Islamophobia

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Alternative forms

islamophobia, Islamaphobia

Etymology

From Islamo- +‎ -phobia. Attested since the 1920s, but popularized by a 1976 article by Georges Chahati Anawati.

Noun

Islamophobia (usually uncountable, plural Islamophobias)

Fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims.
- 2025 November 5, Zohran Mamdani, “The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 November 2025:
  No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election.

Usage notes

This term is generally used to describe discrimination against Muslims and Islam on the basis of fear, misunderstanding, ignorance or political bias. However, it is sometimes abused by Islamists and extreme Muslims, who claim that opposition to their beliefs is also opposition against Islam in general.

Synonyms

Muslimophobia (uncommon, nonstandard)
Muslimphobia

Related terms

Translations

fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims

Afrikaans: islamofobie
Arabic: رُهَاب الْإِسْلَام m (ruhāb al-ʔislām), إِسْلَامُوفُوبِيَا f (ʔislāmufūbiyā)
Moroccan Arabic: إسلاموفوبيا f (ʔislāmufūbiyā)
Armenian: իսլամաֆոբիա (islamafobia), իսլամատյացություն (islamatyacʻutʻyun)
Azerbaijani: islamofobiya
Belarusian: ісламафо́бія f (islamafóbija)
Bulgarian: ислямофо́бия (bg) f (isljamofóbija)
Catalan: islamofòbia (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 伊斯蘭恐懼症 / 伊斯兰恐惧症 (Yīsīlán kǒngjùzhèng)
Corsican: islamufubia f, islamufubìa f
Czech: islamofobie f
Danish: islamofobi c
Dutch: islamofobie (nl) f
Estonian: islamofoobia
Finnish: islamofobia (fi)
French: islamophobie (fr) f
Galician: islamofobia f
Georgian: ისლამოფობია (ka) (islamopobia)
German: Islamophobie (de) f, Islamhass m, Islamfeindlichkeit (de) f, Islamfeindschaft f
Greek: ισλαμοφοβία (el) f (islamofovía)
Hebrew: אסלאמופוביה
Hindi: इस्लामभीति f (islāmbhīti)
Icelandic: íslamsfælni
Indonesian: islamofobia
Irish: Ioslamafóibe f
Italian: islamofobia (it) f, antislamismo m
Japanese: イスラム恐怖症 (Isuramu-kyōfushō)
Kazakh: ислам фобиясы (islam fobiäsy)
Korean: 이슬람 혐오증 (Iseullam hyeomojeung)
Latvian: islāmfobija f
Lithuanian: islamofobija f
Macedonian: исламофо́бија f (islamofóbija)
Malay: islamofobia
Norwegian:
Bokmål: islamofobi (no) m

Nynorsk: islamofobi m
Occitan: islamofòbia f
Persian: اسلام‌هراسی (eslâm-harâsi), اسلام‌ستیزی f
Polish: islamofobia (pl) f
Portuguese: islamofobia (pt) f
Romanian: islamofobie f
Russian: исламофо́бия (ru) f (islamofóbija)
Scots: Islamophobie
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: исламофобија f

Roman: islamofobija f
Slovak: islamofóbie f
Slovene: islamofobija f
Spanish: islamofobia (es) f
Swedish: islamofobi (sv) c
Turkish: islamofobi (tr), İslamofobi
Ukrainian: ісламофо́бія f (islamofóbija)
Urdu: اسلام دشمنی (islām-duśmanī), اسلام ہراسی (islām-hirāsī)

References

Oxford English Dictionary (online) 2007

Anagrams

Somaliphobia

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