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This chapter examines expressions of state Islamic identity in three new cities: Putrajaya (Malaysia), Grozny (Chechen Republic) and Masdar (United Arab Emirates). In each city, great care has been taken to evoke a sense of religiosity through architecture and planning, and each has sought a distinctive ‘Islamic’ style where none existed previously. This chapter contends that in the context of development and identity construction, the city increasingly constitutes a key scale for pan-Islamic imaginings. I suggest that the Islamic idiom adopted in these cities is evidence not of growing Muslim fundamentalism but rather of the use of Islam to address secular issues relating to nation-building, competition with rival groups, anti-colonial sentiments and global cosmopolitanism.