Woman divorces a man. Returns dowry and forgoes finances.

Kitāb al-Umm is a juristic book, assumably developed by  Imām ash-Shāfi‘ī (767-820), the founder of the Shafi'i School, one of the four Sunni main branches of Islam.

Popular usage: unbelievers. Plural  form for Kafir. which traditionally means he who covers up  the truth.

“Night of power”, Ramaḍān, Prophet was revealed the Qur’ān

A school of Islamic law

Arabic for school; in the traditional sense a school where children study the Qur'an

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]

Close kin with whom marriage is forbidden.

Literally "detested." Thing or action that is detested.

Four main schools of religious law, Sunni Islam.

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.

Religious official responsible for marrying couples