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'AUL : Doctrine of increase
AYAT : Verses ; signs
'AYB : Defect
'AYN : Specific or determinate property
'AZIMAT : Strict law
BAITH : Hymns sung in praise of saints
during Rathib performances.
BATIL : Void
BAYAN : Irrevocable repudiation
DAFF/DUFF : A kind of tambourine used for
Rathib
DAFF-KAR : People who perform Ratib beating
tambourines
DARU'L ISLAM : Territory of safety, a freidly state
DAWA' : Claim
DIYAT : Compensation
FAKEER/FAKIR : A Muslim oris Hindu mendicant
monk
holymanwho regarded as a
FAQIH : Lawyer
FARD : Obligatory (act)
FATWA : Judicial decisions
GHASAB : Usurpation
GHASIB Userper; trespasser
HAJJ : Pilgrimage
HAKIM : Lawgiver:Magistrate:Judge
HALAL : Proper
HAQ : Right
HARABI : Hostile (to the law) alien
HARAM : Forbidden (act)
HATIM ; A place where oaths used to be
administered
HAWALAT : Novation
HIBA : Gift
HIBABI SHARTI'L-'IWAD : Gift on condition of an exchange
HIBA BI'L-'IWAD : Gift on receiving something in
change
HIZANAT : Custody
HUKM : Law; command; decree;order
HUKMI : Symbolical (possession)
'IBADAT : Acts of devotion
'IDDAT : Period of probation
IJAB : Proposal
IJARA : Letting and hiring
IKHTIAR : Volition
IKARAH : Duress
ILA : A form of divorce
IMAN : Faith
IQRA : Acknowledgment; declaration of
faith;acknowledgment of legitimacy
ISHARAT : Gestures or signs
ISLAM : Muhammadan religion
JAMAT : Community
JANAYAT : Torts
JIHAD : Religious war
KAFIR : Ungrateful ; a non-Muslim
KABIRSTAN/KHABARSTHAN : Graveyard
KACHERI/KUTCHERI/KUTCHERY/
CUTCHERY : Amin's court
KAFALAT : Suretyship
KARANI A Village Revenue Officer in the
: Amindivi group of islands
KARAYMA : A type of escheat lands
KARNAVAN : The oldest male member in a
Marumakkathayam family.
KARANAVAR : maternal uncle;who
the
tehsildar in court casesassists
islands a senior citizenthe
of
KARYAKAR : Agent
KATHIB : Assistant to Khasi.
KHALIFA : Person who initiates the
performance of Rathib
KHATA : Mistake or accident
KHASI/KAZI : A
Muslim marriageswho
functionary solemnises
KHITAB : Speech; a communication from God
KHULA' : Power
consideration to dissolvewife
given to for
marriage
KHUTBAH/KUTHUBIYATH : The sermon or oration delivered
on Fridays at the time of zuhr or
meridian prayer. It is also recited
on the two great festivals ('IDU'L-
FITR, 'IDU'L- AZHA) in the morning
after sunrise .
KITABAT : Writings
KOLATHIRI : The ancient kingdom of
Kolathunadu in North Malabar
KOOTAM/KUTTAM : Assembly of citizens called by the
Amin or other chief administrative
officials of the islands
KOYA : The highest caste of the
Lakshadweep islands
LABBUS : A sharp instrument used in the
performance of Rathib
MADRASA : A school where Muslim religious
education is imparted.
MANFAAT : Usufruct
MAHAL : The object to which an act relates
MAHR : Dowry
MAL : Property
MALIK : Owner
MAPPILA : Malabar Muslim
MARKAKALYANAM : Circumcision ceremony
MARUMAKKATHAYAM : Matrilinear or Matriarchal system
of inheritance
MAULOOD/ MAULUD/ Muslim celebration for the birth
MOWLID/MAULOOD : anniversary of a saint
MELACCERI/MELACHERI : The low caste community of the
Lakshadweep islands
MOHIYUDEEN : One who keeps alive the religion
MONEGAR : An office or post akin to that of a
Revenue Inspector
MOOPAN/MUPAN : Headman
MOULAVI/ MUSALIAR : Muslim
versed inpreacher theology
or priest well-
Islamic and
who calls the faithful for prayers
and leads the prayer
MUJTAHID : Jurist
MUKRI : A Muslim priest who calls for
prayer and leads the prayer/The
custodian of mosque property
MUSHA Pre-emption
MUSI : Testator
MUTAT : Right to conjugal society; a present
to the wife; temporary marriage
MUTWALLI : A trustee of a wakf
NADAPPAL : A last grade employee attached to
the Amin
NAMAZ : Prayer
NERCHA : Offerings by devotees during the
Mappila festival in honour of saints
NIKKAH : Muslim marriage
NISKARAPURA : Prayer house of women
NIYAT : Motive
ODAM : Sailing vessel
ODI : A boat
PALLI : A mosque
PIR : Saint
QABUL : Acceptance
QAJI/QUAZI : A Judge; a Magistrate
QAZI : Islamic Judge
QISAMT : Partition
QUR'AN : The book revealed to Muhammed
RATTIB/RATIB/RATHIB : An Islamic ritual
RAHN : Pledge
RASUL : Messenger; Prophet
RIBA : Usury
RIDA : Consent
SAGHIR : Minor
SAJJADANASHIN : Literally means a man who sits on
a sajja or prayer mat. He is the
spiritual and temporal head of a
Muslim religious institution known
as Khanka where derivishers
SALAH, SALAT : Prayers
SHARI'AT : Legal Code
STHANAMS : Titles
SUNNA, SUNNAH, SUNNAT : Tradition which records the saying
and actions of the Prophet
SURAMBI/SRAMBI : An outhouse
TANGAL : The Sayyids of the Mappilas and
Lakshadweep Muslims
TARWARD : A family
TAHKIM : Arbitration
TAHLIL : Consummation of marriage
required for reunion with the
previous husband
TALAQ : Dissolution of marriage by the
husband; repudiation;divorce
THARAWAD, TARAVATU, : The joint martilineal family of
THARAVAD Kerala and Lakshadweep
THAVAZHI, TAVAZHI : A branch of a matriarchal family;
a branch of a joint family being
descendants of the same mother.
THAMAN : Consideration; price
THIYYA, TIYAN, THEEYAN : The
Malabartoddy-drawing caste of
coast
TIKKAR : Thaumaturgical dance of the Sufi
Riffari order of the Lakshadweep
Islands
TIKKAR-KAR : Persons performing the tikkar
URUKKU : The amulet or talisman worn as a
charm in the Lakshadweep islands
VALIYA PERUNAL : The big festival; Id-Ul-AdhaId-
Ul-Zuha (Bakrid)
WASIYAT Bequest
ZAKAT : Contribution of muslims in cash or
kind for charitable purposes/Poor-
rate
NOT MERELY A PIOUS WISH
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