Vocabulary
These are the vocabulary words that *Vika* thought important when going through the readings. Prof. Jackson will hand out identification terms closer to exams, but by keeping up with these, you should be able to avoid having to cram right before exams. Keep in mind that not all letters in Arabic can be represented in Latin script on the web. Vika has handouts with the exact representations if you want them; she will get them up here as soon as she learns how to put them into PDF format!
Esposito: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3
Coursepack
Rahman, Major Themes of the Qur'an: "God" | "Prophethood and Revelation" | "Satan and Evil" |
| "Emergence of the Muslim Community" |
Rahman: "Pre-Foundations of the Muslim Community in Mecca"
Fueck: "The Role of Traditionalism in Islam"
Librande and Waldman: "Hadith" and "Sunnah"
Arjomand: "Imam Absconditus and the Beginnings of a Theology of Occulation: Imami Shi'ism circa 280-90 AH / 900 AD"
Calder, Ziadeh, Sachedina: Law Articles
Fakhry: "Rise of Islamic Scholasticism" and "The Ash'arite School and the Formulation of the Occasionalist Metaphysics of Atoms and Accidents"
Chittick, Voll, Ohtsuka: Sufism Articles
Muhammad
Sunni
tawhid
Allâh
610 CE
Khadija
Shi'i
iman
islam
622 CE
Mecca/Mekka
umma
shirk
muslim
632 CE
Medina/Madina
sunna
hajj
kafir
hijra
Qur'ân
Shârîah
taqwâ
wahy
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Qur'ân | shirk | contingency |
Allâh | muslim/Muslim | amr |
al-Rahmân | taqwâ | qadar |
surah |
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Reading: Rahman, Major Themes in the Qur'ân, Chapter 5: Prophethood
Muhammad | the Battle of Badr | inimitability |
Gabriel / Jibril | the Holy Spirit (rûh al-qudus) | abrogated |
Abraham | Night of Determination | |
Shârîah | Ramadan | rasûl |
wahy | the Mir'âj | nabî |
jinn | amr | 'abd |
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Reading: Rahman, Major Themes in the Qur'ân, Chapter 7: Satan and Evil
Satan / Devil
Iblîs
jinn
taqwâ
shaîtân
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Reading: Rahman: Prefoundations
Mecca | People of the Book / ahl al-kitâb | Qibla |
Medina/Madina | Abraham | Tawhid |
Ka'ba | Battle of the Ditch | ahzâb |
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Reading: Rahman, Major Themes in the Qur'ân, Chapter 8: Emergence of the Muslim Community (note: substantially similar to "Prefoundations" above.)
Ka'ba
Qibla
ahzâb
umma
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Abu Bakr | Caliph | khalifa | innovation |
Umar | Kharijites | dhimmi | occultation |
Uthman | Umayyads | madrasa | exoteric |
'Ali | Shi'i / Shi'a | imamate | esoteric |
Mu'awiya | Mahdi | taqiyya | orthodoxy |
Siffin | Abbasids | ulama | orthopraxy |
dar al-Islam | qadi |
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From: Studies on Islam, trans. Merlin L. Swartz. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. Ugli: BP 55 .S871.
exegesis | al-Tabari | isnad |
exegate | Hijaz | bid'a |
apocryphal | Khurasan | hajj |
eschatalogical | Mu'tazilite | hadith |
jursiprudence | Ansar | fiqh |
heterodoxy | Sufism | |
materialisitic conception of history | ijtihad | |
ijma' |
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From: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Grad Ref. DS 35.53 .O951 1995; Ugli DS 35.53 .O951 1995.
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hadith | hadith qudsi | sunnah | sunnat al-nabi |
'ilm | isnad | wahy | shari'ah |
shari'ah | matn | sirah | explication |
fiqh | rijal | bid'ah | fiqh |
sahih | hasan | madhhab | qadi |
da'if |
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Reading: Dutton: "'Amal v. Hadith in Islamic Law: The Case of sadl al-yadayn (holding one's hands by one's sides) When Doing the Prayer"
From: Islamic Law and Society, vol. 3, #1, Feb. 1996. Grad: K 9 .S53.
