iman

American  

[ee-mahn] / ˈi mɑn /

Or Iman

noun

1. Islam. inward faith or belief in Islam.

   I have known many of these young Muslims, and I bear witness that I find strength in their iman, firmness in their convictions, truth in their words, and sincerity in their work.

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Etymology

Origin of iman

From Arabic ʾīmān “faith, belief, recognition,” from ʾāmana “have faith, believe, recognize”

Example Sentences

Oussama Elsaadi, an iman with a mosque in Denmark‘s second-largest city Aarhus, told the B.T. newspaper that it’s “a good message to all Muslims.”

From Washington Times • Dec. 8, 2023

Morning prayer had always been dearest to her and she knelt and touched her forehead to the night-cooled ground and listened to the iman call the whole world into being.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018

The whole divan, one swimming circle glides     Swift without stop: the old bashaws click time,     As if on polish'd ice; in trance sublime     The iman hoar with some spruce courtier slides.

From Legends of the Middle Ages Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)

An iman is the principal priest of a mosque.

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William

Boubekir' Muez'in, of Bag dad, "a vain, proud, and envious iman, who hated the rich because he himself was poor."

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham