The mausoleum of Khadija in Mecca, before its demolition by the House of Saud in the 1920s
From 613 to 619 CE, the Islamic prophet Muhammad gathered in his hometown of Mecca a small following of those who embraced his message of Islam and thus became Muslims. The first person who professed Islam was his wife, Khadija bint Khuwaylid. The identity of the second male Muslim, after Muhammad himself, is nevertheless disputed largely along sectarian lines, as Shia and some Sunni sources identify him as the first Shia imam Ali ibn Abi Talib, a child at the time, who grew up in the household of his uncle, Muhammad. Other sources report that the first male convert was Abu Bakr, who later succeeded Muhammad as the first Sunni caliph, or Muhammad's foster son, Zayd ibn Haritha. While it is difficult to establish the chronological order of early conversions, the identities of early Muslims is known with some certainty.
and thus became Muslims. The first person who professed Islam was his wife, Khadija bint Khuwaylid. The identity of the second male Muslim, after Muhammad...
battle to the Muslims, while the people retreated into castles and fortified towns when the Muslims invaded; instead, Roman forces ambushed Muslim raiders as...
estimation, Muslims comprise around 25% of the world's total population. In descending order, the percentage of people who identify as Muslims on each continental...
third-largest number of Muslims in the world. The majority of India's Muslims are Sunni, with Shia making up around 15% of the Muslim population. Islam spread...
obligatory for Muslims to join a physical jihad against non-Muslims. This not only included the invaders but also the heretics among the Muslims, including...
standardization and vetting process of medical education. In 639 A.D., the Muslims had conquered and taken control of the Persian City of Jundi-Shapur. Even...
themselves as Berbers. A substantial number of Arab Muslims live outside their countries of origin. Arab Muslims comprise the majority of the Arab populations...
known as non-denominational Muslims. About 13% of Muslims live in Indonesia, the largest Muslim-majority country; 31% of Muslims live in South Asia, the largest...
Muslim conquest of Mecca, the Muslims fought the Mushrikites of the Qays and gained a victory. Following the defeat of the Mushrikites, the Muslims began...
colonial America from West Africa were Muslims, however Islam was suppressed on plantations. Nearly all enslaved Muslims and their descendants converted to...
pre-Islamic Arabia, the new Muslims were frequently subjected to abuse and persecution by the Meccans (also called Mushrikun by Muslims), a polytheistic Arab...
The Battle of Uhud was fought between the earlyMuslims and the Mushrikites during the Muslim–Mushrikite wars in a valley north of Mount Uhud near Medina...
Prophet—the first generation of Muslims, who are considered role models in Islam. Such directions were used by some Muslims in the following centuries, side...
ordinariness of Australian Muslims: Attitudes and experiences of Muslims Report" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-03-29. "Muslim Life in Germany:...
plight of being without a man reportedly saddened the Muslims, and after her iddah some Muslims proposed marriage to her; but she declined. She was the...
Cultural Muslims, also known as nominal Muslims, non-practicing Muslims or non-observing Muslims, are people who identify as Muslims but are not religious...
unthinkable that the story could have been invented by Muslims, or foisted upon them by non-Muslims." Scholars such as Uri Rubin and Shahab Ahmed and Guillaume...
mother tongue. The majority of Gujarati Muslims are Sunni, with a minority of Shi'ite groups. Gujarati Muslims are very prominent in industry and medium-sized...
had become Muslim. Until the 15th century, most Persian Muslims were Sunni Muslims[citation needed]. With the rise of the Safavids in the early 16th century...
caliphate a number of thinkers and scientists, some of them heterodox Muslims or non-Muslims, played a role in transmitting Greek, Hindu, and other pre-Islamic...
polytheists who harmed the weaker Muslims and blackmailed richer Muslims, causing a severe decline in business. The abuse the Muslims endured eventually led people...
unscientific. As of 2008, both Muslims and non-Muslims have disputed whether there actually are "scientific miracles" in the Quran. Muslim critics of the movement...
population, they are the second-largest ethnic group among Muslims after Arabs. Bengali Muslims make up the majority of Bangladesh's citizens, and are the...
Therefore, Muslims usually maintain that hadiths are a necessary requirement for the true and proper practice of Islam, as it gives Muslims the nuanced...
the late 20th and early 21st centuries, large numbers of Muslims immigrated to Western Europe. By 2010, an estimated 44 million Muslims were living in Europe...
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