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Glossary terms
List of terms used in taxonomy "glossary".
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| Term Name | Term description |
|---|---|
| Muḥāfaẓa |
first-level administrative division of many Arab countries, and a second-level administrative division in Saudi Arabia |
| Muhājir |
Muslim who migrates for the sake of God. |
| Muḥarram |
the first month in the Islamic Hijrī calendar |
| Muḥāṣaṣah Ṭāʾifīyah | |
| Muḥibb |
Follower / lover (the first rank of membership within the Muslim Brotherhood) |
| Muḥkam |
(Well-Structured) |
| Mujāhid |
One who struggles to purify oneself morally and spiritually. |
| Mujahiddin | |
| Mujāhidin |
Warriors for Jihād. Plural of Mujāhid. |
| Mujtahid |
Islamic Scholar- makes legal decisions on subjects not in Quraan/Sunnah. |
| Mukarassah |
Consecrated woman who, unlike nuns, works in society. |
| Mukthassar | |
| Mūlid |
Festifity to celebrate a saint or religious event. |
| Mullā |
Muslim man trained in Islamic doctrine/law, head of mosque. |
| Munkar |
Things/actions that are considered ḥarām (prohibited) in Islam. |
| munshid | |
| Muntasīb |
Affiliated (the third rank of membership of the Muslim brotherhood) |
| Muntaẓim |
Organizer (the fourth rank of membership within the Muslim Brotherhood) |
| Muqaddam al-ṣadāq |
Prompt dower, gift to the bride |
| Muqaddis |
Christian who made pilgrimage to Jerusalem. |
| Muqarassat | |
| Murīd |
Person committed to teacher in spiritual path of Sufism |
| Murshid |
Litt: Guide, title of the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood |
| Murtadd |
Apostate, someone who turns away from Islam. |
| Musaharātī |
a traditional person who roams a residential area beating a drum during Ramadan nights to wake people to eat their Suḥūr before the call for prayer at dawn] |
| muṣḥaf | |
| Mushrik |
Person not believing in the unity of God. |
| Mushrikīn |
Plural of Mushrek. Mushrekīn are polytheists which is firmly denounced in Islam |
| Muslimūn bilā Ḥudūd | |
| Muṣḥaf |
The original Qur’ānic text, without exegesis/human explanation. |
| Mutah | |
| Mutakallimūn (dialectical theologians) | |
| Mutar | |
| Mutashābih |
(Similar) |
| mutawātir ("successive") |
mutawātir ("successive") is a category for the isnād ("transmission") of a hadith |
| Mutʿah |
Mutcah marriage is a fixed-term marriage |
| Muwaḥidūn | |
| Muwāṭana |
nationalism |
| Muʾayyid |
Supporter (the second rank of membership within the Muslim Brotherhood) |
| Muʿalim | |
| Muʿtazilah |
Islamic school of thought, applying reason to the Qur’ān. |
| Mu’akhkhar al-Ṣadāq |
Husband obliged to pay wife portion of dowry. |
| Mu’azin |
Person who performs the call to prayer. |
| Nahḍa |
Litt: Renaissance. Name chosen by the Muslim Brotherhood for their political-economic and scientific program in 2012. This name was earlier used for the secular cultural revival in the Arab world at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th Century in which the core actors were Arab Christians. Where Christians focused on the Arabic heritage Islamists aimed at connecting the Arabic and Islamic heritage. |
| Najjār | |
| Nakba |
military fiasco |
| Naksa Day |
Day of Setback is the lost war of Egypt against Israel in June 1967 |
| Naqīb |
Litt: captain. Rank in the Muslim Brotherhood that follows the Akh al-ʿamal. The Naqib can, in principle, be elected into any position including the possibility of becoming the movement’s ‘Supreme Guide’ |
| Nāshiz |
Husband or a wife who is disobedient. |
| Naskh |
Islamic science involving the replacement of legal ruling. |
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