Islamism

See also: islamism

English

Etymology

From Islam +‎ -ism. Compare French islamisme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪzləmɪz(ə)m/

Noun

Islamism (countable and uncountable, plural Islamisms)

1. The religion of Muslims; Islam. [from 17th c.]
   • 1626, Samuel Purchas, Purchas his Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World, fourth edition, page 1013:

     Muhammed [...] first manifested and obserued the Religion of Islamisme [...]

   • 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.

   • 1852, Washington Irving, Tales from the Alhambra:

     They were the outposts and frontiers of Islamism.

2. A popular reform movement advocating the reordering of government and society in accordance with laws prescribed by Islam. [from 20th c.]
   • 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.

Alternative forms

• Islamisme (obsolete)

Synonyms

• Muslimism

Translations

Islamic fundamentalism

• Arabic: الْإِسْلَامِيَّة f (al-ʔislāmiyya), إِسْلَام سِيَاسِيّ m (ʔislām siyāsiyy)
• Bulgarian: ислями́зъм m (isljamízǎm)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 伊斯蘭主義／伊斯兰主义 (yīsīlánzhǔyì), 伊斯兰主义 (yīsīlánzhǔyì)

• Finnish: islamismi (fi)
• French: islamisme (fr) m
• German: Islamismus (de) m
• Hebrew: אסלאמיזם m (islamizm)
• Hindi: इस्लामियत f (islāmiyat), इस्लामवाद m (islāmvād)
• Italian: islamismo (it) m
• Japanese: イスラム主義 (isuramu-shugi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 이슬람주의 (iseullamjuui)
• Persian: اسلام‌گرایی (eslâm-garâyi)
• Polish: islamizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: islamismo (pt) m
• Russian: ислами́зм (ru) m (islamízm)
• Spanish: islamismo (es) m
• Turkish: İslamcılık (tr)
• Ukrainian: ісламі́зм m (islamízm)
• Urdu: اسلامیت f (islāmiyat)
• Uyghur: ئىسلامىيەت (islamiyet)

References

• Martin Kramer, Coming to Terms: Fundamentalists or Islamists?, Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2003, pp. 65-77.

Anagrams

• mismails