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Mohammed, Ahmed.

${\Bigl .}{\begin{matrix}\\\end{matrix}}{\Bigr \}}$ From Hamad; praised, highly celebrated, illustrious, glorious.

Moslem, Mussulman, Islam, Islamism.

$\left.{\begin{matrix}\\\\\\\end{matrix}}\right\}$ All from the same root, Aslam: signifying to yield up, dedicate, consecrate entirely to the service of religion.

Koran.—From Kara, to read; the reading, legend or that which ought to be read.

Caliph.—A successor; from the Hebrew Chalaph; to he changed, to succeed, to pass round in a revolution.

Sultan.—Originally from the Chaldaic Soltan; signifying authority, dominion, principality.

Vizier.—An assistant,

Hadj.—Pilgrimage; Hadji; one who makes the pilgrimage to Mecca.

Saracen.—Etymology doubtful; supposed to be from Sarak, to steal; a plunderer, a robber.

Hejira, or Hejra.

$\left.{\begin{matrix}\\\\\end{matrix}}\right\}$ The Flight; applied emphatically to Mohammed's flight from Mecca to Medina. See page 106.

Mufti.—The principal head of the Mohammedan religion, and the resolver of all doubtful points of the law.—An office of great dignity in the Turkish empire.

Imam.—A kind of priest attached to the mosques, whose duty it is occasionally to expound

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