(also transliterated
daawa(h); "invitation") means the
proselytizing or preaching of
Islam.
Da‘wah literally means "issuing a summons" or "making an invitation", being a
gerund of a verb meaning variously "to summon" or "to invite" (whose
triconsonantal root is
d-ʕ-w ). A
Muslim who practices
da‘wah, either as a religious worker or in a volunteer community effort, is called a (, plural / ).