Dar al-Islam
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Dar al-Islam
- Extensive mercantile networks and pilgrimage routes to Mecca from all corners of the world affirmed the unity of Dar al-Islam.
- Dar al-Islam realm
Examples
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Thus, they reject the U.S.-brokered Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty of 1979 and the current efforts for Arab-Israeli peace, which they regard as evidence of new forms of Western encroachment on the territory of Islam, the sacred Dar-al-Islam.
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This Muhammad did by opposing the Muslim to the infidel, and the dar al-Islam, the land of Islam and peace, to the dar al-harb, the land of the infidels and conflict.
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Watch your back if you're anywhere within dar al Islam.
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It is Dar al-Islam against Dar al-Harb.
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Even in the US, though, the "public" face of Islam is the likes of CAIR, which seems to operate under the maxim "No enemies in the Dar al Islam."
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Countries like Israel, China, India, and even Russia, which are a little less fastidious than the U.S., may tire of the game someday and put down a nuclear overlay on Dar al Islam.
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For Arab Muslims confronting Jews, the opposition is between the dar al-Islam, the land of Islam, and the dar al-harb, the land of the infidels.
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The world is divided into two distinct realms: Dar al-Islam (the house of submission) and Dar al-Harb (the house of the sword), and the normal and only justified relationship between the two is a state of perpetual war.
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Many believe that the teachings of Islam should guide the laws within Dar al-Islam.
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Pilgrims traveled from far and wide to experience the unity found in Dar al-Islam during the Hajj.
Synonyms
Parts of the world where most people are Muslim
Surface Forms
Morphology
Dar + al-Islam
The compound literally combines Arabic dar 'house/abode' with al-Islam 'the Islam', yielding 'abode/realm of Islam' which directly maps onto 'the part of the world under Islamic rule or with a Muslim majority.' Because the meaning follows straightforward compositional logic (abode/realm + Islam) and similar terms exist cross-linguistically, a B1 learner who knows the constituent meanings would be able to infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The noun Dar al-Islam comes from Arabic words Dar meaning 'house' and Islam, so it literally means 'house of Islam'. That's why Dar al-Islam names lands 'under Islamic rule' or where most people are Muslim.