
MARTYR IN ISLAMBriefly, what you need to know....The Muslim figure of the Martyr (shahîd, plural: Shuhadâ, means in the general sense of being a witness and dying for bearing witness to one's faith) is now widely discussed. Already in the 7th century due to the circumstances of the Hegira, there is a notion of Martyrdom of the great Islamic conquests by Arab-Muslim cavalrymen. The latter, carried by a bellicose faith, preached the conversion or submission of the infidels and then seized, under the reign of the first four caliphs...
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