In many cases, the people he conquered had rebelled against their Islamic overloards and reverted to prior forms of worship.

View of the prayer hall of the Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan ( also called the Mosque of Uqba ) considered as the oldest place of worship in the Western Islamic World, it is located in the city of Kairouan in Tunisia.

An imam (, plural: A ' immah ; ) is an Islamic leadership position, often the worship leader of a mosque and the Muslim community.

Imams may lead Islamic worship services, serve as community leaders, and provide religious guidance.

In every day terms, the imam for Sunni Muslims is the one who leads Islamic formal ( Fard ) prayers, even in locations besides the mosque, whenever prayers are done in a group of two or more with one person leading ( imam ) and the others follow by copying his ritual actions of worship.

Built soon after the conquest of northwest Africa, the first mosque built in this region is the Great Mosque of Kairouan ( in Tunisia ) founded by the Umayyad general Uqba Ibn Nafi during the second half of the 7th century and considered as the oldest place of worship in the western Islamic world.

A temporary place set aside for Islamic worship is called a musalla ( Jama ' at Khana in South Asia ).

First, citing Islamic teachings forbidding grave worship, he persuaded Ibn Mu ' ammar to level the grave of Zayd ibn al-Khattab, a companion of Muhammad, whose grave was revered by locals.

Islamic legal scholarship remained the sole authority for guidance in matters of rituals, worship, and spirituality, while they lost authority to the state in other areas.

* In religious architecture, as in Islamic architecture, the prayer hall is a large room dedicated to the practice of the worship.

There are four Islamic places of worship or services in Bethnal Green for the Muslim community.

The Islamic prophet Muhammad is reported to have said " Dua is the very essence of worship ," while one of God's commands expressed through the Qur ' an is for them to call out to Him:

Although granted freedom of worship and generally better treated than non-Christians in most European countries, non-Muslims in the Ottoman empire were required, in accordance with Islamic law, to pay a special poll tax, the jizya, which in times of poor harvests was a crippling burden on mainly subsistence-level peasants.

There are ten places of worship, including a mosque and an Islamic Community Centre, a Roman Catholic church and the Church of England All Saints church.

Other houses of worship are also common, reflecting the cultural diversity existing in Australia ; the oldest Islamic structure in the southern hemisphere is the Central Adelaide Mosque ( built in the 1880s ), and one of the largest Buddhist Temples in the southern hemisphere is Wollongong's Nan Tien Temple.

The khutbah originates from the practice of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, who used to deliver words of exhortation, instruction, or command at gatherings for worship in the mosque, which consisted of the courtyard of his house in Medina.

Human representation for the purpose of worship is considered idolatry and is duly forbidden in Islamic law, known as Sharia law.

Fasting in the month of Ramadan is one of the Pillars of Islam, and thus one of the most important acts of Islamic worship.

Many Islamic theologians extend the sense of worship to include praying to some other being to intercede with Allah on one's behalf, rather than taking one's case to God Himself.

In the same way, the act of shirk is extended to include such things as the notion that God possesses human-like anthropomorphic qualities as well as acts of worship or piety whose inward goal is pride, caprice, or a desire for public admiration, although public prayer is a core Islamic aspect of faith, encouraged and supported in the Quran.

While there has been an aversion to potential idol worship through Islamic history, this is a distinctly modern Sunni view.

# The acceptance of the worship of a multitude of deities besides Allah-a view challenged by strict Islamic monotheism, which dictates that Allah has no partner in worship nor any equal ;

This is not interpreted as an imitation of cultural norms or trends that are not part of the legislated worship of Islam but rather as an adherence to Islamic theology.

In the Islamic world, astrolabes were used to find the times of sunrise and the rising of fixed stars, to help schedule morning prayers ( salat ).

Eid al-Fitr has a particular salat ( Islamic prayer ) consisting of two raka ' ah ( units ) and generally offered in an open field or large hall.

Ruku ' is bowing down following the recitation of the Quran in the standing position while praying according to Islamic ritual ( salat ).

It is also often cited during the Islamic prayer ( salat ), or during the sermon ( khutba ) in the mosques.

For many Muslims, i ' thar must be practiced as a religious obligation during specific Islamic holidays.

As was common during the years of Islamic expansion from Arabia, religious tolerance was practiced.

According to Alford Welch, the Jewish practice of having three daily prayer rituals appears to have been a factor in the introduction of the Islamic midday prayer but that Muhammad's adoption of facing north towards Qiblah ( position of Jerusalem-Islam's first Qiblah or direction of prayer, and now present Qiblah towards Kabah in Makkah ) when performing the daily prayers however was also practiced among other groups in Arabia.

Many notable Islamic scientists lived and practiced during the Islamic Golden Age.

Another means of limited democracy is that practiced in the Islamic Republic of Iran, where the right to run as a candidate is controlled by the religious authorities.

Islam is so ingrained in Malay life that Islamic rituals are practiced as Malay culture.

In this case, however, Muslim jurists have brought forth reasoning from Islamic Shariah to declare the Ahmadi Kaffir, whereas takfir practiced by extremists is not justified by Shariah law, but rather by personal beliefs.

Describing Elmasry's statements as an " absurd elevation of Islam over Christianity ," Kay noted that religious Christians led the abolition movement in the West in the 18th and 19th centuries, whereas slavery continued to exist in the Arab world into the 20th century and is still practiced in parts of Islamic Africa such as Sudan.

Saudi Arabia officially considers torture illegal under Islamic Law ; however, it is widely practiced, as in the case of William Sampson.

Some Islamic scholars argue that using the beads are forbidden, insisting that the usage of the fingers to count as what was practiced by Muhammad precludes the use of anything else.

One form of this popular Islam is Sufism -- often described as Islamic mysticism and practiced by individuals in a variety of ways.

Taqlid of scholars is widely practiced today, especially among the general population of Muslims that do not study the details of Islamic legal rulings.

Though, unlike modern day Semnan, the people of the city originally practiced Sunni Islam, similar to the rest of early Islamic Persia.

Ilm ar-Rijal ( Arabic ) is the " science of biography " especially as practiced in Islam, where it was first applied to the sira, the life of the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, and then the lives of the four Rightly Guided Caliphs who expanded Islamic dominance rapidly.

However, the Báb's laws were not widely practiced by the Bábís, and instead many Bábís became antinomian ; they also marked their new religious identity by deliberately not abiding by Islamic practice.

The Muslims of Albania during the Ottoman invasion were divided into two main communities: those associated with Sunni Islam and those associated with the Bektashi Shiism, a mystic Dervish order that came to Albania through the Albanian Janissaries that served in the Ottoman army and who practiced Albanian pagan rites under a nominal Islamic cover.

The concept of Islamic jihad can also be taken to mean a nonviolent struggle or satyagraha, in the way Gandhi practiced it.