Caliphization

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Caliphization (uncountable)

  1. Process of becoming a caliphate.
    • 2002, Darren Marks, Shaping a theological mind, page 68
      This is the 'Caliphization' of the West; the Bible now read as if it were the Koran; Calvin's asharia looming up on the horizon
    • 2004, T Rowland, Divine Gifts to the Secular Desert:
      However Milbank adds to the usual focus on the rise of nominalism, the argument that the classical-theistic synthesis at this time underwent 'an invasion by ultimately Islamic norms', or what he calls the 'Caliphization of the West' – the regulation of philosophy by the Archbishops ...
    • 2014, Julie Burchill, Unchosen:
      But even the Caliphization of carbs has not been enough for the likes of that careful driver Lord 'The Jews Did It' Ahmed, who worked himself into a right old froth in 2012 ...