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2018 documentary film by Sandi Tan
award-winning documentary Shirkers to stream on Netflix". The Straits Times. Retrieved March 2, 2018. Linden, Sheri (January 23, 2018). "'Shirkers': Film Review (Sundance
Shirkers
Topics referred to by the same term
Look up shirk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Shirk may refer to: Shirk (surname) Shirk (Islam), in Islam, the sin of idolatry or worshiping beings
Shirk
Islamic concept of associating other objects with God
In Islam, Shirk (Arabic: شِرْك, lit. 'association') is a sin often roughly translated as "idolatry" or "polytheism", but more accurately meaning "partnerism
Shirk_(Islam)
United States historic place
The David L. Shirk Ranch is a historic ranch located in the Guano Valley of eastern Lake County, Oregon, United States. The ranch was originally homesteaded
David_L._Shirk_Ranch
American documentary film editor
Editing Sandi Tan's Documentary Shirkers". filmmakermagazine.com. 25 January 2018. Retrieved 2021-10-05. "'Shirkers': Sundance Review". screendaily.com
Lucas_Celler
American film director
Baby (2001), but is best known for her full-length 2018 documentary, Shirkers. Shirkers made its debut at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, at which it won
Sandi_Tan
Surname list
Shirk is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Amos Urban Shirk (c. 1890 – 1956), American businessman Bill Shirk (born 1945), American
Shirk_(surname)
American radio broadcaster (born 1945)
Bill Shirk (born May 3, 1945, in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American escape artist, radio personality, broadcast entrepreneur and actor. Shirk graduated
Bill_Shirk
Visual effects supervisor
Dave Shirk is an American visual effects supervisor. Shirk and his fellow visual effects artists are won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for
Dave_Shirk
Australian journalist (born 1981)
mums", and "Tougher dole for shirkers". It has been stated that labelling the long-term unemployed by terms such as "shirkers" was rhetoric designed to facilitate
Patricia_Karvelas
American football player (born 1950)
Gary Lee Shirk (born February 23, 1950) is an American former professional football player who was a tight end for seven seasons with the New York Giants
Gary_Shirk
Clemson-class destroyer
USS Shirk (DD-318) was a Clemson-class destroyer in service with the United States Navy from 1919 to 1930. She was scrapped in 1931. James W. Shirk was
USS_Shirk
American encyclopedist (1890–1956)
Amos Urban Shirk (c. 1890 – October 20, 1956) was an American businessman, author and reader of encyclopedias. As a businessman he worked in the food
Amos_Urban_Shirk
(GAM). Some believe that the tsunami was divine punishment for lay Muslims shirking their daily prayers or following a materialistic lifestyle. Others have
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami
Iranian religion founded by Zoroaster
Yazata were often framed as "angels" to counter accusation of polytheism (shirk). According to the Avesta The Yazata assist Ahura Mazda in his battle against
Zoroastrianism
American political scientist
Susan L. Shirk is an American political scientist and China specialist currently serving as a research professor at University of California, San Diego
Susan_L._Shirk
Mexican drug lord incarcerated in a US federal prison (born 1957)
February 2014. Longmire, Sylvia 2011, p. 13-1. Edmonds-Poli & Shirk 2009, p. 262. Edmonds-Poli & Shirk 2009, p. 354. Beith, Malcolm 2010, pp. 63–64. "El Chapo
El_Chapo
Unauthorized refusal to attend school
common. In older English, a truant or truand was any vagrant, vagabond, or shirker of duties. The widespread legal obligation for towns and villages to provide
Truancy
Pedestrian street in Munich, Germany
Drückebergergasse ('Shirker's Alley') is the popular name for Viscardigasse, a narrow, curbless pedestrian street in Munich, Germany, just over fifty
Drückebergergasse
President of the United States from 1901 to 1909
Wilson's reelection, Roosevelt lashed out: President Wilson's ignoble shirking of responsibility has been clothed in an utterly misleading phrase, the
Theodore_Roosevelt
Fictional character from Blackadder
Years" as Captain Lord Edmund Blackadder of Her Majesty's Royal Regiment of Shirkers. It is possible that Captain Lord Blackadder is the same modern-day Lord
Edmund_Blackadder
American philanthropist
