At the same time, an Islamist party, the Islamic Party of Malaysia ( PAS ) and a Chinese socialist party, the Democratic Action Party ( DAP ), gained increasing support, at the expense of UMNO and the MCA respectively.

Hezbollah (, literally " Party of Allah " or " Party of God ") is a Shi ' a Islamic militant group and political party based in Lebanon.

Legislators from the Iraqi Accord Front, Sadrist Movement and Islamic Virtue Party all opposed the bill.

** Islamic Dawa Party ( Hizb al-Da ' wa al-Islamiyya )-led by Nouri al-Maliki

Although the reasons for Saddam Husayn's decision to invade Iran were complicated, the leaders of the Baath Party had long resented Iranian hegemony in the Persian Gulf region and had especially resented the perceived Iranian interference in Iraq's internal affairs both before and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Other lesser known groups include the Islamic Liberation Party, Al-Najun min al-nar and Al-Takfir wa al-Hijra and these groups have variously been involved in activities such as attempted assassinations of political figures, arson of video shops and attempted takeovers of government buildings.

Some of the NIF policies, such as the war with the non-Muslim south, have been reversed, though the National Islamic Front ( now named the National Congress Party ) still holds considerable power in the Sudanese government.

** The second was based in Cyprus and led by Homayoun Jarir, a member of the Islamic Party of his father-in-law, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.

The three most competitive opposition parties are the People's Justice Party ( Parti Keadilan Rakyat in Malay, shortened to PKR ), the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party ( Parti Islam se-Malaysia, or PAS ), and the Democratic Action Party ( DAP ).

The Islamic Party of Malaysia ( PAS ) promotes a more Islamist political agenda, while the Democratic Action Party ( DAP ) promotes a more democratic socialist economic policy.

The opposition Barisan Alternatif coalition, led by the Islamic Party of Malaysia ( PAS ), increased its seats to 42.

Some state governments controlled by the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, including that of Terengganu, have passed Islamic laws, but these have not gone into effect due to opposition from the federal government.

There main parties registered in Maldives are: the Maldivian Democratic Party ( MDP ), the Dhivehi Raiyyithunge Party ( DRP ), the Islamic Democratic Party ( IDP ) and the Adhaalath Party, also known as the Adhaalath Party.

New parties include the Maldivian Peoples Party, the Islamic Democratic Party and the Adhaalath Party.

A number of Bosnian students are currently studying at the International Islamic University Malaysia in Petaling Jaya.

* Malaysian Fatwas collection by Department of Islamic Development Malaysia ( Jakim )

The Yang di-Pertuan Agong is also the head of the Islamic faith in Malaysia.

Debate exists in Malaysia over whether the country should be secular or Islamic.

This move was done as an attempt to put Malaysia in as center for Islamic banking and also to liberalize the financial sector.

* Islamic banking in Malaysia

Malaysia is an active member of various international organisations, including the Commonwealth of Nations, the United Nations, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, and the Non-Aligned Movement.

Nonetheless, Malaysia was active in the opposition to apartheid that saw South Africa quit the Commonwealth in 1961, and was a founding member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) in 1967 and the Organisation of the Islamic Conference ( OIC ) in 1969, with the Tunku as its first Secretary-General in 1971.

Malaysia is a founding member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) and the Organisation of the Islamic Conference ( now the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ).

* Directory of Malaysian Mosques by Islamic Development Department, Malaysia ( Jakim )

* 1985 – Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud.

Jemaah Islamiyah is a militant Islamic terrorist organization dedicated to the establishment of a fundamentalist Islamic theocracy in Southeast Asia, in particular Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, the south of Thailand and the Philippines.

Both countries are members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Sudan has brotherly relations with Malaysia.

Rebana is a Malay tambourine that is used in Islamic devotional music in Southeast Asia, particularly in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, and Singapore.

Notable ones include the Institute of Strategic and International Studies ( ISIS ), Malaysian Strategic Research Centre ( MSRC ), International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies ( IAIS ) Malaysia, Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs ( IDEAS ), Maritime Institute of Malaysia ( MIMA ) and Penang Institute ( formerly Socio-economic and Environmental Research Institute ( SERI )).

