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Muslim

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Muslim (mŭz`lĭm) [Arab.,=one who surrenders (himself to God), an agent form of the verb of which Islam Islam (ĭsläm`, ĭs`läm), [Arab.,=submission to God], world religion founded by the Prophet Muhammad.
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 is a verbal noun], one who has embraced Islam, a follower of Muhammad Muhammad (məhăm`əd) [Arab.,=praised], 570?–632, the name of the Prophet of Islam , one of the great figures of history, b.
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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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