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Webster 1828 Edition


Islamism

IS'LAMISM

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Noun.
The true faith, according to the Mohammedans; Mohammedanism.

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Islamism

Islamism

See also: islamism

English

Noun

Islamism (countable and uncountable, plural Islamisms)

  1. 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.
  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.

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islamism

islamism

See also: Islamism

English

Proper noun

islamism

  1. (rare) Alternative letter-case form of Islamism