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Ḥanīf

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | 291 words | Copyright

Ḥanīf (Arab., pl. ḥunafāʿ; probably from Syriac ḥanpē, ‘pagans’). In the Qurʾān, a believer in the One God; a seeker after truth; it is sometimes equivalent to muslim in the broadest sense of a worshipper of Allāh.

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