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Muslim (mŭz`lĭm) [Arab.,=one who surrenders (himself to God), an agent form of the verb of which Islam Islam , [Arab.,=submission to God], world religion founded by the Prophet Muhammad. Founded in the 7th cent., Islam is the youngest of the three monotheistic world religions (with Judaism and Christianity). An adherent to Islam is a Muslim [Arab.,=one who submits].
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 is a verbal noun], one who has embraced Islam, a follower of Muhammad Muhammad [Arab.,=praised], 570?–632, the name of the Prophet of Islam, one of the great figures of history, b. Mecca. Early Life


Muhammad was the son of Abdallah ibn Abd al-Muttalib and his wife Amina, both of the Hashim clan of the dominant
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. The form Moslem is also common in English; the term Mussulman is now rarely used.
Muslim, Moslem
1. a follower of the religion of Islam
2. of or relating to Islam, its doctrines, culture, etc.


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The reason is that Spain sends her heaviest ships of war and her loudest guns to astonish these Muslims, while America and other nations send only a little contemptible tub of a gunboat occasionally.
 
 
 
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