quietist


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a religious mystic who follows quietism

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We end with this view not because we think it is the most plausible--far from it--but rather because our discussion of the reductive views will help us see how a quietist position can be a bit more informative than some quietist views.
DEOBANDISM: Named after the north Indian town of Deoband, this is a "quietist" tradition that emphasizes education of the faithful.
As we shall see, this puts fewer constraints on the quietist treatment of higher-order vagueness --this, in turn, opens the door to some ways of avoiding the paradoxes other theories face.
The quietist takes what I have called the "wide" view of experience, mentioned above, allowing one's emotional reactions or moral intuitions to contribute to the justification of a set of moral and legal commitments.
Similarly, the residence halls have become battlegrounds for the MSP and state-supported quietist Salafists.
In second and third positions were Joas Wagemakers and Lisa Cooper for their respective books (Salafism in Jordan: Political Islam in Quietist community) and (In search of Kings and Conquerors: Gertrude Bell and the Archaeology of the Middle East).
Though her pacific, introspective paintings seem worlds away from the polemics of the Black Arts Movement, Blayton was no quietist aesthete.
It delivers a solid drive and, although not the fastest or quietist car in the world, it feels as if it could go anywhere.
The top theologians of the quietist movement - as opposed to Islam's politisation - call Khamenei's claim to be God's man on Earth an aberration.
Careful to distinguish between politically quietist, politically activist (haraki), and militant jihadist Salafis, Rabil examines not only what Salafis preach in terms of doctrine and creed, but also, more importantly, how it is implemented (manhaj), particularly with respect to the central doctrine of tawhid (monotheism in its various manifestations).
In effect, Sistani (the highest Shi'ite religious authority in the world and head of the quietist school of a-political theologians in Ja'fari Shi'ism) is opposed to Safawi extremism and to Iran's theocratic system.
The highest religious authority in the Ja'fari Shi'ite world, Sistani heads the Quietist School whose theologians do not indulge in the political affairs of state and do not take governmental office.