Professor emeritus of the Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3 University and the Catholic Institute of Toulouse, Marie-Thérèse Urvoy has taught Islamology, medieval history of Islam, classical Arabic and Arab philosophy. She is the author or co-author of some twenty books on Islam.
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- When does the word "Islamism" appear as we understand it today, that is to say as a political and radical form of Islam?
Marie-Therèse URVOY.-
It is true that “ism” in Islamism does not have the same value as in “Christianity” or “Buddhism”: it is supposed to add a negative tone.
However, this modern use of the term Islamism has nothing to do with that of the 19th century.
It was then a question of distinguishing religion ("Islam") from civilization ("Islam"), on the model of Christianity and Christianity.
Then from the 1970s, "Islamism" began to designate exclusively an aggressive political variant of Islam.
This resulted in the disappearance ...
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