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Takbir

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The Takbir is the name for the Arabic phrase ʾAllāhu ʾakbarᵘ.

Quotes

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  • Unfortunately , the Allahu akbar has become associated with battle Islam.
    • How to Pray: Tapping Into the Power of Divine Communication Helene Ciaravino · 2001
  • Allahu akbar has come to be widely associated with violence, nonMuslim ears are anxious about Islamic sounds, which simply do not belong, amplified or not.
    • Amplifying Islam in the European Soundscape: Religious ... Pooyan Tamimi Arab · 2017
  • Allahu akbar ' - has instead become associated with violent terrorist attacks . Like the Takbir , religion itself , especially since 9/11 , is often seen as a source of conflict .
    • A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We ... Michael Muthukrishna · 2023
  • Allahu akbar has been often misinterpreted. It doesn't mean that God is great. It means that God is greater. The phrase is a comparative, not a superlative.
    • Love Thy Neighbor: A Muslim Doctor's Struggle for Home in ... Ayaz Virji, M.D., ‎Alan Eisenstock · 2019
  • Allahu Akbar has become a cry as sinister as the Nazis' Sieg Heil. By trying to conquer the world, fundamentalism has attracted its hostility.
    • An Imaginary Racism: Islamophobia and Guilt Pascal Bruckner · 2018
  • Wave after wave of barbarian conquest has rolled over this devoted land of ours. "Allah Ho Akbar!" has rent the skies for hundreds of years, and no Hindu knew what moment would be his last.
    • Swami Vivekananda. Complete Works (3.369-70)
  • There where was heard before
    The clamour and uproar of the heathen,
    Now there is heard resounding
    The shout of ‘Allaho Akbar’.
    • About Ikhtiyaru’d-Din Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khalji (AD 1202-1206) at Navadvipa (Bengal). `Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni, Muntakhabu’t-Tawarikh, translated into English by George S.A. Ranking, Patna Reprint 1973, Vol. I, p. 82-83
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