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Imam   /ˈaɪmæm/   Listen
Imam

noun
1.
(Islam) the man who leads prayers in a mosque; for Shiites an imam is a recognized authority on Islamic theology and law and a spiritual guide.  Synonym: imaum.






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"Imam" Quotes from Famous Books



... he replied, 'It is not reckoned so in our country.' The repast being over, the sherbet was brought; and then the Cogia, getting up, set off on his way home. 'Why did you break wind in the presence of Timour?' said the groom. Answered the Cogia, 'When the Imam —- the ...
— The Turkish Jester - or, The Pleasantries of Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi • Nasreddin Hoca

... the general consensus of the faithful, the very essence of Sunni-ism, the "al-sunnat wa jamaat". This view is in bold contradiction to the hereditary principle, represented, by the "Mahdi" of the "Imam's" descent from the Kureish tribe of Arabia, which caused the very separation of the Shia sect from the Sunnis, which is the very essence of Shia belief, and which has among other fictions, led to the assumption of the name of "Kureishi" by ...
— Memoir of William Watts McNair • J. E. Howard

... in the vast church an Imam was intoning a passage of the Koran in a voice which hardly seemed human; indeed, such a sound is probably not to be heard anywhere else in the world. The pitch was higher than what is attainable by the highest men's voices elsewhere, and yet the voice possessed the ringing, manly ...
— Paul Patoff • F. Marion Crawford

... crippled the party; trials of captured leaders began in late 1983 Other political or pressure groups: groups that generally support the Islamic Republic include Hizballah, Hojjatiyeh Society, Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution, Muslim Students Following the Line of the Imam; armed political groups that have been almost completely repressed by the government include Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK), People's Fedayeen, Kurdish Democratic Party; the Society for the ...
— The 1992 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... Chatelet led a wandering life among the Arab tribes of the desert, who sold and resold their captive—his talents being not of the slightest use to the nomad tribes. At length, about the time that Montriveau reached Tangier, Chatelet found himself in the territory of the Imam of Muscat, had the luck to find an English vessel just about to set sail, and so came back to Paris a year sooner than his sometime companion. Once in Paris, his recent misfortunes, and certain connections of long standing, ...
— Two Poets - Lost Illusions Part I • Honore de Balzac



Words linked to "Imam" :   Muslimism, Mohammedanism, Muhammadanism, Muslim, leader, Moslem, Islam, Islamism



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