Glossary Term
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- Muqaddaslar
- Transliteration
- moo-kahd-dahs-LAR
- Rejected alternatives
- avliyolar (Sufi saints venerated at shrines/mazors)
Saints
Muqaddaslar = all believers corporately, set apart in Christ. Avliyolar carries very strong associations in Uzbekistan with venerated Sufi holy figures (such as Bahouddin Naqshband) whose tombs receive large-scale pilgrimage (ziyorat); this is a specially graced elite category, not the ordinary corporate sainthood of Romans 1:7.