Muslimize

present singular third person Muslimizes · participle present Muslimizing · participle past Muslimized · past Muslimized · alternative Muslimise · alternative Moslemize · alternative Moslemise

1. transitiveTo make Muslim; to increase the Muslim character of.

   These captives are all christians when caught, but are immediately Moslemised.

   1845, Elliot Warburton, The Crescent and the Cross: Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel, volume 1, page 310

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   In 1878, two years after Gordon had been appointed governor-general of the whole Sudan, Emin Effendi (he had Moslemized himself) was appointed governor of the Equatorial Province, which he found completely disorganized and demoralized, the happy hunting-ground of the slave raider.

   1890, J. Scott Keltie, “What Stanley Has Done for the Map of Africa”, in Science, volume 15, number 364, page 51

   As for the Muslimized Malays, they live mainly in the sourthernmost changwads (provinces) that border on Malaysia, although there are small communities of them in and near Bangkok.

   1964, Hugh H. Smythe, “Thailand Minority Groups”, in Phylon, volume 25, number 3, page 282

   Synonyms: Muslimify