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" Ḥākimiyya - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Lacroix, Stéphane
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English
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1063230
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ALei3627
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Lacroix, Stéphane
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Ḥākimiyya - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Lacroix, Stéphane
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(1,237 words)
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The term ḥākimiyya is a neologism that first appeared in Arabic translations of the works of the Indo-Pakistani scholar and activist Abul Aʿla Maududi (Abū l-Aʿlā Mawdūdī, 1903–79), founder of the Islamist group Jamaat-e-Islami (Jamāʿat-i Islāmī). The word is derived from the Arabic root “ ḥ-k-m ,” which appears in various forms about two hundred times in the Qurʾān, with a range of different meanings: to judge, to decide, to rule, and so forth. Maududi argues that, when applied to God (as, for instance,
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Islam.
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ALei3627.pdf
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