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Glossary terms
List of terms used in taxonomy "glossary".
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| Term Name | Term description |
|---|---|
| Mawlāna | |
| Mawlid | |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Muḥibb |
Follower / lover (the first rank of membership within the Muslim Brotherhood) |
| Mujāhid |
One who struggles to purify oneself morally and spiritually. |
| Mujāhidin |
Warriors for Jihād. Plural of Mujāhid. |
| Mujtahid |
Islamic Scholar- makes legal decisions on subjects not in Quraan/Sunnah. |
| Mukarassah |
Consecrated woman who, unlike nuns, works in society. |
| Mūlid |
Festifity to celebrate a saint or religious event. |
| Mullā |
Muslim man trained in Islamic doctrine/law, head of mosque. |
| Munkar |
Things/actions that are considered ḥarām (prohibited) in Islam. |
| munshid | |
| Muntasīb |
Affiliated (the third rank of membership of the Muslim brotherhood) |
| Muntaẓim |
Organizer (the fourth rank of membership within the Muslim Brotherhood) |
| Muqaddam al-ṣadāq |
Prompt dower, gift to the bride |
| Muqaddis |
Christian who made pilgrimage to Jerusalem. |
| Muqarassat | |
| Murīd |
Person committed to teacher in spiritual path of Sufism |
| Murshid |
Litt: Guide, title of the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood |
| Murtadd |
Apostate, someone who turns away from Islam. |
| Musaharātī |
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] |
| muṣḥaf | |
| Mushrik |
Person not believing in the unity of God. |
| Mushrikīn |
Plural of Mushrek. Mushrekīn are polytheists which is firmly denounced in Islam |
| Muslimūn bilā Ḥudūd | |
| Muṣḥaf |
The original Qur’ānic text, without exegesis/human explanation. |
| Mutakallimūn (dialectical theologians) | |
| Mutar | |
| mutawātir ("successive") |
mutawātir ("successive") is a category for the isnād ("transmission") of a hadith |
| Mutʿah |
Mutcah marriage is a fixed-term marriage |
| Muwaḥidūn | |
| Muʾayyid |
Supporter (the second rank of membership within the Muslim Brotherhood) |
| Muʿalim | |
| Muʿtazilah |
Islamic school of thought, applying reason to the Qur’ān. |
| Mu’akhkhar al-Ṣadāq |
Husband obliged to pay wife portion of dowry. |
| Mu’azin |
Person who performs the call to prayer. |
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