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(waqf). , QADI
Islamic judge.
According to Muslim legal doctrine, the qadi or judge is a public official whose primary responsibilities entail the administrati… Dar Al-islam , The term dar al-islam, which literally means "the house or abode of Islam," came to signify Islamic territory in juridical discussions. For the major… Islamic Law , Law, Islamic
Islam, like Judaism and unlike Christianity, is a nomocracy, a religion of the law as opposed to theology. It is evident from the Korani… Fiqh , Fiqh
FIQH , the science of Islamic law. In the course of the eighth century, the term, which originally meant "knowledge" or "understanding," took on… Sharia , SHARIʿA
Arabic for "the trodden path leading to a water hole." In Islam, the regulations of God's law as transmitted through a prophet; the dominant… Expansion , The expansion of Islam historically embraces two phenomena. The first is the expansion of Islamic states—that is, states whose ruling elite consisted…
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