Islamist groups

global Islamic organization that serves as the primary reference for many Islamic groups

Palestinian Islamist militant organization

Pan-Islamist and fundamentalist organization

Jihadist militant group in the southwestern Philippines

Southeast Asian salafist yihadist organization

Afghan guerilla insurgent group

Islamist group in Uzbekistan

Shia Islamist militant group based in Iraq

Islamist political party in Malaysia

movements to revive the faith in Islamic history

The Vanguard for the Protection of Muslims in Black Africa ( '), better known as Ansaru and less commonly called al-Qaeda in the Lands Beyond the Sahel''', is an Islamic fundamentalist Jihadist militant organisation originally based in the northeast of Nigeria. Originally a faction of Boko Haram, the group announced in 2012 that it had pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda and was independent. Despite this, Ansaru and other Boko Haram factions continued to work closely together until the former increasingly declined and stopped its insurgent activities in 2013. The group was revived in 2020, and has

Islamic organisation in India

Sri Lankan jihadist group

Turkish Islamist and conservative movement

Islamist organization

militant Islamist organisation

Islamist party in Pakistan

Shia Afghan militia fighting against ISIL in Syria

Hui Chinese Muslim political faction in the Warlord Era

Islamist group in Indonesia

1976–1990s Sudanese political organisation

militant Islamist group in Burkina Faso and Mali

branch of the Islamic State

Jamaat-e-Islami is an Islamist movement founded in 1941 in British India by the author of Tafhim-ul-Quran, Syed Abul Ala Maududi, who developed a conception of "theo-democracy", whereby a state operates in full accordance with Islamic law in all areas of life, and is ruled by the entire Muslim community. While its founding branch in Pakistan has been labelled fundamental, the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami remains politically dominant, serving as the country’s main opposition party and previously holding ministerial positions through coalition governments.

Indonesian hardline Islamist organization

pro-government brigade fighting in Syria composed of Shia Pakistanis

militant salafist jihadist organization in Yemen

separatist military group active during Chechen wars

Participant in the Syrian Civil War and the Libyan Civil War (2014-present)

Jihadist group

Akromiya (sometimes referred to as Akramiya, ) is allegedly an Islamist organization founded by Akrom Yo‘ldoshev.

Islamist group in Somalia

bosniak Islamist organization

Afghan alliance formed in either 1981 or 1985

German islamist

insurgent movement in Southern Thailand

Chechen Islamist organization

Bangladeshi political organization

Bangladeshi political party

Islamist group that operates in the Azawad region of Mali

defunct Islamist terrorist group

Malaysian political coalition

Islam4UK was a radical Islamist group that operated in the United Kingdom. The group was proscribed as a terrorist organisation under the UK's counterterrorism laws on 14 January 2010. Before its proscription it was led by Anjem Choudary.

armed wing of the Islamic Salvation Front

political party in Pakistan

islamic militant separatist organization in South Thailand

terrorist organization

political party in First East Turkestan Republic

Islamist militant insurgent group

Terrorist organisation based in Indonesia

former insurgent group active in Rakhine State, Myanmar between 1972 and 1974

former Rohingya insurgent group

organization

Indonesian paramilitary group

organization

Sudanese Islamist militia

hacker group active since 2023

political party in Bangladesh

Palestinian Syrian armed organization