Islamist (disambiguation)

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An Islamist is a person who holds a set of political ideologies holding that Islam is not only a religion but also a political system.

Islamist may also refer to:

• Islamist (term), a term often used to refer to Muslims who are politically active and push Islamic ideas of economic justice in the affairs of state. Islamic political movements have a significant anti-imperialist component so the term Islamist was originally coined as a pejorative as in "Islamist terrorists". With the advent of Arab spring revolutions the term has lost its derogatory baggage and is even used by some Islamists to describe themselves as in www.islamist.com
• The Islamist, a self written book by Ed Husain's describing his five years as an Islamic activist