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Our Favorite Holidays
By: Guru Preet
Eid al-Adha -
"the Festival of Sacrifice"
Eid ul-Fitr -
"Festival of breaking the fast" - Marking the end of Ramadan
Laylat ul Isra and Mi'raj -
“Night of the Journey and Ascension”
Laylat al-Qadr -
The night when the first verses of of the Quran were revealed to Muhammad
Ramadan -
An Islamic holiday commemorating the first revelation of the Quran to Muhammad celebrating with a month of fasting!
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Our Favorite Organizations
By: Guru Preet
Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade -
Al-Battar Brigade -
Al Shabaab -
Fatah - Palestinian political party, largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
Hamas - Palestinian Islamist political party that governs the Gaza Strip
Haqqani - Afgan-based group named after Mawlawi Jalaluddin Haqqani
(1939 - September 2, 2018)
Harakat-ul-Mujahedeen - Pakistan-based group
Hezbollah - Shi'a Muslim political party based in Lebanon
Leadership: Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
Islamic Jihad - a Palistinian organization founded in 1981
ISIL - The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant - also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) Islamic State (IS) and Daesh. Founded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in 1999.
Jund Ansar Allah - the Soldiers of the Companions of God
Lashkar-e-Taiba - Islamist Organization
Muslim Brotherhood - Islamic organiztion found by scholar Hassan al-Banna in 1928 as an Islamist political, religious and social movement.
The Society of the Muslim Brothers -
Shas - Israeli political party
Leadership: Interior Minister Eli Yishai
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Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
جمهوری اسلامی افغانستان
Pashto:
De Afġānistān Islāmī Jomhoriyat
Persian:
Jomhūrī-ye Eslāmī-ye Afġānistān
د افغانستان اسلامي جمهوریت
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Suggested Reading:
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
By Peter Hopkirk
ISBN-10: 1568360223
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