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Zahirism

Zahirism noun: the Sunni Islamic movement that promotes the apparent meaning of the Quran.

Noun

Zahirism (uncountable)

  1. The Sunni Islamic movement that promotes the apparent meaning of the Quran.
    • An exception was their position regarding Zahirism, the exoteric or literalist legal doctrine that through its adoption by the eleventh-century Cordoban scholar Ibn Hazm came to represent the most dangerous challenge to Andalusi Malikism. Zahirism is close to Shafi'ism and Hanbalism in its...2016, Andrew P. Roach, Heresy and the Making of European Culture

Questions about Zahirism

What does Zahirism mean?
Zahirism means the Sunni Islamic movement that promotes the apparent meaning of the Quran.
What part of speech is Zahirism?
Zahirism is a noun.

Words near Zahirism in the dictionary

  1. Zahidan
  2. zahids
  3. zahir
  4. Zahiri
  5. Zahiris
  6. Zahirism
  7. Zahirist
  8. Zahirists
  9. Zahirite
  10. Zahirites
  11. Zahirs

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