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Imaum

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: imam.





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... chiefly for its famous dead. In its sacred dust lie buried our old hero Haroun al Raschid, Firdousi, Persia's greatest epic poet, and the holy Imaum Riza, within whose shrine every criminal may take refuge from even the Shah himself until the payment of a blood-tax, or a debtor until the giving of a guarantee for debt. No infidel can ...
— Across Asia on a Bicycle • Thomas Gaskell Allen and William Lewis Sachtleben


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


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