Moslem
['mɒzləm] or ['mɑzləm]
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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Mahometan, Mohammedan, Mussulman.
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Definition
n. a Mussulman or Mohammedan.—adj. of or belonging to the Mohammedans.—n. Mos′lemism.
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Examples
- The relations between the Ottoman Sultans and the Emperors has been singular in the annals of Moslem and Christian states. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Yet though Akbar made no general educational scheme for India, he set up a number of Moslem and Hindu schools. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Moslem ranks were full of believers before whom shone victory or paradise. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Samaritan and Jew, Moslem and Christian alike, revere it, and honor it with their visits. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- For there had been a sort of truce between these two great religions after the cessation of the Moslem advance and the decline of the Omayyads. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I tried it on a Moslem, and clove him in twain like a doughnut. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Usurpers, rebellious generals, and false prophets seemed to have vanished from the Moslem dominions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It might be that Joe, who fought on the side of Christendom, had a sweetheart, and that Jim, who fought on the side of the Moslem, had one likewise. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The son of Walid, Suleiman (715), carried out a second series of Moslem attacks upon Constantinople which his father had planned and proposed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To the Brahmin a cow is sacred; to the Moslem the pig is unclean. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But so did the Moslem historians, because of that mosque at Canton, and so did the Christian writers, because of the Nestorian envoys (631). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Moslem teachers and the Brahmins were alike alarmed, and the British were blamed for the progress of mankind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The mountain barrier of Cilicia that had held the Moslem so long had been turned by the conquest of Armenia from the northeast. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Know that every Moslem is the brother of every other Moslem. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He gathered Jewish and Moslem as well as Christian philosophers at his court, and he did much to irrigate the Italian mind with Saracenic influences. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One of the officers now came forward: General, he said, we neither fear the courage, nor arms, the open attack, nor secret ambush of the Moslems. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He preached, unmolested by the Moslems, be it noted, in Egypt and Palestine, though the Fifth Crusade was then in progress. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Coming from the northeast as they did, they were able to outflank the great barrier of the Taurus Mountains, which had hitherto held back the Moslems. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was this Charles Martel who stopped the Moslems. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- During the same period the Moslems were also pressing their conquests further and further into Central Asia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Across one end of this inclosure is a tomb built after the manner of the Moslems. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Sir Franklin, answered the Templar, my Saracen slaves are true Moslems, and scorn as much as any Christian to hold intercourse with a Jew. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It had been provoked by the fall of Edessa to the Moslems in 1144. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To this day one main division of the Moslems, the Shiites, maintain the hereditary right of Ali to be Caliph _as an article of faith_! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Christians, Pagans, Jews, as well as Moslems, were employed in the government service. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Bagdad was still the religious capital of Islam, and the Mongols had become bitterly hostile to the Moslems. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They became not very devout Moslems, retaining many traces of their earlier barbaric Shamanism. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Spain was assailing Granada, the last foothold of the Moslems in western Europe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A party of Moslems, in this season of profound peace, treacherously attacked a small caravan and killed a man. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Damascus soon fell, and a year later the Moslems entered Antioch. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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