Islamist

See also: islamist

English

Etymology

From Islam +‎ -ist. Compare Islamicist.

Pronunciation

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

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

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]

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• Pan-Islamist

Translations

person with Islamic fundamentalist beliefs

• Armenian: իսլամիստ (hy) (islamist)
• Azerbaijani: islamçı
• Basque: islamista
• Bengali: ইসলামপন্থী (islamponthi)
• Catalan: islamista m or f
• Czech: islamista (cs) m
• Finnish: islamisti (fi)
• French: islamiste (fr) m or f
• German: Islamist (de) m, Islamistin (de) f
• Greek: ισλαμιστής (el) m (islamistís)
• Irish: Ioslamaí m
• Kazakh: исламшыл (islamşyl)
• Macedonian: исламист m (islamist)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: islamist m

  Nynorsk: islamist m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: اِسْلام‌گَرا (eslâm-garâ)

• Polish: islamista (pl) m, islamistka (pl) f
• Portuguese: islamista (pt) m or f
• Russian: ислами́ст (ru) m (islamíst), ислами́стка (ru) f (islamístka)
• Swedish: islamist (sv) c
• Tajik: исломгаро (islomgaro)
• Turkish: İslamcı
• Uzbek: islomchi
• Yiddish: איסלאַמיסט m (islamist)

person who specializes in Islamic studies

• Azerbaijani: islamşünas
• Czech: islamista (cs) m
• Finnish: islamintutkija
• Italian: islamista (it)
• Polish: islamista (pl) m, islamistka (pl) f, islamoznawca (pl) m, islamoznawczyni f

Adjective

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.

Synonyms

• Muslimistic

Translations

dated: relating to Islam

• Finnish: islamilainen (fi); islaminuskoinen (fi)
• Greek: ισλαμικός (el) m (islamikós)

motivated by Islam in politics

• Finnish: islamistinen (fi)
• French: islamiste (fr)
• German: islamistisch (de)
• Greek: ισλαμιστικός (el) m (islamistikós)
• Norwegian: islamistisk

  Nynorsk: islamistisk

• Russian: ислами́стский (ru) (islamístskij)
• Swedish: islamistisk (sv)
• Turkish: İslamcı
• Yiddish: איסלאַמיסטיש (islamistish)

See also

• Islamic fundamentalism
• Islamicism

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Noun

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

1. islamist

Declension

Declension of Islamist [masculine, weak]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Islamist	die	Islamisten
genitive	eines	des	Islamisten	der	Islamisten
dative	einem	dem	Islamisten	den	Islamisten
accusative	einen	den	Islamisten	die	Islamisten

Derived terms

• Islamistengruppe

Related terms

• Islamismus
• islamistisch

Further reading

• “Islamist” in Duden online
• “Islamist”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[3] (in German)