The Tower Hamlets College was featured in the book of The Islamist by Ed Husain.
During August 2004, the MEU, led an assault consisting of 1st Battalion, 4th Marines; 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division; and 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, against the Islamist Mahdi Army of Muqtada al-Sadr in Najaf.
While political parties are technically illegal in Kuwait, Al-Shayji affiliates with the Islamist Hadas party.
The attacker was an unemployed Palestinian 25-year-old Wahib Abu Rub from Qabatiya, a member of the Islamist militant organization Hamas.
Aishah stood unsuccessfully in the 2013 Malaysian election for the Islamist opposition party, PAS, in the Jempol seat.
Abdelaziz Bouteflika: candidate of a coalition including the Islamist Movement for the Society of Peace (MSP) and the National Rally for Democracy Assembly (RND), as well as a dissident faction of the National Liberation Front (FLN)
It was followed by its two governing partners, the National Rally for Democracy (RND), with 61, and the Islamist Movement of Society for Peace (MSP), with 52 seats.
During the Northern Mali conflict in 2012, the main Tuareg rebel group, the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) lost the region to the Islamist groups Ansar Dine, Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA) and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, the Islamist organization in Bangladesh, separated from Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan after Bangladesh was formed
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, the Islamist organization that emerged from Jamaat-e-Islami in India after the Partition of 1947
He was a panelist at the 2006 Paris conference "Les démocraties face au défi islamiste" (The democracies in the face of the Islamist challenge) organised by the Center for Security Policy and L’institut pour la Défense de la Démocratie.
Omar previously described himself as a "radical muslim" and supporter of the islamist movements Hamas and Hezbollah, seeing the late Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini as a role model for islamist resistance movements.
The Islamist candidates tended to be backed by public figures and the religious establishment and won most of the seats in the Saudi cities such as Riyadh, Jeddah, Medina, Tabuk and Taif.
Qazi Hussain Ahmad (born 1938), president of the Islamist political party in Pakistan
During the 1980s Tadmor prison housed thousands of Syrian prisoners, both political and criminal and it was also the scene of the June 27, 1980 Tadmor Prison massacre of prisoners by Rifaat al-Assad, the day after the Syrian branch of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood failed in an attempt to assassinate his brother, president Hafez al-Assad.