Islamist

From Islam +‎ -ist. Compare Islamicist.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪsləmɪst/, /ˈɪzləmɪst/, /-ˈlɑːmɪst/, /-ˈlæmɪst/

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Islamist (plural Islamists)

1. (now rare) A Muslim. [from 19th c.]
2. A scholastic Muslim who specializes in Muslim academics. [from 1910s]
3. A Muslim who espouses Islamic fundamentalist beliefs. [from 1980s]

• (Muslim): Mohammedan (dated, now offensive), Muslimist
• (Islamic studies specialist): Islamicist
• (Islamic fundamentalist): Quran thumper, Koran thumper, Koran basher, namazi (India), jihadi, jihadist

Islamist (comparative more Islamist, superlative most Islamist)

1. (dated) Relating to Islam; Islamic, Muslim. [from 19th c.]
2. Motivated by fundamentalist Muslim beliefs, particularly in the political sphere. [from 1980s]
   • 2004, George Carlin, “THE FANATICS WILL WIN”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?‎^[1], New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 134:

     I hope you good, loyal Americans understand that in the long run the Islamist extremists are going to win. Because you can't beat numbers, and you can't beat fanaticism—the willingness to die for an idea.

   • 2015 March 3, Ngala Killian Chimtom, “Cameroon in for long fight as its youth join Boko Haram”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     In January, Boko Haram struck Fotokol, a Cameroonian town separated by only a bridge from Gambarou, Nigeria, a stronghold of the Islamist extremists. The attackers killed more than 400 people.

• Muslimistic

• Islamic fundamentalism
• Islamicism

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Islamist m (weak, genitive Islamisten, plural Islamisten, feminine Islamistin)

1. islamist

• Islamistengruppe

• Islamismus
• islamistisch

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