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Definition of Islamic Unity

1. Noun. A fundamentalist Islamic group in Somalia who initially did fundraising for al-Qaeda; responsible for ambushing United States Army Rangers and for terrorist bombings in Ethiopia; believed to have branches in several countries.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Islamic Unity

Literary usage of Islamic Unity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Afghanistan: The First Five Years of Soviet Occupation by J. Bruce Amstutz (1994)
"Charter of Islamic Unity of Afghanistan Mujahideen (undated, 1981?). 25. ... Islamic Unity of Afghanistan, Inc., Holy War to Free Afghanistan from Soviet ..."

2. World Report 2002: The Events of 2001 by Human Rights Watch (Organization (2002)
"The IUM, one of three Islamist groups which broke away at different times from the mainstream Islamic Unity Movement in Kurdistan (IUMK) and in September ..."

3. The Azerbaijani Turks: Power and Identity Under Russian Rule by Audrey L. Altstadt (1992)
"Yet they, and even the Social Democrats, had to employ the rhetoric of Islamic unity (with the anticolonial appeals of socialism and of guarantees of ..."

4. International Religious Freedom (2000): Report to Congress by the Department edited by Barbara Larkin (2001)
"Qibla leaders dominate the Islamic Unity Convention (IUC), an umbrella body formed in 1994 that claims to ..."

5. Low-Intensity Conflict in the Third World by Stephen Blank, Lewis B. Ware, Air University (U.S.). Press (1988)
"He exhorted the Brothers to keep before them the ultimate aims of Islamic unity and the restoration of the caliphate. Most important, al-Banna demanded that ..."

6. Egypt's Bid for Arab Leadership: Implications for U.S. Policy by Gregory L. Aftandilian (1993)
"... changed internally before there is real Islamic unity—the GCC regimes may believe that keeping involved in Arab affairs, whether by paying lip service ..."

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