List of terms used in taxonomy "glossary".
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Term Name | Term description |
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al-Muʾazin |
The person that calls for prayer |
al-muʿtazilah |
Ummayad and Abbassid era school of Islamic thought which emphasized reason and rational thought in approaching Islamic theology. The movement was centered around Basra and Baghdad. |
al-Nāzaḥīn |
Palestinian refugees of 1967 (Jordanian point of view: those who fled during and in the aftermath of the 1967 war; Israeli point of view: those who fled just within the six days of the war) |
Al-Nūr (An Egyptian Salafī Party) | |
al-Qāhirah |
Cairo |
al-Quds (Jerusalem) |
Arabic name of Jerusalem and mainly used by Muslims, while Arab Christians use the term 'Urshalim' |
al-Quds (Jerusalem) | |
Al-Salāmu ’alaykum wa raḥmatu ’Allāhi wa Barakātuh | |
al-Taʿāruf | |
al-Umma al-Qibtiya | |
al-Zāhirī |
Lit: literalist. School of thought that rejects qiyas. |
Al-ʾAzān [The Call Prayer Of Islam] | |
al-ʿadālah |
Criteria for evaluating hadith narrators (muhaddith) based on their morality and decorum. |
Al-‘asr [The Third Prayer In Islam] | |
Allāh |
Arabic term for “One God.” all monotheistic religions. |
Allāh Akbar |
The phrase means “Allah is the Greatest.” It is the superlative case and there is no comparison between God the Almighty and others as Allah in the Islamic doctrine is not comparable to human beings or other Gods. There is a big difference between the Creator and the created beings. Moreover, belief in all the prophets of God whose names were mentioned in the Qur’an and those whose names were not mentioned is one of the six articles of the Muslim faith. The right interpretation of the phrase Allahu Akbaris is “Allah is the greatest” and he is the One to whom all attributes of perfection have been proved. |
Amīr |
Title prince/leader Islamic group chosen by election. |
Amshīr | |
Anbā |
Title of bishop/saint in Coptic Orthodox Church |
anjas |
another word for unclean, who are insulting for the Prophet Muhammad |
Apartheid |
It was a system of legislation that upheld segregationist policies against non-white citizens of South Africa. After the National Party gained power in South Africa in 1948, its all-white government immediately began enforcing existing policies of racial segregation. |
aqṣā | |
arkān al-Islām/ arkān al-dīn (Five Pillars of Islam) | |
Arraf | |
Asba | |
Awqāf | |
Āyat Allāh |
Title of major Shīcah clergymen - “sign of God.” |
Azhar | |
Bahā’ī |
Religion, Persia 1863, emphasizing spiritual unity of humankind. |
Baḥrāwī |
Coptic dialect |
baltaja | |
balṭajīya |
The balṭagīya, Baltageya in Egyptian dialect, is a term to refer to a group of mainly men who gather to attack people during demonstrations in order to produce turmoil. During the Arab spring demonstrations and in the aftermath balṭagīya were used - most presumably by both the state and different lobby groups - to influence the dynamics of demonstrations, to (sexually) threaten women in order to prevent them from participating and to accuse the respectively other side of inciting violence. |
Baramhāt | |
Bard | |
Bāṭin | |
Bayt al-māl |
Muslim's treasury during the reign of Islamic caliphs. |
Bayt al-Ṭāʿa |
the House of Obedience |
Bayt al-Ṭāʿah |
Outdated, husband’s house, woman return, cases unlawful desertion. |
Bayt al-Ummah |
title given to the residence of the leader of Egypt's 1919 Revolution, Sa'ad Zaghlūl and his wife, Safiyya
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Bayʿah |
Allegiance to Islamic political system/Islamic Caliphate. |
Bedouin | |
bidʿa | |
Bismillāh al-Rahmān al-Rahīm |
“In name of God, the Merciful the Compassionate.” |
Bohra | |
Burqa |
Wraparound mask-like clothing to veil woman face. |
Cabbala |
Mystical teachings in Judaism of creation and spirituality. |
Da'awa |
Preaching. |
Dā'iyāt (female form for Dā'iyāh) |
female Muslim preachers |
Dar Al Har | |
Dār al-Ḥarb |
Old Term- areas ruled non-Muslims, practice Islam unsafe. |