Crossword clues for moslems
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moslem \Mos"lem\ (m[o^]z"l[e^]m), n.; pl. Moslems
(m[o^]z"l[e^]mz), or collectively Moslem. [Ar. muslim a
true believer in the Mohammedan faith, fr. salama to submit
to God, to resign one's self to the divine will. Cf. Islam,
Mussulman.]
An adherent of Islam; a Mussulman; an orthodox Mohammedan.
[Written also muslim.] ``Heaps of slaughtered Moslem.''
--Macaulay.
They piled the ground with Moslem slain.
--Halleck.
Usage examples of "moslems".
After exhorting the Moslems to confide in the aid of God and his apostle, Abubeker resolved, by a vigorous attack, to prevent the junction of the rebels.
The rapine of the Carmathians was sanctified by their aversion to the worship of Mecca: they robbed a caravan of pilgrims, and twenty thousand devout Moslems were abandoned on the burning sands to a death of hunger and thirst.
The quick-step enlargement of the pilgrim center at the Convent of the Virgin Mary, outside Assiut, built with donations from Copts throughout Egypt and the world, is a not-too-subtle reminder to Moslems of Christian wealth—with a giant cross and curved arches of yellow and lime-washed cement dominating the nearby villages.
The daggers of his missionaries were felt both in the East and West: the Christians and the Moslems enumerate, and persons multiply, the illustrious victims that were sacrificed to the zeal, avarice, or resentment of the old man (as he was corruptly styled) of the mountain.
His uncle Abbas, who, like the heroes of Homer, excelled in the loudness of his voice, made the valley resound with the recital of the gifts and promises of God: the flying Moslems returned from all sides to the holy standard.
The advantageous situation which had recommended Narbonne ^28 as the first Roman colony, was again chosen by the Moslems: they claimed the province of Septimania or Languedoc as a just dependence of the Spanish monarchy: the vineyards of Gascony and the city of Bourdeaux were possessed by the sovereign of Damascus and Samarcand.
Yet in the siege of Amorium about seventy thousand Moslems had perished: their loss had been revenged by the slaughter of thirty thousand Christians, and the sufferings of an equal number of captives, who were treated as the most atrocious criminals.
In the double city of Mopsuestia, which is divided by the River Sarus, two hundred thousand Moslems were predestined to death or slavery, ^115 a surprising degree of population, which must at least include the inhabitants of the dependent districts.
But the reality or the report of such gigantic prowess ^92 must have taught the Moslems to keep within their walls: and against those walls of earth or stone, the sword and the lance were unavailing weapons.
Alexius Comnenus contrived the absence at least of the formidable pilgrims: his successors, Manuel and Isaac Angelus, conspired with the Moslems for the ruin of the greatest princes of the Franks.
By these arts he formed an army of twenty-five thousand Moslems: a train of battering engines was framed for the use of sieges.
Privatization and the need for production weigh more heavily on religious Moslems than on secular ones, or on Copts.
Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb with a degree in psychiatry who suggests that the elimination of Moslems holds the key to his Orthodox Christian people’s happiness.
The problems with the Moslems are being exaggerated by foreign writers like myself.
When, as the United Nations secretary-general, Boutros-Ghali resisted military intervention on behalf of the Bosnian Moslems, Egyptians did not judge his beliefs about the Balkans on their merits.