religious ceremony
religious ritual | a ceremony having religious meaning |
| rite religious rite | an established ceremony prescribed by a religion, the rite of baptism |
service religious service
divine service | the act of public worship following prescribed rules, the Sunday service |
Oblation
religious offering | the act of offering the bread and wine of the Eucharist |
religious residence
cloister | residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery) |
religious trance
ecstatic state | a trance induced by intense religious devotion, does not show reduced bodily functions that are typical of other trances |
religion
faith
religious belief | a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny, he lost his faith but not his morality |
cult
cultus
religious cult | a system of religious beliefs and rituals, devoted to the cultus of the Blessed Virgin |
mysticism
religious mysticism | a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality |
| religious orientation | an attitude toward religion or religious practices |
sacred text
sacred writing
religious writing
religious text | writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity |
religious doctrine
church doctrine
gospel creed | the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group |
religious music
church music | genre of music composed for performance as part of religious ceremonies |
| religious song | religious music for singing |
al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya
Islamic Group | a terrorist organization of militant Islamists organized into tiny cells of extreme fundamentalists, emerged during the s mainly in Egyptian jails, al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya uses force to push Egyptian society toward Islamic rule |
al Itihaad al Islamiya
al-Itihaad al-Islamiya
Islamic Unity
AIAI | a fundamentalist Islamic group in Somalia who initially did fundraising for al-Qaeda, responsible for ambushing United States Army Rangers and for terrorist bombings in Ethiopia, believed to have branches in several countries |
al-Jihad
Egyptian Islamic Jihad
Islamic Jihad
Vanguards of Conquest | an Islamic extremist group active since the late s, seeks to overthrow the Egyptian government and replace it with an Islamic state, works in small underground cells, the original Jihad was responsible for the assassination of Anwar Sadat in |
Armed Islamic Group
GIA | a terrorist organization of Islamic extremists whose violent activities began in , aims to overthrow the secular Algerian regime and replace it with an Islamic state, the GIA has embarked on a terrorist campaign of civilian massacres |
East Turkistan Islamic Movement
East Turkestan Islamic Movement | a group of Uighur Muslims fighting Chinese control of Xinjiang, declared by China in to be terrorists although there is a long history of cycles of insurgency and repression |
Hamas
Islamic Resistance Movement | a militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement that opposes peace with Israel and uses terrorism as a weapon, seeks to create an Islamic state in place of Israel, is opposed to the PLO and has become a leading perpetrator of terrorist activity in Israel, pioneered suicide bombing |
a Hizballah
Hezbollah
Hizbollah
Hizbullah
Lebanese Hizballah
Party of God
Islamic Jihad Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine
Revolutionary Justice Organization
Organization of the Oppressed on Earth | a Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran, seeks to create an Iranian fundamentalist Islamic state in Lebanon, car bombs are the signature weapon |
| International Islamic Front for Jihad against Jews and Crusaders | a terrorist group organized by Osama bin Laden in that provided an umbrella organization for al-Qaeda and other militant groups in Egypt and Algeria and Pakistan and Bangladesh |
Islamic Army of Aden
IAA
Islamic Army of Aden-Abyan
Aden-Abyan Islamic Army | Yemen-based terrorist group that supports al-Qaeda's goals, seeks to overthrow the Yemeni government and eliminate United States interests, responsible for bombings and kidnappings and killing western tourists in Yemen |
Islamic Great Eastern Raiders-Front
IBDA-C | a Turkish terrorist organization that claimed responsibility for bombing a British consulate and bank in Istanbul, a violent opponent of Turkey's secular government and its ties to the European Union and NATO |
Islamic Group of Uzbekistan
IMU
Islamic Party of Turkestan | a terrorist group of Islamic militants formed in , opposes Uzbekistan's secular regime and wants to establish an Islamic state in central Asia, is a conduit for drugs from Afghanistan to central Asian countries |
Jemaah Islamiyah
JI
Islamic Group Islamic Community
Malaysian Mujahidin Group
Malaysia Militant Group | a clandestine group of southeast Asian terrorists organized in and trained by al-Qaeda, supports militant Muslims in Indonesia and the Philippines and has cells in Singapore and Malaysia and Indonesia |
Kaplan Group
Association of Islamic Groups and Communities
Caliphate State | a Turkish terrorist group of fundamentalist Muslims with ties to al-Qaeda that operates in Germany, seeks the violent overthrow of the Turkish government and the establishment of an Islamic nation modeled on Iran |
Libyan Islamic Fighting Group
FIG
Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya
Libyan Fighting Group
Libyan Islamic Group | a Libyan terrorist group organized in and aligned with al-Qaeda, seeks to radicalize the Libyan government, attempted to assassinate Qaddafi |
| Moro Islamic Liberation Front | a terrorist group in the southern Philippines formed in to establish an independent Islamic state for the Moros, have clashed with troops at United States bases |
Palestine Islamic Jihad
Palestinian Islamic Jihad
PIJ
Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami al-Filastini | a militant Palestinian terrorist group created in and committed to the creation of an Islamic state in Palestine and to the destruction of Israel, smaller and more exclusively militant that Hamas |
sect religious sect
religious order | a subdivision of a larger religious group |
Religious Society of Friends
Society of Friends
Quakers | a Christian sect founded by George Fox about , commonly called Quakers |
Ummah
Umma
Muslim Ummah
Islamic Ummah
Islam Nation | the Muslim community or people, considered to extend from Mauritania to Pakistan, moderate Muslims urge the Ummah to reject the terrorism of radical Muslims |
| religious school | a school run by a religious body |
| religious right | United States political faction that advocates social and political conservativism, school prayer, and federal aid for religious groups and schools |
shariah
shariah law
sharia
sharia law
Islamic law | the code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed, sharia is only applicable to Muslims, under Islamic law there is no separation of church and state |
| religious movement | a movement intended to bring about religious reforms |
Afghanistan
Islamic State of Afghanistan | a mountainous landlocked country in central Asia, bordered by Iran to the west and Russia to the north and Pakistan to the east and south, Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in |
Comoros
Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros | a country on the Comoro Islands |
Iran
Islamic Republic of Iran
Persia | a theocratic Islamic republic in the Middle East in western Asia, Iran was the core of the ancient empire that was known as Persia until , rich in oil |
Mauritania
Islamic Republic of Mauritania
Mauritanie
Muritaniya | a country in northwestern Africa with a provisional military government, achieved independence from France in , largely western Sahara Desert |
Pakistan
Islamic Republic of Pakistan
West Pakistan | a Muslim republic that occupies the heartland of ancient south Asian civilization in the Indus River valley, formerly part of India, achieved independence from the United Kingdom in |
| religious person | a person who manifests devotion to a deity |
heretic
misbeliever
religious outcast | a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church |
mystic
religious mystic | someone who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension |
| religious | a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience |
| religious leader | leader of a religious order |
religious festival
church festival | a festival having religious significance |
Islamic calendar
Muhammadan calendar
Mohammedan calendar
Moslem calendar
Muslim calendar | the lunar calendar used by Muslims, dates from AD (the year of the Hegira), the beginning of the Muslim year retrogresses through the solar year completing the cycle every years |
religious holiday
holy day | a day specified for religious observance |