Islamist political movements & currents
Names and abbreviations on this page
AKP — Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi — Justice and Development Party. A political party in Türkiye; its own English branding is AK Party.
PJD — Parti de la Justice et du Développement — Justice and Development Party. A Moroccan political party; the abbreviation comes from its French name.
PKS — Partai Keadilan Sejahtera — Prosperous Justice Party. An Indonesian political party.
PAS — Parti Islam Se-Malaysia — Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party. An Islamist political party in Malaysia.
ISIS — Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. A name for the terrorist organisation also called Islamic State; the label describes that organisation, not Muslims generally.
Fifteen movement traditions and political cases, from electoral participation to coercive or violent projects. These are not a complete or representative census of Muslims.
How to read this category
Islamist is an analytical term for projects that connect interpretations of Islam to political order. The selection includes peaceful or electoral participation and coercive or violent organizations, clearly distinguished on each page. It does not imply equivalence between them or indicate their relative prevalence. Country cases overlap; historical sources are labeled and legal designations are jurisdiction-specific.
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- Muslim Brotherhood gradualism
- Jamaat-e-Islami and constitutional Islamism
- Ennahda and Muslim democracy
- Turkey’s AKP and conservative religious politics
- Morocco’s PJD and monarchical participation
- Indonesia’s PKS and cadre-based electoral Islamism
- Malaysia’s PAS and ulama-led party politics
- Electoral Salafism
- Hizb ut-Tahrir and transnational caliphate politics
- Khomeinism and guardianship of the jurist
- Hezbollah’s party-and-militia model
- Hamas and Palestinian nationalist Islamism
- The Taliban and emirate governance
- Al-Qaeda’s transnational jihadism
- ISIS and coercive caliphate ideology
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Islamic traditions, schools & currents