AL-GAMA'A AL-ISLAMIYYA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya mean? 

• AL-GAMA'A AL-ISLAMIYYA (noun)
  The noun AL-GAMA'A AL-ISLAMIYYA has 1 sense:

1. a terrorist organization of militant Islamists organized into tiny cells of extreme fundamentalists; emerged during the 1970s mainly in Egyptian jails

  Familiarity information: AL-GAMA'A AL-ISLAMIYYA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AL-GAMA'A AL-ISLAMIYYA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A terrorist organization of militant Islamists organized into tiny cells of extreme fundamentalists; emerged during the 1970s mainly in Egyptian jails

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya; Islamic Group

Context example:

al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya uses force to push Egyptian society toward Islamic rule

Instance hypernyms:

foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)

Domain category:

act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

Domain region:

Arab Republic of Egypt; Egypt; United Arab Republic (a republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC)