The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1659 page)

, in the Pañj
b. The latter reorientated the order by dropping the doctrine of
wa
dat al-wuj
d
, the unitary nature of all being, so important to
Ibn ‘Arabi
, and replacing it with
wa
dat al-shuh
d
, the unitary nature of consciousness. He also rejected any seeming accommodation between Islam and other religions if that compromised the absolute supremacy of All
h, and he repudiated
Akbar
’s eclectic explorations. The order remains active in Afghanistan, Turkey, and Russia, resistant to all political or secularizing erosions of Islam, and it has established a number of centres in Europe and the USA.

 
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Nara
.

In Vedic Hinduism a general word for ‘man’, but in later texts, primordial
Man
, the agent through whom the creation of humanity is effected. Nara and
N
r
yana
are also depicted as
is
.

 
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