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Islam; the Islamic religion
Ramadan is a sacred month in which Muslim believers fast from sunrise to sunset.
The standard Japanese term for the religion of Islam. Composed of the katakana イスラム (Islam) + 教 (religion, teaching). イスラム alone can refer to Islamic civilization or culture more broadly.
Common collocations
- イスラム教徒: Muslim, follower of Islam
- イスラム教の聖典: the holy scripture of Islam (the Quran)
- イスラム教の戒律: Islamic precepts/rules
- イスラム教圏: the Islamic world
Related words
- イスラム: Islam (as a civilization/culture, without the religious suffix)
- ムスリム: Muslim
- コーラン: the Quran
- モスク: mosque
- ハラール: halal