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Glossary terms

List of terms used in taxonomy "glossary".
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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.