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Glossary of terms used in Islam  
 
 

daqaiq (s. daqiqah)
    (Language:   Arabic)
Finesse, subtlety. (more)
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dar al-‘ahd
    (Language:   Arabic)
"The abode of agreement" (more)

dar al-harb
    (Language:   Arabic)
"The abode of war"; denotes the opposite of dār al-islām. (more)

dar al-islam
    (Language:   Arabic)
"The abode of Islam" (more)

dar al-sulh
    (Language:   Arabic)
"The abode of peace" (more)

Darqawi
    (Language:   Arabic)
(name) a Sufi (male), died 1823. (more)
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Darqawiyah
    (alternate spellings:  Derqawiyah)
    (Language:   Arabic)
Sufi order. (more)
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Deoband
    (Language:   Place Name)
An influential seminary founded in 1867 at Deoband, India by ‘ulamā’ (more)

dhakir
    (Language:   Arabic)
“The one who invokes” or “remembers”; in Sufism, dhākir usually means the human devotee who practices invocation as a spiritual method; it can also mean the supreme Self as the sole agent of consciousness; see dhikr, Madhkūr. (more)

Dhat
    (Language:   Arabic)
Essence, Quiddity. (more)
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dhikr
    (alternate spellings:  zikr)
    (Language:   Arabic)
"remembrance" of God, based upon the repeated invocation of His Name (more)

dhimmi
    (Language:   Arabic)
"One who is protected"; referring to non-Muslims living within the borders of the Islamic state who participated in maintaining it. (more)

double-truth theory
    (Language:   English)
A famous debate in medieval philosophy according to which there are two distinct sets of truth: religious and philosophical. (more)

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