List of terms used in taxonomy "glossary".
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Term Name | Term description |
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Kubrī al-Sharbāt | |
Kuffār |
Popular usage: unbelievers. Plural form for Kafir. which traditionally means he who covers up the truth.
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Kufr | |
Kurds | |
Kuttāb |
Islamic classes attached to mosque, children taught the Qur’ān. |
Kyahk (Kiahk) | |
lā ʾilāha ʾillāllāh, muḥammadur-rasūlullāh |
Meaning: There is no god but God. Muhammad is the messenger of God |
Laylat al-qadr |
“Night of power”, Ramaḍān, Prophet was revealed the Qur’ān |
Mā malakat aymānukum - malak al-yamīn | |
Madhhab |
A school of Islamic law |
madīḥ |
Panegyrik poetry |
madrassa |
Arabic for school; in the traditional sense a school where children study the Qur'an |
Mahdī |
‘Rightly Guided one’. Return of Jesus before Day of Judgment. |
maḥlūl |
maḥlūl: miri land that could be converted by the order of the sultan into matruk mahmiyya (property for general use such as lakes or roads) or into matruk murfaqa (property for use by a particular community such as market places and cemeteries) [AWR Paper Nr. 15] |
Mahr |
Islamic mandatory clause from groom to bride upon marriage. |
Maḥram |
Close kin with whom marriage is forbidden. |
Majlis al-Mili | |
Majlis al-ʾUmmah |
The National Assembly of Kuwait, thus the country's legislative power |
Makrūh |
Literally "detested." Thing or action that is detested. |
Malakī | |
Mālikī |
Four main schools of religious law, Sunni Islam. |
mamlūk | |
mamlūk, mamālīk | |
Mashyakha | |
Maṣlaḥa | |
Matn |
An Islamic term that is used in relation to Hadith evaluation |
mawālid | |
Mawā’id al-Raḥmān | |
mawḍūʿ |
A hadith whose origins cannot be determined or whose narrator is known to be lying; a hadith deemed to be false based on the criteria of al-jarh wa al-ta'dil. |
Mawlāna | |
Mawlid | |
Mawwal | |
māʾidat al raḥmān | |
Ma’dhūn |
Religious official responsible for marrying couples |
mā’ida | |
Midān | |
Miḥrāb |
Niche in Mosque's wall that shows Mecca's direction. |
Milla | |
Millī (Community) | |
Mirī |
Miri: cultivated or cultivatable land acquired for the state through conquest or through forfeiture of milk due to the failure of heirs to cultivate it. An individual is able to gain rights over miri land by cultivating it and paying taxes, but the state continued to regulate its transfer and improvement. The tenant's rights to miri were forfeited by failure to cultivate the land. The ownership of such forfeited land is compromised. [AWR Paper Nr. 15] |
Misyār |
Marriage where woman willingly surrenders some rights. |
Muarada | |
Mufṣada | |
Muftī |
Islamic scholar with the authorization to give fatwas, who has received an official appointment, high ranking government official. |
mughasil |
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 |
Muḥaddith |
Title for a transmitter or interpreter of hadith. |
Muḥāfaẓa |
first-level administrative division of many Arab countries, and a second-level administrative division in Saudi Arabia |
Muhājir |
Muslim who migrates for the sake of God. |
Muḥarram |
the first month in the Islamic Hijrī calendar |
Muḥāṣaṣah Ṭāʾifīyah |