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- ...that the Mongols, led by Genghis Khan's grandson Hulegu Khan, executed Al-Musta'sim (pictured), the Abbasid caliph, following the 1258 Battle of Baghdad?
- ...that the jihad of Modibo Adama led to the spread of Islam?
- ...that the Muslim state of Ifat was completely annexed by Ethiopia in 1415?
- ... that the Fatimid Caliphs built mosques in the Fatimid architecture style, such as al-Azhar Mosque (pictured), in Mahdia, Al-Mansuriya and Cairo?
- ...that Islam in Poland traces its history to the 13th century, with the advent of Tartar settlers?
- ...that Islam, Tahrif is the charge that Jewish and Christian holy books have been subject to change, alteration or forgery?
- ...that Zhang Chengzhi, who formed China's first group of Red Guards while a student at Tsinghua University Middle School (Tsinghua School pictured), converted to Islam?
- ...that an inquiry into Sidhom Bishay's execution for his refusal to convert to Islam and recounce Christianity resulted in the dismissal of a judge and a governor?
- ...that Muhammad had engaged as a diplomat for a time during his call to Islam?
- ...that a large number of Rwandans (flag pictured) converted to Islam after the 1994 Genocide?
- ...that the Islamic Emirate of Waziristan is a rebel organization that gained de facto recognition from the Government of Pakistan on September 5, 2006 as a result of negotiations between Islamabad and local tribesmen to end the Waziristan War?
- ...that before David Myatt converted to Islam in 1998 and endorsed Islamic terrorism, he had been active in Nazi satanism in the UK since the late 1960s?
- ...that the Islamic Emirate of Bari in Southern Italy was conquered (pictured) in 871 by Frankish and Lombard ground forces under Louis II of Italy, together with a Croatian fleet?
- ...that the Forum Against Islamophobia and Racism is a Muslim advocacy group which monitors media coverage of Islam and Muslims in the U.K.?
- ... that Sabr is the Islamic virtue of patience and endurance?
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- ... that Maher Arar was deported to Syria (flag pictured) and tortured after being wrongly identified as an "Islamic Extremist" by Project O Canada?
- ... that Canadian supermodel Yasmeen Ghauri was the daughter of an Islamic cleric who opposed his daughter's career?
- ...that guests on the American PBS television series Soul! (1967–1971) included Stevie Wonder, African musician Hugh Masekela, and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan?
- ...that while the earliest Syrian immigrants in the United States (Syria pictured) arrived in the 1880s, most Muslim Syrian Americans arrived over eighty years later, after the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965?
- ...that the Crusade of Varna required simultaneous attacks on the Muslim Ottoman Empire by Christian Hungary and the Muslim Karamanids, which did not occur?
- ...that the Moorish Revival spread around the globe as a preferred style of 19th-century synagogue architecture, because the Mudéjar style was associated with the golden age of Jewry in medieval Muslim Spain?
- ...that in the Muslim tradition, Bahira (pictured) was a Christian monk who foretold to the adolescent Muhammad his future prophetic career?
- ...that Sarat Chandra Bose, the brother of Subhash Chandra Bose attempted to obtain independence for a united Bengal with Muslim leader Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy in 1947?
- ...that on January 21, 2006 Ilan Halimi, a French Jew, was kidnapped by a gang of Muslim immigrant youths and subsequently tortured to death, with the motive being either money or anti-Semitism?
- ...that the book Description of Africa by the Muslim slave Joannes Leo Africanus was an important source of information on the North African Islamic civilization during the European Renaissance?
- ...that in Persia, non-Muslims were considered to be najis (ritually unclean) by Shi'a Muslims, and were not allowed to go outside in rain or snow for fear that some impurity could be washed from them onto a Muslim?
- ...that Silma Ihram decided to found Al-Noori Muslim Primary School in Greenacre, New South Wales after Presbyterian Ladies' College would not allow her daughters to wear hijabs in school?
- ...that although 99.8% of the population is Muslim, there is no official religion in Turkey (flag pictured)?
- ...that Ismat ad-Din Khatun was the wife of two important medieval Muslim princes, Nur ad-Din and Saladin?
- ...that the social reform organization Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz has been labeled "un-Islamic" by upper caste Muslims?
- ...that Jogendra Nath Mandal was a Hindu politician who served as the first Minister for Law and Labour of the Muslim state of Pakistan (flag pictured)?
- ...that the Indonesian Muslim organization Muhammadiyah has over 29 million members and manages several universities?
- ...that Saddam Beach in the Indian state of Kerala was given its name by local Muslim villagers after the Gulf War of 1991 in solidarity with former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein?
- ...that Huseyn Khan Nakhchivanski (pictured) was the only Muslim to be appointed General-Adjutant of the Emperor of Russia?
- ...that a major milestone in the decline of Buddhism in India came in 1193 when the great university at Nalanda was destroyed by Turkish Muslim raiders?
- ...that the Urdu movement, which sought to establish Urdu as the lingua franca of the Muslim communities of India, emerged from the fall of the Mughal Empire and became an integral part of the Pakistan movement?
- ... that durum wheat (pictured) was used to make al-fidawsh, a dry pasta popular in Muslim Spain?
- ...that in the 13th and 14th centuries, the Mongol Empire had an alliance with the Armenians against their common enemy, the Muslim Mamluks?
- ...that a Muslim fundamentalist beheaded a statue of the Virgin Mary at St. Augustine's and carted a statue of Father Serra to a nearby mosque in October 2001?
