But Saddam embraced Islamic rhetoric and attacked Saudi Arabia, his enemy in the war, for violating Islamic unity and its role as custodian of the two holy cities by allowing non-Muslims on its soil ( traditional Muslim belief holds that non-Muslims must not be allowed on the Arabian peninsula ), and he also accused the Kingdom of being a puppet of the west.

* Middle-Eastern theatre – the most popular forms of theatre in the medieval Islamic world were puppet theatre ( which included hand puppets, shadow plays and marionette productions ) and live passion plays known as ta ' ziya, in which actors re-enact episodes from Muslim history.

Muslim and non-Muslim princes in the Chagatai Khanate warred with each other from 1331 – 1343, and the Chagatai Khanate disintegrated when non-Genghisid warlords set up their own puppet khans in Transoxiana and Moghulistan.

The most popular forms of theater in the medieval Islamic world were puppet theatre ( which included hand puppets, shadow plays and marionette productions ) and live passion plays known as ta ' ziya, where actors re-enact episodes from Muslim history.

Noteworthy events included a June 2004 event CNI co-sponsored with the Council on American-Islamic Relations a presentation on “ The Muslim Vote in 2004 " where independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader complained that “ Muslim Americans are only the latest religious and ethnic group to feel the brunt of political hysteria and abuse ” and commented about Israeli leaders " The days when the chief Israeli puppeteer comes to the United States and meets with the puppet in the White House and then proceeds to Capitol Hill, where he meets with hundreds of other puppets, should be replaced.

In the performing arts, the most popular skittle of theatre in the medieval Islamic world were puppet theatre ( which included hand puppets, shadow plays and marionette productions ) and live passion plays known as ta ' ziya, where actors re-enact episodes from Muslim history.

He may have also been inspired by the Latin or English translation of a book by the Andalusian-Arab Muslim polymath Ibn Tufail, who was known as " Abubacer " in Europe.

Within the native culture, however, establishing a connection between English Language Teaching ( ELT ), patriotism and Muslim faith is seen as one of the aims of ELT, as the chairman of the Punjab Textbook Board openly states: " The board ... takes care, through these books to inoculate in the students a love of the Islamic values and awareness to guard the ideological frontiers of your students home lands " ( Punjab Text Book Board 1997 ).

For centuries his book was obscure, even within the Muslim world, but in the early 19th century extracts were published in German and English based on manuscripts discovered in the Middle East, containing abridged versions of Ibn Juzayy's Arabic text.

Mohammed also recommended that the two seek assistance from the local Muslim community, since neither spoke English nor had experience with Western culture.

The ordinary word in English is " Muslim ".

The Muslim holiday of Eid ul-Fitr (, " festivity of breaking the fast "), sometimes spelled in English as Eid al-Fitr, marks the end of Ramadan and the beginning of the next lunar month called Shawwal in Arabic.

In English the phrase first appeared in the 17th century in John Dryden's heroic play, The Conquest of Granada ( 1672 ), where it was used by a Christian prince disguised as a Spanish Muslim to refer to himself, but it later became identified with the idealized picture of " nature's gentleman ", which was an aspect of 18th-century sentimentalism.

* Sugar, an import from the Muslim world, is mentioned for the first time in a royal English account.

A few Barbary corsairs, such as the Dutch Jan Janszoon and the English John Ward ( Muslim name Yusuf Reis ), were renegade European privateers who had converted to Islam.

The word, sometimes rendered by its English translation " service ", may refer to an elaborate formal ritual such as the Eastern Orthodox Divine Liturgy () and Catholic Mass, or a daily activity such as the Muslim salat and Jewish services.

" The initiative sent a set of 18 books and tapes to public libraries written by Muslim and non-Muslim authors on Islamic history and practices, as well as an English translation of the Quran.

The Arabic names listed below are used in the Arab world, as well as some other Muslim regions, with correspondent Hebrew and English equivalents.

Trowbridge was the first English town to twin with an Arab Muslim country.

Like many titles, the meaning of the term has also extended downwards, until in Persia and Afghanistan it has become an affix to the name of any Muslim gentleman, like Effendi in Osmanli, Esquire in English.

In the Arabic language, the word simply means the same as school does in the English language, whether that is private, public or parochial school, as well as for any primary or secondary school whether Muslim, non-Muslim, or secular.

Iman is Muslim, and fluent in five languages: Somali, Arabic, Italian, French and English.

After an exhausting journey from the coast he reached Shiraz, and was soon plunged into discussion with the disputants of all classes, " Sufi, Muslim, Jew, and Jewish Muslim, even Armenian, all anxious to test their powers of argument with the first English priest who had visited them.

In recent times, the Arabic term used as a loanword in English is seen as derogatory, which is why some Muslim scholars discourage its use and suggest the neutral term non-Muslim instead.

The first is a compilation from many authors on the description and history of Muslim Iberia ; it was published by William Wright, Christoph Krehl, Reinhart Dozy and Gustave Dugat as Analectes sur l ' histoire et la littérature des Arabes d ' Espagne ( 1855 – 1861 ), and in an abridged English translation by Pascual de Gayangos ( 1840 – 1843 ).

* White English teenager Ross Parker stabbed to death in racially motivated attack by a gang of Muslim Asians in Peterborough, England.

He was the first Muslim to present a translation of the Qur ' an in to English along with the original Arabic text.

With the increasing population of English-speaking Muslims at the turn of the 20th century, three Muslim translations of the Qur ' an into English made their first appearance.

