The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (46 page)
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Adam's Peak
.
.
r
Pada. Sacred mountain inri Lank
, at the top of which (a place ofpilgrimage
) a hollow shape is identified by adherents of the relevant religions as the footprint of
Adam
, the
Buddha
,
iva, or the
apostle
Thomas
.
Adar
:
:
Adat
.
.
Traditional, often unwritten, law, the customary part of legal regulation in Muslim countries, which often comes from pre-Islamic times, and has therefore to be integrated (so far as it can be) with
shar
‘a
.
shar
‘a.
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