Decapitation was a standard method of capital punishment in pre-modern Islamic law. By the end of the 20th century, its use had been abandoned in most...

— Sahih Muslim, 17:4191 Decapitation was a standard method of execution in pre-modern Islamic law. The use of decapitation for punishment continued well...

crimes. Cases of decapitation by suicidal hanging, suicide by train decapitation and by guillotine are known. Less commonly, decapitation can also refer...

Yahya imprisoned. Yahya was then decapitated. Yahya's head is believed to be inside the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus. In Islam, Yahya greeted Muhammad on the...

Apostasy in Islam (Arabic: ردة, romanized: ridda or ارتداد, irtidād) is commonly defined as the abandonment of Islam by a Muslim, in thought, word, or...

weapons directly, a decapitation strike is designed to remove an enemy's ability to use its weapons. Strategies against decapitation strikes include the...

refused, the Sultan instantly ordered the decapitation of Notaras, together with that of his son and his son-in-law; and their three heads … were placed...

Islam concerns the political, social, economic, military, and cultural developments of the Islamic civilization. Most historians believe that Islam originated...

According to the Islamic doctrine, Zakariyā (Arabic: زكريا, Zechariah) is a prophet of God, and a father of the prophet Yahya. According to the Quran...

swearing allegiance to the Islamic State while decapitating Jespersen. Louisa Vesterager Jespersen (born 1994) grew up in Ikast, Denmark. She attended...