With few new English translations over the 1950 – 1980 period, these three Muslim translations were to flourish and cement reputations that were to ensure their survival into the 21st century, finding favor among readers often in newly revised updated editions.

Irving's ' modern English ' translation ( 1985 ) was a major Muslim effort during that time.

Aga Khan I (; or, less commonly but more correctly (; ), was the title accorded to Hasan Ali Shah (; ; 1804 in Kohak, Iran – 1881 in Bombay, India ), the governor of Kirman, 46th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili Muslims, and prominent Muslim leader in Iran and later in the Indian Subcontinent.

Hasan Ali Shah received protection from the British government in British India as the spiritual head of an important Muslim community.

Sympathizing with the plight of the Uyghurs, whose lands were conquered by the Qing dynasty, Ahmad Shah attempted to rally neighboring Muslim nations to check Qing expansion.

According to Jan-Gustaf Ljunggren, in an article in the Swedish journal Läkartidningen ( 1983 ; No 32-33 ), in the 12th century, Zayn al-Din al-Jurjani, another Muslim physician, provided the first description of Graves ' disease after noting the association of goitre and exophthalmos in his Thesaurus of the Shah of Khwarazm, the major medical dictionary of its time.

Shah Waliullah was a forerunner of reformists like Muhammad Abduh in his belief that there was " a constant need for new ijtihad as the Muslim community progressed and expanded and new generations had to cope with new problems " and in his interest in the social and economic problems of the poor.

In 1349, Shah Mir became the first Muslim ruler of Kashmir and inaugurated the Salatin-i-Kashmir or Swati dynasty.

Shah Mir was the First Muslim ruler of Kashmir and the founder of the Swati dynasty named after him.

Zahir Shah provided aid, weapons and Afghan fighters to the Uighur and Kirghiz Muslim rebels who had established the First East Turkestan Republic.

After years of resistance against the Delhi Sultan Muhammud bin Tughluq, the Bahmani Kingdom, a Muslim Sultanate in Deccan, was established on August 3, when King Ala-ud-din Hasan Bahman Shah was crowned in a mosque in Daulatabad.

Sher Shah was the only Muslim Sultan of Bengal to establish an empire in northern India.

Established by the Malay ruler Parameswara, the Sultanate of Malacca was first a Hindu kingdom in 1402 and later became Muslim following his son Megat Iskandar Shah marriage of the princess of Pasai in 1409.

Muslims in the ' east ' continued to do philosophy, as is evident from the works of Ottoman scholars and especially those living in Muslim kingdoms within the territories of present day Iran and India, such as Shah Waliullah and Ahmad Sirhindi.

By the year 1070 the Seljuks emerged as the dominant political force in the Muslim world after they liberated Baghdad and defeated the Byzanties at Manzikert, during the rule of Malik Shah the Seljuks excelled in architecture at the same time in Syria, the atabegs ( governors of Seljuk princes ) assumed power.

Today's Georgia was a subject to the Safavid empire in 17th century and Shah Abbas I relocated communities of Christian, Muslim, and Georgian Jews as part of his programs to develop industrial economy, strengthen the military and populate newly built towns in various places in Iran including the provinces of Isfahan and Mazandaran.

He says liberals ’ " penchant for interference " had a decided effect in convincing the Carter administration to withdraw support from the Shah, which brought on Muslim fundamentalists control of the Iranian government.

Among the important early Muslim scholars who made valuable contributions to economic theory are Abu Yusuf ( d. 798 ), Al-Mawardi ( d. 1058 ), Ibn Hazm ( d. 1064 ), Al-Sarakhsi ( d. 1090 ), Al-Tusi ( d. 1093 ), Al-Ghazali ( d. 1111 ), Al-Dimashqi ( d. after 1175 ), Ibn Rushd ( d. 1187 ), Ibn Taymiyyah ( d. 1328 ), Ibn al-Ukhuwwah ( d. 1329 ), Ibn al-Qayyim ( d. 1350 ), Al-Shatibi ( d. 1388 ), Ibn Khaldun ( d. 1406 ), Al-Maqrizi ( d. 1442 ), Al-Dawwani ( d. 1501 ), and Shah Waliyullah ( d. 1762 ).

This title was senior to and more prestigious than that of Amir ; it was not comparable to the title of Malik ' King ', a secular title not yet common among Muslim rulers, or the Persian title of Shah, which was used mostly among Persian or Iranian related rulers.

** Waris Shah, Punjabi Muslim poet ( died 1798 )

Amir Kabir, the Grand Vazir of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar ( Muslim dynasties of Iran | Shah of Persia )

The Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line demanded that the Shah return to Iran for trial and execution.

* Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari ( 1892-1961 ), Muslim scholar and orator

* Opera of " Shah Ismail " by Muslim Magomayev

Among the famous personalities who hailed from Feni district are Famous saint Shah Syed Amir Uddin Pagla Miah / Baba ( RA ) who is regarded as founder of feni and sultanul awlia feni, Saint Mamu Fakir ( RA ), Begum Khaleda Zia ( former Prime Minister ), Sir A. F. Rahman ( the first Muslim Vice Chancellor of University, Dr. Mustafa Chowdhury ( former Public Service Commission Chairman ), Prof. Ahmed Shafee ( Vice-Chancellor of East West University ), Former Politician and Businessman Mowlana Abdul Wadud, Abdul Awal Mintu, Saber Hossen Chowdhury, Mosarraf Hossen, Economist Abu Ahammed, journalists

* Huang Senping ( Ming Dynasty ), better known as Ong Sum Ping, son-in-law of Sultan Muhammad Shah, the first Muslim ruler of the Sultanate of Brunei.