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  1 - The Use of Derogatory Terms against “Other” in Muslim Sources Focusing on the Lexical Network of Superstitions
  Kamyar Shiravand Nasrollah Poormohamadi Amlashi Mohammad Hossein Farajihaye Ghazvini
  10.30495/jhcin.2021.17221
  Khorāfāt (Superstitions), with its diverse lexical network of synonym terms, is one of the words that have had many meanings and connotations in various Muslim texts. Despite the attention of some researchers to the lexical, sociological, and psychological dimensions of More

  Khorāfāt (Superstitions), with its diverse lexical network of synonym terms, is one of the words that have had many meanings and connotations in various Muslim texts. Despite the attention of some researchers to the lexical, sociological, and psychological dimensions of superstitions, the term has been less studied along with its network of corresponding and similar terms. This article, with the approach of social history of the religious language and reflecting on the historical developments of the uses and meanings of words, focuses on the linguistic components of the Lexical network of humiliation in Islamic literature. To do so, we survey the use of terms such as Mozak̲h̲rafāt, Mohmalāt, Had̲h̲yānāt, čarandiāt, k̲h̲oza'balāt, Lātā'ilāt, Rakākāt, Harzegoyi, Arādjifsarāyi and Lāf-o-Gazāf in the semantic network of the word Khorāfāt in two areas: religious (i.e. theological, hadith and mystical areas, etc.) and non-religious (i.e. geographical, travelogues, and socio-political uses). The study shows that these terms have been used in a very wide range of approaches and for different purposes; however, almost all of them have a semantic dependence on a central word i.e. Khorāfāt, being utilized to reject, deny and suppress the doctrine and beliefs of the “other”. Reasons such as the emergence of religious sects and the intensification of intra-religious controversies are among the main factors behind the sharp increase in the use of these terms in the early Muslim literature. Manuscript profile