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the monotheistic religious system of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran
Islam is a complete way of life, not a Sunday religion
the term Muhammadanism is offensive to Muslims who believe that Allah, not Muhammad, founded their religion - a fundamentalist Islamic revivalist movement generally characterized by moral conservatism and the literal interpretation of the Koran and the attempt to implement Islamic values in all aspects of life
How To Use Islamism In A Sentence
- Pan-Islamism is a bit more a la mode, as Islam as a global political force has been in the ascendant in recent decades.
- By the time of Hasni's death, rai music was a major front in the confrontation between Algerian Islamism and the secular forces it sought to overcome.
- A civil war in Sri Lanka, extending nowhere else, untainted on either side by even a whiff of Islamism -- a war in which a minority people, slaughtered mercilessly for decades, have come to identify (at least to some extent) with a brutal counterforce called the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, is now effortlessly connected to 9/11. Archive 2009-04-01
- It is, however, noteworthy that Adoptionism began in that part of Spain where Islamism dominated, and where a Nestorian colony had for years found refuge. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
- Some apologists of Islamism in academia and feminist groups bend the truth to make it sound as if their defence of the burka is a defence of tolerant Western values. Archive 2009-10-01
- With an extensive development of the movement of Islamic revivalism, Islamism being an important ideology, has since the 1970s made its way into the Turkish political life.
- [Footnote 12: Most of the gipsies here profess Islamism.] [Footnote 13: I presume Messrs. Boue and party.] [Footnote 14: The Austrian zwanziger goes here for only three piastres; in Servia it goes for five.] Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844.
- Much like Pentecostalism is for Christianity, Islamism is a way station, a prefiguration of things to come. Michael Vlahos: America: Enemy of Change, Midwife of the Future
- Those political formations, which toned down their public opposition to accession, without altering their fundamental ideograph, were seen as possible instrumentalities to counter pan-Islamism and secessionism.
- Yet there are growing worries about the spread of hard - line Islamism in the heavily Muslim banlieues.
