Hodgson coined Islamdom and Islamicate to separate religion from culture

Evidence

In order to foster new ways of thinking about the subject, he created a new (and rather unattractive) vocabulary: ‘Islamdom’ designated the territories within which the Muslims and their religion were predominant; ‘Islamicate’ referred to the culture of those territories; the ‘Oikumene’ was the settled world of high culture that spread over Europe, Asia and Africa. Hodgson argued that Islam’s wide territorial sway from the eighth century onwards served to break down previously existing cultural barriers in the three continents. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 449

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the Islamdom-Islamicate distinction that remains standard in Islamic studies.
• XREF: Analogous to the Christendom vs. Christian-world distinction in western historiography.

Related

• Islamization flowed from the cultural realm into social and political spheres. (similarity 0.79)
• Islamic history resists any single coherent characterization (similarity 0.79)
• Islam as a generic category is a modern, reductive translation of heterogeneous historical formations. (similarity 0.78)