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Definition of Literalist

Literalist
Literalist Lit"er*al*ist, n. One who adheres to the letter or exact word; an interpreter according to the letter.

Meaning of Literalist from wikipedia

- Look up literal or literally in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Literal may refer to: Interpretation of legal concepts: Strict constructionism The plain...
- Fundamentalists and evangelicals sometimes refer to themselves as literalists or biblical literalists. Sociologists also use the term in reference to conservative...
- Biblical literalist chronology is the attempt to correlate the historical dates used in the Bible with the chronology of actual events, typically starting...
- The Arabic phrase Bila Kayf, also pronounced as Bila Kayfa, (Arabic: بلا كيف) is roughly translated as "without asking how", "without knowing how or what"...
- Lord Halsbury LC, a conservative peer and author of Halsbury's Laws took a strict literalist approach to legislative interpretation....
- school of jurisprudence (fiqh) found in pre-modern texts and noted for its literalist interpretation of the Qur'an and hadith. However, in 2021, Saudi Arabia...
- tawhid (oneness of God)" rejection of partisanship towards madh'habs literalist adherence to religious scriptures loyalty to Islamic rulers who ruled...
- besides the Malikites prohibiting it are the literalists or Zahirites. Ibn Hazm was the most influential literalist scholar and led to the conclusion that the...
- at the end of his second term he said on television that he is "not a literalist" about Bible interpretation. Walt Harrington, a journalist, recalled seeing...
- rationalists (aqliyyun; al-muʿtazila, kalamiyya) and traditionalist (naqliyyun, literalists, Ahl al-Hadith) groups and sects regarding the Quran and hadith or the...