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Islamism en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ɪzˈlɑːmɪz(ə)m/ (UK)
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• /ˈɪzləmɪz(ə)m/ (UK)
• /ɪzˈlæmɪz(ə)m/ (UK)

Etymology

Appearing in English in the 1740s, from French islamisme (1720s), paralleling the French christianisme and judaïsme. By surface analysis, Islam + -ism.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The religion of Muslims; Islam.
   • Those of Meshed further assured him, that at Candahar there are descendants of Simeon, also of Joseph (i. e. of Ephraim and Manasseh,) though they were outwardly conformed to Islamism;³ and he himself, when in Arabia, met with Israelites who declared themselves, and were believed by the Jews, to be of the tribe of Dan. Their usual residence was near Terim in Hatramawt. 1841, Joshua William Brooks, “The Present Conditions and Future Prospects of the Jews”, in The History of the Hebrew Nation: From Its First Origin to the Present Time, London: R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, pages 569–570:
   • Muhammed [...] first manifested and obserued the Religion of Islamisme [...] 1626, Samuel Purchas, Purchas his Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World, fourth edition, page 1013:
   • They were the outposts and frontiers of Islamism. 1852, Washington Irving, Tales from the Alhambra:
   • ‘There is no God but God, and Mahommed is his prophet’. A confession of faith which is in itself a declaration of Islamism. 1827, Walter Scott, The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte:
   • The people of Matabello, like those of most of the Mahometan villages of East Ceram and Goram, amused me much by their strange ideas concerning the Russian war. They believe that the Russians were not only most thoroughly beaten by the Turks, but were absolutely conquered, and all converted to Islamism! 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 104:
2. (countable, uncountable) A popular reform movement advocating the reordering of government and society in accordance with laws prescribed by Islam.
   • Tibi makes an absolute distinction between Islamism, which he regards as a totalitarian political ideology resembling Nazism and communism, and Islam, the religion to which he adheres. 2012, Malise Ruthven, ‘Reason & Religion’, Literary Review, number 399:
3. (broadly, countable, uncountable) Islamic fundamentalism, especially the forms that promote violence, hostility, and persecution of non-believers.

Forms

Deriveds

Panislamism

Synonyms

Muslimism

Translations (71)

uz islomiyat (Islamic fundamentalism) · nl islamisme (Islamic fundamentalism) · ar إِسْلَام سِيَاسِيّ (Islamic fundamentalism) · es islamismo (Islamic fundamentalism) · uz islomizm (Islamic fundamentalism) · ky исламизм (Islamic fundamentalism) · sk islamizmus (Islamic fundamentalism) · pt islamismo (Islamic fundamentalism) · ar إسْلَامَوِيَّة (Islamic fundamentalism) · ja イスラム主義 (Islamic fundamentalism) · ro islamism (Islamic fundamentalism) · ko 이슬람주의 (Islamic fundamentalism) · ug ئىسلامىزم (Islamic fundamentalism) · be іслямі́зм (Islamic fundamentalism) · ps اسلاميت (Islamic fundamentalism) · fr islamisme (Islamic fundamentalism) · tg исломизм (Islamic fundamentalism) · tg исломгароӣ (Islamic fundamentalism) · fi islamismi (Islamic fundamentalism) · yi איסלאַמיזם (Islamic fundamentalism) · sh исламѝзам (Islamic fundamentalism) · kk исламизм (Islamic fundamentalism) · it islamismo (Islamic fundamentalism) · tl islamismo (Islamic fundamentalism) · kmr îslamîzm (Islamic fundamentalism) · sq islamizëm (Islamic fundamentalism) · is íslamismi (Islamic fundamentalism) · he אִסְלָאמִיזְם (Islamic fundamentalism) · be ісламі́зм (Islamic fundamentalism) · be ісьлямі́зм (Islamic fundamentalism) · ur اِسْلامِیَت (Islamic fundamentalism) · hi इस्लामियत (Islamic fundamentalism) · eo islamismo (Islamic fundamentalism) · cmn 伊斯蘭主義 /伊斯兰主义 (Islamic fundamentalism) · el ισλαμισμός (Islamic fundamentalism) · kk исламшылдық (Islamic fundamentalism) · id islamisme (Islamic fundamentalism) · hi इस्लामवाद (Islamic fundamentalism) · cs islamismus (Islamic fundamentalism) · uk ісламі́зм (Islamic fundamentalism) · lv islāmisms (Islamic fundamentalism) · yue 伊斯蘭主義 /伊斯兰主义 (Islamic fundamentalism) · da islamisme (Islamic fundamentalism) · hy իսլամիզմ (Islamic fundamentalism) · de Islamismus (Islamic fundamentalism) · ka ისლამიზმი (Islamic fundamentalism) · bn ইসলামবাদ (Islamic fundamentalism) · sv islamism (Islamic fundamentalism) · pa ਇਸਲਾਮੀਅਤ (Islamic fundamentalism) · fa-ira اِسْلامگَرایی (Islamic fundamentalism) · az islamizm (Islamic fundamentalism) · ms islamisme (Islamic fundamentalism) · ug ئىسلامىيەت (Islamic fundamentalism) · tk islamizm (Islamic fundamentalism) · vi chủ nghĩa Hồi giáo (Islamic fundamentalism) · ia islamismo (Islamic fundamentalism) · mn исламизм (Islamic fundamentalism) · tr İslâmcılık (Islamic fundamentalism) · bg ислями́зъм (Islamic fundamentalism) · pl islamizm (Islamic fundamentalism) · et islamism (Islamic fundamentalism) · mk ислами́зам (Islamic fundamentalism) · nb islamisme (Islamic fundamentalism) · bn ইসলামপন্থা (Islamic fundamentalism) · sl islamizem (Islamic fundamentalism) · hu iszlamizmus (Islamic fundamentalism) · ga Ioslamachas (Islamic fundamentalism) · az islamçılıq (Islamic fundamentalism) · lt islamizmas (Islamic fundamentalism) · sh islamìzam (Islamic fundamentalism) · ru ислами́зм (Islamic fundamentalism)