Islamism
Political movement advocating a state governed by sharia and Islamic identity, born with Hassan al-Banna's and Sayyid Qutb's Muslim Brotherhood, combining mass activism, religious social welfare and rejection of Western secularism.
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Political movement advocating a state governed by sharia and Islamic identity, born with Hassan al-Banna's and Sayyid Qutb's Muslim Brotherhood, combining mass activism, religious social welfare and rejection of Western secularism.
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I want an Islamic society guided by sharia, with believers organized from the mosques and a zakat economy free of usury.
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Our Islamism model centers on islamic society guided by sharia, with believers organized from the mosques and a zakat economy free of usury. That core does not specify the constitutional allocation of power between territorial units and a center. Administrative centralization, social equality and opposition to the state are different claims from a federal constitution.

Our Islamism model centers on islamic society guided by sharia, with believers organized from the mosques and a zakat economy free of usury. That core does not specify who can choose, replace and hold political decision-makers accountable. A social or economic objective does not by itself establish elections, popular sovereignty or an unelected ruling elite.

Our Islamism model centers on islamic society guided by sharia, with believers organized from the mosques and a zakat economy free of usury. That core does not specify the permissible use of public coercion versus protected personal autonomy. The form of government does not alone establish the extent of surveillance, repression or civil liberty.

Our Islamism definition includes “political movement advocating a state governed by sharia and Islamic identity, born with Hassan al-Banna's and Sayyid Qutb's Muslim Brotherhood”. A universal or egalitarian horizon informs the cultural model, but specific migration rules remain underdetermined.

Our Islamism model centers on islamic society guided by sharia, with believers organized from the mosques and a zakat economy free of usury. That core does not specify the political role of organized armed force and acceptance of war. Domestic coercion, economic state intervention and national pride do not by themselves establish militarism or pacifism.


Sharia, electoral religion or Islamic economic justice describes public rules at home, not a necessary foreign military doctrine. The current coordinate is retained as a particular catalogue political strand; Islamic affiliation or juristic authority alone does not determine intervention.

Our Islamism definition includes “combining mass activism, religious social welfare and rejection of Western secularism”. The ownership that is retained or rejected matters; opposition to private property, monopoly or state ownership must not be read as endorsement of that institution.

Our Islamism model centers on islamic society guided by sharia, with believers organized from the mosques and a zakat economy free of usury. That core does not specify how production and allocation are coordinated through plans or decentralized exchange. Public ownership can coexist with markets, and private firms can operate under directed planning.


Our Islamism model centers on islamic society guided by sharia, with believers organized from the mosques and a zakat economy free of usury. That core does not specify cross-border trade, capital flows and economic integration. Domestic market freedom and international cultural solidarity are different claims from a free-trade policy.

The definition explicitly seeks state law guided by sharia and rejects Western secularism. That is a governance claim, not simply Muslim identity; Khomeini supplies a comparative juristic argument but does not define the Sunni activist movements named here.

Our Islamism model centers on islamic society guided by sharia, with believers organized from the mosques and a zakat economy free of usury. That core does not specify public attitudes toward inherited customs, family, gender and social change. Economic redistribution, technological novelty and a religious affiliation do not uniquely determine every moral position.


Our Islamism model centers on islamic society guided by sharia, with believers organized from the mosques and a zakat economy free of usury. That core does not specify the priority given to technological transformation versus ecological or bodily limits. Historical age, rural life and scientific reasoning do not by themselves establish acceptance or rejection of all technology.

Leans further toward religious governance than 97% of the 250 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion in governance is where it stands furthest from the rest.

On Control, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.

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