Meanings
- uncountablegovernmentThe political implications of Islam; the evocation of Islam for political ends.
The prophet of Germany's Islampolitik was Baron Max von Oppenheim.
2015, Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans, Penguin, published 2016, page 472 more examples
By the end of the nineteenth century, when the Netherlands began to tighten its hegemony over the whole archipelago and to incorporate interior regions that had remained independent until that time, a clear "Islampolitik" had emerged.
1987, Rita Smith Kipp, Susan Rodgers Siregar, Indonesian religions in transition, page 16The misconceptions which were to shape both German Islampolitik and the eventual British support for Sharif Husayn's dynastic ambitions under the heading of the “Arab Revolt” were partly the result of deep-rooted European misconceptions about Islam in general and the caliphate in particular.
2014, Tilman Lüdke, in Joachim Bürgschwentner, Matthias Egger, Gunda Barth-Scalmani (Eds.), Other Fronts, Other Wars, p. 405
Origin
From German Islampolitik, corresponding to Islam + politics.
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