kafir
Arabic term for "unbeliever" in Islam
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Summary
kafir is a slur[1]. kafir draws 7,622 Wikipedia views per month (slur category, ranking #2 of 3).[2]
Key Facts
- Physically interacts with: Anger of God in Islam[3]
- Subclass of: infidel[4]
- Part of: infidel[5]
- Said to be the same as: infidel[6], Mushrik[7], Munafiq[8]
- Opposite of: Muslim[9]
- Main subject: Kufr[10]
- Work available at URL: https://corpus.quran.com/qurandictionary.jsp?q=kfr[11], http://www.qurananalysis.com/?q=كافر[12]
- Facet of: infidel[13], religious infidelity[14]
- Described by source: Islamskiy entsiklopedicheskiy slovar'[15], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[16]
- Partially coincident with: Takfir[17]
- Stack Exchange tag: https://islam.stackexchange.com/tags/kuffar[18]
- Different from: kefir[19], kaffara[20], mu'min[21], Muhsin[22]
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Cultural Significance
Things named for kafir include kaffir[23], an ethnophaulism[24].
Why It Matters
kafir has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] kafir is known by 54 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]
Entities named for kafir include kaffir[23], an ethnophaulism[24].