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Islamocentric

Islamocentric

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Adjective

Islamocentric (comparative more Islamocentric, superlative most Islamocentric)

  1. Centred on or overemphasizing Islam and/or Muslims.
    • 1999, Rachel Mason & Doug Boughton, Beyond Multicultural Art Education: International Perspectives, Waxman (1999), ISBN 3893257837, page 88:
      The above courses have been under-resourced, hence marginalised, which has led to demands for Afrocentric or Islamocentric knowledge to counteract Eurocentrism.
    • 2007, Mohamed A. Mahmoud, Quest for Divinity: A Critical Examination of the Thought of Mahmud Muhammad Taha, Syracuse University Press (2007), ISBN 9780815631002, page 47:
      The third view was Islamocentric in nature, maintaining that it is the point where the spiritual progress of all those who do not belong to Muhammad's community or follow his way comes to a standstill.
    • 2010, P. R. Kumaraswamy, India's Israel Policy, Columbia University Press (2010), ISBN 9780231152044, page 214:
      The Rabat conference underscored the emergence of Islamocentric politics (as opposed to Nasser's brand of secular Arab socialism) in the Middle East, []

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