The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1073 page)

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Ignorance
:
Igy
-shu
(school of early Ch'an/Zen)
:
Ihai
.
Japanese Buddhist mortuary tablets with which the spirits of deceased ancestors are associated.
I
r
m
(Arab., ‘making forbidden or sacred’). In Islam, the state of ritual purity necessary for carrying out the rites of
ajj
and ‘umra (greater and lesser pilgrimage).

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