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Dar al-harb

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Noun1.Dar al-harb - areas where Muslims are in the minority and are persecuted


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9) The canon of Islamic teachings stresses that all Muslims must defend dar al-islam (the land of Islam) from moral or spiritual corruption originating in dar al-harb (the land of war) where Islamic law does not prevail.
More than a challenge, here was an updating of the ancient division of the world into the Dar al-Islam and the Dar al-Harb.
The border separating what Muslims call dar al-islam, the "House of Submission (Islam)," from dar al-harb, the "House of Warfare" seems increasingly to define a long irregular battlefront, one that as of September 11, 2001, stretches across four continents.
 
 
 
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