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Definition of Literalist

Literalist
Literalist Lit"er*al*ist, n. One who adheres to the letter or exact word; an interpreter according to the letter.

Meaning of Literalist from wikipedia

- Look up literal or literally in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Literal may refer to: Interpretation of legal concepts: Strict constructionism The plain...
- Fundamentalists and evangelicals sometimes refer to themselves as literalists or biblical literalists. Sociologists also use the term in reference to conservative...
- Biblical literalist chronology is the attempt to correlate the historical dates used in the Bible with the chronology of actual events, typically starting...
- The Arabic phrase Bila Kayf, also pronounced as Bila Kayfa, (Arabic: بلا كيف, romanized: bi-lā kayfa, lit. 'with-no (without) how') is roughly translated...
- Lord Halsbury LC, a conservative peer and author of Halsbury's Laws took a strict literalist approach to legislative interpretation....
- in a Baptist home; as he entered adolescence he began to question the literalist teachings preached at his father's church. At the age of 13, he denied...
- school of jurisprudence (fiqh) found in pre-modern texts and noted for its literalist interpretation of the Qur'an and hadith. However, in 2021, Saudi Arabia...
- tawhid (oneness of God)" rejection of partisanship towards madh'habs literalist adherence to religious scriptures loyalty to Islamic rulers who ruled...
- translations, and interpretations range from traditional scholastic, to literalist-salafist understandings to esoteric-sufist, to modern and secular exegesis...
- pan-Arabism, socialism, communism, and democracy. He subscribed to the Athari (literalist) school of Islamic theology. These beliefs, in conjunction with violent...