al-Gama''a al-Islamiyya

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Noun
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"