{"id":123,"date":"2001-10-28T12:16:59","date_gmt":"2001-10-28T20:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2001\/10\/28\/123.html"},"modified":"2001-10-28T12:16:59","modified_gmt":"2001-10-28T20:16:59","slug":"etymology-of-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2001\/10\/28\/etymology-of-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Etymology of &#8220;Islam&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At least two sources in the past few days have indicated that the word <i>Islam<\/i> derives from the word <i>salaam,<\/i> meaning \"peace.\"  The information I have (from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/cgi-bin\/dictionary?islam\">MW10<\/a> among other sources) indicates that <i>Islam<\/i> means \"submission\" (as in \"submission to the will of God\"), but I haven't yet found a definitive discussion of the Arabic etymology, the source of the Arabic word.  Anyone know?<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least two sources in the past few days have indicated that the word Islam derives from the word salaam,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}