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• Islamist go
  an orthodox Muslim
  
• Jihadist go
  a Muslim who is involved in a jihad
  
• Shiite, Shi'ite, Shiite Muslim, Shi'ite Muslim, Shia Muslim go
  a member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs
  
• Sunni, Sunnite, Sunni Muslim go
  a member of the branch of Islam that accepts the first four caliphs as rightful successors to Muhammad
  
• Moor go
  one of the Muslim people of north Africa
  
• assassin go
  a member of a secret order of Muslims (founded in the 12th century) who terrorized and killed Christian Crusaders
  
• begum go
  a Muslim woman of high rank in India or Pakistan
  
• caliph, calif, kaliph, kalif, khalif, khalifah go
  the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth
  
• fakir, fakeer, faqir, faquir go
  a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man
  
• hakim, hakeem go
  a Muslim physician
  
• hakim go
  a Muslim ruler or governor or judge
  
• imam, imaum go
  (Islam) the man who leads prayers in a mosque
  
• mujahid go
  a Muslim engaged in what he considers to be a jihad
  
• mujtihad go
  an Islamic scholar who engages in ijtihad, the effort to derive rules of divine law from Muslim sacred texts
  
• Mullah, Mollah, Mulla go
  a Muslim trained in the doctrine and law of Islam
  
• Muslimah go
  a Muslim woman
  
• Saracen go
  (historically) a Muslim who opposed the Crusades
  
• Sufi go
  a Muslim who represents the mystical dimension of Islam
  
• Wahhabi, Wahabi go
  a member of a strictly orthodox Sunni Muslim sect from Saudi Arabia