kismetic
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kismetic (not comparable)
- Of, like, or pertaining to kismet; fatiloquent; predestined; ineluctable.
- 2008, Catharina Raudvere & Leif Stenberg, Sufism Today: Heritage and Tradition in the Global Community,, page 156
- The essay discusses how devotees perform rituals at the mazars of Waris Shah and Shah Latif out of a variety of purposes which may be categorised as pan- thic, dharmic and kismetic.
- 2004, Knut A. Jacobsen & P. Pratap Kumar, South Asians in the Diaspora: Histories and Religious Traditions, Brill Publishing, page 408
- The fourth, kismetic, dimension is a conceptual umbrella under which all unfortunate incidents are explained as fate or the work of the supernatural.
- The kismetic dimension is of most importance in this research because the popular belief of [...]
- 1996, Pritam Singh & Shinder S. Thandi, Globalisation and the Region: Explorations in Punjabi Identity, Association for Punjab Studies - United Kingdom, page 21
- And although Oberoi has labelled the conceptual framework within which this takes place an Enchanted Universe, a better view of the kismetic dimension of Punjabi religion is that it provides a sophisticated — although manifestly symbolic — means of reflecting upon and making sense of one's personal position in the world at large.
- 2008, Catharina Raudvere & Leif Stenberg, Sufism Today: Heritage and Tradition in the Global Community,, page 156