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In addition to the legitimacy given by medieval scholarly opinion, nostalgia for the days of successful Islamic empire simmered under later Western colonialism.

This nostalgia played a major role in the Islamist political ideal of Islamic state, a state in which Islamic law is preeminent.

The Islamist political program is generally to be accomplished by re-shaping the governments of existing Muslim nation-states ; but the means of doing this varies greatly across movements and circumstances.

Many Islamist movements, such as the Jamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh, have found that they can use the democratic process to their advantage, and so focus on votes and coalition-building with other political parties.

Other more radical movements such as Jama ' atul Mujahideen Bangladesh embrace militant Islamic ideology.