shariatize

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verb

To implement or enforce sharia law.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

verbshariatize (third-person singular simple present shariatizes, present participle shariatizing, simple past and past participle shariatized)

present singular third person shariatizes · participle present shariatizing · participle past shariatized · past shariatized · alternative shariatise · alternative Shariatize

  1. ambitransitiverareTo implement or enforce sharia law.

    Three years later this agreement would be completely fulfilled at the summer 2002 ChRI Shura, which fully “shariatized” the ChRI constitution and set plans in motion to spread the jihad across Russia.

    2014, Gordon M. Hahn, The Caucasus Emirate Mujahedin
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    Dr. Fazlur Rahman thus in one stroke disposes of both rational-humanist philosophers and those present-day modernist avant-garde Muslim intellectuals who try to, so to say, de-Shariatize Islam through various innovative moves.

    1995, Absar Ahmad, Knowledge-morality Nexus: Challenging the Dominant Paradigm, page 27

    Their major concern is completely different from that expressed in Turkey: while Turkish critics accuse the movement of being tools in the hands of Christians, Jews, and many other imperialist powers, critics in the West believe that the movement is trying to Islamize/shariatize the West.

    2015, Salih Yücel, The Art of Coexistence
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APA

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“shariatize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shariatize. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “shariatize,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shariatize.

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