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Musica Animalia Musica Animalia (2003) is a charity children's CD with a collection of songs and poems by bestselling author Dan Brown, released to support the charity Families First Health and Support Center, in New Hampshire. According to the website, the CD is "composed by Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown" and "portrays 15 animals in poem and song.
Musica Antiqua Köln Musica Antiqua Köln is an early music that was founded in 1973 by Reinhard Goebel and fellow students from the Conservatory of Music in Cologne. Musica Antiqua Köln devotes itself largely to the performance of the music of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Musica poetica Musica poetica was a term commonly applied to the art of composing music in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century German schools and universities. Its first known use was in the Rudimenta Musicae Planae (Wittenberg: 1533) of Nicolaus Listenius.
Musica reservata In music history, musica reservata (also musica secreta) is a term referring to either a style or a performance practice in a cappella vocal music of the latter half of the 16th century, mainly in Italy and southern Germany, involving refinement, exclusivity, and intense emotional expression of sung text.
Musica universalis Musica universalis (or music of the spheres) is an ancient philosophical concept that regards proportions in the movements of celestial bodies — the Sun, Moon, and planets — as a form of musica (the Medieval Latin name for music). This 'music' is not literally audible, but simply a harmonic and/or mathematical concept.
Musical acoustics Musical acoustics or music acoustics is the branch of acoustics concerned with researching and describing the physics of music — how sounds employed as music work. Examples of areas of study are the function of musical instruments, the human voice (the physics of speech and singing), computer analysis of melody.
Musical bow The musical bow is a simple string musical instrument consisting of a string supported by a flexible string bearer, usually made out of wood. Often, it is a normal archery bow used for music rather than as a weapon.
Musical box A musical box (or music box) is a 19th century automatic musical instrument that produces sounds by the use of a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc so as to strike the tuned teeth of a steel comb. They were developed from musical snuff boxes of the 18th century and called carillons Ă  musique.
Musical collective Musical collective is a phrase used in reference to a leaderless entity that is predisposed to performing music that may be considered experimental. The sound becomes the focus, as opposed to having the outfit become a stepping stone for potential cynosures.
Musical Canine Freestyle Musical Canine Freestyle—also known as Musical Freestyle, Freestyle Dance, and Canine Freestyle—is a modern dog sport that is a mixture of obedience, tricks, and dance that allows for creative interaction between dogs and their owners.
Musical development In European classical music, musical development is a process by which a musical idea is communicated in the course of a composition. It refers to the transformation and restatement of initial material, and is often contrasted with musical variation, which is a slightly different means to the same end.
Musical ensemble A musical ensemble is a group of two or more musicians who perform instrumental or vocal music. In each musical style or genre, different norms have developed for the sizes and composition of different ensembles, and for the repertoire of songs or musical works that these ensembles perform.
Musical fountain A musical fountain is a type of animated fountain for entertainment purposes that creates an aesthetic design and a three-dimensional image. This is done by using the effects of sound waves and laser against water particles, in which the water streams, activated in strategic timed durations refract and reflect the light, and in doing so, a three-dimensional image is created.
Musical Fidelity Musical Fidelity is a low volume producer of high-end audio equipment. Founded in the United Kingdom in 1982, they are renowned for the unusual (and often inconsistent across product generations) industrial design applied to their products.
Musical historicism Musical historicism signifies the use of historical materials, structures, styles, techniques, media, conceptual content, etc., whether by a single composer or those associated with a particular school, movement, or period.
Musical chairs Musical chairs is a game played by a group of people (usually children), often in an informal setting purely for entertainment such as a birthday party. The game starts with any number of players and a number of chairs one fewer than the number of players; the chairs are arranged in a circle (or other closed figure if space is constrained; a double line is sometimes used) facing outward, with the people standing in a circle just outside of that. A non-playing individual plays recorded music or a musical instrument. While the music is playing, the players in the circle walk in unison around the chairs. When the music controller suddenly shuts off the music, everyone must race to sit down in one of the chairs. The player who is left without a chair is eliminated from the game, and one chair is also removed to ensure that there will always be one fewer chair than there are players. The music resumes and the cycle repeats until there is only one player left in the game, who is the winner.
