| 单词 | the time of ignorance |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe time of ignorance P2. the time of ignorance (also the days of ignorance) and variants: the period of Arabian history before the arrival of the prophet Muhammad. [After post-classical Latin tempus ignorantiae (1650 or earlier in this sense) and its model Arabic jāhilīya, literally ‘state of ignorance’ ( < jāhil ignorant ( < jahala to be ignorant, to act unwisely) + -īya, suffix forming nouns).] ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > other historical periods antiquityc1375 Christian antiquity1577 the days of ignorance1652 the time of ignorance1652 dark ages1656 Lower Empire1668 the age of reason1792 Scythism1793 grand siècle1811 the Age of Enlightenment1825 the Hundred Days1827 Tom and Jerry days1840 regency1841 industrial age1843 Régence1845 viking age1847 ignorance1867 renascence1868 Renaissance1872 gilded age1874 jazz era1919 jazz age1920 post-war1934 steam age1941 postcolonialism1955 information age1960 1652 H. Hammond tr. M. ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm Shahrastānī in Let. Resol. Six Quæres ii. 76 The foulest thing that the old Arabs did in time of ignorance, was this, that a man marryed two sisters, and took, as heir, or successor, the wife of his deceased father. 1662 T. Stanley Hist. Chaldaick Philos. iii. 81 This Hellenism some conceive the same with the Sabaean superstition; what the Greek fathers call Hellenism, the Rabbins term Goth, the Arabians, Algiaheleiton, the time of ignorance and Paganism. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. l. 185 Of the time of ignorance which preceded Mahomet, seventeen hundred battles are recorded by tradition. 1875 Internat. Rev. Sept. 651 The poems which have come down to us from the ‘times of ignorance’, are little more than ballads relating to petty wars and border raids. 1973 L. Sabourin Priesthood 95 This long chapter..will close with a brief investigation of priesthood among the Arabs of ‘the time of ignorance’, Muhammad's designation of the heathen period which preceded his coming. 2017 M. W. Muesse Four Wise Men iv. 206 The days of ignorance commenced when the Arabs began to forsake the exclusive worship of Allah and started to devote themselves to local, tribal deities. < as lemmas |
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