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               spirituality,  was  used  at  least   some areas of research related
               in  the  early  fifth  century,  the   to  theology  and  the  history  of
               same  meaning  derived  from          religions. (Principe, 1983: 127-141)
               the Bible; but by the beginning          The term “spiritual biology”
               of    the    twelfth     century,     in  this  study,  considering  that
               spirituality  took  on  a  more  or   it is used about religious rules,

               less  implicit  meaning  with  a      is related to the spiritual life of
               psychological      function    as     a  Muslim,  which  is  achieved
               opposed  to  physicality  or          by  following  the  religious
               materiality.  However,  another       rules  and  other  orders  of  God
               meaning  quickly  emerged  in         Almighty in other areas.
               which  spirituality  referred  to

               persons  or  facilities  related  to   Usages of Custom
               the church.                           The instrumental effectiveness
                  In    the   eighteenth    and      of  custom  in  Shari'a  and
               nineteenth centuries, the use of      Ijtihad  is  agreed  upon  by  all
               the word “spirituality” declined.     and  it  does  not  accept
               This  may  be  because  Voltaire      opposition  from  anyone;  we
               and  others  used  the  word          can  not  talk  about  religious

               derogatory. It was not until the      and ijtihad and not accept this
               early twentieth century that the      usage.  Of  course,  the  search
               word  was  revived,  with  the        for  cases  and  instances  of
               revival,  mainly  with  the  help     instrumental usages leads us to
               of  French  Catholic  writers,  in    differences  in  the  acceptance
               the    original    religious   or     or  non-acceptance  of  some

               devotional sense, and gradually       cases;  therefore,  by  exploring
               referring to special and diverse      the  instances,  it  is  needed  to
               matters.  Even  now,  it  shows       separate  the  general  accepted
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