All 13 Uses of
Islam
in
A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Jalil brought clippings from Herat's newspaper, Ittifaq-i Islam, and read from them to her.
p. 23..0Islam = the Muslim religion; second most practiced religion in the world
- The new regime will maintain the utmost respect for principles, both Islamic and democratic.
p. 102..2 *Islamic = related to the Muslim religion which is second most practiced in the world
- As they climbed, Babi told them that Bamiyan had once been a thriving Buddhist center until it had fallen under Islamic Arab rule in the ninth century.
p. 148..0
- Rabbani, Tajik leader of the Jamiat-e-Islami faction, who had taught Islam at Kabul University in the days of the monarchy.
p. 160..2Islam = the Muslim religion; second most practiced religion in the world
- From Babi, Laila had learned the outline of it: Afghanistan was now called the Islamic State of Afghanistan.
p. 164..7Islamic = related to the Muslim religion which is second most practiced in the world
- An Islamic Jihad Council, formed in Peshawar by several of the Mujahideen factions, would oversee things for two months, led by Sibghatullah Mojadidi.
p. 164..8
- Since the Mujahideen takeover in April 1992, Afghanistan's name had been changed to the Islamic State of Afghanistan.
p. 259..9
- The Supreme Court under Rabbani was filled now with hard-liner mullahs who did away with the communist-era decrees that empowered women and instead passed rulings based on Shari'a, strict Islamic laws that ordered women to cover, forbade their travel without a male relative, punished adultery with stoning.
p. 260..1
- This is what we do with infidels who commit crimes against Islam!
p. 276..9Islam = the Muslim religion; second most practiced religion in the world
- Our watan is now known as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
p. 277..4Islamic = related to the Muslim religion which is second most practiced in the world
- All boys will wear Islamic clothes.
p. 277..7
- Men wielding pickaxes swarmed the dilapidated Kabul Museum and smashed pre-Islamic statues to rubble-that is, those that hadn't already been looted by the Mujahideen.
p. 280..2
- "Islamic flamingos," Tariq said-Laughter came up, but Laila pushed it back down.
p. 331..3
Definition:
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(Islam) the monotheistic religious system of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran; the world's second most practiced religion