Mary Emma Kimberly Shirk (April 2, 1880 – October 15, 1979) was an American philanthropist and clubwoman, based in Redlands, California. Her home, Kimberly
Mary_Kimberly_Shirk
American lawyer (born 1973)
Matthew Aaron Shirk (born July 9, 1973) is an American lawyer who previously served as the public defender for Florida's Fourth Judicial Circuit. He was
Matthew_Shirk
American jewelry designer (born 1942)
Helen Shirk (born 1942, Buffalo New York) is an American jewelry designer. She attended Skidmore College and Indiana University Bloomington as well as
Helen_Shirk
2017 American novel by Elif Batuman
'Phantom Thread'". IndieWire. Retrieved May 5, 2026. McDonnell, Brandy. "'Shirkers' director Sandi Tan to adapt Elif Batuman's 'The Idiot' | The Week in Women"
The_Idiot_(Batuman_novel)
Season of television series
Placement Day Jonathan Libby 23 Dallas, Texas None Eliminated Day 2 Wanda Shirk 55 Ulysses, Pennsylvania Jolanda Jones 38 Houston, Texas Ulong 1st voted
Survivor:_Palau
American actor and comedian (born 1953)
February 16, 2014. Brady, Shirley (September 7, 2010). "Campbell's Soup Shirks Canned Cool for Wholesome Warmth". Brandchannel. Archived from the original
Tim_Allen
Abrahamic monotheistic religion
or attributing God's attributes to others is seen as idolatory, called shirk. Thus, Muslims are not iconodules and do not attribute forms to God. God
Islam
Higher wage paid to encourage productivity
commissions are impossible, there may be an incentive for the worker to "shirk" (do less work than agreed). The manager thus may pay an efficiency wage
Efficiency_wage
Term for disbelievers in Islam
classical commentators considered the Christian doctrine to be a form of shirk. In modern times, kafir is sometimes applied to self-professed Muslims,
Kafir
Official march song of the French Foreign Legion
makes also repeated reference to the fact that the Belgians are "lazy shirkers", which comes from the fact that Belgian King Leopold II, who wished to
Le_Boudin
hoarders, defeatists, dissenters, pacifists, left-wing socialists, spies, shirkers, strikers, and sometimes enemy aliens so that the public would not question
Propaganda_in_World_War_I
Country in West Asia
or religious places of significance for fear that it may give rise to 'shirk' (idolatry), and the most significant historic Muslim sites (in Mecca and
Saudi_Arabia
Core Islamic tenet denoting the unification of God
the sky. Shirk is classified into two categories: al-Shirk al-akbar (Arabic: شِرْك ٱلْأَكْبَر, romanized: shirk al-akbar; lit. 'greater shirk'): open and
Tawhid
American contemporary Christian band
Mobile, Alabama. Formed in 1998, the band is composed of Mike Weaver, Joe Shirk, Jeremy Redmon, Brian Beihl, and Raul Alfonso. Since 2021, they have been
Big_Daddy_Weave
Israeli cosmetics company
by hair experts for years". Harpers Bazaar. Retrieved 28 February 2025. Shirk, Laura (20 May 2023). "Moroccanoil launches "Airy Moisture" campaign and
Moroccanoil
English band
high/But God has poked them in the eye". Two years later they released Up the Shirkers on the more established MusiDisc label, which had previously released the
The_Tansads
Village in South Khorasan province, Iran
Shirk (Persian: شیرک) is a village in Fakhrrud Rural District of Miyandasht District in Darmian County, South Khorasan province, Iran. At the time of
Shirk,_Iran
Award ceremony for films of 2024
of the Apes – Erik Winquist, Stephen Unterfranz, Paul Story, and Rodney Burke Wicked – Pablo Helman, Jonathan Fawkner, David Shirk, and Paul Corbould
97th_Academy_Awards
Islamic term for awareness of God
Those who practice taqwa — in the words of Ibn Abbas, "believers who avoid shirk with Allah and who work in His obedience" — are called muttaqin (Arabic:
Taqwa
American politician
Eugene Leid Shirk (April 14, 1901 – February 17, 1994) was an American politician who served as the Mayor of Reading, Pennsylvania for two terms as a
Eugene_Shirk
Arabic phrase used by Shia Muslims
which would make it shirk by Sharia. Whether phrases like Ya Ali, and similar ones like Ya Muhammad or Ya Husayn (tawassul), are shirk is a debated topic
Ya_Ali_(phrase)
American Islamic scholar and preacher (born 1975)
is not shirk (polytheism) but said it is haram, sinful, an evil innovation, and called it a stepping stone and gateway to shirk but not shirk in and of
Yasir_Qadhi
Period of sociopolitical turmoil in China (1966–1976)
am the Chairman of the Central Committee. I don't want other people to shirk their responsibility. There are some other comrades who also bear responsibility
