Citations:Islam


 * 1625, Samuel Purchas, Purchas his Pilgrimes, in Five Bookes, first part, page 703:
 * For our Religion of Islam doth not agree with the Christian Religion, neither doth the Christian Religion agree with our Religion of Islam; and this is the purport of our agreement.
 * 1905, , New York:, "Mohammedanism"
 * MOHAMMEDANISM. The name commonly given in the West to the religion founded by Mohammed. The proper name is Islam (q.v.), suggested by Mohammed himself, and explained by him to include the performance of five duties (the ‘five cardinal points of Islam’), viz.: acceptance of the formula, ‘there is no god but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet’; prayer; alms-giving; the fast of Ramadan; and the pilgrimage to Mecca.