Islamism

See also: islamism

English

From Islam +‎ -ism. Compare French islamisme.

Islamism (countable and uncountable, plural Islamisms)

The religious system of Muslims; Islam, Mohammedanism. [from 17th c.]
- 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.
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.

Islamic fundamentalism

Arabic: الْإِسْلَامِيَّة‎‎ f (al-ʾislāmiyya), إِسْلَام سِيَاسِيّ‎‎ m (ʾislām siyāsiyy)
Bulgarian: ислями́зъм m (isljamízǎm)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 伊斯蘭主義, 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)
Italian: islamismo (it) m
Japanese: イスラム主義 (isuramu-shugi)

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

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