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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The religion of Muslims; Islam.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The Mohammedan religion and polity; the religious and ethical system taught in the Koran; Islamism.
  • noun Belief in or adherence to the teachings of Mohammed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper noun The religion, or doctrines and precepts, of Mohammed, contained in the Koran; Islamism; Islam. The term Islam is preferred by most Moslems, and some find the term Mohammedanism to be offensive, as they worship Allah, not Mohammed.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun the religious system introduced by Muhammad, Islam

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the monotheistic religious system of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran

Etymologies

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Mohammedan +‎ -ism, coined in the 17th century after French mahométisme.

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