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Glossary terms

List of terms used in taxonomy "glossary".
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Term Name	Term description
Salafīyah	Early generations of Muslims. Pious models of devotion.
Salām
Ṣalāt
Sanad	Chain of hadīths passed on by oral tradition.
ṣa’īdī	Coptic dialect
Shaabi
Shafāʿah	Intercession, mediation
Shāfi‘ī	One of four main schools of fiqh/jurisprudence.
Shahādah	First pillar of Islam. Declaration of faith.
Shahīd	witness or martyr. The term Shahid occurs frequently in the Qur'an where it means "witness." Only once it occurs with the meaning of martyr, that is someone who died for his faith. Shahid as martyr acquires a wider use in the hadiths.
Shamm al-Nasīm	Egyptian spring festival that dates back to the Pharaohs.
Sharaa
Shariah
Sharīcah
Sharif
Sharīʿah	Body of legislation derived from Qur’an and Sunna.
shayākha
Shaykh	In Islam: Islamic teacher, also used for an older respected man who has good knowledge of Islam. In Christianity: Elders in the Presbyterian Church. Plural:shuyūkh
Shaʿabān
Sheikh
Sheikh Mujahed
Shiah
Shirk	Polytheism- worship multiply gods/idols in addition to God. Strongly denounced in Islam.
Shīʿī	Is the person who belongs to the Shī‘ah, a branch of Islam.
Shī‘ah	Refers to followers of ^cAli Ibn Abi Talib. Branch of Islam (Shiism).
Shūrā	Consultation, council of Islamic organization.
Shūrā Council	Egypt’s upper bicameral chamber (pre-2014)
Shuyūkh	Plural of Shaykh
Sīrah	Biography of Prophet Muhammad. Refered to as “al-sīrah al-nabawīyah”.
Subū‘	The seventh day after birth of child, wedding, etc.
Sufi ṭarīqa	litt: Path. This term refers to a religious fraternity following a particular school of Sufism -- the inner mystical dimension of Islam- with lines of initiation going back for many hundreds of years to the founding Shaykh (and ultimately to the Prophet) in which spiritual guidance is provided by the living shaykh who initiates members and leads the collective invocation of the Names of God which generally is the fundamental methodology (Definition of Sufi Muslim Prof. Abdallah Schleifer febr 6, 2016)
Sufūr	For Muslims women it is uncovering the face
Suḥūr	Dawn Meal, during Ramaḍān, before day of fasting.
Ṣulḥ	It means "peace" as opposed to war. It is derived from the same root as Arabic word musalaha meaning reconciliation. In Islamic Law it means an "amicable settlement."
Sultān
Sunna
Sunnah	Collection of recorded words/actions of Prophet Muhammad.
Sunnī	Islamic sect- accepts first four caliphs as Muhammad's successors.
Sūrah	Qurān is composed of 114 Surahs, or chapters.
Synaxar
Synaxarium	Liturgical book, lists of saints, in Coptic Orthodox church
Ṣaḥābah	Companions, disciples or close friends of the Prophet.
Ṣūfī	One who practices ṣūfism.
Ṣūfīyah	Mystical tradition of Islam based on spiritual truth.
tabīb	medecine man (preislamic)
Tablīgh	Order to Prophet Muhammad to deliver Islam's message.
tafakkur
Tafsīr
Ṭāghūt	Pagan human tyranny
Tahajjud	Optional prayers during the third part of nighttime.