- Look up literal or
literally in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Literal may
refer to:
Interpretation of
legal concepts:
Strict constructionism The plain...
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Fundamentalists and
evangelicals sometimes refer to
themselves as
literalists or
biblical literalists.
Sociologists also use the term in
reference to conservative...
- history.
Biblical literalism, however, does not
treat it this way,
because literalists have a
profound respect for the
Bible as the word of God. This way of...
-
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...
- 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...
- at the end of his
second term he said on
television that he is "not a
literalist"
about Bible interpretation. Walt Harrington, a journalist,
recalled seeing...
- 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...
-
Greene has
stated that he
regards science as
being incompatible with
literalist interpretations of
religion and that
there is much in the New Atheism...
- Islam: the Asharites, the Mutazilites, the
Sufis and
those he
calls the "
literalists" (al-hashwiyah).
Among other things, he
examines their proofs of God's...