Musical improvisation Musical improvisation is the spontaneous creative process of making music while it is being performed. To use a linguistic analogy, improvisation is like speaking or having a conversation as opposed to reciting a written text.
Musical instrument A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. In principle, anything that produces sound, and can somehow be controlled by a musician, can serve as a musical instrument.
Musical instrument classification At various times, and in various different cultures, various schemes of musical instrument classification have been used. The most commonly used system in use in the west today divides instruments into string instruments, wind instruments and percussion instruments.
Musical instruments from The Legend of Zelda series Musical Instruments have been featured in every The Legend of Zelda series game except in Four Swords and Four Swords Adventures. A musical instrument will appear in Phantom Hourglass, but as of now it is unknown.
Musical instruments of Tripura The Tripuri people are very fond of music as their socio-cultural life is also closely interwoven with it. The Tripuri musical instruments and music of the Tripuri tribes attract due to its richness and depth of myths associated with the birth of the first note.
Musical Instrument Digital Interface MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is an industry-standard electronic communications protocol that enables electronic musical instruments, computers and other equipment to communicate, control and synchronize with each other in real time. MIDI does not transmit an audio signal — it simply transmits digital data such as the pitch and intensity of musical notes to play, control signals for parameters such as volume, vibrato and panning, and clock signals to set the tempo.
Musical kur Musical Freestyle or Musical Kur is a form of dressage movement setting the horse's "dance" to music. Movements and figures are choreographed to meet the technical requirements of the particular level with carefully chosen music that highlights the horse/rider combination.
Musical mode In music, a mode is an ordered series of musical intervals, which, along with the key or tonic, define the pitches. However, mode is usually used in the sense of scale applied only to the specific diatonic scales found below.
Musical montage Musical montage (literally "putting together") is a technique where sound objects or compositions are created from collage. One example is Christian Marclay's playable sound collages produced by glueing together sectors of different vinyl records.
Musical radif Radif (Persian: ردیف, meaning order in Persian) is a collection of many old melodic figures preserved through many generations by oral tradition. It organizes the melodies in a number of different tonal spaces called Dastgah.
Musical Ride The Musical Ride of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is a formal event showcasing the equestrian skills performed by thirty-two cavalry who are regular Members of the Force. The event is held in Canada and worldwide to promote the RCMP.
Musical saw A "musical saw," also called a "singing saw," is the application of a hand saw as a musical instrument. The sound created is an ethereal tone, very similar to the theremin, or a clear woman's voice.
Musical Sculpting Musical Sculpting is a technique of recording classical piano music on the Yamaha Disklavier piano. It was originally intended to help handicapped pianists to record classical works on the piano without using their fingers.
Musical theatre Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining music, songs, spoken dialogue and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole.
Musicality Musicality refers to fitting a dance to the music being played, with the goal of relating the dance to the music's rhythm, melody, and mood. Dancers usually step on the beats of the music, and may vary the size of their movements with the volume of the music.
Musicanus Musicanus (Indian: Mûshika) was an Indian king at the head of the Indus, who raised a rebellion against Alexander the Great around 323 BCE. Peithon, one of Alexander's generals, managed to put down the revolt:
Musicatwork musicatwork: The Sound Approach to Training is an arts based training company based in Cardiff. Formed in 2005, musicatwork uses music and musical improvisation in a highly structured way, alongside coaching and other debriefing techniques to deliver staff training and development sessions for a range of business in the financial services sector, local councils, community based organisations and schools.
Musicforthemorningafter Musicforthemorningafter is the debut album by Pete Yorn, released on March 27, 2001 through Columbia Records. The album was the result of Yorn's successful musical exposure in the movie Me, Myself & Irene.
MusicFest Canada MusicFest Canada is a competition festival, established as the Canadian Stage Band Festival (CSBF) in Toronto, in 1972, by Robert Richmond (founding president), Gary Wadsworth, and Paul Miner. A major force in the development of the stage band (an institutionally-based jazz 'big band') in Canadian high schools and universities, the CSBF added vocal and concert band components in 1981 and 1986, respectively.
MusicGremlin MusicGremlin is a portable digital music player, as well as a subscription based online music service that can be accessed wirelessly directly from the device without the use of an intermediate computer. Both the player and the service are provided by a small New York based company, MusicGremlin Inc.