'amal | sadl | qabd |
fiqh | madhhab | hadith |
isnad | sunna | Fatiha |
fuqaha' | Successors |
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Reading: Arjomand: "Imam Absconditus and the Beginnings of a Theology of Occulation: Imami Shi'ism circa 280-90 AH / 900 AD"
From: Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 117, #1 (1997). Grad 892.06 A5 O7j or on the web at http://www.lib.umich.edu/cgi-bin/pqissues?27321
Imam | Shi'ism | Musa al-Kazim (d. 183 AH/ 799 CE) |
Mahdi | occultation | ulama |
juristic authority | hierocracy | jurisprudence |
Shari'a | theology | parousia |
Caliph | polemical | Mufawwida |
numerolgy |
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Reading: Esposito, Chapter 3 (3rd ed.)
orthopraxy
theology
mutazila
Ismail al-Bukhari
d. 870 CEshahada
orthodoxy
apostates
shirk
Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
d. 875 CEsalat
dialectic
omnipotence
ulama
Abu Dawud d. 888 CE
zakat
emanation
polygamy
qadi
al-Nisai d. 915 CE
Fast of Ramadan
inductive
polygyny
fiqh
al-Tirmidhi d. 892 CE
Hajj
mosque/masjid
exegesis
ijtihad
Ibn Maja d. 896 CE
lesser pilgrimage/umra
Fatihah
tariqa
mufti
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
d. 1111 CEFatima
Kaba
exoteric
fatwa
antinomian
soteriology
Sufi
esoteric
faqih/fuqaha
mujtahid
exegetical works
faqir
ascetic
muezzin
eschatological
phenomenal
bida
ijma
qiyas
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Law Articles
Norman Calder, "Legal Thought and Jurisprudence"
From: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Grad Ref. DS 35.53 .O951 1995; Ugli DS 35.53 .O951 1995.
Abu Hanifah d. ca. 767 ce | fiqh | hermeneutics | Ithna 'Ashari |
Malik ibn Anas d. 795 ce | Shari'ah | synchronic | Salafi / Primitavist |
Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i d. 820 ce | faqih/fuqaha' | diachronic | Islamic fundamentalism |
Ahmad ibn Hanbal d. 855 ce | usul al-fiqh | abrogate / abrogation | |
'Ali ibn Hazm d. 1064 ce | ijma' | indigenous | |
Ja'far al-Sadiq d. 756 ce | qiyas | epistemological | |
ibn Taymiyah d. 1328 ce | qadi | ankylosis | |
mufti | exegesis | ||
fatwa |
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Farhat J. Ziadeh, "Sunni Schools of Law"
From: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Grad Ref. DS 35.53 .O951 1995; Ugli DS 35.53 .O951 1995.
Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i d. 820 ce | Hanafi School | Hejaz | eponym |
Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Shaybani 749-804 ce | Maliki School | ra'y | agnomen |
ibn Taymiyah d. 1328 ce | Shafi'i School | istisan | anachronistic |
ibn 'Abd al-Wahhad | Hanbali School | zahir | exegete |
Abu Sulayman Da'ud al-Zahiri d. 883 ce | nisbah | ||
Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari d. 922 ce |
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Abdulaziz Sachedina, "Shi'i Schools of Law"
From: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Grad Ref. DS 35.53 .O951 1995; Ugli DS 35.53 .O951 1995.
Abu Ja'far Muhammad al-Baqir | eschatology | Mahdi | ijtihad |
Ja'far al-Sadiq | religious praxis | al-'aql | madhhab |
Ayatollah Ruhollah al-Musavi Khomeini d. 1989 ce | jurisprudence | ijma' | fuqaha' |
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Majid Fakhry, A History of Islamic Philosophy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970. Grad: B 741 .F16
"Rise of Islamic Scholasticism"
fuqaha' | exegesis | speculative theology | Mu'tazilah | Wasil ibn 'Ata' d. 748 ce |
Mahaddithun | eschatology | doxographical | Kharijites | Jahm ibn Safwan d. 745 ce |
qadar | dialectical | polemics | Traditionalists | |
usul | agnosticism | inherent nature | Ash'arites | |
tauhid | occasionalism | latent properties | ||
heterodox | atoms and accidents |
"The Ash'arites School and the Formulation of the Occasionalist Metaphysics of Atoms and Accidents"
necessary knowledge | fana' | atomism |
discursive knowledge | collocation | |
natural theology | espitemological | |
atoms and accidents |
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William Chittick: "Sufi Thought and Practice"
From: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Grad Ref. DS 35.53 .O951 1995; Ugli DS 35.53 .O951 1995.
sufism | tasawwuf | Abu Hamid al-Ghazali d. 1111 ce | silsilah |
asceticism | tariqah/tariqat | Ibn al-'Arabi d. 1240 ce | barakah |
hagiography | dhikr/zikr | adab | |
intoxication and sobriety | shaykh |
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From: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Grad Ref. DS 35.53 .O951 1995; Ugli DS 35.53 .O951 1995.
tariqah/tariqat | shrine |
silsilah | popular piety |
marabout | Wahhabis |
Kazuo Ohtsuka, "Sufi Shrine Culture"
From: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Grad Ref. DS 35.53 .O951 1995; Ugli DS 35.53 .O951 1995.
"saints" | ascetic | Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab d. 1791 ce | barakah |
awliya', wali | bid'ah | dhikr/zikr | Hejaz |
'ulama' | mawlid | ziyarah |
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