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Islam portal. v. t. e. In Islam, a houri ( Arabic: حُـورِيَّـة ,حُورِيّ, romanized : ḥūriyy, ḥūrīya) [ Note 1] is a maiden woman with beautiful eyes who is described as a reward for the faithful Muslim men in paradise. [ 2] They are described as the same age as the men in paradise. Since hadith states people will be ...
Bacha bazi. Bacha bāzī ( Persian: بچه بازی, lit. 'boy play') [ 1] is a practice in which men (sometimes called bacha baz) buy and keep adolescent boys (sometimes called dancing boys) for entertainment and sex. [ 2][ 3] It is a custom in Afghanistan and in historical Turkestan and often involves sexual slavery and child prostitution by ...
Angel Blowing a Woodwind, ink and opaque watercolor painting from Safavid Iran, c. 1500, Honolulu Academy of Arts.. The Quranic word for angel (Arabic: ملك, romanized: malak) derives either from Malaka, meaning "he controlled", due to their power to govern different affairs assigned to them, [14] or from the triliteral root '-l-k, l-'-k or m-l-k with the broad meaning of a "messenger", just ...
Arabic literature ( Arabic: الأدب العربي / ALA-LC: al-Adab al-'Arabī) is the writing, both prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language. The Arabic word used for literature is "Adab", which is derived from a meaning of etiquette, and which implies politeness, culture and enrichment. Arabic literature emerged in the ...
A cariye or imperial concubine.. The Imperial Harem (Ottoman Turkish: حرم همايون, romanized: Harem-i Hümâyûn) of the Ottoman Empire was the Ottoman sultan's harem – composed of the wives, servants (both female slaves and eunuchs), female relatives and the sultan's concubines – occupying a secluded portion (seraglio) of the Ottoman imperial household. [1]
Islamic states from the early 9th century to the early 19th century consistently deployed slaves as soldiers, a phenomenon that was very rare outside of the Islamic world. [ 1 ] The Quran mentions ghilman ( غِلْمَان ) as serving boys who are one of the delights of Jannah or paradise/heaven of Islam, in verse 52:24 (Verse 56:17 is also ...
e. Names of God in Islam ( Arabic: أَسْمَاءُ ٱللَّٰهِ ٱلْحُسْنَىٰ ʾasmāʾu llāhi l-ḥusnā, " Allah's Beautiful Names ") are names attributed to God in Islam by Muslims. These names usually denote his praise, gratitude, commendation, glorification, magnification, perfect attributes, majestic qualities, and acts ...
Adam ( Arabic: آدم, romanized : ʾĀdam ), in Islamic theology, is believed to have been the first human being on Earth and the first prophet ( Arabic: نبي, nabī) of Islam. Adam's role as the father of the human race is looked upon by Muslims with reverence. Muslims also refer to his wife, Ḥawwāʾ ( Arabic: حَوَّاء, Eve ), as ...