Musicians from Denton, Texas A wide variety of musicians have made their start in Denton, Texas. Among these are names which are known only to the local music scene as well as bands or individuals which have made their mark on a much wider scale.
Musicians United for Safe Energy Musicians United for Safe Energy, or MUSE, was an activist group founded in 1979 by Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, Bonnie Raitt, and John Hall of Orleans. The group advocated against the use of nuclear energy, forming shortly after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in March 1979.
Musicians' Benevolent Fund The Musicians' Benevolent Fund (MBF) is a UK charity offering help and support to working and retired musicians, other professionals in the music industry, and their dependants. Established in 1921 by English tenor Gervase Elwes, it operates throughout the UK and Eire and spends around ÂŁ2 million each year helping about 1,500 people.
MusicIP MusicIP is a music search engine which uses an algorithm for generating unique acoustic fingerprints. From these fingerprints, songs can be identified by their acoustic signature regardless of differences at the digital data level (file format, data compression rates, etc).
MusicIP Mixer MusicIP Mixer is an audio player that utilises MusicIP's MusicDNS acoustic fingerprinting and analysis technology to enable users to create sophisticated playlists/mixes from their personal digital music library, which is stored in an application database. The user selects a track from their collection (the seed song) and generates a Mix based on this track, according to specified criteria.
Musick Point Musick Point (also known as Te Waiarohia) is a peninsula in Pakuranga, a suburb of Auckland in New Zealand. It forms the western shore of the Tamaki River and terminates between the Motukorea Channel and the Tamaki Strait in the Waitemata Harbour.
MusicMann 279 MusicMann 279 is the 'working' name of a proposed longwave radio station broadcasting from the Isle of Man to the UK, Ireland, and parts of mainland Europe. The station has been mooted for many years, but due to a variety of technical and legal problems has been delayed several times.
Musicology Musicology (Greek: μουσικη = "music" and λογος = "word" or "reason") is the scholarly study of music and music history. The specializations of musicologists are quite diverse.
Musicor Records Musicor Records was a 1960s and 1970s record label. Musicor's records were offered in true stereophonic sound, (MS3***), recorded in accordance with standards developed by the Record Industry Association of America, Incorporated.
Musicube A Musicube is a list of preferred musical genres that allows users to express their musical tastes online. Created in 2006 for BBC Radio 1, each genre is mapped to an outline of Radio 1 shows that play the selected style of music.
Musidora Musidora (February 23, 1889 - December 11, 1957) was the professional stage-name of a popular French silent film actress of the early 20th century. She is most remembered for her vamp persona in the roles of Irma Vep and Diana Monti in the early motion picture crime serials Les Vampires (1915) and Judex (1916), respectively.
Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG) is the largest and most comprehensive German music encyclopedia, and as a Western music reference source is comparable only to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians in size and scope. It is published by Bärenreiter and Metzler.
Musikalisches WĂĽrfelspiel A Musikalisches WĂĽrfelspiel (Musical dice game) was a system for using dice to randomly 'generate' music (long before computer systems). These games were quite popular throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.
Musikverein The Musikverein in Vienna, Austria was opened on January 6 1870, and is famous for its acoustics. It is considered to be one of the three finest concert halls in the world, along with Boston's Symphony Hall and Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, and is home to the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
Musimon In medieval European heraldry, the image of the musimon is used to symbolize one in authority who leads with strength. Used in this sense, the musimon, also known as "tityrus" or "tytron", is a cross between a goat and a sheep; it has the feet and body of a goat, the head and beard of a ram, and two horns from each for a total of four -- two curved and two straight.
Musine Kokalari Musine Kokalari (February 10, 1917 Adana, Turkey - August 14, 1983) of Gjirokastër, Albania was probably the most interesting figure among the minor prose writers of Albania's pre-communist period, both as an individual and as an author. Kokalari was the first female writer of Albania, and the only one up until the 1960s.
Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" is the seventh episode of the fourth season of The X-Files. Taking a page from the Superman comic "Lex Luthor: The Unauthorized Biography," this episode details the previous exploits of the Cigarette Smoking Man.
Musings of Miles The Musings of Miles is an album recorded by Miles Davis, for Prestige Records in 1955. The band is presented in a quartet setting - the rhythm section is the nucleus of that of Miles' First Great Quintet, minus Paul Chambers.
