Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to Islam or the Islamites; Mohammedan.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Islam; Mohammedan.
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Examples
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He contends that no considerable body of præ-Mohammedan or non-Arabic fiction appears in the actual texts [FN#162]; and that all the tales, even those dealing with events localised in Persia, India, China and other infidel lands and dated from ante-islamitic ages mostly with the naïvest anachronism, confine themselves to depicting the people, manners and customs of Baghdad and Mosul, Damascus and
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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He contends that no considerable body of præ-Mohammedan or non-Arabic fiction appears in the actual texts162; and that all the tales, even those dealing with events localised in Persia, India, China and other infidel lands and dated from ante-islamitic ages mostly with the naïvest anachronism, confine themselves to depicting the people, manners and customs of Baghdad and Mosul, Damascus and Cairo, during the Abbaside epoch, and he makes a point of the whole being impregnated with the strongest and most zealous spirit of
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