sunnize

present singular third person sunnizes · participle present sunnizing · participle past sunnized · past sunnized

1. Alternative letter-case form of Sunnize.

   Four other extremely popular Alawi shrines are not yet "sunnized" but have received the compulsory honor of a Sunni mosque nearby.

   2010, Stephan Procházka, The Plain of Saints and Prophets, p 155

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   The author may appears in the eyes of some Alevi spokesmen as the example ofa “sunnized Alevi”, as he defends the fulfilment of the five pillars of Islam. Pamukçu argues for an autonomy of the Zazaspeaking Alevi from the Kurds (1992).

   2005 Tord Olsson, Alevi Identity, p 47

present singular third person Sunnizes · participle present Sunnizing · participle past Sunnized · past Sunnized · alternative sunnize · alternative Sunnise

1. ambitransitiveTo make or become Sunni

   How can the diverse constituents of Iraq be brought together without returning to a Sunnized Baathist situation […]

   2006, Donald K. Swearer, Religion and Nationalism in Iraq, page 76

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   In this regard it must be noted that the PKK operations in Hatay have targeted the Sunni Turkmen that Turkey settled in the province after it was annexed in 1939 in order to Sunnize the region. The bulk of the population in 1939 was comprised of Alawite Arabs as is 10 to 11 percent of Syrian population.

   1997, Akin, “Some Rotten Deals Over the Heads of Kurds that will Boomerang!”, in cl.nahost.kurdistan (Usenet)

   […] was really of the same category as the pirs and murshids of popular Sufism, regardless of Shia extrapolations from a more Sunnized epoch that in turn had elements in common with earlier forms of Shi'ism.

   1988, Kevin R. D. Shepherd, From oppression to freedom, page 32