Ibn al-Arif
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(name) a Sufi (male), 12th century.
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Ibn Arabi
(Language: Arabic)
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(name) Sufi saint (male); expositor of gnosis, born 1165, died 1240.
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Ibn Ataillah al-Iskandari
(Language: Arabic)
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(name) Sufi saint (male), died 1309.
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Ibn Mashish
(Language: Arabic)
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(name) a Sufi (male), 12th century.
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Ibrahim Ibn adham
(Language: Arabic)
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(name) early Sufi saint (male), died 783.
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ihsan
(Language: Arabic)
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Sanctifying virtue, spiritual beauty.
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Ihya ulum ad-din
(Language: Arabic)
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Sufi treatise
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ijad
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Bringing to existence (wujūd); literally, “existentiation.”
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ijma‘
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Consensus of the Muslim community on a particular legal issue.
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ijtihad
(Language: Arabic)
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A creative but disciplined intellectual effort to derive legal rulings for new situations from the accepted juridical sources of Islam.
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ikhlas
(Language: Arabic)
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Sincerity, purity of intention.
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imam
(Language: Arabic)
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Model, prototype.
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iman
(Language: Arabic)
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"Faith" or "belief"; the word also has connotations of "security" and "safety."
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imarah
(Language: Arabic)
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Sufi dance.
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Insan al-kamil
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“perfect man” or “universal man.”
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instrumental rationality
(Language: English)
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A "means-end" view of rationality that ranks actions in terms of their likelihood to satisfy a given set of objectives
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isharah
(Language: Arabic)
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Allusion, symbolism.
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istidad
(Language: Arabic)
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Predisposition, aptitude.
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ittisaf bis-Sifat al-ilahiyah
(Language: Arabic)
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“Assimilation of (or: to) the Divine Qualities.”
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©2003 Dictionary of Spiritual Terms
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