Crossword clues for islamic
islamic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Islamic \Islamic\ adj. of or pertaining to Islamism; as, Islamic art.
Syn: Muslim, Moslem.
Mohammedan \Mo*ham"med*an\, a. [From Mohammed, fr. Ar. muh['a]mmad praiseworthy, highly praised.] Of or pertaining to Mohammed, or the religion and institutions founded by Mohammed; in the latter sense, synonymous with Islamic, the term preferred by Moslems.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1791, from Islam + -ic.
Usage examples of "islamic".
Although the intermingling of various linguistic and cultural groups contributed greatly to the enrichment of Islamic civilization, it also was a source of great tension and contributed to the decay of Abbasid power.
Taliban movement, espousing a ruthless version of Islamic law, perhaps could bring order in chaotic Afghanistan and make it a cooperative ally.
Robert Wood of the University of Chicago, suggested that most academic Arabists were apologists for Islamic radicalism.
The Sultan even tolerated heretical Islamic offshoots like the Bahai, the Extreme Sufis, and the Yezidi or devil worshippers.
Islamic calligraphy, medieval Jewish mysticism, the Bahai sect, Persian miniatures, Jerusalem at the time of the Second Temple, archeological finds in central Anatolia.
CIA was confident about the intelligence--it had a strong humint source inside the community of Bahraini Islamic radicals.
Victoriana slumped next to early medieval, Islamic alongside Frank Lloyd Wright, Balinese beside early Russian.
Trial records and documents from the Philippine National Police show that Nichols was in Cebu City at the same time as Yousef in December 1994 - staying in a section of the Visayas island group that was a hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism.
Next to it, an eerily calm Islamic downlink ceaselessly reiterates the name of God in a fractal-based calligraphy.
Islamic government as an autonomous, khedival province of the Ottoman Empire.
In the eighth and early ninth centuries Khurasan had been the scene of a spate of rebellions in a religious guise against Islamic orthodoxy and Arab rule.
The Latin-speaking provinces were tired, they said, of paying to defend the eastern borders against the Islamic kingdoms in Arabia and the encroaching Kievan vassal-states, when the east did nothing to help against the Germans and Scandinavians who troubled the west.
He walked up to the Nation of Islam street vendor and bought a kufi, an Islamic skullcap, drawing not the least blink of surprise from the man.
Islamic historians have recorded stories of voyages west from Mali in West Africa around 1311, during the reign of Mansa Bakari II.
The postmodernity of fundamentalism has to be recognized primarily in its refusal of modernity as a weapon of Euro-American hegemony-and in this regard Islamic fundamentalism is indeed the paradigmatic case.