Imam

Quick meaning: Imam is a noun meaning (Islam) One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.

Meaning

(Islam) One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.

More Meanings

1. (usually capitalized) A Shi'ite Muslim leader descended from the prophet Muhammad and functioning as his spiritual successor.

Example Sentences

Sheik Mohammad Seyed Tantawi, Egypt’s highest-ranking imam, led the prayers over the coffin, covered with an Egyptian flag.

In the 1980s, roughly six hundred young Algerian men, many of them protégés of Muslim Brothers from Egypt and Wahhabi imams from Saudi Arabia, went to Afghanistan to join the anti-Soviet jihad.

Now it chanced that in one of the mosques was an Imam. (footnote: The person specially appointed to lead the prayers of the congregation and paid out of the endowed revenues of the mosque to which he is attached)

The critically low level of rainfall in the second half of 2020 – approaching 50% year on year for November – led the religious affairs directorate to instruct imams and their congregations to pray for rain last month.

Word Forms

• imams
• imaum
• iman

Synonyms for imam

Depending on context, synonyms include imaum.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include imaum, iman, mosque, caliph, sheikh, foreground.

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