1906 Westm. Gaz. 5 Oct. 12/1The incident itself is but the last in a long series of the Islamophil manifestations that were first made a fashionable vogue in England by Lord Palmerston's discovery that the Turk was more of a gentleman than the Russian.
1981 T. S. Halman in D. C. Cutrell et al. Change & Muslim World xv. 158Only if an eruption of the Crusades pits the Muslim world against non-Muslims, Turkey might become part of an Islamo-centrist alignment.
1991 Raritan Summer 26 The whole effort to deconsecrate Eurocentrism cannot be interpreted..as an effort to supplant Eurocentrism with, for instance, Afrocentric or Islamocentric approaches.
2001 Jrnl. Amer. OrientalSoc.
121 111/1 In Iberia itself there were at least three competing trends in the fifteenth century: Islamophilia, peaceful conversion,..and warfare.
1954 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. &Soc. Sci.
293 212/2 would have done well to pay some attention to Islamo-Arab feelings. [ He]
1969 Jrnl. Relig. inAfr. 2 150Travel..for the express purpose of studying the Islamo-Christian encounter.
1976 Guardian Weekly 24 Oct. 12/4 Their..‘Islamo-Marxist’ ideologies are woolly and, judging by their written statements, their goals modest.
1994 Europe-Asia Stud. 46 410Conservatives saw ‘Islamo-democrats’ as naive.
Islamo-Islam-
Prefix
- Pertaining to Islam or Muslims.
Etymology
From Islam + -o-.