Islamophobia
nounEtymology From Islamo- + -phobia. Attested since the 1920s, but popularized by a 1976 article by Georges Chahati Anawati.
1
Usually Fear or hatred of Islam or Muslims.
- No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election.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 05 Nov 2025:
- Synonyms
- Muslimophobia, Muslimphobia
- Related terms
- Islamophobe, Islamophobiac, Islamophobian, Islamophobic, Islamophobism, anti-Arabism, anti-Jewism, anti-Semitism, anti-Muslimism, Christianophobia, Germanophobia, Judeophobia