The term Islamophobia first appeared in print around 1989 to Huntington’s thesis

Evidence

Bookended between the events of 1989 and the publication of Huntington’s thesis, an embryonic Islamophobia – or at least an embryonic anti-Muslim, anti-Islamic phenomenon – began to be recognised. This embryonic shift was the impetus for the Oxford English Dictionary to record the first use of the word ‘Islamophobia’ in print, notable for it being the first time in which Islamophobia was referred to as a specifically anti-Muslim, anti-Islamic phenomenon emanating from non-Muslims and directed at Muslims. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 251

Categorization

• DEFINE: Pinpoints the OED’s recorded first print use and its original semantic scope — foundational data for the definitional-camps survey.
• QUESTION: Allen hedges the citation oddly; worth chasing the exact OED entry and whether earlier usages (e.g. in French scholarship) predate it.
• XREF: connects to: The OED’s first cited use defined Islamophobia as a directed anti-Muslim phenomenon; Islamophobia entered print via distinct British and American usages in 1991

Related

• The OED’s first cited use defined Islamophobia as a directed anti-Muslim phenomenon (similarity 0.89)
• Islamophobia entered print via distinct British and American usages in 1991 (similarity 0.89)
• Islamophobia’s coinage predates 1991 and is contested (similarity 0.86)
• Islamophobia’s coinage predates the Oxford English Dictionary’s 1991 attribution. (similarity 0.85)
• Islamophobia’s contestation stems from a failure to define or conceptualise it. (similarity 0.83)
• Islamophobia as a term originated as an activist denunciatory label, not an analytical concept (similarity 0.83)
• The Runnymede Trust popularized the term Islamophobia in 1997. (similarity 0.82)
• The term Islamophobia demands a better-grounded, contestable definition (similarity 0.82)
• Conceptualizing Islamophobia must separate its forms from the phenomenon itself (similarity 0.81)
• The term Islamophobia was nearly absent from the British press during 1998–2003. (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobia originated as a defined term in a 1997 British report (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobia denotes fear, hatred, and hostility toward Muslims and Islam. (similarity 0.81)
• The term Islamophobia entered policy prominence through Runnymede’s 1997 report. (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobia persists as a term despite definitional failure because it is now socially real (similarity 0.81)
• Contested definitions of Islamophobia deepen the rift over its existence (similarity 0.81)