Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun al-gama'a_al-islamiyya
1 sense of al-gama'a al-islamiyya
Sense 1
al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, Islamic Group -- (a terrorist organization of militant Islamists organized into tiny cells of extreme fundamentalists; emerged during the 1970s mainly in Egyptian jails; "al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya uses force to push Egyptian society toward Islamic rule")
INSTANCE OF=> terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO -- (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)