unislamically

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adverb

Not Islamically.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

unislamically1

adverbunislamically (comparative more unislamically, superlative most unislamically)

comparative more unislamically · superlative most unislamically

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of unIslamically.

    The begetter of the idea of the Islamic state of Pakistān, now transformed somewhat unislamically into the Islamic Republic of Pakistān, has tersely […]

    1989, Kapur Singh, Piāra Siṅgha, Madanjit Kaur, Pārāśarapraśna: An Enquiry Into the Genesis and Unique Character of the Order of the Khalsa with an Exposition of the Sikh Tenets, page 216
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    There are of course many unislamically inclined thinkers who consider the sovereignty to belong to the Ummah and yet no one would dare say that those thinkers who advocated such views were not 'Islami' thinkers.

    1987, Halil İnalcık, Muhammad Abdul-Rauf, Ismaʼil R. Al-Faruqi, S̲h̲arīʻah, Ummah, and K̲h̲ilāfah: Lectures, page 119

    However, he emphasizes unspecified other travels that Muslim women engage in, pointing out how they behave 'unislamically' by going where they should not be going, using various ways of transportation and mixing with men.

    2020, Marjo Buitelaar, Manja Stephan-Emmrich, Viola Thimm, Muslim Women’s Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond

unIslamically2

adverbunIslamically (comparative more unIslamically, superlative most unIslamically)

comparative more unIslamically · superlative most unIslamically · alternative un-Islamically · alternative unislamically

  1. Not Islamically.

    He was clean shaven but his armpits, I noticed, were unIslamically hairy.

    2012 March 15, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah, London: John Murray Press; Martin Yeoman (illustrator), →ISBN, →OCLC, →ISBN
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    In Allah's view, the greatest crime a human being can commit is shirk - which is worshipping an unIslamic God, or worshipping God unIslamically (assigning companions etc).

    2012 February 1, Sentenced to die, The Express Tribune

    They similarly wanted to be excused from physical education which they claimed unIslamically exposed their bodies.

    1986, National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (Nigeria), Religious Disturbances in Nigeria, page 29

    Her arms and legs are unIslamically bare, and she is trailing an inevitable handbag.

    1989, John Simpson, Behind Iranian Lines, page 80

    As one Jamaat-e-Islami member observed, the state may not have declared it as against Islam, but 'Pakistan's leaders and army [began] acting unIslamically so some people who go to wage jihad against America will realize they must fight Pakistan too because Pakistan is helping America'.

    2015, Ravi Kalia, Pakistan's Political Labyrinths: Military, society and terror, page 96

Origin

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