Musipedia Musipedia is a search engine for identifying pieces of music. This can be done by whistling a theme, playing it on a virtual piano keyboard, tapping the rhythm on the computer keyboard, or entering the Parsons code.
Musiq Musiq Soulchild (born Taalib Johnson on September 16 1977 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), is an American neo soul and R&B artist, and was one of the most popular artists on the Def Soul label. Since 2001, he has gone by simply Musiq, he dropped the "Soulchild" from his moniker, because he said he had not mastered his craft yet, and thus was not yet "music's soulchild".
Musique (Patrick Adams) Musique was a studio project by Patrick Adams, best known for song "In the Bush". Recorded originally as a 'low budget' project at Bob Blank's Blank Tape Studios (the tracking session was completed in four hours), the album contained only four cuts.
Musique concrète Much like electroacoustic music, Musique concrète (French; literally, "concrete music"), has been subject to conflicting perceptions about its character. The term is often understood as a practice of simply making music out of "real world" sounds, or sounds other than those made by musical instruments.
Musique mesurée Musique mesurée, or Musique mesurée à l'antique, was a style of vocal musical composition in France in the late 16th century. In musique mesurée, longer syllables in the French language were set to longer note values, and shorter syllables to shorter, in a homophonic texture but in a situation of metric fluidity, in an attempt to imitate contemporary understanding of Ancient Greek music.
Musique pour cordes, percussion et celesta (BartĂłk) BĂ©la BartĂłk composed Music for cords, percussions and celesta in 1936. This orchestral part is innovative in its composition: atonal music, rhythmic invention, chromatic language, folk and impressionist sources, succession of the movements (a slow Fugue which palpitates, a leaping Allegro, nocturne vertiginous, final joyeusement country).
Musique-Cordiale The Musique-Cordiale Festival Musiques en Liberté is the name for an international festival of music and song and for a series of other musical events in France and Britain. It grew from a dream of making music and encouraging musical appreciation at the highest level in the most conducive surroundings.
Musiri Subramania lyer Musiri Subramania Iyer (1899-1975) was a well known Carnatic vocalist who was popular in the first half of the 20th century. He was known for his bhava-laden renditions of many songs like Enthavedu (Saraswathi Manohari), Enthu Daginado (thodi) etc.
Musk Musk is the name originally given to a perfume obtained originally from the strong-smelling substance secreted by a gland in the abdomen of the male musk deer, and hence applied to other animals, and also to plants, possessing a similar odor. The organic compound that is the primary contributor to the odor of musk is muscone, which is often used in perfumery.
Musk deer Musk deer are artiodactyls of the genus Moschus, the only genus of family Moschidae. They are more primitive than the true deer (family Cervidae) in not having antlers or facial glands, in having only a single pair of teats, and in possessing a gall bladder, a caudal gland, a pair of tusk-like teeth and—of particular economic importance to humans—a musk gland.
Muskego-Norway School District The Muskego-Norway School District is approximately forty-two square miles in area and serves students in the Milwaukee suburb of Muskego, part of Norway, and a small part of New Berlin in southeastern Wisconsin. The Muskego-Norway School District is one of the larger districts in the state, with an enrollment of nearly 4,900 students in five elementary schools, two middle schools, and one high school.
Muskegon Film Festival The Muskegon Film Festival is a film festival held every February in the Frauenthal Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Muskegon, Michigan. Films are screened in both the Frauenthal Theater and the Beardsley Theater.
Muskegon High School Muskegon High School is a public high school located in Muskegon, Michigan. The first high school in Muskegon County, Michigan, it is a member of the OK Green and the Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA).
Muskegon Lake Muskegon Lake is a 4,149 acre fresh-water lake in Muskegon County, Michigan, USA. Located in the lower peninsula at the mouth of the Muskegon River, Muskegon Lake forms a 12-square mile broad harbor along the eastern shoreline of Lake Michigan, approximately 2.
Muskegon State Park Muskegon State Park is a state park along Lake Michigan and Muskegon Lake near North Muskegon, Michigan in Muskegon County, Michigan. The park has two miles of sand beach on Lake Michigan and a mile on Muskegon Lake.
