B Archives - Islamicus

BURMA. See Myanmmar.

BURHANUDDIN, SAYYIDNA MUHAMMAD (b. AH 1333/1915 CE), head of the Da’udi Bohra Isma’ili community and...

BUNYAD. Dehkhoda’s Dictionary of Persian Vocabularies defines the term bunyad as “base, root, origin, and...

BUKHARA KHANATE. This important Central Asian state existed for nearly four centuries until 1920. It...

BRUNEI. Islam is the national religion of the tiny but oil-rich sultanate of Brunei on...

BRAZIL The history of Islam in Brazil begins in Portugal, which conquered and colonized Brazil...

BOUHIRED, DJAMILA (b. 1937), Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN; National Liberation Front) militant whose...

BORUJERDI, MOHAMMAD HOSAYN (also rendered Muhammad Husayn Burujirdi; 1875-1962), Iranian theologian and religious leader who...

BOOK PUBLISHING. A distinction must be maintained between printing and publishing in Islamic countries, and...

BOHRAS. This Muslim community of Gujarat in western India traces its spiritual ancestry to early...