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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Islamistnoun

    a scholar who knowledgeable in Islamic studies

  2. Islamistnoun

    an orthodox Muslim

Wiktionary

  1. Islamistnoun

    A person who espouses Islamic fundamentalist beliefs.

  2. Islamistnoun

    (somewhat rare) A person who specializes in Islamic studies.

  3. Islamistnoun

    A Muslim, particularly an orthodox Muslim.

  4. Islamistadjective

    Motivated by Islamic beliefs, particularly in the political sphere (e.g. a supporter of the introduction of sharia law).

  5. Islamistadjective

    Relating to Islam, particularly orthodox Islam.

  6. Etymology: From. First attested in the mid-1980s in English.

Wikipedia

  1. Islamist

    Islamism (also often called political Islam or Islamic fundamentalism) is a religio-political ideology. While there is no consensus definition of Islamism, which has many varieties and alternative names, and whose use is objected to by some as derogatory, and by others as so broad and flexible as to have lost its meaning; at least in its original form, Islamism described an ideology seeking to revive Islam to its past assertiveness and glory, purifying it of foreign elements, reasserting its role into “social and political as well as personal life"; and in particular “reordering government and society in accordance with laws prescribed by Islam" (aka Sharia). According to Robin Wright, Islamist movements have "arguably altered the Middle East more than any trend since the modern states gained independence", redefining "politics and even borders".Central and prominent figures in 20th-century Islamism include Sayyid Rashid Rida, Hassan al-Banna (founder of the Muslim Brotherhood), Sayyid Qutb, Abul A'la Maududi, Ruhollah Khomeini (founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran), Hassan Al-Turabi.Al-Banna and Maududi called for a "reformist" strategy to re-Islamizing society through grassroots social and political activism. Other Islamists (Al-Turabi) have advocated a "revolutionary" strategy of Islamizing society through exercise of state power, or for combining grassroots Islamization with violent revolution (Sayyid Qutb). The term has been applied to non-state reform movements, political parties, militias and revolutionary groups. Islamists emphasize the implementation of sharia, pan-Islamic political unity, the creation of Islamic states, (eventually state), and rejection of non-Muslim influences -- particularly Western or universal economic, military, political, social, or cultural. At least one author (Graham E. Fuller) has argued for a broader notion of Islamism as a form of identity politics, involving "support for [Muslim] identity, authenticity, broader regionalism, revivalism, [and] revitalization of the community." Others hold the term "Islamic activism" to be synonymous and preferable to "Islamism", Islamists themselves preferring the term "Islamic movement". In public and academic contexts, the term "Islamism" has been criticized as having been given connotations of violence, extremism, and violations of human rights, by the Western mass media, leading to Islamophobia and stereotyping.Following the Arab Spring, many post-Islamist currents became heavily involved in democratic politics, while others spawned "the most aggressive and ambitious Islamist militia" to date, such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

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  1. islamist

    An Islamist is an individual or group that advocates or supports Islam as a guiding principle for political life and governance, typically supporting Islamic law (Sharia) and rejecting secular or Western influences in Muslim societies. Some Islamists resort to armed struggle or militant activities to achieve their goals, while others pursue peaceful, political means. In a more general term, it refers to political ideologies derived from or influenced by Islam.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Islamist in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Islamist in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Islamist in a Sentence

  1. Ben Evansky:

    It’s the main engine driving the terror radicalization process. Any effort to combat Islamist terrorism needs to take the MB's global network into account.

  2. David Cameron:

    All of us have been horrified by the way that British teenagers appear to have been radicalized and duped by this poisonous ideology of Islamist extremism while at home on the internet in their bedrooms, given reports that one of the girls was following as many as 70 extremists online, this case underlines the importance of the work we are doing with social media companies.

  3. Ryan Mauro:

    What we see is that overall global support for Islamist extremist groups is decreasing but the rate of violence within that Islamist pool is increasing as that contraction happens.

  4. Michael Kugelman:

    This ISIS-Taliban joint attack represents a nightmare scenario come true. The Taliban and ISIS are widely understood to be foes, not friends, because of the Taliban’s close alliance with Al Qaeda — a bitter rival of ISIS. And yet Islamist terror groups in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region are all cut from the same basic ideological cloth.

  5. Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann:

    A provisional translation by an interpreter shows that he expressly announces, in the name of Allah, and testifying his allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a famous Islamist leader, an act of revenge against the Germans because they're getting in the way of Islam.

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