Musket A musket is a muzzle-loaded, smoothbore long gun, which its user generally fires from the shoulder. The date of the origin of muskets remains unknown, but they are mentioned as early as the late 13th century, and they were primarily designed for use by infantry.
Musket (horse) Musket was an English-bred thoroughbred racehorse responsible for siring in New Zealand many of the important horses during the nineteenth century, including the famous Carbine. Carbine in his day was considered one of the greatest horses in the world, whose feats included winning the 1890 Melbourne Cup with a very large weight.
Musket ball A musket ball was an early form of ammunition used for loading muskets. Balls like these were generally made from lead, and were muzzle loaded into the barrel of the musket wrapped in a loosely-fitting paper patch filled with gunpowder on the back end.
Musket Wars The Musket Wars were a series of battles fought between various tribal groups of Māori in the early 1800s, primarily on the North Island in New Zealand. The conflicts were directly influenced by the acquisition of muskets by Māori.
Musketeer Records Musketeer Records, an independent record label based in Johannesburg, South Africa which releases mainstream rock, adult contemporary and solo acts. It was formed in August 2000 by Brian O'Shea and Peter Lacey.
Muskhogean stock Muskhogean stock (also Muskogean) refers to a Native American stock that inhabitated the Gulf Coast region of what is today the United States. The name derives from the chief tribe in the Creek confederacy, the Muskogee, but consisted of the Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Seminoles, and other tribes.
Muskingum County Library System The Muskingum County Library System serves the communities of Muskingum County, Ohio from its administrative offices in Zanesville, Ohio including Dresden, Duncan Falls, New Concord, and Roseville. Muskingum county is located east of Columbus, Ohio, midway to the West Virginia border.
Muskingum Island Muskingum Island is a long narrow bar island on the Ohio River in Wood County, West Virginia between the towns of Moore Junction, Ohio and Boaz, West Virginia. The island is mostly covered in forests and contains a number of oil wells.
Muskogean languages Muskogean (also Muskhogean, Muskogee) is a language family of the Southeastern United States. The Muskogean languages are generally divided into two rough branches, Eastern and Western, though these distinctions are the subject of some debate.
Muskogee Roads The title Muskogee Roads was used to describe the system of railroads under common management headquartered in Muskogee, Oklahoma and controlled by the Muskogee Company of Philadelphia. The Muskogee Roads was the only class 1 railroad to be headquartered in Oklahoma and had a major impact on the development and livelyhood of the region.
Muskoka Baptist Conference Founded in 1930, Muskoka Baptist Conference (MBC) is located just outside of Huntsville, Ontario, less than 2 hours north of Toronto. Situated on over 200 acres near Muskoka, MBC is Canada's largest Christian conference and retreat centre.
Muskoka District Municipality, Ontario The Muskoka District Municipality, more generally referred to as the District of Muskoka, or simply Muskoka (the official name is the District Municipality of Muskoka) is a Regional Municipality located in Central Ontario. Muskoka extends from Georgian Bay in the west, to the northern tip of Lake Couchiching in the south, to the western border of Algonquin Provincial Park in the east.
Muskrat The Muskrat or Musquash (Ondatra zibethicus), the only species in genus Ondatra, is a large aquatic rodent native to North America, and introduced in parts of Europe. Adult body length is usually between 25-40 cm long, with a strong, laterally compressed tail 20-25 cm long.
Muskroot Sumbul, also called sumbal or muskroot, is a drug occasionally employed in European medical practice. It consists of the root of Ferula sumbul, a tall umbelliferous plant found in the north of Bokhara, its range apparently extending beyond the Amur.
Muskwa Ranges The Muskwa Ranges are a group of mountain ranges in northern British Columbia, Canada. They are part of the Far Northern Rockies section of the Rocky Mountains and are bounded on their west by the Rocky Mountain Trench and on their east by the Rocky Mountain Foothills.
Muslim Action Committee The Muslim Action Committee is a United Kingdom based umbrella organisation specifically set up in February 2006 to respond the Muhammad cartoons published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. The Muslim Action Committee includes over 400 Sunni Muslim religious scholars as well as Islamic organisations representing all schools of thought in the Muslim community of Britain.
Muslim American Society The Muslim American Society (MAS) is a charitable, religious, social, cultural, and educational, not-for-profit organization. It is a pioneering Islamic organization, an Islamic revival, and reform movement that uplifts the individual, family, and society.
