unIslamically

English

Alternative forms

• un-Islamically, unislamically

Etymology

un- +‎ Islamic +‎ -ally

Adverb

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.