Islamist organizations and groups iceberg
Islamist organizations and groups iceberg is an iceberg chart topic. On r/IcebergCharts, the highest-scoring available chart on it, "Ultimate Islamist Organizations and Groups Iceberg", was posted by u/sercan_34 on 22 February 2026 and had about 66 upvotes when it was collected.[1] A text version, "Ultimate Islamist Organizations and Groups Iceberg" by Srrrcnnn_34, is hosted on IcebergThreads, where it had 747 views as of 29 October 2026.[2]
The IcebergThreads author describes it as: "It was truly a beautiful and enjoyable research project and iceberg construction. I hope you like the iceberg. Note: This is merely a list. I have no sympathy for these organizations."
Entries reflect the chart authors' choices and are not verified fact.
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Tiers[edit]
Tiers and entries from the IcebergThreads version[2]. Notes after a dash are shortened from the author's explanations.
LAYER 1: ORGANIZED ISLAMIC MOVEMENTS ORIGINATED GLOBAL TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS[edit]
- Muslim Brotherhood
- Al-Qaeda
- Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
- Hamas
- Hezbollah
- Taliban
- Boko Haram
- Justice and Development Party (AKP) - Turkey
- Ennahdha Movement-Tunisia
- Jamaat-e-Islami
- Houthis (Ansar Allah)
- Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin
- Jabhat al-Nusra
- Lashkar-e-Taiba
- Jaish-e-Mohammed
- Abu Sayyaf Group
- Jemaah Islamiyah
- Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) - Algeria
- Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
LAYER 2: MIDDLE-LEVEL ISLAMIC MOVEMENTS AND REGIONAL MOVEMENTS[edit]
- Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)
- Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
- Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine (Palestinian Islamic Jihad)
- Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)
- Caucasus Emirate
- Hizb ut-Tahrir
- Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)
- Tablighi Jamaat
- Gülen Movement (Hizmet)
- Islamic Courts Union (ICU) - Somalia
- Armed Islamic Group of Algeria (GIA)
- Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ)
- Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya - Egypt
- Moro Islamic Liberation Front
- Ansar al-Sharia (Libya)
- Ansar Bait al-Maqdis
- Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan
- Harakat-ul-Mujahideen
- Indian Mujahideen
- Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) - Indonesia
- Islamic Action Front - Jordan
- National Islamic Front - Sudan
- Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
- Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe (FIOE)
- Millî Görüş
- Ansar Dine
- Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO)
- Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)
- Muslim American Society (MAS)
- Ansar al-Sharia (Tunisia)
- Justice and Equality Movement (Sudan)
- Hurras al-Din
LAYER 3: SUB-REGIONAL MILITANT STRUCTURES AND MICRO-MOBILIZATION CENTERS[edit]
- Khorasan Province (ISIS-K)
- Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid (JAT)
- Liwa Fatemiyoun
- Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC)
- Hizb-e Islami Gulbuddin
- Badr Organization
- East Turkestan Islamic Movement
- Takfir wal-Hijra
- Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba
- Al-Ittihad al-Islami somalia
- Jaysh al-Adl
- Libyan Islamic Fighting Group
- Kata'ib Hezbollah
- Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
- Ansaru
- Ahrar al-Sham
- Laskar Jihad
- Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq
- Al-Murabitun (Sub-Saharan Africa)
- Students Islamic Movement of India
- Ansar-ul-Islam
- Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group
- Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami
- Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna
- Ras Kamboni Brigades
- Islamic Jihad Union
- Jundallah
- Kumpulan Militan Malaysia
- Liwa Zainebiyoun
- Abdullah Azzam Brigades
- Islamic Resistance in Jordan
LAYER 4: HYBRID RADICALISM AND FRAGMENTED MILITANT NETWORKS[edit]
- Maute group
- Sharia4Belgium
- Caucasus Vilaiyat (ISIS-C)
- Fatah al-Islam
- Jamaat-ul-Ahrar
- Rajah Sulaiman movement
- Islamic State of Iraq
- Ajnad al-Kavkaz
- al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
- Die Wahre Religion
- Ansar Khalifah Philippines
- Army of Islam (Gaza)
- Special Purpose Islamic Regiment (SPIR)
- Islam4UK
- Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
- Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem
- Forsane Alizza
- Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad
- Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters
- Riyad-us Saliheen Brigade of Martyrs
- Sharia4Holland
- Osbat al-Ansar
- Al-Ghurabaa
- Kata'ib Sayyid ul-Shuhada
- Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade
- Popular Resistance Committees
- Millatu Ibrahim
- Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan
- Liwa Abu al-Fadhal al-Abbas
- Jund al-Sham
- ISLAM
LAYER 5: RELIGIOUSLY MOTIVATED ECONOMIC AND MILITARY COALITIONS[edit]
- Refah Party
- Islamic State – West Africa Province
- Kurdish Hezbollah
- Al-Haramain Foundation
- Jaysh al-Fatah
