takfiri
Sign in to saveAlso known as Takfirism, Takfiris
Takfiri is an Arabic and Islamic term denoting a Muslim who excommunicates one of their coreligionists—i.e., who accuses another Muslim of being an apostate, or , 'one who turns back'.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 153 inbound references to takfiri, and connects out to Wahhabism, Jahiliyyah and Jihadism.
It sits within the topics Apostasy in Islam, Islamic extremism and Islam-related controversies.
Vinony links it to 17 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Islamic denomination
- Main subject
- Takfir
Show 2 more facts
- influenced by
- Qutbism
- native label
- تكفيري
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
~31 min read
Encyclopedic overview
27 sectionsContents
- Issues and criticisms
- Modern political uses
- Suicide
- Historical background
- Kharijites
- Colonial era and after
- Sayyid Qutb
- Late 20th and early 21st century
- Qutb and insurgents
- Egypt
- Algerian Civil War
- Afghanistan
- Al Qaeda
- War in Iraq (2013–2017) and aftermath
- Anti-Shia
- Broader takfir
- Attacks on Sufis
- Syrian civil war
- Boko Haram in Nigeria
- See also
- References
- Explanatory notes
- Citations
- Works cited
- Primary sources
- Further reading
- External links
Takfiri is an Arabic and Islamic term denoting a Muslim who excommunicates one of their coreligionists—i.e., who accuses another Muslim of being an apostate, or , 'one who turns back'.
According to the traditional interpretations of Islamic law (Sharia), the punishment for apostasy is death. Potentially a cause of strife and violence within the Muslim community (ummah), an ill-founded accusation of takfir is considered a major forbidden act (haram) in Islamic jurisprudence. Takfirism has been called a "minority ideology" that "advocates the killing of other Muslims declared to be unbelievers."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “takfiri” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.