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Glossary terms

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Term Name Term description
Abāyas
Abūnā

Literally "our father." Orthodox, Catholic and Anglican addressed.

adab

culture, or literature

Adhān

Public call to prayer done five times day.

Ahadīth
Ahl al-dhimmah

Free non-Muslim community that pay jizyah in exchange.

ahl al-Fatrah

 

everyone whom the message of Islam has not yet reached

 

Ahl al-Hal w al-ʿAqd

Influential and learned elder people in Islam

Ahl al-kitāb

“People of the Book.” Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

Ahl al-Qurʾān

Group accepting only the authority of the Qur’an.

Akh al-ʿamal

Working brother (the highest rank of membership within the Muslim Brotherhood)

al -thaʿr
Āl al-Bayt

“The people of the house of the Prophet.”

Al Chark Al Awsat
Al Nisaa
Al Usbu
al-Anṣār‎

the people who gave oath of allegiance to Prophet Muhammad

al-bādiya

Desert life, nomadic life 

al-Bahā’ al-Aʿzam

Title for founder of Bahā’ī faith.

al-Baramūn

the eves preceding Coptic Christmas and Epiphany

Al-Bayān

Affirmation of the literal truth in Islam

al-Binā' wa al-Tanmīyah
al-Da'wah al-Salafīyah (Salafī 'Preaching' Call)
al-ḍabṭ

A criteria of hadith evaluation referring to the precision in memorization and writing of the muhaddith.

al-Ghuṭās

Arabic for Epiphany

al-Ḥawthiyyūn
al-Hudā

The Arabic root meaning guidance and derivations, is found some three hundred times in the Qur’an

al-Islām al-Ḥaḍārī

al-Islām al-Ḥaḍārī (Civilisational Islam) is a concept that aims to combine Islamic / Qur'anic Law and the modern State to establish the Qur'an as the basis for political and social action

Al-Isrā’ wa-al-Miʿrāj

Miraculous night journey [al-isrā’] of the Prophet Muhammad.

Al-Jamā’ah al-Islāmīyah
Al-Jamʿiyah al-Sharʿiyah

An Islamic NGO

al-jarḥ wa al-taʿdīl

The process of, literally "accrediting" and "discrediting" by which Islamic scholars evaluate hadith.

al-Jāthūlīq
al-jiwār

The idea of al- jiwār is that any citizen or any member of the body politic has the right to bring in any outsider or foreigner in his protection and thus that protection is incumbent upon all of us.

al-Jum’ah al-Hazīna
al-Kāfī

The most important Shiite book on ḥadīth.

al-kashāfa
Al-khat al-hamāyūny [Hamāyūny Decree]

Al-khat al-hamāyūny is a clause in the Egyptian law that dates back to  1856 issued during Ottoman rule, which regulates Christian church construction.

al-Khawārij

members of a group that appeared in the first century of Islam during the First Fitna, the crisis of leadership after the death of Muhammad. It broke into revolt against the authority of the Rashidun Caliph Ali after he agreed to arbitration with his rival, Muawiyah I, to decide the succession to the Caliphate following the Battle of Siffin (657). A Khariji later assassinated Ali, and for hundreds of years, the Khawarij were a source of insurrection against the Caliphate.

al-Khilāfah ‎
al-Khulwah

spiritual seclusion, also practiced in Sufism and adopted by its religious Order "al-Khuluwatīyyah.

al-Khulwah
Al-Kiraza
al-Kirazah
al-Lajiʾīn

Palestinan refugees of 1948

al-Laqqān

Arabic term for the water vessel used in the church for Christian ablutions

al-Laqqān ‎
al-Madina Document
al-Maṣlaḥa-al-Mursala

unrestricted interests 

al-Mawlid al-Nabawīy

Celebration commemorating the birthday of the Prophet.

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