Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Glossary and Index of Terms
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Subject: Middle East And Islamic Studies
Edited by: P.J. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel and W.P. Heinrichs
Assisted by C. Ott, under the patronage of the International Union of Acadamies
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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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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wabāʾ
(62 mots)
wabāʾ (A, P
wabā) : in medicine, an epidemic, pestilence, and theoretically distinguished from
ṭāʿūn in the more s…
wabar
(29 mots)
wabar (A) : camel’s hair. Sūf ahl al-wabar ‘the people of the camel skin’, a designation for nomads, as opposed to
ahl al…
waʿd
(75 mots)
waʿd (A) : in eschatology, part of the dogma of
al-waʿd wa ’l-waʿīd, promises and threats in the life beyond, on…
waʾd
(39 mots)
waʾd (A) : infanticide, in pre-Islamic times generally of newborn daughters, who were buried alive (
waʾd al-banāt), …
wadaʿ
(71 mots)
wadaʿ (A, s.
wadaʿa), or
wadʿ : cowrie shells,
Cypraea moneta or
Cypraea annulus, used in India and widely in Wes…
wadaad
(48 mots)
wadaad (Somali) : in Somali society, a man of religion, who also mediates in disputes between lineag…
wad̲h̲ārī
(36 mots)
wad̲h̲ārī : an expensive cloth of cotton woven on cotton made in the Transoxianan village of Wad̲h̲ā…
wādī
(55 mots)
wādī (A, pl.
widyān, awdiya) : a watercourse filled only at certain times of the year; stream channel. Ḏ…
waḍīʿa
(34 mots)
waḍīʿa (P, < A) : in taxation matters, a tax schedule (syn.
ṭisḳ) drawn up to meet the variety of physical condi…
wadīʿa
(78 mots)
wadīʿa (A, pl.
wadāʾiʿ) : in law, the legal contract that regulates depositing an object with another p…
wad̲j̲d
(32 mots)
wad̲j̲d (A) : in mysticism, a technical term meaning ‘ecstasy, rapture’, feelings which dissociated …
wad̲j̲h
(21 mots)
wad̲j̲h (A, pl.
wud̲j̲ūh) : face; variant. Abū Tammām; in music, the belly of the ʿŪd. ʿŪd; and ʿIrḍ
wād̲j̲ib
(79 mots)
wād̲j̲ib (A) : in theology, a synonym of Farḍ ‘a religious duty or obligation’, the omission of whic…
waḍʿ al-lug̲h̲a
(63 mots)
waḍʿ al-lug̲h̲a (A) : lit. the establishment of language; in linguistics and legal theory, a view of…