An Islamic term for someone who does the ritual washing of the dead before burrial. Many believe that someone who does this often has a better change to go to heaven

first-level administrative division of many Arab countries, and a second-level administrative division in Saudi Arabia

the first month in the Islamic Hijrī calendar

One who struggles to purify oneself morally and spiritually.

Islamic Scholar- makes legal decisions on subjects not in Quraan/Sunnah.

Festifity to celebrate a saint or religious event.

Things/actions that are considered ḥarām (prohibited) in Islam.

 Affiliated (the third rank of membership of the Muslim brotherhood)

Prompt dower, gift to the bride

Litt: Guide, title of the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood

a traditional person who roams a residential area beating a drum during Ramadan nights to wake people to eat their Suḥūr before the call for prayer at dawn]

Person not believing in the unity of God.

mutawātir ("successive") is a category for the isnād ("transmission") of a hadith

Husband obliged to pay wife portion of dowry.

Litt: Renaissance. Name chosen by the Muslim Brotherhood for their political-economic and scientific program in 2012. This name was earlier used for the secular cultural revival in the Arab world at the end of the 19^th century and beginning  of the 20^th Century in which the core actors were Arab Christians.  Where Christians focused on the Arabic heritage Islamists aimed at  connecting the Arabic and Islamic heritage.

military fiasco

Litt: captain. Rank in the Muslim Brotherhood that follows the Akh al-ʿamal. The Naqib can, in principle, be elected into any position including the possibility of becoming the movement’s ‘Supreme Guide’

Islamic science involving the replacement of legal ruling.

“Muhammad Rashīd Ridā (1865-1935) was the proponent of another modern theory of Islamic law which came to be termed neo-ijtihād " (see Arab-West Papers Nr. 40)