unIslamically
English
Alternative forms
- un-Islamically, unislamically
Etymology
un- + Islamic + -ally
Adverb
unIslamically (comparative more unIslamically, superlative most unIslamically)
- Not Islamically.
- 2012 February 1, Sentenced to die, The Express Tribune:
- In Allah's view, the greatest crime a human being can commit is shirk - which is worshipping an unIslamic God, or worshipping God unIslamically (assigning companions etc).
- 1986, National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (Nigeria), Religious Disturbances in Nigeria, page 29:
- They similarly wanted to be excused from physical education which they claimed unIslamically exposed their bodies.
- 1989, John Simpson, Behind Iranian Lines, page 80:
- Her arms and legs are unIslamically bare, and she is trailing an inevitable handbag.
- 2015, Ravi Kalia, Pakistan's Political Labyrinths: Military, society and terror, page 96:
- As one Jamaat-e-Islami member observed, the state may not have declared it as against Islam, but 'Pakistan's leaders and army [began] acting unIslamically so some people who go to wage jihad against America will realize they must fight Pakistan too because Pakistan is helping America'.
- 2012 March 15, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah, London: John Murray Press; Martin Yeoman (illustrator), →ISBN, OCLC 761381490, →ISBN:
- He was clean shaven but his armpits, I noticed, were unIslamically hairy.