jahiliyyah
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editFrom Arabic جَاهِلِيَّة (jāhiliyya, “ignorance”).
Noun
editjahiliyyah (uncountable)
- (Islam, historical) The condition of ignorance, barbarism and unbelief in Arabia before the coming of Islam.
- 1834: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, page 422 (Cambridge University Press for the Royal Asiatic Society)
- Some valuable chapters are occupied with the drawing of parallels between the Arabian Jāhiliyyah, or pre-Islamic period, and Greek heroic antiquity; some others with the history of Arabic poetry, and an endeavour to define the characteristics of the different periods and their chief representatives.
- 1834: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, page 422 (Cambridge University Press for the Royal Asiatic Society)
Further reading
edit- jahiliyyah on Wikipedia.Wikipedia