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  • noun A group of Muslims offering prayers together.

Etymologies

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Related to جماعت and जमाअत.

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Examples

  • "Wanna pray in jamaat? shoulder to shoulder, feet to feet?"

    Muslim Pick-Up Lines JDsg 2005

  • "Wanna pray in jamaat? shoulder to shoulder, feet to feet?"

    Archive 2005-08-01 JDsg 2005

  • The fact is that after major blows dealt by the Russian special services on the Karachai jamaat, which is one of the oldest jamaats in the North Caucasus dating back to the early 1990's, from 2005 to 2007, it ceased to exist completely.

    La Russophobe 2009

  • However, the question of ethnicity is not a problem inside the jamaat, which is international in its composition and consists of Kabardins, Balkars,

    La Russophobe 2009

  • Many scholars agree that the congregational prayer of the one who can neither hear, nor see the Imam, or at least the row of worshipers ahead of them, is invalid as "jamaat" prayers.

    Examiner California Headlines 2010

  • The organisation works on a missionary basis, travelling from mosque to mosque in small groups or “jamaat” to encourage followers to return to the basic teachings of Islam.

    Fears raised over fundamentalist Islamic group in Britai 2008

  • Nawaz Sharif Benazir Lahore punjaab punjaabi punjabi Aaj Geo Ary tv pakistan ppp pmln pml n pmlq anp capital talk Musharraf 12 may bhutto sita white zani Mohajir sindh azizabad nwfp jamaat islami jamiat Hayderabad sarhad baluchestan ...

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  • Karachi Nawaz Sharif Benazir Lahore punjaab punjaabi punjabi Aaj Geo Ary tv pakistan ppp pmln pml n pmlq anp capital talk Musharraf 12 may bhutto sita white zani Mohajir sindh azizabad nwfp jamaat islami jamiat Hayderabad sarhad baluchestan ...

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  • Tehreek-e-Insaf pti Imran Khan MQM Altaf Hussain Karachi Nawaz Sharif Benazir Lahore punjaab punjaabi punjabi Aaj Geo Ary tv pakistan ppp pmln pml n pmlq anp capital talk Musharraf 12 may bhutto sita white zani Mohajir sindh azizabad nwfp jamaat islami jamiat Hayderabad sarhad baluchestan ...

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  • Nawaz Sharif Benazir Lahore punjaab punjaabi punjabi Aaj Geo Ary tv pakistan ppp pmln pml n pmlq anp capital talk Musharraf 12 may bhutto sita white zani Mohajir sindh azizabad nwfp jamaat islami jamiat Hayderabad sarhad baluchestan ...

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

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