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‖ Hanif, Haneef|haˈniːf|
[Arab. ḥanīf, app. the same as Heb. ḥanēf impious.
It has been conjectured by Sprenger and others that in Muhammad's early days there was a sect of reformed Jews, who professed to follow the religion of Abraham, to whom enemies gave the epithet ḥanēf, ‘impious’, and that Muhammad, being misled as to the meaning of the word, adopted it in a good sense.]
A name or epithet applied in the Koran to Abraham; hence, also, to one sincere or orthodox in the faith of Islam. By historical writers, applied to a sect of religious reformers, with many of whose tenets Muhammad identified himself, as professing to restore the religion of Abraham.
Hence Hanifism, Hanifite (Hanee-, Hany-) n. and a.
1734G. Sale tr. Koran vi. 79, I [Abraham] have turned my face to him who originated the heaven and the earth, as a hanif, and I am not of the idolaters. 1877J. E. Carpenter tr. Tiele's Hist. Relig. 94 To constitute Hanyfism into a religion, a fixed doctrine, an organised worship, and a divine sanction were needed. These were provided by Mohammed. 1877Dods Mohammed, Buddha & Christ ii. 85 He aimed [at first] at nothing else than to restore the religion of Abraham, the Hanyfite creed. 1883Encycl. Brit. XVI. 546/2 There were individuals who were not content with a negation, and sought a better religion..They were called Hanifs, probably meaning ‘penitents’, men who strive to free themselves from sin. They did not constitute a regular sect, and had in fact no fixed and organized views. |