Islam

• n. イスラーム
• n. （イスラム教の）個人名; （アラブ、パキ、モン）イスラム教

アラビア語のislamから、従う、神の意志を行う、アラビア語の語源s-l-mから、全体であること、平和であること、敬虔であること、語源的にはsalaam、ムスリムと同じ。

Islam (n.)

"religious system revealed by Muhammad," 1818, from Arabic islam, literally "submission" (to the will of God), from root of aslama "he resigned, he surrendered, he submitted," causative conjunction of salima "he was safe," and related to salam "peace."

... Islam is the only major religion, along with Buddhism (if we consider the name of the religion to come from Budd, the Divine Intellect, and not the Buddha), whose name is not related to a person or ethnic group, but to the central idea of the religion. ["The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity," Seyyed Hossein Nasr, 2002]

Earlier English names for the faith include Mahometry (late 15c.), Muhammadism (1610s), Islamism (1747), and Ismaelism (c. 1600), which in part is from Ishmaelite, a name formerly given (especially by Jews) to Arabs, as descendants of Ishmael (q.v.), and in part from Arabic Ismailiy, name of the Shiite sect that after 765 C.E. followed the Imamship through descendants of Ismail (Arabic for Ishmael), eldest son of Jafar, the sixth Imam. The Ismailians were not numerous, but among them were the powerful Fatimid dynasty in Egypt and the Assassins, both of whom loomed large in European imagination.

1. It is true that Islam enjoins tolerance ; there 's no doubt about that.

事実上、イスラム教が寛容であることを警告していることは間違いない。

2.The spiritual leader charged that the book blasphemed against Islam .

宗教指導者はこの本がイスラム教を冒涜していると非難した。

3.He maintains Islam must adapt to modern society.

イスラム教は現代社会に適応しなければならないと主張している。

4.First he surveys Islam 's development.

まずイスラム教の発展過程を振り返った。

5. Islam 's most sacred shrine is at Mecca in Saudi Arabia.

イスラム教の最も神聖な聖地はサウジアラビアのメッカにある。