Murjite

[mur-jahyt]

noun

Islam.

1. a member of a sect asserting that a man cannot be judged by his present or past actions and that such judgment must be left to God.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Murjite¹

< Arabic murjiʾah body of believers in the doctrines of the sect; -ite ¹

Example Sentences

The author, who was himself a Murjite, lived in Khurásán during the latter half of the first century a.h.

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Surayj and other Arabian Murjites joined the oppressed Mawálí of Khurásán to whom the Government denied those rights which they had acquired by conversion.416 According to the Murjite view, these Persians, having professed Islam, should no longer be treated as tax-paying infidels.

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