Examples of Muslim in the following topics:
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- Native-born American Muslims are mainly African-Americans who make up about a quarter of the total Muslim population.
- It caters mainly to the Shi'a Muslim congregation; however, all Muslims may attend this mosque.
- Muslims in the United States have increasingly contributed to American culture; there are various Muslim comedy groups, rap groups, Scout troops and magazines.
- Unlike many Muslims in Europe, American Muslims do not tend to feel marginalized or isolated from political participation.
- Still others have worked to invite interfaith dialogue to improve relations between Muslim and non-Muslim Americans.
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- This was an important event in the development of the small group of Muslims in Medina to the larger Muslim community and empire.
- This response to persecution and effort to provide sustenance for Muslim families initiated armed conflict between the Muslims and the pagan Quraysh of Mecca.
- When the battle seemed close to a decisive Muslim victory, the Muslim archers left their assigned posts to raid the Meccan camp.
- The Muslims withdrew up the slopes of Uḥud.
- For the Muslims, the battle was a significant setback.
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- These early caliphates, coupled with Muslim economics and trading and the later expansion of the Ottoman Empire, resulted in Islam's spread outwards from Mecca towards both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and the creation of the Muslim world.
- At the outset, they were hostile to conversions because new Muslims diluted the economic and status advantages of the Arabs."
- In Iraq and Egypt, Muslim authorities cooperated with Christian religious leaders.
- Some non-Muslim populations did experience persecution, however.
- After the Muslim conquest of Persia, Zoroastrians were given dhimmi (non-Muslim) status and subjected to persecutions; discrimination and harassment began in the form of sparse violence.
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- Muslim interest in the peninsula returned in force around the year 1000 when Al-Mansur sacked Barcelona in 985.
- Medieval Spain was the scene of almost constant warfare between Muslims and Christians.
- By 1250, nearly all of Iberia was back under Christian rule with the exception of the Muslim kingdom of Granada - the only independent Muslim realm in Spain that would last until 1492.
- Despite the decline in Muslim-controlled kingdoms, it is important to note the lasting effects exerted on the peninsula by Muslims in technology, culture, and society.
- By 1250, nearly all of Iberia was back under Christian rule with the exception of the Muslim kingdom of Granada - the only independent Muslim realm in Spain that would last until 1492.
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- Some Muslims thought that Umayyad taxation and administrative practices were unjust.
- Non-Muslims paid a poll tax for policing to the central state.
- Mass conversions brought a large influx of Muslims to the caliphate.
- Many Muslims criticized the Umayyads for having too many non-Muslim, former Roman administrators in their government.
- Later, the Umayyads were criticized by some Muslims for not reducing the taxes of the people who converted to Islam.
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- According to Muslim tradition, Muhammad's wife Khadija was the first to believe he was a prophet.
- An adherent of Islam is called a Muslim.
- Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable and that the purpose of existence is to worship God.
- Nearly all Muslims consider Muhammad to be the last prophet of God.
- Muslims believe the Quran to be both the unaltered and the final revelation of God.
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- This declaration was the catalyst of a war between Bosnian Serbs, who wanted Bosnia to remain in the Yugoslav federation, and Bosnian Muslims and Croats.
- The Bosnian Serbs—supported by Serbia—were better armed than the Muslims and Croats, so they populated and controlled much of the countryside.
- In November, as the Serbs seemed on the verge of defeating the Muslims and Croats in several strongholds, Clinton changed course and called for conciliation with the Serbs.
- The air campaign, along with a counteroffensive by a better-equipped Muslim and Croatian forces, succeeded in pressuring Bosnian Serbs to negotiate peace.
- More than 90 percent of the residents of Kosovo were Muslim and ethnic Albanians, many of whom wanted independence from Yugoslavia.
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- Consequently, the history of the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb and the history of the Muslim conquest of a greater North African region (reaching far into the Middle East) cannot be sharply distinguished.
- The Muslim conquest of North Africa continued the century of rapid Arab Muslim military expansion following the death of Muhammad in 632 AD.
- The Umayyads continued the Muslim conquests, incorporating the Caucasus, Transoxiana, Sindh, the Maghreb and the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus) into the Muslim world.
- It began with an army of more than 40,000 Muslims advancing through the desert to Barca and marching to the neighborhood of Carthage (today's Tunisia).
- After the fall of Tangiers, many Berbers joined the Muslim army.
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- At the onset of the Muslim conquest of North Africa, Egypt was part of the Byzantine/Eastern Roman Empire, with the capital in Constantinople.
- Shortly before the Muslim conquest, Egypt had been conquered by the Persian Empire (619-629).
- Before the Muslim conquest of Egypt had begun, the Byzantines had already lost the Levant and its Arab ally, the Ghassanid Kingdom, to the Muslims.
- Tolerance was extended to non-Muslims such as Christians and Jews, who occupied high levels in government based on ability.
- The faris or "knight" in the Muslim world was trained in the use of various weapons and in wrestling.
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- Members of the Muslim community in the United States mostly come from a middle class or affluent background.
- It is estimated that about 10% of African slaves transported to the U.S. were Muslim.
- Research indicates that Muslims in the U.S. are generally more assimilated and prosperous than Muslims in Europe.