Sunnise

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A form of sunnize — To make or become Sunni

Scrabble 7

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verbSunnise (third-person singular simple present Sunnises, present participle Sunnising, simple past and past participle Sunnised)

present singular third person Sunnises · participle present Sunnising · participle past Sunnised · past Sunnised

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of Sunnize.

    ... or not until the emergence of a strong Sunnising trend in recent centuries ...

    2003 M Cook, Forbidding Wrong in Islam: An Introduction - Page 38
    3 more examples

    The view that the eel is permitted appears as a Sunnising tendency of the 'weak' Zaydi Batriyya (see Madelung, Der Imam al-Qasim ibn Ibrahim, 49). (2) Further reports of Ibn Hanbal's views on questions considered above may ...

    1986, Jerusalem studies in Arabic and Islam, volumes 7-8, page 277

    2001 Michael Cook, Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought In the eleventh/seven- teenth century, the Sunnising Maqbalı ̄ (d. 1108/1696f.)152 remarks that, in treating the subject of forbidding wrong in one of his works, he had adorned his discussion with some seventy Prophetic traditions

    2004, cgE3E8425c2, Serious human rights violations in POK Group: soc.culture.indian Gul Nawaz Khan who spoke on behalf of the Interfaith International related stories of atrocities on the population in Gilgit and Baltistan alleged that the Sunni majority in Pakistan had tried to "sunnise" education through its Ministry of Kashmir Affairs.

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