The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2454 page)

see
COSMOLOGY
(Buddhist).

 
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(Arab.). Ritual circuit of a sacred place or object, especially in Islam the
circumambulation
of the
Ka‘ba
during the
ajj
.

 
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see
SIN
.

 
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(Arab., verb. noun of
wa
ada
, ‘make one’). Asserting the oneness of God, the supreme duty, and passion, of Islamic theology. His unity must be affirmed, in strenuous negation of all
dualism
, idolatry, and superstition—i.e. of
shirk
. Qur’
n 112, the S
ra of Unity, is the classic statement. In
S
f
thought and poetry, taw
d means the unitive state in which the devotee transcends individuation in
fan
’.