The term 'Asceticism' has been used by historians and social scientists as the translation of the Islamic concept of zuhd. Up to today scholars kept using the term to describe the phenomenon of zuhd. Eminent orientalists, such as Goldziher, Nicholson and Massignon have used the word 'asceticism' to render the word 'zuhd'. Other's, such as the Arabist A. J. Arberry renders the term as 'abstinanc…