Cultural_Revolution
1986 film by Richard Benjamin
sewage and the electrical system catches fire. Contractors Art and Brad Shirk summarily tear the house to pieces using Walter's $5,000 down payment, leaving
The_Money_Pit
2018 film by Steven Spielberg
Jennifer Meislohn, Dave Shirk, Matthew E. Butler, Neil Corbould Nominated Outstanding Animated Character in a Photoreal Feature Dave Shirk, Brian Cantwell, Jung-Seung
Ready_Player_One_(film)
1949 strike in Berlin, East Germany
Answer Is Due Today RUSSIANS REMAIN FIRM Reserve the Right to Dismiss 'Shirkers and Saboteurs' Despite No-Reprisal Pledge". The New York Times. Retrieved
1949 East German State Railway strike
1949_East_German_State_Railway_strike
American gridiron football player (born 1940)
Marshall Chester Shirk (born August 3, 1940) was an American professional Canadian football player who played for the Ottawa Rough Riders. He won the
Marshall_Shirk
Idol in the Torah, the Bible, and the Quran
Islamic view, the calf-worshipers' sin had been shirk (Arabic: شرك), the sin of idolatry or polytheism. Shirk is the deification or worship of anyone or anything
Golden_calf
Subculture in France during World War II
morality. Zazous were seen as work-shy, egotistical and Judeo-Gaullist shirkers. By 1942, the Vichy regime realised that the national revival that they
Zazou
Spanish football manager (born 1982)
believed the club had lost direction and that he didn't want players to shirk responsibility: "I want people to take responsibility for their jobs and
Mikel_Arteta
1887 memoir by John D. Billings
were sheltered, life in tents, life in log huts, unlucky soldiers and shirkers ("Jonahs and Beats"), Army rations, offenses and punishments, a day in
Hard_Tack_and_Coffee
2017 novel by Gail Honeyman
to her as "Wacko Jacko" or "Harry Potter"; while she regards them as "shirkers and idiots". Clues gradually emerge to Eleanor's troubled past. She has
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Eleanor_Oliphant_Is_Completely_Fine
Country in East Asia
Archived from the original on 6 October 2017. Retrieved 6 October 2017. Shirk, Susan L. (2007). China: Fragile Superpower. Oxford University Press.
Taiwan
Singaporean filmmaker (born 1972)
footage was later recovered and became part of the 2018 documentary film Shirkers directed by Tan. In 1996, Ng co-directed the 14-minute short film Moveable
Jasmine_Ng
Japanese writer (born 1949)
as a future Nobel Literature laureate, has often chided his country for shirking responsibility for its World War II aggression. Wee, Darren (January 22
Haruki_Murakami
Legal killing of a person as punishment
the past, cowardice, absence without leave, desertion, insubordination, shirking under enemy fire, and disobeying orders were often crimes punishable by
Capital_punishment
7th-century Arab polytheists who fought early Muslims
followers in the early 7th century. The term, which is related to the noun shirk, may be translated as "associators", as in "those who associate [with Allah]"
Mushrikun
preparations nearly end in scandal when a supply convoy is left exposed by shirking escorts, but by February 795 UC it deploys the 5th, 10th and 11th Fleets
List of Legend of the Galactic Heroes episodes
List_of_Legend_of_the_Galactic_Heroes_episodes
2018 American film
Doc/Fest Kicks Off With 'The Insufferable Groo' & Maya Rudolph-Produced 'Shirkers'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved November 7, 2018. "Sheffield Doc/Fest
The_Insufferable_Groo
Second studio album by American Football
second album with Jason Cupp at ARC Studios in Omaha, Nebraska, and at SHIRK Studios in Chicago, Illinois. This is their first album to featured as a
American Football (2016 album)
American_Football_(2016_album)
Concept that defines the experience of notably positive, negative, or improbable events
believe in luck or anything else related to luck, as it is classified as shirk (associating partners to Allah or giving any share of any attribution which
Luck
Supernatural beings in Arab culture and Islam
شركا. It has been said that this act by humans—seeking refuge with them—is shirk, because God Almighty is the only true protector. Therefore, they should
Jinn
Indian actor (born 1956)
Priyasakhi Pathirakalam Kala Viplavam Pranayam Achuthan Kalyanam Varkey Shirk Lolans Vikadakumaran Sukumaran Pillai Aabhaasam Kammara Sambhavam ILP Surendran
Indrans
1919 book by Oswald Spengler
