Pan-Islamic

Pan-Islamic adjective: pertaining to all Islamic groups in the world.

Adjective (1)

Pan-Islamic (not comparable)

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

pan-Islamic (not comparable)

(alternative) Alternative form of Pan-Islamic.
- 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

alternative form	pan-Islamic
alternative form	Panislamic

From pan- + Islamic.

What does Pan-Islamic mean?: Pan-Islamic means pertaining to all Islamic groups in the world.
What part of speech is Pan-Islamic?: Pan-Islamic is an adjective.

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