Sunnize

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Sunni +‎ -ize

Verb

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  1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become Sunni
    • 1997, "Akin", Some Rotten Deals Over the Heads of Kurds that will Boomerang! (on newsgroup cl.nahost.kurdistan)
      In this regard it must be noted that the PKK operations in Hatay have targeted the Sunni Turkmen that Turkey settled in the province after it was annexed in 1939 in order to Sunnize the region. The bulk of the population in 1939 was comprised of Alawite Arabs as is 10 to 11 percent of Syrian population.
    • 1988, Kevin R. D. Shepherd, From oppression to freedom (page 32)
      […] was really of the same category as the pirs and murshids of popular Sufism, regardless of Shia extrapolations from a more Sunnized epoch that in turn had elements in common with earlier forms of Shi'ism.
    • 2006, Donald K. Swearer, Religion and Nationalism in Iraq (page 76)
      How can the diverse constituents of Iraq be brought together without returning to a Sunnized Baathist situation […]
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