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Pan-Islamic

adj

Etymology

From pan- + Islamic.

  1. derived from islamique
  2. derived from islāmicus
  3. prefixed as pan-islamic — “pan + Islamic”

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to all Islamic groups in the world.

    • The past and present fear of a monolithic Islamic threat has often been expressed in Pan-Islamic terminology.
    • The jihad proclamation, Pan-Islamic sentiments presenting the Ottoman Sultan as Caliph, and feelings of Muslim solidarity combined to form a potentially powerful mix.

  2. Alternative form of Pan-Islamic.

    • The Muslim community as the pan-Islamic thinkers conceived it, or the Jewish community of the Zionists, was not held together by common profession of faithor the will to live in accordance with revealed law.
    • In the following years, Lord Cromer fought vigorously against pan-Islamist propaganda, banning, for instance, the popular Paris-published pan-Islamic journal al'Urwa alWuthqa (The Firmest Bond).
    • He went to Peshawar in 1987 and met with Azzam, who convinced him that the struggle in Afghanistan should be a pan-Islamic struggle and should get top attention from Islamists.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA