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Glossary terms
List of terms used in taxonomy "glossary".
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| Term Name | Term description |
|---|---|
| 'urfī (Informal) | |
| 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-Ahlī (Egypt’s leading football squad) | |
| al-Anṣār |
the people who gave oath of allegiance to Prophet Muhammad |
| 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-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-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-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-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. |
| al-Muhājirūn |
the people who left Quraish with Prophet Muhammad |
| al-Muʾazin |
The person that calls for prayer |
| al-muʿtazilah |
Ummayad and Abbassid era school of Islamic thought which emphasized reason and rational thought in approaching Islamic theology. The movement was centered around Basra and Baghdad. |
| al-Nāzaḥīn |
Palestinian refugees of 1967 (Jordanian point of view: those who fled during and in the aftermath of the 1967 war; Israeli point of view: those who fled just within the six days of the war) |
| Al-Nūr (An Egyptian Salafī Party) | |
| al-Qāhirah |
Cairo |
| al-Quds (Jerusalem) |
Arabic name of Jerusalem and mainly used by Muslims, while Arab Christians use the term 'Urshalim' |
| al-Quds (Jerusalem) |
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