Muslim

plural Muslims · alternative dated Moslem

1. An adherent of Islam.

   “At the end of the day, Jews and Muslims are cousins,” Alhomsi said.

   2023 November 22, Brammhi Balarajan, “US interfaith communities draw on decades-long bonds to navigate Israel-Hamas War”, in CNN, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2025

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   It was gouerned by Macuac, which conditioned with Amrus that euery Egyptian should pay an Egyptian peece of Gold, and to entertaine three dayes euery Muslim which passed that way.

   1626, Samuel Purchas, Purchas his Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World, fourth edition, page 1019: lines 19-21

   Muslims invented the concept of zero, which is a foundation for the numbering system used throughout the world.

   2006, Howard Greenstein, Kendra G. Hotz, John Kaltner, What Do Our Neighbors Believe?, →ISBN

2. A person who internalizes the Islamic cultural tradition, or way of thinking, as a frame of reference.

   Unfortunately, unlike “secular Jew” or “cultural Jew”, the term “cultural Muslim” isn’t widely understood.

   2020 July 6, Kia Abdullah, The i Paper

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   These secular Muslims, identified on the basis of cultural origin, are recognized neither by devout Muslims nor by average citizens or mainstream media in the West.

   2009, Haideh Moghissi, Saeed Rahnema, Mark Goodman, Diaspora by Design: Muslim Immigrants in Canada and Beyond, →ISBN, page 9

   Of course, the ⟨five⟩ pillars of faith do not represent all rituals important to Muslims; and ways were developed in which they could subsume other rituals under the politically safe rubrics of nationalism or culture, which from the earliest times until the 1980s were not generally topics attacked by the government. From this practice the concepts of 'cultural Muslim', 'ethnic Muslim' and, less frequently, 'nationalist Muslim' evolved.

   2012, Cara Aitchison, Mei-Po Kwan, Peter Hopkins, Geographies of Muslim Identities: Diaspora, Gender and Belonging, →ISBN, page 147

3. historicalA member of a predominantly Muslim South Slavic ethnic group (usually a Bosniak), irrespective of actual religious beliefs (used historically in Yugoslavia but persisting to some degree in some former Yugoslav states).

   Synonyms: Abdul, asslifter, carpet kisser, children of Ishmael, goatfucker, hajji, Ishmaelite, Islamist

comparative more Muslim · superlative most Muslim · alternative dated Moslem

1. Being or relating to a believer of Islam.

   Kaplan-Miller said she first joined the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, an interfaith organization that was founded by a Muslim and a Jewish woman in suburban New Jersey, shortly after the 2016 election.

   2023 November 22, Brammhi Balarajan, “US interfaith communities draw on decades-long bonds to navigate Israel-Hamas War”, in CNN, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2025

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   The notion of blood purity was first elaborated in Europe, where it was used to separate Old Christians from Spain’s New Christians—women and men of Jewish and Muslim origin whose ancestors had converted to Christianity.

   2009, Irene Silverblatt, “Foreword”, in Andrew B. Fisher, Matthew D. O'hara, editors, Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America, page xi

   Synonyms: Islamic

alternative dated Moslem

1. A barangay of Guindulungan, Maguindanao del Sur, Philippines.