The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2766 page)

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Zikr
(remembrance of God):
see
DHIKR
.
Zimra
(Jewish halakhist):
Zimzum
,
also tsimtsum
(Heb., ‘contraction’). Jewish
kabbalistic
doctrine. The kabbalists taught that, in order that
creation
could take place, God had in some sense to make a space for it. See further,
LURIA, ISAAC BEN SOLOMON.
Zin

(Arab.). Sexual intercourse outside the permitted relationships (which, in Islam, include concubines as well as marriage). Zin
’ is dealt with particularly in
Qur’
n
, s
ra 4. The punishment by
rajm
appears in
ad
th
, not in Qur’
n. See also
ADD
.

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