unIslamically

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ Islamic +‎ -ally.

Adverb

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unIslamically (comparative more unIslamically, superlative most unIslamically)

  1. Not Islamically.
    • 2012 February 1, Sentenced to die[1], 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, →ISBN:
      He was clean shaven but his armpits, I noticed, were unIslamically hairy.