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Gentile (/ ˈ dʒ ɛ n t aɪ l /) is a word that today usually means someone who is not Jewish. [1] [2] Other groups that claim Israelite heritage, notably Mormons, have historically used the term gentile to describe outsiders. [3] [4] [5] More rarely, the term is used as a synonym for heathen, pagan. [5]
The interior or hidden meaning. A person who devotes himself to studying such hidden meanings is a batini. B.B.H.N. (والسلام) Blessed be His Name – acronym for S.A.W.S. See P.B.U.H (Peace Be Upon Him). Bidʿah (بدعة) Innovation in religion, i.e. inventing new methods of worship.
Pre-Islamic Persian term referring to people who are both non-Iranians and non-Zoroastrians, most used in Middle Persian and Early Modern Persian texts. [3] Ang mo A Hokkien term (Min Nan Chinese: 红毛, lit. 'red hair') referring to white people. Ausländer Ausländer is a German word meaning foreigner or alien. Literally "out-land-er".
Islamic religious leaders have traditionally been people who, as part of the clerisy, mosque, or government, performed a prominent role within their community or nation.. However, in the modern contexts of Muslim minorities in non-Muslim countries as well as secularised Muslim states like Turkey, and Bangladesh, the religious leadership may take a variety of non-formal sha
Muslim men could generally marry dhimmi women who are considered People of the Book, however Islamic jurists rejected the possibility any non-Muslim man might marry a Muslim woman. [131] Bernard Lewis notes that "similar position existed under the laws of Byzantine Empire, according to which a Christian could marry a Jewish woman, but a Jew ...
Based on the Latin model, the English word "gentile" came to mean non-Jew from the time of the first English-language Bible translations in the 1500s (see Gentile). The twelfth century Jewish scholar Maimonides defines goy in his Mishneh Torah as a worshipper of idolatry, as he explains, "Whenever we refer to a gentile [goy] without any further ...
a Muslim is a person who has dedicated his worship exclusively to God, for just as we say in Arabic that something is ‘salima’ to a person, meaning that it became solely his own, so in the same way ‘Islām’ means making one's religion and faith God's alone.
List of converts to Islam; List of da'is; List of Muslim comparative theologians; List of Muslim states and dynasties; List of Muslim feminists; List of Muslim Nobel laureates; List of Muslim military leaders; List of Sahabah. List of non-Arab Sahabah; List of Shia Muslims. List of extinct Shia sects; List of Shia dynasties; List of Sufis. List ...