Islampolitik

English

Etymology

From German Islampolitik, corresponding to Islam + politics.

Noun

Islampolitik (uncountable)

1. (politics) The political implications of Islam; the evocation of Islam for political ends.
   • 1987, Rita Smith Kipp, Susan Rodgers Siregar, Indonesian religions in transition, page 16:

     By the end of the nineteenth century, when the Netherlands began to tighten its hegemony over the whole archipelago and to incorporate interior regions that had remained independent until that time, a clear "Islampolitik" had emerged.

   • 2014, Tilman Lüdke, in Joachim Bürgschwentner, Matthias Egger, Gunda Barth-Scalmani (Eds.), Other Fronts, Other Wars, p. 405:

     The misconceptions which were to shape both German Islampolitik and the eventual British support for Sharif Husayn's dynastic ambitions under the heading of the “Arab Revolt” were partly the result of deep-rooted European misconceptions about Islam in general and the caliphate in particular.

   • 2015, Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans, Penguin, published 2016, page 47:

     The prophet of Germany's Islampolitik was Baron Max von Oppenheim.