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 Note to editors: Please maintain the differentiation between Taqiyya and [[Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Lying and Deception]].
--->'''Taqiyya''' ('''تقية''' alternative spellings ''taqiyeh'', ''taqiya'', ''taqiyah'', ''tuqyah'') is a form of religious dissimulation,<ref name="Momen">{{cite web|last=Momen|first=Moojan|title=An Introduction to Shi'i Islam|year=1985|publisher=Yale University Press|pages=39, 183|isbn=978-0-300-03531-5}}</ref> or a legal dispensation whereby a believing individual can deny his [[Islam|Islamic]] faith or commit otherwise illegal or [[Blasphemy|blasphemous]] acts while they are at risk of significant persecution.<ref name="StewartNYUEssay">{{Cite web|title=Islam in Spain after the Reconquista|url=http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/program/neareast/test/andalusia/2_p8_text.html|first=Devin|last=Stewart|work=Teaching Materials|publisher=The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University|separator=,|accessdate=6 August 2012}}</ref> It is based on [[Qur'an|Qur'anic]] verses that instruct Muslims not to "take for friends or helpers Unbelievers rather than believers... except by way of precaution,"<ref>"''Let not the believers Take for friends or helpers Unbelievers rather than believers: if any do that, in nothing will there be help from Allah: except by way of precaution, that ye may Guard yourselves from them...''" - {{Quran|3|28}}</ref> and to not utter unbelief "except [while] under compulsion".<ref>"''Any one who, after accepting faith in Allah, utters Unbelief,- except under compulsion, his heart remaining firm in Faith - but such as open their breast to Unbelief, on them is Wrath from Allah...''" - {{Quran|16|106}}</ref>
+-->'''Taqiyya''' ('''تقية''' alternative spellings ''taqiyeh'', ''taqiya'', ''taqiyah'', ''tuqyah'') is a form of religious dissimulation,<ref name="Momen">{{cite web|last=Momen|first=Moojan|title=An Introduction to Shi'i Islam|year=1985|publisher=Yale University Press|pages=39, 183|isbn=978-0-300-03531-5}}</ref> or a legal dispensation whereby a believing individual can deny his [[Islam|Islamic]] faith or commit otherwise illegal or [[Blasphemy|blasphemous]] acts while they are at risk of significant persecution.<ref name="StewartNYUEssay">{{Cite web|title=Islam in Spain after the Reconquista|url=http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/program/neareast/test/andalusia/2_p8_text.html|first=Devin|last=Stewart|work=Teaching Materials|publisher=The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University|separator=,|accessdate=6 August 2012}}</ref> It is based on [[Qur'an|Qur'anic]] verses that instruct Muslims not to "take disbelievers as allies rather than believers... except when taking precaution"<ref>"''Let not believers take disbelievers as allies rather than believers. And whoever [of you] does that has nothing with Allah, except when taking precaution against them in prudence...''" - {{Quran|3|28}}</ref> and to not utter unbelief "except [while] under compulsion".<ref>"''Any one who, after accepting faith in Allah, utters Unbelief,- except under compulsion, his heart remaining firm in Faith - but such as open their breast to Unbelief, on them is Wrath from Allah...''" - {{Quran|16|106}}</ref>
 This practice is emphasized in [[Shiite|Shi'ite]] Islam whereby adherents may conceal their religion when they are under threat, persecution, or compulsion.<ref>[http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/browse?_hi=0&_startPrefix=taqiya&jumppage.x=13&jumppage.y=8 "Taqiyah"]. ''Oxford Dictionary of Islam''. John L. Esposito, Ed. Oxford University Press. 2003. Retrieved 25 May 2011.</ref> Taqiyya, as it is known today, was developed to protect Shi'ites who were usually in the minority and under pressure from the [[Sunni]] majority. In the Shi'ite view, taqiyya is lawful in situations where there is overwhelming danger of loss of life or property and where no danger to religion would occur thereby.<ref name="Momen" />
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 ==Misuse of the Word==
-Critics of Islam are often ridiculed when some of them conflate lying in general with the doctrine of taqiyya. When the subject comes up, most ex-Muslims attest that they had never heard of taqiyyah until they saw people being accused of it on the Internet. Lying in general, as well as in specific situations such as commercial transactions is condemned in various hadith, and the Qur'an tells believers to shun lying speech and condemns various groups for (allegedly) lying about Allah and Muhammad. There are some situations in the hadith literature in which Muhammad endorses deception, such as deceiving the opponent in warfare, to facilitate the murder of one of his enemies, when it is better to break an oath than to keep it, or to bring reconciliation between parties ([[Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Lying and Deception|Lying and Deception]]). This is not termed "taqiyya" though and is in fact a strategem of war that has been employed across the ages and cultures of the world.
+Critics of Islam often wrongly conflate lying in general with the doctrine of taqiyya. When the subject comes up, most ex-Muslims attest that they had never heard of taqiyyah until they saw people being accused of it on the Internet. Lying in general, as well as in specific situations such as commercial transactions is condemned in various hadith, and the Qur'an tells believers to shun lying speech and condemns various groups for (allegedly) lying about Allah and Muhammad. There are some situations in the hadith literature in which Muhammad endorses deception, such as deceiving the opponent in warfare, to facilitate the murder of one of his enemies, or to bring reconciliation between parties ([[Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Lying and Deception|Lying and Deception]]). This is not termed "taqiyya" though and is in fact a strategem of war that has been employed across the ages and cultures of the world.
-As with any other believer in an ideology they are personally invested in, generally when a Muslim seems to be lying about Islam, they are likely either to be simply deluding themselves, there may be some truth in their claim, or they may be misleading people for much the same reasons as adherents of other religions, who sometimes lie to further or defend their faith, rather than deliberately following some widespread "secret" doctrine of "taqiyya"
+As with any other believer in an ideology they are personally invested in, generally when a Muslim seems to be lying about Islam, they are likely either to be simply deluding themselves, there may be some truth in their claim, or they may be misleading people for much the same reasons as adherents of other religions, who sometimes lie to further or defend their faith, rather than deliberately following some widespread "secret" doctrine of "taqiyya".
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