- Jihad Coordination
- Akromiya
- Malhama Tactical
- Holy Land Foundation
- IBDA-C
- Islamic State in the Greater Sahara
- Suqour al-Sham Brigades
- Benevolence International Foundation
- Katibat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad
- Tawhid-Salam (Al-Quds Army)
- Nation of Islam
- Allied Democratic Forces (ADF)
- Felicity Party (Saadet Partisi)
- Jaysh al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar
- Sanabel Relief Agency
- Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria
- Party of Islamic Liberation (Moldova)
- Ansar al-Tawhid (syria)
- Ansar al-Islam in Kurdistan
- Global Relief Foundation
- Imam Bukhari Jamaat
- Sham Legion
- Fatah Halab
- Revival of Islamic Heritage Society
- Ghuraba al-Sham
- Katibat al-Imam al-Bukhari
- Congress of the Peoples of Ichkeria and Dagestan
LAYER 6: ETHNO-RELIGIOUS SEPARATISM AND LOCALIZED RADICALIST CENTERS[edit]
- Ansar al-Sharia (Yemen)
- Jamaah Ansharud Daulah (JAD)
- Ansar al-Sunna (Mozambique)
- Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir
- Vilayat Dagestan
- Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army
- Al-Hijra (Kenya)
- Signatories in Blood battalion
- Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh
- Saraya al-Ashtar
- Mujahidin Indonesia Timur
- Shariat Jamaat
- Saraya al-Mukhtar
- Pattani United Liberation Organisation
- Ansarullah Bangla Team
- Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS)
- Soldiers of the Caliphate in Algeria
- Darul Islam (Indonesia)
- Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind
- Hezbollah al-Hejaz
- Liwa al-Baquir
- Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN)
- Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami Bangladesh
- Ingush Jamaat
- Rohingya Solidarity Organisation
- Gerakan Mujahidin Islam Patani
LAYER 7: RELIGIOUS ESCHATOLOGY AND FRACTIONS OF AUTONOMOUS VIOLENCE[edit]
- Liwa al-Tawhid
- Hizb-ul-Mujahideen
- Kata’ib al-Imam Ali
- Jund Ansar Allah
- Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi
- Mahdi Army
- Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society
- February 14 Youth Coalition
- Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a
- Tawhid al-Jihad
- Islamic Action Society
- Liwa al-Haqq (İdlib)
- Al-Qaeda Kurdish Battalions
- Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement
- Al-Badr (Jammu and Kashmir)
- Islamic Front (Syria)
- Islamic State – Kurdistan Province
- Al-Mukhtar Brigades
- Jaysh al-Islam
- Ansar ul-Mujahideen
- Syrian Islamic Liberation Front
- Jaysh al-Ummah (Gaza)
- Harakat Sham al-Islam
- Lashkar-e-Islam
- Alwiya al-Furqan
- Tehreek-e-Jihad Pakistan
- Saraya Ansar al-Sunnah
- Jaish al-Sunnah
- Quwat al-Shaheed al-Sadr
- Liwa al-Haqq (homs)
LAYER 8: SYNCRETIC VIOLENCE AND ISOLATED MILITANT PARADIGMS[edit]
- Saraya al-Khorasani
- World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders
- Dukhtaran-e-Millat
- Maitatsine (cult)
- Network of Haqqani
- The Saved Sect
- Al-Sabireen Movement
- Islamic Movement of Nigeria
- Allah's Tigers
- Services Office (Maktab al-Khidamat)
- Fidai Mahaz
- Tehreek-e-Khilafat Pakistan
- Al-Takfir wal-Hijra
- Harakat-e Inqilab-e Islami
- Izala Society
- Tora Bora Military Front
- Al-Umar Mujahideen
- Fedayeen-e-Islam
- Mullah Dadullah Front
- Al-Arifeen
- Jama'at al-Da'wa ila al-Qur'an wal-Sunna
- Muslim Janbaz Force
- Al-Dawa Party
LAYER 9: TECHNO-JIHAD AND POST-MODERN VIOLENCE NETWORKS[edit]
- Imam al-Mahdi Scouts
- Islamic State Hacking Division
- Al-Muhajiroun
- Free Men of the Sunna in Baalbek Brigade
- United Cyber Caliphate
- Islamic Unification Movement
- The Islamic Thinkers Society
- Revolution Muslim
- Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades
- Shahadat-e-al Hiqma
- Katibat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad
- Green Battalion
- Jamaat al-Dawah ila al-Quran wal-Sunnah
- Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan
- Az-Zallaqa Foundation
- Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters
- Global Islamic Media Front
- Al-Qaeda in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Ansar al-Khilafah Brazil
- Jaysh al-Nukhba
LAYER 10: THE EXTREMES OF ESCHATOLOGICAL RADICALISM: IDEOLOGICAL ISLANDS[edit]
- Vilayat Nokhchicho
- Islamic Djamaat of Dagestan
- Nogai Battalion
- Khattab Al-Shishani Jamaat
- Jund al-Aqsa
- Liwa Dawud
- Liwaa'ul Umma
- Katibat al-Bittar al-Libi
- Islamic Emirate of Kurdistan
- Liwa Assad Allah al-Ghalib fi al-Iraq wa al-Sham
- Khorasan group syria
- Aden Abyad Islamic Army
- Islamic Emirate of Kunar
See also[edit]
Sources[edit]
- Featured Reddit chart: u/sercan_34. Ultimate Islamist Organizations and Groups Iceberg. Reddit (r/IcebergCharts). 22 February 2026. Retrieved 29 October 2026.
- IcebergThreads version: Srrrcnnn_34. Ultimate Islamist Organizations and Groups Iceberg. IcebergThreads. 21 February 2026. Retrieved 29 October 2026.
References[edit]
- ↑ u/sercan_34. Ultimate Islamist Organizations and Groups Iceberg. Reddit (r/IcebergCharts). 22 February 2026. Retrieved 29 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Srrrcnnn_34. Ultimate Islamist Organizations and Groups Iceberg. IcebergThreads. 21 February 2026. Retrieved 29 October 2026.