Islamist

islamist English Etymology en :af Islam -ist 1 + Compare en Islamicist. Pronunciation en /ˈɪsləmɪst/ /ˈɪzləmɪst/ /-ˈlɑːmɪst/ /-ˈlæmɪst/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Islamist.wav Southern England Noun en now rare A Muslim. from 19th c. A scholastic Muslim who specializes in Muslim academics. from 1910s A Muslim who espouses Islamic fundamentalist beliefs. from 1980s Synonyms Muslim en Mohammedan dated, now offensive, Muslimist Islamic studies specialist en Islamicist Islamic fundamentalist en Quran thumper, en Koran thumper, en Koran basher, en namazi (India), en jihadi, en jihadist Derived terms en Pan-Islamist Translations person with Islamic fundamentalist beliefs Armenian: hy իսլամիստ Azerbaijani: az islamçı Basque: eu islamista Bengali: bn ইসলামপন্থী Catalan: ca islamista m f Czech: cs islamista m Finnish: fi islamisti French: fr islamiste m f German: de Islamist m, de Islamistin f Greek: el ισλαμιστής m Irish: ga Ioslamaí m Kazakh: kk исламшыл Macedonian: mk исламист m Norwegian: Bokmål: nb islamist m Nynorsk: nn islamist m Persian: Iranian Persian: fa-ira اِسْلام‌گَرا Polish: pl islamista m, pl islamistka f Portuguese: pt islamista m f Russian: ru ислами́ст m, ru ислами́стка f Swedish: sv islamist c Tajik: tg исломгаро Turkish: tr İslamcı Uzbek: uz islomchi Yiddish: yi איסלאַמיסט m person who specializes in Islamic studies Azerbaijani: az islamşünas Czech: cs islamista m Finnish: fi islamintutkija Italian: it islamista Polish: pl islamista m, pl islamistka f, pl islamoznawca m, pl islamoznawczyni f Adjective en dated Relating to Islam; Islamic, Muslim. from 19th c. Motivated by fundamentalist Muslim beliefs, particularly in the political sphere. from 1980s en 2004 w:George Carlin THE FANATICS WILL WIN w:When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? https://archive.org/details/sacredmountainof0000john/ New York w:Hyperion Books 1-4013-0821-X 757869006 24604921M 134 https://archive.org/details/whenwilljesusbri00hype/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. en Ngala Killian Chimtom Cameroon in for long fight as its youth join Boko Haram w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2015/03/03/africa/boko-haram-recruiting-cameroon 2015-03-03 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20251021232228/https://www.cnn.com/2015/03/03/africa/boko-haram-recruiting-cameroon/ 21 October 2025 Synonyms en Muslimistic Translations dated: relating to Islam Finnish: fi islamilainen; fi islaminuskoinen Greek: el ισλαμικός m motivated by Islam in politics Finnish: fi islamistinen French: fr islamiste German: de islamistisch Greek: el ισλαμιστικός m Norwegian: no islamistisk Nynorsk: nn islamistisk Russian: ru ислами́стский Swedish: sv islamistisk Turkish: tr İslamcı Yiddish: yi איסלאַמיסטיש See also en Islamic fundamentalism en Islamicism en People Islamism Theocracy German Pronunciation de De-Islamist.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Noun m.weak in islamist Declension m.weak Derived terms de Islamistengruppe Related terms de Islamismus de islamistisch Further reading de Islam