This article is about political Islamism. For an article on the religion of Islam, see Islam

Islamism is a set of political ideologies derived from Islamic fundamentalism. Islamist ideologies hold that Islam is not only a religion, but also a political system that governs the legal, economic and social imperatives of the state according to its interpretation of Islamic Law.

The term “Islamism” first appeared in eighteenth-century France as a synonym for Islam. At the turn of the twentieth century, it was being displaced by the latter, and by 1938, when Orientalist scholars completed the Encyclopaedia of Islam, had virtually disappeared from the English language.Martin Kramer: Coming to Terms -Fundamentalists or Islamists?

It attained its modern connotation in late 1970s French academia, thence to be loaned into English again, where it has largely displaced “Islamic fundamentalism.” The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines Islamism as, "An Islamic revivalist movement, often characterized by moral conservatism, literalism, and the attempt to implement Islamic values in all spheres of life." Dictionary: Islamism

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War criminals, the JMB and militant Islamists: By Jahangir Alam Akash Militant Islamism is a great threat to gl.. http://bit.ly/bFyhH
modernghanaweb (Modern Ghana Ltd.) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:58:46 -0000
War criminals, the JMB and militant Islamists: By Jahangir Alam Akash Militant Islamism is a great threat to gl.. http://bit.ly/bFyhH
War criminals, the JMB and militant Islamists: By Jahangir Alam Akash Militant Islamism is a great threat to gl.. http://bit.ly/bFyhH
modernghanalive (ModernGhana.Com) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:51:01 -0000
War criminals, the JMB and militant Islamists: By Jahangir Alam Akash Militant Islamism is a great threat to gl.. http://bit.ly/bFyhH
@kursed Haan. @pragmatic_d wrote a synopsis of the post. What does it basically say about Islamism pervading into the forces ?
venkatananth (Venkat Ananth) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:24:00 -0000
@kursed Haan. @pragmatic_d wrote a synopsis of the post. What does it basically say about Islamism pervading into the forces ?
Muslim-Demo für die Unterwerfung Britanniens http://bit.ly/4vRl01 #islamism #GreatBritain #Queen #ChurchOfEngland #EuropeanUnion #EU
RalfZielonka (Ralf Zielonka) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:19:56 -0000
Muslim-Demo für die Unterwerfung Britanniens http://bit.ly/4vRl01 #islamism #GreatBritain #Queen #ChurchOfEngland #EuropeanUnion #EU
Pakistan and it's two-front War - http://tr.im/E73R (also, for those interested in the rise of Islamism in Pakistan)
venkatananth (Venkat Ananth) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:52:57 -0000
Pakistan and it's two-front War - http://tr.im/E73R (also, for those interested in the rise of Islamism in Pakistan)
Veiled Following: Egyptian government attempts to regulate Muslim religious practices to limit Islamism... http://bit.ly/2vpA2i
tweetGTU (Graduate Theological) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:24:12 -0000
Veiled Following: Egyptian government attempts to regulate Muslim religious practices to limit Islamism... http://bit.ly/2vpA2i

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