taqiyah

taqiyah
/teuh kee"yeuh/, n. (in Shi'ite Islam)
the practice of denying one's religion, permissible when one is faced with persecution, esp. by Sunnites: regarded as a means of protecting the religion.
Also, taqiya.
[ < Ar taqiyyah lit., caution, prudence]

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