Dār al-Islām
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Dār al-Islām
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- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2005001251
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- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh2005001251#concept
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Variants
- Abode of Islam
- God, House of (Islam)
- House of God (Islam)
- House of submission (Islam)
- Land of Islam
- Submission, 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, 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)
- 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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