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Derbent - Russia’s oldest city: 5,000 and counting
Source : RT | 15 Dec 2011
RT travels to the country’s southernmost and oldest city. First mentioned by Ancient Greek historians, Derbent maintained strategic importance in the region for millennia and may have been the cradle of Islam in Russia.
The city’s present-day name is Persian in origin and is translated as “narrow gates”. In Arabic it was called Bab al-Abvab, or “the gate of all gates”. Many other names it had over its turbulent history also play on the idea of a closed doorway in one way or another.
Islam in the Russian Army
By Ilshat Nasirov : Islam Magazine | Makhachkala | 2005
Legal status of Muslims in the Russian Imperial Army in the 17-19 centuries on the example of Bashkirs.
In the 16th century Russia was turning into a multinational state. The Russian army, the most important component of the Russian statehood has been multi-ethnic and multi-confessional since then. Thus, Muslim Bashkirs constituted a big part of the Russian troops.
Arabs – the founders of geography
Source : Islam Magazine | Makhachkala | 2005
In the Middle Ages Arab geographers were the most versed in the knowledge of paths, roads and routes.
The interest to the observations of natural phenomena was an intrinsic characteristic of Arabs from the very beginning. They determined routes on land and at sea with the help of stars. Some pieces of knowledge in astronomy helped them to determine the weather, time of sowing, etc. This knowledge had been passing on from one generation to another.
Andalusia: the Return of Islam to Europe
By Iskander Nabiulin | Islam Magazine / Makhachkala / 2011
There is no way not to fall in love with Andalusia, and the Moors knew where to build their state ...
History of Hajj in Russia from 18th to 21st century
By Bekmurza Bekmurzaev, Minister for National Policy, Religious Affairs and External Relations of the Republic of Dagestan | 05 Dec 2011
50 to 80% of Russian pilgrims have always been Dagestanis
US museum explores Muslim roots
Source : OnIslam & News Agencies
Washington | 05 Aug 2011
Digging into the history of early Muslims who came to America centuries ago, a new Islamic Heritage Museum has opened recently in Washington DC in a new attempt to fight misconceptions about Muslim roots.
“So many times people, Americans and non-Americans, Muslims and non-Muslims, have misperceptions of Muslims saying they came from the Nation of Islam or that they came through the immigrations in the 60s and the 70s,” co-founder and curator Amir Muhammad told Press TV on Friday, August 5.
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