- ...that Mohammad Amin al-Husayni met Adolf Hitler in December 1941 (pictured) in Europe?
- ...that Muslim scholar Maulvi Abdul Haq is decorated as the Father of Urdu in Pakistan?
- ...that the Amman Message was a statement issued by King Abdullah II of Jordan calling for tolerance and unity in the Muslim world?
- ...that Shamsunnahar Mahmud and Roquia Sakhawat Hussain (pictured) were Muslim feminists of the Bengal renaissance?
- ...that 12th-century Muslim scientist Al-Khazini, who proposed a theory of gravitation long before Isaac Newton, was, in his early life, a slave of the Seljuq Turks?
- ...that the 110th United States Congress freshman class contains members from diverse backgrounds, including a professional football player, a Navy vice admiral, several former teachers, and the first Buddhist and Muslim members?
- ...that in 717 Al-Hurr ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Thaqafi became the first Muslim commander ever to cross the Pyrenees mountain range (pictured)?
- ...that Bhudev Mukhopadhyay taught at Hindu, Muslim and Christian schools?
- ...that before the Bagratids unified Georgia, Caucasian Iberia was ruled by a succession of princes under the influence of the Byzantines, the Persians and the Muslim Caliphate from the 6th to the 9th centuries?
- ... that the Palestinian village of Nabi Samwil (pictured), near Jerusalem, is regarded by Muslims, Jews and Christians alike as a holy site for containing the tomb of Samuel?
- ...that the Muslim Revolution of Agriculture industrialized sugar production, building the first sugar refineries and sugar plantations in the 8th century?
- ...that the Barack Obama Muslim rumor has been circulating on the Internet since 2004?
- ... that in 1935, the Supreme Muslim Council built the an-Nasr Mosque (pictured) in the Palestinian city of Nablus after an earthquake in 1927 completely destroyed the previous structure on the site?
- ...that one of the most important advances in medieval Muslim psychology was the establishment of the first psychiatric hospitals?
- ... that Arya Samaj spearheaded the 19th-century cow protection movement, Hindu opposition to Muslim cow sacrifice, leading to violent riots spreading all across India?
- ... that both Christians and Muslims ritually sacrifice lambs during the Feast of Saint George in the Palestinian town of al-Khader (pictured) near Bethlehem?
- ... that Mohammad Usman Rana, a Norwegian Pakistani student, is one of the prolific Muslim debaters in the Norwegian public sphere?
- ... that Islam: The Straight Path by John L. Esposito is an introductory text on Islam that devotes half its content to the development of Islam in modern and reformist times?
- ... that Jacob's Well (pictured) in Nablus is a site associated with Jacob in Jewish, Samaritan, Christian and Muslim tradition?
- ... that khutba is the sermon delivered before the Muslim weekly congregational prayers on Friday, and after the annual congregational prayers on each of the two Muslim festivals?
- ...that Libyan president Muammar al-Gaddafi created the paramilitary Islamic Legion primarily associated with the seven year Libyan-Chadian War?
- ...that Georgia’s capital Tbilisi (pictured) functioned as the center of an Islamic emirate under the Arab rule from 736 to 1122?
- ...that the Islamic Spaniard Judar Pasha led 4,000 Moroccans to victory against more than 40,000 Songhai troops at the Battle of Tondibi, putting an end to West Africa's Songhai Empire?
- ...that in the 1850s, El Hadj Umar Tall founded a short-lived Islamic empire covering modern day Guinea, Senegal, and Mali?
- ...that in the 1970s, Tatar painter Baqi Urmançe (pictured) painted Islamic calligraphy in the Soviet Union, something which was prohibited?
- ...that Malaysian politician and MP Badruddin Amiruldin has publicly said that those who oppose Islamic theocracy should leave the country?
- ...that an edition of Alpin, a supplement of the Bangladeshi newspaper Prothom Alo, was banned by the caretaker government for publishing a controversial cartoon in relation to the Islamic prophet Muhammad?
- ...that the Pakistan coup attempt of 1995 aimed to establish an Islamic caliphate in Pakistan by overthrowing prime minister Benazir Bhutto (pictured)?
- ...that Khwaja Ahsanullah and his son Khwaja Salimullah clashed over the latter's Islamic fundamentalism?
- ...that the Alfathi brand of red meat from Nortura combines the strict Islamic rules concerning food preparation for slaughter with Norwegian cuisine?
- ...that the map (pictured) by Piri Reis, a 16th-century Islamic cartographer, is the oldest surviving Turkish map to show the Americas?
- ...that the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways add about 500 km of new track each year to their network with planned links to Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan?
- ...that although the official cause of the 2007 Balad aircraft crash is fog, the insurgent group Islamic Army in Iraq says they shot it down?
- ... that after being sentenced, beaten and left for dead for refusing to recite Muslim scriptures, Vaishnava convert Haridasa Thakur's (pictured) instant recovery convinced many he was a pir?
- ...that the Islamic prophet Muhammad, while in Mecca, was a merchant involved in trade between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea?
- ...that the Persian political-philosophical treatise, the Siyasatnama, provides evidence for the survival of pre-Islamic traditions within the Saljuq empire?
- ...that Larycia Hawkins, American professor at Wheaton College, was suspended after she wore a hijab and made comments regarding Christianity and Islam in December 2015?
- ...that many Iranian women chose not leave their houses, and a few even committed suicide, to avoid removing their hijabs due to Reza Shah's Kashf-e hijab decree?
- ...that Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a fatwa banning acquisition, development, and use of nuclear weapons?
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