The People of Monotheism

{{Short description|Translation of several Arabic terms}} '''The People of Monotheism''' may translate several Arabic terms: * {{Transliteration|ar|DIN|Ahl al-Tawḥīd}} ({{langx|ar|أهل التوحيد}}), a name the Druze use for themselves. Literally, "The People of the Unity" or "The Unitarians", from ''{{Transliteration|ar|DIN|tawḥid}}'', unity (of God). * {{Transliteration|ar|DIN|al-Muwaḥḥidun}} ({{langx|ar|الموحدون}}) is an Arabic term meaning "the monotheists". It has currency as: ** the Arabic name of the Almohads. ** the term used by the early followers of the 18th-century Arabian ''Muwahhidun'' movement of the reformer Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab to describe themselves ** a term that adherents of Salafism use to describe themselves. ** a term that the Druze use to describe themselves.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Nuṣayrī-ʿAlawīs|last=Friedman|first=Yaron|publisher=Brill|year=2010|location=Leiden|pages=44|quote=Both Nuṣayrīs and Druzes were Shīʿī sects deeply influenced by Neoplatonism and Gnosticism. Both called themselves muwaḥḥidūn, and considered the study of esoteric knowledge as the true path to monotheism.}}</ref> ** a term that the Alawites use to describe themselves.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Nuṣayrī-ʿAlawīs|last=Friedman|first=Yaron|publisher=Brill|year=2010|location=Leiden|pages=11|quote=According to Nuṣayrī sources, the members of this group called themselves muwaḥḥidūn or ahl al-tawḥīd (monotheists), because they believed that only by combining exoteric (zāhir) and esoteric (bāṭin) knowledge, can complete monotheism be achieved.}}</ref> * {{Transliteration|ar|DIN|Ahl al-ʿAdl wa t-Tawḥīd}}, "The People of Justice and Monotheism", a term used by the Mu'tazilis to describe themselves.

==See also== * Monotheism * Unitarianism

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