Islamism

From Islam +‎ -ism. Compare French islamisme.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪzləmɪz(ə)m/

Islamism (countable and uncountable, plural Islamisms)

1. The religion of Muslims; Islam. [from 17th c.]
   • 1626, Samuel Purchas, Purchas his Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World, fourth edition, page 1013:

     Muhammed [...] first manifested and obserued the Religion of Islamisme [...]

   • 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.

• Islamisme (obsolete)

• Muslimism

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

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