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Waad (Subject Entry)
See Infanticide ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
WABIL (Subject Entry)
See World Ahl al-Bayt Islamic League ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Wadud, Amina (Biography)
(b. 1952 ) Muslim academic and activist. Trained in Islamic studies, but her scholarship and activism center on gender jihad (struggle for Islamic gender ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Wadud, Amina (Biography)
Amina Wadud ( b. 1952 ) is an American Muslim female academic, theologian, and activist of African descent. Trained in Islamic studies and Arabic ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Wahdat al-Shuhud (Subject Entry)
Oneness of appearance, as opposed to oneness of Being (wahdat al-wujud), as taught by Ibn al-Arabi . Doctrine taught by the Indian Sufi Ahmad ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Wahdat al-Wujud (Subject Entry)
The unity of Being. Doctrine formulated by the school of Ibn al-Arabi , which postulates that God and His creation are one, since all ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Waḥdat al-Wujūd (Subject Entry)
Waḥdat al-wujūd , the “unity/oneness of being or existence,” is a doctrine traditionally ascribed to the Andalusian mystic Ibn al- ʿArabī ( 1165 – ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Wahhabi (Subject Entry)
Wahhabi is the name of a movement in Islam that began in Arabia in the 1700s. Of the many movements in Islam, Wahhabi Islam, ...
Source: The Islamic World: Past and Present
Wahhabis (Subject Entry)
Eighteenth-century reformist/revivalist movement for sociomoral reconstruction of society. Founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab , a Hanbali scholar, in Arabia. Proclaimed tawhid (uniqueness and ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Wahhābīyah (Subject Entry)
The religious movement known as the Wahhābīyah, sometimes anglicized as “Wahhabism,” is founded on the teachings of Muḥammad Ibn ῾Abd al‐Wahhāb ( 1703 – ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
Wahhābīyah (Subject Entry)
An eighteenth-century religious revival ( tajdīd ) and reform ( iṣlāḥ ) movement founded in Najd in Arabia by the scholar and jurist Muḥammad ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women
Wahhābīyah (Subject Entry)
An eighteenth-century religious revival ( tajdīd ) and reform ( islāh ) movement founded in Nejd in Saudi Arabia by the scholar and jurist ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Wahhābīyah (Subject Entry)
An eighteenth-century movement of religious revival ( tajdīd ) and reform ( iṣlāh ) founded in Najd in Saudi Arabia by the scholar and ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics
Wahhabiyyah (Subject Entry)
See Wahhabis ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Wahid, Abdurrahman (Biography)
(b. 1940 ) Also known as Gus Dur . Indonesian Islamic thinker, writer, and politician. Elected president of Indonesia in 1998 and replaced by ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Wahy (Subject Entry)
Inspiration, particularly the divine inspiration of the Quran and other scriptures. Islam teaches that God periodically reveals His will, providing precise information to guide ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Waiting Period (Subject Entry)
See Iddah ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Wajib (Subject Entry)
In Islamic jurisprudence, an obligatory act, with failure to perform it being sinful. Wajib acts can be obligatory on every individual (fard al-ayn), such ...
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Islam
Wakālah Al‐῾āmmah, Al‐ (Subject Entry)
The concept in Ithnā ῾Asharī Shī῾ī Islam that justifies the assumption by the ῾ ulamā ' of the leadership role and prerogatives of the ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
Wakālah al-Khāṣṣah, al- (Subject Entry)
In Ithnā ʿAsharī Shiism, the designation of four successive persons to act as deputies of the Hidden Twelfth Imam is al-wakālah al-khāṣṣah (special vicegerency ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
