We are proud that we are Muslims.(Mohammad Panjesha)

The Muslim who has received the Nobel Prize. Ahmed Zewail American-Egyptian chemist Description Ahmed Hassan Zewail was an Egyptian-American chemist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry and became the first Egyptian to win a Nobel Prize in a scientific field. Aziz Sancar Biochemist Description Aziz Sancar is Turkish biochemist and molecular biologist specializing in DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, and circadian clock. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L. Modrich for their mechanistic studies of DNA repair. Naguib Mahfouz Egyptian writer Description Naguib Mahfouz was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, along with Taha Hussein, to explore themes of exi...

GREAT ISLAMIC WARS Crusades The European  crusaders  re-conquered much of the territory seized by the Islamic state, dividing it into four kingdoms, the most important being the state of  Jerusalem . The Crusades originally had the goal of recapturing Jerusalem and the  Holy Land  (former  Christian  territory) from Muslim rule and were originally launched in response to a call from the  Eastern Orthodox   Byzantine Empire  for help against the expansion of the Muslim  Seljuk Turks  into  Anatolia . There was little drive to retake the lands from the crusaders, save the few attacks made by the  Egyptian   Fatimids . This changed, however, with the coming of  Zangi , ruler of what is today northern  Iraq . He took  Edessa , which triggered the  Second Crusade , which was little more than a 47-year stalemate. The stalemate was ended with the victory of  Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi  (...

 Top Islamic educational institutions  University of al-Qarawiyyin The  University of al-Qarawiyyin     , also written  Al-Karaouine,  is a university located in  Fez ,  Morocco . It is the oldest existing, continually operating  higher educational  institution in the world according to  UNESCO  and  Guinness World Records  and is occasionally referred to as the oldest university by scholars .   It was founded by  Fatima al-Fihri  in 859 with an associated  madrasa , which subsequently became one of the leading spiritual and educational centers of the  historic   Muslim world . It was incorporated into Morocco's modern  state university  system in 1963. The mosque building itself is also a significant complex of historical Moroccan and Islamic architecture encompassing elements from many different periods of Moroccan history. Jamiatur Raza Jamiatur Raz...

Islamic Festivals There are two official holidays in Islam,  Eid Al-Fitr  and  Eid Al-Adha . Both holidays occur on dates in the lunar  Islamic calendar , which is different from the solar based  Gregorian calendar , so they are observed on different Gregorian dates every year. Eid Al-Fitr is celebrated at the end of  Ramadan  (a month of fasting during daylight hours), and Muslims may perform acts of  zakat  (charity) on the occasion, which begins after the new moon is sighted for the beginning of  Shawal . The Eid al-Fitr celebration begins with prayers on the morning of 1 Shawal, followed by breakfast, and often celebratory meals throughout the day. Eid Al-Adha is celebrated on the tenth day of  Dhu al-Hijjah , when the  Hajj  pilgrimage takes place, and lasts for four days. Muslims may perform an act of zakat and friendship by slaughtering a sheep and distributing the meat to family, to friends, and to the poor. Mu...

FAMOUS MUSLIM PEOPLE Recep Tayyip Erdoğan President of Turkey Description Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is a Turkish politician serving as the 12th and current President of Turkey. He previously served as Prime Minister of Turkey from 2003 to 2014 and as Mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Former President of India Description Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam was an aerospace scientist who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. He was born and raised in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu and studied physics and aerospace engineering. Shahrukh Khan Indian actor Shah Rukh Khan, also known by the initialism SRK, is an Indian actor, film producer, and television personality. Referred to in the media as the "Badshah of Bollywood", "King of Bollywood" and "King Khan", he has appeared in more than 80 Bollywood films, and earned numero...