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Islamophilia

Islamophilia noun: love or admiration of (the values of) Islam or of Islamic civilization.

Noun

Islamophilia (uncountable)

  1. (derogatory, sometimes) Love or admiration of (the values of) Islam or of Islamic civilization.
    Synonyms:
    Muslimophilia
    Antonyms:
    Islamophobia

Synonyms of Islamophilia

Antonyms

Origin of Islamophilia

From Islamo- + -philia.

Questions about Islamophilia

What does Islamophilia mean?
Islamophilia means love or admiration of (the values of) Islam or of Islamic civilization.
What part of speech is Islamophilia?
Islamophilia is a noun.

Words near Islamophilia in the dictionary

  1. Islamology
  2. Islamomisia
  3. Islamonazism
  4. Islamophile
  5. Islamophiles
  6. Islamophilia
  7. Islamophilic
  8. islamophobe
  9. islamophobes
  10. islamophobia
  11. Islamophobiac

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Islamophilia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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