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Definition of Dawah
1. Noun. Missionary work for Islam.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dawah
Literary usage of Dawah
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Missionary Story Sketches: Folk-lore from Africa by Alexander Priestley Camphor (1909)
"dawah was like a fragrant flower that budded and blossomed in the sunshine and
showers of his tropical clime. It was delightful to watch his gradual ..."
2. The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Hume Greenfield, Henry Walter Bates (1851)
"... rising to a height of from 2000 to 3000 feet, or even more—the whole, with
its bushes and clusters of trees, forming the " dawah " or wilderness, ..."
3. Travels in Nubia; by John Lewis Burckhardt (1819)
"The stones bear a small proportion to the brickwork ; the bricks are of the same
description as those I saw near dawah,and form the walls of private ..."
4. Ostriches and Ostrich Farming by Julius de Mosenthal, James Edmund Harting (1877)
"... and Haden- dawah tribes likewise use the lasso, with which the bird, when once
fairly caught, is strangled.2 A favourite plan is to wait for the bird in ..."
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