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Glossary terms

List of terms used in taxonomy "glossary".
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Term Name Term description
Sabyī An-Nisāʾ

Taking women as prisoners during war in Islam.
ṣaḥābah
Ṣahīfa

the word “Ṣahīfa” was also used in early Islamic generations, in the early collections of Hadith. Some of the companions were having Ṣahīfa, were having a document of a statement of the Prophet, Peace Be Upon Him.
ṣaḥīḥ ("authentic"), ḥasan ("valuable") and ḍaʻīf ("weak")

criteria of hadith
Sahm

Traditional unit of land. Seven sahms equal 1 qīrāt.
Sahm al-Thiqah (A Foreign Organization In Egypt)
Sair
Sajjil
ṣakk, pl. ṣukūk

Islamic bonds, they represent the ownership in an asset without infringing the priciples of Islamic finance that prohibits interest (ribā)
Salafī

Practitioner of salafism. Used to describe someone as rigid.
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

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