shariatize

English

Alternative forms

• shariatise
• Shariatize

Verb

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

1. (transitive, intransitive, rare) To implement or enforce sharia law.
   • 1995, Absar Ahmad, Knowledge-morality Nexus: Challenging the Dominant Paradigm, page 27:

     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.

   • 2014, Gordon M. Hahn, The Caucasus Emirate Mujahedin‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2015, Salih Yücel, The Art of Coexistence‎^[2]:

     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.