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| an individual's striving for spiritual self-perfection. A muslim holy war or spiritual struggle against infidels. |
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| a member of one of the two great feligious divisions of Islam that regards Ali, the son-in-law of Muhammad, as the legitimate successor of Muhammad |
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| a member of one of the two great religious divisions of Islam, regarding the first four caliphs as legitimate successors of Muhammad |
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| strict Saudi Arabian school of Islam |
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| An Islamic revivalist movement, often chracterized by moral conservatism, literalism, and the attempt to implement Islamic values in all spheres of life |
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| a worldwide Jewish movement that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Isreal |
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| not pertaining to or connected with religion (opposed to SACRED) |
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| exercising control over the freedom, will, or thought of others; authoritarian; autocratic |
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| governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism |
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| a systemof social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single and self-perpetuatiing political party |
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| an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, esp. as contrassed to cooperatively or state owned means of wealth |
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| preoccupation with or emphasis on material objects, comforts, and considerations, with a disinterest in or rejection of spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values. |
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| favoring drastic political, economic, or social reform |
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| a political or social philosophy adovating the freedom of the individual |
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| a form of government in which God or deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or diety's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities |
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| the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, intitution, class, or large group |
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| a proffessed believer who maintains religious opinions contrary to those accepted by his or her church or rejects doctrines prescribed by that church |
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| the ninth month of the year in the Islamic calender. A fast, held from sunrise to sunset, that is carriedout during this period |
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| the pilgramage to Mecca, which every adult Musilim is supposed to make at least once in his or her lifetime: the fifth of the pillars of Islam |
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| religious devotion andreverance to God |
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| the practice or condition of having more than one spouse, esp. wife, at one time |
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