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The 52 pages that link to Islamism, each with the reason it gives.

• Arab SpringRelated: Islamist parties gained electoral influence in some post-uprising transitions, provoking political disputes.

• Arab nationalismCompared with: Islamist movements ground political solidarity in Islam rather than Arab ethnicity or language alone.

• TalibanNarrower topic: The Taliban is one movement within this broad and internally diverse political tradition.

• Turkish nationalismCompared with: Its religious basis of solidarity can conflict with secular nationalist definitions of belonging.

• Islamic modernismCompared with: Modernism is an intellectual reform movement, while Islamism centers political projects and state power.

• SalafismCompared with: Salafi Islamists engage organized politics more actively than quietist currents generally do.

• Ruhollah KhomeiniNarrower topic: Khomeini became a prominent model for movements seeking Islamic political rule.

• Afghan mujahideenRelated: Islamist ideas informed several leading parties, though the resistance also included other currents.

• Pan-IslamismRelated: Islamism may focus on national politics, while Pan-Islamism specifically emphasizes Muslim unity across borders.

• WahhabismNarrower topic: Debates often ask how Wahhabi religious reform relates to modern political Islam.

• Ba'athismCompared with: Its religious basis challenges Ba'athism's secular account of Arab political identity.

• Religious nationalismRelated: Some forms connect Muslim identity, political sovereignty, and national projects.

• ShuraRelated: Islamist thinkers have invoked shura while disagreeing about elections, representation, and authority.

• Islam in IndonesiaCompared with: It distinguishes political projects from the broader range of Indonesian Muslim religious life.

• Islamic feminismCompared with: Islamic feminist positions vary in relation to Islamist politics and its approaches to gender.

• Islamic lawCompared with: A political ideology is distinct from the broad historical body of juristic law.

• Islamic revivalRelated: It translates religious renewal into programs for state, law, and society.

• Michel AflaqCompared with: Aflaq drew on Islam as Arab heritage but grounded Ba'athist politics in secular nationalism.

• Rashid RidaNarrower topic: Rida’s political thought became one influential source for later movements seeking Islamic governance.

• JihadCompared with: Political Islam is not equivalent to jihad, though some movements connect the ideas.

• JihadismCompared with: Jihadism is a militant subset, not a synonym for the broader range of Islamist politics.

• KemalismCompared with: It offers a competing account of religion’s place in the Turkish state and public sphere.

• Religious fundamentalismRelated: Some Islamist movements share anti-secular mobilization, though Islamism is not synonymous with fundamentalism.

• Muslim BrotherhoodNarrower topic: The Brotherhood is one influential movement within this broader family of projects.

• Political IslamRelated: This closely related term often names the ideological projects grouped under Political Islam.

• Iraqi nationalismCompared with: Islamist movements ground political solidarity in religion rather than Iraq’s territorial nationhood.

• NasserismCompared with: Islamist groups offered a rival basis for political legitimacy to Nasserism’s secular Arab nationalism.

• Islamic socialismRelated: Islamic socialism shares an Islamic political frame, but gives economic equality and redistribution distinctive weight.

• People’s Democratic Party of AfghanistanCompared with: Islamist movements became the party’s most consequential ideological opponents and insurgent adversaries.

• Salafi jihadismNarrower topic: Salafi jihadism is a militant current within this broader political family.

• Ayman al-ZawahiriNarrower topic: His militant politics formed one violent strand within a much wider field of Islamist thought.

• Ba'athist SyriaCompared with: Islamist movements challenged the regime's secular Arab nationalist claims and were often repressed.

• Bülent EcevitCompared with: Ecevit's secular politics contrasted with the Islamist parties that became coalition partners and competitors.

• Hassan al-BannaNarrower topic: Al-Banna’s program was an influential early model of organized Islamic political activism.

• Sayyid QutbNarrower topic: Qutb became one of the most widely read theorists associated with modern Islamism.

• Islam in EgyptNarrower topic: Egyptian Islamist movements are among the most influential modern expressions of Islam in the country.

• Mohamed MorsiNarrower topic: Morsi’s political identity and the Brotherhood’s program belonged to this wider, contested tradition.

• Fethullah GülenNarrower topic: This broader political category helps distinguish Gülen’s civic and educational strategy from party-centered Islamic politics.

• Islamic fundamentalismRelated: The label overlaps with political Islam but does not make every fundamentalist movement an Islamist one.

• JahiliyyahNarrower topic: Modern reinterpretations of jahiliyyah became influential in some Islamist political thought.

• Charlie Hebdo shootingNarrower topic: The attackers invoked jihadist ideology, though Islamism encompasses movements unlike their violent faction.

• Islam and democracyRelated: Islamist movements differ over elections, pluralism, and whether religious law should constrain elected authority.

• Islamic reformCompared with: It overlaps with some reform programs but specifically foregrounds Islam’s political role.

• 2004 Madrid train bombingsNarrower topic: The perpetrators drew on a violent jihadist interpretation, not Islamism as a whole.

• Hizb ut-TahrirNarrower topic: Hizb ut-Tahrir belongs to this broad political current.

• FemenRelated: Femen has staged actions against what it characterizes as Islamist control of women’s rights.

• History of IslamRelated: It emerged in modern contexts shaped by state-building, colonialism, and social change.

• Malaysian Islamic PartyNarrower topic: PAS belongs to a broader movement seeking political expression for Islam.

• Mohamed AttaRelated: Atta’s militant ideology developed within a political-religious context, not from Egyptian origin alone.

• Samantha LewthwaiteNarrower topic: Lewthwaite’s reported militancy is discussed within this broad, internally diverse movement.