English > Muslim: 2 senses > noun 1, person | Meaning | A believer in or follower of Islam. |
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| Synonym | Moslem |
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| Instances | Fatima, Fatimah | youngest daughter of the prophet Mohammed and wife of the fourth calif Ali |
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| Member of | Islam, Muslimism | The civilization of Muslims collectively which is governed by the Muslim religion |
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| Narrower | Islamist | An orthodox Muslim |
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| Jihadist | A Muslim who is involved in a jihad / jihad |
| Moor | One of the Muslim people of north Africa |
| Mullah, Mollah, Mulla | A Muslim trained in the doctrine and law of Islam |
| Muslimah | A Muslim woman |
| Saracen | (historically) a Muslim who opposed the Crusades |
| Shiite, Shi'ite, Shiite Muslim, Shi'ite Muslim, Shia Muslim | A member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs |
| Sufi | A Muslim who represents the mystical dimension of Islam |
| Sunnite, Sunni, Sunni Muslim | A member of the branch of Islam that accepts the first four caliphs as rightful successors to Muhammad |
| Wahhabi, Wahabi | A member of a strictly orthodox Sunni Muslim sect from Saudi Arabia |
| assassin | A member of a secret order of Muslims (founded in the 12th century) who terrorized / terrorized and killed Christian Crusaders |
| begum | A Muslim woman of high rank in India or Pakistan |
| caliph, calif, kaliph, kalif, khalif, khalifah | The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth |
| fakir, fakeer, faqir, faquir | A Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man |
| hakim, hakeem | A Muslim physician |
| hakim | A Muslim ruler or governor or judge |
| imam, imaum | (Islam) the man who leads prayers in a mosque |
| mujahid | A Muslim engaged in what he considers to be a jihad |
| mujtihad | An Islamic scholar who engages in ijtihad, the effort to derive rules of divine law from Muslim sacred texts |
| Broader | religious person | A person who manifests devotion to a deity |
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| Spanish | islámico, mahometano, moro, Muslim, musulmán |
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| Catalan | islamista, mahometà, musulmà |
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| Adjectives | Muslim | of or relating to or supporting Islamism |
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