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Imaret :: Imaret (n.) A lodging house for Mohammedan pilgrims.

Cadi :: Cadi (n.) An inferior magistrate or judge among the Mohammedans, usually the judge of a town or village..

Mussulman :: Mussulman (n.) A Mohammedan; a Moslem.

Bible :: Bible (n.) A book containing the sacred writings belonging to any religion; as, the Koran is often called the Mohammedan Bible..

Yataghan :: Yataghan (n.) A long knife, or short saber, common among Mohammedan nations, usually having a double curve, sometimes nearly straight..

Shiah :: Shiah (n.) A member of that branch of the Mohammedans to which the Persians belong. They reject the first three caliphs, and consider Ali as being the first and only rightful successor of Mohammed. They do not acknowledge the Sunna, or body of traditions respecting Mohammed, as any part of the law, and on these accounts are treated as heretics by the Sunnites, or orthodox Mohammedans..

Mawmet :: Mawmet (n.) A puppet; a doll; originally, an idol, because in the Middle Ages it was generally believed that the Mohammedans worshiped images representing Mohammed..

Abdest :: Abdest (n.) Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite.

Moplah :: Moplah (n.) One of a class of Mohammedans in Malabar.

Mohammedize :: Mohammedize (v. t.) To make conformable to the principles, or customs and rites, of Mohammedanism..

Scimitar :: Scimitar (n.) A saber with a much curved blade having the edge on the convex side, -- in use among Mohammedans, esp., the Arabs and persians..

Pagan :: Pagan (n.) One who worships false gods; an idolater; a heathen; one who is neither a Christian, a Mohammedan, nor a Jew..

Mufti :: Mufti (n.) An official expounder of Mohammedan law.

Karmathian :: Karmathian (n.) One of a Mohammedan sect founded in the ninth century by Karmat.

Ismaelite :: Ismaelite (n.) One of a sect of Mohammedans who favored the pretensions of the family of Mohammed ben Ismael, of the house Ali..

Mahdi :: Mahdi (n.) Among Mohammedans, the last imam or leader of the faithful. The Sunni, the largest sect of the Mohammedans, believe that he is yet to appear..

Houri :: Houri (n.) A nymph of paradise; -- so called by the Mohammedans.

Seljukian :: Seljukian (a.) Of or pertaining to Seljuk, a Tartar chief who embraced Mohammedanism, and began the subjection of Western Asia to that faith and rule; of or pertaining to the dynasty founded by him, or the empire maintained by his descendants from the 10th to the 13th century..

Khutbah :: Khutbah (n.) An address or public prayer read from the steps of the pulpit in Mohammedan mosques, offering glory to God, praising Mohammed and his descendants, and the ruling princes..

Harem :: Harem (n.) The apartments or portion of the house allotted to females in Mohammedan families.

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