shariatization

alternative Shariatisation · alternative shariatisation · alternative Shari'atisation · alternative shari'atisation · alternative Shariatization

1. uncountableThe adoption of, or conversion to, Sharia law.

   Although the ulamas and mullahs are potentially fundamentalist, they are never the ones who take power to implement a policy of "shariatization," with the exception of Iran in 1979.

   1994, Olivier Roy, translated by Carol Volk, The Failure of Political Islam, Harvard, published 1994, page 30

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   The short-lived Nizam-e-Adl Regulation, coupled with Taliban's “capture” of cities “very close to Islamabad” sent shock waves globally, with a media frenzy focusing on the possible “Shariatisation” of Pakistan.

   2010, Usama Butt, Pakistan's Quagmire, Continuum International, page 10

   Tibi may be correct in warning his readers about the totalitarian aspirations of modern Islamism, with its vision of a restored transnational Ummah and what he calls the Shari’atisation (ie Islamisation) of law and social practices, which would entail the suppression of women and minorities and general assaults on freedoms of speech and political organisation.

   2012, Malise Ruthven, ‘Reason & Religion’, Literary Review, number 399

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of shariatization.