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  • noun archaic Muslim.

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Examples

  • Certainly, the idea of Mahometan missions and missionaries, unless an army in the field may be considered to be such, is never suggested to us by Eastern historian or traveller, as entering into their religious system.

    Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity John Henry Newman 1845

  • The Protestant and the Mahometan are the only National Religions now, that are free from Idolatry; and therefore the Absurdities in the

    An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in War Bernard Mandeville 1701

  • Tribe of People that walked under their Shades, I could not but look upon the Place as a kind of Mahometan Paradise.

    The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

  • When I considered the fragrancy of the walks and bowers, with the choirs of birds that sung upon the trees, and the loose tribe of people that walked under their shades, I could not but look upon the place as a kind of Mahometan paradise.

    The De Coverley Papers From 'The Spectator' Joseph Addison 1695

  • The risk that a Jew or a "Mahometan" could become a judge or be elected to office was seen as less of a threat than the wrong kind of Christians taking over.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • The risk that a Jew or a "Mahometan" could become a judge or be elected to office was seen as less of a threat than the wrong kind of Christians taking over.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • The risk that a Jew or a "Mahometan" could become a judge or be elected to office was seen as less of a threat than the wrong kind of Christians taking over.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • The risk that a Jew or a "Mahometan" could become a judge or be elected to office was seen as less of a threat than the wrong kind of Christians taking over.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • The risk that a Jew or a "Mahometan" could become a judge or be elected to office was seen as less of a threat than the wrong kind of Christians taking over.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • He shows how accounts of "Mahometan" despotism and lurid stories of European enslavement by Barbary pirates fueled early evangelicals 'fears concerning Islam, and describes the growing conservatism of American missions to Muslim lands up through the post-World War II era.

    tabsir.net 2009

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