pan-Islamistadj.n.
/panˈɪzləmɪst/, U.S. /ˌpænˈɪsləməst/; see also Islam n. A. adj.
Of, relating to, or advocating pan-Islamism.
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1881 Standard 10 Aug. 4/8 It is alleged that he is acting..as an agent of that Panislamist movement of which Abdul Hamid is affirmed to be the head.
1922 New Republic 4 Oct. 146/2 Fearful that any assistance given to Greece would strengthen the Pan-Islamist policy of France, Great Britain abandoned the Greeks to their own fate.
1994 P. W. Wilson & D. F. Graham Saudi Arabia iii. 98 Faisal also tried to shore up the Kingdom's pan-Arabist policy..as well as the pan-Islamist pillar that he offered as an alternative to Nasser's radicalism.
2003 New Yorker 10 Feb. 46/2 The relationship between bin Laden and Saddam's regime was brokered in the early nineteen-nineties by the then de-facto leader of Sudan, the pan-Islamist radical Hassan al-Tourabi.
B. n.
An advocate or supporter of pan-Islamism.
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1881 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Dec. 2/1 The Khedive, I have said, has gone over to the Panislamists.
1939 Sunday Times-Signal (Zanesville, Ohio) 5 Mar. i. 8/5 Pan-Arabists and Pan-Islamists again are agitating for a commander of the faithful.
1979 Mod. Asian Stud. 13 46 The asylum given by the Afghans in the past to British Indian pan-Islamists, revolutionaries and runaway students had further encouraged them.
2005 F. A. Gerges Far Enemy i. 64 The terribly young al-Bahri underwent a metamorphosis and became a transnationalist jihadi, not just a pan-Islamist.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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