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Islamization of knowledge. v. t. e. Tawhid[a] (Arabic: تَوْحِيد, romanized: tawḥīd, lit. 'oneness [of God]') is the concept of monotheism in Islam. [2] Tawhid is the religion's central and single most important concept, upon which a Muslim's entire religious adherence rests.
Islamic view of the Trinity. A drawing of the phrase "There is no god except God." In Christianity, the doctrine of the Trinity states that God is a single essence in which three distinct hypostases ("persons"): the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, exist consubstantially and co-eternally as a perichoresis. Islam considers the concept of any ...
The word shirk comes from the Arabic root sh - r - k (ش ر ك), with the general meaning of 'to share'. [ 10 ] In the context of the Quran, the particular sense of 'sharing as an equal partner' is usually understood, so that polytheism means 'attributing a partner to God'. In the Quran, shirk and the related word mushrikūn (مشركون ...
The word monotheismwas coined from the Greekμόνος(monos)[13]meaning "single" and θεός(theos)[14]meaning "god".[15] The term was coined by Henry More(1614–1687). [16] Monotheism is a complex and nuanced concept. The biblical authors had various ways of understanding God and the divine, shaped by their historical and cultural contexts.
Polytheism is the belief in or worship of more than one god. [1] [2] [3] According to Oxford Reference, it is not easy to count gods, and so not always obvious whether an apparently polytheistic religion, such as Chinese Folk Religions, is really so, or whether the apparent different objects of worship are to be thought of as manifestations of a singular divinity. [1]
The Idea of Idolatry and the Emergence of Islam is a 1999 book in the field of Quranic studies published by G. R. Hawting.The book explores the Quranic conception of paganism and idolatry and how it has been understood, or perhaps misunderstood, through the lenses of later Islamic tradition, especially major works such as the Book of Idols of Hisham ibn al-Kalbi, as well as other sirah ...
Islam did not rise among polytheistic pagans in Mecca, but in a milieu where Jewish and Christian texts were well-known. The infidels or Kafirun described in the Qur'an were not pagan polytheists but rather Jews and Christians who were polemically deviated from monotheism. [ 44 ]
e. Mu'tazilism(Arabic: المعتزلة, romanized: al-muʿtazila, singular Arabic: معتزلي, romanized: muʿtazilī) is an Islamic theological school that appeared in early Islamic history and flourished in Basraand Baghdad. Its adherents, the Mu'tazilites, were known for their neutrality in the dispute between Aliand his opponents after ...