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noun

Imaum, Iman, Imam n.

Among the Muslims, a minister or priest who performs the regular service of the mosque.

A Muslim prince who, as a successor of Mohammed, unites in his person supreme spiritual and temporal power.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Imaum" Quotes from Famous Books

... to visit the ladies in the palace of the Imam of Muskat, at Buscheir, he found that their faces were covered with black masks, though the rest of the body might be clothed in a transparent sort of crape; to look at a naked face was very painful to the ladies themselves; ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... the northern part of the green strip; Yemen, the south part (formerly Arabia Felix); Hadramaut, which borders the Arabian Gulf, the ante-sea of the Red; and Oman, a mountainous region at the entrance of the Persian Gulf, an independent country, under the government of the sultan or imam of Muscat, as the ...

— Asiatic Breezes - Students on The Wing • Oliver Optic

... their appearance; several had been highly successful, and two, in medieval times, had founded dynasties in Egypt. But who could tell whether ail these were not impostors? Might not the twelfth Imam be still waiting, in mystical concealment, ready to emerge, at any moment, at the bidding of God? There were signs by which the true Mahdi might be recognised— unmistakable signs, if one could but read them aright. He must be of the family of the prophet; ...

— Eminent Victorians • Lytton Strachey

Words linked to "Imaum" : imam, leader, Mohammedanism, Islam, Moslem, Muslimism, Muhammadanism