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Glossary terms

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Term Name Term description
Dār al-Ḥarb

Old Term- areas ruled non-Muslims, practice Islam unsafe.

Dār al-Iftā’

Islamic authority responsible for issuing religious edicts (fatwás).

Dār al-Islām

Countries/territories - Muslims can freely practice their faith.

Dār al-Kufr

Muslim designation for non-Muslim countries.

Dār al-Salām

Dār al-Islām or abode of Islam

Dar El salam
Darb
dawliyya
Dayr
Dāʿiyah

Preacher Islam. Calls Muslims, non-Muslims become good Muslims.

Daʿwah

Act of calling non-Muslims and Muslims to practice Islam.

dā‘ī
Dhikr

Repeatedly saying God’s name in the heart.

dhikr
Dhimma
Dhimmah

Treaty guarantees protection for non-Muslims in Muslim country.

Dhimmī

Person belonging to a people described, ahl al-dhimmah.

Diakonia
Dīwān
The body or collection of works of an Arab or Persian poet.
Dīyah

Financial compensation (or blood-money) for injuries/death.

Du‘ā’

Supplications to God, not regular prayers, completed simultaneously.

dʿawa
Effindiyyah

Western influenced urban middle class in the Arab World.

Eid
Faqīh

Islamic jurist; knowledgeable of Islamic law

Farḍ

Obligatory for Muslims. Little difference between fard + wajib.

Farḍ kifāyah

A communal obligation in Muslim legal doctrine.

Farḍ ‘ayn

Personal obligation all Muslims. Different collective obligative acts.

Farīḍah

Same as farḍ.

fāsiqūn
Fatḥ

Literally: Opening. Fatḥ, places peacefully taken over- Muslims.

Fātiḥah

Opening sūrah of the Qur’ān.

Fatwā

Legal opinion or ruling given by a Muslim scholar, based on knowledge of the sharīcah.

Feddan

Unit of land in Egypt and Sudan, 4200m².

fellah
Fidā’ī

Somebody engages in warfare, knowing might die for cause.

Fidyah

Sacrifice/ransom atones for omitting worship in ḥajj.

fikr
Fiqh

Science of Islamic jurisprudence, extracting laws Qur’an/Sunna.

Fiqh ʾal-waqaʿ

Science of current affairs, in other words, it is an islamic science that helps to solve social problems from a religious islamic perspective.

Firmān
Fitnah
Fitnah Ṭāʾifīyah

Sectarian strife between two religious communities, one country.

Fulūl

Term used by Islamists for Mubarak’s old guard 

Ghazal
Lyrical poem with fixed meter and rhyme, usually depicting feelings of love.
ḥadīth

A saying attributed to Prophet Muhammad

ḥaḍra
Ḥajj
Ḥākimiyyah
Ḥalāl

Muslim decription for something that is permitted in Islam

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