Meanings
caliphization1
- uncountableAlternative letter-case form of Caliphization.
So how to interpret the purported re-caliphization of Iraq and Syria?
2014, William Miles, The Islamic State won’t find it easy to wipe away post-colonial borders1 more example
... all bear witness to the iconic nature of scripture and direct us away from what John Milbank calls the “caliphization” of Scripture.
2007, The American Benedictine Review, volume 58, number 1, page 38
Caliphization2
alternative caliphization
- uncountableProcess of becoming a caliphate.
This is the 'Caliphization' of the West; the Bible now read as if it were the Koran; Calvin's asharia looming up on the horizon
2002, Darren Marks, Shaping a theological mind, page 682 more examples
However Milbank adds to the usual focus on the rise of nominalism, the argument that the classical-theistic synthesis at this time underwent 'an invasion by ultimately Islamic norms', or what he calls the 'Caliphization of the West' – the regulation of philosophy by the Archbishops ...
2004, T Rowland, Divine Gifts to the Secular DesertBut even the Caliphization of carbs has not been enough for the likes of that careful driver Lord 'The Jews Did It' Ahmed, who worked himself into a right old froth in 2012 ...
2014, Julie Burchill, Unchosen
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with caliphization
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