Pan-Islam

noun

¦pan+

variants or Pan-Islamism

"+

plural -s

: a political movement launched in Turkey at the end of the 19th century by Sultan Abdul-Hamid II for the purpose of combating the process of westernization and fostering the unification of Islam

Word History

Etymology

pan- + islam or islamism

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