Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān
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The Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān Online is an encyclopaedic dictionary of qur’ānic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur’ānic studies. The Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān Online is the first comprehensive, multivolume reference work on the Qur’ān to appear in a Western language.
Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān Online includes direct access to 62 Early Printed Western Qur’āns Online and the Electronic Qurʾān Concordance, a unique online finding aid for textual research.
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Table
(1,810 words)
A supported horizontal surface that facilitates actions like working, writing or eating. There is no precise equivalent in classical Arabic for this English term. Words like
minḍada, sufra and
simāṭ only signify “table” by derivation; their basic meanings are respectively “a device where mats, carpets or cushions are piled up,” “food provision for the traveler,” and “a cloth or coat upon which the dishes are put.” By contrast, several designations for “table” entered Arabic from neighboring, non-Semitic languages. These include
mēz and
khiwān from Persian,
ṭarabēza from Greek,
ṭāwu…
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Talent
(504 words)
A gift, ability or propensity provided by God. There is no specific qurʾānic term for talent although meanings related to this concept may be associated with ideas such as degrees, ability, capacity and gifts (see gift and gift-giving; grace; blessing). In modern Arabic, terms derived from the root
w-h-b, “gifts,” and
ʿ-d-d, “preparation,” refer to talent, but these roots and their derivations are not employed in this sense in the Qurʾān. In addition,
istiṭāʿa, “ability, capacity,” is an important theological concept in Islam (see theology and the qurʾān ), but it is usually discus…
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Talisman
(11 words)
see amulet; popular and talismanic uses of the qurʾān Bibliography
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Ṭanṭāwī Jawharī
(4,353 words)
Shaykh
Ṭanṭāwī Jawharī (1862-1940) was an Egyptian exegete famous for having composed a scientific interpretation of the Qurʾān. His publications were considered controversial and provocative by Islamic scholars, including staff at al-Azhar University and other Muslim places of learning, in the early twentieth century. The printing and distribution of his Qurʾān commentary was banned throughout Arabia, and his strong belief in spiritualism also caused some of his works to be banned in the Dutch East Indies for a time (Goldschmidt,
Biographical dictionary, 96). Although he wa…
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2017-11-08
(-ṭāʾ- - ṭ-l-ʿ)
(387 words)
-ṭāʾ-
ṭ-b-b
ṭibb Amulets Food and Drink Geography Medicine and the Qurʾān Popular and Talismanic Uses of the Qurʾān ṭibb al-aʾimma ṭibb al-nabawī
ṭ-b-q
ṭabaqāt Companions of the Prophet
ṭibāq Cosmology Life Planets and Stars
ṭ-b-ʿ
maṭbaʿa Printing of the Qurʾān
ṭabīʿa, pl. ṭabāʾiʿ Medicine and the Qurʾān Trinity
ṭ-f-l
ṭifl, pl. aṭfāl Children Left Hand and Right Hand Youth and Old Age
ṭufaylī Humor
ṭ-gh-r
ṭughrāʾ Basmala
ṭughrāʾī Material Culture and the Qurʾān
ṭ-gh-w/ṭ-gh-y
ṭaghā I…
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(-ṭāʾ- - ṭ-l-ḥ - ṭāwula)
(483 words)
ṭ-l-ḥ
ṭalḥ Agriculture and Vegetation Nature as Signs Tree(s)
ṭ-m-m
ṭāmma Apocalypse Last Judgment Pit
ṭ-m-r
ṭumār Arabic Script
ṭ-m-s
ṭams Arabic Script
ṭ-m-th
ṭamatha Houris
ṭ-r-f
aṭrāf Time
muṭarraf Language and Style of the Qurʾān
taṭarruf Zealotry
ṭaraf Religious Pluralism and the Qurʾān
ṭirāf Nomads
ṭ-r-q
ṭarq Foretelling in the Qurʾān
ṭarīq, pl. ṭuruq Path or Way Pit Reciters of the Qurʾān Ṣūfism and the Qurʾān
ṭarīqa, pl. ṭarāʾiq, ṭuruq Barēlwīs Eschatology Magi…
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Taxation
(4,840 words)
Extraction of a part of communal wealth for its social redistribution and for its use in maintaining governing authority (q.v.), its various institutions, and public works. The Qurʾān offers no trace of the fiscal system first developed under ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb (r. 2-12/634-44), in substance a reformulation of Byzantine and Sasanian models (see Jeffery,
For. vocab. and relevant
ei 2 articles — e.g. Cahen, Djizya; Zysow, ¶ Zakāt; Cahen, Kharādj — for discussion of the foreign origins of taxation terminology in the Qurʾān; see also foreign vocabulary ). That fiscal system was a pro…
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(-ṭāʾ- - ẓanna)
(289 words)
-ẓāʾ-
ẓ-f-r
ẓufur Consecration of Animals
ẓ-h-r
aẓhar Noon
aẓhara Noon Time
iẓhār Nudity Recitation of the Qurʾān
ẓahara Atonement Bahāʾīs Chronology and the Qurʾān Cosmology
ẓahr, pl. ẓuhūr Ethics and the Qurʾān Left Hand and Right Hand Oaths Polysemy in the Qurʾān Ṣūfism and the Qurʾān
ẓahīra Day, Times of Noon Prayer Time
ẓihār Atonement Fasting Law and the Qurʾān Marriage and Divorce Medicine and the Qurʾān Oaths Sex and Sexuality
ẓuhr Afternoon Cosmology Day, Times of Friday Prayer Instruments Noon Ḥadīth and the Qurʾān ṣalāt al-ẓuhr
ẓāhara Et…
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Teaching
(3,253 words)
The act of instructing; imparting knowledge and information. Most of the numerous teaching-related passages in the Qurʾān are dedicated to the sound instruction of the believers in the faith (q.v.) and to their spiritual growth as individuals and members of the community (see belief and unbelief; knowledge and learning; ignorance). These passages include instruction on the creed, worship and other aspects of religious life. Some passages in the Qurʾān, however, also provide detailed instruction on secular matters (human relations; political, social, and legal affairs, etc.; see e…
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Teaching and Preaching the Qurʾān
(15,573 words)
Since the earliest days of Islam, the Qurʾān has been considered the foundation of all knowledge and moral behavior. Originally, its study and transmission took place via lessons and sermons in the mosque from which the informal educational model of
madrasa schools developed, as well as the master-student model, where students sought out teachers for their particular knowledge and studied with them for varying lengths of time. These two models formed a more or less uniform system that lasted for over a thousand years and actually stil…
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