Islamic state

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Basic topics Islamic fundamentalism · Pan-Islamism · Criticism of Islamism · Political aspects of Islam

Movements Wahhabism · Salafism · Qutbism Islamic revival

Goals Caliphate · Islamic state · Application of Shari'a law

Manifestations Islamic terrorism · Islamization

Concepts Jihad · Kafir · Takfiri · Mujahedeen · Ummah · Divisions of the world in Islam

Key texts Milestones (Qutb) · Islamic Government (Khomeini)  · The Qur'an  · Hadith

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Muslim majority countries and separation of religion and state:
      Islamic states
      Islam is state religion
      secular states
      No particular declaration

An Islamic state has adopted Islam, specifically Sharia, as the ideological foundation for its political institutions (see Political aspects of Islam). Examples include:

• A Caliphate in Sunni Islam;
• An Imamah in Shia Islam;
  • A Wilayat al-Faqih for the Shia in the absence of an Imamah;
• An Islamic republic - a general term for many nation states who officially have a republican system and adopt Islam as the state religion.

See also

• Islamism

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