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Revision as of 23:56, 19 April 2006 by Netscott (talk | contribs) (+detail)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) For the Infocom text adventure, see Infidel (computer game).An infidel (literally, "one without faith") is an unbeliever concerning central tenets of a religion, often used in a pejorative sense to describe those who explicitly deny them (especially regarding asserted aspects of a religion's deities). More generally, an infidel is one who doubts or rejects a particular doctrine, system, or principle.
- In Christianity, "infidel" is an archaism now supplanted usually by "non-Christian".
- In Islam, the word kafir (كافر), which is of Arabic origin and dates from pre-Islamic times, is used to describe non-Muslims frequently in a derogatory sense . Kafir, as well as its Turkish equivalent giaour, are terms usually translated into English as "infidel" or a synonym for "infidel", "unbeliever".