Dār al-ḥarb
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Dār al-ḥarb
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- info:lc/authorities/sh2005001250
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh2005001250#concept
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Variants
- 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
Sources
- found: Work cat.: Ayalon, D. Islam and the abode of war, 1994: p. vii (the Abode of Islam viz-a-viz the Abode of War)
- found: 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))
- found: 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))
Change Notes
- 2005-02-23: new
- 2005-05-06: revised
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