Dar al-Dawa
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Dar al-Dawa (Arabic: house of invitation) is a term used to describe a region where the religion of Islam is newly arrived. Since the population has not been exposed to Islam before, they may not fit into the traditional definition of dar al-Harb. On the other hand, as the region is not Muslim, it cannot be dar al-Islam either. The most frequent use of the term dar al-Dawa is to describe Arabia before and during the life of the Prophet Muhammad.
More recently, the term dar al-Dawa has been proposed by Western Muslim philosophers to describe the status of Muslims in the West. The freedom to practice the religion of Islam without Islamic control of the government is a relatively new concept in Islamic philosophy, and dar al-Dawa is one of several terms created in an effort to describe it.
The term dar al-Dawa may be used in conjunction with, or in opposition to, the older terms dar al-Islam and dar al-Harb, from which it is derived.