Muslimn.adj.

1615 W. Bedwell Arabian Trudgman in tr. Mohammedis Imposturæ sig. N^v Muslim, or Mussliman,..is one that is instructed in the beleefe of the Mohammetanes.]

1626 S. Purchas Saracenical Hist. in Pilgrimage (ed. 4) 1014 In the fifth yeere Omar the Sonne of Alchittabi of happy memory beleeued and confirmed the other Muslims with his faith: they were then 39. and himselfe was the 40.

1682 J. P. tr. H. Ludolf New Hist. Ethiopia ii. x. 202 King Cyriacus hearing of the Christian Persecution in Egypt, led a very numerous Army against the Muslims.

1732 A. Bower Historia Litteraria 3 20 The Moslems came to the Lake of Tiberias, and coasted round it in Battle-array.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall VI. lviii. 48 The Moslems soon found, that..resistance was impotent.

1816 Ld. Byron Siege of Corinth ii. 8 The crescent shines Along the Moslem's leaguering lines.

1836 E. W. Lane Acct. Manners & Customs Mod. Egyptians I. iii. 97 The public worship of the Moos′lims.

1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes ii. 104 All Moslem are bound to study it [sc. the Koran].

1877 J. E. Carpenter tr. C. P. Tiele Outl. Hist. Relig. 99 The severe asceticism in which the Moslims were soon to rival Christians and Buddhists.

1905 Mission. Rec. United Free Church Jan. 23/2 A few Muslim and Hindus..were also present.

1955 Times 3 May 9/4 Lahore witnessed the astonishing sight of hundreds of Sikhs of all people being fêted by Muslims.

1996 Japan Times 29 Apr. 8/1 Many of France's 3 million Muslims take part in the annual celebration known as Aid el-Kebir, which commemorates Abraham's ritual sheep sacrifice.

2015 S. R. Arjana Muslims in Western Imagination i. 11 Muslims are surrounded with fictions that would be considered obscene if applied to other social groups.

1938 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 43 894 The Negro sect known to its members as the ‘Nation of Islam’ or the ‘Muslims’..has significance for social science research partly because of its synthesis of heterogeneous cultural elements and partly because of its unique expression of race consciousness.

1961 C. E. Lincoln Black Muslims in Amer. p. iv The racial emphases peculiar to this rapidly growing, Chicago-centred movement suggested the descriptive phrase ‘Black Muslims’, which I coined in 1956... Theretofore they had been variously known as the ‘Temple People’, ‘the Muhammadans’, ‘the Muslims’, ‘the Voodoo Cult’ and ‘the Nation of Islam’.

1971 Black Scholar June 52/1 Submission to democratic centralism instead of the egoism that sent him first against his Muslims.

1992 Sun (Baltimore) 21 Sept. a7/2 In addition to providing safety, the polite, neatly dressed Muslims would serve as role models for the black men in the community.

1626 S. Purchas Saracenical Hist. in Pilgrimage (ed. 4) 1032 Muaffic Billa sent his Sonne Mutadid who chased him [sc. Habid], tooke his Citie Mabia which he had builded,..and freed out of his Prison fiue thousand Muslim women.

1777 J. Richardson Dict. Persian, Arabic & Eng. I. Dissert. 24/2 An open scoffer at the Moslem faith.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall VI. lxiv. 294 The most powerful of the Moslem princes.

1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. lxiii. 92 The pilgrim..gaz'd around on Moslem luxury.

1841 E. Robinson Bibl. Res. Palestine I. 352 The tract around this tank [sc. the Upper Pool]..is occupied as a Muslim cemetery.

1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile ii. 25 The mosque of Sultan Hassan,..perhaps the most beautiful in the Moslem world.

1905 Athenæum 7 Jan. 15/3 Whereof the Muslim writers..of course say nothing.

1968 E. Afr. Law Jrnl. 4 17 The establishment of special courts to deal exclusively with Muslim law is peculiar in East Africa to Kenya and Zanzibar.

1998 R. Stone Damascus Gate iii. xliv. 394 De Kuff stood in the attitude of Muslim prayer, facing the slopes of Mount Hermon.

1957 in T. Graham tr. A. Sadat Revolt on Nile p. vii Ahmed Maher (Leader of the Saadist Party)... Assassinated in Parliament by a Muslim Brother, 1945.

1958 tr. J. Lacouture & S. Lacouture Egypt in Transition II. vi. 246 The Moslem Brothers lay great stress on the ‘democratic’ nature of their doctrine.

2001 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 29 Jan. 7 Writers here fear that the Muslim Brothers, given their large presence in parliament.., will push for even more censorship.

1946 Times 27 Nov. 4/3 The Egyptian Government's statement on the subject of last night's riots..is believed..to foreshadow drastic action against the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood.

1977 Economist 29 Jan. 59/3 Circumstantial evidence points at Egypt's Islamic fundamentalists, either from the Moslem Brotherhood or from even more extreme breakaway groups such as Al Takfir.

2013 C. R. Wickham Muslim Brotherhood i. 1 On June 30, 2012, Muhammad Mursi, a leader in the Muslim Brotherhood, was sworn in as Egypt's new president.