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Islam

This book is intended for research on Islamic Geopolitics and is being revised and appended almost everyday. Feel free to contribute; thank you.

Philosophy

Islamic philosophy

Early Islamic Philosophy

Moder Islamic Philosophy

Contemporay Islamic Philosophy

General History

Outline of Islam

History of Islam

Islamic Golden Age

Moses in Islam

Pre-Islamic Arabia

Allah

No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam

Muslim

Mecca

Kaaba

Tribes of Arabia

Quraysh

Banu Hanifa

Banu Hashim

Banu Umayya

Hanafi

Islam

Shahada

Ummah

Muker tribe

A

Al-Ali
Banu Amir
Banu Abdul Qays (بنوعبدالقيس)
Banu Abs (بنو عبس)
Banu Adi (بنو عدي)
Ajman (tribe)
Banu Amela (بنو عامله)
Bani Amir (بنو عامر)
Banu Amr (بنو عمرو)
AL-Subaie
'Anazah (عنزة)
Banu Asad (بنو أسد)
Banu Atiyah (بنو عطيّة)
'Asir (عسير)
Banu Aus (بنو أوس)
Awamir
Al-Awazem (العوازم)in Kuwait
Banu Awf (بنو عوف)
Azd (الأزد)

B

Bahasan (باحسن)
Al Balawi (البلوي)
Al Balushi
Al Basheer (آل بشير)
Bariq
Bali (tribe)
Al-Baggara
Bahila
Banu Atiyah
Banu Bahr
Banu Bakr ibn Wa'il (بنو بكر بن وائل) from Rabi'ah branch of Adnanite tribes
Banu Bakr ibn Abd Manat
Al Buainain
Baa Mukhtar
Iraqi Biradari (sub clan of Bani Tamim in India)

D

Dahaminah
Darod
Dawasir قبيلة (الدواسر)الأزد
Al-Dhafeer
Banu Dhubyan
Duru

F

G

Al-Gain
Al Ghamdi
Ghamid
Banu Ghaniya
Banu Ghassan
Ghatafan
Banu Ghazan
Banu Ghifar
Bin Ghaith
Banu Gashaam (ال قشعم)

H

Hammyar iraq-Jabr Diab
Hakami
Humaydah
Banu Hothail
Bani Hamida
Harb
Banu Harith (الحارثي)
Banu Hashim
Al-Hawajir Al-Hajri, Banu Hajr
Banu Hilal
Hakli (الحكلي)
Al-Hobaishi (الحبيشي)

J

Al-Ja'aliyin (الجعليّين)
Banu Jabar (بنو جبر)
Al-Jiburi (الجُبور)
Banu Jalaf
Al-Jaidi
Banu Judham
Banū Juhaynah (بنو جهينة)
Banu Jumah
Banu Jusham

K

Banu Kaab
Banu Kalb
Banū Kanz
Al-Karim
Kendah
Kathiri (الكثيري)
Al-Kardamayyah (الكردمية)
Khawaja
Khawlān (خولان)
Banu Khutheer- a clan of Al Hajaj Tribe
Banu Khuthayr- a branch of Qahtanites
Bani Khalid (بنو خالد)
Al-Khalifa (آل خليفة)
Al-Khalili
Al-Kharusi
Banu Khash'am (بنو خثعم)
Banu Khazraj (بنو خزرج)
Banu Khuza'a (بنو خزاعة)
Banu Kinanah (بنو كنانة)
Kunud

L

Banu Lakhm

M

Al-Maadeed
Maqil ( المعقل)
Al Mahri
Al Mahara
Mazari
Mehri people
El Mahroky
Banu Makhzum
Banu Malik
Manasir
Marar
Al-Murrah
Banu Mustaliq
Banu Mustafa
Mutayr (مطير)
Banu Muttalib

N

Nabataeans
Na'im
Al-Nabhani
Banu Nadir
Al-Nahari
Banu Najjar
Naqbiyin
Banu Nawfal
Al-Noman

O

Al-Otaibi العتيبي

Q

Banu Qays
Banu Qaynuqa (بنو قينقاع)
Bani Qitab
Banu Quda'a (بنو قضاعة)
Banu Qahtan
Quraysh (قريش)
Banu Qurayza (بنو قريظة)
Qedarites
Qahtan (قحطان)

R

Banu Rabi'ah
Al Rashd (and they were living in liwa, AL-Khaznah and AL-Khatim with AL Awamr and AL MansoriAlRashdi)-(الراشدي)
Bani Rasheed (the Rashaida people)

S

Saba' سبأ
Al-Saeed
Banu Sa'ida
Sayyid
Shamran
Banu Sahm
Banu Salama
Al-Salti
Shahrān (شهران)
Al-Shabeeb
Shammar
Al Sharari الشراري
Sharqiyin
Bani Shehr
Shihuh
Shuraif
Banu Shutayba
Subay'
Banu Sulaym
Al-Suwaidi
Al-sahali السهلي
Sowaileh
Al Sada
Sudan

