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Home Dictionary Name: mohammedanMohammedan year
The year used by Mohammedans consisting of twelve lunar months without intercalation so that they retrograde through all the seasons in about 3212 years The Mohammedan era begins with the year 622 a d the first day of the Mohammedan year 1332 being Nov 30 1913 acording to the Gregorian calendar...
Mohammedan Era
The era in use in Moslem countries See Mohammedan year below...
Mohammedanism
The religion or doctrines and precepts of Mohammed contained in the Koran Islamism Islam The term Islam is preferred by most Moslems and some find the term Mohammedanism to be offensive as they worship Allah not Mohammed...
Mohammedanize
To make conformable to the principles or customs and rites of Mohammedanism...
Islamism
The faith doctrines or religious system of the Mohammedans Mohammedanism Islam...
Kaaba
The small and nearly cubical stone building in the court of the Great Mosque at Mecca toward which all Mohammedans must pray It contains a sacred black stone believed by Mohammedans to be one of the precious stones of paradise and to have been brought to Abraham when he was contructing the Kaaba by the Angel Gabriel The Kaaba itself predates Mohammed having been a pantheon which contained Arab idols which were destroyed by Mohammed...
Mahdi
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...
Mahumetan
See Mohammedan Mohammedanism...
Shiite
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...
Iddat
Iddat, means the time of probation which a divorced woman or widow must wait before she marries again in order to determine whether she is pregnant, is called iddat, if, during the period of iddat, marriage is performed by a divorced woman, it is illegal. The period is four months and ten days according to the Mohammedan law. Even during this period the relations between her and her husband are not destroyed; and she will be entitled to maintenance by him. According to the texts, the time of iddat or term or probation allowed to a free woman is that occupied in three successive menstruation. The iddat of a pregnant woman continues until she be delivered of a child. Her husband must defray all her expenses (food, raiment, habitation, etc.) until this period is over. Such expenses to which she is entitled are called her Iddat (Mohammedan Law)....
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