URI: <http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh2005001251#concept>

Type: Topical Term

Alternate Labels: Abode of Islam; God, House of (Islam); House of God (Islam); House of submission (Islam); Land of Islam; Submission, 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, 127b (Dār al-Islām, the Land of Islam' or, more simply, in Muslim authors, dārunā, 'our Country', is the whole territory in which the law of Islam prevails)
• 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 11:30:32



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