Cuisine of Chinese Muslims is the cuisine of the Hui and other Muslims living in China such as Bonan,Dongxiang,Salar and Uyghurs as well as Dungans of Central Asia.
Iran,officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and also called Persia,is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west,by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest,by the Caspian Sea and Turkmenistan to the north,by Afghanistan and Pakistan to the east,and by the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. It covers an area of 1,648,195 km2 (636,372 sq mi),making it the fourth-largest country entirely in Asia and the second-largest country in Western Asia behind Saudi Arabia. Iran has a population of 85 million,making it the 17th-most populous country in the world. Its largest cities,in descending order,are the capital Tehran,Mashhad,Isfahan,Karaj,Shiraz,and Tabriz.
Islamic dietary laws are dietary laws that Muslims follow. Islamic jurisprudence specifies which foods are halāl and which are harām. The dietary laws are found in the Quran,the holy book of Islam,as well as in collections of traditions attributed to Islamic prophet Muhammad.
The president of Iran is the head of government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The president is the second highest-ranking official of Iran after the Supreme Leader.
Islam is the second largest religion in Canada behind Christianity. Muslims have lived in Canada since 1871 and the first mosque was established in 1938. Most Canadian Muslims are Sunni,while a significant minority are Shia and Ahmadiyya. There are a number of Islamic organizations and seminaries (madrasas). Opinion polls show most Muslims feel "very proud" to be Canadians,and majority attend mosque at least once a week.
Halal is an Arabic word that translates to "permissible" in English. In the Quran,the word halal is contrasted with haram (forbidden). This binary opposition was elaborated into a more complex classification known as "the five decisions":mandatory,recommended,neutral,reprehensible and forbidden. Islamic jurists disagree on whether the term halal covers the first two or the first four of these categories. In recent times,Islamic movements seeking to mobilize the masses and authors writing for a popular audience have emphasized the simpler distinction of halal and haram.
Grand Ayatollah Yousef Saanei was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja' and politician,a member of the Islamic Republic of Iran's powerful Guardian Council from 1980 to 1983 and also Attorney-General of Iran from 1983 to 1985.
Chile is a predominantly Christian country,with adherents of Islam being a minuscule minority. Due to secular nature of the Chile's constitution,Muslims are free to proselytize and build places of worship in the country. The statistics for Islam in Chile estimate a total Muslim population of approximately 5000,representing less than 0.02% of the population. There are a number of Islamic organizations in Chile,including the "Muslim Society of Chile and As-Salam Mosque" in Santiago,Chile,"Bilal Mosque"(Mezquita Bilal) in Iquique,and the "Mohammed VI Cultural Center" in Coquimbo,the Community Islam Sunni Chile and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Chile,which was established in 2011,
Censorship in Iran was ranked among the world's most extreme in 2020. Reporters Without Borders ranked Iran 173 out of 180 countries in the World Press Freedom Index,which ranks countries from 1 to 180 based on the level of freedom of the press. Reporters Without Borders described Iran as “one of the world’s five biggest prisons for media personnel" in the 40 years since the revolution. In the Freedom House Index,Iran scored low on political rights and civil liberties and has been classified as 'not free.'
Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo S.A.,abbreviated to PGNiG,is a Polish state-controlled oil and gas company,headquartered in Warsaw,Poland. The Company has branches and representative offices in Russia,Pakistan,Belarus and Ukraine and holds equity interests in some 30 subsidiaries,including providers of specialist geophysical,drilling and well services.
One of the most dramatic changes in government in Iran's history was seen with the 1979 Iranian Revolution where Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was overthrown and replaced by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The patriotic monarchy was replaced by an Islamic republic based on the principle of rule by Islamic jurists,,where clerics serve as head of state and in many powerful governmental roles. A pro-Western,pro-American foreign policy was exchanged for one of "neither east nor west",said to rest on the three "pillars" of mandatory veil (hijab) for women,and opposition to the United States and Israel. A rapidly modernizing capitalist economy was replaced by a populist and Islamic economy and culture.
Iran is notable for its degree of government-sponsored internet censorship. As of 2012,the country blocks approximately 27% of internet sites and as of 2013,blocks half of the top 500 visited websites worldwide. The Iranian government and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Sepah also block several social media and communications platforms,including YouTube,Facebook,Twitter,Blogger,Telegram,Snapchat,and Medium. The government also blocks some streaming services,including Netflix and Hulu. Sites relating to health,science,sports,news,pornography and shopping are also routinely blocked.
Religion in Iran has been shaped by multiple religions and sects over the course of the country's history. Zoroastrianism was the main followed religion during the Achaemenid Empire,the Parthian Empire,and the Sasanian Empire. In 651 AD,the Rashidun Caliphate conquered Persia and spread Islam as the main religion. Sunnism was the predominant form of Islam before the devastating Mongol conquest,but subsequently,Shi'ism became eventually utterly dominant in all of Iran with the advent of the Safavids.
There are many claims that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has repeatedly intervened in the internal affairs of Iran,from the Mossadegh coup of 1953 to the present time. The CIA is said to have collaborated with the last Shah,Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Its personnel may have been involved in the Iran-Contra affair of the 1980s. More recently in 2007-8 the CIA were claimed to be supporting the Sunni terrorist group Jundallah against Iran,but these claims were refuted by a later investigation.
Energy in Armenia describes energy and electricity production,import and consumption in Armenia.
Propaganda in Iran originates from the Iranian government and "private" entities,which are usually state controlled.
A national intranet is an Internet protocol-based walled garden network maintained by a nation state as a national substitute for the global Internet,with the aim of controlling and monitoring the communications of its inhabitants,as well as restricting their access to outside media. Other names have been used,such as the use of the term "halal internet" in Islamic countries.
Halal Kola is a village in Karipey Rural District,Lalehabad District,Babol County,Mazandaran Province,Iran. At the 2006 census,its population was 793,in 207 families.
SalamWeb was a Chromium-based browser developed by the now-defunct Dubai company Salam Web Technologies DMCC. Designed to deliver a Muslim-friendly Web experience,and targeted towards the Muslim audience,it observed the Islamic law and tradition and was certified as a Muslim compliant web browser.
A series of nationwide civil protests in Iran,sometimes known as Bloody November or Bloody Aban took place in 2019 and 2020. Initially caused by a 50–200% increase in fuel prices,they occurred as part of the wider Iranian Democracy Movement,leading to calls for the overthrow of the government in Iran and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The protests commenced as peaceful gatherings on the evening of 15 November but spread to 21 cities within hours,as videos of the protest circulated online,eventually becoming the most violent and severe anti-government unrest since the rise of Iran's Islamic Republic in 1979.
