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TAKFIR WA AL-HIJRAH
TAKFIR WA AL-HIJRAH, JAMA`AT AL-. After a group of radical Muslims in Cairo abducted and assassinated Shaykh Muhammad Husayn al-Dhahabi, a former Egyptian minister of awqaf and Azhar affairs, in July 1977, the Egyptian media referred to this group as Jama`at al-Takfir wa al-Hijrah. The term defies simple definition, but the meaning is clear: the society âwhich accuses [nominal Muslims] ofâŠ
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TAJIKISTAN
TAJIKISTAN. An independent state in Central Asia as of December 1991, Tajikistan was formerly a constituent republic of the Soviet Union. In the nineteenth century the area was divided between the emirate of Bukhara and the khanate of Kokand; in the late nineteenth century, Kokand was annexed by the Russian Empire.
 By the beginning of the 1990s, the overwhelming majority of TajikistanâsâŠ
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TAGHUT
TAGHUT. The term taghut, from the root tghy (âto rebel, transgress, or overstep the markâ), occurs eight times in the Qurâan, where it denotes a focus of worship other than God and so is often translated as âidolsâ or âSatan.â But its meaning is wider than this: surah 4.6o refers to taking cases for judgment before tdghut, implying earthly authorities that have taken the place of God.
The modernâŠ
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TAFSIR
TAFSIR. Exegesis of the Qurâan is known as tafsir. The focus in this article will be on Sunni tafsir, but Shiâi tafsir will also be discussed.
The Qurâan, regarded as the word of God, needed tafsir-elucidation, explanation, interpretation, or commentary-for an obvious reason: it had to be understood clearly and fully so that its commandments could be carried out with the conviction that the willâŠ
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TABLIGHI JAMA`AT
TABLIGHI JAMA`AT. The Tablighi Jamaâat of the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent, also variously called the Jamaâat (Party), Tahrik (Movement), Nizam (System), Tanzim (Organization), and Tahrik-i Iman (Faith Movement), is one of the most important grassroots Islamic movements in the contemporary Muslim world. From a modest beginning in 1926 with daâwah (missionary) work in Mewat near Delhi under theâŠ
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TABLIGH
TABLIGH. Qazi Muhammad Sulaiman Mansurpuri (d. 1930), an Indian scholar known for several works defending Islam against criticism by non-Muslims, defined tabligh in Tabligh al-Islam (Simla, 1928, p. 4) as âa call toward oneâs religion by one nation to another.â He argued that Islam was the only religion whose scriptures obliged its followers to proselytize others. Mansfirpuriâs definition was aâŠ
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SYNCRETISM
SYNCRETISM. Syncretism is the phenomenon by which the practices and beliefs of one religion fuse with those of another to create a new and distinctive tradition. By the terms of this definition, all religions,
and most certainly all those that have come to be known as world religions, can be regarded as syncretic in their origins, since each was shaped in dialogue with other faiths. In modernâŠ
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SYRIA
SYRIA. The Muslim population of Syria is composed of a Sunni majority and four minority Shiâi sects. Exact figures are unavailable, but informed estimates place the Sunni population, found throughout the country, at roughly 70 percent. The largest Shi`i sect, the `Alawis, is concentrated in the northwestern province of Latakia and comprises around 12 percent of the population. The Druzes are onlyâŠ
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SYNDICATES
SYNDICATES. Professional syndicates-like labor unions (which are not treated here)-have arisen in the Islamic world in the past century in new or significantly altered occupations which emerged in response to farreaching socioeconomic change. Although loosely influenced by earlier guild practices (such as calling their leader ânagibâ), the syndicates took their main models from the West. OftenâŠ
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SYNCRETISM SYNCRETISM. Syncretism is the phenomenon by which the practices and beliefs of one religion fuse with those of another to create a new and distinctive tradition.
SURROGATE MOTHERHOOD
SURROGATE MOTHERHOOD. Surrogate motherhood is a contractual agreement whereby a woman agrees to be impregnated by a man, or implanted with a prefertilized embryo, and then surrenders the resulting baby to the man and his wife after its birth. Gestational surrogacy is the term used when the fertilized egg of a legally married couple is implanted in another womanâs uterus. She also bears the childâŠ
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SURINAME
Suriname officially known as the Republic of Suriname (Dutch: Republiek Suriname [ËreËpyËblik ËsyËriËnaËmÉ]), is a sovereign state on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America. It is bordered by French Guiana to the east, Guyana to the west and Brazil to the south. At just under 165,000 square kilometers (64,000 square miles), it is the smallest country in South America Suriname has aâŠ
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SUNNI ISLAM
SUNNI ISLAM. Historical Overview
Practiced by the majority of Muslims, Sunni Islam refers primarily to the customary practice of the prophet Muhammad. The term Sunni (sometimes rendered âSunniteâ) derives from sunnah and has the general meaning of âcustomary practice.â This practice, this sunnah, is preserved in the hadiths, the Tradition, which consists of the accounts of what the Prophet saidâŠ
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SUNNAH
SUNNAH. The Arabic term sunnah since pre-Islamic times has signified established custom, precedent, the conduct of life, and cumulative tradition. In a general sense, such tradition encompasses knowledge and practices believed to have been passed down from previous generations and representing an authoritative, valued, and continuing corpus of beliefs and customs. In the context of early MuslimâŠ
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SULTAN
SULTAN. The Arabic word sultan is used to denote power, might, and authority, or the possessor of such power, a ruler. In the Qurâan it refers to divinely vouchsafed authority or a divine mandate, usually in the context of prophecy (7.71, 23.45). In later hadith literature, it is often used to denote worldly power or the possessor of governmental authority (Ibn Hanbal 6.128-129, 452; 3.404; andâŠ
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SUICIDE
SUICIDE. Qatl al-nafs, literally âself-murder,â is the term used to denote suicide in classical Islamic texts. Intihar, originally meaning âcutting of the throat,â is the common word in modern Arabic speech.
There is only one phrase in the Qurâan relevant to the subject of suicide: âO you who believei Do not consume your wealth in the wrong way-rather only through trade mutually agreed to, and doâŠ
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SUFISM AND POLITICS
SUFISM AND POLITICS. Traditional Sufism is an interiorization of Sunni quietism, articulating the pre-Islamic Pahlavi vision of monarchic government by religious principles, as echoed by al-Ghazali (d. 1111) in his Nasihat al-muluk. A more systematic order found expression in the thirteenth century in the form of the âinner governmentâ (hukumah batiniyah), which envisaged the temporal authoritiesâŠ
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