URI: <http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh2005001250#concept>

Type: Topical Term

Alternate Labels: Abode of war (Islam); Ḥarb, Dār al-; Home of infidels (Islam); Home of unbelievers (Islam); House of war (Islam); Infidels, Home of (Islam); Unbelievers, Home of (Islam); War, House of (Islam)

Broader Terms:

• Islam

Sources:

• Work cat.: Ayalon, D. Islam and the abode of war, 1994: p. vii (the Abode of Islam viz-a-viz the Abode of War)
• Encyclopaedia of Islam, CD-ROM ed., 1999: II, 126a (Dār al-ḥarb ('the Land of War'); territories where peace and the faith of Islam reign, (dār al-Islām), territories under perpetual threat of a missionary war (dār al-ḥarb))
• WordiQ via WWW, Feb. 21, 2005 (Dar al-Islam (Arabic: literally house of submission) is a term widely used in the Islamic world to refer to those lands under Muslim government(s). In the conservative tradition of Islam the world is divided into two components: dar al-Islam, the house of submission or the house of God, and dar al-Harb, the house of war; the home of the infidels or unbelievers (Arabic: kufr))

Created: 2005-02-23

Last Modified: 2005-05-06 11:30:52



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