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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






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