don't work] of sloth, it would brand them as irresponsible, dispensable shirkers and parasites. But Marxian instinct envies them. They are too well-off
Prussianism_and_Socialism
Saint regarded as a heavenly advocate
saints (as patron or otherwise), which they claim are a form of idolatry or shirk. More mainstream Sunni clerics have critiqued this argument since Wahhabism
Patron_saint
Inflated feelings of personal ability, privilege, or infallibility
Omnipotence Personal fable Playing God (ethics) Narcissistic Personality Disorder Shirk (Islam) Homelander Christian, Danny (October 2021). Reversing Willie Lynch's
God_complex
Arabic term for religiously forbidden in Islam
negating tawhid. Worshipping anyone or anything other than God, known as shirk, is the most major sin for a Muslim. Outline of Islam Glossary of Islam
Haram
Phrase that occurs eight times in the Quran
Ta'awwudh Inna Lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un Allahumma Be, and it is Terms Shirk (polytheism) Iman (belief) Ihsan (development) Nifaq (hypocrisy) Kufr
Be,_and_it_is
Personality model consisting of five broad dimensions
(Reversed) I often forget to put things back in their proper place. (Reversed) I shirk my duties. (Reversed) Extraversion is characterised by breadth of activities
Big_Five_personality_traits
Period of eastern Mediterranean history from 323 to 30 BC
tyrant, what had they accomplished? ...Held down like slaves they had shirked and slacked; once they had won their freedom, not a citizen but he could
Hellenistic_period
Leader of China since 2012
largest and most sophisticated online censorship operation in the world. Shirk 2018, p. 22–24. Yang & Tang 2018, p. 1–22. Rudd 2024, p. 86. Zhuang, Pinghui
Xi_Jinping
Arabic word for heedlessness, forgetfulness or carelessness
associated with "dalal" (going astray), kufr (disbelief), zulm (wrongdoing), and shirk (worshiping others beside God). The state of heedlessness or forgetfulness
Ghaflah
Relics of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
staunchly condemn such practices, linking them with the Islamic sin of shirk (idolatry). As a result of the influence of these perspectives, some contemporary
Relics_of_Muhammad
Worship of an idol as though it were a god
practices shirk is called mushrik (plural mushrikun) in the Islamic scriptures. The Quran forbids idolatry. Over 500 mentions of kufr and shirk are found
Idolatry
Village in South Khorasan, Iran
Shirag (Persian: شيرگ, also Romanized as Shīrag, Shīrīk, Sherk, Shīrak, and Shīrg; also known as Tak-e Borj) is a village in Fasharud Rural District, in
Shirag
American baseball player (1941–2024)
against John Dowd dismissed". ESPN. Retrieved December 15, 2017. "Rose shirks statutory rape query at Phillies fete". ESPN.com. August 7, 2022. Retrieved
Pete_Rose
Private college in Bloomington, Illinois, US
addition of men's and women's lacrosse in 2014 and 2015, respectively. Shirk Center is the university's athletic complex. The two-story 135,000-square-foot
Illinois_Wesleyan_University
General knowledge encyclopaedia
read two independent editions: the author C. S. Forester and Amos Urban Shirk, an American businessman who read the 11th and 14th editions, devoting roughly
Encyclopædia_Britannica
Christian apostle and missionary (c. 5 – c. 64/65)
its Semitic, prophetic origins. Rashid Rida accused Paul of introducing shirk (polytheism) into Christianity. Mohammad Ali Jouhar quoted Adolf von Harnack's
Paul_the_Apostle
President of the European Commission since 2019
Muscular Foreign Policy", The New York Times. "German foreign policy: No more shirking", The Economist, 8 February 2014. Alison Smale (12 March 2014), "Ukraine
Ursula_von_der_Leyen
Former amusement park in Afghanistan
are prohibited in Islam due to Islam prohibiting any idolatry because of shirk. Loh, Matthew (17 August 2021). "Surreal videos appear to show armed Taliban
Bokhdi_Amusement_Park
Ithm is also associated with what is considered the worst sin of all, shirk. Shirk signifies associating partners with God. The Quran states that: He who
Islamic_views_on_sin
Fourth studio album by American Football
May 1, 2026 (2026-05-01) Studio Panoramic House, Stinson Beach, California Shirk, Chicago Open House Contemporary, Chicago Octopus Beak, Los Angeles Genre
American Football (2026 album)
American_Football_(2026_album)
Ancient Greek philosopher (c. 626 – c. 545 BC)
