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'''Islamistan''' ([[Persian language|Persian]], [[Urdu language|Urdu]], [[Arabic language|Arabic]]: اسلامستان) literally means ''Islamland'' or ''land of Islam''. The term is [[Persian language|Persian]], (also used in [[Pashto language|Pashto]] and [[Urdu language|Urdu]]) and refers to the concept of ''[[Dar al-Islam|Dar-ul-Islam]]''.

In [[Afghanistan]] in the early 1980s, anti-Soviet factions came together to try to present a united front for the country. Some of these groups suggested that the name of Afghanistan be changed to ''Islamistan''. <ref>http://texts.cdlib.org:8088/xtf/view?docId=ft7b69p12h&doc.view=content&chunk.id=ch04&toc.depth=1&anchor.id=0&brand=ucpress</ref>

In 1949 the president of [[Muslim League (Pakistan)|Muslim League]] in [[Pakistan]] said in a speech that the country would bring all Muslim countries together under ''Islamistan''. <ref>http://www.e-prism.org/images/Hudson_Book_-_Final_Version_with_all_changes_.pdf</ref>

Daniel Pipes quotes Hafeez Malik of Villanova University who writes that: "Pakistanis have started to speculate that Pakistan's natural habitat includes [[Turkey]], [[Iran]], [[Afghanistan]], and the [[Central Asia]] Republics." Pipes then writes that "Sometimes called ''Islamistan'', this region gets counterpoised against the Arabic-speaking south." <ref>http://www.danielpipes.org/article/242</ref>

Some suggest that [[Imam]] [[Khomeini]] in [[Iran]] also spoke of a united [[Shia]] ''Islamistan'' with Iran as the capital.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}

==See also==
*[[Shu'ubiya]], movement of non-Arab Islamic civilisation

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