Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The religion of Muslims; Islam.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Mohammedan religion and polity; the religious and ethical system taught in the Koran; Islamism.
- noun Belief in or adherence to the teachings of Mohammed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun The religion, or doctrines and precepts, of Mohammed, contained in the Koran; Islamism; Islam. The term
Islam is preferred by most Moslems, and some find the termMohammedanism to be offensive, as they worship Allah, not Mohammed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun the religious system introduced by
Muhammad ,Islam
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the monotheistic religious system of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran
Etymologies
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Examples
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Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.
Scary Laban 2006
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Warlike religions have always preserved these features, and the case of Mohammedanism is typical of the class.
Militarism versus Feminism: An Enquiry and a Policy Demonstrating that Militarism involves the Subjection of Women Charles Kay 1915
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Christianity by Mohammedanism, as this would leave the greater portion of the time yet future; whereas, Mohammedanism is fast waning.
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The allusion is to the famous conspiracy of the Khárijites (the first sectarians in Mohammedanism) to kill Ah, Mu’awiyah and
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Mohammedanism, which is ever gaining ground and encroaching on paganism; yet the latter remains the religion of the majority.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Therefore the strict Jewish Christianity, and Mohammedanism, which is based upon it, have always entirely excluded this thought.
The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. II. 1872-1939 1904
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I found in Sierra Leone a great tendency toward Mohammedanism, which is due largely to the complex state of that colony, and the public espousal of several influential men of the Mohammed doctrine who had previously claimed Christianity.
Africa and African Methodism. Alfred Lee Ridgel 1896
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&c. It is the especial honour of Christianity, that in its worst and most corrupted form it cannot wholly separate itself from morality; — whereas the other religions in their best form (I do not include Mohammedanism, which is only an anomalous corruption of Christianity, like Swedenborgianism) have no connection with it.
Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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Well might the poet speak of Mohammedanism as large of limb, for it had stretched itself like a Colossus to India, and through Northern Africa into Spain, where it threatened Christendom, beyond the Pyrenees.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee
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From the book: "Mohammedanism" by Philosopher Louis Gardet
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