Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
jahiliyyah .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word jahiliya.
Examples
-
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.
Muslim women served as Hadith scholars in the Middle Ages 2007
-
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.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
-
"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." Ann Althouse 2007
-
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." Ann Althouse 2007
-
"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."
Archive 2007-02-01 Ann Althouse 2007
-
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.
-
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.
-
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).
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.