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The word 'Islam' means 'Submission (to God.)' Is·lam(ĭs-läm', ĭz-, ĭs'läm', ĭz'-) n. # A monotheistic religion characterized by the acceptance of the doctrine of submission to God and to Muhammad as the chief and last prophet of God. # ## The people or nations that practice Islam; the Muslim world. ## The civilization developed by the Muslim world. [Arabic 'islām, submission, from 'aslama, to surrender, resign oneself, from Syriac 'ašlem, to make peace, surrender, derived stem of šlem, to be complete; see šlm in Semitic roots.]

Is·lam'ic adj. Source: islam. Dictionary.com. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/islam (accessed: June 29, 2008).

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