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| a mournful or plaintive poem or song, esp a lament for the dead |
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| any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. |
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| opposition; contrast: the antithesis of right and wrong. |
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| a discourse for the purpose of religious instruction or exhortation, especially one based on a text of Scripture and delivered by a member of the clergy as part of a religious service. |
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| a secondary story or stories embedded in the main story. |
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| of, pertaining to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical: moral attitudes. |
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| to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy. |
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| extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant |
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| to charge, bind, or command earnestly and solemnly, often under oath or the threat of a penalty. |
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| firmly resolved or determined; set in purpose or opinion. |
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| deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover. |
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| to bestow unending fame upon; perpetuate |
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a Muslim temple or place of public worship. |
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| the religious faith of Muslims, based on the words and religious system founded by the prophet Muhammad and taught by the Koran, the basic principle of which is absolute submission to a unique and personal god, Allah |
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| of or pertaining to the religion, law, or civilization of Islam. |
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| French name: Tombouctou a town in central Mali, on the River Niger: terminus of a trans-Saharan caravan route; a great Muslim centre (14th--16th centuries). Pop: 31 973 (1998) |
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the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world. |
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a person or animal that is descended from a specific ancestor; an offspring. |
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