Islamicistn.adj.

1951 C. S. Coon Caravan Foreword p. v Professor H. A. R. Gibb, the dean of British Islamicists, who read the manuscript after Dr. Calverley, picked up a number of remaining points about which he had special knowledge.

1977 N.Y. Times 18 Sept. 25/5 Mr. Haines, a noted Christian Islamicist,..will act as liaison between the church group and the center for the study of Islam.

1998 Ceramic Rev. Mar.–Apr. 24/2 An Islamicist and Medievalist before joining the Department, he was pleased..to look after studio ceramics.

2003 F. Daftary in Culture & Memory in Medieval Islam Pref. p. xii Some of them have participated in the production of this Festschrift that honours one of the greatest, and most humane, Islamicists of our times.

1963 D. Peretz Middle East Today vii. 173 The expectations of the ardent Islamicists, however, were not fulfilled. Although the Democrats modified a number of restrictions, they also cracked down on religious extremists.

1979 Financial Times 16 Mar. 4/8 Thus there is developing a clash between the Islamicists and the modernists.

1995 M. Mundy Domest. Govt. v. 91 Both islamicist, in the name of faith, and secularist, in the name of reason, agree on the location of family and tribe.

2009 D. Poyer Crisis (2010) 239 We keep hearing about al Qaeda coopting local Islamicists.

1968 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 9 643 1954 is the date of publication of what can fairly be called the last expression of the earlier, and since about 1930 the traditional, ‘Islamicist’ historiography in Algeria.

1981 M. Mauroof in C. Frantz Ideas & Trends in World Anthropol. 84 Studies pertaining to the descriptive, analytic, or comparative investigation of mankind have never been separate subjects in the Islamic curriculum. As such, the tradition of Islamicist anthropology is a non-tradition.

2003 Internat. Jrnl. Middle East Stud. 35 147 Since the end of World War I North Americans have been not inclined to give Islamicist scholarship in this language [sc. German] its due.

1972 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 July 6/4 Both the leftist and Islamicist groups have radical objections to the present order in republican Turkey.

1987 Foreign Affairs (Nexis) Spring 807 The National Islamic Front (NIF), which espouses a revivalist Islam and had supported Nimeiri's Islamicist policies, gained 20 percent of the parliamentary seats.

1999 J. Elliot Unexpected Light (2000) i. 22 With peace, the new rulers brought with them an Islamicist fervour previously unknown in Afghanistan, traditionally a place of religious moderation.

2010 D. Kellner Cinema Wars 247 A parallel plot shows the daughter..becoming involved with a young man whom she and the audience learn is an Islamicist militant, planning a suicide bombing.