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Glossary terms

List of terms used in taxonomy "glossary".
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Term Name	Term description
Kubrī al-Sharbāt
Kuffār	Popular usage: unbelievers. Plural form for Kafir. which traditionally means he who covers up the truth.
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