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Several Quranic verses are cited in debates about violence toward "People of the Book" — most prominently Quran 9:29 (often discussed in commentaries) and general war verses such as 2:191 — but mainst...
Malcolm X argued that , describing them as more dangerous than overt racists because they deceived and deflected Black demands for self-determination . Contemporary summaries and primary quotes trace ...
Archaeological evidence directly tied to specific life events of the Prophet Muhammad is sparse: scholars and popular accounts agree that physical artifacts explicitly naming Muhammad or showing the p...
During his years as a Nation of Islam (NOI) minister (roughly 1952–1964), Malcolm X publicly embraced NOI teachings that characterized white people as oppressive and even as “devils,” arguing whites w...
Malcolm X initially argued for Black rather than integration, rejecting the premise that African Americans should merge into what he called a corrupt white nation and instead urging self-determination...
By 1964 Malcolm X had publicly shifted from categorical denunciations of all white people toward a more targeted critique: he continued to condemn "white liberals" as hypocritical and harmful to Black...
Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little, 1925–1965) rose from a troubled youth and prison sentence to become the Nation of Islam’s most visible minister and national spokesman, articulating Black nationalism, ...
Archaeological evidence directly tied to Muhammad as an individual is sparse; the best material links are later 7th–8th century inscriptions and early mosque architecture that fit the rise of Islam, n...
Malcolm X’s public stance toward white conservatives moved from categorical rejection of white-led reform and a focus on racial separation to a more complex, internationally framed critique that opene...
The principal claim extracted is that a planned would measure and “could be the largest presidential residence ballroom in the world.” Available analyses supporting that claim come from two September ...
The simple claim " was a pagan practice" is partly supported by historical evidence: ritual touching or kissing of sacred stones (baetyls) and the istilām gesture existed in and were performed at idol...
today who are Muslim pray facing the Kaʿbah in (the Islamic qibla), not , because Islamic practice changed the qibla from Jerusalem to Mecca in the early n period (second Hijri year) and that remains ...
Muslims today face the Kaʿba in for the ritual prayer (qibla), but early in Islam the community in originally oriented prayers toward (Bayt al‑Maqdis); the canonical accounts say the around 623–624 CE...
was a Saudi businessman who rose to international notoriety in the 1970s and 1980s as a broker of arms deals, a purveyor of extreme wealth and glamour, and a polarizing figure implicated in high‑profi...
Muhammad is the central prophet of Islam whose life, teachings and political leadership reshaped seventh‑century Arabia and founded a global faith followed by over a billion people today . Modern unde...
Historians generally portray Malcolm X in the mid-1960s as a figure in transition: while earlier identified with racial separatism and blunt critique of white America and white allies, by 1964–65 his ...
Islam originated in the early 7th century CE on the Arabian Peninsula, where the Prophet Muhammad began reporting revelations that Muslims believe were from God (Allah) and which were later compiled a...
Historical circumstances — especially the Meccan and Medinan periods of early Islam — shape how Quranic verses about Jews and Christians are read: some passages emphasize theological kinship and rewar...
Malcolm X’s 1964 pilgrimage to Mecca prompted a recorded and dramatic shift in how he described white people and white Muslims: he wrote that during the hajj he “didn't see them as 'white' men,” prais...
Mainstream Islamic scholarship does not offer a single reading of Quranic verses about warfare; many classical and contemporary scholars situate combative verses in historical, legal, and ethical cont...