List of terms used in taxonomy "glossary".
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Term Name | Term description |
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Dār al-Iftā’ |
Islamic authority responsible for issuing religious edicts (fatwás). |
Dār al-Islām |
Countries/territories - Muslims can freely practice their faith. |
Dār al-Kufr |
Muslim designation for non-Muslim countries. |
Dār al-Salām |
Dār al-Islām or abode of Islam |
Dar El salam | |
Darb | |
dawliyya | |
Dayr | |
Dāʿiyah |
Preacher Islam. Calls Muslims, non-Muslims become good Muslims. |
Daʿwah |
Act of calling non-Muslims and Muslims to practice Islam. |
dā‘ī | |
Dhikr |
Repeatedly saying God’s name in the heart. |
dhikr | |
Dhimma | |
Dhimmah |
Treaty guarantees protection for non-Muslims in Muslim country. |
Dhimmī |
Person belonging to a people described, ahl al-dhimmah. |
Diakonia | |
Dīwān |
The body or collection of works of an Arab or Persian poet.
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Dīyah |
Financial compensation (or blood-money) for injuries/death. |
Du‘ā’ |
Supplications to God, not regular prayers, completed simultaneously. |
dʿawa | |
Effindiyyah |
Western influenced urban middle class in the Arab World. |
Eid | |
Faqīh |
Islamic jurist; knowledgeable of Islamic law |
Farḍ |
Obligatory for Muslims. Little difference between fard + wajib. |
Farḍ kifāyah |
A communal obligation in Muslim legal doctrine. |
Farḍ ‘ayn |
Personal obligation all Muslims. Different collective obligative acts. |
Farīḍah |
Same as farḍ. |
fāsiqūn | |
Fatḥ |
Literally: Opening. Fatḥ, places peacefully taken over- Muslims. |
Fātiḥah |
Opening sūrah of the Qur’ān. |
Fatwā |
Legal opinion or ruling given by a Muslim scholar, based on knowledge of the sharīcah. |
Feddan |
Unit of land in Egypt and Sudan, 4200m². |
fellah | |
Fidā’ī |
Somebody engages in warfare, knowing might die for cause. |
Fidyah |
Sacrifice/ransom atones for omitting worship in ḥajj. |
fikr | |
Fiqh |
Science of Islamic jurisprudence, extracting laws Qur’an/Sunna. |
Fiqh ʾal-waqaʿ |
Science of current affairs, in other words, it is an islamic science that helps to solve social problems from a religious islamic perspective. |
Firmān | |
Fitnah | |
Fitnah Ṭāʾifīyah |
Sectarian strife between two religious communities, one country. |
Fulūl |
Term used by Islamists for Mubarak’s old guard |
Ghazal |
Lyrical poem with fixed meter and rhyme, usually depicting feelings of love.
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ḥadīth |
A saying attributed to Prophet Muhammad |
ḥaḍra | |
Ḥajj | |
Ḥākimiyyah | |
Ḥalāl |
Muslim decription for something that is permitted in Islam |
Halat Hissar |