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Glossary terms
List of terms used in taxonomy "glossary".
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| Term Name | Term description |
|---|---|
| al-Muhājirūn |
the people who left Quraish with Prophet Muhammad |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
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