often capitalized
1
: the prayer leader of a mosque
2
: a Muslim leader of the line of Ali held by Shiites to be the divinely appointed, sinless, infallible successors of Muhammad
3
: any of various rulers that claim descent from Muhammad and exercise spiritual and temporal leadership over a Muslim region
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Trump won endorsements from Muslim imams and the Muslim mayor of Hamtramck, another town near Detroit with a large Arab American population, as well as the large Bangladeshi community, and courted Iraqi Americans, Albanian Americans and others.
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Andrea Shalal and Maya Gebeily, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2024
The outreach has had some success with a group of imams, including Husham Al-Husainy, an Iraqi sheik who leads the Karbaala Education Center in Dearborn.
—Yash Roy, The Hill, 3 Nov. 2024
Tayyeb had fallen out with the Holy See during the tenure of Francis’s predecessor, Benedict, when the imam claimed that the former pope’s comments in 2011 about terrorist violence minimized the suffering of Muslims.
—Victor Gaetan, Foreign Affairs, 12 Mar. 2021
The imam spoke at Walz’s 2019 inauguration, among other events.
—Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 8 Oct. 2024
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Andrea Shalal and Maya Gebeily, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2024
The outreach has had some success with a group of imams, including Husham Al-Husainy, an Iraqi sheik who leads the Karbaala Education Center in Dearborn.
—Yash Roy, The Hill, 3 Nov. 2024
Tayyeb had fallen out with the Holy See during the tenure of Francis’s predecessor, Benedict, when the imam claimed that the former pope’s comments in 2011 about terrorist violence minimized the suffering of Muslims.
—Victor Gaetan, Foreign Affairs, 12 Mar. 2021
The imam spoke at Walz’s 2019 inauguration, among other events.
—Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 8 Oct. 2024
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“Imam.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/imam. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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