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ISLAM

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 873 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ISLAM , an Arabic word meaning " pious submission to the will of

See also:
God," the name of the religion of the orthodox Mahommedans, and hence used, generically, for the whole
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body of
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Mahommedan peoples .

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