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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...
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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...
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redactional additions by Matthew. Others, however, such as some
Biblical literalists,
believe redactional theories of the
parables are
speculative at best...
- 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...
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poetic and
prose philisophical writings which deviates from the more
literalist style of the
other books.
Rabbinic tradition holds that the
details and...
- translations, and
interpretations range from
traditional scholastic, to
literalist-salafist
understandings to esoteric-sufist, to
modern and
secular exegesis...
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sometimes the Zahiriyah), as well as Shia jurists. However,
Zahiriyah or
Literalists do not see
qiyas as valid.
While Twelver Shia see
edicts of the Twelve...
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rationalists (aqliyyun; al-muʿtazila, kalamiyya) and
traditionalist (naqliyyun,
literalists, Ahl al-Hadith)
groups and
sects regarding the
Quran and
hadith or the...
