Meanings
sunnization1
- 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 1962 more examples
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 14This 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
alternative sunnization · alternative Sunnisation
- uncountableThe process of making or becoming Sunni.
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