T

Banu Taym (بنو تيم, Quraysh sub-clan)
Banu Taghlib (T. ibn Wā'il, بنو تغلب, branch of Rabī'ah)
Banu Tamim (بنو تميم)
Banu Ṭayy (بنو طيء)
Thamud (ancient Arabs, ثمود)
Al-tuharالطوهر
Al Tunaij

U

Al-'Ubayd
Banu Udhrah
Banū Umayyah (بنو أميّة), famous in the western sources as the Umayyads.
'Utaybah (عتيبة)
Bani Utbah (بنو عتبة)

Y

Banu Yam (بنو يام) in Najran.
Yafa (اليافعي)
Bani Yas (بني ياس)

Z

Zaab
Zahran
Banu Zahra
Banu Zuhrah
Banu Zayd (بنو زيد)

External links

The dwelling places and wanderings of the Arabian tribes, by Heinrich Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, in German

Banu Hashim

Khadija bint Khuwaylid

Farewell Sermon

Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib

Khelafat Rasul Allah

Caliphate

Rashidun

Rashidun Caliphate

Umar

Uthman

Abbasid Caliphate

Yazid ibn Mazyad al-Shaybani

Banu al-Munajjim

Umayyad Caliphate

Fatimid Caliphate

Ali

Khawarij

Shia Islam

Twelver

Criticism of Twelver Shia Islam

The Fourteen Infallibles

Fatimah

Descendants of Ali ibn Abi Talib

Ahl al-Bayt

Banu Umayyah

Prophets and messengers in Islam

Fitnah

First Ftna

Second Fitna

Schools of Islam

Byzantine Empire

Islamic schools and branches

Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah

Sects in Islam

Islamic Order

Islamic Empire and Dynasties

Islam Geopolitical

Islam by country

Islam in Central Asia

Islamization of Albania

Indonesian Mujahedeen Council

Islamic Principlism in Iran

All Pakistan Ulema Council

Islam in Taiwan

Islam in Turkey

Shia Islam in Algeria

Shia Islam in Benin

Shia Islam in Somalia

Shia Islam in Kenya

Shia Islam in Lebanon

Religion in Lebanon

Shia Islam in Uzbekistan

Tajikistan

Islam in Tajikistan

Ahmadiyya by country

20th-century radical Islam in Egypt

Darul Islam (Nigeria)

Islam in Yemen

Islam in Zambia

Islam in Bangladesh

Islam in the Solomon Islands

Islam in Pakistan

Islam in Karachi

Islam in Saudi Arabia

Islam in the Marshall Islands

Jamiah Islamiah Talimuddin Dabhel

Islamism in the United Kingdom

Palestine

Palestinian National Authority

Turkey

Chinese Islam

Islam in China

History of Islam in China

Islam in China (1911–present)

Han Kitab

Gedimu

Islam during the Yuan dynasty

Islam during the Ming dynasty

Sailaifengye

Xidaotang

Ngolok rebellions (1917–49)

Kashgar

Islam during the Tang dynasty

American Islam

Islam in the United States

Practicing Islam

Practices - the Pillars of Both Sunni and Shiat Islam

Imamate (Twelver doctrine)

Political quietism in Islam

Schools of Islamic theology

Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam

Women in Islam

Nuqtavi

Political aspects of Islam

King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Quran

Pasban e Islam

Gender roles in Islam

Jaysh al-Islam

Ibadi (disambiguation)

Karramiyya

Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam

Berbers and Islam

Aniconism in Islam

Glossary of Islam

Islamic Battles

Islamic Historical Personalities

School Of Thought

Sufi

Sufis exist in both Orders of Islam

History of Sufism

Tariqa
List of Sufi orders
- Sufiism in India
- Sufism in Bangladesh
- Sufi–Salafi relations
- Sufi philosophy
- Sufi whirling
- Sufi metaphysics
- Wahdat al-Wujud
- Wahdat al wajood
- Wahdat al-mawjud
- Wahdat Al Shohud
- Waḥdat al-Maqṣūd
- Waḥdat ash-Shuhūd
- Silsila
- Dawah
- Dhikr
- Muraqaba
- Fiqh
  - Madhhab
    - Hanafi
    - Maliki
    - Shafiʽi school
    - Hanbali
    - Zahiri
- Kalam (Doctrinal theology)
- Falsafa
- Al-Insān al-Kāmil
- Persecution of Sufis
- Isma'ilism
- Seven pillars of Ismailism
  - List of Isma'ili imams
  - Nizari Isma'ilism
- Naqshbandi
  - Naqshbandi Golden Chain
- Qadiriyya
- Chishti Order

Islamic schools and branches

In terms of religious jurisprudence (fiqh), Sunnism contains several schools of thought (madhhab) such as:

the Hanafi school, founded by Abu Hanifa an-Nu'man.
the Maliki school, founded by Malik ibn Anas.
the Shafi'i school, founded by Muhammad ibn Idris ash-Shafi'i.
the Hanbali school, founded by Ahmad ibn Hanbal.
the Ẓāhirī school or al-Ẓāhirīyyah, founded by Dawud al-Zahiri. Some consider it as a fifth madhhab, but some do not.

