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| Justice of God's law or Shari'a |
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| Islamic theological school emphasizing God's unrestricted power in the world founded by al-Ash'art |
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| Negative theology seeking to describe God by stating what He is not |
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| Intellect, a source of law |
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| Spiritual blessing bestowed by a Sufi Shaykh |
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| Oldest Islamic University, founded in Cairo in 970 |
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| Historically a pledge of support to a leader/caliph, in Islamic democracy it has come to mean the act of voting; also social contract |
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| (Negative) innovation, not based on Islamic scriptural sources |
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| Islamic territory or abode of Islam |
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| Non-Islamic territory or abode of war |
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| Active remembrance of God |
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| Islamic legal ruling or opinion |
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| Traditions and sayings attributed to Muhammad and his companions |
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| Pilgrimage to Mecca, on of the five pillars of Islam |
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| Pre-Islamic monotheist (non-Christian and -Jewish) |
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| Muslims women's headscarf |
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| Muhammad's migration from Mecca to Medina |
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| "Restriction"; Islamic penal code for the major crimes/sins of theft, fornicaton, drinking alcohol, apostasy, etc |
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| Ritualistic religious law |
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| When it occurs in a name, as in Muhammad ibn "abd-al-Wahhab, it means "son of" |
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| Consensus of legal opinion; a source of Islamic law |
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| Independent reasoning based on the four sources of Islamic law |
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| Wahhabi militia, put down in 1929 |
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| Twelver-Shi'ite anticipation of the return of the Hidden Imam or Messiah (Shari'ati) |
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| Arrogance (in Nadia Yassine's thought |
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| Age of ignorance or pre-Islmaic period of paganism |
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| Islamic group founded by Mawdudi in 1941 |
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| (as a legal concept) Holy war; (as a spiritual concept) self purification |
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| A form of Salafism emphasizing military jihad |
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| Poll tax levied on non-Muslims |
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| Caliph; also the notion of humankind representing God on Earth (Mawdudi) |
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| Sufi tavern or lodge, place of Sufi congregation |
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| Early puritanical sect in Islam which declared other Muslims as infidels |
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| Cloak bestowed on Sufi devotee |
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| Muslim school or seminary |
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| Qaradawi's Centrist School or Way |
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| Shiite Islam's awaited Messiah |
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| Aims or purpose of Islamic Law or Shari'a (spirit of the law) |
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| Source of Emulation in Islamic Law (Shi'ite concept) |
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| Islamic legal concept of public interest |
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| Islamic law regulating social, public law |
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| Renewer of the Islamic faith who appears every hundred years |
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| Islamic legal authority or one who exercises ijtihad. |
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| Muslim hypocrites associated with the Battle of Khandaq in 627 C.E. |
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| the oppressed (Muslims) masses (Khumayni and Qaradawi) |
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| Islamic theological school emphasizing rationality or reason |
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| Kindness (in Nadia Yassine's thought) |
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| Supplication or prayer protecting someone from bad things, including jealousy and scorpion stings |
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| Highest Islamic Judge (Iran and India) |
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| Fasting, one of the five pillars of Islam |
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| Intersession or prayer to God on someone's behalf |
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| Muslim scholar or head of Sufi order |
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| Followers of Ali ibn Abi Talib (k. 661), the first Shiite Imam and fourth Sunni caliph |
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| Polytheism or associating aught with God |
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| A mystic, adherent of Sufism (mystical Islam) |
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| Political, military power as opposed to religion |
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| Deligating of power by the caliph (Mawdudi) |
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| Declaring another Muslim to be an infidel |
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| Ottoman modern reform program, 1839-1876 |
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| Emulation in religious, legal matters or tradition |
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| God's unity or monotheism |
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| Followers of Twelve Imams |
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| Muslim scholars or clerics |
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| Violence (Nadia Yassin's thought) |
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| Follower of Wahhab, founder of Wahhabism |
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| Fealty (to true Islam) and disassociation (from false Islam) |
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| Rulership of the Jurist (Khumayni's theory) |
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| Islamic tax paid by Muslims |
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