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Dahrīyah, in Islām, the unbelievers who contend that the course of time (Arabic: dahr) is all that governs their existence. They were so called because of a reference to them in the Qurʾān, in which they are repudiated for saying, “There is no other than our present life; we die and we live and nothing but the course of time destroys us” (45:24). The Dahrīyah are portrayed in Islāmic theological literature as naturalists and materialists who deny the existence of anything that cannot be perceived by the senses. In scholarly circles, however, there has been a great deal of confusion ...(100 of 198 words)

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