What is "muhammedan"

Usage examples of "muhammedan".

Duly chastised, they assumed a more courtly demeanour and began to imitate their Muhammedan hosts.

The Muhammedans did not drink the wine, but continued to sip their shardbah, an infusion of violets in sweetened water.

Everywhere, territory falls to the Muhammedans, and the Christians are once more subjugated and enslaved.

He seemed content merely to ride with her, never speaking until she invited his conversation, which she usually did, and in this way Cait began to discover the depths of the man she had redeemed from a slow death in a Muhammedan prison.

And for all those hundreds of years the people have remained faithful though surrounded by Muhammedans on every side - like a tiny rock of Christianity in a turbulent Muslim sea.

Also, since we are first and foremost Christians, the Muhammedans harass and abuse us at every turn.

It is their all-consuming desire to unite the Muhammedans in a single observance of the Muslim faith.

Oh yes, they favoured all citizens - rich or poor, young or old, Christian, Jew, or Muhammedan - with the same infernal impartiality.

I decided it was her Coptic blood, and her upbringing in Damascus among Muhammedans that made her unlike anyone I had ever known.

The people there were not my beloved friends and family, but Muhammedan shepherds.

A very religious man, he was a devout Muhammedan, who lectured to students from the Arab holy book, the Qur'an.

While the Muhammedans cowered behind barred doors, the Armenian and Greek Christians were glad to welcome their western brothers, and threw open the windows and doors of their houses to shower flower petals and rose water upon the heads of the liberators.

The crusaders cheered as the mosq began to crumble inwardly upon the heads of the doomed Muhammedans whose dying screams rent the searing air.

For their part, both noblemen professed themselves well-pleased with the conquest, and loudly lamented the fact that they had not been able to reach Jerusalem in time to aid in the city's release from Muhammedan domination.