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Islamism|ˈɪsləmɪz(ə)m, ɪz-| [f. as prec. + -ism. Cf. F. Islamisme (Voltaire in Littré).] The religious system of the Muslims; Muhammadanism.
1747Gentl. Mag. 373 Never since the rise of Islamism [note So the Mahometans call their own religion] has our worship once varied. 1754Phil. Trans. XLVIII. 755 Before the introduction of Islamism into Arabia. 1827Scott Napoleon IV. 85 ‘There is no god but God, and Mahommed is his prophet’—a confession of faith which is in itself a declaration of Islamism. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. iv. ii. (1864) II. 212 Syria..became a province of Islamism. So ˈIslamist, an orthodox Muslim; Islaˈmistic a., Islamic; ˈIslamize v., to convert or conform to Islam; also intr.
1846E. E. Salisbury in Worcester, Islamize. 1851F. Hall in Benares Mag. V. 28 Our author's conversion of several unfortunate Musalmáns into mere Islamized Hindús. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. xiv. iii. (1864) IX. 108 Caliphs who were, at least no longer, rigid Islamists. 1893Miss. Herald (Boston) Feb. 50 Saying that ‘the Western World is waiting to be Islamized’. 1893in Barrows Parlt. Relig. II. 995 The decadence of the Islâmistic power in Spain. 189519th Cent. Nov. 785 Judgment should not be pronounced against Islâm and Islâmists on rancorous and partizan statements.
Add: Islamist n., (b) one who is versed in Islamic studies.
1937R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnol. Theory viii. 97 Westermarck is very widely read, and his original researches in Morocco, though only appraisable by Islamists, bear the earmarks of scholarship. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Apr. 513/5 An English translation..has been prepared by the American writer and Islamist, Herbert Mason.
Add: Hence ˌIslamiˈzation n., the process or policy of converting to Islam.
1934Webster, Islamization. 1966New Statesman 11 Nov. 719/3 (Advt.), Senior Lecturer... He will be required to lecture on Islamic influences in Classical Malay Literature and on the islamisation of the Malay-Indonesian Archipelago. 1988J. L. Esposito Islam the Straight Path v. 170 The process of Islamization..requires organizations..of dedicated and trained Muslims, who..call on others to be more observant and who are willing to struggle (jihad) against corruption and social injustice.
▸ Islamic fundamentalism, esp. regarded as a religious or political ideology.
1988Federal News Service (Nexis) 21 Oct. The concern that many have had in the past with Islamic fundamentalism, or whatever one wants to call it, Islamism, as a force that would sweep the area, destabilize regimes, in a sense reorder the political map of the region, I think that assumption has to be reexamined. 1994Daily Tel. 9 Dec. 25/6 Algeria is being torn in two by Islamic ‘fundamentalism’ (better known as ‘Islamism’). 2001Times 11 Dec. ii. 4/1 Jack Straw has been lecturing his flock on the appeasement years, summoning up a ghostly Adolf Hitler to make us see that Islamism..must be exorcised and extirpated as Fascism once was. |