Muslim Association of Britain The Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) is a Muslim group in the United Kingdom established in 1997.states its aim as to "promote and propagate the principles of positive Muslim interaction with all elements of society to reflect, project and convey the message of Islam in its pure and unblemished form".
Muslim Brotherhood The Muslim Brotherhood or The Muslim Brothers (Arabic: الإخوان المسلمون al-ikhwān al-muslimūn, full title "The Society of the Muslim Brothers", often simply الإخوان al-ikhwān, "the Brotherhood") is a world-wide Islamist movement, which has spawned several religious and political organizations in the Middle East dedicated to the credo: "God is our objective, the Quran is our Constitution, the Prophet is our leader, struggle is our way, and death for the sake of God is the highest of our aspirations." As stated on its charter and its website, the Muslim Brotherhood seeks to install a just Islamic empire and a Caliphate across the muslim world, through stages designed to Islamicize targeted muslim majority nations by all lawful means available.
Muslim conquest of Egypt At the commencement of the Muslim conquest of Egypt, Egypt was part of the Byzantine Empire with its capital in Constantinople. However, it had been occupied just a decade before by the Persian Empire under Khosrau II (616 to 629 AD).
Muslim conquests The initial Muslim conquests (632-732) began after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and were marked by a century of rapid Arab expansion beyond the Arabian peninsula under the Rashidun and Umayyad caliphs, ending with the Battle of Tours— resulting in a vast Muslim empire and area of influence that stretched from India, across Central Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa, to Iberia and the Pyrenees. Edward Gibbon writes in History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:
Muslim controversies related to Nikah Mut'ah This article tries to represent the Shi'a and Sunni views regarding Muslim controversies related to Nikah Mut'ah, or temporary marriage. For a more in depth view of the individual sources present, see Hadiths related to Mut'ah.
Muslim culture Muslim culture is a term primarily used in secular academia to describe all cultural practices common to historically Islamic peoples. As the religion of Islam originated in 6th century Arabia, the early forms of Muslim culture were predominantly Arab.
Muslim culture of Hyderabad The Muslim culture of Hyderabad refers to the culture associated with Muslims of Hyderabad State, India. With its origins in the Muslim Deccan sultanates, the culture became defined in the latter half of the reign of the Asif Jahi dynasty in Hyderabad.
Muslim Canadian Congress The Muslim Canadian Congress was organized to provide a voice to Muslims who support a " progressive, liberal, pluralistic, democratic, and secular society where everyone has the freedom of religion." The organization claims to have 300 dues-paying members.
Muslim Consumer Group The Muslim Consumer Group is a non-profit organization founded in November 1993 by Syed Rasheeduddin Ahmed, based in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. Its goal was to educate Muslims about Halal foods and perform Halal certification, which was not done by any other organization in the United States at that time.
Muslim Council of Sweden The Muslim Council of Sweden (, SMR) is an umbrella organisation of Islamic organisations in Sweden. It was founded in 1990 by representatives of the United Islamic Parishes in Sweden (, FIFS) and the Muslim Association of Sweden (, SMuF).
Muslim Executive of Belgium The Exécutif des musulmans de Belgique aka Belgische MoslimExcutieve (EMB, Muslim Executive of Belgium) is the official Muslim interlocutor of the Belgian federal government for the implementation of the July 19, 1974 law recognizing Islam as one of the subsidized religious or secular communities in Belgium according to the law of March 4, 1870.
Muslim holidays *Friday is an important day in the life of a Muslim and it is believed that any devotional acts done on this day gain a higher reward. This day however should not be understood as a Sabbath, for Muslims reject the belief that God rested after Creation.
Muslim Chinese martial arts Muslim Chinese martial arts have a long history in China, and many Muslims have participated at the highest level of Chinese Wushu. However, the Qing Dynasty persecutions greatly stimulated the practise of martial arts among Chinese Muslims.
Muslim ibn Aqeel Muslim ibn Aqeel was the cousin of the third Shi’a Imam, Hussain ibn Ali, and was the son of Aqeel ibn Abu Talib. Muslim ibn Aqeel was sent ahead as an envoy to Kufa to see if the people could be trusted to be loyal.

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