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

I E -ma, -mana, -man formed adjectives, present participles and nouns; I E akman stone of ak, A S iman; Dak imni stone.

From The Dakotan Languages, and Their Relations to Other Languages by Williamson, A. W. (Andrew Woods)

The dervish who prays for us is my master; an iman is still more my master; the mollah is still more my master than the iman.

From Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire

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