Hanif
In
Islam, a
(; plural: , ), meaning "renunciate", is someone who maintains the pure
monotheism of the
patriarch Abraham. More specifically, in Islamic thought, renunciates were the people who, during the pre-Islamic period or , were seen to have renounced
idolatry and retained some or all of the tenets of the
religion of Abraham (, ), which was submission to
God in its purest form. The word is found twelve times in the
Quran (ten times in its singular form and twice in the plural form) and Islamic tradition tells of a number of individuals who were . According to Muslim tradition,
Muhammad himself was a and a descendant of
Ishmael, son of
Abraham.
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