Islamic influence had reached East Malaysia from as early as the 15th century while there are also Christian influence beginning the 19th century.

* Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat ( Chief Minister of Kelantan and Spiritual Leader of Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party Malaysia )

* Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, Malaysia

In this Commonwealth nation, the term Rektor is used to refer to the highest administrative official in several universities and higher education institutions in Malaysia, such as the International Islamic University Malaysia in Gombak and the Universiti Teknologi MARA in Perak.

Within the Dewan Rakyat, the parliamentary constituency of Shah Alam ( P108 ) is represented by Khalid Abdul Samad of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party ( PAS ).

However, despite Mahathir's prominence as a backbencher, he lost his seat in the 1969 election, defeated by Yusof Rawa of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party ( PAS ).

A part of the deeply conservative Malay heartlands, Kelantan has been ruled by the Islamic Party of Malaysia ( PAS ) since 1990, with re-elections in 1995, 1999 and 2004.

For years, PAS has attempted to impose a strict interpretation of Islamic Law on Kelantan.

In the 2004 general election, Abdullah Badawi's first as prime minister, he delivered a landslide victory for his party's coalition National Front ( of which UMNO is the dominant party ) by winning 198 out of 220 seats in parliament and wresting control of the Terengganu state government from the Islamist opposition Islamic Party of Malaysia ( PAS ), as well as coming close to capturing the traditional PAS stronghold of Kelantan.

When the results were released, it emerged that the Alliance had won 51 of the 52 seats contested, with the other seat going to PAS ( the Pan-Malayan Islamic Party, a group of Islamists that split from UMNO ).

In this, it was aided by PAS, the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, which backed special rights for the Bumiputra, and the strengthening of Islam's position in public affairs.

But of late, many Malay politicians have strongly tried to revive the spirit of Malay nationalism and patriotism but with more emphasize on Malay unity and go back to Islam doctrine as to counter PAS claimed that the party is the one and only Islamic party in the country.

* Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party ( PAS ), a political party in Malaysia

The Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party () ( Jawi: ڤرتي اسلام س-مليسيا ) commonly known as PAS or Pas, is an Islamist political party in Malaysia and is currently headed by Dato ' Seri Abdul Hadi Awang.

PAS positions itself as a political party that aims to establish Malaysia as a country based on Islamic legal theory derived from the primary sources of Islam, the Quran, Sunnah as well as Hadiths, as opposed to Barisan Nasional's Islam Hadhari, which PAS sees as based on a watered-down understanding of Islam.

When the ulama faction in UMNO broke away from the party, they formed an association called Persatuan Islam Sa-Malaya ( PIS ) ( Pan-Malayan Islamic Association ), abbreviated as PAS.

PAS is of the view that its leadership can overcome these perceived problems for the benefit of the Muslim and non-Muslim electorate alike by establishing an Islamic state.

As an Islamic political party, PAS takes a lead at local level in opposing forms of entertainment that will damage society's morals.

During the leading up to the 2008 elections, PAS had rarely mentioned about the setting up of an Islamic state, which has been one of the party's main objective throughout the history.

In a later interview with online news portal IslamOnline. net, PAS Research Centre head Dr. Dzulkefly Ahmad would come to describe this as a " substantive approach " i. e. by incorporating Islamic elements of justice and fair play in state administration, rather than get embroiled in what he termed "( mere ) semantics ".

On October 24, 1999, the four largest opposition parties — the Islamic Party of Malaysia ( PAS ), the Democratic Action Party ( DAP ), the National Justice Party ( Keadilan ) and the Malaysian People's Party -- announced an electoral alliance and issued a joint manifesto.

From the very beginning, the alliance had been strained by PAS's unwillingness to publicly renounce its aim of making Malaysia an Islamic state, a position that was anathema to Malaysia's 45 % non-Muslim minority, although a temporary compromise was achieved when PAS did not include the issue in the joint manifesto.

It left the coalition in 2001 due to a disagreement with PAS over the issue of an Islamic state.