The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1667 page)

r
is used in the
Qur’
n
for the various Christian communities at the time of
Mu
ammad
.
When the Na
r
would not accept the teachings of Mu
ammad, the Qur’
n began to declare the independence of the Muslims.
With the fairly sizeable community of Christians in Najr
n, a treaty was made, in which Mu
ammad allowed them freedom to practise their religion and to keep their property; treaties were similarly made with Christian tribes in the Arabian peninsula. Later, however, ‘Umar had the majority of the Najr
n Christians exiled to Iraq.

 
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(Heb., ‘women’). The third order of the Jewish
Mishnah
.
Nashim
deals with matrimonial law and sexual morality, and also includes the tractates
Nedar
(
Vows
) and
Nazir
(The
Nazirite
).

 
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