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Islamism - What does it mean?

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islamism

English

(wikipedia Islamism)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The religious system of Muslims; Islam, Mohammedanism.
  • * 1827 , (Walter Scott), The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte :
    • ‘There is no God but God, and Mahommed is his prophet’. A confession of faith which is in itself a declaration of Islamism .
  • Muslim fundamentalism.
  • * 2012 , (Malise Ruthven), ‘Reason & Religion’, Literary Review , issue 399:
    • 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.

    Synonyms

    *Muslimism * (Muslim fundamentalism) quran thumping, quran bashing

    References

    * Martin Kramer, Coming to Terms: Fundamentalists or Islamists?, Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2003, pp. 65-77. English words suffixed with -ism

    Not English

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