SINCE 1828
Pan-Islam
noun
\ ¦pan+\
variants:
or Pan-Islamism \ "+ \
plural -s
Definition of Pan-Islam
: a political movement launched in Turkey at the end of the 19th century by Sultan Abdul-Hamid II for the purpose of combating the process of westernization and fostering the unification of Islam
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