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Pan-Islamic en · ADJ

Etymology

From pan- + Islamic.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Pertaining to all Islamic groups in the world.
   • The past and present fear of a monolithic Islamic threat has often been expressed in Pan-Islamic terminology. 1999, John L. Esposito, The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?, →ISBN, page 222:
   • This was repeated time and again in foreign propaganda, both during that time and in the Balkan War and First World War periods, as agents of the Committee of Union and Progress alternated between Pan-Turk and Pan-Islamic arguments to drum up support abroad, for example among elemnts of Turkic background in Afghanistan and Central Asia. 2004, Jacob M. Landau, Exploring Ottoman and Turkish History, →ISBN:
   • The jihad proclamation, Pan-Islamic sentiments presenting the Ottoman Sultan as Caliph, and feelings of Muslim solidarity combined to form a potentially powerful mix. 2009, R Michael Feener, Terenjit Sevea, Islamic Connections: Muslim Societies in South and Southeast Asia, →ISBN:

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