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SALAAM (Arab. salam, " peace ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 55 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SALAAM (Arab. salam, "
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peace ")  , the
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Oriental
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term for a salutation . The word is used for any
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act of salutation, as of an
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ambassador to a monarch, and so in a secondary sense of a compliment . Properly it is the oral salutation of Mahommedans to each other; but it has acquired the
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special meaning of an act of obeisance .

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