• Occultation (Arabic: غَيْبَة, ghayba) in Shia Islam refers to the eschatological belief that the Mahdi, a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad,...
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  • Pielow list: ʿUlum al-gharība ("occult sciences") or ʿUlum al-khafiya ("secret sciences") as referring to occultism in Islam. Some of "the more commonly used...
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  • The Minor Occultation (Arabic: ٱلْغَيْبَة ٱلصُّغْرَىٰ, al-Ghaybah aṣ-Ṣughrā), also known as the First Occultation (Arabic: ٱلْغَيْبَة ٱلْأُولَىٰ, al-Ghaybah...
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  • Shia Islam, the Major Occultation (Arabic: ٱلْغَيْبَة ٱلْكُبْرَىٰ, al-Ghaybah al-Kubrā, 329 AH-present, 941 CE-present) is the second occultation of the...
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  • six days and announced the beginning of the complete occultation, later called the Major Occultation, which continues to this day. The letter, ascribed...
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  • the seventh Imam, had not died but was in occultation. In parallel, traditions predicting the occultation of a future imam also persisted in the writings...
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  • occult. This list shares a number of entries with the list of alchemical symbols as well as the list of sigils of demons. Iconography List of occult terms...
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    Jinn (redirect from Jinn in Islam)
    anglicized as genies, are invisible creatures in early pre-Islamic Arabia and later in Islamic culture and beliefs. Like humans, they are accountable for...
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  • life. Islamic jurisprudence, the Quran, the Hadith, Ijma (scholarly consensus) and Qiyas (analogy) lay out the guidelines for the stance that Islam takes...
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  • From the Advent of Islam up to the End of Minor Occultation". Al-Islam.org. Translated by Limba, Mansoor L. Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project....
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    In Islam, the belief that spiritual entities—particularly, jinn—can possess a person, (or a thing or location), is widespread; as is the belief that the...
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  • Minor Occultation (874–941), it is held that the twelfth Imam remained in contact with his followers through Four Deputies. During the Major Occultation (941-present)...
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  • characters and symbols occulted to Imam.[clarification needed] List of Shia books Occultation (Islam) Minor occultation Major occultation "Kitab al-Ghayba:...
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  • (wukala) likely continued to operate during the Lesser Occultation. The Twelver doctrine of occultation (ghayba) crystallized in the first half of the fourth...
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    Nazar (amulet) (category Occultism (Islam))
    An eye bead or naẓar (from Arabic ‏نَظَر‎ [ˈnaðˤar], meaning 'sight', 'surveillance', 'attention', and other related concepts) is an eye-shaped amulet...
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  • Occultation of the Twelfth Imāmite Imam". Studia Islamica (48): 109–124. doi:10.2307/1595355. JSTOR 1595355. Sachedina, Abdulaziz A. (1981). Islamic Messianism:...
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    Islam is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder. Adherents of Islam are called...
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  • tariqahs whose last Imams have gone into Occultation and the Shia Nizari Ismailis, who deny the concept of Occultation and so have to have a present and living...
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  • Four Deputies (category 9th-century Islam)
    doctrine Ahl al-Bayt Minor Occultation Occultation (Islam) or ghayba Kitab al-Ghayba (al-Nu'mani), a work on the occultation by the 10th-century Shia scholar...
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    Shaitan (redirect from Devil in Islam)
    evil spirit in Islam, inciting humans and jinn to sin by whispering (وَسْوَسَة, waswasa) in their hearts (قَلْب qalb). According to Islamic tradition, though...
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    Simiyya (category Occultism (Islam))
    in Islam. Alchemy and chemistry in Islam Islamic astrology Picatrix Shams al-Ma'arif Eric Geoffroy, Introduction to Sufism: The Inner Path of Islam, World...
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  • Twelver beliefs Imamate (Twelver doctrine) The Fourteen Infallibles Occultation (Islam) Irfan Ismaili beliefs Imamah (Ismaili doctrine) Nizari Ismaili beliefs...
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  • Raj'a (category Islamic terminology)
    championed and spread the cause of the major prophet. Last Judgment Occultation (Islam), Shi'ite eschatological belief in the concealment and subsequent...
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  • is living in occultation. Some of the Imams also have a leading role within some Sufi orders and are seen as the spiritual heads of Islam,[citation needed]...
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    Evil eye (category Occultism (Islam))
    Kruk, Remke (May 2005). "Harry Potter in the Gulf: Contemporary Islam and the Occult". British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 32 (1): 47–73. doi:10...
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    influence political systems. Its proponents believe Islam is innately political, and that Islam as a political system is superior to communism, liberal...
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  • Khasf al-Bayda (category Shia Islam)
    Sufyani) — Na'mani, Al-Ghaybah, Maktab al-Saduq, Chapter 14, P. 279 Occultation (Islam) Seyyed Hassani Seyed Khorasani Al-Yamani (Shiism) The voice from...
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  • occultation, later called the Major Occultation, which continues to this day. The letter, ascribed to al-Mahdi, added that the complete occultation would...
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    (Arabic: الإسماعيلية, romanized: al-Ismāʿīliyya) is a branch or sect of Shia Islam. The Isma'ili (/ˌɪzmɑːˈɪliː/) get their name from their acceptance of Imam...
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  • Ghayba or al-Ghayba (Arabic: الغيبة, 'Occultation', 'Concealment') may refer to: Occultation (Islam), Shi'ite eschatological belief in the concealment...
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