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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a mohammedan" is considered outdated and potentially offensive in modern English usage.
It may have been used historically to refer to a follower of Islam, but it is not appropriate in contemporary contexts.
Example: "In the past, some people referred to Muslims as Mohammedans, but this term is no longer accepted."
Alternatives: "a Muslim" or "a follower of Islam".
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Dizzy sometimes wears a turban to make people think he's a Mohammedan.
"If you are a Mohammedan, explain to your landlady that you don't eat pig.
As a Mohammedan, a Javan peasant is permitted to have as many as four wives, but he can rarely afford more than one, or two at the most.
A MORO DATO The Moros are a Mohammedan people, governed a by sultans of their own, called datos, who seem to exercise an almost unlimited power and are notorious for their cruelty and extortion.
Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (Roschd), 1126-1198, a Mohammedan of noble birth.
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They [the Turks] are not the mild Mohammedans of India, nor the chivalrous Saladin's of Syria, nor the cultured Moors of Spain.
By Christine Weston The New Yorker, July 15 , 1944P. 54 The writer reminisces about the game of Halma between her father and a young Mohammedan.
However, Section 212 of the Indian Succession Act does not apply in the case of intestacy of a Hindu, Mohammedan, Sikh, Buddhist, Jaina, Christian, or Parsi (Mint 2012).
The inscription below hails Jones as the "Justinian of India" because he "formed" a digest of Hindu and Mohammedan laws.
It's not only the Baptist and Mohammedan traditions that have a lockdown on fundamentalism, you know.
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