sunnization

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noun

The process of making or becoming Sunni.

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Meanings

sunnization1

nounsunnization (uncountable)
  1. uncountableAlternative letter-case form of Sunnization.

    All this reinforced the perception within the Sunni community, of a “de-sunnization” of the country, and many Sunnis believed that official institutions were being used to implement this policy

    2012, Riccardo Bocco, Writing the Modern History of Iraq, page 196
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    Eventually, through this struggle, Khomeini made an important innovation in Shi'i law, which helps transform the Shi'i approach to jurisprudence toward a position close to that of the Sunnis. I call it the "sunnization" of Shi'i jurisprudence.

    1989, Middle East Report, numbers 156-161, page 14

    This certainly represented a "sunnization" of shfism, but by the twelfth century it was a sunnization heavily determined by a doctrinal elaboration of two centuries of sufism, from which it absorbed precisely those concepts which bring sufism and ...

    2006, Mercedes García-Arenal, Messianism and Puritanical Reform, p 175

Sunnization2

nounSunnization (uncountable)

alternative sunnization · alternative Sunnisation

  1. uncountableThe process of making or becoming Sunni.

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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