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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 873 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ISLAM , an Arabic word meaning " pious submission to the will of See also:

God," the name of the See also:religion of the orthodox Mahommedans, and hence used, generically, for the whole See also:body of See also:Mahommedan peoples.

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