Explore: Age Of Ignorance (jahiliyyah)

Jāhiliyyah (Age of Ignorance) is an Arabic expression for an era of pre-Islamic Arabia as a whole or only of the Hejaz leading up to the lifetime of Muhammad

of Qur'an and Hadith to prefer the opinions of other individuals belong to the "Age of Ignorance" (Jahiliyyah) and deserve to be punished. In one of his

out walking in front of men, and this was the Tabarruj of Jahiliyyah (pre-Islamic ignorance).'' Qatadah said, "When they go out of their homes walking

insufficiently anti-Western policies of Nasser demonstrated to him the powerful and dangerous allure of jahiliyyah (pre-Islamic ignorance)—a threat unimaginable, in

proud of his forefathers. Say to those who died in the age of Jahiliyyah that you cut off the shame of your dead ancestors. That is, to be proud of them

what he calls Jahiliyyah (pre-Islamic ignorance). Ma'alim fi al-Tariq has been called "one of the most influential works in Arabic of the last half century

of the Earth, filling the world with the truth and justice of Islam and putting an end to the falsehood and tyranny of jahiliyyah [state of ignorance]

used was "conveyance of the message" (تبليغ الرسالة, Tabligh ar-Risalah).[citation needed] The periods of Fatrah and Jahiliyyah are fairly similar in

The Pre-Islamic Era (Jahiliyyah) This gallery is dedicated to the time from about 400 BCE until the dawn of Islam. Cities of this time portrayed are

time of jahiliyyah ("pre-Islamic ignorance"). The majority of the destruction of the ruins occurred in the 13th and 14th centuries, a time of floods,