Abu Sayyaf (;, ASG, ) also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya is one of several military Islamist separatist groups based in and around the southern Philippines, in Bangsamoro ( Jolo and Basilan ), where for almost 30 years various Muslim groups have been engaged in an insurgency for an independent province in the country.

* 2001 – Members of Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an upscale island resort on Palawan in the Philippines ; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.

Specifically, it is an Islamist separatist group based in and around the southern islands of the Republic of the Philippines, primarily Jolo, Basilan, and Mindanao.

The 1990s were plagued by armed conflicts in the North Caucasus, both local ethnic skirmishes and separatist Islamist insurrections.

The Moscow theater hostage crisis, also known as the 2002 Nord-Ost siege, was the seizure of the crowded Dubrovka Theater on 23 October 2002 by some 40 to 50 armed Chechens who claimed allegiance to the Islamist militant separatist movement in Chechnya.

On October 31, 2007, Zakayev officially distanced himself from the newly-resigned Chechen separatist leader Doku Umarov and the Chechen Islamist ideologist Movladi Udugov, who together had declared the creation of Caucasus Emirate in the place of abolished ChRI.

Most of the organizations on the list are Islamist extremist groups, with the remainder being mainly communist groups, followed by nationalist / separatist groups.

Specifically, it is an Islamist separatist group based in and around the southern islands of the Republic of the Philippines, primarily Jolo, Basilan, and Mindanao.

* Hizbullahî Kurdî of Turkey, unrelated to the above, is a Kurdish, Sunni Islamist, separatist group in Turkey.

* Abu Sayyaf, an Islamist separatist groups based in and around the southern Philippines

These developments gave rise to the Islamist and Islamic movement opposed to the increasing communist and Soviet influence over Afghanistan.

According to Roy Gutman, after the failed counter-coup, this " opened a profound and long-lasting schism " among the Islamist and Islamic movement.

The Islamist movement started.

His " encouraging of the emergence of the Islamist movement " was said to have been " imitated by many other Muslim leaders in the years that followed.

The strength of the Islamist movement was manifest in an event which might have seemed sure to turn Muslim public opinion against fundamentalism, but did just the opposite.

Another factor in the early 1990s that worked to radicalize the Islamist movement was the Gulf War, which brought several hundred thousand US and allied non-Muslim military personnel to Saudi Arabian soil to put an end to Saddam Hussein's occupation of Kuwait.

An Islamist movement influenced by Salafism and the jihad in Afghanistan, as well as the Muslim Brotherhood, was the FIS or Front Islamique de Salut ( the Islamic Salvation Front ) in Algeria.

An influential international Islamist movement is the ' party ' Hizb ut-Tahrir, founded in 1953 by an Islamic Qadi ( judge ) Taqiuddin al-Nabhani.

The Islamist movement: Since the 1970s, the Islamist movements have become prominent ; their goals are the establishment of Islamic states and sharia not just within their own borders, their means are political in nature.

Abdel-Rahman was accused of being the leader of Al-Gama ' a al-Islamiyya ( also known as " The Islamic Group "), a militant Islamist movement in Egypt that is considered a terrorist organization by the United States and Egyptian governments.

JI has its roots in Darul Islam ( DI, meaning " House of Islam "), a radical Islamist / anti-colonialist movement in Indonesia in the 1940s.

Neuroscientist and best-selling author Sam Harris, noted mainly for his contribution to the New Atheism movement, criticized CAIR by doubting their legitimacy saying CAIR is " an Islamist public relations firm posing as a civil-rights lobby ".

The arrests of hundreds more activists, including prominent leaders of the movement, Shaykh Abdelatif Sultani and Shaykh Ahmed Sahnoun resulted in a lessening of Islamist actions for several years.

Yezid Sayigh documents these events, especially the role of Fatah and the Tripoli Islamist movement known as Tawhid, in changing the agenda being pursued by many groups, including Communists.

Islamists claim that the origins of Islam as a political movement are to be found in the life and times of Islam's prophet, Muhammad and his successors, ( depending on the Islamist ).

Some modern interpretations of the role of the Majlis ash-Shura include those by Islamist author Sayyid Qutb and by Taqiuddin al-Nabhani, the founder of a transnational political movement devoted to the revival of the Caliphate.

A symbol of the success of this system is the current popularity of the Islamist movement which seeks to restore the Islamist state.

It was largely through reactive measures that the movement that is labeled Islamist came to be visible to the West, where it was labeled as being a distinct movement from Islam, pan-Arabism and resistance to colonization.

In this view, the movement called Islamist is wholly reactive and incidental, just a convenient rationale used to justify what is in fact resistance of a cultural and economic sort.

Others accept the Russian pledge as sincere, and believe that Islamist movements of all stripes will eventually come to accommodation with domestic secular forces, and Islam as a global anti-corruption, anti-colonialism, and anti-racism movement, less focused on Zionism and Palestine.

Syed Ali Shah Geelani (; born 29 September 1929 ) is a Islamist political leader from Jammu and Kashmir.

It was the third most successful party, after the moderate Islamist Freedom & Justice Party with 213 seats, and the more conservative Islamist Al-Nour Party with 107 seats.

* Islamist Militancy in Kashmir: The Case of the Lashkar-i Tayyeba – by Prof. Yoginder Sikand

He challenges the common assumption that terrorism is the threat that the United States is facing in the modern era, arguing rather that Islamist insurgency ( and not " terrorism ") is the core of the conflict between the U. S. and Islamist forces, who in places such as Kashmir, Xinjiang, and Chechnya are " struggling not just for independence but against institutionalized barbarism.

After the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union, Mujahideen fighters, with the aid of Pakistan, slowly infiltrated Kashmir with the goal of spreading a radical Islamist ideology.

Today, sister organizations with similar objectives and ideological approaches exist in India, ( Jamaat-e-Islami Hind ), Bangladesh ( Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh ), Kashmir, Afghanistan, and Sri Lanka, and there are " close brotherly relations " with the Islamist movements and missions " working in different continents and countries ", particularly those affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood or Akhwan-al-Muslimeen.

However, reform of the law has been resisted by the leading Shia Islamist party, Al Wefaq, resulting in a major political showdown with women's rights activists.

The federal police further recognizes some activity by extremist Islamist groups as well as extremist or violent ethnic Albanian, Turkish, Kurdish and Tamil groups which mostly remain under-cover and aim at funding their activities.

Mahathir attributed the loss of his seat to ethnic Chinese voters switching support from UMNO to PAS ( being a Malay-dominated seat, only the two major Malay parties fielded candidates, leaving Chinese voters to choose between the Malay-centric UMNO and the Islamist PAS ).

The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan ( IMU, ) is a militant Islamist group formed in 1991 by the Islamic ideologue Tahir Yuldashev, and former Soviet paratrooper Juma Namangani — both ethnic Uzbeks from the Fergana Valley.

Mulana Abul Ala Maududi adopted this Modern Islamist ideology after analyzing all factors including Khilafat Movement, end of Ottoman Caliphate by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, leadership crisis in Muslims, Indian Nationalism ’ s influence over Muslims, aggressive attitude of Indian National Congress and Hindus and trying to merge Muslims in Hindu religion.