Posted on December 10, 2008Jahiliyya
The word jahiliyya means ignorance, which is taken to refer to the pre-Islamic period. It was the age of tribalism and is reckoned to cover the period of about a century before the advent of Islam. In pre-Islamic literature, and to a considerable...
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Posted on December 2, 2008Jahannam (Hell)
The word jahannam is derived from jihinnam means a deep pit, and as it is said in Arabic: bir'un jahannam'un means a well whose depth is very great. The word jahannam occurs 77 times in the Koran. Another name for hell, which bears a similar...
Posted on November 29, 2008Ithna Asharites
"The death of Imam Jafar Sadik in 148/765 marked the beginning of the decentralization of Shi'ite religious authority. The Ithna Asharites or the Twelvers, the Shi'ite sect supported Musa Kazim as their next Imam after Imam Jafar Sadik. Musa Kazim...
Posted on November 28, 2008It Is Through Your Light That It Has Come To Be So
In Egypt, the festival of Navroz was celebrated with great pomp. It must be known that Egypt under the Fatimid remained largely a Sunni country and Ismailism won only a limited following among the population. Cairo alone housed a large Sunni...
Posted on July 11, 2007Non-verbal films - Baraka, Samsara and Koyaanisqatsi
Baraka, Samsara and Koyaanisqatsi are the most well known films of a film genre generally described as non-verbal. None of the films contain any actors, have no plot or script. Instead the films contain moving images from the world designed to...
