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  • noun Love or admiration of (the values of) Islam or of Islamic civilization.

Etymologies

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Islamo- + -philia or Islam + -o- +‎ -philia.

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Examples

  • Added later - thanks to Kenan Malik to pointing me to his excellent essay on Islamophobia and Islamophilia to expand this consideration.

    Archive 2009-11-01 Brian Clegg 2009

  • Added later - thanks to Kenan Malik to pointing me to his excellent essay on Islamophobia and Islamophilia to expand this consideration.

    Can you have a religious phobia? Brian Clegg 2009

  • Presumably it's meant to convince Muslims of our sincere Islamophilia.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • With all this dysfunction, it would not be surprising if there is a wave of Islamophilia across the border.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Malcolm Edwards, your reluctance to face up to the reality of the creeping Islamophilia spreading through the upper echelons of our society will not actually make the problem go away.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2007

  • The truth is our government is so afflicted by Islamophilia we really cannot trust anything they say on this subject.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2007

  • I'm unsure as to whether this is ignorance, naievity, or Islamophilia.

    EU Aid, With Strings Serf 2007

  • Bloomberg runs a worldwide financial media corporation, but virtually nobody has asked whether his vociferous Islamophilia could have a pecuniary component.

    FRC Blog 2010

  • In the spasm of western Islamophilia that followed the terrorist attacks of 2001, the myth of medieval Muslim learnedness and medieval European illiteracy gained strong new power for the Left whose acolytes have disseminated it with vigor from their ensconcement in the colleges and universities.

    Assyrian International News Agency 2009

  • In the spasm of western Islamophilia that followed the terrorist attacks of 2001, the myth of medieval Muslim learnedness and medieval European illiteracy gained strong new power for the Left whose acolytes have disseminated it with vigor from their ensconcement in the colleges and universities.

    Gates of Vienna 2009

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