Tariq Modood is credited as a likely early coiner of the term

Evidence

Somewhat unsurprisingly, the coinage and origins of Islamophobia are also openly disagreed upon where a number of competing stories are in current circulation. Recorded in 1997 by the Hyde Park Christian Fellowship, the first theory suggests that Islamophobia as a term was first coined by a Muslim researcher at the Policy Studies Institute (‘PSI’) in the late 1980s. At the same time though, rather more authoritative sources at the runnymede Trust were claiming something quite different. Given that the term had already been used by the runnymede Trust and had achieved some socio-political discursive resonance, the Hyde Park Christian Fellowship’s theory appears to have little credence. However, it is true that Tariq Modood worked for the PSI in the late 1980s. This is interesting because over half a decade later, a French source – via the european Monitoring Centre on racism and Xenophobia (‘eUMC’) – made a similar claim to that of the Hyde Park Christian Fellowship, specifically citing Modood rather than a mere ‘Muslim researcher’. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 41

Categorization

• XREF: Tariq Modood is a central figure in British Muslim identity and multiculturalism scholarship; connects to the reader’s definitional-camp mapping.

Related

• Islamophobia’s coinage predates the Oxford English Dictionary’s 1991 attribution. (similarity 0.85)
• Islamophobia entered print via distinct British and American usages in 1991 (similarity 0.80)
• The term Islamophobia first appeared in print around 1989 to Huntington’s thesis (similarity 0.79)
• Islamophobia’s coinage predates 1991 and is contested (similarity 0.79)