Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms

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Glossary and Index of Terms treats the technical terms in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu and other languages or dialects of the Islamic world. As an index, it is of immeasurable importance, in particular for the many terms which are not given an entry but are discussed in the course of an article; and as glossary it is an invaluable source of information for both non-specialist, who is given an insight into the varied and rich vocabulary of Islam, and the specialist, who may discover surprising new contexts in which a term is used.

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māʾ

(143 words)

māʾ (A) : water. Mā Warāʾ al-Nahr; and D̲j̲ubn In medicine, ~ is used as a technical term for cataract: māʾ nāzil fi ’l-…
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maʿād

(57 words)

maʿād (A) : lit. place of return, a technical term in religious and philosophical vocabulary, bringi…
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maʿāhira

(23 words)

maʿāhira (A) : bells (which, al-Hamdānī writes, were attached to the gates of the ancient town of Ẓa…
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maʿānī

(124 words)

maʿānī (A, s. Maʿnā) : meanings; contents. Aymak; Ḳudāma ff. al-maʿānī wa ’l-bayān (A…
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maanso

(53 words)

maanso (Somali) : a genre of poetry, handling serious themes, sometimes referred to as ‘classical po…
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maʿārif

(93 words)

maʿārif (A, s. Maʿrifa) : education, public instruction. The term was already used in mediaeval time…
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maʾāṣir

(5 words)

maʾāṣir Marāṣid; Maʾṣir
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maʿaskar

(4 words)

maʿaskar ʿAskar
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maʾāt̲h̲ir

(4 words)

maʾāt̲h̲ir Mat̲h̲ālib
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mā baʿd al-ṭabīʿa

(64 words)

mā baʿd al-ṭabīʿa (A, < trans. Gk τὰ μετὰ τὰ φυσικά), or mā baʿd al-ṭabīʿiyyāt : metaphysics, an expression which …
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mābeyn

(67 words)

mābeyn (T, < A mā bayn ‘what is between’) : the intermediate apartments of the Ottoman palace, lying betw…
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mabīt

(14 words)

mabīt (A) : a place where one halts for the night. Ḳurḥ
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mabk̲h̲ara

(33 words)

mabk̲h̲ara (A), or mibk̲h̲ara : an incense burner. Maʿdin; in architecture, a two-storey octagonal pavi…
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mablūʿ

(4 words)

mablūʿ ʿAnbar
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mabsūṭ

(22 words)

mabsūṭ (A) : a literary type which multiplies detail and argument, in contrast to Muk̲h̲taṣar, which…
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maʾbūn

(4 words)

maʾbūn Lūṭī
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madad-ī maʿās̲h̲

(14 words)

madad-ī maʿās̲h̲ (IndP) : in Mug̲h̲al India, a common prebend. Waḳf
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maḍāfa

(4 words)

maḍāfa Manzil
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madāfin

(22 words)

madāfin (A) : in Yemen, granaries, cone-shaped structures made out of sandstone and about six or sev…
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madar

(57 words)

madar (A) : the term designating in classical Arabic the mortar used to point unfired brick. It is m…
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madār

(46 words)

madār (A) : in the science of Tradition, a term used to indicate that certain Matns, or matn clusters, are due to one…
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maḍbūṭ

(11 words)

maḍbūṭ (A) : coffee with sugar (ant. sāda). Taḳālīd
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madd

(75 words)

madd (A), and nazʿ al-watar : in archery, the draw, drawing of a bow. This consists of bringing the bow-…
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mādda

(4 words)

mādda Hayūlā
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maddāḥ

(105 words)

maddāḥ (A, T meddāḥ) : lit. panegyrist; in Ottoman usage, the professional story-tellers of the urban m…
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maddūḥ

(41 words)

maddūḥ (A) : a drink made by Bedouin, when dying of thirst in the desert, from a slaughtered camel’s…
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madfan

(4 words)

madfan Maḳbara
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madḥ

(4 words)

madḥ Madīḥ
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mad̲h̲hab

(92 words)

mad̲h̲hab (A, pl. mad̲h̲āhib) : a way of thinking, persuasion; the five schools of law in orthodox Isla…
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madḥiyya

(84 words)

madḥiyya (T, < A) : in Turkish prosody, the ~ or eulogy is the couplet which comprises the central p…
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maʾd̲h̲ūn

(81 words)

maʾd̲h̲ūn (A) : in law, a slave authorised by his master either to conclude an individual sale, or g…
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māḍī

(32 words)

māḍī (A) : in grammar, the preterite, a technical term used to denote the verbal form that normally,…
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madīd

(15 words)

madīd (A) : in prosody, the name of the third Arabic metre. ʿArūḍ
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madīḥ

(154 words)

madīḥ (A, P ḳaṣīda-yi madīḥa), or madḥ : the genre of the panegyric poetry in Arabic and other Islamic lit…
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maḍīḳ

(10 words)

maḍīḳ (A) : shallows or a ford. Afʿā
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maʿdin

(31 words)

maʿdin (A, pl. maʿādin) : mine, ore, mineral, metal. In modern Arabic, however, ~ is mostly used for metal, mand̲j̲am m…
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madīna

(23 words)

madīna (A) : the Arabic town and city, the lower town (L suburbium, pars inferior civitatis). S̲h̲ayzar; Māʾ al-War…
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maḍīra

(42 words)

maḍīra (A) : a dish of meat cooked in sour milk, sometimes with fresh milk added, and with spices th…
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mādī-sālār

(21 words)

mādī-sālār (P) : in administration, the official in charge of the major canals leading off from the …
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mad̲j̲alla

(12 words)

mad̲j̲alla (A) : a scroll. Luḳmān; a legal code. Tunisia
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mad̲j̲ānīḳ

(7 words)

mad̲j̲ānīḳ (A) : catapults. Umayyads
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mad̲j̲arra

(22 words)

mad̲j̲arra (A) : in astronomy, the galaxy or Milky Way. Mad̲j̲ar, Mad̲j̲aristān; the movable cursor …
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mad̲j̲āz

(83 words)

mad̲j̲āz (A) : in rhetoric, a term meaning trope and, more generally, the use of a word deviating fr…
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mad̲j̲būb

(4 words)

mad̲j̲būb K̲h̲āṣī
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mad̲j̲būr

(31 words)

mad̲j̲būr (A) : in later As̲h̲ʿarite theology, the term for when human free choice, which is only ac…
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mad̲j̲d

(4 words)

mad̲j̲d S̲h̲araf
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mad̲j̲d̲h̲ūb

(142 words)

mad̲j̲d̲h̲ūb (A) : lit. the attracted one, a term in mysticism for the name for the representative o…
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mad̲j̲dūḥ

(12 words)

mad̲j̲dūḥ (A) : the blood of a sacrificed camel. Ibil
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mad̲j̲hūl

(47 words)

mad̲j̲hūl (A) : in the science of Tradition, a traditionist who is unknown either as regards his per…
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mad̲j̲hūr

(25 words)

mad̲j̲hūr (A) : ‘voiced’; in grammar, ~ signifies the manner of articulation of the letters of the alphabet (ant. mahmū…
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