concept

Ḥarām

Beliefs & concepts

The forbidden as a named Islamic legal category. Not ḥalāl as the permitted alone, and not makrūh as the disliked short of ban.

Also known as Haram

Islam

  • Ḥarām appears in Islam.

    The Qur’an repeatedly names what God has made forbidden (ḥarām) — foods, usury-adjacent wrongs, sacred limits. Islamic prohibition speech in that revelation, not halal as the opposing permission alone and not the Sacred Mosque precinct as a place invent.

    from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • The Qur’an · M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation)

    M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur’an (Oxford).