“unbelief” is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe a lack of faith in something, or an inability to accept something as true. For example: He was met with disbelief and unbelief as he told his story.
Others see it as part of a broader policy to assert government control amid signs of growing discontent among the bored Saudi young, including a drift into unbelief.
In June it announced a campaign to confront the spread of unbelief.
And these versions of Islam are by no means sure to be more liberal: the Saudi regime uses harsh sharia punishments such as beheading and last year al-Azhar launched a campaign to rid Egypt of unbelief after a survey claimed the country held precisely 866 atheists.
The most extreme consider co-operation with state institutions to be kufr, or unbelief.
Despite its title, Daniel Harbour's "An Intelligent Person's Guide to Atheism" is not so much an explanation or history of unbelief as a powerful piece of advocacy for rejecting the religious attitude altogether.
Takfir, they said, can only be pronounced on those who have openly professed unbelief.
Unbelief is widespread, yet few can be bothered to argue for their unbelief.
In declaring them a real danger to the purity of Islam and to the security of the state, he appeals to the ruling power to forbid dialectical theologians to explain their beliefs and convictions to the masses, thus confusing them and causing heresy, schism, and unbelief.
Over against this there is in most cultures a concurrent rivalry with other religions, with their contrary doctrinal claims, and beyond that, the challenges of secular wisdom and unbelief.
It may be that not many religious teachers believe the former, but outside the profession passions run high, with everyone holding a particular view depending where they sit on the spectrum of belief or unbelief.
Again, a reputation of heresy and unbelief clung to Afghānī.
