The People of Monotheism may translate several
Arabic terms:
* ( ar, أهل التوحيد), a name the
Druze
The Druze (; ar, دَرْزِيٌّ, ' or ', , ') are an Arabic-speaking esoteric ethnoreligious group from Western Asia who adhere to the Druze faith, an Abrahamic, monotheistic, syncretic, and ethnic religion based on the teachings of ...
use for themselves. Literally, "The People of the Unity" or "The Unitarians", from ''
'', unity (of God).
* ( ar, الموحدون) is an Arabic term meaning "the monotheists". It has currency as:
** the Arabic name of the
Almohads.
** the term used by the early followers of the 18th-century
Arabian
The Arabian Peninsula, (; ar, شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّة, , "Arabian Peninsula" or , , "Island of the Arabs") or Arabia, is a peninsula of Western Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate. ...
''
Muwahhidun The People of Monotheism may translate several Arabic terms:
* ( ar, أهل التوحيد), a name the Druze use for themselves. Literally, "The People of the Unity" or "The Unitarians", from '' '', unity (of God).
* ( ar, الموحدون) is ...
'' movement of the reformer
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab to describe themselves
** a term that adherents of
Salafism
The Salafi movement or Salafism () is a Islah, reform branch movement within Sunni Islam that originated during the nineteenth century. The name refers to advocacy of a return to the traditions of the "pious predecessors" (), the first three g ...
use to describe themselves.
** a term that the
Druze
The Druze (; ar, دَرْزِيٌّ, ' or ', , ') are an Arabic-speaking esoteric ethnoreligious group from Western Asia who adhere to the Druze faith, an Abrahamic, monotheistic, syncretic, and ethnic religion based on the teachings of ...
use to describe themselves.
** a term that the
Alawites use to describe themselves.
* , "The People of Justice and Monotheism", a term used by the
Mu'tazili
Muʿtazila ( ar, المعتزلة ', English: "Those Who Withdraw, or Stand Apart", and who called themselves ''Ahl al-ʿAdl wa al-Tawḥīd'', English: "Party of ivineJustice and Oneness f God); was an Islamic group that appeared in early Islamic ...
s to describe themselves.
See also
*
Monotheism
*
Unitarianism
References
Monotheism
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