jahiliya

“To persuade reluctant Muslims to educate their girls, Akram employs a potent debating strategy: he compares the status quo to the age of al jahiliya, the Arabic term for the barbaric state of pre-Islamic Arabia.”

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“A potent debating strategy: he compares the status quo to the age of al jahiliya, the Arabic term for the barbaric state of pre-Islamic Arabia.”

"A potent debating strategy: he compares the status quo to the age of al jahiliya, the Arabic term for the barbaric state of pre-Islamic Arabia."

“Althouse: "A potent debating strategy: he compares the status quo to the age of al jahiliya, the Arabic term for the barbaric state of pre-Islamic Arabia.”

"A potent debating strategy: he compares the status quo to the age of al jahiliya, the Arabic term for the barbaric state of pre-Islamic Arabia."

“Oh and I also hate the fact that orientalists always try their best to bring everything arabic down to Islam, there is something called al jahiliya people.”

languagehat.com: ARABIC ETYMOLOGY II.

“You can't be Muslim without believing that before the prophet arrived it was all jahiliya - the age of ignorance - even though common sense tells us humanity always had its dark and bright spots in all ages.”

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“A smaller but closely related group includes words that have meaning in the context of Islamic history as distinct from Islam as a religion (e.g., jahiliya, kharijite).”

Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4