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Sunnize
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sunnize
English
Alternative forms
en sunnize
en Sunnise
Etymology
From en Sunni ize.
Verb
en ambitransitive To make or become Sunni
en 1997 Akin Some Rotten Deals Over the Heads of Kurds that will Boomerang! 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.
en 1988 Kevin R. D. Shepherd From oppression to freedom 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.
en 2006 Donald K. Swearer Religion and Nationalism in Iraq 76 How can the diverse constituents of Iraq be brought together without returning to a Sunnized Baathist situation