An Islamic state definition
An Islamic state means a system for implementing shari’a within the framework of a modern sovereign nation-state. It is the common agenda in the mainstream Islamist movements in the world, such as the Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East. ABIM members and people from ABIM, who have joined UMNO to promote the Islamization policies, do not deny the establishment of an Islamic state as a distant future goal, but they consider it necessary to advance gradual Islamization as preliminary steps toward it. ABIM’s assertion on Islamization is influenced by the Islamization argument of Syed Muhammad Naguib Al Attas, and Islamization in this sense means recreation of modern knowledge systems in line with shari’a and dissemination of Islamized knowledge. Syed Muhammad Naguib Al Attas. Islam and Secularism. 1978, Kuala Lumpur: ABIM.