English

Alternative forms

• sunnize
• Sunnise

Verb

Sunnize ‎(third-person singular simple present Sunnizes, present participle Sunnizing, simple past and past participle Sunnized)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become Sunni
   • 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.

   • 1997 Akin, Some Rotten Deals Over the Heads of Kurds that will Boomerang! Group: 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.

   • 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

English

Verb

sunnize ‎(third-person singular simple present sunnizes, present participle sunnizing, simple past and past participle sunnized)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Sunnize
   • 2005 Tord Olsson, Alevi Identity, p 47

     The author may appears in the eyes of some Alevi spokesmen as the example ofa “sunnized Alevi”, as he defends the fulfilment of the five pillars of Islam. Pamukçu argues for an autonomy of the Zazaspeaking Alevi from the Kurds (1992).

   • 2010, ‎Stephan Procházka, The Plain of Saints and Prophets, p 155

     Four other extremely popular Alawi shrines are not yet "sunnized" but have received the compulsory honor of a Sunni mosque nearby.