Pan-Islamic

alternative pan-Islamic · alternative Panislamic

1. not comparablePertaining 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.

   1999, John L. Esposito, The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?, →ISBN, page 222

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   This was repeated time and again in foreign propaganda, both during that time and in the Balkan War and First World War periods, as agents of the Committee of Union and Progress alternated between Pan-Turk and Pan-Islamic arguments to drum up support abroad, for example among elemnts of Turkic background in Afghanistan and Central Asia.

   2004, Jacob M. Landau, Exploring Ottoman and Turkish History, →ISBN

   The jihad proclamation, Pan-Islamic sentiments presenting the Ottoman Sultan as Caliph, and feelings of Muslim solidarity combined to form a potentially powerful mix.

   2009, R Michael Feener, Terenjit Sevea, Islamic Connections: Muslim Societies in South and Southeast Asia, →ISBN

1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of Pan-Islamic.

   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.

   2014, Bruce Riedel, What We Won: America's Secret War in Afghanistan, 1979 89, →ISBN, page 88

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   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.

   1983, Albert Hourani, Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798–1939, →ISBN

   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).

   2014, David Motadel, Islam and the European Empires, →ISBN