations of the Americas.

Since then, changes in Islamic society have played an ongoing role in developing sharia, which branches out into fiqh and Qanun respectively.

Sharia's rules on written evidence necessarily diminish the utility of written contracts to structure economic relations, and Timur Kuran has noted the predominance of a " largely oral contracting culture " in pre-modern Islamic society.

Later, the Russian Revolution of 1917 would ultimately transform Turkmenistan from an Islamic tribal society to a totalitarian Leninist one during the Soviet era.

Ethnic Somalis for the most part blend in well with Yemeni society, as they share centuries of close Islamic, migratory and Arab origin.

By the first millennium CE, sihr became a fully developed system in Islamic society.

Although the LPF was established post-9 / 11, Fortuyn had already developed a worldview based on the " clash between civilizations ", namely between " modernity " and Islam, or Western society and Islamic culture.

We are seeking to formulate an Islamic society which in the final analysis will produce an Islamic state.

Despite attempts during the 1980s to secularize Afghan society, Islamic practices pervade all aspects of life.

While Bahrain's liberals have sought to use the opening of civil society to campaign against the domination of Islamic parties in politics, with a campaign to protect personal freedoms, We Have A Right, led by the civic group, Al Muntada.

In Islamic society, various forms of the veil have been adopted from the Arab culture in which Islam arose.