Science. Cambridge University Press. pp. 345–373. Shute, William George; Shirk, William W.; Porter, George F. (1960). Plane and Solid Geometry. American
Thales_of_Miletus
Person refusing military service on moral grounds
widespread public opinion that they were lazy, degenerate, ungrateful 'shirkers' seeking to benefit from the sacrifices of others. In an attempt to press
Conscientious_objector
4th chapter of the Quran
pre-Islamic Arabic practice of marrying orphan girls to take their property. Shirk (refer 4:48 and 4:116) is held to be the worst form of disbelief, and it
An-Nisa
Leader of China from 1978 to 1989
Oxford University, Oxford, 1995. ISBN 0-19-828933-2 Cited by Susan L. Shirk in The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China, University of California
Deng_Xiaoping
US progressive news website
26, 2023). "BuzzFeed's Pivot to HuffPost Is Still Hampered by Ad Buyers Shirking News". Retrieved February 6, 2026. Allyn, Bobby (July 31, 2025). "Online
HuffPost
British politician and activist (1925–2014)
Retrieved 31 March 2016. "Labour drückt sich vor Irak-Debatte" [Labour shirks Iraq debate]. Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). 11 May 2010. Archived from
Tony_Benn
Comics character
greatly, however, as she sees this move as Lucifer running away from and shirking all of his responsibilities. She lashes out against Lucifer with her sword
Mazikeen
Mexican political party
instrumento de la oligarquía empresarial. Mexico: Editorial Nuevo Imagen 1986. Shirk, David A. "Mexico's New Politics: The PAN and Democratic Change" Boulder:
National Action Party (Mexico)
National_Action_Party_(Mexico)
Following the teaching of an Islamic scholar rather than reasoning independently
(independent reasoning) Salafi Wahhabi scholars regarded taqlid as a form of shirk (polytheism). Salafis like Sanaullah Amritsari went to the extent of declaring
Taqlid
Penultimate prophet in Islam
God, or of the Trinity. Islamic theology teaches such beliefs constitute shirk (the "association" of partners with God) and thereby a rejection of his
Jesus_in_Islam
Annual ultramarathon in California
Auburn in twenty-three hours and forty-two minutes. In 1976, Ken “Cowman” Shirk became the second to complete the distance, though 30 minutes over the 24-hour
Western_States_Endurance_Run
Islamic phrase meaning "In the name of Allah"
Ta'awwudh Inna Lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un Allahumma Be, and it is Terms Shirk (polytheism) Iman (belief) Ihsan (development) Nifaq (hypocrisy) Kufr
Basmala
Type of agricultural cooperative in the Soviet Union
Exile and Discipline: The June 1948 campaign against Collective Farm shirkers by Jean Levesque, p. 13 Caroline Humphrey, Karl Marx Collective: Economy
Kolkhoz
Kazakh mountain climber and author (1958–1997)
upward alone at the Khumbu Icefall and "harshly reprimanded the guide for shirking his responsibilities". Back at Base Camp, Fischer telephoned his Seattle
Anatoli_Boukreev
Islamic term for denominational practice or theology
Islam 2016 international conference on Sunni Islam in Grozny Shia crescent Shirk Succession to Muhammad Sunnah Salafi–Sufi relations Tawhid Abdel-Haleem
Aqidah
Unincorporated community in Oklahoma, US
Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Chockie, Oklahoma Shirk, George H. Oklahoma Place Names (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965)
Chockie,_Oklahoma
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Gift of God
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Australian, French, German, Irish
Name of a Saint
Girl/Female
Arabic, Australian, Muslim
Heavenly; Graceful
Boy/Male
Hindu
Goddess of wealth, Lord Vishnu
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English French
Good; a blessing. American frontier hero Daniel Boone.
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Hindu
Refreshing
Surname or Lastname
English (Devon and Cornwall)
English (Devon and Cornwall) : habitational name from Scoble in Devon.
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American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, English, French, German, Greek, Hawaiian, Hebrew
Twin; Palm Tree; Short Form of Tamara; Thomasina and Other Names Beginning with Tam; Perfect One
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Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sikh, Tamil, Telugu
Hero of Fame
Female
English
Pet form of English Felicity, FLICKA means "happy" or "lucky."
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