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Pan-Islamism

[ pan-is-lah-miz-uhm, -iz-, -is-luh-miz-, -iz- ]

noun

  1. the idea or advocacy of a political union of all Muslim nations.


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Other Words From

  • Pan-Is·lam·ic [pan-is-, lam, -ik, -, lah, -mik, -iz-], adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Pan-Islamism1

First recorded in 1880–85; pan- + Islamism

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Example Sentences

Economic Pan-Islamism is the direct result of the permeation of Western ideas.

Later on we shall examine more fully the activities of these gentry in the chapters devoted to Pan-Islamism and Nationalism.

It is to a consideration of the first of these two concepts, to Pan-Islamism, that this chapter is devoted.

They may be grouped roughly under the general concepts known as "Pan-Islamism" and "Nationalism."

It was at this time that Pan-Islamism assumed that essentially anti-Western character which it has ever since retained.

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