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Glossary of terms used in Islam  
 
 

madhhab
    (Language:   Arabic)
A school of jurisprudence. (more)

Madhkur
    (Language:   Arabic)
“The One invoked” or “remembered”; God, the Absolute; see dhikr, dhākir. (more)

madrasa
    (Language:   Arabic)
Literally, "a place of study." (more)

mahabbah
    (Language:   Arabic)
Love, spiritual love. (more)
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Mahasin al-Majalis
    (Language:   Arabic)
“Beauties of the Assemblies.” (more)
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majdhub
    (Language:   Arabic)
One who undergoes the divine attraction (al-jadhb). (more)
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Malakut
    (Language:   Arabic)
Permanent Sovereignty. (more)
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mana
    (alternate spellings:  maana)
    (Language:   Arabic)
Meaning, signification, spiritual perception. (more)
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marifa
    (alternate spellings:  ma‘rifa, ma‘rifah , marifah)
    (Language:   Arabic)
Knowledge, gnosis. (more)
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Mevlevi
    (alternate spellings:  Mawlawi)
    (Language:   Turkish)
Dervish order founded by Mawlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Rćmī. (more)
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mi‘raj
    (Language:   Arabic)
"The Night Journey" of the Prophet Muḥammad. Also called the "nocturnal ascent," (more)

mishkah
    (Language:   Arabic)
Niche, tabernacle. (more)
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modernism
    (Language:   English)
The predominant post-Renaissance and post-Enlightenment worldview of Western civilization marked by rationalism, scientism, and humanism. (more)

mudhakkarah
    (Language:   Arabic)
Spiritual talk. (more)
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muhaddith
    (Language:   Arabic)
A scholar of the sciences of the sayings of the Prophet Muḥammad.. (more)

muhajir (pl. muhajirun)
    (Language:   Arabic)
An honorific term referring to those Muslims in Mecca who made the hijra (migration) with the Prophet from Mecca to Madīna in 622 C. E. (more)

muhaqqiq
    (Language:   Arabic)
Verifier; one who sees things as they are in themselves, without obfuscations. (more)

mujahid (pl. mujahidun)
    (Language:   Arabic)
Literally "one who exerts himself" (more)

mumkinat
    (Language:   Arabic)
The possibilities. (more)
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munafiq (pl. munafiqun)
    (Language:   Arabic)
"Hypocrite." (more)

murshid
    (Language:   Arabic)
Spiritual master. (more)
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mushrik (pl. mushrikun)
    (Language:   Arabic)
A polytheist; literally, "one who falsely associates (something) with God," (more)

mutakallim
    (Language:   Arabic)
A scholar of dialectical theology. (more)

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