(n.) The religion of the Mohammedans; Mohammedanism; Islamism. Their formula of faith is: There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet.
(n.) The whole body of Mohammedans, or the countries which they occupy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chapter one Announcement of the Islamic Caliphate The announcement of the renewal of the caliphate in Iraq in the year 1427AH [2006] was the arbiter between division and separation as well as the glory of the Muslims.
(2) A new propaganda video by Islamic State featuring the British photojournalist John Cantlie, in which he says it is the “last film in this series”, has appeared online.
(3) There is precedent in Islamic law for saving the life of the mother where there is a clear choice of allowing either the fetus or the mother to survive.
(4) But the comments of myself and others that I have seen have not criticised Islam but those who seek to hijack and misrepresent Islam,” he said.
(5) Just before Christmas the independent Kerslake report severely criticised Birmingham city council for its dysfunctional politics and, in particular, its handling of the so-called Trojan Horse affair, in which school governors were said to have set out to bring about an Islamic agenda into the curriculum contents and the day-to-day running of some schools.
(6) Third, the appropriation of these symbolic forms of society, self, and the emotions by the current Iranian Islamic state and the role of the state in defining the meaning and legitimacy of emotions and their expression is analyzed.
(7) To comply with these rules, interest is not paid on Islamic savings or current accounts, or charged on Islamic mortgages.
(8) Moallem’s news conference came a day after jihadis captured a major military air base in north-eastern Syria, eliminating the last government-held outpost in a province otherwise dominated by the Islamic State group.
(9) Germany’s parliament has thrown its weight behind the European campaign against Islamic State , voting with a solid majority in favour of deploying military personnel to Syria in a non-combat role.
(10) The guy upstairs, I heard he was maybe affiliated with Islamic Jihad, but he wasn't there.
(11) Roshan was the latest victim in what is widely seen as a covert war against the Islamic republic's nuclear programme.
(12) The Pentagon leadership suggested to a Senate panel on Tuesday that US ground troops may directly join Iraqi forces in combat against the Islamic State (Isis), despite US president Barack Obama’s repeated public assurances against US ground combat in the latest Middle Eastern war.
(13) Barack Obama and Hassan Rouhani held the first direct talks between American and Iranian leaders since the 1979 Islamic revolution, exchanging pleasantries in a 15-minute telephone call on Friday that raised the prospect of relief for Tehran from crippling economic sanctions.
(14) Conservative MP George Christensen has been forced to back down after suggesting an incident at a Sydney police station was a “failed terrorism attack” and linking it to radical Islamism.
(15) A family who live next door to the Bredon Croft address said Masood used to turn up in Islamic dress and take their neighbours’ children to a mosque, though they did not know which one.
(16) It argues that Saudi Islamic charitable groups have tended to fund Wahhabist ideology.
(17) We have an operation an hour away on the border and the barrel bombs cause horrific injuries.” Islamic Relief and MSF said the health system in Syria is decimated and the need for reconstructive surgery and burns treatment is enormous.
(18) Unfortunately it was the Arab spring that failed , and the rise of Islamic State was one of the results.
(19) It is one of the largest cities held by Islamic State militants and lies on the road connecting Baghdad to Mosul.
(20) His comments come the day after David Cameron revealed that an unprecedented aerial strike in Syria had killed two Britons fighting alongside Islamic State (Isis).
Moslem
Definition:
(pl. ) of Moslem
(n.) A Mussulman; an orthodox Mohammedan. [Written also muslim.]
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Mohammedans; Mohammedan; as, Moslem lands; the Moslem faith.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sample for this study included 1500 Sudanese Moslem males over 18 from 835 households.
(2) There was a tendency for women in the 2nd group who failed to return within 6 weeks for interval sterilization to be Moslem Malays, to have a nuclear family, and to have 1 or no sons.
(3) The low protein regime required to treat this condition, along with the cultural differences and communication problems involved in dealing with this Moslem family are described.
(4) While his infamous “Moslem” tweet continues to be reported on around the world, we haven’t spotted a single mention in any News Corp outlets.
(5) The common sites of cancer were found to vary greatly between the Moslem and non-Moslem populations of Greater Bombay.
(6) Alcoholism in Islamic countries has such a low incidence that it is not yet considered a serious public health problem of the Moslem states.
(7) Many Moslem women in France, mainly younger women less strongly influenced by tradition, use oral contraception.
(8) We report a 2-year-old Moslem Arab boy with 28 of the 32 originally described features of this syndrome and in addition with hyperelastic joints, hypospadias and scaphocephaly which were not previously described in association with the Kabuki make-up syndrome.
(9) Moslems of developing countries have higher fertility rates than Roman Catholics in developed countries.
(10) In Africa it is not limited to Moslem tribes; tribes of all religions practice the custom.
(11) This kind of propaganda could be put across by the Moslem clergy, both Sunni and Shia, in the Arab countries and in Persia."
(12) The article describes research conducted in the north of Israel on the drinking and smoking habits of 2,763 Moslem, Druze, Kibbutz and urban Jewish adolescents from a big city and a development town.
(13) Data were collected from a sample of 66 adult civilian community residents (31 men; 35 women), a sample that by coincidence was composed of two reputedly quite different ethnic subgroups: Israeli-born Jews whose parents were of European origin; and "Oriental" Jews, i.e., immigrants from Moslem countries.
(14) The heirs - directly or indirectly - to an esoteric "moslem" knowledge which has been transmitted since the XVth century by the aristocratic islamized groups, the medicine-men are also the possessors of a knowledge which has been acquired by the autochthonous groups, that are said "masters of the earth" (commoners).
(15) Measurements were also made during the Moslem fasting period when no food may be eaten between dawn and dusk.
(16) Once again the question of immigration and in particular that concerning Algerian Moslems who chose French nationality in 1962 has been taken up.
(17) The effects of fasting on the drug regimens of 81 Asian Moslem patients during the religious month of Ramadan have been examined.
(18) Gene frequencies for PLG in Moslems (n = 149) and Druze (n = 190) were PLG*A = 0.4597 and 0.5288 and PLG*B = 0.5101 and 0.4188, respectively.
(19) The purpose was to cause such hatred between Moslems and the West that a religious jihad became reality; and the world engulfed by it.
(20) Abu Ghosh is an Israeli Moslem Arab village located 11 km west of Jerusalem.