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Species

al-nawʿ

النَّوْع

A species (nawʿ) is a universal predicated of many things that agree in their reality, in answer to the question “what is it?”

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Explanation

Asked about Zayd and ʿAmr, “what are they?”, the answer is “human”: their whole shared reality.

Also written as: naw, nau, species.

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