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Islamic

Islamic

500 2.5
Relating to Islam, its people, and their culture
  • adjective
  • /ɪsˈlɑːmɪk/
: islámico
  • Give you an example, the Iranian Islamic Republic's attempt to suppress alcohol.
  • Islamic law
  • Islamic Shari'a
  • Islamic world

It wasn't the first time that Australia has been touched by Islamic terrorism.

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Examples

  • I was born in Tehran, Iran, during the Islamic Revolution.

  • There's an underlying heritage of kind of Islamic values in these markets.

  • Can you explain what the Islamic Army is and who all is involved?

  • You know, it's also part of the Islamic culture.

  • Most cities in the Islamic world, getting a beer can be difficult.

  • This is the Council on American Islamic Relations.

  • We will export our revolution throughout the world because it is an Islamic revolution.

    Academic text (2011)
  • It is as we all know an Islamic Republic.

  • The Islamists want legislation to be drawn from Islamic Sharia law.

  • Many traditional practices in the region are rooted in Islamic culture.

Synonyms

Moslem
vsIslamic
  • Archaic
669 9.3

Relating to Islam or the people who follow it

is the neutral modern term without old-fashioned tone

Compounds

23 9.9

A Shiite armed group in Lebanon supported by Iran that used car bombs

20 4.8

A system of rules for life and law based on the Qur'an and the Prophet Muhammad's teachings

Islamic Group
  • Offensive
14 8.7

An armed organization from Egypt that uses violence for political and religious aims

A country in western Asia ruled by Islamic leaders, known as Iran

A Palestinian armed group that wants an Islamic state and fights Israel

A Shia militant group linked to Iran that uses car bombs

Study of past events, people, and culture in the Muslim world

A Palestinian political and armed group called Hamas that fights Israel and seeks to replace it with an Islamic state

An armed group from Libya formed in 1995 that was against the government and joined al-Qaeda

A calendar based on the moon that Muslims use to mark religious dates like Ramadan

1 9.3

A group of Islamic extremists in Algeria that uses violent attacks to try to make an Islamic state

A worldwide community of Muslims who share the same faith

An Islamic group in Egypt that used violence to try to replace the government

A country in South Asia that is a Muslim republic

A small armed Palestinian group that wants an Islamic state in Palestine and the end of Israel

An armed group in southern Philippines seeking an independent Islamic state for the Moro people

A Libyan armed group formed in 1995 that opposed the government and was linked to al-Qaeda

An armed group in Algeria that used violence in the 1990s to try to create an Islamic state

The official name of Afghanistan from 1992 to 2001

A country made of islands in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa

An armed group of Uighur Muslims who want their own country in Xinjiang and use violence

A country in northwestern Africa mostly covered by the Sahara and governed under Islamic law

1 9.9

A Yemen-based group that uses violence to attack people and support al-Qaeda

1 9.9

A secret group in Egypt that used violence to try to create an Islamic state

A Uighur Muslim group that wants Xinjiang to be independent and is listed as a terrorist group by some countries

A Turkish armed group linked to al-Qaeda seeks to violently replace Turkey's government with an Islamic state like Iran

A Turkish armed Islamist group that uses violence for political goals

A terrorist group started by Osama bin Laden in 1998 to unite armed Islamist groups in different countries

A violent religious group from Uzbekistan that uses terror and deals in drugs

A Palestinian militant group that wants an Islamic state and the destruction of Israel

An armed group that wants an Islamic state in Central Asia and fights the government

A group that uses violence to try to make an Islamic state in Central Asia

How Islamic

Islamist
114 8.1
Islamic
500 2.5
religious
∞ 2.7
nonreligious
3 4.1

Surface Forms

Islamic positive

Morphology

Islamic = Islam (transparent) = Islam + ic

The suffix '-ic' is commonly used to form adjectives meaning 'related to' or 'pertaining to', making the meaning clear.

Etymology

The word Islamic comes from Islam, an Arabic word often said to mean 'submission' or 'peace', and the ending -ic means 'relating to'. So, Islamic means 'relating to Islam', its people, beliefs, and culture.