The Salafi movement, is a reform branch or revivalist movement in Sunni Islam that does not believe in strictly following one particular madhhab. They include the Wahhabi movement, an Islamic doctrine and religious movement founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and the Ahle Hadith movement whose followers call themselves Ahl al-Hadith while others consider them to be a branch of the Salafi or Wahhabi movement.

Shia

The major Shia school of jurisprudence is the Ja'fari or Imāmī school. It is further divided into two branches, the Usuli school, which favors the exercise of ijtihad, and the Akhbari school, which holds the traditions (aḵbār) of the Imams to be the main source of religious knowledge. Minor schools include the Ismāʿīlī school (Mustaʿlī-Fāṭimid Ṭayyibi Ismāʿīlīyah), and the Zaydī school, which have closer affinity to Sunni jurisprudence.

Ibadi

The fiqh or jurisprudence of Ibadis is relatively simple. Absolute authority is given to the Qur'an and hadith; new innovations accepted on the basis of qiyas (analogical reasoning) were rejected as bid'ah (heresy) by the Ibadis. That differs from the majority of Sunnis but agrees with most Shi'ites and the Zahiri and early Hanbali schools of Sunnism.

Four ages of Sufism

Shariat

Shari’a is Islamic law or Islamic jurisprudence as revealed in the Qur'an and Sunna. The first step in Sufism is following every aspect of the law perfectly. The purpose of this is to prove their love for God, by rigorous self-discipline and constant attention to their conduct. When the Sufi fully lives his or her life according to the Shari’a he or she is ready to progress to the second stage. This conformity to earthly rules is important because it recognizes that the spirit of a man or woman is affected by the actions of the body. In this way, bringing the body under the will of God also purifies the spirit and a pure spirit is essential for the second step.

Tariqat

Tariqa in Arabic means path and it denotes a Sufi brotherhood or chain or order. The orders are governed by shaykhs, spiritual leaders that mentor Sufis. Shaykhs are identified by the signs of God's grace that are evident, such as the ability to perform miracles. They take on people, usually male, that are committed to the Sufi lifestyle and want to progress further in their spiritual education. It is common for the shaykh to test a new disciple by ignoring them, assigning humiliating tasks or being rude to them. When the disciple has passed these tests, he is introduced to the awrad, a series of prayers particular to that order. These prayers must be studied before they are recited, because mistakes made in the prayer are sins. When the disciple has studied and recited the awrad for an indeterminate amount of time, he is expected to experience visions and revelation from God. Sufis believe that at this point the disciple is able to see spiritual things that are veiled from most people.

In Universal Sufism, tariqat is the "phase" during which a seeker becomes increasingly aware of and responsive to inner guidance. His spiritual path through life begins to appear more clearly as a palimpsest of views and behavioral options which become available as his consciousness expands. This phase generally ensues after initiation in a Sufi order has been taken.

Haqiqa

Haqiqa is a difficult concept to translate. The book Islamic Philosophical Theology defines it as "what is real, genuine, authentic, what is true in and of itself by dint of metaphysical or cosmic status", which is a valid definition but one that does not explain haqiqa's role in Sufism. Haqiqa may be best defined as the knowledge that comes from communion with God, knowledge gained only after the tariqa is undertaken. For instance, a shaykh that has advanced through tariqa has haqiqa and can see into the lives of his disciples in a spiritual sense. He has knowledge of pregnancies and sicknesses before his disciples tell him. He can see beyond the physical world because of his proximity to God and possession of haqiqa. Haqiqa is less a stage in itself and more the marker of a higher level of consciousness, which precedes the next and final stage, marifa.

In Universal Sufism, Haqiqat is the "phase" in which the central ongoing question/concern of the seeker is subsistent (as opposed to transient) reality. The life of the seeker becomes a fathoming device in which what is timeless, formless, weightless etc, is recognized and valued above all.

Marifat

Marifat (Arabic: المعرفة‎), which literally means knowledge, is the term used by Sufi Muslims to describe mystical intuitive knowledge of spiritual truth reached through ecstatic experiences, rather than revealed or rationally acquired.

Entering into marifat in Universal Sufism, the seeker no longer asserts or defines anything. Talking about anything, such as "the four stages" of realization, is of little interest to the Sufi who has reached this stage. Or better said, all conversation topics are of equal interest. The seeker's life is then, itself, revelation.