Fakir - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Fakir - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Papas, Alexandre

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1061570
Doc. NO	:	ALei1967
Main Entry	:	Papas, Alexandre
Title & Author	:	Fakir - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Papas, Alexandre
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,187 words)
Abstract	:	A fakir is a Muslim mystic who lives in poverty. The word used in most Western languages derives from the Arabic faqīr (pl. fuqarāʾ ), which means “poor, destitute”; faqr means “poverty.” Appearing twelve times in the Qurʾān and in several ḥadīth s, the word means, amongst other meanings that are more numerous and literal and synonymous with miskīn (pauper), the human condition of being in need of God—human beings are ontologically indigent, whereas God alone is self-sufficient (Q 35:15, 47:38)—a sense that inspired the Ṣūfī
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1967.pdf