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Glossary terms

List of terms used in taxonomy "glossary".
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Term Name Term description
Mu’akhkhar al-Ṣadāq

Husband obliged to pay wife portion of dowry.
Mu’azin

Person who performs the call to prayer.
Nafs

In the Qu’ran, nafs is used to refer both to the individual and collective self. In Sufism the nafs is man’s unrefined ego and the lowest dimension of his inner self.
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.
Nassab

lineage
Nassārá
neo-ijtihād

“Muhammad Rashīd Ridā (1865-1935) was the proponent of another modern theory of Islamic law which came to be termed neo-ijtihād " (see Arab-West Papers Nr. 40)
Nīqāb

Headscarf- covers the head, body, face and sometimes eyes.
Nīshān al-Kamāl‎

the decoration of a highest level of orders reserved exclusively to members of the royal family of Muhammad Ali, the ruler of Egypt, and politicians.
Nīyah
Nudama
Pasha

Civil or military official in the Ottoman Empire.
Qabīlah

  

Tribe (in Arabic: Qabīlah): A group of clans form one large tribe to form a stronger alliance.
Qaḍā

 administrative division historically used in the Ottoman Empire and currently used in several of its successor states
Qāḍī
Qaṣāṣ

Punishment- criminal treated as they treated there victim.
Qawmiyyah

Homonym which contains both the concepts of Arab nationalism and unification nationalism (Pan-Arabism).
Qiblah

Direction of kacbah, Muslims face when they pray
Qīrāṭ

Traditional unit land measurement. 1 feddan = 24 qīrāts.
Qirā’āt

The ten accepted methods of reciting the Qur'ān.
qiṣṣa, pl. qiṣaṣ

story
Qiwāmah

Literally leadership; responsibility of men to protect women.
qiyās

analogical reason 
Qur'ān
Qur'āniyūn

Muslims or Islamic thinkers who reject the sunnah and the hadith tradition, relying only on the Quran as the source for  Islamic theology, social and legal thought. 
Quraan
Quran
Quraysh

Major tribe around Mecca, where Prophet Muhammad originated.
Qurbān

Gifts, offerings, oblations offered to get closer to God.

Qur’ān

Muslims believe the Qur'ān is the compilation of God's revelations. 
Rab’ah
Ramadhan
Ramaḍān

Ninth month Islamic calendar. Muslims fast from sunrise - sunset.

raqaʿa

prescribed movements in islamic prayer
Rawāfid
Ribā

Usury or interest the money lender takes.
Ribā

Usury money, which mainly refers to the situation when someone lends another money and gets it back from him with interest.
Riddah

Apostasy from Islam.
Risālah

Term with religious origin meaning “mission”.
Ruqayya
Rūwaibidah

 

the Holy Qur`ān described as ‘vile and base men who control the affairs of the people'

 
ruʾīa
Sabt al-Nūr
Sabt La’āzir

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